Today's News: True Colours

Day Four of Poilievre's leadership and his true colours are already showing:

The nasty politics of the "real Pierre Poilivrer".
This is what he did to one of his own high profile MPs who dared support his opponent @JeanCharest_
What would this nasty bare knuckes guy do to you?@HazelEros @gtlem @MerlinofCanada @jacklasalle1https://t.co/E6ThYqiSje

— Lorne Nystrom (@LorneNystrom) September 15, 2022

There hasn’t even been an election and Pierre Poilievre is already losing seats 😂

— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) September 13, 2022

Sore winner.

— Greg MacEachern (@gmacofglebe) September 14, 2022

Even when Poilievre and the Conservatives do try to sort-of apologize, its just so stupid that its unbelievable. 

First, the stupid:

What happens when a Conservative MP disagrees with PP and decides to leave the party?

The “Conservative” Party of Canada goes all out war on you! 👇#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Tn5ZcbIf6U

— Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (@MarkGerretsen) September 14, 2022

Next, the unbelievable:

🅿️ierre 🅿️oilievre doubles down & blames an automated text that was sent out to constituents of Richmond-Arthabaska demanding MP @AlainRayes resign was all by accident.

Nobody believes you automated BS cover up story @PierrePoilievre.

Irresponsible leadership & its only day 2! https://t.co/V4TgdcJLie

— Jaro Giesbrecht 🇨🇦🇸🇰 (@JaroGiesbrecht) September 15, 2022

After yesterday's tut-tutting at David Akin's "unseemly interruption" of a Poilievre press conference, Canadian media have now realized whose side they really should be on.

A presser with NO questions or just 2 questions from those who don't challenge answers, is not a presser. It's propaganda. It's 1984. It's Horse Shit. And I don't care whether it's Poilievre doing that or Trudeau. The Media is not there to leave chocolates on your pillow https://t.co/VDSh5l3nMW

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 15, 2022

Even the Conservative "back-room" boys are worried about this guy:

Kory Tenenyck says on PnP with Vassy Kapelos that Pierre Poilievre's gonna need to get a grip on his quick responses and anger with media..

Signaling that Poilievre is now going to be handled a little tighter, no more fly off the handle cowboy sound bites..

Ya, good luck..lol

— kris meloche (@krismeloche) September 14, 2022

Turning to other news today, the Republicans in America are revealing their True Colours as well.

Abbot in Texas and DeSantis in Florida seem to think they're proving some kind of "own the libs" point by sending immigrants north. Actually, they are just showing themselves to be disgusting people.

this is becoming basically a form of GOP human trafficking at this point https://t.co/ygha4SYjRl

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 15, 2022

Massachusetts v Florida
Decency v inhumanity. https://t.co/oJ2qTesZ5G

— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) September 15, 2022

Love this Martha’s Vineyard high schooler, hopping off YouTube and running to the rescue https://t.co/2OvVKWLKwP pic.twitter.com/m53DNPp5M1

— Amanda Katz (@katzish) September 15, 2022

And today we also found out that in Mississippi, its apparently quite OK to take millions from poor people and give it to millionaire quarterbacks as long as the media doesn't find out about it:

So let me understand this right, the former Republican Gov of Mississippi Phil Bryant, multimillionaire Brett Favre and others made a scheme to funnel nearly $5M in welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at a college that Favre’s daughter played at? That is a crime yes?

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) September 13, 2022

So let me get this straight. Colin @Kaepernick7 can have a peaceful solemn protest by taking a knee to protest police brutality of Blacks, and he’s banished from the @NFL forever. @BrettFavre can illegally rip off MILLIONS from poor people and he’s WELCOMED by the NFL? #TakeAKnee

— waltb31 (@waltb31) September 15, 2022

Another evil and hypocritical move by today's grifting Republicans. Conservatives complain constantly about those on welfare scamming the system just because they need help, and #BrettFavre stealing their money is so evilly greedy and hypocriticalAF. 😡#Disgraceful

— Sheri C (@FrankieIsReal) September 15, 2022

In other news, Ukraine is winning this war!

World, prepare for the Victory of a nation that puts Freedom above all else!
This love of freedom makes the enemy's blood freeze in their veins!
Because #FreedomIsOurReligion pic.twitter.com/8XcMK7H7zD

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) September 14, 2022

The city of Izium was liberated as Ukrainian troops reclaimed broad swaths of the south and east in a long-anticipated counter-offensive.

With Russians troops gone, it has become easier to assess the extent of devastation caused by the intense fighting. https://t.co/yUk3tOWsyc pic.twitter.com/IyVxZmAdbB

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 14, 2022

Canadian agriculture is taking advantage of a good growing season and stepping up to the plate:

Six months ago I wrote about whether Canada might play a role in alleviating a looming global food crisis: https://t.co/uIclCi7xEn

These latest numbers suggest it has, indeed, managed to massively ramp up production. https://t.co/527tOqlAwZ

— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) September 15, 2022

Moving on, we're following the new Lord of the Rings pre-quel. 

The story-lines and the scripts aren't impressive so far, but the acting is good -- if anything will save this series, it will be the actors they have cast. Some of the actors are not-White and so racists are losing their tiny minds:

Anyways, yeah they are mad about black hobbits. Any time they see someone not white it makes them mad. That’s the extent of it. They just work backwards to justifying that.

— Jort-Michel Connard 🐘 (@torriangray) September 15, 2022

This, from John Cole:

But how we gonna subjugate women otherwise, John ?

— Joshua (Fahrvergnugen) (@Joshua86762349) September 15, 2022

And finally, just for Cap, here's a tweet that relates to his comment for my last post about pens:

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) September 7, 2022