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[Eric @mt_elgin]

@shouq_al90149 5. Great conversations to my right. Then to my left I can tell Drump how much smarter Prez O is vs him. Maybe even curse him out a bit.

[Eric @mt_elgin]

@HabsDigest Hell yeah! He’s a players coach!! Wait when he gets players that can play playoff hockey.
We could do a heck of a lot worse.

[Eric @mt_elgin]

@ldiotsOnCamera For fun!! That is hilarious!! What are the odds. Crazy.

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Doug Ford didn’t “fix” Ontario healthcare. He systematically underfunded it, overwhelmed it, and pushed it toward collapse while pretending everything was under control.

ER wait times are exploding. Hospitals are running deficits. Nurses and healthcare workers are burnt out and leaving in droves. Patients are suffering.

This is what happens when a government treats public healthcare like a business expense instead of a public service. Doug Ford needs to go.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
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 or female – 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 most 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.

[Eric @mt_elgin]

@ItsDeanBlundell Bad acting all around.

[Chris G @ChrisHabs360]

#Habs Martin St. Louis on negative social media reactions

"We need all hands on deck, including the fans. We are not perfect and players are going to make mistakes, but I can tell you that we have good intentions out there. I would say we need to stick together."

#GoHabsGo #NHL #Hockey

[ForMYCanada @ForMYCanada]

🧾 Pierre Poilievre spent two years screaming about grocery prices. Yesterday, Parliament voted on Bill C-226, a national framework to improve food price transparency, and force grocery chains to show Canadians where the money actually goes.

Poilievre voted NO. Every Conservative voted NO.

📊 Final tally: 168 Yea. 150 Nay. The bill passed, no thanks to the party that built its entire brand on "axe the tax" and grocery affordability.

🎭 This is the pattern. The grievance is the product. Solving the problem would end the grift. When there's an actual mechanism to hold grocers accountable, Conservatives fold for the industry every single time.

Poilievre doesn't want lower food prices. He wants the issue.

#cdnpoli
https://t.co/tnRbtlekKW

[Iran Force @IranArmystan_]

Retweet if you believe Donald Trump is a war criminal.

[Eric @mt_elgin]

@atrupar Thou protests too much!!

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Whoever is cooking up these LEGO videos has the Trump regime completely figured out.

While the U.S. fumbles digital propaganda, Iran is dropping AI brick bangers that are actually landing.

They’re winning the meme war brick by brick. 🧱

#LEGOPropaganda

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

For the first time in history, a dog has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 🇺🇸💩

[Eric @mt_elgin]

Absolute garbage call!!!😡😡😡😡How can you control your stick when getting interfered by Hagel!!? #GoHabsGo

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Hey Republicans;
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing. You’ve said nothing.

He’s interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You’ve said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center, even renaming it after himself. You’ve said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You’ve said nothing.

He’s threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil. You’ve said nothing.
He’s tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You’ve said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 little girls in its first days. You’ve said nothing.
He’s alienated and insulted more countries than I can keep track of. You’ve said nothing.

His ICE Army is terrorizing and murdering U.S. citizens. You've said nothing.
He has committed murder on the high seas. You've said nothing.
He's co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You've said nothing.

You've not only said nothing to all of these egregious acts, and many more, but you have also enabled them.
And it’s only been a year.
Hey, Republican Congressmen, you took an oath, remember?
Not to him. To the Constitution.

It’s time to do your fucking jobs!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, voters in Hungary today will vote against Orban’s authoritarianism. Today’s the day Orban’s reign ends. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Donald Trump created an international disaster over absolutely NOTHING and then entered into a negotiation in which he gave up EVERYTHING.

This guy is a massive loser elected by 77 million lost and misguided Americans.

America is weak under Trump.

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

9 years ago.

@HillaryClinton warned us:

“This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: There has never been a better time to retweet this video of six brave lawmakers reminding the men and women in our military to REFUSE UNLAWFUL ORDERS from Trump.

Let’s make this go viral again.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

I’m pretty sure Trump really doesn’t want this photo of his bald spot circulating… so whatever you do, do NOT retweet!