Today's News: Ha ha

 

Sorry, I just can't help myself. 

It's truly a Nelson moment today. Jason Kenny has resigned as Alberta premier and as party leader.

The Alberta Premier's truck nuts will lie in state in the foyer of the province's legislative building for four days

— Walking Eagle News (@TheEagleist) May 19, 2022

I thought I heard Alberta exhaling a few minutes ago. Sounded like relief. Overnight rest and then make sure you all take back your province. Yelling support as a neighbor over here. Signed, Sask.

— Debbie ᑳᑫᓯᒧᑐᑕᐁ (@ironbow) May 19, 2022

@escrimshaw you see this? Wow, if Ford *and* Kenney end up gone within the span of two weeks that's 🤯 https://t.co/4eHjYv5Tlr

— Jackie Blue 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🌻 (@MsFuddleDuddle) May 19, 2022

If only someone would teach him how to fill up his truck so he could leave the province

— lynninthehouse (@daydreamalot) May 19, 2022

Charles Adler tried for years to tell Alberta the truth about Kenny and maybe now they have finally learned:

He was flailing . So I gave several chances to self correct. In the end I even gave him the easiest test for redemption. Asked him to apologize for his evil behavior in San Francisco, working to deny dying Gay men in hospice care, the chance to receive visits with their partners.

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) May 19, 2022

This social conservative, who always portrayed himself as a moral man, was, in the end, a hollow man. That night, many took a second look & saw nothing. Tonight the King of Nothing, after getting another Fail, resigned. Goodnight Jason Kenney and Good bye.

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) May 19, 2022

And this may be right, also:

Did Kenney really receive 51.4% approval or did they give him a ‘saving face’ number with the agreement he step down and not drop the write? What’s the real number I wonder?

— Councillor Erin Stevenson (@ErinStevensonSG) May 19, 2022

And there may be some truth to this:

So, Conservatives across the country are careening off into a far right wilderness with @erinotoole being dumped in favour of a crypto-crackpot fanatic in Little Peter Popinjay, and now @jkenney being tossed for someone even nuttier.
Sensible 🍁Cdns have Liberals standing 4 them.

— David Hamer🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦 (@DavidHamer_1951) May 19, 2022

In other news, and speaking of the American primaries, here's the tweet of the day:

Oh My 😂 https://t.co/IO1k5KfUNB

— M-A.Stay’Legit ™️🇨🇦🇩🇪 (@BagdMilkSoWhat) May 18, 2022

Today also, Bush the Younger accidentally told the truth:

What comes after is even wilder. He catches himself and then says half under his breath, “eh, Iraq too” with an expression that looked something like recognition.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 19, 2022

George W Bush's invasion of Iraq set the gold standard for disinformation, propaganda, and unjust warfare in the 21st century. Moscow is just cribbing from his White House's 2002-ish playbook.

Grotesque. https://t.co/29JmLGjFbQ

— Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) May 19, 2022

Today's Ukraine news:

Ukraine Update: Russia inches along the Donbas front, but loses any broader strategic focus https://t.co/kfGYElqHkl

— Daily Kos (@dailykos) May 19, 2022

ISW’s @Mason_R_Clark: #Mariupol’s lengthy resistance helped draw foreign aid to #Ukraine while tying down #Russian forces, something the “Ukrainian military has been preparing for […] for the last eight years.”
@voxdotcom: https://t.co/h3aIW5OmSD

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) May 18, 2022

In other news about Ukraine, I thought these were good evaluations:

War is test of wills and logistics. I assess Russian forces will collapse by end of summer and UAF will go over to the offense, exploiting that collapse and drive back RF forces to 23 Feb line or more by September. https://t.co/nLRkUuWJ3b

— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) May 18, 2022

3 months. pic.twitter.com/apfollbVtJ

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) May 18, 2022

Some very bizarre tweet threads these days:

What happened at your school that sounded like an urban legend but was real? My friend’s little sister was in drama class and slid across the stage on her stomach and a piece of wood was sticking up and impaled her. She had to be air lifted to Duke hospital.

— Kristi YamaGuccimane (@wapplehouse) May 18, 2022

It’s so hard, it’s a joke:
Why did God create economists?
To make weather forecasters look good. https://t.co/FXRKCqBJhF

— Timothy Huyer (@tim4hire) May 14, 2022

“No one told me NFTs were bad!!”

Dude all of Twitter was screaming about how bad they were from the start. We said it was a pyramid scheme. You smugly replied “nah you just don’t get it. It’s the future. To the moon!” You decided to play in a decentralized market and got played.

— Lauren Walsh • Woubble's Dad (@LaurenWalshArt) May 13, 2022

I tweet this every time men decide it's time to make decisions about women's bodies, but my ex boyfriend thought all women got their period on the 15th of the month. He was 26 at the time.

— Sabrina (@Sabrinafon) May 4, 2022

Finally, this:

The final dance in Dirty Dancing, but they’re dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune. pic.twitter.com/ldfjmm5JoQ

— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) May 17, 2022