Rob Chipman

@IM_EROS_ @stillheredammi1 @thomasjuneau Good for you. Give us a vote and say “hello abortion, goodbye guns” for a start, plus higher taxes. Idaho will love that.

@Rob_Chipman @stillheredammi1 @thomasjuneau OK and? I don’t care about the politics. I want your shit.

I am looking forward to the US ambassador to Canada going back on Canadian TV to say he is puzzled why Canadians dislike this administration nytimes.com/2026/07/20/bus…

@IM_EROS_ @stillheredammi1 @thomasjuneau Seems odd? You really know nothing about your neighbour, do you? If you annexed this country I gave us a vote. Your politics would radically change, and in a way you probably wouldn’t like.

@stillheredammi1 @thomasjuneau Yeah, we can arrange that. Seems fair for the population. Bit odd that you think it would be democrat forever though.

@edhollett @stphnmaher @USWPColby So you agree with 2 of my observations and avoid addressing the other two. Do you actually disagree with anything I wrote?

@Rob_Chipman @stphnmaher @USWPColby The Americans understand exactly what Carney is doing. That’s why they’re frustrated. They have no leverage. They have no retaliation. Plus, they are a disjointed incoherent mob with no ability to form a strategy as candidate has. .../4

Grrrrr

@edhollett @stphnmaher @USWPColby …the answer is “no, they don’t like it” then do you think they won’t respond (I think they already are) and 5) How does an informed and unhappy US (regardless of how unreasonable they are) *not* make Carney’s challenge tougher? No shade at PMMC. Just logical observations.

@edhollett @stphnmaher @USWPColby Here’s a few questions (none of which criticize Carney or Canada and none of which praise DJT or the U.S. 1) Do you think the U.S. players (Trump, Bessent, Hoekstra, Greer, Colby, Lutnick etc) understand what Carney is trying to do? 2) If yes, do you think they like it? 3) If…

@edhollett @stphnmaher @USWPColby Do you think we overestimated Carney’s challenge or are you just doing a drive-by catechism review?

@Rob_Chipman @stphnmaher @USWPColby Pump the brakes Rob. You've fallen for American bullshit or just accept it anyway. Your version is at odds with facts.

@stphnmaher @USWPColby …chance, I think, that the Elbows Up/Trump’s the problem approach is coming to its best before date and that we all may have underestimated Carney’s challenge.

@stphnmaher Stephen - did you see @USWPColby’s post last week? I think we’re seeing that the U.S. is well aware of what the PM is doing, and that they don’t like it. I think Colby’s bit along with bitching about smoke, CUSMA, comments from Hoekstra/Greer/Bessent all align. There’s a good…

He told his students to go to the windows. Get out. Jump if you have to. Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it. He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs The gunman was in the hallway. It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old. At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor. Liviu heard it. He understood immediately. He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like. He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body. The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move. He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through. Liviu stayed. Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out. The shooter kept firing through the door. Liviu held it shut until every student was safe. Then the bullets killed him. When police arrived, they found his body at the door. All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured. Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania. He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen. He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest. But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing. Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go. He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him. In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings. In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care. He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics. April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression. Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom. He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach. He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students. He chose to stay. The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time. Room 204 had zero casualties. Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone. His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory. His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others. A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years. On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too. Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007. Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor. 302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech. 22 students out the window. He held the door.

@StephenJack4 @Citizen004 @MarkJCarney The U.S. won’t forget it.

@Citizen004 @MarkJCarney All sides are going to try to forget it and move on.

I’m not sure who should be more embarrassed — @MarkJCarney or journalists. 1/2

@mikedinslc The other amusing thing about you is how factually detached you are. 😉

@Rob_Chipman That’s amusing.

