I vote for Liberals in Ontario, Democrats in Illinois. I voted for Dems in '22, Joe Biden in '20, HRC in '16 and Libs in '15, ‘19 and '21. I block idiots/troll.
@atrupar
If Matt Gaetz somehow manages to implicate Sean Hannity, Jim Jordan and Stephen Miller, in addition to Tucker, in this bizarre story, my fondest hopes for 2021 will have been realized.
@KatiePhang
“Michael Cohen claims then-candidate Donald Trump had advanced knowledge of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya with supposed ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton”
So many “Trump Tower meetings.”
Breaking News: “The PMO today announced all future vacations by the PM and his family will be personally approved by the publishers of the
@globeandmail
,
@nationalpost
, Conrad Black, Rex Murphy and Robert Fife.”
Stay tuned for details.🙄
@keithboykin
Narrator: “Ironically, it was the Trump administration’s incompetence that forced hospitals to form the hitherto fictitious ‘death panels’ that the
@GOP
falsely claimed would be created by Obamacare.”
@KellyO
@NBCNews
Time to remind the world what Trump said about President Obama playing golf. (Transcript from the CBC Radio One program “As It Happens”.)
@gtconway3d
Bolton played his cards badly. He could have testified before Congress, verbal guns blazing, and have been declared a hero. Instead, he took the preferred
@GOP
path: weasel your way through events, try to avoid showing courage, yet score big on book profits from a best-seller.
@ddale8
Trump is unable to understand that a man was murdered on video when he sees the George Floyd video. He frames the whole experience in terms of what he saw, his viewing experience, rather than the death of a fellow human being. What they say is true: Trump is devoid of empathy.
@RitchieTorres
@Politidope
How is it possible that a country’s future, and the world’s future, can be held hostage by a man and his $500,000 dividend check from his coal brokerage?
@chrislhayes
@Sen_JoeManchin
is the poster boy for requiring politicians to divest themselves of any assets that could lead to conflict-of-interest accusations.
@atrupar
“Those people [travellers returning to the U.S.] went through quarantine, they went through tests, they went through everything.”
Gee, I don’t remember it that way. Do you? 🤔
Breaking News: Nikki Haley co-opts
@TheRickWilson
's phrase,
#ETTD
, but puts her own spin on it as "Everything Trump Touches, He Loses".
We prefer the original.
#ETTHL
doesn't have the same appeal.
Haley: It’s a pattern of losing that everything Trump touches, he loses. We saw it in 2018. We saw it in 2020. We saw it in 2022. How many more times do we have to go back to the same person and finally decide maybe he's the problem because I know he's the problem.
If I understand this "WE Charity" non-scandal correctly, the
@CPC_HQ
is miffed that the Liberal govt. awarded the contract to administer the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG) program as a sole-source contract, without reaching out to other organizations. Instead, they ... 1/n
@BillKristol
Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Marianas Islands should be asked if they want to become states, too.
“Territories” are *so* 19th Century.
@BruceAHeyman
@KathrynMathias1
This is why I vote in U.S. elections from Canada: the 1M of us who are dual citizens or permanent residents must do our part to help ensure Trump never wields power again.
I predict that "The Beer Store" will close by 2030, perhaps 2028, killed by
@fordnation
. Who will benefit? The owners of Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, the convenience stores and gas stations, all big corporations. Not the Mom and Pop convenience stores.
Lost revenue for us (tax payers) so that more rich friends of Ford can profit. We are witnessing the largest garage sale of all our services to wealthy donors than in our history (saddling us with $13.9 Billion in deficit) This is THEFT!!!
@BestStephenD
@BG_1935
My belief is that there is a subset of Canadians whose parents held an irrational hatred for Pierre Trudeau, and these people learned their hatred for the Trudeau family from their elders, just as people learn racism, homophobia, anti-semitism from their parents.
@jmontforttx
“Allison originally was charged with attempted murder. But prosecutors have dropped that charge, citing Florida's ‘Stand Your Ground’ self-defense law based on the throwing of the bottle.”
It’s only going to get worse with Florida’s permit-less open-carry laws. Wild, wild west.
This is revealing. I found all my old bank statements from 1978 - 79. My tuition at Queen's University for the 1978 - 79 school year was $799.42. I earned $2,037 working 16 weeks during the summer of 1978. Rent for Jan. - Apr. was $462.50.
Those were the days, eh?
Overlooked this past March was the 40th anniversary of the Camp David Accord, which President Jimmy Carter brokered between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. President Carter has been a severely under appreciated president. May this change soon.
