Jona Rhica Mejico

9-5 communications professional in the finance industry + @bloodbourbon editor-at-large + @EditorsToronto co-chair + copy editor & proofreader

[Jona Rhica Mejico @jonabot]

@WynneXo @Bell_Support Same

[M🐝 @CakeMcJabe]

Every English Canada riding is named like "Toronto Centre" or "Vancouver East," while every Quebec riding is named something like "Cinqant-Iles-Et-Les-Haricots-Vert-Hon-Hon-Hon"

[Omar @TicTacTOmar]

the Matthews - Marner connection exists in all aspects of the game

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

All of Canada to Jordan Binnington from last week to tonight: #4Nations

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

[sae ❤️‍🔥 @trytrytrytaylor]

do they not realize trump was working under obamas economy and biden is working under trumps economy

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

BREAKING: Donald Trump becomes the first actor from Home Alone 2 to be convicted of 34 felonies stemming from hush money payments to a porn star

[Taylor Ashbrook @taylor_ashbrook]

So Colin Kaepernick gets blacklisted from the NFL for advocating for black lives, but Harrison Butker can give a misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic speech without a peep from the NFL, and I’m supposed to believe that it’s CONSERVATIVES that are getting “cancelled”????? GTFOH

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Casual Mats @Casual_Mats]

Morgan Rielly had 8 penalty minutes before tonight's game.

[Rad Sundin @MapleLeaves34]

MORGAN RIELLY HEEL TURN!!!

[Omar @TicTacTOmar]

MORGAN RIELLY 🚨

ALL BY HIMSELF! ALL-STAR MODE!

[Omar @TicTacTOmar]

Morgan Rielly did that to Toews-Makar

[Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs]

IT’S DOUBLE VOTING DAY PEOPLE!!

⭐️ 1 RT = 2 Votes Each ⭐️
#NHLAllStarVote John Tavares
#NHLAllStarVote Morgan Rielly
#NHLAllStarVote Mitch Marner
#NHLAllStarVote William Nylander

[Jona Rhica Mejico @jonabot]

@tessapedia What did he say though? "had our own when I was in...?"

[Karen W @KarenWi43654511]

Issac watching the National dog show , hound group . He is cheering for the basset hound.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Ahhh, it's here again. The National Dog Show, the world's most prestigious bodyshaming competition.

[Toronto Public Library @torontolibrary]

Enjoy this short read when you're short on time!

Shirley Jackson's classic story remains unsettling and jarring 75 years after it was first published. A chilling tale for those who usually avoid reading horror.

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