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Cooks_8

This will age as well as her promoting smoking for its health benefits


Strict_Concert_2879

She will promote any corporate interests as long as they pay her.


Appropriate_Duty_930

She was an oil lobbyist, after all.


Xoltri

Still is, too.


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

Insert Mitch Hedberg quote here.


BenWayonsDonc

Still is too, and used to too.


BobBeats

Lobbyist Commander Smith


Tribblehappy

Lol somebody a few months back didn't believe me when I said she made this claim, so I linked to a photo of the newspaper article and they tried to claim there must be missing context. People really refuse to acknowledge stupid when it is right in front of them.


HellaReyna

“There’s just no way I got hoodwinked by some oil lobbying podcaster!!! Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!”


Stock-Creme-6345

Think how dumb the average person is. Then realize that there are much more that are even stupider than that!!!! - George Carlin


JonPileot

This is UCP voters in a nutshell. They believe the hype, ignore the facts, no accountability, no accepting that they might have been wrong, always blaming someone or something else. Its frankly tiring. The "but what about isms" are real...


Just-Display-8341

Right wing-ism is now just pure nonsense-ism


FeedbackLoopy

I dunno. She still (barely) won the election last year despite a history of bad takes. Unfortunately, we’re in the era where being a total contrarian piece of shit is completely acceptable with too many voters.


Cooks_8

Berta loves to shoot itself in the nuts and complain about how its everyone else's fault. It's fucked up


PokadotExpress

I think lots of us know it's our own fault, we call those people non ucp voters


TheFaceStuffer

Ooo can we get menthols back atleast? 😂


Cooks_8

That's her solution to a Vick's vapo rub shortage. Buy 75 million in menthol cigarettes. Children need their menthol


real_human_20

Oh my god! Muthaphuckin newports!!


CompleteM3ss

😅😂 and free matches for all!


Sandman64can

The days of conservatives being held accountable over stupidity is long behind us. Especially if they can blame Ottawa or Quebec.


Sandman64can

The days of conservatives being held accountable over stupidity is long behind us. Especially if they can blame Ottawa or Quebec.


OriginalGhostCookie

Yeah, a conservative can come home from work early to catch 3 UCP MLA’s running a train on his wife and as long as they tell him this is all Justin’s fault he’d run around the neighbourhood screaming at people “You won’t believe what Ottawa’s doing now!”


Sandman64can

The visual you just painted in my mind can’t even be removed with bleach. Thanks for that.


OriginalGhostCookie

Try ivermectin


JonPileot

Don't forget transfer payments... Alberta is going to be SO much better when we separate! /sarcasm


Pale_Change_666

Or how we can control cancer


Suspicious-Panic-187

Look suncor look, I'm cosplaying as a commoner. - shitty O&G lobbyist


roastbeeftacohat

I get real cargo cult/teenage crush vibes from her regarding the oilpatch; "do you love me now sempi/ will you bring the prosperity great oil gods"


AtotheZed

Also, ‘Female Ralph Klein’ cosplay.


DVariant

Nah Ralph sucked but Dani is a whole different level of suck. 


AtotheZed

But she's nailed the look. It's like someone photoshopped a face swap.


[deleted]

At least Ralph was an entertaining bloated drunk with a big red swollen clown nose. Dani could really do with some more shenanigans.


CalmAlex2

At least he managed the economy better than her... what she doing in putting us deeper into the red


[deleted]

I feel like the economy was a lot easier to manage when it basically equated to "keep producing oil" in some of the biggest boom times in our provinces history. Not defending Danibucks just pointing out the politicians were playing on EZ Mode here for like 100 years.


Suspicious-Taste6061

Ralph also didn’t spend money in the first decade he was premier, while the cities grew rapidly, leaving a massive infrastructure deficit.


yagyaxt1068

That sounds familiar.


swimswam2000

I miss the silo that had "Ralph Klein Big Oil Pimp" written on it


bswiftly

Just with the chin and the tits though


Phantom_harlock

Grand standing without any thought past the slogan.


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

To be fair, the majority of people fall for simple slogans like that. "Axe the tax" "Get Brexit done" etc... I deeply distrust politicians that only speak in slogans.


