Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Husband, father, music lover, martial artist. Be nice and I will be too. Opinions my own. 🇺🇦🌈🥋

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

Honestly, and I say this as a “small c” conservative who can’t wait for a change in government, Liberals don’t hate any of these things, they just have a different view of them than you do. Tone down the rhetoric and when the next election comes vote them out. #cdnpoli

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@BBGreatMoments Andre Dawson

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He singlehandedly fucked up the economy.
He’s personally enriched himself by billions.
He singlehandedly fucked up the economy.
He’s utterly desecrated the people’s house.
He singlehandedly fucked up the economy.
He started a stupid/illegal war.

He doesn’t give a fuck about you.

[CANMNT @CANMNT_Official]

WE ADVANCE!!!

OUR FIRST WORLD CUP KNOCKOUT STAGE VICTORY IN HISTORY!!!!

#CANMNT #OurGameNow

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Great movie

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@ThatEricAlper 💯

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Everybody wants to make the midterms more complicated than they need to be. Trump promised to make everything cheaper. Instead, he made everything more expensive. That’s why Republicans are going to lose big.

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@BBGreatMoments Tom Seaver

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@BBGreatMoments Rick Monday’s homerun against Steve Rogers and the Montreal Expos.

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@kinsellawarren He is a loser. If he had any honour he would resign. Senator Rubio would have skewered this deal, this sad-sack SOB will just continue to kiss Trump’s ass.

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

Not something most people are eager to share

[Robert Costa @costareports]

Stopping by @CBSEveningNews w/ @tonydokoupil tonight

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

Not so fast @BenStiller, Trump is going to Game 3 and 4 and everyone knows Everything Trump Touches Dies #ETTD

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

KNICKS IN 4

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@OHLRangers Go Rangers!

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Pink Floyd

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@BBGreatMoments Steve Rogers, Montreal Expos

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

I don't believe Carney is an antisemite. You don't live/work where he did and get away with that.

But he knows that progressive politics - which includes much of his Liberal Party - has now fully succumbed to antisemitism. So he nods to it.

That's worse, to me. It's antisemitism that's motivated by cynicism, not belief.

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

@kinsellawarren There is no reason to believe that this will be a good deal for anyone other than Iran

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

Yeah there is, he’s fucking nuts

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

This is not normal. There's something wrong with the President of the United States.

[Kelly Melanson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @kellymela]

Or, it could be that many were fed up with Trump Part 1 and wanted to emphatically show that in their vote tally

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Quite the contrary. It was unequivocally a fraudulent election. It makes perfect sense if you face the facts.

[Covie @covie_93]

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.