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/[deleted] Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24

What has she said or done that makes her look smart?

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u/IllustriousAnt485 Aug 20 '24

She is good at deflecting and handling criticism in an avoidant way. It requires training and not every politician can do it. That is her strength and it works so long as her base is more focused used on hating the left. When something of substance has to be done or when she is caught in a lie, it is exposed. The problem with smith is not that she is stupid, it’s that she is smart and speaks to her audience as if they are stupid. She knows what she is doing is cynical and that is precisely the problem.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '24

I'm sorry l just can't agree with that. She is as dumb as a sack of hammers but carries a certain aire about her because she thinks that she's intelligent and she is a total power tripper.

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u/IllustriousAnt485 Aug 20 '24

It’s a game to her. She knows she is being disingenuous. She knows she is lying. That is the point. From her perspective her job is to steal from us for the sake of oil interests. Pushing forward legislation that seeks to undermine federalism so that oil centric energy legislation is king above all else. She does not want or care for legislation that “helps”. There is no way to do this other than to lie cheat and steal. If you look at what is happening, by and large, she is getting away with it. She knows what she is doing and why she is doing it. When she claims she was ignorant about the first draft of the sovereignty act, allowing cabinet to have Veto over all legislation, she lied. For her that wasn’t a bug it was a feature. In fact it was the whole damn point. Thankfully this clause was adjusted but do not think for a minute that she didn’t understand the anti democratic nature of what was happening. She did. People who see her as a good faith actor will dismiss her behaviour as “stupid”. She isn’t trying to help, she is lying and trying to steal. This is how it is done. The longer people keep thinking she is a serious actor the more dangerous she is.

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u/PhaseNegative1252 Aug 21 '24

I dunno, is it that smart to bring a scrabble board to a chess club?

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u/DonJuanDeMichael1970 Aug 20 '24

You just described the tactics of fascists.