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Big Jason is just sitting in the office kitchen, stirring a cold cup of coffee and staring out the window. He's been like that for 35 minutes.
Sometimes he mutters things like "we're the party of fiscal responsibility" or "who else can we fire"
We're gonna try and help
#ableg

 We sent in ol' Miranda, and she tried to tell him that the worst of our scandals is behind us, but he didn't seem to hear her.
We tried to send in ol' Adriana, but she refused, saying that she brings no value by visiting him. No one could disagree!
We sent in Really Big Jason, who told Big Jason that yes there have been a lot of rumours about our incompetence, but that we resolved 0.02% of them. That didn't seem to help.
Ol' Leela went in to try and talk some sense into him but it backfired. Now she's sitting behind him repeating every thing he says and then drawing emojis in the dust on the table.
We tried to send in ol' Tany, but we couldn't find him.
Ol' Grant gave it his best shot, but he came out carrying a chair leg. We said "why did you cut off one of the legs of his chair?!" and ol' Grant just shouted "RED TAPE REDUCTION" and now he's outside painting over the handicapped parking signs. He's great.
We sent in ol' Rick, and we thought we had a winner for a moment! Big Jason lifted his head, and a little smile played over his face, and he look ol' Rick right in the eye and he said "who the f*ck are you?".
Now Rick's gone skating.
We tried to send in Aloha Allard but she swore she'd been in there the whole time.
We tried to push Wee Doug in there, but he refused to go in unless ol' Matt prepared him a bowl of Courage to drink first.
He's been in there for an hour and a half.

We're debating sending in ol' Sonya, but while we want to support Big Jason, we also need him to stay in the province.
We asked Shandy to help, but he said Big Jason was making his own decisions on "crying softly in the kitchen" and then said "Hinshaw told him to do it so it's all her fault" then turned to leave but he turned all the way around so then he was facing the same way again.
Ol' Drew said that he'd set him straight and sauntered in, and ol' Vic's heart leapt but then Drew shouted "DRAAAAAINAGE YOU BOY!! IF YOU HAVE ALT-RIGHT CRONIES AND I HAVE ALT-RIGHT CRONIES, MY PANDERING REACHES ACROSS ALBERTA AND I DRINK YOUR ALT-RIGHT CRONIES! I DRINK THEM UP!"
We sent in some kid I have literally never seen before who said his name was Mickey. He said "I've got that report you asked for and my constituents need some help"
Big Jason just shook his head;
With an attitude like that I'm pretty sure Mickey is an NDP plant.
Ol' Jackie said she's "disappointed, but very happy to have a Premier who has listened to Albertans" and then said "now turn the page".

She's staring at us and miming closing a book, what do we do?

SHE KEEPS DOING IT

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