Change Is Coming Soon In Canada

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I was doubtful for over a year that Joe Biden would end up being the Democratic nominee, because the numbers don’t lie. His disapproval, the country’s right track/wrong track polling, and the declining mental acuity on display each successive day by the octogenarian President was too much headwind to overcome. July’s bait and switch was no surprise to anyone seriously watching American politics. The pressure points were too painful for the Democratic elites not to act.  

After the initial media-fueled honeymoon for Biden’s replacement, Vice-President Kamala Harris, the data continued to pour in and regardless of the poll, the underlying numbers indicated the odds of Donald Trump winning in November, and winning beyond the margin of cheat, was just as likely as Biden being tossed out like last week’s garbage. Donald Trump all but tied his Harris in the favorability index, making up an 18-point deficit he had with Biden, which essentially neutralized the intensity of the anti-Trump vote. And the inroads the former and future President made with Latinos, Blacks, Jews, women, independents, young voters, and labor made the chance of Harris winning winnow by the day. And that’s before you add in Harris’ innate gift to be the singularly worst campaigner in American political history. 

The same set of dynamics Americans saw in October and early November seem to be shaping up with our neighbors up north, and that means there’s about to be political upheaval in Canada. After almost a decade of Liberal rule under Justin “Fidelito” Trudeau, the Conservatives are about to have their turn in power for the next few years. 

The same economics that plague the United States – high inflation, wage stagnation, flat job growth, an overbearing regulatory state, promises of tax hikes, mixed in with higher rates of crime and not winning the Stanley Cup since 1993, and you’ve got a toxic mix of truly unhappy Canucks ready to vote the bums out.

Last week, PM Trudeau lectured American voters on not taking the opportunity to elect the first woman president in history. This was rich coming from a man who has a storied track record of beating women, politically speaking, of course, to climb the ladder in Canadian politics. He defeated Mary Deros in 2006 to become leader of the Liberal party, and quashed a challenge from Joyce Murray in early 2013. The Trudeau scolding, of course, was merely a diversion to wallpaper over the trolling by President-Elect Trump about annexing Canada as the 51st state and the specter of tariffs on the horizon compounding Canada’s economic difficulties. It didn’t work. 

Several members of Trudeau’s cabinet have resigned in recent weeks, but Monday’s resignation of Cynthia Freeland, Trudeau’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance, was really the mortal blow to his tenure leading Canada. She simply could no longer abide by Trudeau offering up the equivalent of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and not deal with the coming tariff threat with the incoming Trump administration, tariffs that would be devastating to Canada. With blood in the water, the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, looked to strike the final nail in Trudeau’s political coffin. 

The Liberals’ coalition partner, the New Democrat Party, are the only faction left giving Trudeau a toehold on the job a bit longer. But NDP’s leader, Jagmeet Singh, is faltering. He has repeatedly called for Trudeau to resign, but thus far has refused to support a vote of no confidence. His personal pension as a member of Parliament isn’t fully vested until he serves in office through March. He wants to make sure the doomed government limps along for four more months so that he gets his before Canada gets theirs, in essence. 

Poilievre did move for a no confidence vote yesterday, and his speech right before the vote was one for the ages. It’s worth every minute of your time to watch. 

The vote was very close, but Trudeau hung on because as predicted, NDP’s Singh did vote for his own retirement parachute over the good of the nation. Afterward, Singh tried desperately to play on both sides of the fence – demanding Trudeau resign while not going along with what vast majority of the country wants – new elections. 

The jeering is visceral because of the rank hypocrisy of Singh’s stance. Few politicians ever successfully get away with rhetoric about how outrageous it is for politicians to put their personal interests ahead of the country while casting a vote expressing doing that very thing. 

So change is coming. There are rumors that Trudeau is already making plans to head for the exits as soon as this week. At worst, once Singh’s March pension ship comes into port, the government will fall and a national election will take place. What does polling look like? 

Abacus is the most reliable and detailed polling we have, and it’s showing a wipeout for Liberals and NDP on the horizon, and the magnitude of the tsunami coming increases every day this untenable circus in Ottawa continues. 

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Liberals are polling to win only 10 seats in a new Parliament? Ten? Hooboy. Again, it’s one poll, but I don’t think Ann Selzer is running this one, so it’s probably not too far off. By the way, to see how the unfolding drama is affecting polling almost on a daily basis, here’s the latest data.

