Today's news: I wonder what's gone wrong

I don't know a soul who's not been battered

I don't have a friend who feels at ease 

I don't know a dream that's not been shattered 

Or driven to its knees 

But it's alright, it's alright 

For we lived so well so long 

Still, when I think of the Road we're traveling on 

I wonder what's gone wrong 

I can't help it, I wonder what has gone wrong 

 As I was reading Twitter tonight, I saw some posts from people I respect who are very worried about what is happening now with the Ottawa Occupation and at the Ambassador bridge crossing. 

Today was the day when we expected the bridge crossing blockade would be dismantled. And in Ottawa, it was anticipated that police enforcement against the occupation would start to show some results. 

It doesn't appear to be happening. 

Instead police seem to be standing around, or standing down, intimidated, frightened, or perhaps even taking the side of the FluTruxKlan even through their paycheques are still signed by the City of Ottawa.

A pivotal moment.

Brazen calls from active & retired police/military for disobedience, the ex-RCMP command & control leadership, & evidence of ongoing intelligence failures.

We are in the midst of an attempted coup. It will be my fifth. I smell blood. #cdnpoli #5thColumn https://t.co/bHS1oNSzGe

— Dr. Jason Price (@DrJPriceTrustee) February 13, 2022

I remember when Pat King was leaving Alberta he said he wasn't worried about the police causing them any problems and that stuck me as such an odd thing to say.

— DJ Chocolate Milk (@DJChocolateMLK) February 13, 2022

That sounds plausible.
Trudeau has no levers here but will wear it because everyone will implicate him regardless. https://t.co/BpCE60umij

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) February 13, 2022

I think we can't rule out a third thing, which is police support or at least sympathize with the convoy. Genuinely couldn't say with any certainty what ratio the three are in, though.

— robert hiltz (@robert_hiltz) February 13, 2022

The operative phrase is doesn't make sense . There is something going on here which we do not understand, yet.

— Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) February 13, 2022

The police don't want to do anything so they don't. We indigenous people have long understood that the cops can't be trusted because they have their own agenda. The cops are mad because we demanded that they get vaccinated and they didn't want to#Police #Ottawa #CBC#bcpoli https://t.co/IesZ2B10uP

— Kathleen Westergaard, MSW, RSW (@KathleenWesterg) February 13, 2022

This is starting to look like a slow-motion fascist coup, a January 6, 2021 where the police are letting it happen, aimed at ending the Trudeau minority government. It is the most severe attack on the legitimacy of the state and its democratic supports in our history.

— Mark Bourrie (@MarkBourrie) February 12, 2022

People are getting PISSED OFF:

Ha. Police were going to let the antivaxx convoy through Kingston, and they put up barricades to block counter-protestors on the sidewalk, so the counter-protestors moved the barricades onto the road and stood behind them to block the antivaxxers.

This made my day. https://t.co/xRFeAzRpI5

— Billy (@BillyArmagh) February 12, 2022

pic.twitter.com/rbT3Kk5RsH

— TrashedPanda🇨🇦🦝💉💉💉 (@AGentleWolf) February 12, 2022

It's starting... across the country. And it's getting stronger by the hour. Time for the children to go home.

— ░1░M░a░r░z░i░p░a░n░ #COVIDisAirborne (@1marzipan) February 12, 2022

Ya know what would end this fast? Water cannons. #GoHomeFluTrucksKlan

— Friendo 🍁 (@RenkoStyranka) February 13, 2022

Two thirds of Canadians support military force to end Ottawa occupation:https://t.co/MQ1X8WUIFo

— Dennis Kendel (@DennisKendel) February 13, 2022

And in local news:

Alberta and Saskatchewan's new #Covid19 policy is summarized in one brilliant cartoon. #abpoli #skpoi #cdpoli pic.twitter.com/7scJUCiOQn

— Charles Smith (@ProfSmithSask) February 13, 2022

Today's news: I AM CANADIAN

#IAMCANADIAN is trending #1 on Twitter bc the overwhelming majority of Canadians care about their neighbours. We believe in science, democracy, public education & public healthcare. We separate trash from recycling & we don't complain about it. Don't let the Honkers scare you. pic.twitter.com/BpGkLhpQ9D

— Jean Yoon (윤 진 희 or 尹真姬) (@jean_yoon) February 11, 2022

I AM CANADIAN is trending because thousands of Canadians want to stand up to be counted against the FluTruxKlan. 

