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Donna retweeted
The best part about Kerry Lynne Findlay’s abrupt resignation is that it exposes the flaws of a distorted theory of politics.
It’s often observed that there’s a big gap between the online world and the real world. Findlay’s leadership represented an attempt to bridge that gap by importing online politics into the real world. And it failed spectacularly.
The BC Conservatives had considerable political advantages on the economy, quality of life and basic public services. Yet they squandered those advantages on an experiment in weirdo politics.
Memes, shit-posting and other inside-baseball obsessions may galvanize small and unrepresentative online audiences. At best, they fail to resonate with normies. At worst, they actively turn them off. If there’s a clearer case for the politics of normalcy, I haven’t seen it.
The lesson for Conservatives (and conservatives) is straightforward: the basic task of conservative statecraft is to make conservative ideas and principles relevant to the median voter—not to try to make the median voter more like your online followers.
Donna retweeted
I find myself angered everytime I see a post about Cdn military serving alongside US military in WW2
Motherfuckers,I know you mean well
BUT
we were there 3 goddamn yrs,bleeding and dying,before your nation finally put boots on the ground
SO
it is you who served alongside us
Lots of posts about Canada pausing the trade negotiations. For the record - this is a transcript of PM Mark Carney's speech: pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/20…
Donna retweeted
One night, after trying to write about this troubled world, after crossing out pages and pages of what I'd written, I fell asleep, dreamt of being visited by the great poet Rumi, and woke with this poem.
Donna retweeted
because we stopped demanding our humanity...
ALT For Our Children Who Will Learn How Inhumanity Happened in Our Time Because we stopped demanding our humanity. Because many felt your fresh hearts in the darkness and forgot you were the same as others' children, your little sleeves all made of wool and cotton. Because Power called the Truth what it was not. Loves, we teach you love and wonder. But remember this, remember this forever: There are moments when you kneel in deep allegiance, and moments when the splendor is surrender, and the moment, on this earth of furious burning, when even Love must rise up in its silence and make a braid of reeds and cords and leather and find the lords of money in the temples and sweet sweet Jesus like a flood among the rubble whip them out with the beautiful rage of God. —Joseph Fasano
Donna retweeted
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I am Canadian! Scored 20 This is a good list but it's missing some things eg Peggy's Cove, aboard the Bluenose, watched the Snowbirds, walked on Old Montreal cobblestones, visited "Cottage Country," been to a sports tournament, Calgary Tower, road-tripped cross-country, & more.
Donna retweeted
Let me break it down for everyone 👇🏼
Everyone is upset that an Ontario judge said you can’t just keep displacing homeless people.
Here’s an idea: stop complaining about homeless people and start demanding governments actually house people. Then maybe the courts wouldn’t have to step in to protect basic human rights.
You can’t oppose encampments, oppose supportive housing, oppose shelters, oppose affordable housing, oppose mental health supports and then complain that homelessness still exists.
You don’t solve homelessness by pushing people from one sidewalk to another. You solve it by giving people somewhere to go.
Canada is quickly becoming ungovernable.
nationalpost.com/opinion/ben… via @nationalpost
Donna retweeted
Imagine being a scientist investigating vaccines in the U.S. After years of research and millions spent, your study is blocked from publication because your data doesn't support RFK's and the FDA's battle against vaccines. This is why people like me were forced to leave.
Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24
Donna retweeted
At this point is obvious what happened they had an initial surge of douchbag parasites and once they signed it was over far short of the ridiculously easy standard set by #govsmithTRAITOR, so they cheated and just added names from the stolen voter list.
Donna retweeted
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Donna retweeted
Sorry ,Pierre, but I was there during the Harper years in Ottawa, and you were not part of the inner circle of power. You had little incidence on what Harper and his close team decided. You were, however, always in search of the media spotlight and you were asking journalists-myself included- to be quoted in their report.
You spoke French very well and I, working for French TV (TVA Nouvelles), was always happy to find bilingual politicians. I would have used a clip of you in my reports but what you said always stopped me. Even then, you were all about personal attacks and superficial comments. You never discussed /analyzed THE POLICY, always the party.
Ad Hominem rather than Ad Rem.
And those politicians ( from all parties ) I tended to exclude in favour of those who examined the substance.
" No fighting with the other party " in my reports was my motto. Explaining factually why you are against x or y decision, yes. But otherwise, it's just empty political attacks and the citizens of Canada deserve better.
You haven't changed, Pierre, despite the responsibilities that are now upon your shoulders. @PierrePoilievre #cdnpoli @PolQC
ALT Myself during a scrum, the Harper years, Ottawa.