But they still won’t touch their own armies of terrorists. Or even call them out by name.
The gameplan for the Netanyahu speech was simple. Most Democrats would attend and sit through it. A whole bunch, including Pelosi and Kamala, would officially or unofficially boycott it, and then issue press releases blasting Netanyahu. And then move the party on with the Obama-era business of getting closer to Islamic terrorists, saving Hamas, and turning on Israel.
Vietnam War-era protests are among the most well-known and well-documented movements in U.S. history, notoriously culminating in the violent clashes during the 1968 Democratic National Convention (DNC). As Election Day nears in the U.S., striking parallels are emerging – protests against U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts, a deteriorating financial situation, and rising tensions on all fronts. It’s hard not to wonder if history is repeating itself.
Unless Kamala denounces Israel, and that is entirely possible, Chicago will be fiery but peaceful if yesterday’s antics are an indication.
BREAKING: PROTESTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ARE BURNING AN EFFIGY OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
This is blocks always from where he addressed congress. pic.twitter.com/1VF6xSTXys
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) July 24, 2024
Canada’s acceptance of Palestinian refugees from Gaza is setting off alarm bells south of the border.
In a letter Wednesday to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, United States Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed concern over the program, which he warned could lead to an increased risk of allowing individuals with ties to terror groups easy access to the United States.
h/t DS
Has the U.S. federal government ever had less legitimacy than it has right now?
Kimberly Cheatle was forced out as the Secret Service director after perhaps the worst performance by an agency head in the history of Congressional testimony. Cheatle couldn’t answer basic and crucial questions like how many shell casings were found on the roof of the American Glass Research building where would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Crooks set up shop 10 days ago, and by the time she was done even the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee were calling for her ouster.
Between Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, the former is often thought to be the better pick for Canada. If that’s the case, that’s a problem of our own making.
Harris is the likely Democratic candidate for November’s United States election now that President Joe Biden has announced on his X account that he will not be running for another term. He endorsed Harris, his vice-president, instead; her candidacy isn’t set in stone, but she’s the likely contender.
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s fictional Veep, Selina Meyer, ran for the U.S. presidency, the TV comedy’s writers settled on the most meaningless election slogan they could think of: “Continuity with Change.”
As yet more evidence that America’s politics are stranger than satire, continuity with change is the essence of Kamala Harris’s bid to become the 47th president of the United States.
From a Canadian perspective, the more traditional approach to trade and security that Harris represents would be welcomed in Ottawa.
You’d have to hate Israel very bitterly indeed to wish to deprive it of Iron Dome, its missile defence system that has saved countless lives both before and after October 7. The system consists of ten batteries, with plans for a further five, positioned around the country and at sea at a cost of $50m each.
Yet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the representative for New York’s 14th district and the figurehead of the progressive wing of the Democrats, openly burst into tears in 2021 when a bill providing $1 billion in new funding to Iron Dome was passed by the House of Representatives.
On Sunday, the impossible finally came to pass. Joe Biden, after swearing that only the Lord Almighty himself could compel him to step down from the 2024 presidential race, suddenly revealed that he was finished. The announcement, which only came in the form of a social media post, caught his own staffers by complete surprise. Even those working in the White House only came to learn of his decision on X.
To say that this is an unprecedented situation risks underselling the uniqueness of the current moment. Not only are we in very strange territory electorally (given the announcement’s proximity to the party convention), but there is also a sense that something has gone seriously wrong with the political system itself.
Donald Trump got shot.
After the usual condemnations, thoughts and prayers, it was business as usual — the left equating him with the devil, the right with a saviour. A few in-between saw him for what he was in the moment: a man, a husband and a father who is running for president of the United States and whose assassination attempt has fundamentally challenged the cornerstone of democratic values, not just in the U.S., but in every free nation, including Canada.
Binyamin Netanyahu has asked to see Donald Trump during his visit to the United States this week, risking a further increase in tension with the White House.
The Israeli prime minister, 74, is in Washington for a planned address to Congress on Wednesday. He is reported to be meeting with Kamala Harris, the vice-president, later in the day for a private meeting at the White House to discuss the war in Gaza, as well as plans to free the remaining hostages held by Hamas.
Trump destabilized Canada in 2016. Trudeau doesn’t want it to happen again.
OTTAWA — It could be a problem for Canada that Donald Trump doesn’t like Justin Trudeau.
Trump’s surprise win in 2016 destabilized Trudeau’s government, which spent the next four years on war footing with its largest trading partner. Now the potential return of the former president has motivated Trudeau to turn on a “Team Canada” charm offensive to neutralize any bad blood with people likely to have Trump’s ear if he wins the election.
I hope Trump invades Canada.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service said Tuesday she is resigning following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump that unleashed intensifying outcry about how the agency tasked with protecting current and former presidents could fail in its core mission.
Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, had been facing growing calls to resign and several investigations into how the shooter was able to get so close to the Republican presidential nominee at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Bibi Netanyahu, who is in the midst of a war with Hamas, is flying to the United States to speak to a joint session of Congress.
Kamala Harris, as President of the Senate, is supposed to preside. She is declining to do so, and has also declined to even meet with the Israeli Prime Minister.
The best thing any group of Republican senators has done in recent memory is chase Kimberly Cheatle down the hallway at the RNC last week.
The head of the Secret Service is an appropriate target for outrage.
She should have been gone the night of the attempted Trump assassination, and now is a symbol of the incompetence and lack of responsibility that has destroyed trust in our institutions.
In announcing he would no longer be the Democrats’ presidential candidate on Sunday, Joe Biden professed he was doing so because he believed it “in the best interest of [his] party and the country.” While Biden did not elaborate further on his reasoning, he promised to address the country later this week with more details about his decision.
