Mike Soch recently sent a poignant letter to the Calgary Sun:
Got to love the arrogance in statements by our politicians. That being (Rachel) Notley, (Naheed) Nenshi, (Justin) Trudeau, even (Jason) Kenney or any other public servant: “We are all in this together.” Are we now? To all of you, feeding at the taxpayer-filled trough. How much wages have you lost? How many businesses have you lost? How depleted are your savings? How much stress are you are under because you can’t afford your mortgage or car payments? Are you telling your kids they can’t go to dentist because you can’t afford it? I don’t think so. The only thing that really changes for you, when it comes work and wages, is that you might work less, due to some closures, but your pay hasn’t changed, it is the same. So next time you want to spew that line, bite your tongue. It is insulting to all of us paying for your well being and you sound stupid.
Would love to see it published.
Which is very far fetched now a days.
Jojo, it WAS published, in the Calgary SUN. One of the very few news publications which respects the truth.
Sure. The Calgary Sun is about as respectful for the truth as the Toronto Sun. Also to demonstrate they are fake conservatives, they employ Warren Kinsella.
Calgary68 likely voted for Laurentian Elite & #LibCons swamp creature Jason Kenney…
Unfortunately it doesn’t matter how many people send letters like this to MSN, their MP’s or other government officials. Our politicians are only listening and responding to the demands of the Karens, Chicken Little’s and medical “professionals”
They don’t give a shit about anyone else. Nor do they want to listen. They have gone too far to reverse course now.
Mr K exactly, and was a Karen that posted just before you!
Why are the big box stores all open. Why are the fast good chains open. Why is so much small business closed while big business has a windfall. Don’t even get me started on Amazon and other on line retailers.
This is an orchestrated move to get rid of the entrepreneur and middle class citizens. It is easier to control wage earners, workers, the poor, the dumb.
The middle class is educated, motivated and smart enough to know what’s going on … almost. If they truly realized what’s up, they would get their guns and open their businesses. And keep them open at all costs.
We really need to fight back now before it’s too late.
It is too late.
I have written the PMO and fat Ford, Ford refuses to read my letters and I have been denied access to him. The PMO, well, they read nothing.
I shamed my Ontario MPP into responding by referring to him as a coward hiding in his basement like Joe Biden. He responded that he got the email but offered no rebuttal regarding failed COVID policies , or the cowards in the Ontario PC caucus who are afraid to challenge lockdown Ford .
vowg, I’m not sure they can read. They should probably learn to read between the lines, before this all comes back to bite em!
They are too important to listen to lesser peoples now. Their duties as public master…, er I mean, public servants, don’t allow them the time to listen.
Politicians are dicks.
My other favourite is “the new normal.” PFO.
To answer the question in the title of this thread, “Never”.
They are better than us. They are wiser than us. They are smarter than us. They are better-connected than us. They are more powerful than us. They are better than us.
They are not us, including Alberta premier Jell-O Kreampuff.
If an honest person ran a campaign full of ideas to put their fellow citizens and country first they would never get enough votes to be elected. And the rest of the politicians would wink at each other knowing their private club was safe.
Ffs! Never.The pols set up an exclusive club answerable only to the industrial barons of the country and we peasants are a mere distraction, requiring the facade of “democracy” to keep us from wetting our beds. THEY have it made, they are in it for themselves, and slogans don’t mean much when spouted by the comfortable.
Let’s face it folks, it’s over,Trump was a little speed bump in the scheme of things but now the agenda is back on track.
The Progressives will always vote for one of theirs, so we cannot expect a pretend conservative government for a long long time,if ever. Red tie blue tie, they all answer to the same masters and that ain’t us.
I love how some conservatives make comments like,”they work for us”! LOL!!! We ARE known right here at SDA as “the Party of stupid”, and quite rightly.
While it is necessary that such letters get posted frequently, it is beyond obvious that politicians ignore these with impunity. So far the only messages I have seen that have elicited a response from a politician is the graffitto painted on the outside of Kelowna town hall-twice. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kelowna-city-hallcovid-19-hoax-graffiti-1.5798527
Perhaps they only understand messaging that messes with their playpens. It would be nice to see this kind of effort expand across the country on public buildings.
