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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:45:00 +0000 Liberal Women Are Lonely And Unhappy According To Recent Polls
Liberal Women Are Lonely And Unhappy According To Recent Polls
The news must come as a shock to most, but it turns out that liberal women in the US are very unhappy. A recently released poll from Read more.....
Liberal Women Are Lonely And Unhappy According To Recent Polls
The news must come as a shock to most, but it turns out that liberal women in the US are very unhappy. A recently released poll from the American Family Survey held in 2024 shows that only 12% of liberal women are satisfied with their lives and that they are three times more likely to experience loneliness compared to conservative women.
The data reinforces a number of surveys over the years which reveal a continuing plunge in relative happiness among progressive western women despite their admission that they have more independence than ever before.
Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and fellow at the Institute for Family Studies who analyzed the survey's data, said he believes there are a couple of reasons why conservative young women are more likely to be happier than their liberal counterparts.
"We've seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency and to have the sense that they are not, in any way, the victim of larger structural realities or forces," he told Fox News Digital . "They're also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns," and "more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate," Wilcox added.
The survey also notes that conservative women are more likely to accept biological and social differences between males and females. The ideal was thought to be common sense for thousands of years but has come under fire from feminists in the past decade as a "social construct of the patriarchy". The deconstruction of societal norms has been so pervasive, governments across the western world have tried to encode intersectional feminist taboos into law and punish people who remain skeptical.
One side effect of the rise of feminist authority that liberals apparently did not expect is the decline in relative happiness of women. The issue was fist noticed around 2009 when a study out of the University of Pennsylvania stunned the mainstream media - Despite decades of greater access to the jobs market, institutional influence and life options since the 1970s, young women have become increasingly less happy compared to their counterparts of past generations. Though the study avoids addressing the problem of feminism directly, it does suggest that modern constructs may play a major role in creating anxiety for women.
While men's personal happiness has also been in sharp decline in recent decades, their financial opportunities have remained relatively static. For women, financial and social opportunity has skyrocketed (along with access to college education), but their decline in happiness is even more dramatic than men.
The American Family Survey helps to clarify the source of the happiness decline by separating out women according to their ideological leanings. It's not conservative women that are dragging those numbers down, it's leftist women.
It makes sense. Before the 1970s the role of men as breadwinners was well established while women's primary concerns focused on the household and family. Men are more psychologically inclined to compartmentalize problems associate with risk and anxiety, especially when in the role of provider and protector. The thing that drives men to unhappiness is not hard work and sacrifice, but not being able to fulfill the roles they are designed for.
By extension, it may be that liberal women today are suffering from a similar affliction; they are unhappy because they are not fulfilling the roles they are biologically designed for. In other words, both men and women were happier under the "patriarchy", when men protected and provided while women took care of the home and nurtured their children.
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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:10:00 +0000 DOGE Vs USAID: "A Remarkable And Definite Victory"
DOGE Vs USAID: "A Remarkable And Definite Victory"
DOGE Vs USAID: "A Remarkable And Definite Victory"
Authored by Thaddeus McCotter via American Greatness,
After years of battlefield defeats, on November 10, 1942 , Winston Churchill’s resolute voice filled the Mansion House during the Lord Mayor’s Luncheon to announce the outcome of the Battle of El Alamein: “Now, however, we have a new experience. We have victory—a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers, and warmed and cheered all our hearts.”
One cannot help but wonder if Republican-populists and/or MAGA supporters felt the same way upon learning of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) revelations regarding the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) unconscionable expenditures and, subsequently, President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio’s swift shuttering of what constituted the Democrat Party’s taxpayer-subsidized, over $32 billion (2024) international and domestic political slush fund.
But USAID is not the only taxpayer-subsidized slush fund the Democrats enacted to fuel their party and, indeed, the entire political infrastructure of the left. One need only look at the multi-trillion-dollar spending spree, including bills such as the deceptively named “Inflation Reduction Act,” to understand how the then-Democrat majority and Mr. Biden skyrocketed both the federal debt and inflation for their own partisan gain at the expense of the American people.
