Ringo

Dad, husband, Canucks fan. Other shifting, misc interests.

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

Except he’s not the manager, he’s like the old owner who’s hated by the fans but won’t relinquish the team

[Aaron 🇨🇦 @canuck5551]

It’s funny how other markets’ broadcasters seem to assume Canucks fans are suffering with how bad the team is. This is a top 5 least painful season for the past 15 years. Give me an intentional tank over them trying to be good and failing any day.

[Ringo @ringo1973]

@Rhys604 @Canucks We lived through the Toni Tanti era Canucks, and everything after. This blip is just another segway towards an exciting, competitive team.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I read JD Vance's post on this site yesterday and at first I was shocked. The Vice President all but admitted that his own administration made a mistake going to war with Iran. I can't think of a sitting VP breaking with his President this publicly in my lifetime.

And at first glance his analysis seems spot on. His first prescription is to end the war. A war that he and the President, until this week, refused to even call a war.

It's hard to disagree with him. But like everything MAGA, the thread of truth is there to hide the larger truth. And the larger truth is this.

Tuesday was the greatest repudiation of a sitting President by voters in the history of this country.

Not a repudiation of a policy. A repudiation of a man.

The message was not only about Iran or Israel or slogans or even the price at the pump. The message was simple.

WE ARE DONE WITH DONALD TRUMP.

We are done with his lies. We are done with the corruption and the gaslighting. We are done with the insanity. We are done with the cruelty.

The message from Mississippi to Iowa, from Kansas to Maine, from North Carolina to Texas, young and old, North and South, East and West, was the same.

Fuck Donald Trump.

This country desperately needs a healthy Republican Party. A party with room for Mitt Romney and Thomas Massie, for Chris Christie and (I can't believe I'm saying this) Marjorie Taylor Greene. A party that puts this constitutional republic above the interests of one man. A party that knows the difference between a Ken Paxton and a John Cornyn, between a Vivek Ramaswamy and a Mike DeWine.

That is the message voters sent on Tuesday, with more ballots cast than in any midterm in American history.

WE ARE DONE WITH DONALD TRUMP.

The sooner the brave members of whatever remains of the Republican Party understand that, the sooner we can begin to heal.

I hope Democrats in Congress heard it too. Voters sent the same message in 2020, and we failed to make it stick. I for one don't think this country can afford 26 more months of this madness before we do the one thing voters just demanded in historic numbers.

Trump needs to leave, and he needs to leave now.

All it would take this January is eleven Republican senators willing to acknowledge the existential threat this lawless President poses to the country and the world. Eleven brave Republicans need to stand up and end this madness. Save their party. Save the country.

It's up to all of us to give them the courage to do what's right.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

El-Sayed: "When you see the world from my vantage point, there are always a few small minded people who speak very loudly and claim to speak on behalf of everybody else. But they don't spend much time talking to everybody else because most everybody else sees them for who they are. So they talk amongst each other and they get louder and louder and louder."

[🇨🇦 Moderate Mike McGee 🇨🇦 @CanadianModera1]

Witnessing the real-time downfall of MAGA tonight hits differently when you're also watching the UCP copy their playbook right here in Alberta.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a powerful move, Rep. Robert Garcia, who will Chair the House Oversight Committee once Democrats win tonight, just announced he will be overseeing the quick introduction of investigations into the Trump family's corruption and ties to the Epstein files. Let's go.

[𝕊𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕪 @FromN5_]

Y’all fighting against socialism like your family owns a railroad. bro you have a shift on monday

[Margarita- M²-C (MC) @ItsMe3MC]

“Hello 911, I'd like to report a m*rder"

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Danielle Smith will do and say anything to preserve her job and retain power.

Truth and integrity are as foreign to her as loyalty.

Danielle knows that #ForeverCanadian 500,000 petition signatories didn’t want a referendum and all questions on it were designed by her.

#ableg

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

One reason Democrats should go on Fox is to show our comparative economic competence.

The host says that France spends 57% of its GDP/budget on education. That's ludicrous.

It spends 4% of GDP and 10% of its budget.

Perhaps, the Fox host meant France spends 57% of GDP on public expenditure.

The US is around 40 percent.

But that differential is largely b/c France provides healthcare.

In the US, workers have to pay a mandatory privatized tax for healthcare that is hugely regressive.

US healthcare expenditure is at 18% of GDP that dwarfs France's at about 11%.

Americans would get a much better bargain if we had Medicare for All.

The problem is we have been cutting taxes for billionaires and misallocating our health spending to benefit private interests.

Taxing billionaires and investing in the education and healthcare of our people would lead to dignity for all and supercharge economic growth in an era that values human capital most.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

I look forward to Katie Zacharia serving as special press secretary at the Shield of the Americas with all the other disgraced trump officials.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Per my review:

-Trump has pardoned 9 of the last 11 GOP congressmen to be convicted of federal crimes.

-His DOJ has indicted, tried to indict, or taken investigative steps against 13 Democrats currently serving in Congress.

[Alan Cross 🇨🇦 @alancross]

Wow. Feeds are so clean since Ukraine wiped out those Russian data centres. Much less MAGA, Maple MAGA, pro-Elon, Alberta Separatist, anti-vaxxer, Christian nationalist, anti-immigrant, and far-right bullshit.

It’s nice, innit? Imagine if the rest of those centres went down.

[Troy Westwood @TroyWestwood]

This 100%.

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

Imagine being a kid and dying of measles, a disease we completely eradicated 27 years ago… because your parents watch Fox News and are as dumb as a fucking dickhead with a dickheaded brain

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Mayor of Calgary: "It's really rich to see from some of these leaders in the separatist movement, they talk a lot about freedom, they talk a lot about sovereignty. And when they go down south of the border, offering our water, our land, our oil, this is not about taking back Alberta, this is about selling out Alberta."

[Ringo @ringo1973]

Traitors

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

“Campaigning for Canada™️”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli