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 Seems conservatives have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

How does it feel to the average Albertan to be considered second class? Apparently UCP, CPC and other conservatives across Canada are exempt from COVID public health orders.
I wonder if that means anti maskers are first class citizens? What about church pastors and parishioners? Are they first class status too?

But teachers, physicians, police, first responders, grocery workers, and every other Albertan is considered second class.
We don’t get exemptions to avoid public health orders.

What kind of government flouts law and order?
This is not explained by the confused and poorly informed “freedom” focussed Q’Anon and the fanatical Evangelical Christian’s who evidently can’t manage to worship at home.

These are fully informed political aids and politicians. Refusing to be limited by public health orders.
It’s their job to understand the public health orders made by the CMOH. Then communicate those orders on behalf of the provincial premier.

Don’t people need special permission to take vacation flights? They do. From the Premier or their minister.
While it’s stunning that the UCP have crossed a boundary of trust, what I find stunning is the absence of rage at this revelation.

Here is a more recent list of the number of people that travelled recently.

I got this from @Norlaine
New list:
-Michael Florian
-Eliza Snider
-Matt Wolf
-Nathan Neudorf (although his spin is he has "remained home" (in Canada?)
-Tracy Allard
-Pat Rehn
-Jamie Huckabay
-Jeremy Nixon
- Tanya Fir
So, we're up to 9.
That’s 9 people who completely ignored the covid public health orders made by Kenney and which were reinforced with a federal ban on non-essential travel.

And people on are moderately annoyed at best?!?
This government is killing people with a lackadaisical casual approach to public health. Our healthcare infrastructure is about to collapse. And all people can muster is stern annoyance?

WTF ALBERTA?!? It’s time to get mad and seek justice. This is injustice.
It means many have normalized UCP corruption and are experiencing learned helplessness.

Learned helplessness is when you’re resigned to accept a government that kills with policy and also has the arrogance and hubris to absolve themselves from the orders they decree.
It means you’re telling that government it’s okay to abuse you because you have given up and are adapting to the abuse.

That’s what voter apathy is. And it’s caused by the consolidation of power like this display of utter contempt for the population of Alberta.
This is an egregious demonstration of intolerable contempt for the citizens of Alberta.

This information should be inducing rage, not moderate annoyance.
We should be picking up pitchforks and torches, not verbally castigating the worst offenders and grumbling about being ruled for the next 2 + years by people who obviously have no regard for people whom they dominate and for whom they control the levers of life and death.
This is intolerable. Citizens cannot be expected to accept the feigned apologies, with the theatrics of tears included, in the face of such utter scorn for the people of this province.
We are the problem if we allow this to go unchallenged and genuflect to the establishment of a higher class of citizen that neither is obliged to follow the rules they order nor protect the citizens they’ve deemed second class, of whom they been entrusted to govern.
If you understand anything about power dynamics, this is called consolidation of power. Completely absolved of following the rules, and given a pass for endangering the lives of the citizens they are supposed to be protecting.
If we allow this to be okay, we are giving tacit approval for Kenney to establish totalitarian autocracy.

This is the type of power as citizens that our Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives us the ability to loudly and peacefully object and force to resign.
If we don’t do that now, we may as well shut down any further discussion and study ways of coping with a dictator and becoming second or even third class citizens.

This is a 3 alarm warning ⚠️ 🚨🚨🚨

It’s time to get vocal.
We cannot do this by protesting in the streets. But we can protest by making phone calls, writing letters and demanding UCP resign.

Clearly Kenney considers himself above reproach. It’s up to us to remind him that’s BS. He and his party must resign.
We would be no worse off with vacant seats in the legislature. Absent because they are vacationing or absent because we fired them is no different.

There will be no fascist totalitarian consolidation of power in Alberta.

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To realize the extent of the treason committed on January 6, 2021, please watch this video.

https://t.co/FHmlTwkB5A

And then remember Canadian, especially Albertan, conservatives are moving in this direction and have been supportive of Trump’s cabal, since the beginning.

In fact many still are openly supportive of the far right even after January 6, 2021.

The violence in this video is disturbing. You’ll witness death chants, a scaffold with noose, a shooting and an officer suffering intense trauma from being crushed.

What is amazing to me are the videos of people relaxing in their hotels afterwards that are circulating on social media.

