1. Alberta's War Room says it's just like any other plucky little startup with $30M of no-strings-attached budget, an unaccounted for $1.5B and logo design department called Google search. 2. Doug Ford learned how to colour code Excel tabs
3. Conservatives are outraged about cancel culture and urge people to stop shopping at Whole Foods to force them to uncancel poppies. 4. Doug Ford says government deregulation is required in order for business to grow and that's why he's legislating Whole Foods to listen to him.
5. Kenney says "personal responsibility" is the way to fight Covid, not lockdowns; then locks himself away in his mom's basement to avoid media. 6. Ford's new tiered pandemic system politely suggests a change in business hours if all your customers are hospitalized or dead.
7. O'Toole says veterans fought and died in wars so people buying organic avocados could see the produce manager wearing a plastic flower. 8. Doug says the best way to honour veterans is to cut $100M from LTC funding and wear a plastic flower for a week.
9. Lecce says that since one school in rural Ontario is doing okay that proves the provincial system is working. 10. The Ford government quietly opens up GTA's protected lands for commercial and residential development by Vaughan Working Families. 11. Doug Ford went to McDonalds.
12. 10.5K Canadians dead and thousands left with lifelong debilitating health conditions; this is shaping up to be one of Canada's worst hoax seasons. 13. Ontario government colour codes lockdown stages, Manitoba considers a curfew and Alberta says house parties maybe a bad idea.
14. Auditor General says UCP's War Room's finances a bigger mess than ever witnessed before. War Room says they got a little behind in their bookkeeping because of "the flu" going around. 15. Kenney moves 8 construction guys to a new curb-repair project, claims massive job boom.
16. Dr Tam suggests three-layer non-medical masks are better. Conservatives outraged that learnin's is involved in a new and ever-evolving situation. 17. During a press conference Doug Ford and Brian Lilley reenact that scene from the Flintstones when Fred and Barney disgaree.
18. Trump furious votes for Biden are being counted. That's it. That's the funny part. 19. Trump children sign Instagram Influencer deals with Goya beans, mypillow and nasal reconstruction plastic surgeon. 20. Bill Barr and Pence spotted at hardware store buying backup generator.
21. Right Wing outraged with Left. Left Wing outraged at the Right. Centrists outraged about all the outrage. The world's conservative overlords are tickled pink. 22. Twitter flags Trump's tweets for misinformation. Facebook forgets to take down Bannon's little beheading thingy.
23. US election ballot counting going into its 8th month and Melania still hates Christmas. 24. Ontario experiences record-setting fall temps. Doug Ford says it's all part of their best plan ever. 25. UCP MLA says labour unions selling human organs. Outraged they're charging PST.
26. You can't teach an old Doug new tricks. 27. Backing away from all the digital vinegar, vitriol and vehemence for a bit is the best approach to calm internalized outrage. Also, binge watching The Office. While eating licorice. But it's really the gin.
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Some learnings I've learnt living in these here pandemic times:
1. Everyone should have access to the internet during a pandemic. Oh, and funny hats. 2. These past ten years the dust bunnies under my sofa and bed have been pretty busy building thriving little towns and villages.
3. Screaming into the abyss is a real thing. My neighbour just doesn't get it. 4. If you want really nice weather all summer long, just declare a pandemic lockdown. 5. Amazon will pack two lightbulbs into a microwave-sized box. Can confirm.
6. Right wing politicians really don't like not being in front of people. Which is kind of weird, since they don't seem to like people. 7. Sometimes I find myself wondering if the person who invented the salad bar sneeze guard back in olden times truly knew what they were on to.
1. Kenney says a deal with Saudi Arabia to build a petrochemical plant in Alberta doesn't affect Alberta's reputation for producing "ethical oil" because the contract was printed on paper made of recycled cardboard healthcare promises.
2. With Ontario's Covid case numbers at record highs, Doug says numbers are on their way down. Ford says if you tilt the graph paper down to the right that's pretty obvious. 3. Doug decides praying Covid will go away isn't working so he begs the Great Pumpkin to make it go away.
4. After posting photos of 50 maskless family members standing squeezed shoulder to shoulder, MPP Oosterhoff says the knitting circle just wasn't done with their masks yet. 5. Doug says people should give Sam a break. Says Sam detailed his car, so the province should forgive Sam.
1. Ontario's Premier is governing the province utilizing the Cheesecake and Prayers model. 2. With Covid numbers still on the rise across the province, Ontario's Health Minister has a good feeling about that changing soon. 3. Nuns are sexy
4. Jason Kenney acknowledges oil may not be Alberta's saviour after all. Then reenacts the scenes from The Boys when people's heads spontaneously explode. 5. Alberta releases new school curriculum. Includes mandating hairshirts and rosaries as new official school uniforms.
6. Trudeau tells CPC if his government's as corrupt as they say it is then they should overturn it. CPC says "We could if we wanted! But we don't feel like it!" 7. Scheer appears in airport wearing a suit and slippers with no mask. Says his CERB isn't enough to cover new shoes.
1. Doug promotes the part of his Fall Pandemic Plan ensuring all Ontarians get free flu shot. Elliott says flu shots are in the mail. 2. Reports indicate Ford did nothing for LTCs while campaigning across Ontario this summer. #SmileCookie
3. Lecce says merit trumps seniority when hiring teachers. Doesn't define merit. Says Oosterhoff is doing robust and layered Bing search for definition of merit. 4. Doug prays he doesn't have to expand lockdown rollbacks to other regions. Then prays for hydro prices to drop too.
5. Kenney announces his staff will take a 7% pay cut. Says this will demonstrate they understand joblessness. Because 93% of too much pay is exactly like joblessness. 6. Kenney announces another project providing short-term jobs that may or may not happen in the next five years.
Saw the blue sky this morning and thought it looks like a rockstar day. Stepped outside and the chilly temps broke my heart. Saw all the leaves on the ground and I hit the roof. Put all my sweaters on the table. Spared no expense on coffee. Then I got laser focused on some bacon.
Saw the neighbours passing doobies. I yelled "What're ya doin, ya Yahoos?!" I was shocked the leaves were falling in autumn. Made raking the leaves my number 1 priority. Created a robust and massive plan to make a pile of leaves. Kids belong in leaf piles, I thought to myself.
Decided to create the leaf pile one leaf at a time, because kids wouldn't understand the leaf pile if I built it all at once. I saw the kids were jumping into the four or five leaves and hurting themselves, so I made jumping in the leaf pile by appointment only.
1. Doug Ford inadvertently reveals his top-secret Pandemic Command Table is made up of his wife. 2. Doug says he was so busy campaigning across Ontario this summer he didn't realize Ontarians were behaving irresponsibly during a pandemic.
3. Jason Kenney says Alberta will move ahead creating its own police force, saying 35% of the 10 UCP party supporters he asked say it might be a good idea. 4. Brett Wilson starts moving his money out of Alberta and burying it in Scott Moe's backyard garden.
5. Kenney says UCP is creating new jobs in Alberta and hiring Stephen Harper's son in just the beginning of that growth. 6. Doug Ford announces he's overcome his fear of electric cars. 7. Jason Kenney scratches Doug Ford off his Christmas card list. Waves fist at unicorn farts.