Rob Yarmo

proud Canadian, retired, grandfather of 5, political centrist, Trump hater, road cyclist, lover of music, live theatre, travel...bring it on.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Bill Clinton: “I killed myself trying to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza and 97% of the West Bank. You name it. They turned it down.”

The Palestinians never wanted peace.

This must be shared every single day.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@JGoldberg12 @DFA_POD 10 out of 10. He’s showing no signs of coming out of it. What on earth has happened to that quick upper cut swing that has launched so many home runs? As Guerrero goes so go the Jays. He’s got the Fernando Tatis Jr syndrome.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@kinsellawarren I’m loving your book The Hidden Hand, sad as it may be. Almost finished.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@drdave1999 His toadies and supporters in Congress, senate and his executive team that continue to support the status quo must be held accountable.

[Reese Gorman @reesejgorman]

New: Sen. Rand Paul’s son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night.

His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it’s going to be because of “your people.”

“My people?” Lawler asked Paul.

“Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded. 

“Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.”

“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. 

He then said that Jews were “anti-American” and how Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel more than America.

https://t.co/fhn93tHA4g

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@KeeganMatheson You’re not happy with our singles hitting $35m/year smiling first baseman?

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@Hebsyman Replace Hidalgo with Dave Mason and I think you may be onto something.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@spen______ Ha!

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@Ricky_Ro24 @Jram2TBJ Ricky you have to help him find a strike out pitch. 😊

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Watching Fox News assure viewers the Iran war is going SUPER well and Trump is a total stud is like watching the same network assure viewers that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 election and Trump was the winner.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

"Trump, the Mar-a-Lago golfer, is the only bull in the world who walks around with his own china shop. When a clown takes over the Palace, he doesn't become King. It's the Palace that becomes a circus"

French senator Claude Malhuret once again nails it. You won't hear a better indictment of Trump and his Gulf war than this. Well worth 5 minutes of your time

My English s/t 👇

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak.

He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected.

France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy.

Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust.
Honestly? Understandable.
Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@STU_GATZZO @Bluejaysmemes Secret shopper bs? Don’t recall that story.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@1984Wtp @Bluejaysmemes I sure remember Ralph going all the way back to high school.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@sixman67 @kinsellawarren You mean they were alive? When?

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@kinsellawarren His father is rolling in his grave.

[Rob Yarmo @RobYarmo]

@tim_micallef A true lol post Tim.

[DonkConnects ♻️™ @donkoclock]

BREAKING: MAGA in full meltdown mode over this Super Bowl ad 😡

It would be a shame if you shared it and it went Viral 💙💙💙

Drop a 💙 for the bravery of Epstein survivors!

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Make no mistake, this latest threat and sophomoric bombast isn't about trade.
It's about ⁦@MarkJCarney⁩, the PM of Canada, forthrightly telling his people & the world hard truths about the unreliability of America as an ally and a partner in the era of ⁦Trump.