The same Pierre Poilievre who was just glad-handing with Rob Primo? The same Rob Primo who’s been hanging out with Jeremy MacKenzie? The same Jeremy MacKenzie who publicly threatened to rape Anaida Poilievre? That Pierre Poilievre?

“We should climb up the elephant’s ass.”

Kevin O’Leary, failed Conservative Party leadership candidate

Scratching is part claw maintenance and part territorial marking / decorating. And it feels good for them! If you catch a cat scratching the furniture, scolding them will usually get them to stop. Most cats will quit scratching the furniture entirely if you give them more appealing things to scratch. It has to be a good height, very stable, and have a texture they like.

An American politician joking about annexing Canada isn’t something we would ever find funny, no matter how it was timed. I don’t think you understand quite how seriously Canadians take American threats to our sovereignty, joking or otherwise.