The main news today was that Ford came out of hiding to tell the truckers to go the fuck home. 

And Trudeau gave the same message in his press conference. repeatedly telling them their message has been heard and they don't need to be in Ottawa or at the border anymore. 

Not unexpectedly, the FluTruxKlan is refusing to listen.

Yeah, but it’s not what they want. They went to Ottawa and blocked borders to oust the elected govt and take over as a dictatorship.

— Ann Bibby (@anniegirl1138) February 11, 2022

#AmbassadorBridgeBlockade #AmbassadorBridge Well if this is the freedom they want LOCK THEM UP pic.twitter.com/Oy9qyOS7nL

— 🇨🇦 Merlin 🇨🇦 Wear an N95 #COVIDisAirborne (@MerlinofCanada) February 12, 2022

It's amazing to me that all of the checks we have in place to prevent dictators from taking over and making unilateral decisions federally are now being shit upon by the occupiers who are accusing the PM of being a dictator.
My head hurts...

— AppyDancer (@PennyCameron7) February 11, 2022

Trudeau has given the #FluTruxKlan an excuse to leave by repeatedly saying their message has been heard. A face-saving opportunity, if only they will take it. #IStandWithTrudeau https://t.co/ZkuJBlSSuP

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) February 11, 2022

Fox News this morning is excitedly promoting plans to bring the far-right/anti-vaccine truck convoy to America. They see this as a chance to create an economic crisis that they can blame on Biden.

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) February 11, 2022

Dear world,

I am so sorry the #Clownvoy has infected you.

Sincerely,
Canada#FluTruxKlanGoHome https://t.co/tdfH0DGhPC

— Deirdre with an E 🇨🇦 🥕🍀🐕 (@AnneFan85) February 11, 2022

The clown convoy just gave President Biden all the ammunition he needed to bring all auto manufacturing into the US. Way to go boys. You just put the economic livelihood of thousands of auto workers and legitimate truck drivers in jeopardy.

— Unbranded (@Unbranded63) February 10, 2022

About the only pleasure I can take in what is happening is that the Conservatives will be going down with the FluTruxKlan:

Pierre Poilievre drives his party into the political abyss, running over 90% of Canadians and steering the ⁦@CPC_HQ⁩ to back
ignorant law-breakers who cripple our economy, drive up prices and deputize followers to create rogue stormtroopers. https://t.co/Roiae2uMol

— Jonathan Sher (@SherOnHealth) February 11, 2022

#OttawaOccupation pic.twitter.com/PYB2ZYAPaV

— Ian Fleming (@gocactus) February 11, 2022

I'm back!

Sorry for the long hiatus -- I took a temporary job in the fall and it kept me pretty busy but its over now and I'm glad to get back to following Canadian politics again. 

Though, pretty scary these days, isn't it? 

I think it is important for me now to blog about the Ottawa Occupation like I did about the summer election campaign, to try to assemble and keep track of the most important events and threads as they occur day to day. As well, I urge everyone to follow Montreal Simon and Dale Smith and Northern Reflections and Accidental Deliberations and Saskboy and Gazetteer and Canadian Cynic and Rev. Paperboy as they keep on blogging too.

We wlll get through this together.

Here's the stuff I gathered today:

The fact that jurisdictional confusion and disputes, political dilettantism, and bureaucratic buckpassing are paralyzing authorities' response to a major crisis in Ottawa is the most Canadian thing you could imagine.

— Thomas Juneau (@thomasjuneau) February 11, 2022

Over the last three weeks, as the trucker convoy assembled, drove, occupied Ottawa, and then started blocking border crossings, I have gone through the usual Canadian reactions -- disbelief, denial, incredulity, disgust, ridicule, and now, finally, more than a little fear. 

I don't know how this will work out for our country, and I can't see a smooth path to ending what these right-wing hysterics have started. 