As the unearthed revelations cascade into the avalanche that felicitously sweeps and buries USAID in the dustbin of history, one can limn the outline of the monster it created. Over the past several years, the public has become increasingly aware of how the Democrats have weaponized the police and surveillance powers of the state against their political enemies for partisan gain. Within this public awakening, the focus has been understandably upon which powers and positions the Democrats had weaponized. What DOGE has done with USAID is to commence closing the loop by investigating how the Democrats and their Deep State have weaponized government funds .
The emerging contours of USAID’s unaccountable and injurious weaponization of public funds for progressive aims are a repulsive entity using the American people’s money to wage war against Americans and our allies around the world. Using passthroughs, both internationally and domestically, USAID has foisted progressive imperialism upon our more culturally traditional nations, including the United States; interfered in elections and otherwise destabilized allies who were not leftist enough; created media echo chambers by subsidizing leftist information outlets; and even underwriting groups designated as extremist/terrorist organizations . In sum, USAID has knowingly, willfully, and deliberately abetted the undermining of America’s domestic unity, prosperity, security, and tranquility, and that of many of our allies.
Eyes welling with crocodile tears and cynically cradling the poor as props to shield their rampant malfeasance, the paymasters of USAID claim removing their control of these tens of billions of dollars will wreak havoc on indigent peoples. It will wreak havoc on USAID’s NGOs and sundry Democrat Party cohorts’ taxpayer-subsidized funding streams. But the harsh truth is that USAID’s multibillion-dollar laundry mat of passthroughs and unconscionable expenditures cheats the poor and the hungry. Every dollar USAID’s now-fired partisan political progressive hacks siphoned off for their faddish left-wing projects at home or to foment instability in an ally of America abroad was another dollar’s worth of food stolen from the mouths of starving children in a developing nation.
Perhaps it is a tender mercy that these administrative state mountebanks’ hubris renders them immune to self-awareness. For if they were capable of it, they would die of shame.
Nonetheless, these brazen zombies of the Deep State lumber into the federal courtrooms of their judicial activist cronies and beseech them to forestall the destruction of USAID, to allow them to keep their grubby, self-entitled mitts on your hard-earned money; and to persist in reigning supreme and impervious over the sovereign citizenry.
Consequently, carrying the historical analogy further, in the struggle to reassert the sovereignty of the citizenry over their servant government, by creating and directing the DOGE, President Trump has won a battle against a well-entrenched bastion of the Administrative State. But, as with the Battle for North Africa, other engagements in even more well-fortified theaters remain to be stormed.
Recognizing the hard slog ahead is not meant to diminish the present gleam of victory against the federal Leviathan or chill the warmed and cheered hearts of MAGA supporters and Republican-populists. The Battle of El Alamein was a key step in rolling back and ultimately defeating the Axis.
Thus, it is wise to also recall the caution the Prime Minister advised in the warm glow of an initial victory: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Fight on!
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Sat, 02/15/2025 - 22:10 Close
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:35:00 +0000 Watch: Rachel Maddow Caught In Massive Self-Own With 'Armored Cybertruck' Fake News
Watch: Rachel Maddow Caught In Massive Self-Own With 'Armored Cybertruck' Fake News
Liberals are frothing at the mouth over Elon Musk and DOGE's access to sensitive information as they sift through expenditures at t
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Watch: Rachel Maddow Caught In Massive Self-Own With 'Armored Cybertruck' Fake News
Liberals are frothing at the mouth over Elon Musk and DOGE's access to sensitive information as they sift through expenditures at the US Treasury, USAID, and other departments.
And after weeks of throwing the most transparently telling tantrums over auditing the US government and slashing waste, fraud, and abuse, the left thought they'd NAILED Musk, DropSiteNews - a spinoff founded by former reporters from "The Intercept"
According to DropSite , the State Department was "forecast" to pay for a $400 million contract for armored Teslas in 2025 , referencing a State Department spreadsheet that referenced $400 million worth of "Armored Tesla" vehicles. The spreadsheet was then mysteriously changed to exclude "Tesla" from the line item.
