by | May 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Edward Durr, the working class Republican truck driver from New Jersey who shocked the country by winning a state senate seat race in 2021, is now running for governor in the state.
Durr is a perfect example of what the country needs more of – average working people running for political office.
Considering how close the last race for governor was in New Jersey, a Republican candidate definitely has a shot.
FOX News reports:
Former NJ state Sen ‘Ed the Trucker’ launches bid for governor and predicts a Trump upset
Former New Jersey state Sen. Edward Durr, who in 2021 made national headlines for unseating longtime state Senate President Stephen Sweeney in an otherwise quixotic bid, told Fox News Digital he believes the Garden State may see more than one political earthquake this year.
Durr, who faces 2021 GOP gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli and state Sen. Jon Bramnick in the Republican primary, will potentially have a rematch with Sweeney as he makes a run for the governorship.
The Gloucester County Republican said his gubernatorial campaign is not too unlike his first bid against Sweeney, remarking 2024 is also a “campaign of grassroots.”
“It is of the people, by the people and for the people,” he said. “I’m not your prototypical candidate, so to speak. I’m not a lawyer, not a doctor, not a rich businessman of sorts. You know, I’m just a regular, working-class guy.”…
“They have always addressed their special interests while ignoring the common man and woman just trying to make ends meet, trying to get by. And somebody needs to speak up for us,” Durr added.
Here’s a local video report:
You have to admire this guy’s ambition to run as a conservative.
“New Jersey needs a blue collar, hard working conservative, and I’m just the guy for the job,” #Durr4Governor
Please help out with a donation https://t.co/D6pEbqQalE today, we can do this. #NJDeservesBetter #VoteRed pic.twitter.com/r5rAaxkr5j
— Edward Durr (@EdTheTruckerNJ) May 14, 2024
The country needs more people to step up in this way.
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by | May 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Memorial Day weekend is typically big business at the box office but it’s a bust in 2024.
Box office sales this weekend were the worst in decades, a huge blow to the film industry which has been struggling for a few years now.
Millions of people have simply walked away from new movies over Hollywood’s embrace of wokeness and movies that seek to preach rather than entertain.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Memorial Day box office showing softest since the 1990s
Hollywood’s hopes for a hot start to the summer at the box office fizzled out Monday, with Memorial Day long weekend movie ticket sales poised to be the softest in almost three decades.
Warner Bros.’s Furiosa beat out Sony’s Columbia Pictures and Alcon Entertainment’s The Garfield Movie, according to Comscore data. But the Mad Max prequel’s $32 million domestic opening weekend was the Memorial Day weekend’s worst No. 1 performance since 1995’s Casper, with $22.5 million, not adjusted for inflation and excluding 2020, when theaters were closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In comparison, Disney‘s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid opened last year with $118 million over the holiday, and Paramount Picture’s Top Gun: Maverick launched with $160 million 12 months before that. Even Furiosa’s predecessor, Mad Max: Fury Road, opened with $45 million in 2015.
The disappointing results have been partly attributed to last year’s strikes, which stopped production for months and delayed the likes of Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine from May to late July. Additionally, Disney’s Lion King origin story, Mufasa, won’t come out in cinemas until December, and Paramount’s eighth Mission: Impossible won’t come out until next year. That meant there was was no comic book film to kickoff the summer as has become tradition, as well as no momentum heading into the season.
John Nolte of Breitbart News says the problem is the movies themselves:
Furiosa is shaping up to be a financial catastrophe. It cost $168 million to produce, so let’s call it an even $200 million with promotion costs (which might be generous). That puts break-even at around $400 million. The global take this weekend is a dreadful $59 million.
So what went wrong?
The answer is what’s been going wrong with Hollywood for the last five years… It’s not the pandemic. It’s not the strike. It’s not a lack of product. The problem is the product—the product sucks ass.
Hollywood is going to continue to struggle until they learn this lesson.
People go to the movies to be entertained, not for progressive political lectures.
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by | May 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Joe Biden must be getting hard up for cash. He is turning to his old pals Bill and Hillary Clinton to help him raise funds with an event in Virginia.
If there’s one thing the Clintons are good at, it’s fleecing the public for money.
This is just a reminder that Biden can’t do this on his own. Last month, he did a fundraiser with Bill Clinton and Obama which was hosted by left wing hack Stephen Colbert. Biden needs all this help.
Axios reported:
Scoop: Bill and Hillary Clinton to headline Virginia fundraiser for Biden
President Biden and former President Clinton will team up for a mega fundraiser inside the Beltway in late June, hosted by former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The event will be the third iteration of a successful fundraising formula that includes an evening with two (or three) Democratic presidents for the price of one.
