Adventures Of Danielle Smith And Her Neofascist Dum Dum Party

02/09/2025

When I lived in BC I used to watch the Knowledge Network quite a bit.

I took it for granted that BC had a public television network, funded by the provincial government and donors, that produces high quality content that entertains and informs the public.

Then I moved to Alberta, and gradually acclimatized to accepting low quality everything as being the default standard in this province. With the exception maybe being in devoting resources to churning out professional athletes, and producing petroleum scientists to maximize profits for the oil and gas industry. No expense seems to be spared in funding these endeavors. I'm sure there are other endeavors too that Alberta excels at. Maybe writing angry letters to the editor complaining about how too many people like me (i.e. 'woke') are moving to Alberta and voting for the wrong political party, so should g**o asap?

Whether it be the low quality infomercial-like content on CBC Edmonton radio (and what I've heard on CBC Calgary) before turning the station. Or city officials using taxpayer money to subsidize suburban developers and urban sprawl. It seems if there are two choices to decide upon, in just about any field or subject area, nine times out of ten some uneducated clueless MAGA dum dum with too much authority will make the worst choice possible. And we all pay the negative price for decades to come.

People can get used to just about anything. Even normalizing the eating of sh*t-sandwiches day after day after day after day.

Keeping people's expectations exceedingly low seems like 'a thing' in Alberta. It's worked on me. I have very low expectations in just about anything and everything in this provincial MAGA-wasteland.

The first falafel I had at a take-out joint in Edmonton, when I first moved to Alberta, cost about 50% more than what I normally paid in Vancouver, and was one of the most disgusting things I ever bit into. I threw most of it in the trash, and never bought another falafel in Edmonton since.

Anything fresh, new, vibrant, optimistic, creative, seems to be crushed in its crib by crusty & crotchety old rich White men who want to drag Alberta back to the 1950s. And if it’s not immediately crushed and/or ignored, it is eventually and inevitably exploited and ruined to make some parasitic lazy Tory as***le rich. Who produce nothing of value themselves...except maybe letters to the editor whining about how 'Trudeau destroyed Canada so we must now join the United States' - just when the US is being transformed into a dictatorship run by un-elected billionaires.

The best in Alberta lies in its down to Earth people. Who would stop by the side of a road in a snowstorm to help someone in trouble. But then might run them over in their truck and leave them for dead, if they find out the person they just helped voted Liberal or NDP.

Too bad there isn’t a provincial public broadcaster in Alberta that could tell Alberta’s stories, to highlight and celebrate the best that Alberta has on offer, as BC’s Knowledge Network does.

Even Vancouver's The Tyee tells Alberta's stories better than Alberta's own homegrown media does.

It's almost like Alberta is run by corporate lobbyists who don't give af about ANYTHING, except pillaging the province's abundant natural resources to enrich Australian coal baron billionaires, corporate executives, and an assortment of other parasites on humanity who treat Alberta like a desperate crack-whore on the side of the road at 2am willing to do ANYTHING for a 'fix'....or a few tickets to an Oilers game. Or the chance to stab Canada in the back...in the doomed hope of getting preferential treatment and/or being appointed Puppet-Governor of Alberta by President Trump.

https://www.knowledge.ca/browse/documentaries

02/09/2025

Having Danielle Smith on your team is akin to having someone on your team who sneaks over to your opponent’s dressing room just before a game and announces: ‘I have our team’s secret game plan, and I’ll sell it to you for some tickets to a Jason Aldean concert.’

First it was running down to Mar-a-lago to try to make backroom deals with Donald Trump, while EVERY other Canadian Premier was meeting in Ottawa to solidify a unified approach to dealing with Trump’s tariffs. And likely whispering in the ears of Trump advisors, like Kevin Hassett, of where to hit Canada the hardest to achieve maximum damage, and give more ammunition to Trump to pummel Canada with.

With all the stuff happening in the States right now, why would an economic advisor to Donald Trump be making statements on television about Edmonton’s social problems? Who might have put him up to that?

