Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by Dion

Never change and keep your posting style.

Thanks! You too my man!

But if you want to talk about resilience, you gotta give the trophy to iggy_oi, nothing rattles that dude, and he drives the chuds crazy like no one else I've seen (well, maybe Fuzz and Pepsi free haha!)

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Thanks! You too my man!

But if you want to talk about resilience, you gotta give the trophy to iggy_oi, nothing rattles that dude, and he drives the chuds crazy like no one else I've seen (well, maybe Fuzz and Pepsi free haha!)

The three of them know their stuff and you can't bull#### them. Can't say if I ever won an argument with those guys

[PepsiFree]

Idk, Sliver is definitely right, especially looking back at that old thread. I said UCP would “be alright” and I feel embarrassed. You’d have to be a grade A loser to have voted for them and not want to apologize to everyone for being an idiot lol.

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Thanks! You too my man!

But if you want to talk about resilience, you gotta give the trophy to iggy_oi, nothing rattles that dude, and he drives the chuds crazy like no one else I've seen (well, maybe Fuzz and Pepsi free haha!)

It’s incredibly easy because there are so many chuds. Iggy is definitely the best of us though. A+ poster.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Dion

There is something about anonymity and politics that turns somewhat normal people on CP into grade "A" #######s. Nobody should ever have to endure the vitriol that was sent your way. Disagree if you must but leave the personal crap out of it.

Never change and keep your posting style.

This is so true.

Also, #### you.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

The vitriol I recieved back then was nothing short of extraordinary. Basically the bulk of my Ignore list came from that thread. I had people following me into other threads too. Even had to provide one poster how to recognize cyberbullying after he wished death upon me. That's not healthy for anyone on CP or in general.

I don't know what it is with CP'ers that have NameNumbers as their name format but they certainly get angry. Among others, of course.

But I've been here on CP for 20 years, and nothing will change my perspectives and posting style. I plan to be here for a very long time

Oh i just noticed the_only_sean_chu_fan is gone. Too bad. His stuff was seriously entertaining. He like legit lost it on me when I called Rempel voters lemmings like it was the N-word or something. haha

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by GGG

I’m not sure your question makes sense here. Because this is voters criticizing voters. So if your question is should Conservative voters criticize NDP voters for voting NDP because of say the royalty review or the PPA screw up I would say no.

If people want to say I told you so because they ended up being right, go ahead. Pointing out every little thing they got wrong is a little tiring because every party gets things wrong.

Anyone who voted for Kenney and the UCP simply wasn't paying attention, or chose to ignore all the signs. I'm not going to follow some arbitrary rule because people can't admit they got it wrong. The wild rose were awful, and they joined up with a terrible person in Jason Kenney, and that wasn't a secret.

Were there many people posting about how terrible Prentice would be? I'm guessing not many in comparison to Kenney. This last time around definitely had a different feel than other elections in my opinion, mostly because it was very obvious.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Slava

Look, I'm with you, and I didn't vote for them. But saying the other side knew this was a terrible idea is pretty funny. Isn't that the case for every election, ever?

As others have already eloquently said, no. Never to this extent.

I've been disappointed with a lot of election results in my lifetime, but this was the first time I worried+warned that the consequences would be truly dire, and I'm very sad that I was right.

I thought Trump was a buffoon, but I didn't think he would be such a massive disaster...I thought that shirley the checks and balances and other branches of gov't would keep things somewhat normal, right?

Turns out the rules changed and common sense could no longer be relied upon. If people refused to believe it could happen here, that's still on them.

Originally Posted by GGG

I’m not sure your question makes sense here. Because this is voters criticizing voters. So if your question is should Conservative voters criticize NDP voters for voting NDP because of say the royalty review or the PPA screw up I would say no.

I welcome any criticism anyone wants to lob my way for my contribution to those relatively minor blunders.

[PepsiFree]

Um, yeah, allow me to be the first to apologize for the royalty review. My bad everyone. I knew they might do it and still voted for the NDP. Major “oops” on my part.

Ok now UCP voters go.

[AltaGuy]

Originally Posted by dsavillian

I'm rather impressed by the robust debate regarding the evil, vile concept of ... *checks notes*

subsidized daycare

Yeah - otherwise known as "redistributing wealth". Damn Commies.

I was just having a chuckle at that.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

Yoho, is Carson Jerema a constitutional lawyer?

Originally Posted by Wastedyouth

Probably no more so than Jason Markusoff.

So all the posts/links I have supplied in this thread, from people like Emmett MacFarlane, Duane Bratt, Jared Wesley, Lisa Young, other university law profs, etc.....don't count? Further, linking to articles that have commentary from similar people?

Thank you, Law Professor Yoho and Professor Wastedyouth. You should both look forward to your tenure soon, and getting your KC as lawyers soon, whether as constitutional experts or not...

Now onto my advice on building bridges. I am neither an architect, engineer, construction or project manager, nor do you want me anywhere near a hammer, but that said, let me tell you how to build a house. First, you pull something out of your arse, second you...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1597973186510876672

https://twitter.com/user/status/1598137305881268224

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

The vitriol I recieved back then was nothing short of extraordinary. Basically the bulk of my Ignore list came from that thread. I had people following me into other threads too. Even had to provide one poster how to recognize cyberbullying after he wished death upon me. That's not healthy for anyone on CP or in general.

I don't know what it is with CP'ers that have NameNumbers as their name format but they certainly get angry. Among others, of course.

But I've been here on CP for 20 years, and nothing will change my perspectives and posting style. I plan to be here for a very long time

Holy crap, I went back and flipped through some of that thread and you the amount of times you were targeted and dragged into arguments by certain posters was nuts. You were calling out stuff then that is even more accurate as of 2022, so good on you.

Don't worry, I get raged on by specific posters too when I talk about arenas and other things I want to share with CP, so I get it.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by yoho

hold up. She might have a leg to stand on.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1598063605550927873

https://twitter.com/user/status/1598092408562278401

[RedHot25]

But don't worry, there is a crack team on it for support!

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/it-s-a-m...line-1.6175778

Co-Deputy Premier Nathan Neudorf also supports the act, although he admitted he hadn't read it all. He said Smith's office didn't tell him how to vote on it.

[Reaper]

I'm still struggling with the fact that Alexa Jones is our Premier.

[puffnstuff]

Imagine the right wing freak out if the NDP had these Bill 1 powers.

[Izzle]

National Post and Calgary Herald will have their opinions pieces ready to go had the NDP pushed this bill through.

[wwkayaker]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Imagine the right wing freak out if the NDP had these Bill 1 powers.

They might in 6 months, fingers crossed. Hopefully they get rid of it too.

[Sr. Mints]

I reached out to MLA (Klein) to express my disappointment with Bill 1, Smith, the UCP, and Jeremy Nixon himself. Nixon's response was predictably uninspired.

He says he voted yes to allow Smith to introduce Bill 1, but had not seen it until today. Okay then. No hint where he's going from here.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Imagine the right wing freak out if the NDP had these Bill 1 powers.

Even better...imagine if the devil himself Trudeau had tabled something like this.

[Izzle]

Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under

Even better...imagine if the devil himself Trudeau had tabled something like this.

They'll dream of Trudeau-fornication.