Joe Smith 🇨🇦
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Canadian. Boomer. Husband. Father. Grandfather. Dog owner. Science degree. Law degree. Centrist. Vaxxed and boosted.
British Columbia, Canada
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@Noahpinion
My avatar is Axel Oxenstierna, a 17th Century Swedish statesman, who is now best known for writing to his son: "Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?" It seemed appropriate for Twitter. :-)
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@JFennellAuthor
"If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by".
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@DavidSegalRI
I would feel sort of badly if a couple of Republican Senators died as a consequence of staying loyal to Trump - but, you know, personal responsibility and consequences and all that.
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@BillKristol
Republicans nominated Trump and elected Trump. You need to acknowledge that you are free adults, accept personal responsibility and stop blaming Democrats for what you, as a group, did.
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@minna_alander
No country in its right mind will allow itself to become dependent on suppliers in Germany or Switzerland for national defense.
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@MattGertz
@benyt
If the emails were obtained illegally and the lawyer acted as a go between to deliver them to the press then it seems to me that he is an accessory after the fact to the original crime.
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@dr_lori_esq
A very experienced Canadian judge told me that he once presided over a trial in the 1970s of a black man charged with pimping. Defense counsel told the client to wear his best suit. The accused showed up at trial resplendent in canary yellow.
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@alixabeth
@raulpacheco
I love this version of "is there a doctor" You can find it in English but I prefer the French for some reason.
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@PaulSzoldra
@chrislhayes
I guess if you are going to set fire to yourself publicly you want to make it a special occasion.
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@delfoo
Russia being Russia, I expect that the money for food, fuel and ammunition was stolen.
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@KonstantinKisin
@OliverJia1014
As a Canadian, I think that America, however imperfectly, offers the countries of the world the best chance for peace, prosperity and freedom.
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@AshaRangappa_
I confess that I do not understand what the right claims is the core of the "Hunter Biden Laptop story". It seems to me that they always step back from saying out loud what they mean because either it is libelous or it is on its face nonsense.
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@AOC
White, male, upper middle class, Canadian.
When my 13 year old daughter made some unfortunate choices and got pregnant, we encouraged her to consider abortion and supported her decision. I am glad for her sake that she had the abortion. I am glad abortion was available.
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@ltgovmcnally
"Without historical context, we would have no Tennessee heroes"
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There have been quite a few men from Tennessee who have, for example, won the Medal of Honor in defense of the United States. You have no need to make a hero of a man who tried to destroy your country.
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@MikeDelMoro
@adam_tooze
@JulieNBCNews
So somewhere between 700,000 (best case) and about 5 million (catastrophic breakdown of health care) dead Americans by the time its over. Some hoax.
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@richard_alagbe
@yashar
A city council that cannot competently handle local crime and housing issues, thinks the world should hear what they think about issues from the other side of the world.
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@markniesse
What percentage of the population has a home photocopier? This not just a burden - it is a burden that hits lower income citizens harder.
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@KyivIndependent
No one is talking about arming Ukraine to chase the Russian army inside Russia. On the other hand, Ukraine should be armed to the point where Russia withdraws from all of Ukraine, including Crimea.
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@mattsheffield
The Right has spent years screaming their hatred of liberals, blacks, gays, women, immigrants, intellectuals. How exactly did they think that was going to work out for them? Were they unable to add up the numbers? Did they think their victims would never make common cause?
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@billybinion
I read a Houston newspaper around 1978. The police had murdered a drunk Mexican American vet. A protestor picketed outside the police station. The newspaper went to the protestor's father and asked the father where he thought he had gone wrong in raising the protestor. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@CallaWalsh
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the best thing that had happened to Eastern Europe since Ottomans were defeated at Vienna in 1683.
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@mattdpearce
@chrislhayes
The implicit and cavalier assumption that COVID 19 was a problem in China but would not be a problem in the west because our institutions and society were "stronger" and "better", that we were "better", was racist and will kill people.
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@MattGertz
Miller should be in prison for his role in making child abuse an instrument of American government policy
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@mhmck
An F35 flown by a volunteer pilot with a newly minted Ukrainian passport would be an interesting development.
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@andy_sellars
@Popehat
When the courts give up on believing in the rule of law, you are well and truly cooked.