How mentally warped must you be to calmly sit down with drinks and bar snacks after attempting a violent coup?

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This was exactly what I was about to write a thread warning about.

A change in leadership in the US at the executive level does not alter the Republican Senators and Congress representatives. A few of whom are implicated in January 6, 2020 insurrection.


There will be a strong urge to forget the danger and the corruption.

After a long period of extended fear, terror and daily assaults on political and social norms, many will want to forget and move forward.

But we cannot take our eyes off those out to dismantle democracy.

Those breathing a sigh of relief, tomorrow this all resumes again in the US. It’s only temporarily paused in the US and correspondingly in Canada.

The urge to move on is strong. Resist it. Celebrate victories and achievements, but DO NOT walk away and forget.

Canadian conservative politicians are tightly connected to many of the Republican traitors who attacked the Capitol Jan 6.

None of them are going to give up. They’ll regroup. They’ll reorganize.

In the mean time, we are all required to stay alert. There is much to do.

The far right has let their agenda be known. They want to end democracy in US and in Canada. That goal is not off the table.

They will continue to pursue this agenda.

Yesterday 12 National Guard members were removed from service.
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A lot of people are trying to figure out what UCP means by putting this biblical quote out into the twitter verse at Christmas.

Many have piped up with commentary and criticized the mix of religion and politics. A convention long held in Canada.


The quote is often repeated at Christmas. “A child is born...” makes reference to the birth of Jesus. Makes sense.

But what does it mean?

Christians (and other religious observers with their religious texts) have made an art form out of interpreting what passages mean.

To those most radically devout (some might say zealously faithful), hidden divine meanings are gleaned from “correctly” reading the bible.

That’s what Dominionists believe. That god himself wrote the bible. Through inspiration of the actual authors, & only they can interpret.

And thus, the “inerrant“ bible serves as a strict road map to save ones soul.

Many devout Christians view the passage as a prophecy made centuries before the birth of Christ. A promise made by god through one of his prophets. Jews interpret the passage very differently.

The Anglican Priest is (obviously) correct about this being supersessionism, and a form of Anti-Semitism.

Troublesome as it is for a Canadian provincial govt to be tweeting out Anti-Semitic propaganda, that’s not the only meaning this passage has for Dominionist Christians.
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Dr. Fauci is a renowned expert.

Here he communicates why the vaccination of as many people as possible as quickly is possible is required.

This completely debunks the conservatives rationale that lives


I’ll explain in more detail.

We now have two deadlier and more contagious variants of Covid circulating across the globe. The vaccines developed are less than 95% effective. It’s more like 50%, maybe less.

Some believe it’s hardly worth the effort to achieve 50% efficacy.

This is untrue. Viruses mutate quickly and effectively when transmitted from person to person. Becoming infected allows the virus to mutate. Eliminate transmission or widespread infection, and the virus’s ability to mutate into deadlier forms is eliminated.

While the vaccine may not prevent infection, it will boost human immunity that transmission is more difficult. Reduced amounts of covid transmission means less opportunity for the virus to mutate.

That’s how everything works.

The same applies to toddlers and teenagers. (No they aren’t viruses, this is an analogy).

The busier toddlers and teenagers are, the less likely they are to get into trouble. Which is why a good parent keeps their toddlers and teenagers active and engaged in supervised activity.
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Sunshiny AKA Cassandra
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@sunnshiiny
I’m not sure if the significance of the travelling at Christmas is well understood.

Kenney is thumbing his nose at Albertans.

This is no ordinary thumbing. He’s basically letting Albertans know that he and his MLAs will do as they please and there will be no consequences.

This is when following policy is helpful.

In March 2020 when Dr. Hinshaw closed schools down, Kenney was furious. He couldn’t reverse the order without seriously damaging his credibility & revealing his true nature. So he did the next best thing. He gave himself absolute power.

And, since it was during a pandemic, barely anyone noticed.

The powers he bequeathed upon himself and his political party are only in effect when a Public Health Emergency is invoked. Kenney invoked a Public Health Emergency in late November 2020.

The CMOH no longer has free reign to order public health orders and she no longer reports to the Deputy Minister of Health. She reports directly to the Minister of Health, who is guided by the premier in his decision making.

The other change was the addition of absolute power for the premier and ministers of cabinet, to repeal, amend or create ANY legislation, whether it has anything to do with the emergency or not.
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