Speck & Pets

@JohnQPublic100 @acoyne Classic false dichotomy you've presented.

@acoyne I agree but we're a docile people and the other alternative is war. Is that better, Andrew?

This is a disappointing piece, based as it is on that old Twitter-argument standby, the imputed double standard — which isn’t a double standard. I’ve never said or implied that it’s okay for Quebec to deploy the “knife at the throat” but not for Alberta. I’ve spent my whole career attacking its use by Quebec nationalists; Alberta’s separatists and their fellow travellers are only the latest to try it. And I stand by the point I made on the panel: no federation, no country, can operate on the basis that if we get our way on any given issue we stay, but if we don’t we’re gone. You can’t run a book club on that basis. No country could, and no country, other than Canada, does. There’s a reason Canada has, uniquely among the major democracies, spent the last 60 years perched on the verge of dissolution. It’s the same reason we’re now headed for not one but two referendums on secession, even as the president of the United States threatens to devour the pieces. It’s because, all but uniquely, we have tolerated the idea that secession is a legitimate “option,” and that the only response open to the rest of Canada is to make regular ransom payments to forestall it. To allow for the possibility is to invite it.

@Milajoy Were those options not available to you before?

@EsotericCD @EdwardDOUG93817 This is a shit, nihilist cop-out. Enjoy what you've helped to entrench. You deserve it.

@AlexKatz1756566 @EdwardDOUG93817 Maybe you hadn't noticed, but Democrats are equally lunatic.

What a joke of an administration we are saddled with.

@BonafideKRS Wearing an eyepatch over a pair of glasses. That is the real crime, from a pirate perspective.

And I thought this was America

@DannyDeraney Easy to overlook that her bum is wanting...everything else is *chef's kiss*.

Happy 85th birthday Ann-Margret. From her unforgettable performance on The Tonight Show where she performed I've Got The Music In Me.

@katefeetie Not far off being able to eat this with a straw.

really needed this… had to watch my husband run a half marathon this morning… whew

@oldcanadaseries Somewhere there must be a giant donut?

What is your favourite giant roadside statue in Canada?

@wheatus You could go out and have a bite to eat, and you'd still be hearing that one.

just bought a 90's Stauffer Martin (like my original SP000-16TR design but a bit different) for the next record. omg this thing almost plays itself... so lively responsive even just toolin around

@ChildrensHD @SecKennedy Yes, drop the mic and please never pick it up again.

💥 Mic drop. RFK Jr. shuts down a congresswoman arguing that babies need the Hep B vaccine at birth. “I also know that the death rate in children was practically zero for hepatitis B prior to the introduction of the vaccine.” @SecKennedy

@All4Xy @conor64 @MeghanGurdon "self righteous" and "you aren't fooling anyone", in this context, would appear to mean "i don't understand what you are saying".

@conor64 @MeghanGurdon oh get stuffed with your self righteous platitudes! You aren't fooling anyone!

Every time I pass through DCA I am stunned afresh by the nonsensical banality of this bogus garbage:

@Edgarson_777 @JohnJSSoriano When you say "us", you mean MAGA, as in your profile. No one else sees it this way. Sorry to break this to you. It is delusion.

@JohnJSSoriano Oh, I think most of us feel he was genuinely making legitimate points with adequate respect.

Assuming the former head of the Augustinian Order isn't aware of Just War Theory and proceeding to lecture him on it is quite a choice. As is the Vice President of Donald Trump lecturing the Vicar of Christ on speaking carefully and truthfully.

@camerobradford ya, there was so much more hair

Sexual intercourse during the 1960s must have felt quite good on the ol member

@ACMillerAuthor The responses referring to flappers and Betty Boop are incorrect here. This is a 1970 ad, not 1920. In that era, a common putdown among hippies was to call someone a "boop-boop-a-dooper"...one who sleeps with you, but then shits in your bed while sleeping in peaceful oblivion.

Umm...what's a "Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl"? Ad from 1970.

@JamesUrbaniak @Bob_Janke That's also the curse of, in 2026, reflecting on a show that premiered in 1976.

@Bob_Janke That's the curse of adapting a Martin Scorsese movie into a sitcom. No one's dared try it since.

Everybody from the TV show Alice is dead. I think we need to ask some questions

@Noirchick1 I initially thought Ernie, then noticed tutu and realized it had to be Bert.

I grew up to become half of partnership in a very well-known television show.... Who am I?

@3YearLetterman Tip your hat and walk into the sunset, coach.

Absolutely disgusted with myself for not coming up with this first

@cecegkh Still overpaid.

Just a reminder that from January 20, 2025, President Trump has been paid exactly $0.00 for everything he has to for our country! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@Nedsfeed @SteelCityBucs30 People ain't gettin' you Ned, er Bert.

@SteelCityBucs30 Can't tell if you're being serious? Literally a top 5 comic, sells out arenas, and is the voice of real people. Literally know that if you don't like Bert you have issues with talent, intelligence, and success. Love you Bert

Genuinely does anyone like this guy?

@greta Clearly, the Artemis 2 crew are everything you are not. They endeared themselves to and united disparate people across the globe! You, on the other hand, are off-putting and offend virtually everyone outside of an ignorant American segment to whom you pander.

I hope Canada thanks the USA for the ride on Artemis 2….

@Johnny_Joey The fact that so a called "author" still tries to assign intellect to a disturbed man's ramblings, is baffling to me.

The fact real actual journalists are still perplexed at how he postures to our enemies while trolling his self-righteous critics is baffling to me.