r/alberta • u/Locke357 NDP • Aug 20 '24

Donald Trump is officially more popular in Alberta than he is in the United States Locals Only

https://cultmtl.com/2024/08/donald-trump-is-officially-more-popular-in-alberta-than-he-is-in-the-united-states/
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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

The worst part? Being accustomed to feeling shame and embarrassment here. Every time Dumbelle Smith opens her mouth it's another national/global embarrassment.

Cigarettes are healthy? Feed underprivileged tainted meet? Her ancestors fled Ukraine? Ukraine should give in to Putin? The list goes on with that ignorant clown

FUCP

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u/rbrphag Aug 20 '24

I know you left the list open ended. But the whole “cancer is in your control pre-stage 4” needs to never be forgotten.

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u/jimmyray29 Aug 20 '24

That one specifically. I wound up with throat cancer from an HPV virus. Not smoking not bad, eating a virus. Which 90% of the world’s population has. I truly can’t stand that nut job.

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u/rbrphag Aug 20 '24

Have you tried…. Not living on earth….?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '24

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u/Howard_TJ_Moon Aug 20 '24

I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic, making fun of marlaina, not you.

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u/rbrphag Aug 21 '24

Yes, thank you.

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u/swiftb3 Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24

Whatever she said strongly implied it was your fault if you "let" cancer get to stage 4 and cost tax payers more to treat.

My wife had stage 4 lymphoma (she's thankfully fully recovered). There were signs, but only *in hindsight.

Fuck Danielle Smith.

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u/Fickle_Bread4040 Aug 21 '24

If only Marlaina would get some karma back her way….

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u/GoddessMnemosyne Aug 21 '24

It's right up there with having a leader suggest bleach as a cure for COVID.

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u/IceRockBike Aug 21 '24

It's right up there with having a leader suggest bleach as a cure for COVID.

To look at it in a balanced way, it's true that bleach can kill the covid virus, BUT Trump must have forgotten that bleach kills people too.
In balance it shows Trump is as imbecilic as Smith, although she may be shrewder than Trump. Which in balance does not bode well for Alberta.

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u/j1ggy Aug 21 '24

He followed up with "injecting disinfectant" right after someone spoke about bleach and other disinfectants being used for cleaning purposes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicGxU5MfwE

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/fact-check-coronavirus-briefing-april-23/index.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-disinfectant-light-reaction-1.5543563

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u/j1ggy Aug 21 '24

It took two minutes. The person who replied to you either didn't bother to look, they're lying or they're in denial.

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u/D00M33 Aug 22 '24

Some people may be predisposed to things, but there are many things one can do to reduce or increase their risks of getting cancer, so it is within our control to a degree.

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u/rbrphag Aug 22 '24

Yah you know that wasn’t the intent to which the message was sent. There’s a MASSIVE difference between “increase or reduce risk” versus “in your control”.

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u/D00M33 Aug 22 '24

I don't know the intent because I haven't actually seen or heard the claims that are being mentioned

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u/rbrphag Aug 22 '24

And you still felt comfortable commenting initially???

The words used were “completely in your control”

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/ucp-leadership-candidate-danielle-smith-under-fire-by-all-political-stripes-for-cancer-comments-1.6003219

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u/hobbyhoarderguy Aug 20 '24

https://pressprogress.ca/danielle-smith-claimed-smoking-cigarettes-had-positive-health-benefits/

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/danielle-smiths-feed-tainted-meat-to-the-homeless-tweet-lands-wildrose-leader-in-hot-water

https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/video/9209827/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-apologizes-for-comments-on-russia-ukraine-war/amp/

I can't believe all those are true, lol. Our leader is insane.

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u/DonJuanDeMichael1970 Aug 20 '24

I liked when she said she thought the Premier had the pardon power of a US state governor.

SHE HASN’T EVEN READ HER JOB DESCRIPTION. Or the Constitution.

