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[Jeffrey Rath @JeffreyRWRath]

This is what taxation without representation looks like.

[Overton @overton_news]

Bill Maher reads Anthony Fauci’s own diary entries to prove the point that Fauci’s shameless self-promotion makes President Trump’s quotes look tame by comparison.

The moment Maher started putting the two side by side, the audience lost it.

MAHER: “And for the people who say, you know, Trump, he just lived by people kissing his ass.”

“I got some of the Fauci…this is from Fauci’s diary, compared to some of the things Trump has said.”

Trump: “A strong man came up to me…tough kind of a guy. He said, ‘I want to thank you, Mr. President.’ He had tears coming in his eyes.”

Fauci (diary): “The nurses went absolutely wild to see me. They were squealing and laughing and clapping. It was something to behold!”

Trump: “I’ve been on the cover of Time magazine 14 or 15 times. I think we have an all-time record.”

Fauci (diary): “Many print profiles and features on me. Ridiculous. Too many to count!”

Fauci (diary): “I’m such a valuable spokesperson and a good communicator.”

Trump: “I have a very good brain.”

“So I’m just saying…”

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

Keith Wilson just delivered one of the strongest arguments yet for Alberta independence.

Staying in Canada changes nothing. Independence gives Alberta a seat at the table and the leverage to negotiate from strength.

Watch: https://t.co/48lNQUzPq9

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Under the last ten years of liberal leadership, welfare costs in Canada have increased from 77 billion to 135 billion all paid for by Canadian taxpayers.

[Prairie Guy @foothillsedge]

@MVdlJCardinal It's too late. The strongest bloc will win and that will be the culture.

[David Perez @DavidCan2002]

Does anybody believe we’re doing great or better than the Americans? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal 🍎🍏 @MVdlJCardinal]

The people who most need to read and understand this will reflexively call the young family traitors for abandoning Canada, when in reality, it's Canada that let them down.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hello Hunter Biden.

Thank you for sharing your views on the oil and gas business.

We know you worked for foreign oil and gas entities primarily Ukraine’s Burisma and China’s CEFC China Energy.

This is interesting given your lack of measurable talent or experience in this business.

Burisma Holdings is the Ukrainian natural gas producer that put you on their Board of Directors in April 2014 - again despite your lack of talent or experience - while your father oversaw U.S. Ukraine policy as Vice President.

You earned approximately $1 million per year ($83,333 per month) but that was reduced to roughly $500,000 per year starting March 2017 when your father was no longer in office.

You served until April 2019 - which is surprising despite your lack of talent or experience - but it was a good gig while you had it.

You and your associates (including partner Devon Archer) earned approximately $6.5 million for being your father's son.

Not too bad for not having any experience in the energy sector or any discernible talent in deal making.

But lets not forget your work with the Chinese.

You worked for CEFC China Energy, the Chinese oil and gas conglomerate with reported CCP and military intelligence ties from 2017–2018.

CEFC and related entities paid approximately $4.8 million to companies controlled by you and your Uncle.

Your total work for for CEFC and related Chinese energy entities to the Biden family/associates was over $8 million.

These figures come from bank records, IRS search warrant applications, congressional memos, court documents, and contemporaneous reporting.

(We will leave out your work with Kahzhakstan and other questionable enterprises.)

And what is surprising to all of us is that after earning nearly $20 million working for foreign owned oil and gas companies when you post stupid things like this it is clear that after 10 years and $20 million dollars.

YOU STILL DON"T UNDERSTAND THE OIL AND GAS BUSINESS.

But thank you for sharing your views anyway.

Good luck on your comeback tour.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

This is one of the most bittersweet moments of our lives.

Our son-in-law was laid off in Winnipeg a few weeks ago, his company closed down in Canada. He is 33, a software engineer, and he and our daughter have a new baby.

Now Roblox has recruited him to Silicon Valley. Our daughter will be able to stay at home with our granddaughter, which she would not have been able to do in Winnipeg, like most working parents we know. A huge plus, considering the woke goofball education systems everywhere in the West.

We are proud of him. He earned this. It is an extraordinary opportunity for their young family.