@mmpadellan
@BabyD_Rae
The House managers have been consistently impressive in their presentations.
Trump’s lawyers sound like the 1-800-Ambulance guys have been summoned to the Senate.
The SNC non-scandal didn’t pan out, so the CPC created the WE non-scandal. When that didn’t pan out, the CPC tried to turn l’affaire Vance into a Liberal govt. scandal, even though Vance was a Harper Government™️ appointment. See the pattern?
#cdnpoli
@SteveSchmidtSES
@heyman_von
@CPAC
"Viktor Orbán has told a conference of US conservatives that the path to power required having their own media outlets, calling for shows like Tucker Carlson’s to be broadcast '24/7'."
Will there be lessons in goose-stepping marches in the afternoon?
Facts about the Alberta energy grid failure slowly being revealed:
1) two natural gas power plants out of service for unexplained reasons
2) Smith and the UCP cancelled contracts to supply backup power from other operators
Yet morons blame feds and renewable energy.🙄
tl;dr: The UCP cancelled contacts to ensure Albertans had sufficient electricity supplies to save money, which the NDP government had negotiated based on recommendations from the Alberta Electric Systems Operator.
Now morons in AB are blaming the feds.
Mind boggling.
@joncoopertweets
The phenomenon that we are seeing in the treatment of President Biden is the “Carterization” of a president, last seen during the presidency of James Earl Carter, in which a good man is repeatedly disparaged by the media for events beyond his control.
And now we know why Christopher C. Miller was parachuted into the job of Acting Secretary of Defence to replace Esper days after the 2020 election. Trump needed a lackey to do his bidding.
Miller needs to be investigated for his role in 1/6/21.
Important life lesson here. Don't get "ridiculously drunk" and pick up a spray can. Even more important: don't ever, ever, ever spray anything on any wall anywhere unless you're prepared to pay the consequences.
#NoSympathy
@maddenifico
@Lisaely123
@NBCNews
@MSNBC
“‘It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,’ Carrie Budoff Brown, senior vice president of politics at NBC News, said in a memo to staff.”
Wrong answer. Someone is going to be the scapegoat.
@RitchieTorres
@Politidope
How is it possible that a country’s future, and the world’s future, can be held hostage by a man and his $500,000 dividend check from his coal brokerage?
@kurteichenwald
When the U.S. goes into recession - as it inevitably will - tax cuts to stimulate economy will not be possible, having already been cut.
@GOP
setting U.S. on a course for future disaster. Dems will have to fix economy. Again.
@BrianKarem
If you don’t want to stand in front of your house in your underwear while federal agents search your house, then:
a) don’t conspire to overturn an election
b) put your pants on before answering the door
People are having á predictable shit-fit over Canada’s announcement of all zero emissions vehicles by 2035, ignoring the fact that most developed nations have the same requirements.
Belgium 2029
Chile 2035
China 2035
Denmark 2035
Germany 2030
Greece 2030
Hong Kong 2035
1/2
@StephenKing
“Quisling” is a term that should come back into vogue. The name “Vidkun Quisling” is a name that was spoken in the same context by Norwegians as “Benedict Arnold” was by Americans in the past, or the name “Donald Trump” will be spoken by Americans in the future.
Imagine being so filled with hate that you tweet this on Christmas Eve.
Hope this guy gets the help he needs. And someone takes his guns away, if he has any.
@AnaCabrera
@jamiegangel
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said.
“No leaks, all right?,” Ryan said, adding: “This is how we know we’re a real family here.”
No one should be surprised that McCarthy wants a cover-up.
@joncoopertweets
Can you imagine what the U.S. would be like in a few more years if approximately 45,000 people hadn’t voted for Biden/Harris in 2020?
There would be Brown Shirts in jackboots marching down the streets of U.S. cities and randomly beating people.
@peterdaou
The DOJ opinion paper on the indictment of a sitting president assumes that the legislative branch is functioning as it should and will impeach (and convict) the president. The
@GOP
have abdicated their responsibilities under the Constitution, thus the opinion is now invalid.
Breaking News,
@AndrewScheer
: your party is not in the majority. You do not get to dictate your silly demands to the government, even if you hold your breath until your face turns blue, you refuse to eat your supper, or you pee your pants in protest. You. Are. The. Minority.
“Justin Trudeau can end it all—he can stop this right now if he chooses to listen to Canadians. Axe the tax off of farmers, families and First Nations,” says House leader Andrew Scheer as MPs’ voting marathon continues over Conservative call for end to carbon pricing.