The report was soon picked up by NPR and the New York Times ,
Except, nobody did basic journalism until it was too late - because it was the Biden administration that originally included the potential procurement, and the spreadsheet was wiped of Tesla references in December 2024 - also by the Biden administration.
And of course, MSNBC 's Rachel Maddow peddled the lie that "Musk has convinced the government to spend $400 million on armored Tesla’s. Definitely not corrupt and ripping us all off?"
Except, That was all done under Biden .
Watch:
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Sat, 02/15/2025 - 21:35 Close
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0000 "Break Some Sh*t": Democrats Find Relief From Sanity & Reality In Profanity And Hyperbole
"Break Some Sh*t": Democrats Find Relief From Sanity & Reality In Profanity And Hyperbole
"Break Some Sh*t": Democrats Find Relief From Sanity & Reality In Profanity And Hyperbole
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
Teddy Roosevelt once said, “profanity is the parlance of the fool.” Democrats appear to be increasingly finding relief from both reality and sanity in profanity. Democratic members have been complaining that left-wing groups have been targeting them to be more aggressive and “fight harder ” in the face of the fast-paced actions of President Donald Trump.
Their response appears to be ratcheting up “rage rhetoric ” with profanity and violent language.
Last week, Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) captured the new norm by yelling at a rally that “I don’t swear in public very well, but we have to f**k Trump. Please don’t tell my children that I just did that.”
The key, it appears, is for her constituents to hear it. She is not alone. (Warning: profane language)
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Politicians and pundits have seemingly tried to outdo each other in proving their bona fides to the far left. MSNBC host and former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki pledged on Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast that she has “retired from the world of Democratic messaging” and ” speaking in a manner that was so academic and Ivory Tower.” She promised to drop “the disconnected academic Ivory Tower elite language that is too often used by Democrats, sometimes on cable television.” Instead, Psaki called on the left to “break some s–t.”
This is not a new trend. Law professors and legal pundits have long struggled to maintain a certain decorum and professionalism. However, during the Trump years, there was a similar race to the bottom as figures like Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe regularly engaging in name calling and profanity.
Just last week, a professor was restored to his teaching duties after being suspended for profane attacks on Trump . It is now considered required virtue signaling to use violent or profane language to show that you are no milquetoast moderate.
Many on the far left like former CNN anchor Don Lemon have turned the same profanity of members of the media who are not sufficiently aggressive and open in opposing Trump.
What is most striking about this race to the bottom is that it is a concession to the far left that writes off any effort to appeal to moderate and independent voters who supported Trump. The Democrats found their party captured by the most extreme elements of their base and alienated most of the country. Now, politicians and pundits are rushing to protect themselves by joining the mob.
In some cases, the effort is painfully awkward like Schumer’s effort to become a rabble-rousing populist. Even CNN has been unable to hold back:
VIDEO
When Democrats are not stringing together lines of profanity, they appear to be creating a new unintelligible language:
VIDEO
George Washington once referred to cursing and swearing as a “foolish and wicked practice” and a “vice so mean and low” that no self-respecting politician would stoop to use such language.
The rise of rage rhetoric is a measure of how politicians are now surrendering to the most extreme voices in their party. It is a matter of simple survival. These politicians believe that they cannot stay in office if they allow anyone to move to the left of their positions. To maintain their power, they are willing to join the mob before it turns on them.
We saw the same pandering with members embracing the violent group Antifa . Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump.
It will not work. Today revolutionaries often become tomorrow’s reactionaries. As rage and violent rhetoric become normalized, the expectations of the far left simply shift to demand greater demonstrations of fealty. As figures like Psaki call for Democrats to “break some sh*t,” the ruin and rampage is unlikely to end with a marginal increase in ratings at MSNBC. At some point, breaking stuff becomes insatiable and uncontrollable.
That is the point, discussed in my new book, where rage rhetoric becomes state rage where free speech is often the first casualty.
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Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “ The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage .”