But my wife and I are crushed.

We spent our lives building in Manitoba. My wife ran a Lab and Imaging Unit. I ran businesses, farmed through brutal weather, survived terrible government policy, cared for aging parents, raised our family and contributed to our community. Farming was not merely hard. It was years of risk, sacrifice and uncertainty, with governments constantly making life more difficult for the people who actually produced something.

Now Canada is losing another highly skilled young worker because the opportunities are better somewhere else.

Mark Carney and Wab Kinew can talk all they want about growth, innovation and compassion. People live with the results, not the speeches. Winnipeg cannot compete for talent when taxes are high, productivity is weak, investment leaves, wages lag and essential services fail.

COVID was already more than I can forgive. Families were divided, businesses were damaged, children lost years, peaceful protesters were treated like enemies, and the politicians responsible still speak as though they acted with perfect wisdom.

Then there is healthcare.

My wife had a stroke. It took three years to find out what had happened. Vision problems. Three years of waiting, confusion, worsening symptoms and watching someone you love struggle while a supposedly world-class public system, that she worked hard in for 40 years, moved at a crawl.

That is not compassion. It is institutional failure.

So yes, this move is bittersweet. I am proud of our children and angry at the country they feel they must leave. They are going where talent is valued, work is rewarded and healthcare is part of the employment package.

Carney and Kinew should be ashamed of the country and province they are helping to govern. Their policies have consequences. Families pay them. Patients pay them. Workers pay them. Grandparents pay them.

We moved to Winnipeg from rural Manitoba to be closer to our daughters. A plane trip to our olderst daughter in BC and a walk down the street to our youngest daughters home.

We are allowed to grieve this. We’ll miss birthdays, spontaneous visits, and having our grandchild just down the road. At the same time, this move will give our daughter and grandson financial security that lasts for decades.

My wife and I spent much of our lives trying to give the next generation better choices than we had. Ironically, that success will mean watching them build their future somewhere else. We will miss our daughter, son-in-law and grandchild terribly, we could just walk down the street to see them… now it will be more flights.

And I will never forgive the people who helped make leaving Canada the only sensible choice.

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

Where to begin….

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

You’ll often see uninformed people claim Alberta can’t leave Canada because “it doesn’t own the land” or because it’s “treaty land.”

Little do they know, the treaties say the exact opposite: the land was ceded, released, surrendered and yielded up.

[Prairie Guy @foothillsedge]

@MarkJCarney Trying to be relevant? Sit the f*** down.

[Mark Dietz @MarkDietzinAB]

🇨🇦Mixed Signals🇨🇦

I've been politically aware for a long time...or aware as I can be.

I've never known a politician the way I knew Danielle Smith. I didn't get introduced to her like most candidates, through a few campaign stops or some TV interviews.

I listened to her on the radio for years. I heard her mind at work every single day.
She is likely the most informed vote I've ever made, but it's obvious now that there is a limit to how informed you can be about someone.

When she ran for premier, I didn't vote for her because she's pretty, I voted for her because I genuinely thought I knew who she was...mostly.

She crossed the floor back in the Wildrose days, but I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I figured she was standing on principle.
Everyone makes mistakes, right? But people also mature. And besides, the other option was Rachel Notley...So on that note, I still feel that I made the right choice.

She talked like someone who understood Alberta was getting screwed and was ready to fight for us.

Now I barely recognise her.

When she started cozying up to Mark Carney, it felt like a slap in the face. It was like catching your mom on a date with the biggest sleazebag in town.

Watching her stand behind him at his speeches, nodding along, looking uncomfortable but still there, I don't know what to think.
Captured? Compromised? Federal aspirations?

She used to talk about Alberta First.
About pushing back against Ottawa.
About not getting trapped in bad deals, like Alberta has had with Ottawa for 120 years.

That's what I voted for.

Now she's signing MOUs and working within the system she used to rail against.

Maybe she bought the Pathways to Net Zero pitch thinking any pipeline is better than no pipeline. If that's her way of getting things done, I'll coin my own phrase... It's pragmatic surrender, and certainly not victory.
In my opinion, no pipeline deal is better than a bad pipeline deal in perpetuity.