Trudeau has been in power for nine years. There’s nothing new, novel, or winsome about him anymore. He’s worn out his welcome and refuses to step aside for someone else in his party to pick up the puck and skate across the blue line. That’s a hockey reference, of course, which is lost on Trudeau according to John Ondrasik, who took mocking this week literally to a new art form. 

Change is coming. It’s not just a possibility, it’s a lock. Pierre Poilievre will lead Canada, and will lead it  soon. The Conservative leader held a press conference after the no confidence vote, and like Donald Trump’s presser at Mar-A-Lago Monday, gave a tour de force. 

The CBC, Canadian Broadcast Company, is Canada’s official state regime media. They’re populated by lefties, broadcasting to lefties, and prefer only talking to lefties about lefties. A question was asked about the budget and Canada’s spending problems, and Poilievre rejected the premise entirely. 

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On the consequences of Trudeau’s collapsing cabinet and NDP rejecting the no confidence vote…

Poilievre reminded people of the hypocrisy of Justin Trudeau when he scolded American voters for rejecting Kamala Harris in November. 

I mentioned the mocking going on regarding Trudeau as being a hockey poseur. The mockery isn’t exclusively taking place at the Prime Minister’s expense. Jagmeet Singh is in the wringer as well. There has been a GoFundMe site set up to benefit Singh, trying to raise enough money to cover his pension so he can actually vote on Canada’s concerns instead of his own. 

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The amount raised? $65 bucks Canadian. That’s about $45 bucks American. Long way to go, but the lampooning of Canada’s political left is taking its toll. You can see and hear it, and the Trump effect is accelerating the desire for change up north. 

Soon.

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Biden’s Minions Race to Embed Racism in Federal Agencies

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This is just what the country voted for on November 5th–expanding the federal government’s focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by hiring up to 1200 new DEI drones at outrageous salaries to ensure that the federal government practices as much racism as possible. 

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Or maybe not, but that is what the Biden administration is doing as a lovely parting gift to the Trump administration and the American people as they get shoved out the door on January 20th. 

Luke Rosiak of The Daily Wire gives us the good news about the good news for those who are lucky enough to be DEI-certified, just like Matt Walsh. If you are X-certified, you should follow him. He does great work. 

The federal government is currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — employees who would be embedded into the permanent federal workforce headed into the Trump administration, according to a Daily Wire analysis of federal job opportunities.

The jobs have annual salaries of up to $310,000, and could add up to total salary payouts of $160 million a year. Thirty-three DEI jobs were posted in the 10 days immediately following the election of Donald Trump, and the hiring window closes before he takes office.

The bureaucracy is scrambling to fill even high-level jobs, just underneath the ranks of “political appointees,” before the Trump administration takes over. On November 15, for example, the Department of Health and Human Services advertised for a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, to “promote health equity” at a salary of up to $221,900.

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“Health equity” is a codeword for remaking the health care system by using Critical Race Theory heuristics in a manner to reduce health outcomes for the oppressors and improve them for the oppressed. Measures such as giving preference to treating people of color or “underserved” communities in addressing diseases, and putting oppressors such as white people behind them in the line for access to treatments and vaccines. Or rejiggering the transplant criteria to ensure that more “oppressed” people get to the head of the line. 

You know, racial justice sort of stuff. 

Racial justice will surely be a top priority for the Trump administration, so I am certain that he, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other administration officials interested in slimming down the federal government will be excited to learn that they won’t have to waste time and money searching for good DEI hires. 

The Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC) is preparing to extend job offers for two separate $310,000 positions, both of which can work from home three days a week. Its new Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion “leads the development, implementation, and ongoing review and renewal of the FDIC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan. Contributes to the development and implementation of FDIC-wide operations as a DEIA advocate. Develops, coordinates, and implements DEIA policies, programs, operations, and procedures throughout the FDIC.” The person will be expected to “defend [the Office Of Minority and Women Inclusion’s] formal budget program requests.”

FDIC also has an Office of Equal Employment, which, according to USAJobs, is currently evaluating contenders for a $310,000 director who “develops Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), employee development, employee performance, and other personnel plans, processes, programs.”

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See? Biden is having his people give Trump a head start in filling these vital jobs. 

Doing racism takes work, and I am thrilled to report that there is an entire industry dedicated to ensuring we produce enough of it both in government and in the private sector. There are now academic programs preparing people to be bureaucrats in the space, and the federal government is providing incentives ($310,000 salary!) to ensure a steady flow of graduates to keep up the pace. 