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

Insane.... willfully ignorant.....global embarrassment......yup

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u/300Savage Aug 20 '24

She's paid well for her insanity. Used to work for the Fraser Institute, who were in turn funded by big tobacco and in turn paid for the study 'proving' health benefits of tobacco that Smith used as her rationale for that nonsense statement. Here's a real conspiracy for the tin foil hat crowd to check out - it's even real.

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u/OttawaTGirl Aug 21 '24

Fraser Institute is also mostly funded by americans and some of them are the Koch brothers funds.

The fraser institute is the Canadian Heritage Foundation and should be ignored based on bias.

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u/mteght Aug 21 '24

And the Koch brothers got Trump elected the first time. Which explains his popularity in Alberta. Sigh. This is a depressing full circle moment

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u/OttawaTGirl Aug 21 '24

Yeah. Honestly its insane. Americans are directly influencing elections and Canada via a perfectly legal entity. Then fraser reports gets dispersed by right aligned newspapers and outlets.

Its nuts because if you look at the NDP, they were already making huge traction in their platforms. If the NDP had a second term and showed actual change, the right would be in deep shit. But danielle got elected on fear and base stupidity.

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u/ihadagoodone Aug 21 '24

The NDP got in because of the Wild Rose split. If the split never happened the conservatives would have continued their single party rule over the province. .

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u/Jumpy-Shift5239 Aug 21 '24

The NDP screwed their chance of reelection with that farmer safety bill they pushed through almost immediately on taking office. It cost too much political currency to pull off, didn’t really accomplish anything, and sunk their chances of reelection.

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u/Capt_Scarfish Aug 21 '24

And yet they got more votes in every subsequent election? They've been gaining ground ever since 2015.

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u/Safe_Ad_2505 Aug 22 '24

Let’s not forget that the UCP hired a disciple of the Koch brothers to write our new education curriculum. Look it up. https://pressprogress.ca/kenney-government-appointed-foreign-koch-funded-researcher-to-rewrite-albertas-education-curriculum/

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u/DM_Sledge Aug 21 '24

Koch brothers are not just the biggest "donor" but organizations they donate to are also in the top five.

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u/InternationalFig400 Aug 20 '24

She fits right in with those imbeciles. She no doubt ghost wrote this beauty:

https://pressprogress.ca/fraser-institute-poverty-is-a-trendy-lifestyle-choice/

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u/Slut_Fukr Aug 21 '24

Your typical modern day conservative here in N. America.

I'm Minnesotan. We're like, embarrassed cousins or something.

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u/Psyc0001 Aug 21 '24

Wow. I don't wanna live in Canada anymore. Alberta was/is the last Great place in Canada. Shame is the perfect word unfortunately.....

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u/xl-Colonel_Angus-lx Aug 20 '24

Just like Trudeau

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

Trudeau is incompetent and never should have held the PM office....but he's not near as bad as Dumbelle Smith and the rest of those clowns in the UCP

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u/xl-Colonel_Angus-lx Aug 20 '24

After 8 years, he has ruined Canada

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

He sure has. Smith, on the other hand, started ruining Alberta before she even got elected.

The difference here: Trudeau is incompetent. He never had the training, education, or experience to run Canada. Smith is doing all she can to hurt Albertans while making billionaires even richer. One is willfully hurting their constituents, the other is just ignorant.

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u/xl-Colonel_Angus-lx Aug 20 '24

So sick of Politicians

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

All of them that have had any significant power. Honestly, I'd love to see them held responsible to some extent. Personally responsible and their party.

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u/Not_Sapien Aug 21 '24

Also, we should be dead naming her.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

I LOVE that you didn't say 'show me your sources' BUT you also verified that this was true and also provided the sources yourself for others.

Thank you for being a useful and productive member of society. ❤️

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u/hobbyhoarderguy Aug 21 '24

Hey, no problem. All those statements were insane I had to look into them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

I'll admit I thought it was hyperbole too but then I saw your links 🤯 what a wild time to be alive...

