Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Every day that someone like Danielle Smith holds the Premier's chair is another day that emboldens the fringe elements to think their views are legitimate to worthy of the Legislature. And that includes TBA being the puppet masters behind the scenes.

To downplay Smith's role is to legitimize and mainstream her fringe ideology.

We should censor their unacceptable views that are different than yours.


This whole thing is getting pathetic.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1655965224644784131

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Yoho

We should censor their unacceptable views that are different than yours.


This whole thing is getting pathetic.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1655965224644784131

Ok Cory Morgan. You can go back to your rat hole now.

[PsYcNeT]

Man it sure is inconvenient for Smith that she brought up Hitler and now people are putting Smith and Hitler in the same sentences, including newspaper headlines!

That's pretty unfair, associating Smith and Hitler just because she brought up Hitler.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Man it sure is inconvenient for Smith that she brought up Hitler and now people are putting Smith and Hitler in the same sentences, including newspaper headlines!

That's pretty unfair, associating Smith and Hitler just because she brought up Hitler.

Are you suggesting their proximity might form some sort of portmanteau, along the lines of something like Smitler? I'm rather fond of Little Smitler.

[Wormius]

Censoring inappropriate views would be a refreshing change.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by AFireInside

You really have to stop giving her credit. I get that you met her, and she seemed like a nice, decent person, but she isn't.

I admitted that she has changed and not for the good.

Were they behind the scenes on her radio show telling her what to say? What about when she said if you get cancer it's basically your fault? Did they help her write that paper 10 years ago about how smoking is beneficial? Comparing vaccinated people to followers of Hitler? The list goes on.

During her radio days with QR77, her boss Jon Voss would monitor her shows on a daily basis. When she went off the rails on Covid and listeners complained, he gave her a letter of reprimand with instructions that all future shows and guests had to be pre approved by him. She didn't like that and quit her radio show

If she's got people behind the scenes telling her what to do, and she's ignoring that they are awful things to do and say, then that makes her just as awful as the people behind the scenes. If she's unaware of how harmful these things are, then she's an idiot. There's no away around it.

She's power hungry and wants the Premiership in the worst way.

[Fuzz]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1656004850495410176


Valid point.

[Ozy_Flame]

Mayor says what all rational people are thinking:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1656028807181025289

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Yoho

We should censor their unacceptable views that are different than yours.


This whole thing is getting pathetic.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1655965224644784131

There is no room for hate speech and comparisons to Hitler.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

I earn significantly more than the minimum wage, I don't work in the green energy industry, I don't receive any hand-outs from the provincial government, and I personally use relatively few government services (I'm still relatively young and in decent health, and I have no children in the education system). None of the examples you provided will be of any direct financial benefit to me...

...and yet I'm still voting for the NDP because I'm able to see the big picture and realize that I'm voting for the best leaders for Alberta as a whole, not the best party for my own personal selfish benefit.

Which makes you a great person and probably in the minority.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by Dion

I admitted that she has changed and not for the good.



During her radio days with QR77, her boss Jon Voss would monitor her shows on a daily basis. When she went off the rails on Covid and listeners complained, he gave her a letter of reprimand with instructions that all future shows and guests had to be pre approved by him. She didn't like that and quit her radio show



She's power hungry and wants the Premiership in the worst way.

Yeah I know you've said that about her, and you've made your voting intentions clear. I appreciate that you can change your vote based on information because that's more than most can say, but you keep posting things that excuse her. Saying someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes is giving her an out.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Which makes you a great person and probably in the minority.

I don't think that's the case. Almost all of my friends here in Calgary are in the exact same boat, myself included.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Which makes you a great person and probably in the minority.

Being "not selfish" doesn't make me anything close to a great person. That's like the bare minimum baseline for being a merely decent member of society.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by AFireInside

Yeah I know you've said that about her, and you've made your voting intentions clear. I appreciate that you can change your vote based on information because that's more than most can say, but you keep posting things that excuse her. Saying someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes is giving her an out.

I would argue that it's not an out but rather the reality within the UCP party. She once said that the only way she would return to politics was if she was given a chance to save the UCP party and clean up the corruption. She wanted it bad.

That of course does not excuse her from the things she has said or done. That's on Smith and nobody else.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Yoho

We should censor their unacceptable views that are different than yours.


This whole thing is getting pathetic.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1655965224644784131

How is that a hit piece? let alone vile or slanderous as the tweeter noted, it pretty much states what happened.

The issue that right wing nut jobs seem to have with mainstream media is that it consistently calls out right wing nut jobs for the liars they are.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Being "not selfish" doesn't make me anything close to a great person. That's like the bare minimum baseline for being a merely decent member of society.

You guys are selling yourself short. People are selfish, I see it everyday. and they are even more selfish by the way they vote since that's how they think they make a difference. Just go to any parent school meeting.

Anyways, back to the point I was making, people will vote on single issues that benefit them, and some of those benefits, rightly or wrongly, come from UCP.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by AFireInside

I don't think that's the case. Almost all of my friends here in Calgary are in the exact same boat, myself included.

As am I, and almost all my friends are as well. They work in O+G, to real estate, to medicine, all the way to film. I don't actually know one person that would vote for UCP anymore, except for various Boomer family members.

[Torture]

How long until Smith threatens to sue the Calgary Herald?

Remember when she threatened the CBC with defamation? Whatever happened to that lawsuit Yoho?

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by Muta

As am I, and almost all my friends are as well. They work in O+G, to real estate, to medicine, all the way to film. I don't actually know one person that would vote for UCP anymore, except for various Boomer family members.

Oh I know lots. Most of my Calgary friends aren't those people, but there are some. My friends from up North though, all in on UCP, because Oil.


The worst part is I know these people aren't in favour of almost anything the UCP stands for, but they think they are.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Are you suggesting their proximity might form some sort of portmanteau, along the lines of something like Smitler? I'm rather fond of Little Smitler.

It'd be a real shame if something like #Smitler caught on. Just sayin'