One thing that has gradually become clear to me, though, is that this is much more serious than I believed at first. 

While the tweet above is funny, what seems to be happening in Canada now is no laughing matter.

The 2020's has taught us that anger sells. It gets the clicks. In the 80's I heard "sex sells" every time my underaged self turned around. Did - did society evolve to prefer rage to sex?

— Jennifer Shelby (@jenniferdshelby) February 11, 2022

Its more than anger, though -- it seems to be an organized campaign to undermine Trudeau and the Liberal government, to force resignation and replacement with autocracy. There seem to be some dark forces involved here, too. 

"if you’re wondering why no one wants to act, it’s because they’re afraid of what they’ll be unleashing." By @mattgurney https://t.co/2sfiSbjtnk

— The Line (@the_lineca) February 10, 2022

The more I look back to how we all treated this at first as a joke, then rage at authorities allowing it..and now, it possibly being something dangerous . I still don’t understand how it was allowed w/no pushback..the reason for that makes it very dark https://t.co/2Rongvr9fO

— Tracey Kent (@TraceyKent) February 10, 2022

Myself, I am worried that the intention is to undermine Trudeau at a time in the world when NATO needs Canada more than ever, to withstand what I expect will be a war of aggression by Russia against the Ukraine.

Canadians can't believe it because we don't think of ourselves as important.
In NATO geopolitics, we are. When it comes to threats of war in Europe, we are. When we have Biden's back, we are.

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) February 7, 2022

But at least every day now, the people of Ottawa are fighting back, as only Canadians can - with a gay cowboy anthem and a #RamRanchResistance hashtag:

Out of frustration, leftists in Canada started trolling Zello channels by blasting the song “Ram Ranch,” both as a play on the Dodge Ram insignia of many of the trucks downtown and as a subversion of the channel’s patriotism (the artist who recorded “Ram Ranch,” Grant MacDonald, is Canadian). “It’s a deeply conservative belief system infiltrating our city,” says Katarina. “And when we played this song to jam their communication, they’d get extremely angry because it’s an explicit and LGBTQ-friendly song.”

The Ram Ranch Resistance website is here: https://ram-ranch.ca/ 

And there's this one now, too:

"Led by clowns...pawns in a rich man's game. Can't you see you're being played. Voyage of the scammed...can't have an insurrection if you can't get it up...If you walk with Nazis you're a Nazi too."
Crybabies Caravan SD 480p https://t.co/uCtQxga7cr via @YouTube

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) February 10, 2022

Christmas fun

Glenn Miller, with the Modernaires, Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers. Nominated for the Oscar:

   

 And more Nicholas Brothers, with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and the Modernaires. Another Oscar nominee:

 

The silent monks:

 

Pavarotti:

 

Funniest Claymation:

   

And finally, Bing and Bowie, in what was arguably the strangest Christmas special ever made:

Festivus, and other great Christmas moments

"Stop crying and fight your father"

Twas the night before a Covid Christmas!

 As seen on Facebook:

A Covid Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas, but Covid was here,

So we all had to stay extra cautious this year.

Our masks were all hung by the chimney with care

In case Santa forgot his and needed a spare.

With Covid, we couldn't leave cookies or cake

So we left Santa hand sanitizer to take.

The children were sleeping, the brave little tots

The ones over 5 had just had their first shots,

And mom in her kerchief and me in my cap

Had just settled in for a long winter's nap.

But we tossed and we turned all night in our beds

As visions of variants danced in our heads.

Gamma and Delta and now Omicron

These Covid mutations that go on and on

I thought to myself, "If this doesn't get better,

I'll soon be familiar with every Greek letter".

Then just as I started to drift off and doze

A clatter of noise from the front lawn arose.

I leapt from my bed and ran straight down the stair

I opened the door, and an old gent stood there.

His N 95 made him look pretty weird

But I knew who he was by his red suit and beard.

I kept six feet away but blurted out quick

" What are you doing here, jolly Saint Nick?"

Then I said, "Where's your presents, your reindeer and sleigh ?

Don't you know that tomorrow will be Christmas Day? ".

