To all those people who want to Take Back Alberta.
It’s isn’t yours.
It never was.
You can’t have it.
It’s doesn’t belong to people who want to go backwards.
It belongs to my friend Ruth, a Harvard trained paediatric cardiologist who helped build our great Stollery
The images of some Albertan, out on his sport boat, blocking the water bombers on Osoyoos lake, really sums up the amount of selfish bullshit that constitutes “freedom” for the majority of AB redneck asshats.
I wish young Conservative voters weren’t so filled up with misinformation.
I was at a friend’s wedding, when his nephew pigeon holed me on resource economics.
“Oil is Canadas biggest economic driver.”
“No. That’s real estate. Oil is number 9 if you include it with all other
Conservatives.
I want you to think.
What happens if you get everything you’ve asked for.
-Cuts to social services.
-Cuts to Medicare.
-Provincial police.
-Provincial pensions.
-Abortion restrictions.
-Transgender bans.
-No new mask or vaccination mandates.
-No
Here’s my challenge to you assholes eager to step on the rights of trans kids.
Name one.
Name one trans kid.
Point out the trouble maker.
Not hypothetical cases. Not rumours. Not innuendo.
One name.
One.
You fucking bigots.
I’ve known Danielle Smith since 2004.
What you need to know is that you are an abstraction to her.
She doesn’t care about you, your family or your well being.
You are the Guinea pigs in her social policy laboratory so she can test her libertarian theories.
Nothing more.
"I look at the Americans.
I look at Ron DeSantis in Florida and Kristi Noem in South Dakota," said Smith.
"They've been able to create little bastions of freedom, and we can create a little bastion of freedom in Alberta as well." - Danielle Smith speaking in Gibbons.
Stop.
Stop right fucking now.
The reason we are facing outages is that we don’t have enough back up generation.
Renewables are not, have never been, and are nowhere used as backup power.
Blaming bad reliability on cheap renewables is like blaming your tire pressure for
Dave from Alberta, again our
Northern neighbours.
Before we embark on another day of fighting for the end of our Alberta Government’s black ops blackout advertising operation to ruin hockey broadcasts across the nation, a little background.
Unlike Dave from Canmore, I have
I knew this day was coming.
Every last burp of conservative consternation gets translated into another rallying cry to return to a mythical past when men were men and women were women, black was black, gays were quiet, ….
What has surprised me more than anything in the
Are you stupid for voting Conservative in Alberta?
Yes.
Let me explain.
It has nothing to do with their policies, personnel or politics.
It has everything to do with you and your political leverage.
You have none.
If voting
I’m going to blame Jason Kenney for forever ruining politics in Alberta.
Because of Kenney’s blind ambition, we have the most acidic, most divisive and least qualified Conservative Caucus I’ve ever seen.
If we turn a blind eye to the last four years, it’s clear it would be
If you’re just more and more convinced that mRNA vaccines are terrible untested voodoo,
1 you’re a gullible imbecile, and
2 you’re probably elected to the Alberta Government from some hick town.
The only thing consistent in 50 years of Conservative Governments is that the problems in Alberta have never been their fault.
Since 1971, every problem in Alberta has been caused by that one NDP term from 2015 to 2019.
@MattGertz
I presumed that under the American system, as soon as Speaker Pelosi gave up the gavel power was ceded to the nearest white male Yale graduate.
Good morning Alberta.
I thought rather than catalogue all the many “compliments” I get from Conservatives overnight, I would just bring them all together in one bundle for easy disposal.
First, yes, I am a grandpa. Thank you. Love those grandkids.
Second, I am not a “know
You guys are going to be shocked by what I show you tomorrow.
I’m shocked.
Every power consumer in Alberta has been getting fuuuuuuuucked since 2021.
Like out of control.
I’m bringing receipts.
Thanks for your patience.
I never - in an aeon of the universe - would
I’m glad Trudeau has taken the steps to reduce the number of dangerous weapons sold in Canada.
I grew up hunting.
Pistols and AR-15s are for homicide. Full stop.