#cdnpoli
@AliVelshi
There will be a humanitarian health crisis in Gaza as diseases spread due to the lack of shelter, clean drinking water, sanitation and food. Yet Israel will continue its war of vengeance, and the world will look on, few speaking out.
Trust the
@globeandmail
to quote the one line in the Rouleau report that will be the most misleading characterization of the conclusions of the report. It was not a “failure of federalism”. It was a failure of Doug Ford to act. What incredible bullshit.
Sadly, Texas is so bad that when a couple of days of cold weather comes, we clear out all the stores in the area with rations that would last 3 months. No matter how many times we worry about our grid failing, people will still vote for the Texas GOP which keeps doing this to us.
@joncoopertweets
President Carter wrestled with inflation, as does President Biden.
President Carter had the difficult problem of the Iranian hostages. President Biden has the difficult problem of anti-vaxxers holding America hostage to the pandemic.
And the media crucifies them both.
"Reading the whole interview, it’s clear that Trump doesn't know anything about anything. His mind is a series of hazy orange corridors filled with dead ends, open pits, and trip wires. He stumbles through the maze, thunking gently off the walls, every so often belching forth a
The Cons see nefarious motives behind everything that the Liberal govt. does is because, like Trump, they project their motives onto other people. The Cons are, at their core, untrustworthy, evil, mean people. See, for example, their complaints about the govt. debt. 6/n
@lcwasser
I believe most Canadians would know that Des Moines is in Iowa.
However, I doubt many Americans could identify the province that Winnipeg is in. The ignorance of Americans about the rest of the world is shocking.
So now Netanyahu, under criminal investigation in Israel, unpopular for his “judicial reforms”, teetering on the brink of removal from office, guilty of mismanaging Israeli defences, a developing war criminal, decides to attack Canada’s PM?
This is desperation,
@netanyahu
.
Before walking into West Block today former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer stopped to talk to protesters on Wellington Street and gave them a thumbs up.
@PreetBharara
Thank you so very much for this, Mr. Bharara. And let’s not forget: you go to *the* prom after you graduate *from* high school. You do not “graduate high school”, you “graduate *from* high school”.
@RBReich
@maddow
We are witnessing a complete breakdown of the U.S. Constitution system of checks and balances. The equilibrium between Executive and Legislative branches breaks when one party (hello,
@GOP
!) refuses to do its duty under the Constitution and bevomes the catamite of the President.
How can
@fordnation
possibly defend a sole-source deal with Staples to open Service Ontario kiosks in its stores?
Answer: it can't. This is indefensible. Aside from the stupidity of closing Service Ontario offices, why was it not open for others to bid on?
@RichardCityNews
"The government also confirmed that Staples Canada got a sole-sourced deal to open ServiceOntario locations inside some of its Ontario office supply stores. The deal was not put to tender so other companies were not able to openly bid for it."
Mind-boggling corruption here.
@RVAwonk
The revelations of criminality or improper behaviour from the Trump administration come so fast and furious that you have to think: "Is this a new one, or is this something I already heard? No, this is a new one."
#Whitaker
@SteveSchmidtSES
@heyman_von
@CPAC
"Orbán, recently elected to a fourth term, laid out a 12-point blueprint to achieving and consolidating power to a special meeting of the US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), under the slogan of 'God, Homeland, Family', held in Budapest."
You can't be serious.
@tribelaw
the National Council of Jewish Women said it was “stunned and deeply disturbed by Steven Menashi’s calls for ‘ethnonationalism’ and against ‘ethnic heterogeneity.’ In these words, we hear haunting echoes of cries for a master race and racial purity.”
I just wonder: how many other speeches to charities has Alexandre Trudeau given? Are they all waiting in the wings for their payback, for the next pandemic-induced program for them to manage? Does no one else see the absurdity of this? 12/n
@DavidJollyFL
Not much stamina for a 44-year old, if he’s “spent” after only five days into his World Tour 2023™️. Mick Jagger (79) and Keith Richards (also 79) can do world tours without being “spent”. Oh, and President Biden (80) can do it too.
@IshatReza
I don’t understand why “living with Covid” can’t mean that we wear masks in public spaces, get vaccinated, have our vaccination passports ready when entering a restaurant. The world changed in 2020. Trying to return to 2019 is as futile as trying to return to 1919.
#onpoli
... draft a Letter of Intent, to be signed by the Federal Govt. and the selected charity. And then, and only then, could the selected charity begin handing out money to students.
That should have been *easy* to complete by, oh, say, April 2021.
