Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Back up a sec, are there any claims Smith has made that aren't false? Serious question.

I think one time she might have mentioned that bananas are an excellent source of potassium.

[Fuzz]

Alberta Health Services is adopting stricter masking rules in hospitals as it deals with COVID-19 outbreaks, but regions and hospitals are free to ignore the directive.

It’s also not clear who has the final say if regions and the hospitals they oversee disagree on the new rules.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...-outs-possible


Ah, the stunted leadership from a party led by a moron balancing the irrational yelling of selfish imbeciles and the fear of what a decimated healthcare system looks like in the media as HCW end up home, sick, unable to care for an increasing fall patient load. Really this is just an abdication of responsibility. This is just fine.

[puffnstuff]

By passing the buck down to local regions to implement, the prov govt can look like they didnt institute the masking and precautions that their base loathes. Thats what ucp 'leadership' is these days.

[RogerWilco]

Originally Posted by aaronck

Can Danielle explain why Albertans pay the highest utility prices in Canada? I'd sure like to know

Its because of the NDP

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by RogerWilco

Its because of the NDP

Ah yeah nothing to do with removing rate caps or anything.

[Faust]

David Parker

Masks do not work. The fact that AHS is trying to push them again shows that a hostile and communist ideology has taken over our healthcare system and is defying the democratic will of the people. They must be removed from any decision making roles.

https://twitter.com/davidjpba/status...187979912?s=21


Max Fawcett
In case it wasn't already obvious: TBA wants nothing more than to re-litigate the pandemic and fight culture wars -- and, apparently, eliminate AHS.

They're about to take over the UCP. Albertans need to pay attention.


https://twitter.com/maxfawcett/statu...882291134?s=21


The Breakdown

This is how divorced the leader of “Take Back Alberta” is from reality.

It’s not about evidence, science, reason, facts or anything like that.

It’s what he likes and what he doesn’t. Period.

And he’s just about got control of the UCP board.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

https://twitter.com/thebreakdownab/s...559529618?s=21

[puffnstuff]

He cloaks himself in religion while not understanding any of the actual tenets. Same as a lot of grifters do.

[Fuzz]

Can we send David Parker to Ontario or something? #### that loser.

[puffnstuff]

Florida, he'd enjoy Florida

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by Faust

David Parker

Masks do not work. The fact that AHS is trying to push them again shows that a hostile and communist ideology has taken over our healthcare system and is defying the democratic will of the people. They must be removed from any decision making roles.

https://twitter.com/davidjpba/status...187979912?s=21

Communist? Do these idiots even understand what communism even is, or do they just use it as a catch-all for anything they don't like?

Also, if David Parker ever needed to go under the knife for surgery, would he want the doctors and nurses in the OR to wear masks? They don't work, according to him, so they shouldn't be necessary, right?

[Ozy_Flame]

Scott Moe would love that chud. Keep him out of Ontario.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Communist? Do these idiots even understand what communism even is, or do they just use it as a catch-all for anything they don't like?

Also, if David Parker ever needed to go under the knife for surgery, would he want the doctors and nurses in the OR to wear masks? They don't work, according to him, so they shouldn't be necessary, right?

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

[Monahammer]

Y'Know who would have LOVED communism? Jesus.

He pretty much preached pure communism to his followers.

Luke 14:33 "No one can be my disciple who has not forsaken all his possessions"

Matthew 6:24 "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

The acts of the apostles basically describes a communist society:

"All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. ... Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. ... There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need."

If this guy really believed in Jesus, he would be a communist. As it is he's just a wannabe fascist caricature using organized religion to shuttle sheep to slaughter.

[Monahammer]

The more I think about this idea the more insane it becomes, but do some modern Christians not realize this was also the explicit reason that Jesus was crucified?
It says so in the gospels. He wasn't crucified because he was claiming to be the son of god (had been doing this for years), or because he was healing on the sabbath (again, years), but he was crucified because of the "Cleansing of the Temple" event where he was upsetting the usuary church patriarchs and their unscrupulous capitalism (he said they had turned the temple into a den of thieves and a house of trade). That is why the church patriarchs asked Pontius Pilot to crucify him. It wasn't while he was gaining followers, it was after he went into the temple and took their money, and started preaching about how they had turned to capitalist interests away from God. Matthew, Luke, and Mark all point to this event as the real reason for the crucifixion.

Jesus was literally crucified for being too communist. The religion is founded on and for communism.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Well communism as an ideal is fine, and in a perfect world it could be amazing. But humans are far too selfish and greedy to ever be able to implement it properly

[Monahammer]

I agree, practical communism is not utopic communism. Jesus definitely wouldn't be chill with leninism or maoist principles of centralized authoritarian control.

I'm just trying to show how ridiculously off the mark David Parker is in basically all ways. He doesn't understand what communism is. He doesn't understand what christianity is. He apparently doesn't understand what a proper beard should look like.

No one should ever take anything he says seriously.

[Frequitude]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Back up a sec, are there any claims Smith has made that aren't false? Serious question.

On CER specifically, I haven’t noticed any outright lies but definitely a lot of hyperbole. Probably missing something though knowing her style.

But CER is the one front I’m fine with her going nuclear crazy on. It really will completely **** Albertans. ECCC and the Liberal government are massively underestimating the impact and costs for this province and each of its electricity rate paying and/or tax paying citizens.

ECCC doesn’t even understand the implications of how they wrote the draft regulations. And they’re the actual underlying “experts” upon which the Liberals are making their then further partisan claims (nothing against Liberals in particular with this comment…every politicians lathers on good dollop of partisanship on most things they say).

[FlameOn]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Y'Know who would have LOVED communism? Jesus.

That's the wrong Jesus. Only supply side Jesus gets worshiped by conservatives

For the uninitiated

Spoiler!

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Scott Moe would love that chud. Keep him out of Ontario.

Why is that?

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Why is that?

Because chuds enjoy the company of other chuds. Plus, you know, the whole conservative fixation on gender ideology. They both seem to like wasting time gaslighting that topic.