You underestimate the growth of the "bro" effect in the province already the most inclined toward that destructive phenomenon, a societal devolution that contributed significantly to Trump winning.
The CPC STILL getting as many seats in our election despite their Trump affinity speaks to our ongoing vulnerability as a country, but only in Alberduh does enough arrogance exist to so openly emulate the Republican Party right down to the name FFS!
No woman could win a provincial election here at this point when membership in the ubiquitous fucking big black truck club has started to feel like a stealth invasion by a SWAT team.
Rachel Notley was the first provincial leader in Canada to get death threats, and made the mistake of hiding that alarming and despicable reality. Headshots of her on the Brooks golf course, and down our street in Lethbridge with a gun sight fixed on her during the last election, along with increased destruction of NDP signs are examples of the macho violence that simmers in this fucking place, and hatred toward liberals in general, but also women specifically, who can be seen as the proxy for progressives now.
Naheed has shown he can win, even in conservative Calgary, and more than once. Not having a seat all this time has kept him in abeyance, but once he's in the legislature he will challenge Smith like few could as a fellow student at U of C. And they knew each other, except for the fact that he excelled and then went on to get a Harvard degree, neither of which she did. He's not your usual macho prairie shithead, is articulate as hell, and imposing.
Being so smart and confident also makes him more Carney-adjacent, who is kind of starting to even win over some conservatives in spite of themselves....
The provincial election is not for a couple of years after all, and the whole bad boy con thing may be starting to finally hit the wall because it's fully manifested now in all its stupid destructiveness, the one silver lining of Trump.
Evan, I must say your comment about the NDP is a clear and stark reminder of the need to have quality leadership. Personally I did not vote for Nenshi and felt that Kathleen Ganley, a lawyer living in Calgary, in the long run would be a much more effective and serious leader. It was an easy out for the NDP membership to pick Nenshi. It's unfortunate the other candidates didn't have the same profile in the public eye. The second win results for the NDP should indeed be a concern. I think the NDP will take a political beating next election, even though the UCP is mired with incompetence and smells of corruption when closely examined. The separtists are getting too much media time - they are a new flavor of ice cream to taste and flirt with at this point.
So cute of you to assume that Danielle Smith is running anything, or that she'll be around for another four years after the UCP or whatever iteration they become gets elected again. I mean, she'll get her board position, of course, but a woman, childless or otherwise telling the big boys what to do? Nah. Mad and bad she is indeed. But dangerous? As a toddler in a bouncy castle.
Amery's best buddies and distant relatives, or as you cleverly phrase it, the 'ethnic vote' on the other hand are in it for the long game with rubbing their grubby little hands all over our public goods.
Gosh, and Rahim Jaffer running for mayor, now isn't that fun?
I see the same thing in Saskatchewan, where the NDP have the temerity to call themselves the "government-in-waiting". Sure, if you can win a seat outside the two biggest cities. Isn't going to happen any day soon. But hey, they won inner Regina so they're a government in waiting.
You underestimate the growth of the "bro" effect in the province already the most inclined toward that destructive phenomenon, a societal devolution that contributed significantly to Trump winning.
The CPC STILL getting as many seats in our election despite their Trump affinity speaks to our ongoing vulnerability as a country, but only in Alberduh does enough arrogance exist to so openly emulate the Republican Party right down to the name FFS!
No woman could win a provincial election here at this point when membership in the ubiquitous fucking big black truck club has started to feel like a stealth invasion by a SWAT team.
Rachel Notley was the first provincial leader in Canada to get death threats, and made the mistake of hiding that alarming and despicable reality. Headshots of her on the Brooks golf course, and down our street in Lethbridge with a gun sight fixed on her during the last election, along with increased destruction of NDP signs are examples of the macho violence that simmers in this fucking place, and hatred toward liberals in general, but also women specifically, who can be seen as the proxy for progressives now.
Naheed has shown he can win, even in conservative Calgary, and more than once. Not having a seat all this time has kept him in abeyance, but once he's in the legislature he will challenge Smith like few could as a fellow student at U of C. And they knew each other, except for the fact that he excelled and then went on to get a Harvard degree, neither of which she did. He's not your usual macho prairie shithead, is articulate as hell, and imposing.
Being so smart and confident also makes him more Carney-adjacent, who is kind of starting to even win over some conservatives in spite of themselves....
The provincial election is not for a couple of years after all, and the whole bad boy con thing may be starting to finally hit the wall because it's fully manifested now in all its stupid destructiveness, the one silver lining of Trump.
Evan, I must say your comment about the NDP is a clear and stark reminder of the need to have quality leadership. Personally I did not vote for Nenshi and felt that Kathleen Ganley, a lawyer living in Calgary, in the long run would be a much more effective and serious leader. It was an easy out for the NDP membership to pick Nenshi. It's unfortunate the other candidates didn't have the same profile in the public eye. The second win results for the NDP should indeed be a concern. I think the NDP will take a political beating next election, even though the UCP is mired with incompetence and smells of corruption when closely examined. The separtists are getting too much media time - they are a new flavor of ice cream to taste and flirt with at this point.
*Nenshi!
Evan, perhaps give Nebshi a chance.
Smith's petty move to exclude him from the Leg for as long as she could will not succeed in keeping this guy below the radar forever.
I'm looking forward to watching Nenshi challenge Smith in the Leg and then maybe the media will give him their attention.
They will resume debating from where they left off at uni decades ago.
Should be fun!
So cute of you to assume that Danielle Smith is running anything, or that she'll be around for another four years after the UCP or whatever iteration they become gets elected again. I mean, she'll get her board position, of course, but a woman, childless or otherwise telling the big boys what to do? Nah. Mad and bad she is indeed. But dangerous? As a toddler in a bouncy castle.
Amery's best buddies and distant relatives, or as you cleverly phrase it, the 'ethnic vote' on the other hand are in it for the long game with rubbing their grubby little hands all over our public goods.
Gosh, and Rahim Jaffer running for mayor, now isn't that fun?
I see the same thing in Saskatchewan, where the NDP have the temerity to call themselves the "government-in-waiting". Sure, if you can win a seat outside the two biggest cities. Isn't going to happen any day soon. But hey, they won inner Regina so they're a government in waiting.