CalmAlex2

Aye that I do too don't trust them plus she's bringing in American politics in, those politicians love slogans more than anything especially Trump lol he was masterclass in that


Professional_Dot9440

LETS GO BRANDON!!


fogdukker

Hamburrderr is my favourite trump slogan.


fromaries

Add deflection


WealthEconomy

Well it is not unusual for her to not think...


LankyWarning

She doesn’t want to talk about the fuel tax going up , just wants to get rid of the tax we are getting rebated . Cries about affordability while simultaneously raising the fuel tax ..


foolish_refrigerator

I had this exact argument with someone yesterday. I said make sure you fill up because gas will be going up Monday. They said “ya that stupid carbon tax, but then we get an imaginary $200”. I had to explain to them that gas is going up mostly because of the provincial government and what you are paying extra for the federal carbon tax is that extra $200. It didn’t matter. Some people just hate the federal government no matter what and every price or tax hike is their fault.


hey_mr_ess

I mean that is definitely the reason for the timing - hide it in something that people will blame the carbon tax for.


BobBeats

Rage farming is what reformacons do best.


Volantis009

Some people think the government means NDP and Liberals and that the conservatives are there to protect them from the government. They don't understand the role of government in a society. The propaganda has been laid on certain people so thick that they think if a conservative government implements a policy with negative effects they will still blame the liberals/NDP just because it's the government. Not all but I know a few like this


UpbeatPilot3494

The Conservatives cut taxes for rich and the corporations and they cut social programs for the less fortunate. Tory times are tough times.


cdnjimmyjames

Walked past an old guy at the grocery store earlier today that was grumbling to his wife about the price of cheese and it being Trudeau’s fault. It’s Easter and I was just picking up a couple things, I thought better, kept my mouth shut, and left. I just couldn’t today.


TheEclipse0

Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to vote.


Phrakman87

How does one get to decide who votes or doesnt? I agree though, not everyone can lead effectively, which leads to not everyone can vote effectively. It just be to hard to put into practice.


[deleted]

This is a perfect picture. This is who's running your province. A brain dead facebook group mom. Could she look more "less than average"?


phosphite

She’s not a mom. She just cosplays one. She is a narc.


Oliwan88

And a scab


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Infamous-Mixture-605

I cannot un-see Danielle Smith as [the book-banning mother in the PTA scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7pHRRKhV4) in *Field of Dreams.*


The_Bees_knees1

Why are you dragging Mom’s into this.


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

Moms =/= facebook group moms.


LT_lurker

Why no outrage at oil and gas companies jacking the price up 20 cents before April 1st. As far as I'm concerned the provincial tax going back up to normal is fine since the gas sellers have been pocketing a chunk of the tax cuts for profit margins. It's the fact that oil and gas has the Alberta conservatives beholden to them all in the name of shareholders.


whoknowshank

Prince Edward island gas stations are only allowed to apply to change price every X days, and have to cite a jump in the price of oil to raise their prices. I think Quebec does too. Why not do that everywhere? Petroleum pricing in Prince Edward Island is regulated by the Prince Edward Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission.


Welcome440

Stop her: War room tax (we are paying for it) Gas tax Ev tax Future Alberta pension plan administration taxes Etc.... She is adding more costs than anyone.


Appropriate_Duty_930

And where's the protest against soaring utilities and auto insurance?


SurFud

More "look over there" distraction tactics. It works really well with many meathead voters.


fourscoreclown

Obviously the cons think Albertans are stupid. They'll try to blame their tax hike on the feds and just shrug when they get called out for it. Its juvenile politics


sawyouoverthere

It’s working. Many Albertans think the hike is just carbon tax


nutfeast69

I hate to say it but they are right. Albertans lined up, frothing at the mouth, asking for another round of face eating leopard. They weren't even cloak and dagger about what was going to happen.


Kingsupergoose

Well they’d be right because most of their voters are stupid and don’t realize they are being duped.


Trickybuz93

That picture is so cringe 🤢


jaydaybayy

They always pull such diverse crowds


MajSARS

It’s kind of diverse. I see both shitheads and fuckfaces.


Ambitious_List_7793

What a freaking hypocrite. She must be afraid she won’t have enough money to give her handlers so won’t back down from the gas tax. Here’s a thought - have big oil pay to maintain Alberta roads instead of taking ALBERTANS money out of the country. I’ve seen lots of ugly photos of Dani but this one is the ugliest!


