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I like to think I care very little what people think of me. And as I age I hope to care even less.

@acoyne Take your pills Coyne. TDS is flaring up.

Again: not just the worst president ever, but the worst it is possible to imagine.

@acoyne 😂 the TDS is really flaring up today hey Coyne. Hahaha.

TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT, TODAY!!

@acoyne GTH Coyne.

Oh good LORD -- alongside Booker T. Washington and Catharine Beecher!

@acoyne The only thing that sucks about TDS is that it’s not fatal so the patient gets to go on and on and on and on and on ……..

It will get worse.

@ShaneWenzel @brianlilley Coyne is a has been that needs to move on. His stage 5 TDS permeates like a cancer into his other rationale rendering him ineffective at best, useless at worst.

Moral Posturing Is Not Journalism: Andrew Coyne’s column reads less like principled journalism and more like partisan venting dressed up as moral clarity. He accuses Danielle Smith and Pierre Poilievre of scapegoating immigrants, but in doing so he flattens a complex policy debate into a smug morality play where he alone occupies the high ground. That is not analysis. It is advocacy. There is a serious conversation happening in this country about immigration levels, housing supply, labour markets, and infrastructure capacity. Instead of engaging it honestly, Coyne caricatures it. He suggests that raising concerns about intake levels or system strain is equivalent to blaming immigrants themselves. That leap is not just sloppy. It is misleading. Smith and Poilievre are not arguing that newcomers are personally responsible for Canada’s economic challenges. They argue that federal immigration policy has been mismanaged. Those are fundamentally different claims. One targets people. The other targets policy. Coyne collapses that distinction because it is easier to condemn than to debate. Journalistic integrity requires grappling with the strongest version of your opponent’s argument. Coyne does the opposite. He selects the most uncharitable interpretation possible and scolds it. That might win applause from readers who already agree with him, but it does nothing to illuminate the tradeoffs at stake. Canada has increased its population at a historically rapid pace while housing starts have not kept up. Health systems are strained. Municipal services are stretched. It is not xenophobic to ask whether growth aligns with capacity. It is responsible governance. If a government expands intake without ensuring housing and infrastructure are ready, criticism is inevitable. Pretending correlation cannot be discussed is not serious thinking. Coyne’s column also ignores political reality. Public support for immigration remains broad, but confidence in how it is managed has declined significantly. When commentators dismiss every concern as coded bigotry, they alienate citizens worried about affordability and services. That reflexive moralizing fuels resentment rather than calming it. There is an irony here. Coyne warns about politicians exploiting division, yet his tone is combative. He does not merely disagree with Smith and Poilievre. He imputes motive and frames them as opportunists cynically targeting vulnerable groups. That narrative requires more evidence than he provides. Opinion journalism has a role. Strong arguments are healthy in a democracy, but they must be grounded in fairness. When a columnist reduces policy disagreements to accusations of scapegoating, he abandons nuance. When he assumes bad faith instead of engaging substance, he drifts into partisan broadsiding. Calling out genuine xenophobia is necessary. But conflating policy criticism with prejudice cheapens that standard and turns a serious moral charge into a routine weapon. A more credible approach would acknowledge that immigration brings enormous benefits while recognizing that scale and sequencing matter. It would admit governments can misjudge capacity and scrutinize federal decision-making with the same intensity applied to provincial rhetoric. Readers deserve arguments that wrestle with facts, tradeoffs, and consequences. They deserve commentary that questions power without sneering at half the country. @acoyne ’s piece may generate applause from his camp. What it does not generate is trust. If the goal is to elevate the public conversation, this column misses the mark.

@acoyne @cselley 🙄 oh please! Get up off your knees Coyne and wipe your mouth.

He didn’t “compare them to zoo animals.” He drew on a well-worn metaphor of Congress as a zoo, in which their position — as a kind of feature attraction, to be gawked at for the benefit of the proprietors — was not unlike that of the residents of the monkey cage. The comparison was to the position they were put in, not to their personal traits.

The US ambassador, bored and cranky after going several days without insulting the country, finds an excuse to take offence by wilfully misreading … a newspaper column. Does he not have enough to do?

@acoyne With stage 5 TDS you need to go to bed now Coyne.

