For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.
Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.
1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.
2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.
3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.
4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.
5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.
6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.
7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.
8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.
9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.
10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.
The “Reclaiming Canada” conference, hosted by We Unify at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, B.C. was a standing room only event on the weekend.
@NewWorldHominin reports.
https://t.co/UsfrvLRhEm
This young girl in the photo is Maryana Chechelyuk. Before and after Russian captivity. Today she finally returned home after two years in a Russian prison.
Maryana was kidnapped by Russian occupiers in May 2022 while traveling to Zaporizhzhia from surrounded Mariupol, where she worked as a police investigator. Then a humanitarian corridor was organized for civilians, her parents were allowed through, and Maryana, along with her minor sister Alina, were taken for filtration to the village of Bezymennoye, Donetsk region. From there, Maryana was taken to prison in Donetsk.
During more than two years of their daughter’s captivity, the Chechelyuk family was only able to talk to her once on the phone and receive several letters. In them, the girl talked about the terrible conditions of detention and her seriously deteriorating health.
At various times, Maryana was held in custody in Donetsk, Yelenovka, Taganrog, Kamyshin, and a colony in Mariupol. During her two years of imprisonment, she endured a lot of physical and mental torture. They starved her, beat her, and threatened to shave her head. The girl seriously lost weight, her kidneys and legs began to fail, she began to have back problems, and developed chronic bronchitis. Only after this did Russia allow Maryana to be exchanged for its serviceman.
There is no explanation for such bestial, inhuman treatment of Maryana and other women in Russian dungeons. She was not a combatant, she was being held hostage for no reason. Her whole “fault” was that she was a representative of the Ukrainian state.
About four hundred Ukrainian women continue to be held in Russian dungeons. Most of them are civilians, kidnapped in the same way as Maryana Chechelyuk. Some of them have been in captivity for three years now. For unknown reasons, Russia is very reluctant to return Ukrainian women, even in the format of exchanges for male prisoners of war. One gets the impression that the main goal of the Russian side is simply to torture them and the Ukrainian people. We have no other rational explanation.
Source: https://t.co/yKdkIAcvSQ
Me after checking on Twitter that Meta is just down and I'm not hacked since my Instagram isn’t loading and my Facebook got "session logged out”. 😂 #facebookdown#instagramdown#meta
Men punched and hit each other in Warwickshire, England on Tuesday at an annual tradition of the #Atherstone ball game, which dates back to medieval times. Stores boarded up in anticipation of the game.
@maxinoob@sureteduquebec C’est au moins un début…on peut se souvenir de l’attaque au sabre dans le centre ville de Québec. Il n’y a pas eu d’alerte et Sûreté Québec a vivement été critiqué. Réveillé tout le Qc aurait pu sauver des vies cette nuit-là!
Trauma is a tragic, devastating, and real experience that can contribute to gender dysphoria in some people.
These individuals need compassion. Not medicalization and treatment based on flawed data that doesn’t show benefit.
Thank you for your bravery, @ErinBrewerin.