Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master
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Ward Bertram retweeted
in any other era of human history, having the President of the EU step onto your soil to declare that the Arctic belongs to EUROPE would be treated as a direct violation of national sovereignty and a de facto declaration of hostility. AKA: an act of war.
But yes, lets keep talking about Trump's meme's and status updates on Truth social.
Ward Bertram retweeted
To anyone who's wondering about the Steady State, here's a prior thread on them:
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🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: A $15+ MILLION DOE contractor and NoKings protest organizer with active nuclear security contracts is on camera recommending a color revolution "how-to" 🚨🚨
His name is Steven A. Cash. Former CIA officer (Balkans, Clinton era). Under Biden: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis.
The day after Trump's 2016 election, Cash co-founded "The Steady State" — a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who decided Trump was an "existential threat".
When Biden won, the threat was gone. Cash went into Biden's DHS. His own words: "we disappeared."
Then Trump won again. "Suddenly the existential threat was back." The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with NoKings. In the clip below, their meeting recommends "Bringing Down a Dictator" — the Otpor documentary about toppling Milošević — as "a how-to."
Meanwhile, Cash's company Deck Prism LLC holds $15+ million in Department of Energy contracts. Almost every one: sole-source or non-competed. One is for the National Nuclear Security Administration — our nuclear weapons program — justified because "disclosure would compromise national security."
His FEC records: 20+ donations over 20 years. 100% Democratic. Zero Republican. Including $1,001 to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024, while his NNSA nuclear contract was active.
I have the USAspending receipts, the FEC filings, and him on camera twice.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Setting the stage to accuse election officials of breaking the law if they stop ineligible people from voting.
@DataRepublican
Ward Bertram retweeted
The guy who kept Shaq and Charles Barkley in line on TV for 37 years used to spend his mornings shaving and dressing his son, who could barely move and breathed through a ventilator. Then he'd go to work and laugh with those guys all night like nothing was going on.
Tonight Ernie Johnson said this season will be his last, and Barkley tried to thank him on air and couldn't get the words out.
I don't think most people watching that clip know what Ernie was carrying all those years.
He and his wife Cheryl adopted Michael from an orphanage outside Bucharest in 1991, when he was 3. He had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and doctors didn't think he'd make it to his 20s. He lived to 33. When Ernie was home, getting Michael ready in the morning could take an hour and a half, and Ernie did the showering and shaving and dressing himself.
In 2006 he told viewers he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and by the end of October he was back at the desk while he was still going through chemo.
When Michael died in 2021, Ernie wasn't on the show that week, and Shaq, Kenny and Chuck spent about six minutes trying to hold it together while they talked about a kid most of America never met.
Then last year he had heart bypass surgery, and this summer he turned 70.
Ernie's dad pitched in the big leagues and then called Braves games for decades, and he gave his son a rule Ernie's talked about forever: if somebody spikes you at second base, never rub.
If you've ever wondered why nobody's been able to copy Inside, that rule is a big part of it. Barkley could say the dumbest thing imaginable, Shaq could fall out of his chair, Kenny could go running to the big board, and Ernie would just pick it up and bring it back to basketball with that yellow legal pad. Those three got to be chaos because the guy in the middle never made his own stuff the show.
He still calls hosting a "get-to job," and he was calling it that the same year he buried his son.
So when Charles Barkley, who's roasted pretty much everybody alive on live TV, can't finish a sentence to the man, that's why.
Charles Barkley and the guys give Ernie Johnson his flowers. This is a must watch.
(via @ohnohedidnt24)
Ward Bertram retweeted
No emails. No memos. No correspondence relating to the scheduling, acceptance and conditions of Prime Minister Mark Carney's interviews with journalists at the New York Times.
The PMO doesn't use emails anymore?
Ward Bertram retweeted
Each time you hear Carney say “In a more dangerous and divided world,” know that it’s an age-old fear mongering tactic so that you don’t question when he:
1) introduces new laws to limit more of your freedoms
2) spends more of your tax money on government bureaucracies
3) spends more of your tax money outside Canada
It’s that simple folks. Hopefully you recognize the pattern next time he does it.
Ward Bertram retweeted
Liberal housing minister Gregor Robertson demanded that Pierre be REPRIMANDED for pointing out that mass immigration is a leading cause of the housing crisis.
He wasn't prepared for Pierre to find out that he was QUOTING HIM. 😂
Ward Bertram retweeted
Holy. Shit.
The NYT is reporting that despite their denials, Mary Peltola's staff and Democratic operatives flew all over Alaska in secret to find and recruit a man named Dan Sullivan.
They put him on the ballot to purposefully steal votes from Republican Dan Sullivan.
Ward Bertram retweeted
I think she vowed a bit more than that.
B.C. Greens leader vows to stand against the Conservatives ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…
Ward Bertram retweeted
CBC platformed Camosun political science instructor Daniel Reeve to analyze Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson and somehow forgot to mention the tiny detail that Reeve himself ran as an NDP candidate (and worked as a ministerial aide to NDP Health Minister Corky Evans)
Here’s the “neutral expert” take they ran: “I thought one of the things that jumped out to me is that they are going to go that one of the first things that the premier elect suggested is a financial basically walking through of the budget. And I think that from that analysis, they're going to say, oh, my God, it's worse than we thought. And now we're going to have to impose a whole bunch of cuts so that we don't raise taxes and so that we don't cut health care. And that. That's going to be the financial message that's going to hopefully, from his perspective, hold that center right to kind of far right coalition together and also kind of pin the problems of his government on the past.”
Just another dispassionate academic, right? The same lifelong NDP activist who spent years organizing campaigns and working inside an NDP government is now on the public broadcaster framing the new Conservative government as a cynical cut-and-blame operation aimed at “center-right to far-right” voters. Disclosure optional, apparently
CBC’s mountain of omissions continues @CBCOmbud @BrodieFenlon
Ward Bertram retweeted
“Conspiracy theorists” 999
Normies 0
Ontario plans to launch digital IDs, including driver’s licences and health cards cp24.com/politics/queens-par…
Ward Bertram retweeted
For those who don't know, DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender."
This what the Democrats always revert to.
Ward Bertram retweeted
Can someone explain to me how former President Obama is campaigning for the 2026 midterms on freaking healthcare and no one in the media is making the most obvious connection possible? No questions at all, huh?
Ward Bertram retweeted
Annette Verschuren, a @liberal_party donor appointed chair of Sustainable Development Technology, abruptly resigned while under investigation. @EthicsCanada concluded she breached federal law by voting to award her own firm a $217,661 green technology grant.
@BetOnMePodcast @cbuniversity
ICYMI - Sustainable Development Technology Canada was created to subsidize environmental projects.
It was disbanded in 2024 with resignation of all directors after audit found 186 conflicts of interest.
@PrivyCouncilCA report cited gross mismanagement that cost taxpayers $150M.