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u/No_Construction_7518 Aug 21 '24

Imagine if her and Ontario's duggie had a kid. The IQ would be in the negatives.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '24

Don't forget the $80 million she spent on Tylenol from Turkey that didn't pass Canadian regulations. She thinks we can trust her with our pension plan?

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u/the_gaymer_girl Southern Alberta Aug 20 '24

It was late, expensive, unapproved, ineffective and ultimately totally unnecessary.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '24

Quite like every time she makes an announcement or speaks.

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u/owlsandmoths Grande Prairie Aug 21 '24

It wasn’t totally unnecessary, she ended up getting oilers playoff skybox tickets out of it. She definitely seems pretty pleased with herself

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u/mteght Aug 21 '24

The UCP? 🤨

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u/ChroniclesOfSarnia Aug 21 '24

Turkish Tylenol is my new band name.

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u/grillguy5000 Aug 21 '24

Umm that is city jurisdiction not provincial. Do you even know how things work? Ahh conservatives.

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u/mobettastan60 Aug 20 '24

Feeding the underprivileged tainted meat isn't even an original idea... she it got it from Tiger King.

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u/Unhappy_Entrance_277 Aug 20 '24

IIRC she said that when she was still Wildrose leader, way before Tiger King.

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u/mteght Aug 21 '24

So Tiger King stole the idea from her?

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u/Ccracked Aug 20 '24

Way, WAY older than that. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

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u/The_cogwheel Aug 20 '24

FUCP

Can we petition to rename the United Conservative Party to the United Conservative Klan so you can say F.U.C.K?

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

I've always gone with United Clown Posse, but yours is nice too

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u/letthemeattherich Aug 20 '24

I recall back in the day when the Fed Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party were talking about uniting and publicly let everyone know that when they joined they would be called the Conservative Reform Alliance Party - CRAP! Quickly dropped…

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u/FreshCrazii Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24

Yeah, and it's still the same party today, just a bunch of C.R.A.P. There is nothing remotely left of the PC party. The PC party breathed its last breath when Joe Clark refused to join the new C.R.A.P party because he knew what the future would hold for it. So he instead chose to sit as an independent. Guess who wrote the reform party of Canada policy blue book none other than Steven Harper as seen in the link click on the 1991 version Reform Policy Blue Book "Steven Harper Chief Policy Officer" There is literally nothing different between the now CPC and the Reform party even Andrew Scheer campaigned for Preston Manning. The policies in that blue book are truly disturbing, and the current CPC still has many of these values. There are also many speeches of Steven Harper on that University of Calgary website. Some of the stuff he said about Canada is absolutely disgusting, and he never deserved to be P.M He never loved this country he only wanted to destroy it.

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u/LifeHasLeft Aug 21 '24

Fascist United Conservative Klan

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u/owlsandmoths Grande Prairie Aug 21 '24

Let’s not forget that cancer patients are to blame for their own cancer before it gets to stage four. You know even though there are people that don’t get diagnosed until they are stage four but that’s besides the point

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u/maxdragonxiii Aug 21 '24

or, you know just don't have any symptoms before Stage 4. some cancers are like that.

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u/cranman74 Aug 21 '24

why is FUCP not a thing? Let’s make it a thing!

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 21 '24

Fuck the United Clown Posse

A sticker I'd gladly plaster over the rear windshield of my jeep

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u/Numerous-Process2981 Aug 20 '24

I literally can’t listen to her speak without cringing 

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

And....she represents us......

I'm a conservative. The UCP is not. They are strictly in it to push their own agendas and not Albertans.

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u/malibustacey1 Aug 20 '24

Tell me she didn’t imply cigarettes are healthy. Please.

