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Danielle Smith 2015
Be honest, who does she remind you of?
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Oh Boy, if you dont think Danielle Smith has big problems on her hands right now read the comments on this posts supporting her by Stockwell Day! The people commenting are the most loyal Conservatives on this App, and they are not happy.
Mr.Rath. You wanted to be leader and lost. To a woman who is the most conservative and courageous Premier in Canada. So now you want to trash Alberta by giving Nenshi and socialism a chance. By starting your own party. You sound more like Lesley Gore every day.
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ALBERTA ALERT 🚨 I am really enjoying reading the replies to Stockwell Day. It’s like he’s in a 3 way contest with Smith and Kenney to see who can become the most despised politician in Alberta!
Mr.Rath. You wanted to be leader and lost. To a woman who is the most conservative and courageous Premier in Canada. So now you want to trash Alberta by giving Nenshi and socialism a chance. By starting your own party. You sound more like Lesley Gore every day.
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Supporting Danielle Smith after all this tells her: 1. She can do whatever she likes, because you will still support her to avoid electing Nenshi. 2. Your opinion does not matter. You need to line up with whatever her opinion is such that she retains power. 3. You don't care who rules over you, and you don't care that you are being overruled. Just because it was the separatists this time doesn't mean it won't be what you care about next time. The pattern is set. Danielle is no longer fit to lead the UCP for many reasons.
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I LOATHE THIS POSER Berta Proud Dad has officially completed another Olympics-level gymnastics routine, flip-flopping so fast he’s giving everyone whiplash. One minute he’s the self-proclaimed champion of Alberta independence, hawking sweatshirts and building a brand off a movement he tried to hijack. The next minute, the wind blows a different direction, and he's right back to carrying water for the UCP establishment and cheering from the sidelines. The Playbook of a Professional Political Chameleon The "Debate Me" Phase: Started out trying to build relevance by claiming he’d debate anyone, anywhere, asserting a strong Alberta within Canada and backing Danielle Smith to get his foot in the door. The Independence Pivot: As soon as the independence movement started gaining serious traction, he flipped like a light switch. No hesitation, no transition—just immediately positioning himself at the forefront to cash in on the momentum. The Merch Hustle: Treated a genuine political movement like a used-car lot, constantly pushing viewers to buy hoodies and hats at his store while trying to ride the coattails of figures like Chris Scott, another loser. The Return to the Fold: Now that the political winds are shifting again, he’s scrubbed his history, abandoned the independence crowd, and is back to playing the loyal party soldier—cheering on internal party purges like Jeff Rath's removal.
“Get rid of Danielle Smith” isn’t a plan for Alberta’s future. I support Jeff Rath’s removal from the UCP. My kids and grandson deserve more than endless political grudges. What are we actually building for them? #ABPoli #DanielleSmith #Alberta
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All these self proclaimed Alberta independence activists. That now believe in a united Canada and Danielle Smith. Their back peddling to try to stay relevant is gross. Not me I still believe Alberta deserves better. Shame on you guys and your childish need to be relevant.
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With the FIRESTORM BREWING over the Jeffrey Rath removal from the UPC, I don't see the current UPC Leaders surviving the coming backlash. That being said we really need to start the conversation on who are the best people to replace them, whether it's in the UPC or a new Party?
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Danielle Smith can’t stop lying. She now falsely claimed that Jeff Rath has never supported her. She forgets that I have a complete record of our text conversations dating back to April of 2023. It is true that I supported Todd Loewen for leader of the UCP because I thought Danielle was an untrustworthy floor crosser capable of massive betrayal of her own party members. AFTER she won the leadership I congratulated her, supported her and had a 3 year conversation with her where she pretended to support Mitch Sylvestre, APP and the desire of Albertans for a free and independent Alberta. I only stopped supporting her AFTER she crossed the floor metaphorically to the Liberal Party by signing that disastrous MOU with Mark Carney and AFTER she stabbed every independence supporter in Alberta in the back by campaigning with Notley, Kenney and Nenshi AGAINST members of her own party.
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Instead of giving welfare to immigrants, we should spend the money on giving cats the finest beauty treatments on offer.
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As a founding member of the UCP. A 12 person interim board I’m actually sad. Hey Jeffery Rath has made my head hurt at times. But he’s one vote. This is not how you bring a spilt group of conservatives together. It’s not a sin to want more for Alberta. Having a different idea of how to achieve that does not make you an enemy. It’s actually so simple Vote! But hey I cancelled my membership and it will stay that way till leadership changes. AND I don’t just mean Danielle. Till kicking people out, firing them and NDAs stop being the solution to a hot mess. Conservatives are their own worst enemy. I’m politically homeless after giving 10 years of my life. Trying to make a difference. @ABDanielleSmith you are on the wrong path. Stop listening to who ever is in your ear today. This is not the right way to handle this. Albertas future, my grandkids Alberta is in your hands. Some of us care about Alberta, honestly and integrity more than politics. I guess that’s why we are politically homeless. It doesn’t have to be that way. The ball is yours play the game your way. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Canada is not for sale until it is. The Canadian fake news industrial complex will never show the hypnotized boomers this clip.