Even I might be tempted to give up my cushy writing gig to do this grueling work, but alas, I am a late-middle-aged white man with discernible skills and a disgust for racism. I wouldn’t qualify, except as an oppressor. Maybe I can become trans-racially fem and wear a doggie mask to get in the door!

Of course, some of these jobs sound tough. 

The Secret Service has an Office of Equity that says it’s looking for a “Writer-Editer” [sic]. NIH is looking for multiple Scientific Diversity Officers and Mental Health Scientific Diversity Officers, at salaries of around $191,900.

The Pentagon’s Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) is seeking a social media specialist to telework for $113,800 a year. The unit’s social media activity consists of about one post a day, such as one asking, “Did you know National American Indian Heritage Month Traces Its Roots to 1916?” Another asks about the importance of “affirming Native voices.”

DEOMI is an entire organization dedicated to things such as creating posters that say things like, “Diversity: ‘I want to celebrate the richness and diversity of our faith experience in this country.’ -Senator Barack Obama 08’ [sic].” Its staff spend their time on work such as creating a heavily-produced video showing how to use its website, with tips like “you can return to the home page at any time … select the Home tab.”

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I wish I could praise Biden for this innovative strategy to help America and reduce the workload for the Trump administration as they hit the ground, but I am afraid that Oatmeal-for-Brains probably didn’t think of this all on his own. Some genius in his orbit is working hard to ensure that the DEI industry has many good years ahead. 

January 20th can’t come soon enough. 

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NY Post: Stephanopoulos ‘Humiliated’ by $16 Million Settlement

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Earlier today David wrote about the media’s response to ABC’s decision to settle a claim brought by Trump against the network and George Stephanopoulos in particular. This afternoon, the NY Post has an exclusive report claiming Stephanopoulos himself is feeling humiliated by the turn of events.

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ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is “apoplectic” and “humiliated” by the network’s decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, The Post has learned…

Stephanopoulos, who claimed Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll during an interview with Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace, was particularly upset about being forced to apologize, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Another source told The Post that “George is defiant.”

He can’t be feeling that defiant because he deleted his entire X account this weekend.

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos deactivated his account on X, formerly Twitter, where he had more than 2.3 million followers.

Stephanopoulos’ account on Elon Musk-owned X (@GStephanopoulos) is no longer available, displaying a message that says, “This account doesn’t exist.” Stephanopoulos’ Instagram account remains active…

Reps for Stephanopoulos and ABC News did not respond to requests for comment.

Did Stephanopoulos make the decision to delete his account himself or was he advised to do so by ABC’s attorneys? Who knows. Maybe he’s just joining Bluesky with all the rest of the progressives. It’s not just George who is reportedly feeling down about the outcome.

Three sources told The Post that morale is down after a series of layoffs in all departments..

The settlement “is another gut punch,” one of the people said. “It’s sheer level embarrassment. People are furious.”

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The theory is that ABC News could have fought this lawsuit and won in court eventually but settled to just get it over with. The NY Post story includes some speculation that may be true.

Industry insiders speculated that Disney CEO Bob Iger wanted to put the legal matter to rest before Trump took office because he was fearful it would affect other departments in the company’s portfolio that are subject to government regulation.

Iger is also said to still have in mind how poorly the battle against Florida Gov. DeSantis went for the company.

It’s pretty clear that most of the major news outlets, including ABC News, have been visiting Mar-a-Lago to make their peace with Trump. I don’t suspect it will last very long but for now they are trying to start with a clean slate. But no one, including Trump, really believes it. At the first opportunity they will jump on the next Russia-gate bandwagon, whatever that is. Just like Stephanopoulos they are apoplectic he is back and also defiant even if they’ve calculated that now is not the time to show that definance.

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Biden Admin Sent $300M to Reuters to ‘Look Into’ Musk and His Companies?

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Hang on a minute here. Every time I start feeling like we’re darn near the good old US of A again, BAM.

Some same dystopian, authoritarian, sneaky asterisk Democratic Schlitz pops out from behind a screen to remind me we are living in a simulation. And they are the EE-VILLE wizards behind the curtains.

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What in the wild world of creepy, unAmerican sports is THIS?

I mean, I’ve despised al-Reuters since the First Gulf War, but good God almighty.

They even won a Pulitzer for the paid dirty digging they did. That’s like doubly schweet.