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Sat, 02/15/2025 - 21:00 Close
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:25:00 +0000 Hamas Frees 3 Hostages, Including American Dual Citizen, As Trump Demands All
Hamas Frees 3 Hostages, Including American Dual Citizen, As Trump Demands All
After nearly 500 days in captivity, three Israeli hostages - including an American dual citizen , were released by Hamas on Saturd
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Hamas Frees 3 Hostages, Including American Dual Citizen, As Trump Demands All
After nearly 500 days in captivity, three Israeli hostages - including an American dual citizen , were released by Hamas on Saturday , in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons.
They include American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, Russian-Israeli Alexandre Troufanov and Argentinian-Israeli Iair Horn. They were freed in a handover ceremony amid a crowd of Hamas militants and supporters in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in the sixth such exchange of the ceasefire.
Russian-Israeli Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov, via Reuters
"There’s no place like home," Dekel-Chen was heard telling medical staff, after being handed over to the Red Cross. Various reports said the freed looked healthier than the last hostages let go, who were very emaciated and gaunt.
But President Trump quickly chimed in after this latest exchange, saying that all Israeli captives must be released from Gaza today .
"Hamas has just released three Hostages from GAZA, including an American Citizen. They seem to be in good shape! This differs from their statement last week that they would not release any Hostages," he wrote on Truth Social account.
The statement added, "Israel will now have to decide what they will do about the 12:00 O’CLOCK, TODAY, DEADLINE imposed on the release of ALL HOSTAGES. The United States will back the decision they make! "
This timeline has now come and gone. Trump previously warned (Monday) that all "hell" would break out if all captives aren't freed by noon. But he seems to have backed off this language Saturday, saying instead Washington is ready to "back" whatever future action Israel takes.
But it seems Trump gave Netanyahu political cover to break the ceasefire - though who knows what parallel messages might be being communicated behind the scenes by the White House and US diplomats.
Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi said Saturday it remains his and the military's "duty to bring everyone back" and the IDF is "investing in many efforts for this purpose, and at the same time, we are preparing offensive plans."
As for the Palestinians freed on Saturday, one told Al Jazeera , "The Israelis told us to ‘Welcome to hell.’ It was a hell," he said. "From the first day, we were beaten badly. The beatings were brutal, tough and unbearable."
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Sat, 02/15/2025 - 20:25 Close
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:50:00 +0000 Trump And Musk Laugh At Pathetic Media Attempts To Create Rift
Trump And Musk Laugh At Pathetic Media Attempts To Create Rift
Trump And Musk Laugh At Pathetic Media Attempts To Create Rift
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
During a joint interview Friday, Elon Musk and President Trump laughed together at how bad the media are at attempting to drive a wedge between them.
The pair sat down with Sean Hannity and expressed amusement at desperate efforts by the press to derail the DOGE train by suggesting Musk is usurping Trump’s authority.
Hannity reasoned the criticism is an attempt to “divorce” the executive partnership and get the pair to “start hating each other.”
Trump described the attempts to “drive us apart,” noting “I see it all the time… Actually, Elon called me — he said, you know, ‘They’re trying to drive us apart.’ I said, ‘Absolutely.’”
“It’s not working. I’ve seen all the headlines. 'President Musk',” he continued.
“It’s just so obvious. They’re so bad at it. I used to think they were good at it. They’re actually bad at it because if they were good at it, I’d never be president,” Trump said.
“You know what I have learned, Elon. The people are smart. They get it,” Trump told Musk, noting that no one is falling for the leftist media bullshit anymore.
The full interview airs Tuesday.
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Sat, 02/15/2025 - 19:50 Close
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:40:00 +0000 Department of Veterans Affairs Fires Over 1,000 Employees
Department of Veterans Affairs Fires Over 1,000 Employees
Department of Veterans Affairs Fires Over 1,000 Employees
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has terminated more than 1,000 workers , the agency said on Feb. 13.
VA Secretary Doug Collins in Washington in an undated file photograph. Samuel Corum/Getty Images
Some of the employees who were fired were probationary employees, or had been with the agency for less than two years. None of the terminated workers were in “mission-critical positions,” the agency said in a statement.
