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Mar 23 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
A few things about this @ABDanielleSmith article: breitbart.com/politics/2025/…
1. She buys Trump's story about Trudeau saying dumb things at the Mar-A-Lago dinner. "he said that tariffs would result in Canada collapsing, and I think that was the wrong message to convey because it made us sound very, very weak."
Trump keeps saying that, but since when is he a reliable narrator? He just makes stuff up all the time, like all these identical stories about big strong guys crying as they think him for things. He is the biggest liar in world history.
2. She asked Trump people to delay tariffs to help Poilievre in the campaign to come: "So I would hope that we could put things on pause is what I’ve told administration officials. Let’s just put things on pause so we can get through an election.”
3. She was pitching PP to Trump world: "So I would think that there’d be, there’s probably still always going to be areas that are skirmishes or disputes about particular industries when it comes to the border, but I would say, on balance, the perspective that Pierre would bring would be very much in sync with, I think … the new direction in America. And I think we’d have a really great relationship for the period of time they’re both in.”
Something kind of weird about all this. Canadians should decide Canadian elections, and Canadian politicians should not ask the Americans to interfere by delaying trade actions until after we vote.

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Jan 18
Canadians are so influenced by the story America tells about itself that we don't know our own history, which is linked from the beginning with their history. We are on the margins of an empire, so this is normal. 1/x
The story Americans tell themselves about the revolution has to do with tea, the taxation without representation and so on. It is not wrong, exactly, but it leaves out the part about the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which I think is more important. 2/x
King George III issued the proclamation after what the Americans call the French and Indian War, which the Europeans call the Seven Years' War and which the Quebecers call la guerre de la Conquête. 3/x
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Dec 21, 2022
I have a few points I'd like to make in a thread about this article on @PierrePoilievre, which I wrote along with Graves and which was edited by @cstarnino tiktok.com/@mikegray287/v…
@PierrePoilievre @cstarnino First of all, here's one of the Tiktok videos of Poilievre mollifying voters who I would consider to be disinformed. It was originally unearthed by @pressprogress. tiktok.com/@mikegray287/v…
There are a couple similar videos. Poilievre is trying to convince these potential supporters that he is with them, not with the evil doers who are conspiring to enslave us all with vaccines or whatever.
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Sep 28, 2022
The United Kingdom is a cautionary tale. For all our complaining about politics in Canada, we have never had a government as bad as the Johnston government. Total folly.
Ultimately, Britons are to blame for electing him, voting for Brexit.
Democracy works pretty well, unless you go and do something really stupid.
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Sep 16, 2022
It's a bad time to be a journalist. Consider that Lisa LaFlamme — one of the most successful, best paid and most recognized journalists in the country — was recently discarded by Bell like a dixie cup.
Consider that female journalists are being routinely harassed and threatened online in a vile coordinated campaign, with apparent impunity. These are unacceptable work circumstances.
And consider that @JeffBallingall and @PierrePoilievre are going after @davidakin in a completely bad-faith attack as a Liberal. Here is a mailer from Ballingall yesterday where he calls Akin a 'Liberal stooge.'
Read 10 tweets
Sep 16, 2022
Canada is great. We've spent the past days arguing about @davidakin interrupting @PierrePoilievre during a news conference, which is of absolutely no importance. It's great. Nobody got hustled onto a plane and flown to another part of the country to make a dumb political point.
@davidakin @PierrePoilievre We should be smug about this kind of thing. Our culture war bullshit is of absolutely no consequence.
@davidakin @PierrePoilievre THIS JUST IN: From in my inbox: @JeffBallingall calls @davidakin a "Liberal stooge"
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Sep 14, 2022
I wonder what the implications are of filling people's heads with poisonous junk from a disgusting, lying snake-oil salesman like Alex Jones?
All the yelling about the horrible mainstream media, the terrible loss of trust, the calls for introspection, I don't actually think it has much to do with real sins of the MSM. The culture is full of poisonous junk.
Alex Jones used his outlet to basically torture the parents of the Sandy Hook kids, calling them liars, crisis actors, which he knew was a lie. He's a symbol of a wider problem. There are loads of anti-vax hucksters selling vitamins, preying on the mothers of special needs kids.
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