The money is all right here in an official government accounting document called “USA Spending.”

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There isn’t a whole lot more forthcoming just yet on the reports, and, as they’re ‘breaking,’ I normally wouldn’t put them up in this format without some more in-depth “news” sources.

But in this case, since the subject himself seems to have taken an interest at least twice so far?

Welp.

That alone is enough for me to think there’s probably a fire behind these smoking dollar signs.

Elon’s mother, Maye, came out swinging, too.

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…That gave all the liberal media a great quotation to spread hate, such as @nytimes @washingtonpost @latimes @CNN @MSNBC etc. Well, for $300 million plus many other millions, I assume Reuters found it worth it. It made me furious. Shame on the Biden administration, shame on Reuters, shame on the dishonest Democrat media, and everyone who knew they were telling lies, but found the money worth it. Giving them the Pulitzer Prize is *barf emojis*

All I can say, ee-ville doers, is you’d best FEAR THE DOGE.

Because I know exactly where they’re going to start turning over rocks looking for sneks.

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Outgoing Mayor Ted Wheeler on Antifa, BLM and Domestic Terrorism

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Outgoing Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler gave an interview to a local news outlet in which he was asked about his two terms in office. He was specifically asked about the violent protests which began in 2016 after Donald Trump was elected the first time and how he views the challenges those movements presented to the city. His answers were interesting though not, in my opinion, completely honest.

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Wheeler was asked about the street battles between Antifa and Patriot Prayer and said that his solution to put in place time, place and manner of protest restrictions was ahead of its time. He got pushback from newspapers across the country for that but he said that after the BLM riots of 2020 the public changed its tune and was much more willing to consider efforts to control street protests.

All of that may be true but it’s also a bit misleading. First of all, Antifa’s initial spree of vandalism in Portland wasn’t prompted by any group on the right. It was prompted by the election of Trump and the large contingent of anarchists who wanted to signal their opposition by smashing up banks and store windows. The street battles with Patriot Prayer came later. 

And even then, those initial Patriot Prayer gatherings weren’t promoted as a time to brawl. Patriot Prayer held free speech rallies to express support for Trump and Antifa goons would show up with weapons including knives, batons and bricks to bash the fash.

Getting back to Wheeler, he saw a change in the dynamic after the death of George Floyd. “Then when George Floyd was murdered and you had a broader movement around social justice, some of the very same people who’d been engaged in those riots in 2017, 2018 and 2019 conveniently stepped into those broader movements and, frankly, hijacked them,” he said. He added that you could see a difference between the BLM protesters who were protesting during the day and the black bloc Antifa members who would show up at night with tools and spray paint, clearly intent on breaking the law.

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He’s right about that but I think he leaves out that, for a time, he seemed to be trying to earn the support of the Antifa crowd. Remember this?

He was completely on their side even though they were throwing things at him and telling him to go home.

It was only later, once Wheeler realize that the Antifa extremists weren’t going to welcome him and in fact hated him that his tune changed. “People forgot I’m a person,” he said. He added, “I don’t think it was necessarily personal but when you come to my house and you try to burn it down or you stand outside my daughter’s room with a firearm. When you catcall her and tell her her father is a Nazi. When you chase her and her mother to school. When you slash my tires. Those things start to get very personal.”

Wheeler connected the treatment he received from Antifa extremists to the shooting of a health care CEO in New York. “If we have differences of opinion politically, we need to come and express them through the institutions, the democracy we have set up,” he said. He continued, “You can’t just confront people on the street and, as we saw even a week and a half ago, you just shoot somebody in the back because you have a fundamental policy disagreement.” 

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I’ve never been a fan of Ted Wheeler but I think he did learn the key lesson the hard way. Antifa are not part of our political system, they are violent thugs opposed to our system. We don’t need to listen to them, we need to shut them down.

Here’s the full interview. The section on Antifa starts about 10 minutes in.

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It’s True…Young People Approve of Murder

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Misgendering someone may be literally genocide, but actual murders can be a good thing, you know…

As more polls come out testing the public perception of the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, it turns out that the young people who celebrate diversity, embrace love and compassion, and are determined to right the wrongs of Western Civilization are a bloodthirsty lot. 

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Most Americans are still a bit upset about the idea of shooting people in the back, but people between the ages of 18-29 are evenly split between those who still believe murdering people in cold blood is a bit of a sin and those who think it can be justified if you dislike the politics or job title of the murderee. 

