Category: Political Animal

VRWC Program Notes: Live Q&A

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From the National Post;

What is it about Poilievre’s style and policies that seems to have Tories across the pond looking at him with interest?

Join National Post columnist Geoff Russ on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT, when he will be taking your questions in the comment section under his upcoming article on why the global right is looking to Poilievre, rather than Donald Trump, as a new model for conservatism. Register today for your opportunity to ask Geoff Russ anything.

This Q&A is a free, registration-only event, but we have a number of subscriber-only events planned for the near future, including live chats and interviews with some of Canada’s best columnists and leading newsmakers.

Might be interesting.

Saskatchewan Election 2024: Open Thread (Bumped)

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Final update: It’s a 5th consecutive SaskParty majority, extending their government into it’s 21st year but with reduced seats. A clear urban-rural split, the upstart Sask United party and Greens each cost the two major parties a seat or two, and another one or two still close. 52% turnout, about the same as 2020.

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Polls are now closed, Rebel News is covering the returns on X livestream.

2024 SKVotes.

Four Moe years? Or Rachel Notley lite?

Polls are open. and so are the comments for your observations and predictions. The latest Philippe Fournier polling claims the parties are tied in popular vote.

Of the 61 seats at the Saskatchewan legislature at the time of dissolution, the Saskatchewan Party held the lion’s share with 42 seats.

The opposition NDP held 14 seats, four seats were held by independents, and one was vacant.

The Regina Reader Post has an interactive map to track results this evening.

Commies Creep To Majority In BC

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They’re being vewy, vewy caweful: Why does it take so long to count so few votes?

This is a really stupid take by Spencer Fernando.

Constitutional Firebreaks

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Robert F. Graboyes;

Across the American West, fire wardens create firebreaks—vegetation-free swaths gouged through forests and fields to slow and limit the spread of wildfires. In U.S. presidential elections, the Electoral College serves the same purpose—limiting the spread of one state’s malfeasance, manipulation, ineptitude, and/or operational failure to other states. For all the trauma and bitterness that emerged from Florida in 2000, the catastrophe was limited to one state.

For years, a choir of voices has demanded that we eliminate the Electoral College and elect presidents via national popular vote (NPV)—an idea that is appealing in theory, but treacherous in execution. NPV is the electoral equivalent of filling firebreaks with pampas grass, scrub oaks, dead brush, bails of hay, and discarded chemicals. Eliminating the Electoral College could turn virtually every presidential election, every four years, into a 50-state Florida-2000-style conflagration—with a partisan arms race of electoral machinations in the years between elections.

The VP Debate Open Thread

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(I see Robert had a post scheduled, but I’ll leave this up as there are comments on it).

Streaming now at Timcast for those without cable tv. Debate begins at 9pm Eastern.

Walz opens on a question on Iran’s attack on Israel with full deer in the headlights.

Rescue The Republic

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Matt Taibbi’s speech in Washington;

I was once taught you should always open an important speech by making reference to a shared experience.

So what do all of us at “Rescue the Republic” have in common? Nothing!

In a pre-Trump universe chimpanzees would be typing their fourth copy of Hamlet before RFK Jr., Robert Malone, Zuby, Tulsi Gabbard, Russell, Bret Weinstein and I would organically get together for any reason, much less an event like this.

True, everyone speaking has been censored. The issues were all different, but everyone disagreed with “authoritative voices” about something.

Saying no is very American. From “Don’t Tread on Me!” to “Nuts” to “You Cannot Be Serious!” defiance is in our DNA.

Now disagreement is seen as threat, and according to John Kerry, must be “hammered out of existence.” The former Presidential candidate just complained at a World Economic Forum meeting that “it’s really hard to govern” and “our First Amendment stands as a major block” to the important work of hammering out unhealthy choices.

In the open he said this! I was telling Tim Pool about this backstage and he asked, “Was black ooze coming out of his mouth?”

Honey, I Finished The Internet

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Presidential Election Pre-Postmortem

I decided to write my November 2024 election postmortem in early September so I can stop listening to political coverage and focus, instead, on mowing the lawn, cleaning out drawers, and making some more coffee. As soon as a winner has been declared (i.e., sometime between November 5 and January 6), simply print off this article and, between each pair of brackets, cross out the left-hand entry if Harris has won, or the right-hand entry if Trump has won.

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