The VA expects the terminations to cut costs by more than $98 million per year.
“At VA, we are focused on saving money so it can be better spent on Veteran care. We thank these employees for their service to VA. This was a tough decision, but ultimately it’s the right call to better support the Veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors the department exists to serve,” VA Secretary Doug Collins said.
“To be perfectly clear: these moves will not negatively impact VA health care, benefits or beneficiaries. In the coming weeks and months, VA will be announcing plans to put these resources to work helping Veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors.”
The terminations were attributed to President Donald Trump’s focus on making the government more efficient.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run by Elon Musk, has been reviewing various agencies in recent weeks as part of the effort.
The Trump administration also offered buyouts to government workers. About 75,000 workers accepted the buyouts before the program closed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday.
Trump signed an executive order earlier in the week that said the administration would hire no more than one worker for every four employees that depart.
The order also said that each agency head shall work with DOGE to ensure that new hires are in high-need areas and that vacancies should not be filled if DOGE advises against it.
“Now, agency heads will coordinate and consult with DOGE to significantly shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions only ,” Leavitt told reporters during a press conference on Wednesday.
VA employees who accepted the buyout offer, which keeps workers employed and paid through Sept. 30, were exempt from the new round of terminations, Collins said.
Among those fired at the VA were researchers who were “told to immediately stop their research and pack their bags,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a former chairwoman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
She accused Trump and Musk of enacting “indiscriminate cuts and arbitrary mass firings” and said she’s demanding the VA provide her with details about the terminations.
“For years the VA has been grossly understaffed, which has only made it harder for our nation’s veterans to receive care. These reckless firings will only exacerbate this issue,” the American Federation of Government Employees said in a statement posted to social media platform X.
Musk and Trump have defended the moves.
“It’s not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses. It’s essential. It’s essential for America to remain solvent as a country, and it’s essential for America to have the resources necessary to provide things to its citizens and not simply be servicing vast amounts of debt,” Musk told reporters at the White House this week.
“What we’re trying to do is reduce government. We have too many people,” Trump added later.
The VA had about 472,000 employees as of early 2024, including part-time and seasonal employees. The VA still has more than 43,000 probationary employees, Collins said on Thursday.
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Sat, 02/15/2025 - 18:40 Close
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:05:00 +0000 Zelensky Rejects Trump's Draft Deal To Take Half Ukraine's Mineral Reserves
Zelensky Rejects Trump's Draft Deal To Take Half Ukraine's Mineral Reserves
Financial Times is reporting Saturday that Ukraine has rejected the Trump administration's bid to take a 50% ownership stake in Ukraine's r
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Zelensky Rejects Trump's Draft Deal To Take Half Ukraine's Mineral Reserves
Financial Times is reporting Saturday that Ukraine has rejected the Trump administration's bid to take a 50% ownership stake in Ukraine's rare earth minerals as compensation for continued US defense and budgetary aid.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with President Zelensky Wednesday to review a draft deal, but no details were given. Bessent reportedly handed Zelensky the written proposal to consider, but no other details were given.
AFP/Getty Images
It appears still early in the negotiations, however. "We are still talking," Zelensky said from Munich Saturday. “I have had different dialogues."
The thrust of Trump's complaint about Ukraine and plans to rectify the situation was seen in his earlier comments, saying, "We're telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare earth (minerals). We want what we put up to go in terms of a guarantee. We want a guarantee. We're handing them money hand over fist ."
"I want to have security of rare earth. We're putting in hundreds of billions of dollars. They have great rare earth, and I want security of the rare earth (minerals). And they're willing to do it," he had explained.
Trump and top officials later articulated that the US wants a guarantee of $500 billion worth of Ukraine's estimated trillion dollars of rare earth wealth.
FT writes Ukraine's rejection of Bessent's proposal as follow s:
Zelenskyy wants American and European security guarantees to be tied directly to any deal on the mineral reserves, according to four people familiar with the US-Ukraine negotiations. He is also keen for other countries, including EU states, to be involved in future natural resource exploitation .