Luigi Mangione has become a folk hero to many, which is about as big an indictment of our educational system and parenting skills as I can imagine. While parents cannot escape all the blame, I tend to think that our K-12 and especially our higher education system shoulder most of the blame. 

Why? Well, look at where all the Hamas supporters have set up their home base. Our colleges and universities teach the embrace of revolutionary violence, and hatred of Western Civilization, and professors are out there embracing Hamas and calling 10/7 “exhilarating.” I doubt that many family dinners include such propaganda. 

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Parents, take your kids to church, starting young, and don’t leave moral education to the public schools!

I wish I could say that this is a totally fringe phenomenon–and in the wider society, it is still quite unusual–but when 40% of young people tell a pollster that they approve of cold-blooded murder, it goes beyond the fringe and becomes a real thing to worry about. 

You may have noticed that one conversation that didn’t start up after Thompson’s murder was the always-popular gun control push on the left. That’s because they were too busy explaining why Thompson’s murder was an unfortunate but perfectly rational expression of outrage that United Healthcare didn’t approve every single insurance claim. 

Really, when you think about it, Thompson deserved it, right?

I am pretty sure each of us has a list of people who do evil deeds, including politicians, academics, gender-bending doctors, and school teachers bent on transing the kids. Abortion doctors are famously on a lot of pro-lifer’s lists of evildoers, but disapproval or murder keeps us from calling for their deaths. 

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We use our words, as we used to be taught in kindergarten before the Critical Theorists took over the schools. 

The nihilism of the left has crept into our cultural institutions and, in turn, has seeped into the souls of too many younger people. 

The moral rot has reached crisis levels, and it sickens me. 

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Trump Sues Ann Selzer, Des Moines Register Over Misleading Poll

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It was probably the single most misleading poll published this year. On Nov. 2, Ann Selzer at the Des Moines Register published a poll which found Kamala Harris leading in Iowa by three points. This was considered huge news at the time both because Iowa was considered a safe bet for Trump and because Selzer was considered a very credible pollster. 

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I chronicled some of the responses to the poll here. My favorite came from a column by Michelle Goldberg at the NY Times. Imagine this scene playing out in progressive homes across the country just prior to the election.

On Saturday evening I was watching a movie with my family when a text message made me gasp so hard that it scared them. “What happened?” my husband asked, worried. “Nothing bad,” I said, slightly overcome. “It’s just … Ann Selzer has Harris up three in Iowa!”…

So many of us were anxious to see how big Trump’s lead would be this time, and the fact that Selzer instead found him losing came as a shock.

But as we now know, Trump won Iowa by 13 points. It wasn’t even close. Afterwards, Selzer published a self-serving column in the Register suggesting that maybe her poll had motivated Trump voters.

What a big miss for The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll. It followed an unprecedented worldwide fascination with an outlier poll showing Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 percentage points…

In response to a critique that I “manipulated” the data, or had been paid (by some anonymous source, presumably on the Democratic side), or that I was exercising psyops or some sort of voter suppression: I told more than one news outlet that the findings from this last poll could actually energize and activate Republican voters who thought they would likely coast to victory. Maybe that’s what happened.

If it did motivate a few Trump voters it didn’t make a difference in the outcome and it doesn’t explain how a renowned pollster was off by 16 points. A few days later, Selzer semi-retired, though she said it had been in the works for a year.

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Last night, Trump sued Selzer and the Des Moines Register.

President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday night against the Des Moines Register newspaper and its highly respected former pollster, adding to his ongoing legal attacks against news media companies…

Trump’s attorneys filed the suit in Polk County, Iowa, where Des Moines is located, just days after ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump, agreeing to pay $15 million.

The ABC lawsuit was a defamation claim. The lawsuit against Selzer is different.

Unlike most of Mr. Trump’s other lawsuits against the media, which involve claims of defamation, this case alleged Ms. Selzer violated the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits deceptive practices that occur in sales or advertising.

“We believe this lawsuit is without merit,” said Lark-Marie Anton, a spokeswoman for The Des Moines Register. “We have acknowledged that the Selzer/Des Moines Register pre-election poll did not reflect the ultimate margin of President Trump’s Election Day victory in Iowa by releasing the poll’s full demographics, cross-tabs, weighted and unweighted data, as well as a technical explanation from pollster Ann Selzer.”

In other words, they are going to have to prove this was actual fraud by Selzer in which she intentionally misled the public.