They don’t belong in society.
The cops at
#Uvalde
remind me of MAGA. Dressed all tough. Armed. Look the part. Taking orders from an incompetent leader. Then do nothing while people suffer and die, until more sensible people arrive and deal with the mess they didn’t deal with while standing there scared.
If you believe Covid vaccines don’t work, you have bought into Russian disinformation.
If you believe Covid vaccines will make you sick, you have bought into Chinese disinformation.
If you believe anything about the World Economic Forum conspiracy, no worries, you are already
As I go through another day fighting for a decent government to be elected in my Province, I have to wonder.
How did so many Albertans become so disillusioned with Canada?
Well, that would be politicians.
Politicians and their bullshit.
It started with Klein.
“Let the
Just a reminder that we don’t pay renewables for reliability.
$0
Fuck all.
If we have failures in our electric system tonight, it’s courtesy of the cozy relationship the legacy industry has had with Conservative governments for the last three decades.
During the election, Danielle Smith told a lot of lies.
Some of us told you they were lies.
For that, you called us liars.
For that, I call you morons.
Dearest Reasonably Reasonable Alberta Conservative Friends,
I know some things.
Like, KNOW some things.
Like, qualified by Courts of Law to give expert testimony under oath.
I always affirm rather than swear to give truthful testimony. I am not going to start by lying
The reason Alberta power bills skyrocketed WAS NOT:
Coal conversions
Carbon tax
Gas price increase
Operating cost increases
Renewables
Notley
It was Sonya Savage allowing economic withholding back into the market just before TransAlta got all its plants back from PPAs.
It is
Yesterday I was blocked on here by the concerted efforts of hundreds of accounts spewing the most hateful, vile comments imaginable, and reporting me for telling one of them to fuck off and die.
If someone is waiting for an apology, they can still fuck off.
I never finished
Morally reprehensible.
That’s what this is.
The worst I’ve ever seen
Alberta’s electricity rates are a travesty, a catastrophe and a choice.
The choice of one woman who knows better, but would rather fight with those damn foreigners: Canada.
A woman for whom $2.4
@QuickDickMcDick
I spent my career in power system planning.
We noticed that the wind doesn’t blow all the time, too.
Very concerning.
Then we noticed that our thermal generators don’t always work.
In fact they are offline at least 15% of the time.
What are we to do?
Add backups for
The Feds have nothing to do with regulation of Alberta electricity
Why blame them for the quadrupling of prices and poor reliability starting in 2035, Danielle?
Your Government has already done that in 2023.
Gaslighting doesn’t belong in electricity.
As we rush headlong back to the good old days, I am reminded what those looked like before Peter Lougheed.
“The Social Credit party, ruled by evangelist radio preacher Ernest Manning, had been in the legislature for more than 30 years. Under Mr. Manning, drinking was
They blame renewable energy for gas plant price gouging.
The blame transexuals for preacher’s pedophilia.
They blame environmentalists for forest fires.
There has never been a bigger batch of liars in the Legislature.
Let me tell you a story of
#GoodTwitter
It collided
@drdagly
and I together to raise $11 k for Ukraine humanitarian relief.
We had met before. He was attending when my wife was admitted, near death, from her aggressive, terminal cancer.
In the middle of Covid, all we had to
But “you have the word ‘nice’ in your bio”…
Yes, I do.
“But you’re so mean to people….”
Who call me a:
-Communist (cue the three hour lecture on the collapse of the USSR)
-Pedophile
-Traitor
-Libtard
-Snowflake
-Parasite
Yeah. I’m through with that shit.
I will use my
My name is Dave.
My Government lies about its handling of the electricity sector.
In reality, they are handing over $2.4 BILLION in EXCESS PROFITS to the electricity sector EVERY MONTH.
It is the BIGGEST SCANDAL in utility history.
And you may not know why.
Yet.
Their was a time when a success story of a Ukrainian Canadian girl from Alberta rising to be Deputy Prime Minister would have been celebrated, I don’t care what party you were with.