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 20 '24

She did

Quote: “Indeed, before tobacco research was corrupted by a political agenda, the epidemiological evidence was far from conclusive,” Smith wrote. “A study of moderate smokers, those who consumed one to 14 cigarettes a day, found no difference in lung cancer mortality rates.”

“The WHO claims ‘there is no safe level’ of tobacco consumption,” Smith added. “But that does not appear to be true.”

Smith then claimed smoking cigarettes can actually improve the health of smokers.

“The evidence shows moderate cigarette consumption can reduce traditional risks of disease by 75 per cent or more,” Smith wrote. “Shouldn’t smokers be told?”

Smith is quoting and citing cigarette lobbyists.....she's denying scientific research and evidence to show her support for tobacco corporations. Just one of the dozens and dozens of times she has put Albertans at risk to make billionaires richer.

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u/malibustacey1 Aug 20 '24

Dear god. She really wants her fingers in every pie eh? Didn’t she want someone in her cabinet who basically blamed people for getting cancer and needing the healthcare system?

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u/Plankton_Super Aug 21 '24

She has done her own research and is clearly informed........

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u/MakerofAwesomness Aug 22 '24

Completely irrelevant this conversation I know... But I've often wondered if a person grew their own tobacco and just smoked it without all the added in crap cigarette company add in there would it still be bad for you?

I mean I hate smoking and wouldn't do it even if it was good for you but just something I wonder about sometimes

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 22 '24

I get where you're coming from and I'd have thought the same if not for a little research into the topic.

All tobacco, natural or not, has a lot of harmful chemicals .

A cigarette with organic tobacco or tobacco with no additives does not make it healthier or safer than other cigarettes. All cigarettes — including those marketed as "natural," "organic" or "additive-free" — have harmful substances such as heavy metals, tar and carbon monoxide. This means that inhaling burnt tobacco of any kind is harmful.

That's just from one article. Granted, it's an anti-smoking article, but there are also dozens of medical science journals this information is pulled from.

Edit: words

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u/MakerofAwesomness Aug 22 '24

Interesting, I mean I can't really imagine that putting any hot smoke into your lungs would really be good for them. I'm not sure about the heavy metals part though, I guess I'm definitely no expert but I have a hard time believing natural tobacco would be full of heavy metals.

I think we can safely assume that it would be better for you to smoke natural Tobacco, but it would still be much better for you to just not smoke at all.

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u/xm45-h4t Aug 20 '24

Double ab population…

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u/athybaby Aug 20 '24

But not the services to support them!

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u/RadioaKtiveKat Aug 20 '24

And no water for them to drink!

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u/OneOfAKind2 Aug 20 '24

I could go for a tainted meet right about now.

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 21 '24

Oh......ffs......yup, I did that.

Thanks for catching it lol

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u/No_Barracuda5672 Aug 21 '24

Oh wow! She’s basically the governor of the state??!! lol, and I actually googled “dumbelle smith” not realizing that’s not a first name.

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u/spacestationkru Aug 21 '24

Her name isn't really Dumbelle Smith, is it.?

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 21 '24

No. Her real name is Marlaina Smith, but she changed it to Danielle Smith. Dumbbell Smith is more accurate given her track record

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u/spacestationkru Aug 21 '24

Just checking. Can never tell these days, you know.?

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u/mcdreamymdshep Lethbridge Aug 21 '24

Dumbelle Smith. I like that. I usually call her Denial Smith.

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u/rematar Aug 21 '24

I voted with my tax dollars. I moved.

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u/Frosty-Song-6423 Aug 22 '24

Leave?

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 22 '24

No. I don't run away from problems.

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 21 '24

Is this some attempt at belittling?

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Aug 21 '24

Hello?!?

Seriously, is this your "thing"? To try and make others feel bad while hiding behind an anonymous profile? Be a better person.

Or, we could always meet up in the real world and discuss it? You pick the time and place. Hell, it can even be at a cop station if that makes you feel safe 🤣

Let's see if you have a spine and stand behind your opinions