Selzer would “have the public believe it was merely a coincidence that one of the worst polling misses of her career came just days before the most consequential election in memory,” the lawsuit claims. It later adds that the poll “was no ‘miss’ but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election.”…

“President Trump, the Trump 2024 Campaign, and other Republicans were forced to divert enormous campaign and financial resources to Iowa” after the Selzer poll was released, the lawsuit claims. Federal campaign finance documents indicate that Trump’s campaign did pay about $254,000 to a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based firm that does text message outreach on Nov. 4, the day before the election. That amount is equivalent to 22 cents of every $100 the campaign spent from Oct. 1 on…

“For too long,” the lawsuit argues, “left-wing pollsters have attempted to influence electoral outcomes through manipulated polls that have unacceptable error rates and are not grounded in widely accepted polling methodologies.”

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I think it’s fair to say that Selzer’s explanations for the embarrassing failure have been self-serving and her inability to identify a reason for the error even after the fact seems odd. Still, it’s a long way from that to proving fraud. I guess we’ll see if discovery in this case turns up anything.

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Naughty Liz Cheney Might Be Looking at Coal in Her Stocking

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Aw, you hate to see it – that perpetually prune-faced newly adopted hero of the Left. 

Naughty Liz Cheney Might Be Looking at Coal in Her Stocking 16That daring defender of decency, democracy, and sacred dogged hunter down of insurrectiony types.

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Naughty Liz Cheney Might Be Looking at Coal in Her Stocking 17Yeah. Liz Cheney.

Literally – you hate to see her.

Even the name is enough to make your toes curl, which it did for voters in the former Wyoming representative’s district. As you all will remember, thanks to joining the January 6 congressional committee one-sided witchhunt with fellow scuzzball Adam ‘Would You Have a Kleenix’ Kinzinger, she was summarily booted out of Congress in a landslide of rejection – during a primary, no less.

You could hear WaPo weep as they called it ‘historic.”

Liz Cheney’s historic margin of defeat

Depending on how you slice it, it might be the biggest of the 21st century. And its nearest competitors have something in common.

Rep. Liz Cheney’s loss in Tuesday’s Wyoming primary was a staggering setback for what exists of the anti-Trump movement in the Republican Party. She was defeated by more than 2-1 by Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, short-circuiting a once-promising political career and serving notice that, however much or little direct control the former president exercises over the party, running afoul of him remains perilous.

Cast out into the political wilderness by her own treachery, the dour Cheney wandered, preaching the gospel of TDS, insurrectiony conspiracies, retribution, and looking for a home. Surely, there was somewhere and someone could once again love the dumpy, devious, double-dealing oracle of moral authority.

She was a perfect fit for Joe Biden’s Democratic Party and its flawed second-act nominee.

SOLD

Feted and lionized for her putrid participation in the sham J-6 Committee tribunals, Cheney became a faux token of legitimacy for the scoundrels running the campaign against a reemergent and surging Donald Trump. 

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It was about as effective as invaders waggling a blessed, ancient saint’s desiccated remains filched during a cathedral sacking at a Crusader army to say, “Sorry! St Gottreid’s with us!“

The country was appalled they’d even think she mattered and blew through them to send Trump to the White House again anyway.

I haven’t checked back to see if Cheney is still as popular as she was on November 5. I have a feeling invitations and friendly phone calls are getting sparse.

While making sure Donald Trump got his shot at the White House for the second time, the American people also saw fit to entrust Republicans with both houses of Congress, so the triangle of power is complete.

For the past two years, the Republican-led House Administration Oversight Subcommittee investigating the actions of the January 6 committee has been slogging through a quicksand pit filled with obstruction, disappearing articles and evidence, outright mendacity, and stonewall efforts of mammoth proportions in every direction.

Despite having to pull teeth and threaten for every bit of information they have been able to glean – and remember, they have no enforcement capabilities, as every criminal referral runs through Merrick Garland’s Justice Department and Christopher Wray’s FBI – they have managed to issue a damning interim report of the skullduggery that was part and parcel of that committee’s disgraceful performance.

You’ll never guess who they’ve singled out as a particularly egregious, dare I say criminal, offender.

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Well, knock me over with a feather. Here, I thought Cheney was as pure as the driven democracy snow.

The House Administration Oversight Subcommittee and its chairman Barry Loudermilk on Tuesday released an interim report on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, concluding the attack was preventable and also asking for an investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney for criminally tampering with a witness during the Democrat-led congressional inquiry of the tragedy.

“Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the report released by the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee and its chairman Barry Loudermilk stated.

“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge.,” it added. “This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause.”

Turns out, old Liz thought she was a freedom of speech coach.  When you were in front of her committee, it seemed as if you were free to speak just like she told you to in all those texts, as Cassidy Hitchinson apparently did.

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You remember her – she’s the aide who swore under oath that Trump lunged at his limo driver that day. That fairy tale would have been refuted by the limo driver – I’m sure it was an oversight on Cheney’s part – had he been allowed to testify to the J6 committee. 

But he wasn’t. 

Hutchinson is also in a little bit of a pickle for lying under oath about a note she said she wrote.

The subcommittee has gradually and doggedly chased and teased out all this information. I think they received most of the text messages in October to go through.

WELL, HELLO, LIZ

Her name sure starts to pop up.

…The report also took direct aim at former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, Cheney’s star witness at the nationally televised hearings, alleging that Cheney encouraged false testimony about a handwritten document and noting her sensational claim that former President Donald Trump tried to commandeer his presidential limousine that day to take it to the Capitol was directly refuted by the Secret Service.

Loudermilk’s report suggested Cheney also bore responsibility for Hutchinson’s testimony.

The View’s Alyssa Farrah also acted as a go-between for Cheney and Hutchinson when the girls couldn’t touch bases to coordinate things on their own.

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Isn’t that nice? So helpful.

From Kyle Becker’s report, there are eight specific smears of President Trump the two colluded on:

…Here are eight key falsehoods that Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson promoted in order to smear the former president: 

FINDING 1: President Trump did not attack his Secret Service detail at any time on January 6.  

FINDING 2: There was no pre-planned off-the-record move to the Capitol in the days leading up to January 6.  

FINDING 3: There is no evidence that President Trump agreed with rioters chanting “hang Mike Pence.”  

FINDING 4: Cassidy Hutchinson falsely claimed to have drafted a handwritten note for President Trump on January 6.  

FINDING 5: President Trump did not have intelligence indicating violence on the morning of January 6.  

FINDING 6: Cassidy Hutchinson lied about the classification status of documents to disparage Mark Meadows.  

FINDING 7: Representative Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson attempted to disbar Stefan Passantino.  

FINDING 8: Cassidy Hutchinson misrepresented President Trump’s actions at Lafayette Square Park in the summer of 2020. 

“As the Select Committee’s star witness, Hutchinson’s testimony formed the basis of the Select Committee’s false, but most enduring claims against President Trump,” the report states. 

“Without Hutchinson’s altered testimony, it is unlikely the Select Committee could make its assertions about President Trump’s mood, attitude, and alleged culpability in the events of January 6,” the report continues….

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As I said, it’s only an interim report, but it’s enough for Loudermilk to request a criminal investigation…the second Trump is inaugurated.

That pardon list is going to be interesting, no?

If I had one wish, Santa, it’s that POTATUS and his nursemaids forget they ever heard her name when doing that very last naughty and nice scribbling.

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Now That The Election Is Over…

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Remember when we were told that the whole “Tren de Aragua taking over apartment complexes” story was overblown or even a conspiracy theory?

Donald Trump was hyping a non-problem in order to scare Americans and slander all those good, law-abiding illegal border crossers in order to make poor Kamala Harris look bad! All that “poisoning the blood” and “murderers are bad” talk was fearmongering.

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Well, the election is now over, so I guess we can revise history and admit that there was something to all that. 

Well, it turns out that Tren de Aragua gang members really are pretty nasty guys. 

Martha Raddatz may still be in the mood to argue that it really isn’t much of a problem since the people stabbed got “non-life-threatening” stab wounds, so what are we complaining about?

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Really, if you think about it, America is better off with these Venezuelan entrepreneurs. Without them, who would pick the crops, mow our laws, butcher our meat, or stab our citizens in apartment complexes taken over by armed gangs of thugs?

Ironically, the Pravda media’s determination to contradict and ‘debunk” every utterance that came from Donald Trump’s or J.D. Vance’s mouth during the campaign has turned out to damage them more than Trump or Vance. Everybody saw the video of the armed thugs during the campaign, and nobody bought the Raddatz line that “only a few” apartment complexes taken over by gangs wasn’t worth worrying about. 