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@BillKristol
"destroying a decent and elevated conservatism"
Last seen under Eisenhower administration.
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@davidfrum
wait, wait - if they are right then it would have been lawful for Obama to direct the FBI/CIA to try to destroy Trump. 🤔
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@ezraklein
we should be making a list of the people advocating for the war so we know who the world needs to hang afterwards.
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@mollysmcdonough
@GovHowardDean
@JaneMayerNYer
@nytmike
@FoleyandLardner
What lawyer is moronic enough to sit in on a call that will make her a witness and waive solicitor client privilege to boot?
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@AshaRangappa_
Canadian lawyer. I don't think the argument that you cannot impeach an ex president would be taken seriously in a Canadian court. Republicans will vote to acquit and then hundreds of rioters will go to court and testify they rioted on Trump's orders.
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@IAPonomarenko
A Russian wakes from a two year coma and is told Russia is at war with NATO. How many Russians have died? 200,000. How many NATO soldiers have died? NATO has not shown up yet.
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@ddale8
That is, of course, a naked, fascist, threat from the President of the United States.
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@jaywillis
@KevinMKruse
Alito and Thomas should both be impeached. Kavanaugh needs to be investigated properly.
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@McFaul
If that happens the Ukrainians should demand that the stub of Ukraine be immediately accepted into NATO, with NATO bases on the frontline to face the newly expanded Russia.
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@ClaudiaStellar
something similar happened in Vancouver BC. the officer who was arguing there was a serial killer preying on prostitutes got pushed off the force. it turned out there was a serial killer.
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@nytimes
@VVFriedman
Some years ago a Judge I knew was presiding over a pimping trial. Defense counsel told the accused to wear his best suit. The accused pimp arrived at trial in canary yellow ...
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@ezraklein
Sixty per cent of Russians support the war. What is happening to Russians is nothing compared to what the Ukrainians are suffering. If Russians don't like it, they know what to do.
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@MattGertz
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” - Albert Bartlett
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@AshaRangappa_
Have you read any of the Number One Ladies Detective Agency books. They are a light and pleasant read.
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@maggieNYT
@ddale8
@peterbakernyt
And yet your newspaper has been propping that whack job up for the last four years.
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@IAPonomarenko
And they have survived it. Now give them a good meal, a soft bed and a cellphone so they can call their loved ones in Russia.
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@julie_kelly2
@BillKristol
Yes, I am a Canadian. It gives me some intellectual distance and objectivity.
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@davidfrum
After November 2020, President Warren (or President Harris) should send Obama to America's allies on an "apology" tour. :-)
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@Prune602
@JuliaDavisNews
I wonder if they will be so "realistic" when Ukraine starts blowing up key Russian infrastructure.
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@andreagrimes
Until the police determine the cause of death your concern is premature. If you find a dead infant there are good reasons to be concerned for the well being of the mother.
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@BillKristol
The GOP is going to be like Germany and France after WWII - with millions of members claiming they were secretly in the resistance the whole time.
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@DanDwig79
@law_ninja
@mathematicsprof
@adamscrabble
I was at Glacier National Park. Someone said "there's a grizzly bear up ahead". Most of the tourists ran towards the grizzly. It is a miracle that the human species has survived as long as we have.
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@chrislhayes
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy would all like a word with Secretary Pompeo.
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@DailyCaller
"Citizens United" is a threat to democracy. Turning the Supreme Court into a political prize to be fought over, and bought and sold, is a threat to democracy.
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@JosephPolitano
that poll says a lot more about his audience / followers than it says about the dollar.
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@DrewPavlou
It is not built yet. I live in BC but not in Vancouver. I am deeply skeptical at how these projects are going to work out.
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@AshaRangappa_
@YaleLawSch
@Harvard_Law
The time for Yale and Harvard law schools to stand up for the rule of law was two or three years ago. They stood silent. Now, Yale and Harvard Law should just be (figuratively) burnt to the ground.
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@tombroen
@davidfrum
You say: if you withdraw from Ukraine we will not pursue you into Russia.
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@reshetz
It is doubtful she even knows what money laundering is.
Today I donated a little more personal money to United24.