Okay, I have had enough of the fucking Canadians crying about America not helping them fight the fires that are a result of their childish forest management policies. Here is the truth about this bullshit. Aerial firefighters are almost exclusively private companies who operate not out of altruism, but for profit. Canada’s government blocks these American companies from being reimbursed and will only pay Canadian aerial fire fighting companies to operate in Canada. An interesting side note: America pays Canadian companies to fight fires here, and we pay better, and as a result, they are eager to work here. Their efforts are also not altruistic and that’s fine. Canada sent over $25B to Ukraine because Canadians have decided they are European now and much more evolved than those gauche Americans to their south. They SHOULD have been spending that money on better forest management and more fire bombers and the crews to man them. But, as usual, their fallback plan was to turn to the south and put their hands out. Since that hasn’t worked this time, they are now taking to social media to cry about it like the entitled little bitches they have become (not you Alberta, you’re cool). When Trump started calling out Canada for not pulling their own weight, Canadians took to social media to say, “Fuck America, we don’t need you! We’ll buy from China….”, blah blah. Well, call fucking China to fight your fires and refuse to pay them while you’re at it, you unspeakable cunts. If you want our help, ask for it and stop demanding it, and pay our companies for their time. If not, they will go out of business and won’t be here for us. Alternatively, we could help you out by prohibiting your fire fighters from operating here, like you do to us. That will free them up to deal with the consequences of using happy thoughts and songs about sunshine as forest management tools. Now, shut the fuck up and get back to making your delicious syrup.

@wsneill @Smileyyeg Cities and towns, yes. We’re already doing that in BC (baby steps, but starting). It’s the remote stuff like what’s burning now that’s a problem.

@Rob_Chipman @Smileyyeg It should be relatively affordable to protect cities and towns at risk. That would be a good place to start. I am sure many Canadians, including natives, would be interested in this type of work.

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@wsneill @Smileyyeg Yeah, thing is…how not cheap and how not easy? These are policy *choices*. While I agree that fire mitigation and fighting hasn’t been a priority I’d suggest that the dollars required would radically alter current provincial and federal spending. I’d love to see it discussed😉

@Rob_Chipman @Smileyyeg Forest wildfire management is challenging in a big, sparsely poulated country like Canada. It won't be cheap or easy. It appears this hasn't been a high enough priority over the past decade or more.

@miket136 K, are we setting up a betting pool on that or what? 😉

You can laugh now but just wait until Canadian courts legitimize and recognize “Indigenous spiritual perception” as admissible evidence. It’s only a matter of time.

@SteaksNBakes Bud, you’d freeze in Saskatchewan.

We should be conquering and colonizing rural Canada. Start with Saskatchewan and divide Canada to East and West Canada. Enforce strict and expensive tolls to cross the territory to pay for the land management.

@RSRS_56 Dude, step away from the bong and find a girl.

You’ve internalized your Tory colonization. One day you’ll be free and join your brothers down South.

@razibkhan The only thing saving us is that we don’t enforce a lot of our laws here.

the ministry of truth

@wsneill @Smileyyeg Controlling the size in roadless, sparsely populated areas is way different from reducing interface fires through direct fire fighting and resiliency building.

@Smileyyeg Canadian forest management should protect cities/towns from fires, as well as control the size of forest fires. This should be achievable.

@talliwagger @MVLibertas I didn’t ask for a detailed plan. I asked how much you want to spend. Are you sticking with $26 billion? I also asked what the components of your “something” are. You have all the capacity you need to answer. No MPs or staff required. Give it a shot.

@Rob_Chipman @MVLibertas Of course I don’t. Coming up with detailed plans is the job of our well paid MPs and their staffs. But I’m not going to accept that we can’t do anything because it’s a big problem.

One thing Americans don't get is how big the boreal forest is in Canada. Much bigger than anything in the US and you have hundreds and hundreds of forest density with almost no population and very little human settlements. Hence why it's challenging for forest management.

@TheJoshBe @miisaakan You got eight times the people and there are plenty of states where you are never more than 5 miles from a road.

@miisaakan Canada has only 19% more forests then the United States. Get off your lazy ass and manage your forests.

“RaKe YoUr FoReStS”