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look at this. your brain is literally doing this right now. millions of neurons are reaching out, trying to build pathways. they don't care if the connection is healthy or toxic. they just reinforce whatever signal you send them most. if you spend your days focusing on how exhausted you are, they build a highway to burnout. replay your fears on loop? they build a fortress for your anxiety. they're just adapting to the inputs you give them. but that's also the leverage. you can redirect the signal. pick a new focus, force a new state, and those same neurons start firing in a different direction. they start building a new baseline. the catch is repetition. neurons that fire together wire together. you can’t just decide to change once, you have to execute daily until the new pathway becomes the default.
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Isn't it interesting that when Alberta was having a referendum to have a referendum the chiefs were all over us about treaties. Carney wants to join the EU and I haven't hear the chiefs say shit. What about their consultations (bribes)? Or does that only apply to Alberta #abpoli
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Stay tuned! @JeffreyRWRath will be on Stand on Guard this morning, Halloween, at 11 a.m. ET and 9 a.m. MT. We'll be discussing the latest "leadership" stunts from @ABDanielleSmith!
SMITH has started a civil war in the UCP.
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I think this may be the only TED talk that I've ever watched in its entirety and also thought the speaker and the talk were brilliant. This is also a perfect way of explaining how pseudo experts ushered in the culture that allowed a fake pandemic to occur.
Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry. He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say. Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing at all. His name is Will Stephen. He is a comedian from Late Night with Seth Meyers who was invited to give a real TED talk and used it to prove the format is a costume anyone can wear. Every TED speaker opens with a question, tells a personal story, cites a scientist, and shows a chart. Stephen did all four in six minutes with zero content. His entire formula fits on a napkin. Gesture with both hands. Ask the audience a question anyone can answer. Tell a mildly embarrassing story so they say aww. Point to a stranger on a slide and call them important. Flash a chart of random numbers. Wear glasses with no lenses. The audience will think you are brilliant. That last trick alone has probably cost the public speaking coaching industry a hundred million dollars in sessions clients should have skipped. "If you watched me on YouTube with the sound off, you would think I was a genius." That is Will Stephen on the TED stage, three minutes into the talk he was paid to give. He wasn't lying. Executives pay $15,000 for a keynote coach and still open with a joke the room never laughs at. Founders rehearse their pitch for weeks and still sound like Stephen at minute four, saying "wagga wah, gabba gabba" with authority. The talk is free on YouTube. The method is written across every TED speaker's playbook for ten years. Stephen still writes for Seth Meyers. Almost none of the ten million viewers have stopped nodding at empty slides since. The formula is free. The willingness to actually say something before your next keynote, pitch, or townhall is the entire edge.
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The grandson of the man who invented Reese's Peanut Butter Cups used to eat Reese's every day. This year he threw a bag of them in the trash and said it wasn't edible. He wrote Hershey a letter about it, and Hershey basically told him to read the package. Turns out the package was telling him all along. The bag was the new Reese's Mini Hearts, and the label says "chocolate candy and peanut butter crème." Brad Reese, whose grandfather invented the cup in 1928, says several Reese's products made the same swap, milk chocolate out and compound coating in. Hershey says the classic cup hasn't changed. Those exact words matter because the FDA owns them. To print "milk chocolate" you need at least 10% chocolate liquor, 12% milk solids and 3.39% milkfat, and "peanut butter" has to be at least 90% peanuts. Fall short and you lose the word, so the wrapper says "candy" or "crème" instead. Grab a bag of Reese's Pieces and you'll see it. The front says "peanut butter candy." Flip it over and sugar is the first ingredient. Compound coating is the same trick as the Reese's Pieces center, by the way. Press the expensive fat out (cocoa butter in one case, peanut oil in the other) and put something cheaper like palm kernel oil back in. Reese's Pieces has run that play for decades. A lot more of the aisle followed after cocoa hit an all-time high in late 2024. Mr. Goodbar used to say "milk chocolate with peanuts" and now says "chocolate candy with peanuts." Almond Joy and Rolo got the same edit, with no announcement. And Hershey's CFO told investors the formula changes had "no consumer impact whatsoever." Cocoa fell 78% off that peak by March. If this was only about cocoa prices, "milk chocolate" should start showing back up on wrappers. Worth a look at the bowl before trick-or-treaters show up Saturday. On a candy wrapper, "candy" is the word you get after the FDA takes the real one away.
