I know many of us are enjoying the schadenfreude of seeing UCP supporters outraged at the clowns, hypocrites and idiots they elected. I am! But let’s not take that for granted. For one thing, they might forget by next election. 1/5
Also, the selfishness, entitlement, and lack of critical thinking skills that made them vote for UCP in the first place have not gone away. There is a strong possibility that the real reason some of them are mad is because *they* did not hop a plane to Hawaii or Mexico too! 2/5
Selfish disdain for others is the beginning & end of the character of many, if not most, UCP supporters. There is nothing they hate more than seeing someone else get something they felt entitled to. These people will still be cheering when UCP cuts teacher salaries this year. 3/5
And the anger I’ve seen some of them expressing is that this failure in leadership by Kenney (#ResignKenney) might make it easier to re-elect NDP again. Their diatribes against the UCP beach bunnies include lots of vitriol about ‘What if this makes us lose the next election?’ 4/5
They continue to delude themselves that ‘things were looking up’ last January (not true) or that NDP was not governing effectively. So we need to be watchful, and not be complacent that this has won people away from UCP, necessarily. They fell for the lies before, after all. 5/5

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When the last set of health measures were imposed, Kenney remarked that he ‘did not go into public service’ to impose restrictions on people. I don’t believe he ever thought of being a politician as ‘public service’ at all. It’s clear that he wants to rule, but not to govern. 1/8
UCP wants a 2-tiered society. They want it so that there is a group of elite rulers who can do anything they want and whom others look up to and admire (think of LaGrange being upset that no one wanted them at graduations). 2/8
The elite echelon should have the best of everything. They should have better, faster health care in nicer facilities. They should have private schools for their children with the best, newest equipment, small groups, and no need to deal with anyone they want to exclude. 3/8
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I keep seeing posts by people complaining about NDP doing their job as opposition and ‘always being negative’. This is a go-to UCP retort as well. Alberta has never really had an effective opposition in the last 50 years at least. This is what it looks like. 1/11
I worked as a tour guide in the #ableg. It was the summer of the Universiade games and we had a lot of international visitors. We had our memorized tour script, including little quips and bits of trivia (the portrait eyes that follow you, the rain echo from the fountain, 2/11
the palm trees in the dome, the carillon, the kinds of marble, how the gemstones on the mace start with the letters ALBERTA, etc.) One bit was to point out the ‘opposition’ seats. I think there were 4 at that time. People from all over found that astonishing (and strange). 3/11
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Kenney and Shandro both sound uncomfortable during the covid update. They also sound like they’ve been coached to try to sound more like they care about this situation, rather than downplaying it as usual.
Buuuuuut. Now Shandro is bragging about what a great job they’ve done. Or, in an alternate view, justifying the choices they’ve made.
Shandro is talking about ‘web tools’ they have purchased to track things. This would be a perfect opportunity for a reporter to ask about #covidalert
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10 Dec 20
Jason Kenney disappeared for at least 10 days during his 2nd quarantine, then came back and introduced laughably inadequate half measures on Nov. 24 that were obviously never going to have an effect. 1/7
During that whole time the case numbers, hospitalizations, ICU patients & deaths escalated alarmingly. In his arrogance, he ignored science, examples from other areas, and hundreds of doctors *begging* for meaningful action. 2/7
We heard a lot of blather about ‘fundamental freedoms’ and a lot of reliving the past glory of being 1st & best with pandemic measures back in the spring (not sure that was ever true). He refused the most minimal, no cost actions like a mask mandate, enabling #covidalert or 3/7
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9 Dec 20
I’ll do what is asked and expected with the new health measures, even though I am really spitting mad at this whole thing. I was outside today for the first time in 2 weeks. We’ve been covid isolating because of a +covid case in our house. 1/7
This happened to us even though we’ve followed ALL the rules, since spring. The new measures will not change much for us. However, there is someone who won’t be able to come for Christmas dinner now. I will have to make a second dinner and figure out how to deliver it. 2/7
Like we did for Easter. And Thanksgiving. As teachers and a high school student, our family has too much exposure. My son in high school is also quarantined right now because someone in BOTH of his classes has tested positive. 3/7
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Kenney starts out by patting himself on the back and congratulating himself.
A long preamble about how the situation has become worse, all without acknowledging any responsibility for it whatsoever.
Now he is saying the measures they put in place in November were ‘significant’, even though it has escalated out of control. A dog whistle about the ‘secure government paycheques’.
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