Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Geraldsh]

Parker sounds like he was schooled in a cult with only one book to read and no interaction with the real world.

[Fuzz]

David’s father is an evangelical minister and his mother, also a faithful Christian, is a homeschool facilitator. As a kid “home-schooled in rural Alberta 20 kilometres from the nearest gas station,” he boasts having memorized the entire book of Romans, word for word and to have read the Bible end to end over a dozen times. The arrests of evangelical pastors for holding religious services during COVID lockdowns was the line in the sand for him; it violated his understanding of religious freedom.

“I always had this — my wife calls it a messianic complex,” David shares, pausing briefly. “Perhaps. But I always had the idea to be great.” And COVID provided him with a breakthrough opportunity.

And yet, some people still believe religion and politics is fine. This is the result. Homeschooled religious zealots who couldn't recognize a fact if it walked on water, because they've memorized a fantasy novel and now believe they are a messiah.



This just shows how important a proper public education is for our society. Unfortunately he isn't the only one, one this line of thinning is what got us a premier who broke ethical laws, does not believe in facts or science unless she can twist them to support her ideology she is foisting upon us. Well, it all begins with a good education, folks.

[puffnstuff]

ds on the stupid parents rights thing...we did all the consultations.
Everyone they should have consulted with...they didnt talk to us

[Faust]

David Parker

Well, @albertateachers, you've just declared war on parents. Let's see who wins. I think you're going to suffer greatly for this strategic error.

https://x.com/davidjpba/status/1751823411951882545?s=61

[aaronck]

Originally Posted by Faust

David Parker

Well, @albertateachers, you've just declared war on parents. Let's see who wins. I think you're going to suffer greatly for this strategic error.

https://x.com/davidjpba/status/1751823411951882545?s=61

If you don't want to hate the world, don't go into this thread and read the comments- ugh.

[timun]

I already hate the world; lemme see the fresh reminder.

[timun]

Oooooooh wait, it's on twitter, and twitter is broken and I can't see ####.

Womp womp

[Locke]

Originally Posted by timun

Oooooooh wait, it's on twitter, and twitter is broken and I can't see ####.

Womp womp

Huh...I dont have a problem reading them.

My favourite was:

Why do all your tweets read like an evil Dwight Schrute wrote them?

I got a chuckle out of that one. I thought that was good.

[timun]

It's broken insofar as I would have to sign up/log in to see anything past Parker's initial tweet. I am at work, so I'm not going to sign into twitter.

I double-checked on my phone. I see some comments. Meh. Mostly it seems to be people calling him out for being a melodramatic goof, interspersed with ads for trinkets from websites with dodgy-sounding names like "Blezo", "Fizboz", "Wyzor", "Duzzix" and "Jyvron".

[MoneyGuy]

Did my taxes help pay to bring *ucker Carlson in?

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Did my taxes help pay to bring *ucker Carlson in?

Depends. She had dinner with Tucker the night before as well. So logically it would seem that with her security detail, administrative planning for these events, time spent talking about business to lobbyists and allies leading up to and after the events, and assuming her salary is for all roles and responsibilities that come with the territory, then yes - she did spend taxpayer money on this stuff with Tucker.

My problem lies with the fact that she said she would speak to any media. So it would stand to reason she would give something like a long-form interview with Canadian outfits such as Press Progress, The Tyee or The Narwhal, or American outlets such as MSNBC, The Intercept, or The New Yorker.

So if she's as balanced as she says she is (which she isn't), then this should be moot. But since she's clearly going to give time and space to the Tucker Carlsons, Jordan Petersons, and Conrad Blacks of the world as opposed to spending time tackling Alberta's very real and growing problems (houselessness, climate change, insurance rates, utility prices, etc.), I would wager to say that yes, this huge waste of tax dollars.

[Ozy_Flame]

Also, the UCP wants to introduce political parties into municipal governments, even though the vast majority of Albertans don't want it.

Does this government have an unhealthy addiction to forcing things they want down the throats of people until they choke? This is the APP all over again.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1752361390323781898

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Did my taxes help pay to bring *ucker Carlson in?

Your continued support of Xitter is probably more responsible for it than anything. Musk gave Tucker a second life by promoting him on the platform, and paying him for content while legitimizing him and his methods by sitting for an interview with him.