And Santa stood there looking sad in the snow

As he started to tell me a long tale of woe.

He said he'd been stuck at the North Pole alone

All his white collar elves had been working from home,

Those left in the toyshop had little to do.

With supply chain disruptions, they could make nothing new.

And as for the reindeer, they'd all gone away.

None of them left to pull on his sleigh.

He said Dasher and Dancer were in quarantine,

Prancer and Vixen refused the vaccine,

Comet and Cupid were in ICU,

o were Donner and Blitzen, they may not pull through.

And Rudolph's career can't be resurrected.

With his shiny red nose, they all think he's infected.

Even with his old sleigh, Santa couldn't go far.

Every border to cross needs a new PCR.

Santa sighed as he told me how nice it would be

Children could once again sit on his knee.

He couldn't care less if they're naughty or nice

But they'd have to show proof that they'd had their shot twice.

But then the old twinkle returned to his eyes.

And he said that he'd brought me a Christmas surprise.

When I unwrapped the box and opened it wide,

Starlight and rainbows streamed out from inside.

Some letters whirled round and flew up to the sky

And they spelled out a word that was 40 feet high.

There first was an H, then an O, then a P,

Then I saw it spelled HOPE when it added the E.

"Christmas magic" said Santa as he smiled through his beard.

Then suddenly all of the reindeer appeared.

jumped into his sleigh and he waved me good-bye,

Then he soared o'er the rooftops and into the sky.

I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight

"Get your vaccines my friends, Merry Christmas, good-night".

Then I went back to bed and a sweet Christmas dream

Of a world when we'd finished with Covid 19.

Today's news: random funny stuff

COVID has convinced us of this truth:

I’m wearing this when I teach evolutionary medicine next week. pic.twitter.com/E2wCQyTs1u

— Daniel Bolnick (@DanielBolnick) November 22, 2021

😂 True! 🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦 https://t.co/xgdoYTtc2n

— Jacinthe Payant - Jane Goodall = Hero (@JacinthePayant) December 5, 2021

Here's how old I am: I was walking at a good pace toward a door today and I knew that door would slide open automatically as I approached and suddenly the "Get Smart" opening theme began to play in my head.

— John Wing (@JohnWing5) December 1, 2021

And here it is:

 

FLASHBACK: In December 1975, NBC Television aired this episode of Saturday Night Live. pic.twitter.com/qZxOsyO75K

— New Granada (@NewGranada1979) November 29, 2021

Live footage of the Revise and Resubmit process at an economics journal pic.twitter.com/9snLxE27pk

— Khoa Vu (@KhoaVuUmn) November 28, 2021

🤣 This is fun to watch.
Have a smile! https://t.co/2Lo6TcOEyS

— 👽 McSpocky™ 🗣🇺🇸🌊💉 #BuildBackBetter (@mcspocky) November 26, 2021

thinking of Him as black friday draws near🥴 pic.twitter.com/fSm4alVG6W

— The Soviet Onion™ (they/them) (@ASovietOnion) November 23, 2021

Today's News: peek-a-boo!

The parrot is making fun of him! 🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/98HUbWrkdP

— Figen (@TheFigen) November 19, 2021

They used to laugh and call him names.

Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/sYEGmlGKqb

— Cory Papineau (@Iam_Canadian) November 15, 2021

This one was fascinating. Click through and get the whole story:

Saw some really neat behaviors a few years ago. A mountain chickadee taking advantage of an American red squirrel's efforts (a thread).

I spotted a mountain chickadee searching bark and flaking it off from the tree, with a lot of effort. pic.twitter.com/hiSQflk4ZI

— Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥 (@drcampbellsmith) November 11, 2021

I love this:

A few more rhyming farewells:

3. Tack och hej, leverpastej (Swedish) = thank you and goodbye, liver paté
2. Hasta luego, cara huevo (Spanish) = see you later, egg face
1. Hade på badet, din gamle sjokolade (Norwegian) = goodbye on the toilet, you old chocolate

— Adam Sharp (@AdamCSharp) November 16, 2021

I'm surprised how many Canadians don't know who the head of state is.

