Comments are open, because I sure as Hell can’t explain it
People will say “he isn’t the guy he used to be,” and it’ll be a criticism. But not with @JustinTrudeau, these days. Colour me gobsmacked. #cdnpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 23, 2019
In yesterday walks tomorrow
Today, 56 years ago
There’s a punk rock song for everything
Maaaaan.
My God Almighty, this is the best thing ever.
somebody on twitter today: trump's weird hand-scrawled denial today sounds like a ramones song.
me: pic.twitter.com/mynZjx0E0M
— Alex Kliment (@SaoSasha) November 21, 2019
Keeping warm
A close friend of mine has a great story to tell. Here she is:
Warren, I bought that coat for my ex-boyfriend, who didn’t want to keep it when I left. I gave it to someone who needed it. After two years, this person recognized me on the street! This coat kept both of us warm – with smiles on our faces. I asked if I could take a photo, to encourage people to give away their unused warm clothing.
Today I am taking my winter stuff out, and making little bags with socks, gloves, hats, sweaters, etc. that I haven’t worn for a while. If you know anybody that needs them, let me know! And stay warm and have a beautiful day !
“This is the final word.”
Well, no, it actually isn’t.
Meanwhile, from Son Three, presently at a golf academy in Florida: “Dad, if I hear the phrase quid pro quo one more time on the radio, someone is gonna die!”
Me, today, on the Jim Fannon Show – on women in politics
https://twitter.com/jimfannon/status/1197269777586302976?s=20
Trudeau’s cabinet, in 240 characters or less
I have to say, he has done things mostly right since losing his majority. He’s stopped overselling stuff. He’s stopped sounding cocky. He’s cut out the selfies and the governance by social media. And he’s looked genuinely humbled – morose, even.
Will it hold? Who knows? But this cabinet shuffle/realignment was the most critical of his time in power. It needed to to address the vulnerabilities on his flanks – surging nationalism in Quebec, surging alienation in the West, and the unhappiness of the more than one million Canadians who abandoned the Liberal choice.
I think it’s done that.
As he alights on the heretofore unexplored world of minority governance, @JustinTrudeau needed to project stability, experience but also a willingness to acknowledge previous shortcomings. He has mostly done that. #cdnpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 20, 2019
“Everyone was in the loop.” Donald Trump is going to be impeached
US Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified Wednesday there was a quid pro quo for Ukraine to announce investigations into President Donald Trump’s political opponents that came from the President’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at the “express direction of the President.”
What’s more, Sondland provided House impeachment investigators with emails and texts showing it wasn’t just him and Giuliani pushing for the investigations outside government channels — Trump’s inner circle knew what was going on, too. He even said he raised concerns with Vice President Mike Pence that the freezing of $400 million in security aid to Ukraine was linked to the investigations.
Sondland’s testimony is the most damning evidence to date directly implicating Trump in the quid pro quo at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. His public remarks show a link between US security aid and a White House meeting and Ukraine publicly announcing investigations that would help the President politically. From the beginning of Wednesday’s hearing, Sondland’s comments dragged some of Trump’s senior most officials — including Pence, his chief of staff and his secretary of state — into the scandal.
“Everyone was in the loop,” Sondland said. “It was no secret.”
In his remarkable opening statement before the fourth day of public impeachment hearings, Sondland told House impeachment investigators that Trump “wanted a public statement from President (Volodymyr) Zelensky committing to investigations of Burisma and the 2016 election.”