Then Smith went awol for a bit (perhaps to recover from all the treachery at Mar-a-lardo), before returning, unfortunately, to Alberta to carry on with destroying the province’s health care system. And continue kicking people when they’re down by taking away the childcare subsidy from low income people, and putting up obstacles in front of them to get any measly help with anything.

Then we learn that Danielle Smith awarded HUNDRED OF MILLIONS of dollars in private health care contracts to a firm that gave Smith a few Oilers tickets, and FIRED the person doing the investigating.

Makes one wonder if Alberta’s treason-friendly corporate lobbyist Premier would go to home base with some guy she just met at a convoy rally who hadn’t showered in weeks, if that guy treated her to a chocolate sundae at Dairy Queen. Me thinks she would.

02/07/2025

The UCP combine the worst of both Conservative worlds: Traditional PC corruption, grift, nepotism, unearned privilege, stagnation, and laziness, with the alt-right tendency of beating up on the poor, marginalized, defenseless, and other easy targets bullies like to target.

Don't quote me, but I thought I heard on CBC radio that the Alberta government will save LESS than a million dollars by removing the childcare subsidy for low income families.

02/07/2025

The ABC's of voting strategically.

source: https://338canada.com/alberta.htm

If about half the voters intending to vote NDP in Calgary-McKnight switched their vote to the Liberal candidate, the Conservative candidate will likely be defeated.

Vice versa in Edmonton-Greisbach.

02/06/2025

If Take Back Alberta didn't break provincial election laws that benefited the UCP's chances of winning the 2023 provincial election, would Rachel Notley be Alberta's Premier right now?

Maybe Alberta needs to have a new provincial election.

An important read: https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/02/did-take-back-alberta-steal-the-2023-alberta-provincial-election-for-the-united-conservative-party/
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Feb. 6, 2025

AlbertaPolitics.ca

David Climenhaga:

"Could Take Back Alberta have stolen the 2023 Alberta provincial election for the United Conservative Party?

The possibility must now be considered.

We knew immediately after the May 29, 2023, election that the UCP had won six ridings by less than 1,000 votes.

We didn’t know for sure until Tuesday this week, however, that the registered third-party advertiser known as Take Back Alberta, and controlled by the UCP’s far-right Take Back Alberta faction, was breaking the province’s election laws.

The revelation of 12 “administrative penalties” adding up to more than $122,000 levied by Elections Alberta, the province’s elections oversight agency, against the TBA advertising group and three of its officers confirms that there is legitimate cause for concern the election was stolen"

02/05/2025

Is there any substance beneath the 3-word slogans?

Or is it just a closet full of MAGA hats and 'F-K TRUDEAU' signs the Conservative Party would like to keep locked away from public view?

02/05/2025

PP: 'TRUDEAU MUST RESIGN ASAP!'

*Trudeau resigns*

PP: *still pi**ed*

02/05/2025

Who could it possibly have been who got close enough to Trump's MAGA entourage to be able to whisper in the ear of one of Trump's top advisors that the Trump train to Crazytown should also set their gun sights on Edmonton?

A city that overwhelmingly voted for the Alberta NDP in the last provincial election, and that the current provincial government under Danielle Smith has declared war on.

Conveniently, Edmonton MAGA City Councillor Tim Cartmell looked freshly showered and spiffy, almost gleeful in the opportunity to defend a Trump advisor's disparaging remarks against Edmonton on television.

Has anyone in the local mainstream media inquired about WHY a Trump advisor was staying in a hotel in downtown Edmonton in the first place?

Perhaps Mr. Hassett was doing some Christmas shopping for his grand-kids at Edmonton's West Edmonton Mall or City Centre Mall? Or maybe it was to take a tour of the Alberta legislature to see if renovations may be needed if/when the UCP sell it off to Trump Inc.?

Alberta's MAGA Cancervatives are pulling out ALL the stops to undermine Edmonton, Amarjeet Sohi, Alberta NDP, the Liberal Party of Canada | Parti libéral du Canada, and the Canadian government's efforts to negotiate a favourable trade deal with the US with the orange menace occupying the White House.
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"Gee whiz! Who knew “U.S. President Donald Trump’s top economic advisor,” as the CBC respectfully described Kevin Hassett, visited Edmonton of all places last summer?