– Scheduled for June 18, it follows the “three president” extravaganza in New York in April and a planned event with Biden, Clinton and former President Obama in mid-June in Los Angeles, hosted by George Clooney. The New York event brought in $26 million for Biden’s re-election effort.
– In addition to Biden and Clinton, First Lady Jill Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will also attend, according to people familiar with the matter.
– McAuliffe, a former DNC chairman and longtime confidant of both presidents, will host the fundraiser at his home in McLean, Virginia.
Organizers are planning a two-tiered event, with a reception, followed by a more exclusive — and expensive — dinner to hoover up big-dollar contributions in the D.C. area.
All the crooks stick together https://t.co/lLoTJBD98k
— Rick Flynn (@RickFlynn46) May 27, 2024
If @POTUS ws doing such a great job as they are telling us, we would not need all the backup. https://t.co/qOkSDfVxcH
— Citizens4Change (@ChangeNow86) May 27, 2024
It’s all so predictable, isn’t it?
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by | May 27, 2024 | Aggregate
As much as Globalist Pope Francis strives to be as politically correct as possible, we know it will never be enough.
A little over two months ago, he got into hot water with the mainstream media and liberals by advocating for peace in Ukraine: Pope Francis Bombarded With Criticism for Suggesting Ukraine Must Have the ‘Courage To Raise the White Flag’.
Now, in the process of saying something that is a majority opinion in the Catholic world, Francis has allegedly ‘shocked’ bishops in Italy by using an ‘offensive slur’.
He said that homosexual men should not be admitted to church seminaries because there is already ‘too much’ gay sexual activity – but in doing so committed a faux pas.
Daily Mail reported:
“Bishops at the meeting were reportedly taken aback by the language the 87-year-old used to make the statement – the derogatory word ‘frociaggine’, which roughly translates to [faggotry].”
Bishops burst with ‘incredulous laughter’, but suggested that it was an honest mistake by the Pope.
Italian is a second language for Francis, and they suggested that he did not know how offensive the word was.
“The alleged comments, which seem to go against recent moves to amend seminary admission rules, have come as a surprise to some in the church as Francis is known for taking a more liberal view than his predecessors on LGBT rights.”
He has torched laws that criminalize homosexuality as a ‘sin’ and an ‘injustice’, and also allowed Catholic priests to ‘bless’ same-sex couples.
Tgis was considered by the media a significant advance for LGBT rights in the church – but generated heavy criticism from Conservatives in the Church.
“However, the Pope delivered a similar message on gay seminarians – minus the reported swear word – when he met Italian bishops in 2018, telling them to carefully vet priesthood applicants and reject anyone suspected of being homosexual.”
Reports about his comments surface after bishops approved a document regulating admission to Italian seminaries.
“The paper reported that members ‘approved by majority vote an amendment that recognized the distinction between simple homosexual orientation and deeply rooted tendencies’. This, it suggests, means ‘in substance, that a homosexual person could be admitted to the seminary if, like the heterosexual, he gave the guarantee that he knows how to live the discipline of celibacy’.
However, it reportedly implies ‘that it is more difficult for homosexuals because they will be living in an all-male community for many years’.”
Read more:
Jubilee: Pope Francis Declares 2025 a Holy Year Devoted to ‘Hope’ – Rome Braces Itself to Receive 30 Million Visitors
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by | May 27, 2024 | Aggregate
A billionaire from Ohio plans to take a two-person submersible to the Titanic site to prove the industry is safer following the implosion of the OceanGate submersible last year.
Billionaire real estate investor Larry Connor of Dayton, Ohio, said he’s planning a trip in a two-person submersible to the Titanic site with Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey.
In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, Connor stated, “I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way.”
Connor and Lahey will travel in a $20 million submersible named the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, which is designed to plunge over 12,400 feet to the Titanic’s resting place.
Ohio billionaire plans to take $20M sub to Titanic site to prove industry’s safer after OceanGate implosion https://t.co/raILyWcmwt pic.twitter.com/CmU2VBYOwN
— New York Post (@nypost) May 27, 2024
Per The New York Post:
An Ohio billionaire is planning to take a deep sea submersible to Titanic depths to prove the industry is safer in the wake of the doomed OceanGate vessel that imploded last year.
Real estate investor Larry Connor, of Dayton, said he and Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey will plunge more than 12,400 feet to the shipwreck site in a two-person submersible.
“I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way,” Connor told the Wall Street Journal.
Lahey has designed a $20 million vessel dubbed the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, which Connor said can carry out the voyage repeatedly.
Ohio man plans to take a 2-person submersible to Titanic depths to show the industry is safe after the OceanGate tragedy https://t.co/70TAaM6K4c
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) May 27, 2024
Lahey was a critique of the late OceanGate’s founder, Stockton Rush, both before and after the OceanGate submersible imploded, resulting in the death of Stockton and four other men.
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