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Democrats and the Pravda media have made utterly clear whose side they are on, and it isn’t the American people’s. They have willingly sacrificed the lives and safety of American citizens in order to promote their transnationalist/open borders agenda and to ensure that they stay in power no matter the cost. 

This latter goal they did not achieve, and they didn’t because they have lost credibility. 

The media laid it all on the line in this last election season, and came up short. As the campaign lies get exposed their credibility will fall further. 

It is our job to ensure that happens by wrapping each of these lies around their necks. 

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Bluesky’s Head of Trust and Safety is Not a Fan of ‘Free Speech Absolutism’

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Bluesky has positioned itself as a safe space for progressives who don’t want to be associated with Elon Musk’s X. What this means in practice is that you’re likely to be welcomed there so long as you are slightly to the left of Mao but anyone, left or right, who voices an unapproved opinion with be hounded by a mob.

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So Bluesky got a rave review from a NY Times reporter who encouraged others to try it out but people on the wrong side of history get lots and lots of death threats. Even a reporter for Politico who linked a story mildly critical of progressives leaving X was subject to a tidal wave of angry complaints.

At last check, my post elicited more than 2,100 quote-posts and some 3,700 responses, a tally of interactions easily surpassing my number of followers. Almost all of the feedback was angry, and no shortage was directed not toward Nancy’s piece in general or the quote in particular but … me. Trigger warning here for readers with an aversion to gratuitous profanity and faceless aggression, but I was, in the words of Bluesky users, among many, many other things, a “f***ing dork,” a “f***ing wanker,” a “f***ing moron,” a “dumb f***” and a “bitch.”

The person responsible for making sure Bluesky remains a safe space is Aaron Rodericks, who has been head of trust and safety since earlier this year. I was not shocked to learn that Rodericks is not a believer in “free speech absolutism” aka free speech.

“I think it just comes down to philosophies of free speech,” he says. “The last couple of years have seen a paradigm switch into a ‘one size fits all’ approach that’s dictated to you by billionaires… [based on] the type of speech that the owner of the company believes in, and it is a take-it-or-leave-it scenario.”…

Rodericks’s conception of free speech is influenced by his background. “Being Canadian shapes a lot of my perspective. There’s enough of the American perspective in the world on a day-to-day basis. For example, in the Canadian constitution… you have rights and freedoms, but they’re not unequivocal.”

Some have criticised Bluesky for being an “echo chamber” or “safe space”, too dominated by left-leaning and liberal users whose views are rarely challenged. “I’m glad that [critics] consider it a safe space,” Aaron says, “and ideally it can be a safe space for them as well. The whole point of Bluesky is for it to be safe and welcoming to all users. I think the issue is some people are defining their identity by opposition to others and how well they can harass others and deny their existence. Bluesky may not be the right place for them.”

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He’s not naming any names but the most blocked person on the entire site, as of this week, is reporter Jesse Singal. That reference Rodericks made to harassing others and denying “their existence” is exactly the sort of BS progressives always say about anyone who disagrees with trans activists. Of course reporting factual information harmful to a progressive cause is not harassment but the goal here isn’t accuracy it’s silencing a political opponent.

Rodericks used to work at trust and safety for Twitter. After Elon Musk bought the site, Rodericks and his whole team were fired. He sued and blocked the action in the Irish courts. 

Aaron Rodericks, who is the co-lead of threat disruption at X, secured the order against his employer.

He claims he is being subjected to a process that is “a complete sham” over allegations that he “demonstrated hostility” to the company for allegedly liking tweets by third parties that are critical of X, Mr Musk and the firm’s chief executive Linda Yaccarine.

He also sued Musk for defamation over a tweet.

Lawyers for Aaron Rodericks, who remained with Twitter after Musk acquired the platform and eventually renamed it X, received permission Monday from an Irish court to serve Musk related to the defamation claims, according to an RTE report, the country’s major news outlet and broadcaster…

At issue in the new defamation claims is a tweet from Musk after those fall layoffs, which eliminated Rodericks’s team that focused on election integrity. In response to media reporting of the layoffs, Musk wrote on the platform: “Oh you mean the ‘Election Integrity’ Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone.”

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That case was eventually settled along undisclosed terms.

So Rodericks and Musk are clearly not friendly and that seems to play out in their very different views of free speech. Musk is a free speech absolutist and Rodericks takes a different view: “I think it’s a notable and worthwhile experiment, if that’s where [Musk] wants to spend his money and his resources. I just don’t believe in that philosophy for Bluesky.”

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