"What was he doing here? Apparently no one thought to ask.

"At any rate, Dr. Hassett – who has been the director of the U.S. National Economic Council for all of 17 days now – was featured in Canadian news reports yesterday after he told the U.S. business news TV channel CNBC that when he was in downtown Edmonton on his mysterious visit last summer “he saw an ambulance responding to someone overdosing on fentanyl outside his hotel.”

"The story also recounted how Dr. Hassett said he also witnessed “people who ‘got into a fight with cops over drugs.’”

"Apparently he went on to claim that President Trump’s trade war on Canada and regime-change scheme isn’t about trade, it’s about drugs, and that “the fact is, Canada has a drug crisis, and it’s spilling into the U.S. It needs to stop.”

"Whatever the answers to all these questions are, Edmonton City Councillor Tim Cartmell was conveniently on hand yesterday to comment to media about how alarming it is to hear things like Dr. Hassett’s frightening yarn.

"Mr. Cartmell, unsurprisingly, is running for mayor and is the UCP’s favoured candidate to fill that position this fall."

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02/04/2025

From Sun Tsu's 'The Art of War': "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

Or in MAGA Alberta's version: "Stab your allies in the back, then humiliate yourself in front of your enemy in a pathetic and unsuccessful attempt to curry backroom deals with them. Then run home to Alberta and get on a podium to declare 'VICTORY' and claim credit in front of your clueless MAGA dum dum supports for 'wins' you had NOTHING to do with."

02/04/2025

Trump's base thinks Trump is a hero.

02/04/2025

I'm betting Alberta's MAGA Cancervatives will still be apologizing to American fascists for Canada electing Justin Trudeau, as their NDP and Liberal voting neighbours are being dragged from their homes at gun point and shipped off on trains to work as slave labour for Tesla.

02/04/2025

Trump: 'Who the hell negotiated this terrible trade deal with Canada?'

Staffer: 'Umm....you did Sir in your first term.'

Trump: 'You're FIRED!'

Also, the concessions Trudeau told Trump Canada is making around border security today appear to be the exact same concessions the Canadian government announced in December to appease Trump, which Trump rejected then.

Did the Canadian government just wrap the increased border security concession in fancier wrapping paper with a different bow on top, and Trump thought it was a new deal so accepted it?

It's gonna be a long four years.

Donald J. Trump please tell me this is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

02/04/2025

'Our warrior princess Premier saves the day again.'

Thank you boss (Alberta's Warrior Princess Premier) for all that you did to help Mr. President Trump reconsider placing tariffs on Canadian goods.

02/03/2025

02/03/2025

I may be biased, but Nova Scotia is home to 'probably' the two best newspaper editorial cartoonists in Canada: Michael de Adder and Bruce MacKinnon Editorial Cartoonist.

Artists and musicians are generally respected in the Maritimes. Art, music, stories, satire can bridge social divisions, language barriers, politics, religion, race, socioeconomic status/class, and can create more social harmony and civility.

And Alberta has Malcolm Mayes, David Staples, and a bunch of other forgettable sycophants & grifters to corporate power and the rich, who make a career punching down, instead of punching up.

02/03/2025

If you're an unscrupulous used car salesman, the LAST person you want stepping through the door of your business to buy a vehicle is a customer who knows something about vehicles and did some legitimate research on buying a vehicle.
They'll be harder to baffle with bu****it.

The most desirable customer is someone who knows nothing about cars.

Likewise if you're a certain politician who relies on appealing to voters. You don't want voters consuming news & information from a public broadcaster like the CBC that will actually INFORM voters, because you'll have to work harder to appeal to them, instead of just making up dumb 3-word slogans and copy-pasting talking points from garbage publications like Rebel News.
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"The new CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's promise to defund the public broadcaster could "cripple" both its English and French services and change the country's news and entertainment media landscape for the worse."

www.cbc............ca/radio/thecurrent/cbc-ceo-funding-marie-philippe-bouchard-1.7443784