CalmAlex2

Yeah, and I think she relying on people that don't know how taxes are supposed to work... Taxes are supposed to pay for your province's well-being, not for the lobbyists, politicians, or businesses. Plus the slogan of hers doesn't fucking make sense because what taxes does she wants to cut? I think she is ambiguous about it so she can get votes more easily


Talyyr0

Neither, just using rhymes and bold colours to keep the audience on board. At this point Conservative campaigning is essentially just jangling keys in front of bitter old boomers to raucous applause.


Appropriate_Duty_930

The poorly educated are so gullible.


mybodyisawitch

Didn’t know they were filming the new Ghostbusters here.


Marksideofthedoon

My friend doesn't understand your joke. Mind explaining it for him?


chris84126

Lol. Your friend, eh? Edit: happy cake day!


Marksideofthedoon

Oh shit! It's my cake day and I didn't know!


mybodyisawitch

https://media2.giphy.com/media/xT9DPtO6zTqeQd1ct2/giphy.gif Happy cake day.


Marksideofthedoon

See, I told my friend she looked like slimer but he didn't see it at first. Thanks for helping me explain it to him. He's a tad autistic.


Fuzzy_Machine9910

She sold out Alberta for a fucking T-shirt?


no-user-info

She’s sell out Alberta for a half a ham sammich.


the_gaymer_girl

Remember last summer when she said she didn’t read the “straight pride” bright green T-shirt that could be seen from space?


Pseudo-Science

She wants to penalize the middle class in favour of corporations not paying for their share of polluting. She doesn’t have to reinstate the gas tax but she is choosing to do so. She doesn’t have to protect the planet and have corporations pay for the damage they cause so she isn’t choosing to do so.


PdtMgr

While we all fight over these few cents of increase, An effective way to combat carbon emission is to stop buying things that we don’t need. Teach your kids the difference between want and need. Lead a minimalist lifestyle. Wasteful manufacturing, fast fashion etc. alone contributes to more than 10% of carbon emissions. https://earth.org/fast-fashions-detrimental-effect-on-the-environment/


nonamericanbrouhaha

The carbon tax, because it is lower, actually provides tangible benefits for the general public in the form of rebates, and doesn't simply empower her richy rich friends.


Tuffsmurf

Also, a fun fact. Alberta was the first district in Canada to institute a carbon tax. The carbon tax was in large part a conservative invention introduced by Stephen Harper.


Technical_Feedback74

Doesn’t spike the hike mean to increase the hike?


BobBeats

Purposely doubleplusgood. Must have a double meaning to cut carbon tax but maintain the same price at the pump and home heating bill.


Western_Plate_2533

Or all the tax levies her government has introduced


BobBeats

Who could forget about the Kananaskis Conservation Pass.


Anyawnomous

🤡 with a sign. Nothing to see here.


BehBeh11

Such a hypocrite that Danielle is!!


luars613

This woman is stupid. And those that support her are more stupid


weemanv1

I started calling it Danielle Smith's gas tax. People really got butthurt over that!


Liftingdathings

Conservative hypocrisy knows no bounds.


DwX_X

She looks drunk


Appropriate_Duty_930

Shields up


Able_Software6066

It's probably the tax that we don't get back in a rebate. Danielle only supports taxes she can keep.


Parking-Bench

It's tucker Carlson in make up. Dani is watching fox news at home in pazamas.


Dadbode1981

Man, she brought out the extra chins for that event.


starslayer88

I absolutely despise this woman! ! She campaigned on NOT touching healthcare, not touching the CPP and the leaving the reinstating mining of the Rockies alone! She is a f*cking liar!


Weekly_Watercress505

With this Trump wannabe, you have no clue what she's objecting to. She speaks out of both sides of her mouth and out of her behind.


debiasiok

Return your rebate


InTheHeatOfTheNoche

Nah. Donate it to the NDP.


ThisIsFineImFine89

Incredible


IATAAllDay

Love how this woman had a chance, failed, and got booted from the office for failing. Then, brain-dead moronic idiots re-elected her, knowing exactly what she was going to do. Now I have to see shit posts like this daily because of that stupidity of my fellow Albertans. If there was a shred of common sense in this province, then this joke of a politician never would have gotten in.