Are we into the third hour yet or does it just seem like it?

@acoyne Dude. You actually have a mental issue. You need to seek external advice. Your Brian is not capable of diagnosing the issue since your brain is malfunctioning. You have stage 5 TDS. You need help.

It's not anti-American, it's anti-Trump. That's not about purity, but moral clarity.

@acoyne You see. This is why you’re infuriating. When you’re not displaying your very real stage 5 TDS you actually make a lot of sense. If you would seek help and get rid of the TDS or alternatively vow to never mention trump again you have a million more followers.

Constant barrage of ads from the Ford government – on radio, on TV on social media – telling me what a great job they’re doing, at my expense. Using public dollars to cement themselves in office. This sort of thing should not be allowed.

@acoyne F you Coyne. Wish you’d leave with some dignity. What have you ever done to further the lives or benefit Canadians. Political commentator my ass. More like a washed up has been.

This is just sad, and desperate. Go out with some dignity.

@echipiuk @WestJet What are your options? CrapJet or ArseCanada.

I will never fly @WestJet again.

Job done 🌹 #GuinnessM6N | #ENGvWAL

@EnglandRugby Forward pass 100% of the time. The passer is moving laterally so forward momentum of the ball argument is BS. You can literally see the ball leave his hands in a forward trajectory.

@SenatorSlotkin You’re full of shit. You know what you were doing …. You don’t get to act all innocent as if the military needed reminding that they should follow the law. You were dog whistling that they should not follow orders. You know it, we know it, and hopefully the courts will know it.

Today, I sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro informing them that I will not be sitting down with them for their inquiry over a 90-second video I filmed in November. Here's why.

@SandraCobena_ He’s an arrogant POS.

POV: you’re trying to get a straight answers from the Minister of Finance. #cdnpoli

@ScottJenningsKY @grok what is the likelihood of this man being sued for defamation due to this comment and what is the likelihood of him being found guilty?

Someone got the call… I’m not sure if that smug retraction is gonna hold up in court, kid, but you just might find out 🤷‍♂️

@XFreeze @grok is this video clip real or AI and what is the context if it is real?

This is how US military feels about Elon Musk...🇺🇸

@Real_RobN @grok you have repeatedly said there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election and even when pressed to come up with plausible reasons why the vote count in 2020 was so much higher than any other year you repeated denied there was any evidence of voter fraud.

And here is: The State of Nevada, CONSPIRACY DAY NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Sen. Lankford: • Over 42,000 people voted more than once, • Over 1,500 resurrection of the dead, • Over 19,000 didn't live in Nevada, • Over 8,000 voted from a non-existent address, • Over 15,000 registered to a commercial address, • Over 4,000 illegal aliens. That’s right illegal aliens. And • Zero prosecutions. Every swing state turned out worse than the other. 📝 The U.S. Congress did certify an election; the treasonous conspirators certified a treasonous conspiracy on January 6.

@JayGenXer Fkn disgusting that these bottom feeder parasites are not even embarrassed by there noses in the trough.

Today, Andrew Lawton accidentally committed the greatest sin in Ottawa: he asked Debate Commissioner Michel Cormier a real question. “So… what exactly do you do for your $160–$190K part-time salary?” And right there — in broad daylight — the man collapsed into a black hole of his own job description. What followed was the kind of performance only Ottawa can produce: 🌀 A blender set to ‘word salad purée’ 📝 Buzzwords arranged like they were being pulled from a corporate bingo machine 🤝 Meetings about meetings about meetings 🎭 Processes™ that apparently cannot be described by any human tongue 📌 A level of substance so low it probably violates the laws of physics He spoke for minutes, but somehow communicated less information than a blank page. It was like watching someone discover — in real time — that their job might not actually exist. Imagine pocketing nearly $200,000 a year to: • Plan debates that vanish like mythical creatures • Coordinate with people who aren’t in the room • Review documents that never see daylight • “Safeguard democracy” at the speed of a government coffee break Only in Ottawa can you hold a part-time job with full-time pay and no-time accountability, and everyone just nods like it’s perfectly normal. Welcome to the Government Waste Hall of Fame — where the budgets are real, and the responsibilities are… theoretical.