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Mike Therien retweeted
Heck of a shot from pinto to win the game , batherson with a key won battle in his own zone to get the puck up the ice originally & then a headsy read by pinto to pick off the Parker Kelly pass.
Ullmark was terrific .
Mike Therien retweeted
We’ve gone from Reagan’s “Peace through Strength” to “Appease the War Criminal while He Invades and Bombs Cities.”
nationalreview.com/the-morni…
Not true. Btw, where should atheists swear their oath? (I’m guessing you think atheists aren’t eligible to serve).
Any oath sworn on the Quran is invalid.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
US Constitution Article VI requires an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution but prohibits religious tests and specifies no book, making claims that oaths on a Quran are invalid false.
law.cornell.edu/constitution/a…
factcheck.org/2019/01/bibles…
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Mike Therien retweeted
NVIDIA: Board of Directors announced today that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board, effective immediately.
NVIDIA announces CEO transition. Read the release: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/n…
Mike Therien retweeted
Ottawa's powerplay ranks 31st overall at 12.7%. They've converted on 9 of 72 chances. Only Chicago (9.8%) is below them. Everyone else is over 14%. #GoSensGo
Their penalty kill ranks 21st at 76.1%. They've conceded 16 goals on 68 kills.
Special teams is a serious issue.
Family values … whatever. Pete has bigger actions to answer for.
Jennifer Hegseth was a Fox News producer when she had Pete Hegseth's baby. He was still married to his second wife. Two months later, a woman said he sexually assaulted her in a Monterey hotel room. He said it was consensual and later paid her $50,000 under a confidentiality agreement.
In the video below, Senator Tim Kaine walks him through it at his confirmation hearing. "You were still married to your second wife, correct?" "I believe so." Every answer after that is the same: "I was falsely charged, fully investigated and completely cleared."
He was confirmed 51 to 50. JD Vance broke the tie. Jennifer became his third wife in 2019, and she sat in on his closed-door meetings with senators and on interviews for his top hires.
On November 4, Politico reported she had been paid as a consultant by Watchtower Strategy, a Trump-aligned PR firm. One of its clients is Lockheed Martin, which got more than $66 billion from the government that year. The Pentagon called it "ridiculous slander."
Six days later, Republican Thomas Massie forced a vote to impeach her husband over illegal military operations. It failed 211 to 204. Eleven Democrats did not show up.
His wife was paid by a firm that works for the biggest contractor in his department. Conflict of interest, or is she allowed to have a job?
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Great. Now just release all of the unredacted files and let people assess for themselves. Just in case they don’t trust your report.
🚨CONGRESS RELEASES DETAILED REPORT SHOWING PRESIDENT TRUMP NOT IMPLICATED IN ANY OF THE EPSTEIN CRIMES:
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a majority staff report titled “A Review of the Federal Government’s Mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Criminal Investigations.”
The 137 page report, based on a 15-month investigation that included 19 interviews/depositions, document reviews from the DOJ, Epstein’s estate, and banks, and financial records, concludes that the evidence does not implicate President Trump in Epstein’s or Maxwell’s crimes.
Key statements include:
“The facts gathered during this investigation do not suggest President Trump is implicated in any of Epstein’s crimes.”
“The consensus of every witness examined before the Committee was that President Trump—to their knowledge—was not involved in any crimes committed by Epstein and Maxwell.”
No documents from the estate, U.S. Virgin Islands, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, or the DOJ implicated Trump in related criminal activity.
It criticizes Democrats on the committee for an “unfounded witch hunt” focused on Trump instead of the broader institutional failures that allowed Epstein’s crimes to continue for years.
Which of these people do you wish was still in government? Surely not SG, whose departure is a ‘net’ positive for Canada. But, yes, many in media don’t measure fairly. Polling likely insulates Carney. He isn’t on the hot seat.
JUST IN: Carney’s Director of Communications has resigned.
Resignations so far:
>Chrystia Freeland: Transport Minister
>Steven Guilbeault: Culture Minister
>Bill Blair: Defence Minister
>Jonathan Wilkinson: Energy Minister
>Nate Erskine-Smith: Liberal MP
>Shaun Chen: Liberal MP
>Marco Mendicino: Chief of Staff
Where’s the media outrage?
Oh right, outrage only applies to Conservatives.
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Mike Therien retweeted
Trump’s efforts to supply the U.S. with Russian diesel have yet to result in any new imports into the country, as several fuel tankers bound for America shifted course following difficulties finding buyers willing to accept the controversial cargoes. on.wsj.com/3XjGxAz
I truly wish that so-called conservative influencers would challenge Carney (as they should!) without pretending that Trump is some kind of normal or fair dealer. It totally undoes their arguments. One can press Carney hard without hugging Trump.
Trump is not pushing Canada away.
The Liberals are simply political opportunists who took a relatively normal trade renegotiation and tariff restructuring (which is not uncommon with a new administration) to omit that 85% was covered tariff free (as described in the 2025 budget) and run wild with anti-Americanism, inflame it, and use that as justification to do exactly what the far-left globalists have wanted to do for many decades…
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Hate Carney if you must, but don’t lie about what he said. He said China is a bigger security risk to the US than it is to Canada. He DID NOT say the US is a bigger security risk to Canada than China.
UNREAL
Carney claims the BEIJING DICTATORSHIP is “much, much less” of a security risk than the UNITED STATES.
THE SAME regime that interferes in our elections, operates ILLIGAL police stations & engages in repression ON CANADIAN SOIL.
Beyond RECKLESS.
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Putin’s spokesman in Washington doesn’t speak for North American hockey fans. 🙄
Alexander Ovechkin says fans want Russia at World Juniors despite Canada's ban ottawacitizen.com/ottawa-sen…
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Mike Therien retweeted
Just astounding watching this lie spread and metastasize in real time. A laboratory experiment in disinformation, and how it is both deliberately propagated and unwittingly amplified.
Mike Therien retweeted
The Impact Assessment Act was determined to be largely unconstitutional by Canada’s appellate courts three times. There was no need to go to the Supreme Court of Canada for a fourth. That’s not weakening the law, it’s upholding it. There is a constitutional separation of powers.
From me: @MarkJCarney 's government chooses to weaken environmental impact assessment law rather than defend its jurisdiction before the Supreme Court: thestar.com/opinion/star-col…
