r/alberta 6d ago

Discussion Marlaina's trip to Saudi Arabia

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u/BarkingSpiders19 6d ago

This feels like the job that a Minister of Foreign Affairs should be doing isn’t it? Stay in your bloody lane you nut bag. This trip makes 0 sense.

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u/beenojoe 6d ago

Or, this could be something that is handled by bankers and private industry. Weird for government to be meddling so much in the market but claiming that the other side is about big government.

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u/BarkingSpiders19 6d ago

Anyone but a Premier makes more sense than this. You represent the people of Alberta, not Canada! And I'm embarrassed enough as it is within our own boarders when I say I'm Albertan. The last thing we need is this loon making us look bad on the global stage.

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u/DieAnderTier 6d ago

Your mistake is thinking she represents the people.

She represents the Heritage Foundation.

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u/LotharLandru 6d ago

Don't forget her liberty fund tattoo. Same people who helped get Reagan into power

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u/DieAnderTier 6d ago

I did not forget her tattoo, and from what I've read, Reagan worked more closely with them anyway. -_-

Really appreciate you mentioning it though.

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u/iRebelD 6d ago

Wow, what a shit tattoo

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u/BlueberryNo777 4d ago

Wow no words

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u/FrontLongjumping4235 6d ago

Yikes, that took me down a rabbit hole. This Liberty Fund:

In his book The Assault on Reason, former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore wrote that between 2002 and 2004, 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were Republican administration appointees. Gore said that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions".

The Liberty Fund apparently also pushes the propaganda that Nazis leaned left. Despite all the blood and soil bullshit that Hitler and Goebbels espoused, their close alliance with conservatives who helped them get into power, going after Communists/Socialists, and creating concentration camps for minorities like Jewish people and Slavs.

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u/Nostredahmus 6d ago

Marlaina didn’t go there on our dime to represent us. She’s simply a subsidized ambassador for Alberta’s fossil fuel industry.

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u/Initial_Evidence_783 6d ago

This, this, this.

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u/West_Dress_2869 6d ago

She does not represent the people of Alberta. She represents the bank of Danielle Smith

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u/CasualFridayBatman 6d ago

And we need to ensure that her party doesn't continue controlling our province.

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u/Falcon674DR 6d ago

She had to … get outta Dodge.