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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦

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Worrier & retired person (in that order). Boomer, grumpy old man (since forever). Travel. | Be nice. Especially to me. | repost≠endorse | Be all you can be. Wake me when you’re done. | Toronto 🇨🇦 Travel journal: https://journeys.klebanoff.com

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · Nov 11

How does one get added to a starter pack of introverted, insecure neurotics?

Nah, never mind. I'm not worthy of being added to a starter pack. And I'm worried that people might start interacting with me if I do get added to one.

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 3m

Donald Trump, president of a one-party country.

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 4m

I'm Canadian. I travel as much as I can. On the few trips I've taken this year, there've always been Americans who, on learning I'm Canadian, apologized for your president. I greatly appreciate that and I realize that there are some fabulous Americans. I fault only Trump and his supporters.

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 11m

I might have been joking.

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 14m

Huh. I didn't have Donald Trump endorsing Gavin Newsom on my bingo card.

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 16m

<sarcasm>Oh, well. If Donald Trump says so that should be good enough for everyone.</sarcasm>

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 20m

Donald Trump, Mob Boss in Chief.

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 22m

Acting as judge, jury and chief executioner to blow ships out of the water, killing people in the process, without any accountability. What could possibly go wrong?

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 25m

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 46m

Socialism is great until you funiel $40-billion to Argentina.

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 1h

Blowing up all ships out of Venezuela, without any investigation. Cool. Cool. Cool.

Effectively, Trump wants to be judge, jury, and indiscriminate executioner. Is it just me, or does that seem a tad, what's the word, wrong?

Hey, Americans. In case you're wondering, yes, you are now the baddies.

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

At least he has UAE, Qatar and the Saudis giving him billions, along with millions of MAGA rubes buying his baubles and trinkets.

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 1h

Trump bankrupted casinos. His Scottish golf courses have lost money for 13 years. He's had myriad other failed ventures—Trump Steaks, Shuttle, University, etc.—and yet MAGA buys into the branding of him as a fabulous business person. It's a cult.

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 2h

Argentina and America both start and end with "a" and have "r," "e" and "i" in them. Bessent just got confused because of the similarity. That's all. Give the guy a break.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 2h

The Trump administration will not rest—WILL NOT REST—until Trump's Argentina First promise is fulfilled. Wait. What?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 2h

What a time to be alive.

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 3h

I think I can tell if it's raining or forecast to in Taormina, Italy w/o being there or checking a weather report. Some days, like today, Google sends a few people to this page in my travel journal: journeys.klebanoff.com/2023/05/taor...

This is the first time I checked, but it's raining there.

Taormina in the Rain – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

The train from Catania to Taormina took an hour. I don’t know how much faster it would have been if it hadn’t made a dozen or so stops.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 3h

Being critical, even posthumously, of someone's words and deeds in life is not the same thing as celebrating his death. JD doesn't seem to understand that.

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 3h

They're afraid of no kings? Is the Republican Party planning to rebrand as the Monarchist Party?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 5h

Siri, what does abject fear look like?

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 5h

Wait. Aren’t they the party of Donald Trump, who pardoned J6 insurrectionist who attacked Capitol police officers?