The 2IC of the whole country is Albertan, and at home she is treated like this.
Clean up your
Everything that is happening around green energy, the Sovereignty Act and fighting Ottawa is covering up the biggest wealth transfer from consumers to electricity companies in Alberta’s long and tarnished history of giving away the farm.
“Canada is a COMMUNIST COUNTRY!”
No it’s not, little man.
Sit down. Shut up.
Communism arose as a reaction to the extreme poverty and insane income inequality of Dickensian Europe.
The economic model viewed the ongoing class struggle as the main feature to be addressed by
Hi once more, fellow Canadians.
It’s Dave from Alberta, again.
I didn’t realize they were putting these stupid Call The Feds ads up on posters and billboards from coast to coast.
Can you send us pictures with them in your hometown, so either we, or you, or maybe
Do you know why we never had these radical political divisions before, in our lifetimes?
We were a nation.
Men and women, from coast to coast to coast, who had stood shoulder to shoulder against tyranny and won, came home to work their asses off to build this place.
Now the
So even the “coal fired” help was bullshit.
People think I’m partisan.
I’m not dedicated to anything but truth.
If Conservatives could quit lying about fucking EVERYTHING, we wouldn’t have a problem.
What
@PremierScottMoe
conveniently forgot to mention when trumpeting about sending coal- and gas-fired electricity to Alberta and taking shots at Trudeau, was that HIS OWN FOSSIL FUEL-HEAVY GRID WAS BAILED OUT BY MANITOBA HYDRO!
#ableg
#skpoli
#cdnpoli
11,000 Canadians have a net worth over $30,000,000 CDN
62 of those have a net worth over $1,000,000,000 US dollars.
There are 38,026,204 of us.
How in Hell do we always get outvoted?
I will always remember the last Wildrose Convention, the day of the deed.
November 16, 2014
The Wildrose Party was in shambles. Two MLAs had already crossed to the PCs under Prentice.
Joe Anglin had left to sit as an Independent. To this day, nobody gives a shit about Joe
I think it needs to be pointed out that this is exactly correct.
The politicians in the UCP would not accept the work done BY THE EXPERTS WE HIRED TO RUN THE ELECTRICITY SYSTEM for pure political theatre.
The results were completely predictable to everyone in industry.
They
Rachel Notley had some big problems in her first term as Premier.
Her Government did some things that hurt more than helped.
But, never once did I worry that she was too drunk to govern.
Only missed one point, perhaps one of the most vile parts (now the penultimate):
• Abuse first reported to Stampede in 1988.
• Investigation launched in 2012.
• Lawsuit filed in 2017.
> Calgary Stampede originally denies any wrongdoing.
• Stampede is finally sorry in 2023.
So today’s big idea is to do away with electronic vote tabulation machines, because the UCP “doesn’t trust them.”.
Bullshit.
There is no fucking reason to downgrade from vote tabulation machines unless David Parker and their Dark Arts team are planning to steal the next
Your child might die waiting for surgery, you can’t afford the basics of life, your job prospects grow dimmer every day.
But you sure owned those Libs.
This resonates so fucking hard with me in Alberta.
And I grew up on the farm.
We can choose to be a modern province with a diversified economy or we can kick and scream against the future until the last barrel is shipped.
Alberta without oil is Saskatchewan with bad
Yeah, I'm a bit salty this morning. But frankly I'm just goddamn sick and tired of this bullshit about how the only REAL authentic Americans are country shitkickers and all the rest of us are somehow "elitists" who don't count.
Fuck that.
In Saskatchewan, the Court of King’s Bench issued a temporary injunction against the school trans policy, saying it may cause “irreparable harm” to students.
Smith cautioned that if parents become violent or abusive towards their children once they find out their gender identity
Your daily reminder that Danielle Smith would rather cover Ottawa in black coated newspapers at taxpayer expense, than do a damn thing for families and businesses suffering under her crooked electricity market.
I have been advised by my lawyer friends that I should not refer to the small number of electricity generating companies manipulating market prices as a “Cartel”.
