Jon of the Shore watching this dumpster burn @JonDurnin

What in the hell is this @RCMPAlberta ?

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"I'm pretty sure everybody in the country supports the axe the tax movement," this police officer tells the Lacombe convoyers. He looks right at the car with flashing lights & decals and they tell him it's an out of service cop car. #convoywatch

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The deadline has passed. Pierre Poilievre continues to block free access to birth control for Canadians. But, that’s not all. He’s also blocking free life-saving diabetes medications. Here’s what happens next: We’re going to force another vote, defeat him and get the NDP…

Until someone can offer a satisfying response, I will keep asking: What has Pierre Poilievre accomplished in his 20-yr career as an MP, that allows you to believe he can provide solutions for Canada’s current woes? One thing. Let’s start there.

@Sad_OilersFan he was in House of Commons for 3 yrs. Not 20 yrs. And Poilievre was in govt for 9 yrs, while Trudeau was part of the 3rd party

@northernck During Harper's reign, and Poilievre as his housing minister, housing prices doubled. Is that an accomplishment? I suppose for the Boomers who sold their homes. Not for the rest of us, though. Why anyone supports Poilievre or his party is a f****n mystery. #cdnpoli

(THREAD) This is a brief thread from a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer on what everyone—literally everyone—is missing about the 34 felonies Donald Trump committed to win the 2016 presidential election. This will change how you understand the 2016 election cycle. Please RETWEET.

1/ I’ve been covering Donald Trump more or less full-time since the day he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, so there are things I remember as part of my job that many who follow politics more casually don’t and wouldn’t. One is that Trump believed he’d lose in 2016.

2/ There were many articles just before the 2016 election and just after it confirming that Trump ran in 2016 to elevate the only thing he really cares about—his brand. Of course he was *trying* to win and *sort of* even wanted to win, but mainly the run was to raise his profile.

3/ This is why it is not at all surprising—for all that his supporters are so scandalized by it that they cannot accept that it has been *robustly* proven—that Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016. Just *not in the way that most people think* (or MAGAs choose to engage with).

4/ Because he didn’t believe he’d win in 2016, Trump crafted a foreign policy agenda that had nothing to do with American interests; it was focused on his business interests. That’s why he had Cohen *negotiating a real estate deal with the Kremlin* throughout the election season.

5/ That’s also why, as the NYT reports, the Trump family responded approvingly to an offer by the Saudi and Emirati governments—made at Trump Tower in August 2016—to illegally aid Trump’s campaign with the aid of Israeli intel experts. Those were nations Trump did business with.

6/ That’s why Trump hired Paul Manafort, a man he well understood had been working for the Kremlin since 2006, as his campaign manager: he was led to understand that it’d please the Kremlin, and Tom Barrack helped him understand it would please Russian allies like the Emiratis.

7/ That’s why his top adviser on Russia was a friend of Putin, Dimitri Simes (who fled the US, and now works for the Kremlin); that was why his top advisers on the UAE were Emirati agents: Erik Prince, George Nader (a convicted pedophile) and Yousef al-Otaiba (UAE’s ambassador).

8/ That’s why his top natsec adviser, Flynn, kept meeting with Putin and Putin agents like Kislyak; that’s why Kushner and Trump’s National Security Advisory Committee held so many pre-election meetings with Kremlin agents. Trump believed he’d lose, but wanted a lucrative loss.

9/ Trump believed his only chance of willing—but it was a two-fer, as it’d bring him closer to those he wanted to do business with if he lost—was gaining aid from future business partners (Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, primarily) to ruin Clinton with a scandal.

10/ That’s why all the talk inside the campaign in Summer 2016—I have written about this extensively in my NYT-bestselling books—was about finding Clinton’s emails, maintaining relations with the Kremlin by Manafort passing proprietary data to a known Kremlin spy, meeting with...

11/ ...el-Sisi in a meeting arranged by Steve Bannon and Trump’s backchannel to the Kremlin (George Papadopoulos), savaging President Obama for the Russian sanctions Putin was so angry about...it was all preparing for a loss to Clinton, assuming the Russian hacking gambit failed.

12/ To be clear, Trump and his team had nothing to do with the hacking, and no one ever said otherwise. Nor did Trump and his team have anything to do with Russian propaganda, though they happily spread it after-the-fact (which was more or less legal). And no one said otherwise.

13/ The *only* exception to that last sentence was a brief implication in the Steele dossier—one of the few things it *definitely* got wrong—that the campaign helped finance the Russian troll farm. That was false; Putin didn’t need Trump’s money to interfere in the 2016 election.

14/ What people miss about the dossier—largely because no one really read it—is that it was actually all about Trump using Cohen and Manafort to maintain good relations with the Kremlin and to advance his interest in real estate deals the Kremlin was dangling. All that was true.