But the deal proposed by Trump and delivered by Bessent only referenced the US getting Ukrainian resources in exchange for past military assistance, and did not contain any proposals for similar future assistance , according to a person familiar with the document.
If accurate, then this is indeed all about Trump recouping US losses , after months ago mocking Zelensky as the "world's greatest salesman" for his ability to procure billions in US taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile...
ZELENSKIY: UKRAINE'S MARTIAL LAW PREVENTS HOLDING ELECTIONS
The now rejected proposal reportedly laid out that Ukraine would transfer transfer partial control of its valuable mineral resources to Washington in place of making financial repayments.
Zelensky now sees himself as having a little leverage with the Trump administration, amid fears of a 'bad' peace deal with Russia...
The war-ravaged country is known for having one of the largest confirmed reserves of lithium, and also has semiconductor-grade neon gas that is critical for chip production - as well as beryllium, uranium, manganese, zirconium, apatite, iron ore.
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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:55:00 +0000 "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, & Polar Vortex Is Coming For You"
"Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, & Polar Vortex Is Coming For You"
The polar vortex is coming back across large swaths of the Lower 48 this weekend and through next week.
"Bitterly cold Arctic air will po
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"Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, & Polar Vortex Is Coming For You"
The polar vortex is coming back across large swaths of the Lower 48 this weekend and through next week.
"Bitterly cold Arctic air will pour into the central U.S. next week, bringing record-breaking low temps, dangerous wind chills (30-50 below zero), and possible heavy snow from the Plains to the Northeast ," NWS Weather Prediction Center wrote on X.
For everyone hoping for the first signs of spring, meteorologist Ryan Maue squashed those hopes—at least for now—with his post on X: "Don't even bother next week. It's going to be too cold to go outside. A week-long Polar Vortex event will crush your soul ."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, and the polar vortex is coming for you! The most unusually cold blob of air on the planet will be over the United States next week as the polar vortex returns for the second time this year," said Ben Noll, a meteorologist at New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research.
Bloomberg data shows that the last polar vortex sent the entire nation into a deep freeze, with snow even in New Orleans .
Meteorologists are already chatting about blizzard risks for next week across the Mid-Alantic and Northeast states.
This winter has been harsh across much of the Lower 48 (read here & here & here & here ).
So why have global warming alarmists remained silent about these cold blasts? Could it be that their USAID-funded propaganda budget has dried up?
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Sat, 02/15/2025 - 16:55 Close
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:20:00 +0000 How Justin Trudeau Helped Donald Trump Get Elected
How Justin Trudeau Helped Donald Trump Get Elected
How Justin Trudeau Helped Donald Trump Get Elected
Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,
“Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
From the “Karma’s a bitch” dept…
Today is three years to the day that the Canadian government under Justin Trudeau and deputy PM Chrystia Freeland invoked the Emergencies Act which claimed unprecedented powers and authority (which a federal court later found to be unconstitutional ) including the seizure of citizens’ bank accounts – not only of those who were present at the demonstrations in Ottawa, but even anybody who contributed funds to the protestors.
It sent shockwaves throughout the world – this was sort of heavy-handed action one expected to see in communist, totalitarian shitholes.
But such actions in Canada, a purported bastion of civil society and a liberal democracy within the “rules-based” global order was unthinkable. It nearly crashed the Canadian banking system , and behind the scenes it looked like the Senate wasn’t going to play ball.
Trudeau hastily rescinded the order, after brutally suppressing the demonstrations on the ground in Ottawa. “Declare victory and withdraw”, as Kissinger would have framed it. A few weeks later the RCMP began unfreezing the bank accounts , and a couple of the banks apologized for seizing their customers funds.
But that bell could not be unrung.
It was a seminal moment that would have many far reaching consequences, including the election of Donald J Trump as the 47th president of the United States of America.
Here’s how Trudeau helped re-elect Trump:
For want of a nail, the horse was lost For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the battle was lost, For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.
