#08.30.2024

[todaysromano]

08.30.2024

Today, Romano was glad that it was Friday.

Arab.com link

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Upper East Side Milwaukee (Downer Ave) - August 30, 2024

[nico-di-genova]

Alex from Arrow McLaren’s Instagram Story | 08.30.2024

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Russell at LGBTQ Nation:

Candace Owens’ conspiracy theories have continued to grow ever more unhinged since the former Daily Wire pundit lost her gig at the far-right website over her overt antisemitism in March. Most recently, she combined some of her greatest hits — antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, global elite pedophile rings, and, of course, French First Lady Brigitte Macron — into a real all-time whopper. On the August 30 edition of her YouTube show Candace, Owens “interviewed” Xavier Poussard, head of the French far-right newsletter Faits et Documents and one of the key proponents in France of the baseless conspiracy theory that the French first lady is secretly transgender. During the course of their nearly 40-minute conversation, Owens and Poussard managed to spin Poussard’s spurious “proof” that “Brigitte Macron is really a man” into a global theory that finds a cabal of Satanists masquerading as Jews and conspiring to promote incest and child sexual abuse in an effort create a generation of world leaders who are psychopaths. Or something like that.

[...]

“It is my belief that this is a synagogue of Satan,” Owens continued, clearly doubling down on the antisemitism that got her fired from The Daily Wire. “It is Biblical. It mentions this — people who are pretending to be Jews, but are in fact people that worship Satan, and it seems like a very small, incredibly powerful group of elites.” Citing no evidence, Owens claimed she could “trace this through to Australia, to Switzerland, to France, to America, to Canada.” She claimed that her absurd conspiracy theory explains “why it is the circumstance that all of these world leaders that we have, even [Ukraine] President Zelensky, all seem to be homosexual” — which, to her, is a bad thing. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and, of course, French President Emmanuel Macron are all in heterosexual marriages, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire, separated in August 2023 and Swiss President Viola Amherd is single.

Grossly bigoted hack Candace Owens goes further down the pits of homophobia by engaging in wild conspiracy theories baselessly insinuating that world leaders are “homosexuals”, such as Volodymyr Zelensky, Joe Biden, and Anthony Albanese.

From the 08.30.2024 edition of Candace:

[whispers-in-the-margins]

Long Drive.

08.30.2024

I sit, watching the trees pass,

every single one different, in shape and size,

with branches reaching at different heights.

I sit, watching the grass,

growing so green, so fast.

I imagine how soft it would be,

if through it I were to pass my hands.

I sit, watching the road,

in front of me, beneath me, behind me.

I marvel at the tire marks,

and wonder how many have traveled this path.

The road is so long,

and I can’t help but sit and watch.

It is the same all the time,

and somehow— the path feels like home.

[missives]

08.30.2024

I keep abandoning you.

But maybe I'll start keeping a rough account here again.

Yesterday was drizzly and dark and I ran errands around town.

Every time I stepped out of a store, I could smell pine trees, grass, wet green vegetation.

I miss the Pacific Northwest.

[klause-m]

08.30.2024 Paris

[melancholy-journal]

Sometimes I swear it would just be better off if I just fucking died. I'm so fucking tired or everyone and everything. I'm fucking tired.

08.30.2024

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Off of Oakland Ave, Milwaukee - August 30, 2024

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matthew Bunson at Catholic News Agency, via National Catholic Register:

Vice President Kamala Harris leads among Catholic voters over former president Donald Trump, according to the findings of a new EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research survey two months away from the presidential election. The poll, conducted from Aug. 28-30, surveyed 1,000 Catholics and has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.  Catholic voters, like most of the electorate, consider the economy by far the most pressing issue facing the country and oppose transgender surgeries for minors and transgender males competing in women’s sports. They are divided on the question of who should set policy on abortion, U.S. support for Ukraine, and Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.  The findings also reveal a significant gender gap among Catholic voters, while Trump is currently receiving support from 30% of Catholic Latinos. According to the findings, 50% of Catholic voters currently support Harris for president while 43% support Trump and 6% are undecided. Harris is also ahead of Trump among Catholic Latino voters, leading the former president 60% to 30% overall but with 9% still undecided. This is important given the growing size and influence of Latinos in American Catholicism. 

The vice president also leads Trump among Catholic African American voters 82% to 12% and Catholic Asian voters 58% to 35%. Trump carries non-Hispanic white Catholic voters by a margin of 52% to 42%.  Similarly, Harris leads the former president in every age group, with her biggest leads among Catholic voters aged 30-39 and 40-49. Interestingly, her smallest margin is among the 18- to 29-year-olds, Gen-Z Catholic voters (many of whom will be voting for the first time in 2024), where she holds a statistically insignificant lead of 44% to 43%. Among Catholic voters, she has also managed so far to avoid damage from President Joe Biden’s low job approval rating, currently at 49% disapproval with 41% approval, while 10% are neutral.

A Catholic Gender Gap

Especially notable is the gender gap that has emerged among Catholic voters. Female Catholic voters support Harris over Trump 56% to 37%, while male Catholic voters favor Trump 49% to 43%. Similarly, on the generic ballot for control of Congress, 49% of Catholics support the Democrat candidate while 41% support the Republican candidate. Female Catholic voters, meanwhile, favor the Democrat candidate 54% to 35% while male Catholic voters support the generic Republican 48% to 43%. 

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Mass Attendance and Catholic Voters

The poll also found that when it comes to Mass attendance, 12% of American Catholics attend Mass daily or more than once a week, 31% once a week, 16% once or twice a month, 32% a few times a year, and 9% once a year. Harris leads among every category of Mass-attending Catholics save for daily Mass attendees who support Trump 55% to 30%.  Unlike the findings in previous polling of Catholics, in this unusual election at least, regular Mass attendance or adherence to Church teaching may no longer be an indication that the voters will vote for the Republican presidential candidate.

According to the EWTN News/Real Clear Opinion poll conducted between 08.28 and 08.30.2024, Kamala Harris leads all American Catholics 50%-43%. Harris also leads 82%-18% among Black Catholics, 60%-30% among Latine Catholics, and 58%-35% among Asian-American Catholics. Donald Trump leads White Catholics 52%-42%. Female Catholics back Harris 56%-37%, while male Catholics back Trump 49%-43%.

Both EWTN and RealClear Opinion have well-known right-wing biases. The former entity was founded by the late Mother Angelica.

The poll was analyzed on EWTN's EWTN News In Depth on Friday.

From the 09.06.2024 edition of EWTN's EWTN News In Depth:

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Upper East Side Milwaukee (Bartlett Ave & Belleview Pl) - August 30, 2024

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Upper East Side Milwaukee (Bartlett Ave & Belleview Pl) - August 30, 2024

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Upper East Side Milwaukee - August 30, 2024

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