Quick outline of Canada's government:

- The Queen (most powerful/Head of State)

- Galen Weston

- The Triads/Hells Angels/Mafia Alliance

- The Telecom Monopolies

- Abandoned oil wells

- The Prime Minister

— Stephen Punwasi 🌋 🚀 (@StephenPunwasi) November 17, 2021

‘It’s a familiar old photograph, but it can still move Justin Trudeau to tears.

The famous shot — Pierre Trudeau toting his young son like a football while an RCMP officer snaps a crisp salute at the prime minister was too much…’https://t.co/7sBav8Cpcv

🥲😢😭 pic.twitter.com/MGfcdPzy9N

— Scum Chu (@AlbertaOtoole) November 21, 2021

Earworm alert!

I screenshot and texted this to my husband and got a line back. pic.twitter.com/dvxjb3arqO

— Spooky Mantilla 👻 (@PunkyMantilla) November 2, 2021

We don't deserve dogs 😍 pic.twitter.com/crgYMcz8M8

— The Feel Good Page ❤️ (@natureheel) November 5, 2021

This is the greatest thing ever. pic.twitter.com/aFWa46xeuh

— jamie (@gnuman1979) January 26, 2021

Today's news: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!

John Cleese seems to have morphed into the angry establishment figure of ridicule he played in sketches.

— Chris Kehoe (@MrKehoe79) November 13, 2021

John Cleese, Morrissey and JK Rowling walk into a bar.

And the bartender says "the home for aging disappointments is across the street innit" https://t.co/Oqsr7xb2FE

— raf (@rafaelshimunov) November 14, 2021

We saw Cleese in person one summer about 10 years ago, when they held a Just For Laughs festival in Toronto. 

 It did not go well. 

 But we can still love Fawlty, and the Dead Parrot sketch.  

 And Eric Clapton was also trending today.

Yep ... Understandable. Clapton cares nothing about others around him. https://t.co/WHQCeJGCxa

— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby Calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) November 13, 2021

The next time Twitter decides to celebrate “A-Holes of Twitter Day” could someone please make sure I get the memo? My goodness - it’s vile and obnoxious out here today.

— ᒪᗩᑎᑕᗴ 🏳️‍🌈 (@LanceUSA70) November 14, 2021

At least The Riders won tonight!

Halloween's Best

This the greatest Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen…. pic.twitter.com/V4G5kS5le0

— Jordan🥴 (@Idontknowyoucuh) October 15, 2021

Give them something good to eat: Animals at the Chester Zoo enjoy some Halloween treats. pic.twitter.com/NA9iTmuYpn

— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) October 28, 2021

💀 @Flash_Garrett arrived for today's Halloween game as the Grim Reaper with all QBs that he's sacked listed on his back 💪

(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/s96oBBDNOv

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) October 31, 2021

This #Halloween chip shot was pumpkin spiced. 🎃

(Via TikTok/golfergirlem) pic.twitter.com/IERaYO7ixF

— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) October 31, 2021

Gurdeep is a true Canadian treasure:

Happy Halloween!
From the Yukon wilderness, I am forwarding Halloween joy, hope and positivity across Canada and beyond.
YouTube: https://t.co/7UZu7LDTpK pic.twitter.com/pGnBXP0qxK

— Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon (@GurdeepPandher) October 31, 2021

The Pulp Librarian offers the top 20 halloween-inspired pulp magazine covers:

And at no 1: Seven Footprints To Satan, by Abraham Merritt. Fantastic Novels Magazine, January 1949. pic.twitter.com/1dUoL6LNUZ

— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 31, 2021

A tiny landscape painting on a pumpkin seed 🎃 pic.twitter.com/AAAEuMYG49

— Katie 🌿 (@KatieBrooksArt) October 31, 2021

Best pumpkin carving I’ve seen this year.
SAOR ALBA.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pic.twitter.com/4fUlGspvqt

— Lynn MacDonald-Matheson (@LynnMamaBear1) October 31, 2021

Every year, somebody takes it just a little too far:

So about that weird Gables police display https://t.co/UwqXrYlzLy

— Samantha J. Gross (@samanthajgross) October 31, 2021

And of course, the greatest music video ever made:

Horses, fish, elephants, dogs ...

