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Barbara Larochelle Profile picture
@BarbLarochelle
May 29 • 8 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Virtually ALL the polls in 2012 predicted a sure win for Danielle Smith and Wild Rose. They were wrong. Albertans were rightfully wary of having her as premier. Has she changed or improved? I’m so sick of her ‘Hey, I’m new at this’ schtick, as though that didn’t happen. 1/
As Nenshi and others have pointed out, if she now claims to disavow things she has been touting and advocating for for YEARS, like privatizing health care, what does she even stand for? Danielle has proven that she will say anything to get what she wants. 2/
Right now, Dani wants a 4 year mandate as premier, and what people *don’t* want is an Alberta Pension Plan, privatized health care, and Alberta Police. So she has either said she won’t talk about those until after the election or lied about them in order to mislead voters. 3/
Should UCP win tonight, Dani will want what TBA tells her to want. She is beholden to them. They can orchestrate her removal just like they did for Kenney, and they can install whomever they chose. Believe it or not, there are worse people than DS. 4/
What TBA wants is much of what Alberta rejected in 2012, and worse than that. UCP’s ‘move Alberta forward’ slogan is so ironic that it would be funny if it weren’t so terrifying. 5/
There are UCP who could be elected today who
-are racists
-have compared children they don’t like to excrement
-were part of #Alohagate
-were at the Sky Palace dinner party,
-ran that offensive anti-feminist essay contest
-have interfered with the justice system. 6/
-were involved in the kamikaze candidate scheme
-have threatened to shoot people
-hired racists to write a new curriculum
-fired 20,000 education workers with a tweet
-think people should have to pay to use the ER
-said the plan was to let many people as possible catch covid
7/
-said heart attacks are your fault
-laughed while Kenney handed out earplugs
-jumped in the fountain to celebrate taking rights away from LGBTQ kids
-drove down to the Coutts border blockade to support them
It’s been such a deluge. Aren’t you TIRED of the circus?#VoteNDP /8

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May 14
We were on a collision course to having Danielle Smith as premier in April 2012 and Albertans hit the brakes on that after the Lake of Fire, other bozo eruptions, climate change denial, etc. Poor judgement from Smith. This was not a person most of us could see being premier. 1/
The PCs we elected in 2012 had problems of their own, much to do with cronyism and entitlement, and it seemed like support for Dani being premier might be building again. Then she made the jaw-droppingly dumb decision to cross the floor to the PCs 2/
This lack of judgement blew up TWO parties in its wake. She betrayed her constituents. How could she be trusted? Her own riding refused to even nominate her to run again in 2015, and even now she can’t run as a candidate there. 3/
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Dec 22, 2022
The *reason* hospitals are overcrowded right now is because the covid pandemic is STILL going on (40+ people dying of covid/week in Alberta for the last few months) and peoples’ weakened immune systems after repeated infections makes them more susceptible to other viruses. 1/
Many people are sick and they are out and about—shopping, going to events, holiday parties, school, etc.—mostly maskless. All of this includes kids. There is NOTHING to stop the spread of this now. Not only that, but DS refuses to even recommend masks, vaccination or anything 2/
She’s tied the hands of school boards, and she has muzzled the CMOH so he can’t speak publicly either. Nowhere where a reporter might question what’s happening. All of this is stating the painfully obvious. But the ‘Help is on the Way’ theatre we’re seeing makes it even worse. 3/
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Dec 1, 2022
UCP MLAs: what’s the endgame here? You’ve got to know how reviled you have made yourselves, even among some who used to support your party. You’ve got to know that your ‘leader’ has already destroyed 2 political parties in Alberta and she has teed up to do the same to a 3rd. 1/5
You’ve got to know that many of your seats are in jeopardy now, and no amount of bravado pretending otherwise will change that. Did you sign up to be a pariah? To go down in history as someone who supported this insanity? Are you entertained by being part of this 🤡 show? 2/5
You’ve also got to know that the ‘leader’ you’re trying so hard to obey is notorious for flip-flopping, acting on whims, demonstrating poor judgement, and betraying her *own* party. What makes you think you’ll be the exception? 3/5
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Oct 19, 2022
Thinking about this: Although DS has ‘apologized’ for her egregiously horrible comments about Ukraine & Russia, what made her say that in the first place? Clearly, she was exposed to Russian propaganda and she fell for it, hook, line & sinker. This is a pattern. 1/
Her anti-vax sentiments and touting hydroxychloroquine as a 100% cure for Covid show susceptibility to conspiracy theories too. Same with her declaration of how much ‘discrimination’ the unvaccinated have faced, her residential schools denials, education ‘theories’ and more. 2/
All the belief in conspiracy theories goes back to one thing: it shows very poor judgement and an inability to think critically. If not for those, she might have dealt with the whole ‘Lake of Fire’ thing appropriately in 2012 and been elected premier then. 3/
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Aug 5, 2022
It’s hard not to feel despair about the UCP leadership race. It is an unmitigated disaster. There are, perhaps, 2 (at most) candidates who *might* possibly be less terrible, destructive placeholder premiers until we can throw UCP out of government in Alberta. 1/8
The rest will destroy us. And they don’t care. They only want power—that’s it. People who actually care about Alberta would not be pandering to the most extreme, awful fringe elements of our province for votes. They would not be lying to us, and misrepresenting themselves. 2/8
They would not be trying to rewrite the very recent history of their party and their own political behaviour and treating us like we’re all too stupid to realize it. 3/8
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Apr 23, 2022
More UCP MLAs speak out against Kenney every day. They don’t like how they have been treated in caucus meetings. Fair enough. They are worried they won’t be re-elected. OK. It bothers them to have Albertans questioning their integrity. Just now? ‘Cause it’s been 3 years. 1/7
When they were elected in 2019, they thought they were back to the conservative glory days where all you had to do was win the nomination in your riding, and your career was set for as long as you wanted. 2/7
The main thing all of them are complaining about now is how *they* have been treated and how *they* might not get re-elected. What about what their party has done to politics and political discourse in Alberta since 2019? 3/7
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