This word can be seen as loaded and associated with illegal activities, which I in no way wish to imply or allege.
@joshgad
First rule of driving in snow: you can go faster than you can stop.
Go slow. Treat your gas pedal like it wants to kill you.
Good luck.
Canada outside Vancouver.
So I’m going to try one more time to explain why wind and solar power are not to blame for power shortages in Alberta or Texas.
I’ll go slow for
@lamphieryeg
If you hate the Danielle Smith inspired post apocalyptic 30 second TellTheFeds campaign as much as I hate paying for them, call your local station to complain and ask them to stop playing them.
They are ruining hockey.
Bastards.
#BlackoutTheAds
The richest province in Canada spends the least on education.
Because none of the people who developed fracking, or oil sands separation, or hardy northern wheat varieties needed to edumacated.
🤬
It’s the mythic myth of the moron.
But enough about Cabinet.
All you asshats, calling people pedophiles and groomers is going to land you in the hospital.
If someone were to call me that in real life, after what I’ve been through, I’m shaking with rage just thinking about the revenge I would take out on you.
Worse, it would be an
Why is the Party that just made your electricity costs double running on a platform to keep your electricity costs down?
Do they think you are just that gullible?
That you have just given up?
“I mean, I look at the bill at it keeps going up and up and up.
Oh, that was
To all you conspiracy loving motherfuckers who claimed (within minutes) that the 2023 wildfires were arson…
Let me take this opportunity to call bullshit on your dumbfuckery.
Premier.
“No large wildfires that threatened Alberta communities caused by arson: Ministry”
Aka the Premier made things up to avoid accepting that climate change is real.
Just like COVID and influenza … also both very real
Well it finally happened.
I guess I’m should just pack up and go, and not tell any more stories about how truly terrible she would be as a Premier with a majority.
Good thing she’s terrible at campaigning and everybody who comes to know her dislikes her.
Right
I always ask Alberta separatists if they are willing to take up arms and kill their neighbours for their “independence “.
If they are not, then they are not serious and should be ignored.
If they are, it is serious and they should be arrested.
I’m not a fan of sedition.
Hey UCP War Room enthusiasts.
Your boss got on TV and told everyone that I was right all along.
Economic Withholding is wrecking our electricity prices.
Where’s my apology, you feckless morons?
Or is that too much to ask of a feckless moron?
Poor feckless morons.
Alberta is hostage to a predatory electricity industry, dug in like ticks, with fat profits guaranteed and blackouts likely.
Too bad that’s not our worst problem.
Have a good night.
Watch for updates at the Citizens Research Forum.
1 Choose one enemy at a time.
2 Blame all faults on that enemy.
3 NEVER admit even one good thing about you enemy.
4 Accuse them of that which you are guilty.
5 Lie about everything. Repeat until those lies are accepted as truth.
This is the simple formula for
I would rather have a teacher in charge than a preacher in charge.
Watching the Christo-numbskull takeover of the UCP and other Conservative parties has been painful.
The Alberta electricity industry is a modern miracle.
They have turned a $10 billion dollar industry into a $30 billion industry almost overnight.
Hey, if Grandma can’t pay, Grandma can die!
Right boys?
It’s Alberta.
Forget about it.
Fork it over, grannie.
Canadians from Moncton (hey), Ottawa (eh bien!), Halifax (Ricky! Bubbles!), but especially from everywhere on every street, in every format, all day prime time, city of Drake, Toronto (sup six) have all said
In one clear, though multi accented voice (and that’s just
@evanhill
If I were American, I would consider studying abroad, from about kindergarten on.
Here is a fire from nearby.
Any more helpful suggestions on how we should should stop millions of tinder dry spruce trees from exploding into flame?
Same as always?
More guns?
Albertans pay too much into Canada without getting enough back.
So let’s clamp down on Federal programs coming to Alberta, in order to make that worse.
Smith logic.
We have a Government of mendacity, morons making mincemeat out of morality, all to OWN THE LIBS.