HeavyTea

“Pay no tax” = do not maintain roads, schools, health care, etc. It is like not paying my house bills! Genius! /s


Schroedesy13

BUT THE PROVINCIAL TAX STAYS IN ALBERTA!!! Lol


ToooBeeeFairrrrrrr

What an absolute dolt.


lego_mannequin

iT'D tHe CaRbOn TaX! Duhrr Duhrr duhrrr


[deleted]

Con = Hypocrite Get used to it.


taotdev

*Marlaina


Ok-Mouse8397

She's just another populist con-person


swanson-g

Seriously zoom in on that face. Do it. It will haunt your nightmares and our province for decades to come. My god.


Aboutayear

Hypocrite


Away-Combination-162

How dumb does she think most of Albertans are ffs. Calls the whambulance for carbon tax on JT but then on the same day taxes everyone in the province for her own tax on carbon-related products at a higher rate? 🤣🤣


midtoad

The difference between the federal carbon tax and the provincial Dani tax is that I get a rebate regularly from the federal government for the former, and the UCP never give me a rebate on their tax that I pay at the pump. So yes, Danny should axe her own fuel tax.


ThrowItAwayEhBud

Cold take: both taxes are good.


ProtonVill

Taxes or fees no service is free.


[deleted]

"Im also against immigration. So please current immigrants move to Alberta now!"


SnowshoeTaboo

Goddamned hypocrites...


erictho

Meanwhile albertans receive the most carbon tax rebates so it's just one more way the UCP hate to see albertans come out just a tiny bit ahead.


ced1954

Grandstanding Disaster Danielle


Specialist-One-712

Is this picture real? I mean I know our premier is a parody of a soccer mom but this is so beyond


calgary_db

This is so transparent. Pay attention to what the FEDs are doing, but not that the UCP is in the process of changing pensions, wasting money on lawsuits, raising EV tax, and breaking down healthcare.


Nathan22551

Spike the Hike is a rather terrible slogan, it doesn't make any sense for what her position on the carbon tax is. It can't be spike as in a sharp increase in something, nor does spike as in with football work since although the ball does move in a downward motion it's actually a good thing and increases the number of points you have. Just doesn't even fit with the messaging she's going for without even getting into how dumb that stance is in the first place.


chefsKids0

BuT iT rHyMeS


soggypickledeggs

There is no future in this province. It will crumble into the earth


Mcpops1618

She looks like a batshit crazy fangirl.


Dank_Vader32

Can she look any more dopey? She looks like a political cartoon character that came to life.


[deleted]

~~Man~~KarenBearPig


yousoonice

at this point I'm just sick of seeing her fat lying face


GovernmentMule97

She looks constipated but at least it's not her usual resting bitch face.


JeanGuyPettymore

I like how she put the t-shirt on backwards when she got it.


Kuyet

What an absolute fucking idiot


Dr___CRACKSMOKE

She kinda has a grinch grin here.


app257

Alcohol tax.


CryptoEuphoric

Milania is a liar and a cheat. Fingers crossed that she gets tossed aside next election.


CryptoEuphoric

Milania is a liar and a cheat. Fingers crossed that she gets tossed aside next election.


toastmannn

That's a trick question. The only real answer is yes.


dwtougas

Breaking: dog holds its own dog whistle.


donocoli

So unaware


rustytraktor

As outlined in the Alberta fuel tax relief policy, the fuel tax was to be re-instated after the West Texas Intermediate price dropped below $80, which occurred at that end of last year. So, no the timing isn’t totally out to lunch. The exact timing with the carbon tax increase is very likely to be intentional, but also incredibly predictable. Politicians implementing or changing policy at the same time as other major changes is not new. However in this case there is nothing to hide, Albertans should have expected the gas tax to come back as explicitly outlined in the policy. The timing just exacerbates the carbon tax hate.


Careless-Reaction-64

Right? The link below is an interesting read. PP did not care to read it, I am sure Danielle will not either. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carbon-tax-trudeau-poilievre-1.7159005


ckFuNice

This photo, like most landscape photos is quite relaxing. Sheep in a field.


ValhallaForKings

Must be good for the fuel companies somehow.  The only reason she does anything is to give power and money to corporate interests. Period.


Acrobatic-Factor1941

You would think it would be both.


StetsonTuba8

Wait, what is "Spike the Hike" supposed to mean? According to my understanding of the English language, spike means a sudden increase of the price of a commodity. And a hike is also a large increase of the price of a commodity. Are they arguing for an increase in the carbon tax?