Step 1: It orange-pilled RFK Jr.
First, invoking the Emergencies Act and seizing bank accounts of lawful citizens appalled countless international observers, among them, a certain Robert F Kennedy Jr, in fact in RFK Jr’s case, it flat-out orange-pilled him.
A year later RFK Jr gave the keynote address at Bitcoin2023 in Miami, and the very first words out of his mouth were:
“I became a Bitcoiner when I saw what the Canadian government did to the truckers.”
I was there and it was a powerful moment . I was messaging Steve Bannon some of the bullet points as they were being delivered and he was hanging on every text. Bannon, I had noticed, had seemed transfixed by RFK Jr for nearly a year.
A few months later Bannon floats the idea of a Trump / RFK ticket, saying it would bring about a “massive landslide”.
Step 2: RFK Jr. Orange-Pills The Bad Orange Man
When Donald Trump embraced Bitcoin isn’t exactly certain. Someone changed his opinion on it, as he wasn’t a fan as late as 2019…
The Bitcoin Magazine crew who brought RFK Jr to Miami certainly had talks with Trump ahead of Nashville, but it was clear that RFK Jr and Trump were talking to each other and seemed practically fated to wind up on the same side in the coming electoral showdown.
At the following year’s Bitcoin conference, this time in Nashville, Trump also gave a keynote (as did RFK, again). Trump had adopted RFK’s pro-Bitcoin positions point-for-point, and going one further with the idea of a National Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Like RFK Jr. in 2023, Trump came out against Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) saying he would ban their development – Bitcoin was freedom money, CBDCs were serfcoin.
Step 3: RFK Jr throws in with Trump
They don’t end up as running mates, as Bannon floated – but after the first assassination attempt (where I think we for real flipped into an alternate reality ) – RFK Jr joins Team Trump. The game theory of RFK Jr splitting off votes from Trump (as some of the pundits hoped would be the case ), goes away.
Now the two deep state wrecking balls are playing for the same team, and at least one of them was orange-pilled by Justin Trudeau.
Step 4: The Crypto Lobby Gets Behind Trump
At this point the crypto folks pile on with the Bitcoin crew, they all learn the political playbook fast, and start getting behind team Trump, which now includes RFK Jr and this starts to look like a crypto bros vs nocoiners election.
Hey, if that’s the way the political game is played, then let’s play.
The Bitcoiners may not like that team crypto caught the tailwind, but it doesn’t matter now. At the time they were all pushing for the Republican ticket because the Dems, personified by Elizabeth Warren and her “Anti-Crypto Army” had been outright hostile to the entire industry for years, running Operation Chokepoint 2.0 against them , and serving up non-stop Wells notices…
The Dems actually read the room for a change and try to effect a panic pivot to tone down the Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome, but the best they could do was some weird woke crypto pronouncement called “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men” (since deleted from the Kamala Harris website) that promised $20K forgivable loans to black men, and – because they’re black, I guess – access to weed.
It was a stunning condescension that basically framed blacks as mentally ill, deadbeat potheads. As I wrote in The Bitcoin Capitalist Letter just before the election:
These smug libs still don’t get how paternalistically racist they are being every time they promote a policy that says, in effect, “Blacks are hopeless, deadbeat, stoners: here’s a policy that will help them get their shit together”.
Also, $20K isn’t entrepreneurial seed funding, it’s asswipe money.
Fucking morons.
We all know what happened next.
Step 5: Landslide
The election was a total blowout – my Polymarket bets hit across the board. I cleaned up.
Now I have an RSS feed setup in my mail reader and I just marvel at the tempo and wildness of the EO’s coming out of the Trump admin: renaming the Gulf of Mexico America, mass firings, budget freezes, DOGE, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, et al – and irony of ironies, a tariff war against Canada that’s thrown this country’s political class into chaos.
Trudeau has since announced his resignation – arguably precipitated by the crisis that erupted with he tried to oust his Deputy PM and Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland over differences on how to handle the Trump tariffs.
What goes around, comes around…
Karma’s a bitch.
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