Today's News: Two remarkable politicians

Two remarkable politicians are earning the world's gratitude: Joe Biden and Chrystia Freeland. 

Biden's State of the Union was tonight and he deserves the credit he is getting for rallying the world to defend Ukraine. I don't think there is any other American politician who could have done it, even Clinton or Obama.

I didn’t need to hear a speech to validate President Biden’s leadership. It’s been apparent from day 1.

— Jesse D.Lifson (@DoYouEvenLif) March 2, 2022

Joe Biden was made for this moment. https://t.co/qr49WUMMfM

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) March 2, 2022

"A roller coaster ride of rip roaring reasonableness."

- @StephenAtHome on President Biden's #StateOfTheUnion speech. #LateShowLIVE pic.twitter.com/axxKy2F1xq

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) March 2, 2022

Chrystia Freeland is getting credit for rallying the world to go to war against the Russian economy.

… Today, in 2022, it is Kyiv."https://t.co/WDzf6qUtkh

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— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦 (@acoyne) March 1, 2022

“There is a lady from Canada by the name Chrystia Freeland. I believe she is some kind of Deputy Prime Minister or some such.

She is in fact cutting Russia's economy down to the size of Zimbabwe.

She has an extensive background in Economics.”-Marty

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— Heidi Cuda (@Heidi_Cuda) March 1, 2022

“I don't know if the timing of its activation was intentional or serendipitous, but it turned out to be sublime.

“Putin was caught with his pants down. The Russian stock market has been closed for the week.”-Marty Sheil

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— Heidi Cuda (@Heidi_Cuda) March 1, 2022

“Chrystia Freeland saved Western Civilization as we know it.”—Marty

Thank you @cafreeland for fighting for what is good and right.-hsc

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— Heidi Cuda (@Heidi_Cuda) March 1, 2022

Even if leaders eventually come up with a deal to formally lift the sanctions against Russia, investors aren’t just going to plow their money back in like nothing happened. We’ve crossed an economic Rubicon.https://t.co/bwJkUfUVsW

— Zachary D. Carter (@zachdcarter) March 1, 2022

The Russian economic sanctions have had another positive effect - a vast reduction in those tiresome social media right-wing trolls and bots, because nobody is paying them anymore:

It is palpable. It’s ALL Russia - it’s been Russia this whole time - the anti-masking, anti-vaxx, “freedom”, anti-CRT… To be sure, they’ve been picking at wounds already open, but the transformation of it from fringe to mainstream has been all Russia, this whole time.

— Vanessa Cariddi (@VanessaCariddi) March 1, 2022

I have to say, my Twitter experience is radically different without the Russian trolls. Right-wingers are abandoned, Trudeau hatred has practically vanished. We can now see just how fringe those people are. #cdnpoli #SocialMediaConvo

— Matthew Forbes (@VaughanPappy) February 28, 2022

On a side note, here's the Saskatchewan edition of Things that Make You Go Hmmm.....all of a sudden, Premier Moe's tweets aren't getting thousands of "likes" anymore:

The 1st pic he gets 17,000 & 10,000 likes (on issues we know the majority have a different opinion); then second pic he gets only 600 (on an issue there is wide cross-party support). It’s very clear with the LikeFarm offline now Premier Drunk Driver has been paying for likes. pic.twitter.com/xffBOHPJ7N

— David Stewart 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@DavidRSt3wart) March 1, 2022

And here's another aspect of the #UkraineRussiaWar that is going to be increasingly important in the next few weeks -- spring:

Look at them all stuck in mud, sitting ducks for whatever hit them (drones, artillery, etc). That's why there was urgency to attack before first thaw, but the Olympics and Climate Change got in the way https://t.co/g2yCtvi3Kn

— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) March 2, 2022

Its worthwhile to point this out, too:

.@SteveSchmidtSES: "What we need to understand is this. All over the world, here's who stands with Vladimir Putin. Cuba. Maduro in Venezuela. Belarus. And the American right." #TheReidOut pic.twitter.com/3bFWVXXaEI

— The ReidOut (@thereidout) March 2, 2022

Here's today's cartoon (and on a side note, the so-called trucker convoys that were supposed to disrupt the State of the Union speech fizzled):

Please enjoy my #UkraineRussiaWar cartoon for Wednesday's @TorontoStar #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/F9Cq58fAVc

— Theo Moudakis (@TheoMoudakis) March 1, 2022

In other news, here's the Thought of the day:

God think how much better all of this would be if they had just let George W. Bush be Commissioner of Baseball back in the 90s

— Dan Kane (@dakaner) March 1, 2022