Next time, dogs own people.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 19, 2021

Some say vaccine mandates don't work.

But...Health workers who don't believe in science are leaving healthcare...And...Police officers who don't care about public safety are leaving policing.

Sounds like vaccine mandates work just fine. 👌🏾

— Naheed Dosani (@NaheedD) October 21, 2021

It's getting disrespectful how long it takes for me to scroll to my birth year

— Trey (@treydayway) October 16, 2021

😂 pic.twitter.com/BK0n9Gk64r

— 🇨🇦 Leslie-Anne 💉💉FULLY VAXXED 👍🏻👍🏻 🇨🇦 (@ProudGrannyCdn) October 17, 2021

My husband purchased a world map and then gave me a dart and said, “Throw this and wherever it lands—that’s where I’m taking you when this pandemic ends.”

Turns out, we’re spending two weeks behind the fridge.

— Kate Wright 🧡 (@KatezRight) October 4, 2021

“Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings? It’s almost never for them.” - Norm MacDonald.

— Cannabis Farmer: Jim Belushi (@JimBelushi) September 15, 2021

Little yellow fish gets so excited whenever he sees this diver — watch him surprise her with a gift 💛 pic.twitter.com/nEByULlfRL

— The Dodo (@dodo) October 24, 2021

Giant rescue horse finally gets to relax after working 20 years straight — and when the vet prescribes beer every day, he LOVES it 🍻 pic.twitter.com/U5D4Cm0cRd

— The Dodo (@dodo) October 24, 2021

this dog owner spent $400 to find out why his dog was limping only to learn he was copying him out of sympathy
(jukin media) pic.twitter.com/lmhmtZu908

— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) October 15, 2021

They did the mash. Thank you to giant pumpkin growers Larry Nelson and Jacob Baldridge for the gourd time! pic.twitter.com/cuNtwafIA0

— Oregoth Boo (@OregonZoo) October 14, 2021

Room Rater PSA from Canada and @brittlestar. Just remember: THERE’S MORE GOOD. 10/10pic.twitter.com/fIANU1A9kH

— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) October 23, 2021

Today's News: truth

There is such truth here:

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP pic.twitter.com/SQozalLllB

— Indigenous (@AmericanIndian8) October 10, 2021

And truth here too:

Not been guilted into going. This was the right step. The Chief of Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc said it right, actions speak Louder. And him coming on his son’s birthday is the Loudest Action. Grateful that Chief Rosanne Casimir lived streamed this closed event.

— 🇨🇦Paqtasit Apsalqigwat👸🏼🤘🏼☘️🐓🍷 (@paqtasit) October 19, 2021

Breaking: Trudeau visit to Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Nation ‘bittersweet’ after not attending National Day for Truth and Reconciliation via @globeandmail https://t.co/F5YIQ5nfo6 #cdnpoli

— Kristy Kirkup (@kkirkup) October 18, 2021

“Instead of talking about truth and reconciliation, people talked about me, and that’s on me,” Trudeau said. https://t.co/rIqOs2bOcd#cdnpoli

— Kristy Kirkup (@kkirkup) October 18, 2021

And Halloween is coming up!

pic.twitter.com/EHRWNP7xAH

— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) October 19, 2021

Meanwhile, here in Saskatchewan, our COVID situation is so bad - I cannotimagine the chaos and death in Saskatchewan hospitals right now -- and our premier Scott Moe is leading us by naming some guy in North Battleford as the director of Covid response, and immitating a deer in the headlights:

BREAKING - Sask Premier Scott Moe reached out to AMERICAN states for ICU help

BEFORE asking Justin Trudeau for helphttps://t.co/XwfF5wnBf0 #cdnpoli #covid19

— G.T. Lem (@gtlem) October 19, 2021

I'd say "you've got to be fucking kidding me", but how shocking is anything these petty, corrupt bumblefucks do anymore? #skpoli

The *lethal* obstinacy in relation to working with the Federal government here is worthy of an actual trial here. https://t.co/sTZ2dTmtF0

— the 13 Ghosts of Carol Channing Tatum (@ThinWhiteDork) October 19, 2021

Or, hear me out, Take The Fucking Actions that doctors and scientists are telling you are necessary to PREVENT so many people from needing ICU care in the first place.
In other words, protect #skhealth instead of playing #skpoli on #covid19sk https://t.co/TVhCBPu0tw

— Dr. Atul Kapur (@Kapur_AK) October 19, 2021

Time for some funny stuff!