FFS. 🙄
I wonder if anyone in the Trump family or
@GOP
has bought shares in Kodak recently? This looks like it would have been a great opportunity for some insider trading.
@alivitali
@jonallendc
Sources were unable to confirm whether the discussions are to focus on ensuring election integrity, or means to disrupt the integrity of the next election.
Stay tuned for further details.
The Department of Justice confirmed Tuesday that the RCMP received “the same access to cabinet confidences and privileged information” as the Ethics Commissioner and the justice committee of the House.
So how is “Ottawa” blocking the RCMP?
#cdnpoli
The Cons can't imagine that the Liberal govt. racked up $343B in deficit spending this year to actually *help* Canadians not get evicted from their apartments, lose their homes, their cars, go bankrupt. Their evil little minds see only the debt spending and assume their's a scam.
And *because* the Liberal govt. didn't go through the lengthy RFQ/RFP process, there *must* have been some nefarious reasons behind it. Other than getting the money into the hands of students as quickly as possible. 5/n
@davidfrum
Statehood for Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands is long overdue.
If the U.S. is going to continue to deny these territories statehood, I'm sure Canada would embrace them with open arms.
Why stop at DC and Puerto Rico? Grant statehood to Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. 3.6M people in these territories are U.S. citizens. Give each new state two Senators, and break the GOP stranglehold on the Senate.
@kurteichenwald
Solutions to a minority party wielding unwarranted power:
1. Eliminate EC. Easier said than done, but try.
2. End gerrymandering. Ditto.
3. Statehood for D.C. and PR. Add four additional Senators.
4. Crush the
@GOP
at the polls at every opportunity.
@krassenstein
“Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working in the White House.”
Will
@HouseGOP
investigate Jared and Ivanka too?
@davidfrum
Has anyone noticed that Trump’s surviving brother and sister are *never* quoted, heard from or seen in public events? Has Trump made them sign NDAs? Wouldn’t it be right and fitting if one or both declared that they intend to vote for Biden? 🤔
@JoyceWhiteVance
“McDaniel … the leader of the Republican Party nationally, said at another point in the call, ‘If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys.’
To which Trump added: ‘We'll take care of that.’”
How can
@GOPChairwoman
McDaniel not be indicted for this?
Even worse! Alexandre Trudeau was paid to give a speech to WE too! So how did the negotiations for this speech go?
Sacha: "Pay me for a speech, and when, sometime in the future, there's a pandemic, I'll make sure you get the contract for some program."
WE: "Sounds good, dude."
They see a scam behind the deficit spending because, at their heart, they are scammers. They don't care about you, Joe Canadian and Josette Canadien. They care only about their political careers and being re-elected. They will do anything, say anything to be re-elected. 8/n
@CBPMarkMorgan
@CBP
Uhmm ... why is this “agent” wearing Keds? Don’t you equip them with Boots For Big Boys™️? And, what’s more: why are they in a city, uninvited?
Remember this,
@CBPMarkMorgan
: “I was just following orders” wasn’t a very successful defence at Nuremberg.
@AshaRangappa_
@jeffersonchgo
Now we know why some members of the
@GOP
are so concerned about phone companies supplying their call records. They know there are no White House call logs, and they fear they will be exposed as being participants in the insurrection planning and execution.
@merry123459
I don’t understand why this is hard for people. I crossed the border last week to pick up a tractor attachment. I would only be in the U.S. for, at most, 20 minutes. I filled out my ArriveCan info, had paper copies of my vaccination certificates and my passport ready. Easy-peasy.
@TomJChicago
@MarkMeadows
should realize:
a) his political career is over
b) nothing he can do will satisfy TFG
c) he could be this century’s John Dean. Or G. Gordon Liddy. His choice.
@TheRickWilson
“Manafort excused his actions stating he wasn't looking for help getting Trump elected and did it purely to make money.”
The very definition of treason. He sold out the U.S. so that he could buy frivolities such as ostrich skin jackets. Manafort is despicable.
@RandPaul
We’ve seen the video,
@RandPaul
. You were not “attacked”. You may have been verbally heckled, but you were not “attacked”. You diminish the trauma of all those who have been assaulted, attacked, beaten, abused or harmed by police by your petty whining that you were “attacked”.
@SethAbramson
Explains why Trump was holed up in his hotel room in Paris on Saturday. No doubt huddling with advisers on upcoming indictments.
Today? Again, holed up in the White House with nothing on his public schedule. Frantically Googling "countries with no extradition treaty with U.S.".