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→ Tories want Kamala Harris over Donald Trump
Most Brits want Kamala Harris to win the upcoming election, including a majority of UK Tory voters, per a YouGov poll carried out shortly before last night’s debate. Some 55% of Conservatives prefer the Democratic candidate, compared to more than 80% of both Liberal Democrats and Labour supporters. Meanwhile, Reform UK voters preferred Trump by 57% to 25%.
The Tories’ substantial 65+ voting bloc has its counterpart in the US — ageing former Republicans with a distaste for Trump, most recently including Dick Cheney. Who says the Right is united?
→ 5Pillars asks followers who was responsible for 9/11
On the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, the Muslim media website 5Pillars has marked the day with a very odd post: “Today is the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. The controversial events of that day are still a source of huge dispute among Muslims. Who do you think was responsible for 9/11 and what were the agendas of those who perpetrated and exploited it?”
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America.
The controversial events of that day are still a source of huge dispute among Muslims. Who do you think was responsible for 9/11 and what were the agendas of those who perpetrated and exploited it?
Photo:… pic.twitter.com/jMN596fe9N
— 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) September 11, 2024
This went out to 168,000 followers. The account’s banner reads “Independent. Grassroots. Regulated.” In May, it was censured by the Independent Monitor for the Press (Impress) for a podcast “promoting ‘hatred and abuse’ of Jews and LGBT people”. So that’s what it means by “regulated”…
→ Did Kamala Harris wear spy earrings at the debate?
For those wondering who won last night’s presidential debate, the latest round of online conspiracies offers some clues. Kamala Harris apparently performed so well that cheating is the only possible explanation, according to various Right-wing accounts, which are now circulating rumours that the Vice President’s earrings were in fact a hidden earpiece.
Look at these Earpieces that look like earrings. Looks a lot like what Cackling Kamala was wearing. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/87faMEeZ3O
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) September 11, 2024
Harris’s jewellery does resemble that of a woman modelling a pair of $600 audio earrings in a now-viral advertisement from 2023. But high-resolution images from the debate show that the earrings aren’t quite the right shape, and are in fact a discontinued Tiffany item. Of course, there has been similar distasteful analysis of her opponent’s ear…
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SubscribeWho Brits (or any other non-US citizens) want to win the election is entirely irrelevant.
Indeed…this is a typical MSM filler piece, which UnHerd shouldn’t be running…
Not a lot more irrelevant than who US citizens want. After all they are going to get who they are given.
Most Brits haven’t been to the USA. Very few have been in the last few years. A negligible number of Brits have any reliable basis whatsoever to judge who is the best candidate. It’s like asking us who we want to win the next Indian general election.
True, but the US President is still the “Leader of the Free World”, so people in a lot of other countries do take the trouble to form a view.
Not quite. Whilst the number who take a broader interest may be small the US election has much more impact on us than the Indian. Although the latter is rapidly increasing in importance.
In terms of who has a Vote that is self-evident. But in who has a stake in the outcome and should be interested then Brits, and the western world per se should have a fundamental interest/concern.
The US Election gets so much coverage here because it has so much impact. The reverse of course is not true.
Of course the swivel eyed loons at Reform would prefer Trump!
Anyone else, especially after watching Trump’s trainwreck last night, would prefer Harris as leader of the free world.
and endless wars
True Tories are Uniparty liberal globalists so of course they want KH to win.
They are also finished as a political entity.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that not very many people in the free world want the United States to be led by a moron. It is shocking to me that so many Americans do!
The Right contorting itself between the Trump/Farage Populist types and proper responsible politicians not a new theme and will play out over next few years. Little signal there though for the Populist form – it ain’t as popular as you think because people grasping Populists all hot air and about themselves first and foremost. Taken a while but it’s registering.
On the 2nd and 3rd stories – the Muslim world has it’s dangerous conspiratorialist streak as much as the Alex Jones nutjobs in the West. It’s the same psychology at work. Bedfellows.