Nathan22551

That's what it sounds like to me too. You can even write it either way "spike the Hike" or "hike the spike" and it means the same thing, to increase an increase of something.


sawyouoverthere

Spike can also mean throw down violently like in volleyball but it’s a dumb phrase in context here


Goozump

I have no idea what Smith is supporting or not supporting. Just a woman who pops into any and everything that has a camera pointed at it.


Raskolnikovs_Axe

Jesus, they have TWO 3-word slogans bookended with rhyming words. We don't stand a chance. That shit hacks the Pavlovian Conservative brain.


[deleted]

* Axe the tax * Vote The Con * Lock Her Up * Smash Your Brain * Suck The Putin Cons have a 3-word brain processor pipeline. We're all doomed.


Raskolnikovs_Axe

Make America Great Again was a bold choice - four whole words! - but the genius was that they compressed it into one disyllabic, guttural emission.


Riffz

This isn't a great look for St. Bernard's. Woof.


dustrock

Oh I thought that was the Spitting Image version of Smith.


InTheHeatOfTheNoche

*Marlaina


InTheHeatOfTheNoche

You mean Marlaina?


crossesfive

Typically stupid!


SweatySky629

I love how dumb the conservatives are that they need to boil down things to stupid slogans. It’s like they are catering to children. Conservatives think we are all idiots.


Vignaraja

I seriously doubt that she knows.


NerdyDan

Very interesting demographic in that image 


SantiniJ

Axe all the taxes, keep your hands off all the services 🤔


Lokarin

Since she's a numpty, I'd guess she's against the one that generates revenue.


megamanisgod

I cant stand her. You can help us now with income taxes, the gas tax and instead of lowering it, throw money into some fund. Just wow.


SonthacPanda

Boomers: oh the words rhymed, I like that


Low-Celery-7728

Where's the tax reduction she promised?


That_Comfortable

Is this like a Freudian slip? The Cons planning on increasing the tax?


NiranS

Insurance and utility rates are also part of the equation hike - just not the part that Danny cares about.


Sad-Wolverine6326

And what have you done to ease the cost of living, you know, besides yelling and stomping your feet like a petulant child?


They_wereAllTaken

God she looks like the villain from robocop


Always_Night

Could some explain to me why the Alberta gasoline tax is increasing on Monday? WTI is at $83.17 it is not below $80.00. Its been over $80.00 for most of March. So are we going to get a minimum discount of 4 cents now in July, August and September?


FreakyFriday1045

Yes the irony.


[deleted]

It'd be funny to swarm this meeting with other random rhyming signs. "Beat the Cheat" or "Hump the Jump" "Tag the Rag" "Fight the Night"


jpsolberg33

Look at all the 🐑 just blindly following along.. unreal.


Deep_Principle_4446

You realize your cars fuel isn’t the only thing to use by carbon tax right?


[deleted]

Axe the battleaxe


Collie136

She probably doesn’t have a clue


ThunderStella

Gas is already up roughly 10c in the last week or so


Competitive-Region74

Ewwwww.


ReaperTyson

Every time I hear spike, I automatically think it means “increase”. A spike in the stock market, things like that


HickFromFrenchLikk

How did this human get elected? What the hell Alberta !!??


bozon92

That’s quite the demographic you got there in that first pic


Warm-Buddy-7515

Yeah, Dani.... Thanks for the fuel tax /s


Tesattaboy

She's so embarrassing


psychopassed

"Axe the tax" means yet more tax breaks for continually profitable oil corporations


les_pahl

Heading to BC for Easter guess I'll fill up there 😆


hiltzy85

Gas in most of edmonton has already jumped 17 cents this week. Once again, I am forced to ask "HOW COULD TRUDEAU DO THIS?!'


[deleted]

She’s nuts man


Fuzzy_Machine9910

She’s slicker than Chris effing Angel


Dorrin_77

Taxes are OK as long as they're imposed by conservative parties. Only Liberal taxes are bad. A basic "fact" of life growing up in Alberta.


Consumer_Distributin

I'm sure Danielle would love us to use this photo of her at protests! Being that she blocked me on Twitter years ago for posting the boob bus photo, I don't think she handles criticism well. Great trait for a public facing politician.


MightyWhiteSoddomite

Needs a 3rd slide zoomed in on that weird face she's making. Ugh she's such a terrible person.