[puffnstuff]

So what have they done thats actually helped anyone? The DL thing and...what else? And honestly thats such a small thing compared to the big problems that cost people money.
Theyve said no to rent controls, fixing electricity pricing and the whole renewable pause thats ongoing.
Theyve promoted things people generally dont want or arent helping with escalating costs like the pension thing, the Ab police force, the whole abandoned well cleanup grift and now this new parents rights crap.
And none of that even touches on what they have going on with healthcare.

I sent an email to my ucp MLA asking about this, its been 24 hours and no response yet.

[boogerz]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

So what have they done thats actually helped anyone? The DL thing and...what else? And honestly thats such a small thing compared to the big problems that cost people money.
Theyve said no to rent controls, fixing electricity pricing and the whole renewable pause thats ongoing.
Theyve promoted things people generally dont want or arent helping with escalating costs like the pension thing, the Ab police force, the whole abandoned well cleanup grift and now this new parents rights crap.
And none of that even touches on what they have going on with healthcare.

I sent an email to my ucp MLA asking about this, its been 24 hours and no response yet.

Don't forget removing the auto insurance rate caps, de-indexing AISH, reducing funding to public post-secondary institutions, removing post-secondary tuition caps, cutting daycare subsidies, and all the other dumb stuff from Kenney's reign.

I've asked UCP-supporting friends what the UCP have actually done to improve life for the average Albertan over the past few years and never get a straight response. It's so frustrating living in this province right now knowing that people are mindlessly voting for the destruction of our collective quality of life.

[btimbit]

But at least they stick it to Ottawa!

Even though nobody can clarify what that means or why it's good

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by boogerz

Don't forget removing the auto insurance rate caps, de-indexing AISH, reducing funding to public post-secondary institutions, removing post-secondary tuition caps, cutting daycare subsidies, and all the other dumb stuff from Kenney's reign.

I've asked UCP-supporting friends what the UCP have actually done to improve life for the average Albertan over the past few years and never get a straight response. It's so frustrating living in this province right now knowing that people are mindlessly voting for the destruction of our collective quality of life.

Same. Its never about what they have done, its about:

(1) what they "will" do. Cut taxes, limit immigration, decrease inflation, get rid of CPP

The reality is that none of these things will change under the UCP.

(the last one is real. An acquaintance of mine believes that we should get APP because then we can get rid of a public PP altogether. this is not what the UCP has said at all.)

(2) sticking it to the libs. Liberals like something, then we must hate it.

My father, a card carrying UCP and Smith disciple (also a frequent subscriber to her radio show) at least admitted during the cold streak that the government ####ed up years ago when they de-regulated the energy industry and moved it to a private market. But that won't stop him from voting for the same type of policy

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Also, the UCP wants to introduce political parties into municipal governments, even though the vast majority of Albertans don't want it.

Does this government have an unhealthy addiction to forcing things they want down the throats of people until they choke? This is the APP all over again.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1752361390323781898

This would probably be very bad for Calgary, it's shocking the amount of Calgarians who intuitively understand that people who don't believe in government struggle to govern, but who are also emotionally incapable of voting against any party with the label conservative on it, even while the North American conservative movement has completely abandoned the idea of good governance.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Cappy

Same. Its never about what they have done, its about:

(1) what they "will" do. Cut taxes, limit immigration, decrease inflation, get rid of CPP

The reality is that none of these things will change under the UCP.

(the last one is real. An acquaintance of mine believes that we should get APP because then we can get rid of a public PP altogether. this is not what the UCP has said at all.)

(2) sticking it to the libs. Liberals like something, then we must hate it.

My father, a card carrying UCP and Smith disciple (also a frequent subscriber to her radio show) at least admitted during the cold streak that the government ####ed up years ago when they de-regulated the energy industry and moved it to a private market. But that won't stop him from voting for the same type of policy

Just a guess on my part but I think a lot of them think that although the party they support is doing poorly, the other party(ies) would do even worse if they were in power.

[edslunch]

I thought I heard that Alberta was slow-walking payments to daycare providers, but apparently it's all the Feds' fault.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1752427973536563229