Reese's Pieces have no chocolate in them. The peanuts had their oil pressed out and a cheaper fat put back in. Sugar is first, then partially defatted peanuts, then hydrogenated palm kernel and soybean oil, then corn syrup solids. Everything after that is 2% or less, and it's the dyes, the glaze, some vanillin and a little milk. There's no cocoa anywhere. Partially defatted just means the peanuts went through a press. The peanut oil comes out one side and gets sold as peanut oil. What's left is a dry peanut flour, and that's what the center is made from, because flour holds a shape in a panning drum and doesn't go rancid. Then they put fat back in, and the fat they picked is hydrogenated palm kernel oil, which is solid at room temperature and costs less than peanut oil. You can see the swap on the panel. 38 pieces have 6 g of fat and all 6 are saturated. Peanut oil is mostly unsaturated, so that number isn't the peanut. The shell is sugar with 4 dyes and a coat of shellac.
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What? Is the UCP now an Ein Fuhrer, Ein Parti organization? You must support the Leader or you cannot support the party? This authoritarian nonsense has gone far enough and @ABDanielleSmith knows better but she has clearly forgotten what democratic politics are all about -- or maybe she hasn't.
ALBERTA MEDIA ALERT 🚨 JEFF RATH’S REPLY TO UCP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DUSTIN VAN VUGT Challenging Danielle Smith’s anti-democratic dictatorship of the UCP is the duty of every UCP Member who cares about the future of Alberta.
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Replying to @kpac_15
Turns out Danielle Smith was a DEI hire after all…🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂
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If you are opposed to the failed leadership of @ABDanielleSmith, you just can’t see past hate and personal agendas? Are you a clapping seal? Let’s review what Danielle Smith has done to the Alberta Independence movement. Because the sheer audacity of her actions deserves to be documented. 1. After hundreds of thousands of Albertans demanded a direct Independence referendum, Danielle Smith substituted her own federalist referendum, complete with nine government-written questions about renegotiating Alberta’s place within Canada. She then reduced the Independence question itself to a nonbinding vote on whether Albertans should eventually be allowed to hold an actual referendum. 2. She used a $4 million taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote her government’s vision of a “sovereign Alberta within a united Canada.” 3. She openly campaigned against Independence while having the audacity to tell sovereigntists who opposed her referendum strategy to stop criticizing it and concentrate their efforts on winning her nonbinding October vote. She expected the Independence movement to expend its time, resources, political capital and momentum fighting for a referendum she controlled, while she simultaneously campaigned against the very cause that gave the movement its existence. She wanted sovereigntists to do the political heavy lifting for a process that offered them no binding outcome. 4. Having engineered a nonbinding referendum that never actually asked Albertans to vote directly on Independence, Danielle Smith immediately declared that no further Independence referendum would take place for as long as she remained Premier. Consider the breathtaking contradiction. She refused to give Albertans a direct vote on Independence, substituted a vote on whether to begin the process of eventually holding one, and then treated the result as a mandate to close the question altogether. 5. She proclaimed that the UCP is a federalist party and that those advocating Independence should find themselves another political home. 6. She demanded that party officials and representatives accept her federalist position, effectively making continued advocacy for Independence incompatible with holding an official party role. 7. She told dissenting UCP members to engage in “self-reflection” and accept her mandate or consider another political party. Imagine telling the very people who helped build your political coalition that their convictions are no longer welcome. 8. She even abandoned the word “sovereign” from her familiar political slogan, replacing it with “stronger Alberta within a united Canada.” Everything you need to know is in that failed federalist statement. And all of this happened while 520,233 Albertans voted to advance the process toward a binding Independence referendum. The message could hardly be clearer. Danielle Smith welcomed the political energy of Alberta sovereigntists when it was useful to her. Now that the movement has demonstrated its strength and refuses to disappear, she wants its advocates to fall silent, abandon their aspirations, or leave the party. She appears to believe that Alberta First voters can be dismissed, disciplined and subsequently summoned to the ballot box in 2027 to save her government. That is an extraordinary political miscalculation. The UCP does not belong to Danielle Smith. It belongs to its members. And Alberta’s political future does not belong to her either. Alberta Independence is not a temporary protest movement for a Premier to exploit, manage and ultimately extinguish. It is a legitimate political aspiration shared by hundreds of thousands of Albertans. We are not returning to the federalist reservation. And we are certainly not asking Danielle Smith’s permission to continue advocating for our nation’s future. The movement is not finished. Her authority to dictate its future is.
I fully support @ABDanielleSmith in this! Of course not everyone will because you can’t see past your hate and personal agendas !
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