DarkWinterNights

Give the unmarked American owned media organizations with major Republican connections time to soft sell Albertans.

It only takes months to soft-pivot literally everything.

The slop image is less melted than her real images

End the war before even taking office. Kept moving the bar, then eventually just pivoted and pretended there was no bar.

We really should be turning an eye towards American owned media in Canada, especially since it’s almost entirely owned by hard Republican interests (and that would be bad if I had said Democrat as well).

It’s insane we can almost all collectively identify Trump as a threat and an enemy, but his disinformation arm isn’t.

It’s kind of interesting - O’Toole probably would have done better at preventing vote loss in this type of election, but I’m not sure he would have been as effective in whipping up the Conservative base on the front-end. It certainly would have been harder for Carney to enter though, and would have instead probably been a Trudeau or Freeland election instead.

What we should do now is turn our attention to American media organizations within Canada. They were the root cause to the attack on the CBC that walked a similar line as the Liberal party this election (read; the precipice of annihilation). The orange blimp (and his successor cronies) goofy missteps likely won’t be repeated next time around.

It’s the same hunting for narrative that usually happens.

He says something without meaningful context, and his base and others fill in the blanks in a race to make it profound. “He’s actually playing 5D chess because…” And others ponder why he’d do something as reprehensible as trying to steal everything from an ally.

There’s always boons to taking other people’s shit; resources, access (NW Passage), infrastructure (energy), water, etc to give a couple examples.

Most of the time, it’s because he’s robbing someone else blind so needs another horror to enable and distract, and he got angry someone pointed out he’s little more than a jerk.

Good information.

Given we live in a FPTP country, this is a worthwhile thing to consider as well: https://smartvoting.ca/ridings/federal-2025

You can look up your riding to see vote projections; you ultimately vote the system you have.

And make it everyone else’s fault somehow.

Essentially want to be the only option - buy a Tesla and fill both the trunk and frunk with gasoline or get wrecked.

Nevermind they’re pumping and dumping the entire stock market now, turning all the safeguards off, and extracting wealth at a rate that makes Congress look like child’s play.

Don’t forget the 2016/17 OPEC crisis

Good message.

In Alberta, we had one riding in the last election 8 votes apart. ~180 different votes in a handful of ridings would have changed the Premier.

Even if you’re in a deeply red or blue riding, protesting your incumbent in safe areas is powerful messaging; if they can rest in the right colored jersey, that’s all they’ll do. When a 1:5 riding suddenly goes 2:3 or 1:2, they start at least trying to demonstrate what they’re doing for you (sometimes theatrics, but it’s a start).

All that said, it’s still your vote - given the difference in how voters turn out, and abdication of your vote is generally a blue vote anyways, and that’s a choice too.