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@ZekeJMiller
@AndrewFeinberg
@GOP
@GOPconvention
@whca
When a political party says they don't want media coverage you know they have entered a final death spiral
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@JanNWolfe
@Popehat
The judge should have told them they only needed to book one way tickets.
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@SpeakerPelosi
They don't want you on Ed & Labor because you are the sort of person who would harass a school shooting survivor and peddle psychotic conspiracy fantasies. I would not want to be in the same room with you either.
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@AmandiOnAir
Your problem is that you don't have enough people willing to demand action from the politicians on gun control. USA is so screwed up that it is illegal for the Federal government to have a computerized registry of guns.
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@KamalaHarris
You should expunge the criminal records for simple possession and street level trafficking at the same time.
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@kenolin1
I don't feel sorry for the United States. They chose to create a media and a Republican Party full of sociopaths and to elect a full blown psychopath as their President. I hope for their sake, and the sake of the world, that it makes better choices going forward.
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@Hanasaku_Yuri
@DrewPavlou
or someone develops a substitute and the price collapses as happened with, for example, tin
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@bears_beats_b_g
@OliverJia1014
Musk should tell Putin to give up and withdraw from Ukraine.
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@MalcolmNance
this is the kind of stuff that Stalin would do but he would have the researchers continue working on projects while in prison.
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@kamilkazani
which is all part of why it is such a mistake for the west to slow walk military aid to Ukraine - it has given Russia time to learn, adapt and ramp production.
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@AOC
When someone tells you corruption is just the way the world works, they are telling you something about their personal moral code.
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@AdamSerwer
@chrislhayes
John Roberts gave the country his personal assurance that this sort of thing does not happen.
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@parfitt_tom
@CAVandy
If Trump got permission from Russia, it means he gave the Russians more advance information than he gave Pelosi.
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@tdub909
@SteveSchmidtSES
I am seeing more anti-vax in Canada than I would like but I think a lot of it is leaking over the border from the USA via FaceBook and Youtube. Still our overall death rate per hundred thousand population is only about one third that in the United States.
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@jimvj
@michael_nielsen
Bill Gates is a highly intelligent, ruthlessly rational and effective businessman spending his own money. The Trump administration is flailing around trying to order people to produce N95 masks. Gates will probably get there first with the vaccine.
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@Cavalorn
this is not the original tweet by
@theophite
but if the wording has shifted, the meaning is still the same:
"Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could then trade for heroin."
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@BlueBoxDave
Trump stoked a riot for the purpose of disrupting Congress. People died. We may find out that Trump was responsible for the lack of security / delay in sending in the National Guard. It seems clear that Trump's minions were involved in the delay of the National Guard.
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@Popehat
Note the date:
@mickmulvaney
Trump to Breitbart on how the left plays tough: "I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump — I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad, very bad."
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@kamilkazani
For the next twenty years, we are going to be digging up the bodies of Ukrainians murdered by the Russians and we should be reminded over and over again which companies and countries quietly enabled and supported the Russian genocide.
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@JuliaDavisNews
He has been saying that Russia is at war with all of NATO. Did he not think through what that would involve?
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@ASlavitt
@DrPsyBuffy
If someone declared war on the United States how many minutes would it take before the USA started ramping up production of bullets?
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@BBCWorld
This on a day when there is an editorial in a Russian newspaper calling for the elimination of a significant portion of the Ukrainian population.
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@MBazilian
@JesseRodriguez
@lesleyclark
That quote needs to be amplified as much as possible. The people who have bought in to the crazy conspiracy theories need to be brought back to reality - and Mitch is one of the few people they might listen to.
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@Noahpinion
First you need to adopt two principles: (1) objective reality exists (intellectual) and (2) telling the truth matters (moral). Those two principles will exclude most current Republicans.
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@davidfrum
If Kavanaugh is appointed and then arrested a year from now for lying to the Senate how would that affect "legitimacy"? Watching a sitting Republican Supreme Court Justice doing a perp walk would be great theater.
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@Cavalorn
For me there are two iconic tweets - your leopard tweet and the tweet explaining bitcoin
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@sbishopthebard
@MikeDelMoro
@adam_tooze
@JulieNBCNews
As a Canadian watching your politics from afar, it seems to me that COVID-19 may be about to make the "medicare for all" debate much more significant in the November election.
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