Whatever the reason, she's not the long term thinker I thought she was. She's locking us into deals that could hurt Alberta for decades.

I thought she was the answer, with some reservations of course. I never fully trust any politician. But she was on the right track.

Now she's pulling a Giorgia Meloni... talking tough until she got in power, then doing a complete about face.

If she's playing some secretive long game and has an ace up her sleeve, she better show her hand fast, because she's losing her base.

At this point, she has soured me.

Now I don't trust any of them. The only politician left in Canada unscathed at the moment is Pierre Poilievre.

He says all the right things and he's very politically astute. He understands politics, history, economics, free market capitalism, socialism, and expresses it eloquently.
In fact, he can be downright Churchillian at times in some of his speeches.

But if he gets into power, how long until he also crumbles under pressure (from above?)

I never thought I'd write something like this about Danielle. I didn't want to.

Even as a separatist, she originally gave me what I voted for. She didn't promise me separation. She promised me sovereignty within a united Canada, and at that time, that was good enough, and a good start.

If sovereignty within a united Canada is still her stance at all, it's delusional.
You cannot have sovereignty within a growing authoritarian surveillance state.

She reacted poorly to the emergence of Mark Carney and especially the rise of separatism in Alberta. She should have remained neutral and provided a soft landing spot should the separation issue fail.

I now view her decision making skills as questionable at best.

She has either sided with globalist Net Zero BS in a misguided, pragmatic attempt at getting something done, or she has backed herself into a corner that she didn't need to be in.

If she had played her cards right, kept her nose clean, kept fighting against Ottawa, and let the democratic process take place in Alberta, we would be talking about erecting a statue of her right now, rather than ousting her at the next AGM.

All said, this just strengthens my core belief that Canada is unfixable.

The only solution is...
#AlbertaIndependence 🤠

[𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚜 ☕️ 𝙳𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚛 ™ @JulesDiner]

To those clutching their pearls over The Unvaccinated who've expressed relief after years of being mocked, dismissed, and ridiculed...and, here you are again, lecturing us on how we must respond to being vindicated.

As a reminder...you wished that...

• The unvaccinated would be socially ostracized and shunned by friends and family.
• The unvaccinated would be publicly identified and "named and shamed."
• The unvaccinated would be prevented from gathering for worship.
• The unvaccinated would be barred from restaurants, theaters, sporting events, and other public venues.
• The unvaccinated would be prohibited from traveling by airplane, train, or other public transportation.
• The unvaccinated would be excluded from schools, universities, and campuses.
• The unvaccinated would lose government benefits or access to certain public services.
• The unvaccinated would lose their jobs.
• The unvaccinated would be forced to pay higher health insurance premiums or bear greater medical costs.
• The unvaccinated would face legal penalties or fines for remaining unvaccinated.
• The unvaccinated would be subjected to stricter quarantine or movement restrictions than vaccinated people.
• Hospitals would refuse to treat the unvaccinated.
• The unvaccinated would be sent to concentration camps.
• The unvaccinated would become seriously ill with COVID-19 or die, with people saying, "They got what they deserved."

Forgive me if I don't give a damn how you feel.

[Gerry @Gerry39464526]

I’m a lifelong Conservative and would never vote anything else but I stick to my principles.
Poillevre
Kenney
Smith
Ford
Are all grifters, conservative when it’s handy but absolutely willing to sell out the folks that voted for them. They go along with liberal BS every time

[Forest Mommy🌲🗡💪🏹🌲🌲 @ForestMommy]

Gm

[Prairie Guy @foothillsedge]

@CoryBMorgan What loyalty can you possibly have to a post national state?

[Prairie Guy @foothillsedge]

Absolutely.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

I dont know about you

I want some public servants and some lawmakers to literally be THROWN in prison

and SUED into oblivion

for what happened during COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

This is what I want.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

BREAKING: Italy closes air and sea borders with Spain, suspends Schengen Agreement.

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

Jason Kenney made the strange case that Quebec has become weak and poor due to its sovereignty ambitions.

Economic and political reality say otherwise.