I loved these:

by @warandpeass pic.twitter.com/1tbcluicsM

— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) October 10, 2021

The perfect couples costume doesn't exi- pic.twitter.com/mte2U6EmVv

— Momster (@my_name_here85) October 11, 2021

An ad by a bus company. Nice. 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/jkE3P6vlpE

— Sami (the man) 🇨🇦 🏇 (@msnaydani) October 7, 2021

"why are you crying?"

because bears sit and look at good views pic.twitter.com/cqaN0LJ4pF

— clair without the "e" (@nastywomanatlaw) October 8, 2021

The Japanese 🇯🇵 Puffer Fish is probably nature's greatest artist 🐟

To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief 😲

pic.twitter.com/AiuQY9XzhN

— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) October 9, 2021

All we need.. pic.twitter.com/0ut6Rnvlmj

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) October 9, 2021

Reading about white collar crime in the new yorker and this detail is just perfect https://t.co/Ou7ZV9Gbgg pic.twitter.com/ZE3pbMpLOY

— erin griffith (@eringriffith) September 30, 2021

1 of the city high schools here was quite creative. They had plumbing issues, so once or twice every spring whe the weather got nice, in a scene right out of Fast Time At Ridgemont High they synchronized their watches & simultaneously flushed every toilet for an easy 2 day vacay.

— Tom (@BigTontoLove) October 9, 2021

A bookshop door photographed in Canada 🦇 pic.twitter.com/MXxaCcAAji

— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫s (@FabulousWeird) October 9, 2021

And this one was so sweet it broke twitter - it got 700K likes:

My Finances: pic.twitter.com/SasbwqAIRD

— Andrew Hilary but spooky 👻 (@AndrewHilaryUS) October 8, 2021

New currencies pic.twitter.com/62G017wpKb

— Ms Bay (@bahia_nacional) October 9, 2021

Watch this! https://t.co/ehAIlbbC9W

— unsquare925🕷️🦂🐊🐉🇪🇺 (@unsquare925) October 9, 2021

Why we need to hear The Story Of January 6

Here in a nutshell is The Story Of January 6 -- an impressive summary by Huff Post White House correspondent S.V. Date describing what happened in the Trump Insurrection:

This is what Americans need to be told about, every day, every speech, from Biden, Harris, Garland, Pelosi, Schumer, Psaki, AOC, Warren, and everyone else who wants Americans to understand and remember what happened. 

Yes, I know there are hundreds of charges underway around the country, and yes, I know there's a commission finally working on it. And yes, I know there are a few books coming out, and news stories written often about this or that picayune event or mystifying investigation. 

But Americans aren't going to put it all together by themselves. They need to hear The Story in every speech that is given by Democrats. 

Particularly now, as Trump starts up his rallies again, and gets coverage from media across the country as though he was just a normal person who is going to run for president in 2024. 

Instead, this is the kind of shit Americans are now hearing:

Trump urges lawmakers to focus on the 'REAL insurrection' that 'took place on November 3' 🚨https://t.co/dRxT5Si6zM

— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) October 7, 2021

I believe Americans have heard more in the last 9 months about the Biden dogs than they heard about the Trump insurrection. 

Now, I agree that Major and Champ were Very Good Dogs, and its sad that Champ has died and that Major isn't as well trained as he should be. 

But what Americans really need to hear about is how close they came to losing their republic.

Zoom meetings

So I just started a short-term job and one of the things I am going to be learning about is how to host Zoom meetings. Not, like this guy, I hope:

We are all in this video pic.twitter.com/ZebenP2Aid

— Washington Post TikTok Guy 🪑 (@davejorgenson) September 2, 2021