Phil A. McBride 🇨🇦🇵🇦

@TypicalABguy @ABJeffBerube Oh look - it’s a Liberal/lefty who doesn’t like the message, but can’t argue against it so he impugns the author. How original.

@ABJeffBerube Great chat gpt lesson dipshit. Next time pay attention in high school

That’s not even close to the whole story. For most of us, one, two, three, or even ten pipelines changes nothing. When oil crashed in 2014, the industry had tens of thousands of layoffs. The province was hurting but there were signs of hope: Northern Gateway, Energy East, and TMX. Northern Gateway had its approval cancelled by Trudeau. Energy East was cancelled because Ottawa wanted to count upstream and downstream emissions, which put the project on shaky ground. But the coup de grace came when Québec’s prime minister at the time, François Legault said that there was “no social acceptability for a pipeline.” TC cancelled it shortly after. Finally, we fought over TMX because Ottawa wouldn’t assert its jurisdiction. Trudeau let Horgan and BC make it so risky to try to build TMX that Kinder Morgan had to pull out. Nobody wanted the federal government to buy the pipeline, they should have simply enforced the conditions to ensure it was safe for Kinder Morgan to proceed. Albertans had stayed quiet for a long time over equalization because Ottawa was staying out of our faces, so it was just the price to pay to operate in this country. But when came time to help Alberta after the oil crash, the whole nation turned its back on us and proceeded to crush the three beacons of hope we were counting on to turn the corner. That’s when a lot of us started paying closer attention to politics to figure out how to get our voices heard. It didn’t take very long before we started looking at seats in the House of Commons and the Senate and realizing how unequal and unfair our representation is in Ottawa. Bottom line is that we’re effectively screwed and that the people we subsidize through equalization continuously vote for governments that attack our industry. Fixing the constitutional mess is impossible because it would require either Ontario or Québec and all the maritime provinces to vote in favour of curtailing their own political power. It will never happen. In 2019, we figured that Canada was going to be smart enough to realize that Trudeau was a disaster and we’d get back some common sense. Wrong. Trudeau was voted in for a second time. If you were in the oil and gas industry at the time, you probably had your first taste of western alienation with the Wexit movement instantly polling above 30% in support of independence. Next up is covid and that’s when all hell broke loose with the spending, the OIC to prohibit common guns, etc. Albertans’ living standards were the most impacted by Trudeau and now Carney’s insane deficit spending. We watched as Trudeau pranced around on the world stage, virtue-signalling with our money while the cost of living was sky rocketing. In FY 2024-2025, we watched the Liberals send $13B abroad between gender equality and climate change foreign aid, while running a $36.3B deficit. We had one last hope with Pierre looking like he was going to get elected and stop the bleeding. But they parachuted Carney in and the rest is history. The country’s finances are in shambles and it would take 3 generations to fix this mess if we started today by doing the obvious, which Ottawa is still refusing to do. Ottawa is fiscally irresponsible and now headed down a very dangerous path of authoritarianism with all the bills that were passed in this parliamentary session. Alberta independence supporters see the writing on the wall and don’t care about any number of pipelines. Once you’ve looked close enough at the system, you realize it can’t be fixed and there’s no coming back from realizing the true extent of the mess Canada is in. The Canada we grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is a sinking ship and independence is the only way to save Alberta.

@Keir_Starmer Witness the ratio of a failed leader.

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

@MowzaProduction @joeroganhq Calmaté. youtube.com/watch?v=ZblPwN…

@joeroganhq Bro made a joke a about a dead black man then said God bless America. This country is a fucking joke...

Kill Tony: "The black community is so proud of you… right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can’t breathe." Holy sh*t.

@GOLDBABYO I bought an MSP a couple of years ago. Best staff I’ve ever worked with. One of my newly acquired clients decided to verbally browbeat one of them and I happened to be within earshot. I put a stop to it and it never happened again. You don’t get to do that to my people.

I witnessed something at a coffee shop. Teenager working register. Customer ordered. Kid rang it wrong. Customer yelled. Called him stupid. Incompetent. Made a scene. Kid kept apologizing. Near tears. Manager came over. Expected manager to appease the customer. Apologize. Offer free stuff. Instead she said “Get out.” Customer looked shocked. “Excuse me?” “You heard me. Get out of my shop. Don’t come back.” Customer sputtered. “I’m the customer. He messed up.” Manager stayed firm.