Canadian neighbours, can you help us?
Call your radio and television stations.
Have them stop the
#TellTheFeds
ads wasting our tax dollars exporting news of their incompetence.
It would save us millions.
Thanks.
Good luck in hockey.
Dave from Alberta.
#BlackOutTheAds
Have you ever woken up in the morning and asked every fellow Canadian to call their favourite radio or tv station and ask them to cancel a dystopian ad campaign?
Tuesday in Alberta, am I right?
Help us get this amateur hour off the air.
#BlackoutTheAds
Make it trend b’ys.
If you think the fires in the North are all arson too, you assholes, start walking now to see how long it takes to get through the bush in that back country.
I’m going to start scaring you.
If you have children, are you okay if they end up destitute and homeless?
Would you be okay if they have no public services to help them?
Is Dicken’s description of the worst of times in your mind for your legacy?
No! That can’t happen you
Wait a minute.
I’m still trying to catch up with how your “repressed freedoms” include the freedom to tell women what to do with their bodies, libraries what to do with their books, schools what to teach to their pupils and girls what to do with their looks.
You are already
I was glad to hear
@nenshi
lay the blame for the electricity price/reliability debacle squarely where it belongs.
Of course, this was not his first rodeo.
Alberta hit by rolling power blackouts | CBC News
I am expecting this next election to set a new record for voter turnout.
What I would like to see is massive participation from young people.
Gen Z are the ones who have to live in the world that’s being left behind.
That Boomers will otherwise vote everything for
@BenZeisloft
Oh fuck off, you amoral prat.
Forcing women to bear unwanted children so you can abandon and persecute them later.
Maximizing suffering seems to be your “Christian” way.
I can remember when you morons took up abortion as a cause.
It was 1979, to defeat Jimmy Carter.
So, after 9 years of
@JustinTrudeau
, the International Monetary Fund has recently ranked Canada
#1
in the G20 in its Budget Management Rankings.
Why is this not on the front page of every
#CdnMedia
newspaper?
#CdnPoli
From the DM's...
We've received several DM's that multiple UCP MLA's & at least 1 minister are actively working to introduce changes to health care that will see access to abortion severely limited.
It seems the UCP are coming for women's healthcare.
#abpoli
#ableg
#cdnpoli
The UCP bot farms and farm boys are out in force.
This can only mean one thing.
They’ve seen the polls and they are losing.
They think that by being louder and meaner and more abrasive that they are going to win more voters, own more libs, kick more ass.
But Danielle and
So what is it with Conservatives?
Why are they so thin skinned?
They can’t even be called horrible.
They would need to improve their manners, significantly, first.
They certainly aren’t thoughtful. Fuck Trudeau! Libs bad! Axe tax!
Honestly, it’s like a kindergarten.
Why are formally conservative economists endorsing the Alberta NDP?
Because they have a plan that looks pretty damn conservative.
It should have been what Lougheed implemented.
Would have saved some hospitals.
Funny to see things written down and committed to, instead of
@RachelNotley
asked for my expert opinion on Alberta's fiscal policies. And her team accepted ALL EIGHT of my recommendations.
In case you missed them, here there are.
Share them with your friends and family members who are considering how to vote.
I wish we had Provincial leadership that had passed Grade 10 science.
I wish we had Provincial leadership who cared about more than owning Libs
I wish we had Provincial leadership that cares if we live or die
We do not.
That’s on us.
can this be accurate? 11 units on outbreak at the RAH in Edmonton?
They should institute universal masking throughout the facility.
And other hospitals should heed the warning, and do the same.
IMHO.
For seven straight months I’ve been dealing with moron after moron after moron with every last version of high prices are somebody’s fault other than Savage, Kenney, Smith and economic withholding.
If you’re coming after me, I promise I’ll make it quick.
Buncha morons.
What most people don’t understand about Communism was how perfectly corrupt it was.
Party big wigs lived like czars, with the best of everything, while state systems barely functioned.
So, Wednesday in Alberta.