Robert Tebby

🇨🇦 GEN. CARIGNAN: Our Ukrainian partners offer us incredible role model in terms of innovation, creativity, combativeness, fighting spirit, endurance, and courage. Canada has lot to learn from current Ukrainian fight. It's very important to us that Ukrainians succeed in their fight, whether it's idea of democracy, freedom, or security of Europe, which is important to Canada because we see Russia from our northern border. We are also mindful of their time. Ukrainians are in the middle of the fight, but they are incredibly generous in sharing their lessons. So, there's an incredible amount of lessons we're learning from our Ukrainian partners. And we want to integrate that into our system and our way of operating, as part of our own transformation.

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse. An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of: They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field. His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family. When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message. The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit. He accepted. Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved. He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control. Instead, he resigned on day 16. He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done. Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days. He died poor. On his farm. 2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power. King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble. The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die. Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him. Most people who live there have no idea why.

The USA has not only ceased being leader of the free world, it has ceased being a member of the free world. It betrays democratic allies and supports expansionist dictatorships. The only question Americans need to ask themselves is do they want this to continue?

The US is an unreliable and deceitful ally now, and is doing its best to help Putin’s dictatorship commit unspeakable war crimes against a European democracy. It is a good thing if the US pulls out of Europe and stops pretending.

Kaja Kallas: Russia does not want to engage in any kind of dialogue. We should not humiliate ourselves by saying, "please, we beg you to talk to us." Instead, we should put them in a position where they move from pretending to negotiate to actually negotiating.

Swedish navy has intercepted and seized a sanction Russian cargo ship carrying stole Ukrainian grain. Bravo...

@Jethroe111 Keep up the honest engagement, it’s very humanizing!

GM. I want everyone to know what it felt like to take a few days from X; then come back to people posting positive, uplifting, and supportive posts after my friend's accidental death. First off, quiet reflection outside the algorithm driven engagement is something you should gift to yourself every once in awhile. Secondly, I realize I have actual, real friends here. Not just bots. People. Friends who struggle just like I do, and who are trying to understand this world and live a purposeful life built around doing the right thing. I just want to say thanks. This is a painting I just finished over the last few days while seeking refuge in my studio. There is a meloncholy mood beyond the beautiful model. And that is ok.

@EndWokeness You people can't even understand the basics - and it's funny. King Charles eviscerated Trump and you all clapped, smiled and laughed. That's how above your head this all is.

@EU_Commission 🇺🇸🇪🇺 We get it. Blackrock is managing its renewable energy portfolio whilst making record profits on fossil fuels & military industrial complex stimulus cheques. Do we need to keep pretending?

So Charles dunked on and rebuked Trump for the entirety of his speech, but in British ways so subtle that it went straight over MAGA’s heads and they're cheering him for it. Genius.

Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during his two terms. We don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

A Farce in Four Acts: 1. Trump skipped the WHCD every single year. 2. Except this one. 3. All of a sudden there’s a shooter in the lobby. 4. Trump: “This shooting is a clear example of why we need a new ballroom!” It hardly gets any dumber than this.

Take a look at my tweet from 6 days ago.

Be proud. Be loud. Be Canadian. #IAMCANDIAN🇨🇦

@CleansedTweets Hi

If you're following, reply "hi" and I will follow back. It will take a few days due to restrictions on how many people you can follow in quick succession. But I always to do so. ❤️

I don’t know what this world would be like without him right now. I like to think that another Ukrainian would’ve stepped into the breach, but the fact is we need authentic leaders so bad right now. And he’s always stood tall on principle. God bless him.

It shouldn’t be possible to lose a court decision and then afterwards change the law to retroactively render your actions legal. It means that in matters of provincial jurisdiction there effectively is no binding law for those that govern us.

#ONpoli BREAKING Ford government votes to hide all emails and communications back to 1988, including: - The gas plants scandal - The e-Health scandal - Highway 407 sale - Green Energy deals - Greenbelt deals - Skills Development Funding - Therme Spa - Science Centre closure

A dark day for democracy in Ontario. The Ford Conservatives didn’t just pass a budget - they rammed it through. Pulled it out of committee. Cut debate. Shut down scrutiny. And buried inside? Sweeping changes to the FOI system that shield the Premier’s phone records, his office, and Ministers’ offices from the public, even wiping out requests retroactively. This isn’t governing. It’s hiding. And Ontarians should be furious. #onpoli

Changing FOI rules through Bill 97 to cover up what is in the personal cell phone records of @fordnation after being ordered by a court to release them may be the biggest political scandal in Canadian history.