@marcorandazza Do we have to put /sarcasm after our posts now? 🤣

Republicans, you really fucked up with this whole gerrymander war Just you wait, the Democrats are going to retaliate by gerrymandering all the New England states now

@KirkLubimov Ummm. @the_lineca?

There are only 3 news organizations in Canada that don't take government handouts; Blacklock's Juno News Rebel News Notice how these 3 will investigate and talk about things that no other media in Canada has the guts to touch.

@glennylennox @NBCNews Actually, since he was acquitted by a jury, he’s not a murderer.

@NBCNews I believe the phrase you’re looking for is “murder”

Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin, was hospitalized after he was bitten by a venomous spider, the noted firearms enthusiast says. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g…

@NBCNews You people just can’t help yourselves, can you?

@JNReports @JebBush Wow. So you're so deep and thoughtful that a single retweet from one person is enough to make up your mind. I'm always amazed at the quality of the American voter.... (/sarcasm, in case that wasn't evident)

@JebBush And with Jeb’s endorsement, I’m out on Spencer Pratt…

Maybe the best political ad of the year.

@CanadianCoffey For 3 of us, I pay $270/mo USD, we get $1m each per year with a $1k total deductible per year, everywhere on Earth except the US and its holdings. Public healthcare in Canada has turned into a sham.

Imagine paying $1500 a month for family healthcare insurance and then having to pay the full $15,000 deductible before anything is covered. That’s what Doug Ford and Danielle Smith want to duplicate in Ontario and Alberta.

@TheCinesthetic Every time I got a job offer that tempted me to walk away from self-employment in my 20s and 30s, I watched this movie. Still self-employed, but now I have staff, and I use this movie as a template for what NEVER to do. My full-time staff churn over the last 2 years is 0%.

Office Space (1999) turns everyday corporate misery into comedy perfection. The awkward small talk, and printer destruction scene still hit like therapy. Wild that it bombed in theaters before becoming one of the biggest cult comedies ever on DVD.

@MensHumor I still do, so does my wife, so do my sons.

@TameezAli1 @Osint613 Seriously? Do you dream in Technicolor? Iran is not a military threat to its neighbours, much less the Yanks. The only thing standing between Iran and the decimation of its infrastructure is Trump’s humanity.

@Osint613 Trump has fully planned for the final military strike, which includes the massive destruction of the US Navy, which is located just a short distance from the Strait of Hormuz. The damage would be unbearable for the US President's policy.

IRGC: US options have narrowed. Trump has to choose between an impossible military operation or a "bad deal" with Iran.

@brockpierson My back hurts.

First thing that comes to mind when you see this logo?

Watching this is making me angry, which tells you how old I am.

@Foxeriel @Osint613 Yeah, not sure what show you’ve been watching, but he’s been CRYSTAL clear on his red line: No Nukes.

The key problem right now is that Trump apparently doesn't yet understand what he wants. He can talk about "ending military action" and then immediately declare that the US Navy is "pirates"... He's very difficult to understand, and as long as he's in power, we have to put up with it. 😤

Iranian report: Iran submitted a 14-point counterproposal to the U.S. 9-point offer through Pakistani mediation, per Tasnim. The U.S. proposed a 2-month ceasefire. Iran wants all issues resolved in 30 days. Demands include U.S. military withdrawal from Iran's periphery, lifting the naval blockade, unfreezing assets, compensation, sanctions relief, and an end to fighting on all fronts including Lebanon. Iran says it awaits a formal U.S. response.

@Its_Nova1012 Slackware, and now Debian and Ubuntu.

What was your first Linux distro? - Fedora - Ubuntu - Arch Linux - Debian - Kali Linux And what are you using now?

@exQUIZitely I feel a little called out here..... but yeah, probably.

If this brings back memories, it's time to schedule a colonoscopy.

@brockpierson I worked in a small-town ISP when I was 15 and there was a bank of 100 USR Courier modems in the back room. That was 31 years ago. To this day, I *still* hear that sound in my head.

If you personally ever used one of these or similar, you are an absolute legend

@emrazz @SpiritAirlines *sigh* So desperate to blame Trump for something, the crazy person just forgets the several years of financial problems and the fact that the last administration basically signed their death warrant by denying a buyout offer from a competitor.

@SpiritAirlines A 40+ year affordable airline that employs 17,000 people, bankrupt by Trump’s war of choice because they can’t afford the fuel to fly.