The saddest part of this is us. They shaft us, and we ask for more, usually with a please and thanks. Until we collectively stand up, push back, make a shit load of noise and demand our rights and freedom, none of it will change. OK, big suck, I’m now holding my breath Canada!
Actually, it is not us.
Its the majority that are the NPC’s, they go to work everyday, they sit down in front of the mass media misinformation cartel and that’s for the most part what they know.
It is rather difficult to blame them, they are overworked, underpaid, taking care of their families as much as they can.
Their only fault is that they don’t know what are they voting for and that they should be better informed.
The thing that bothers me is that it was not this here guy that wrote that letter.
True, Gerry, but as a Trump-populist conservative, I continually argue that it takes organizing, at the grassroots level, to become effective and to be heard. Trump understands this, and took the time and spent the money to build and effective grassroots organization.
Here in Canada, were have plenty of alienated conservatives and middle-of-the-roaders, but very little in the way of grassroots organizing. There is an embryonic move towards building a conservative news culture, but little else. Like supporting our small media, conservatives should work to build and support advocacy groups.
That’s why I laugh when people talk about post-covid. There isn’t going to be a post covid. We’re never going back.
This is why I have left Canada few weeks ago for good. No more part of the system. Currently trying to figure out what to do next on the beach somewhere in Central America. Count me out – one less taxpayer and one less cog in the machine. Hasta la vista.
You’ve gone full Shawshank Noone?
Did you get your money out?
Send a postcard, we’ll find you.
re: abtrapper
well not running away from the law, just the system. as for your next question, let me just say that I had made appropriate arangements and the banks are not a part of it.
I have a buddy, that uprooted late last year, and moved down to Belize, and lives next to the beach, and loves it….sigh.
Well, Nensharia has NEVER missed a meal that’s for sure.
And despite his corruption, farleft idiocy, taxpayer abuse and flagrant waste of taxpayer funds, he was re-elected. So, Calgary WANTS him!
The media is doing the heavy lifting for the leftist politicians, let’s not forget that. Without the media propping them up and cheering them on, things would be very different.
The last Calgary municipal election was fraudulent in my opinion. with help I am near certain from our Federal Liberal Scum…
NenXi’s “base” aren’t what got Mayors elected in this town before. Take a boo at the demographics, it resembles Tronna. Been that way for decades, in fact. “Redneck”? HARDEEHAR! They died out, roughly the time time frame. There are only two Rednecks on my quiet crescent, where there used to be a couple of dozen. I’m one of them. Retired. They live and work in Texas or Oklahoma, or North Dakota now. The demographic that elected NenXi wishes they were in Tronna. Their houses would be worth more.
When?
Try never.
Canadians have only themselves to blame for the financial ruin of a once-functional country they’ve handed to China.
Their political class will clear off when the money is gone.
Or they are already on a CCP execution list to be cleared as soon as the Chinese take control. After all, loose ends are problematic and historically trimmed by communist regimes. Just ask Yuri Bezmenov.
50 pandemic medical billionaires, the majority in China.
The “private” trough, filled with our borrowed dollars looks pretty good too:
https://nypost.com/2020/12/27/covid-19-pandemic-making-healthcare-leaders-billionaires/
An effing disgrace.
Even a murderous hydroxychloroquine guy makes the list, and you could die just by saying that word in ‘polite’ company.
I get into arguments about this with some of my colleagues at work. Most of them have never been unemployed, never run a business, never been left wondering when or where the next pay check is coming from. And they have zero empathy for those who are left utterly and completely stranded by these lockdowns. I don’t agree with the anti-mask protests. A mask is a minor inconvenience and a part of a series of measures to mitigate spread of the virus, but the business closures and lockdowns have to be far more focused and considered before they’re implemented, if at all, to make sure there is something for people to carry on their lives with and to be damned sure that any such measure will actually save lives by reducing spread of the virus. So far, the evidence for such is flimsy at best.
A mask is a Petri dish on your face. Most wear it too long and for too many reuses. Thus, more people will get sick from the mask than the virus.
This ^^^
There is no evidence masks work. None. There is lots of evidence they don’t.
There is mounting evidence they have considerable negative health impacts.
I have no patience anymore for people blathering on about how masks are a “minor inconvenience” or “part of the tool box.” For many of us with preexisting respiratory issues a mask is nearly impossible to wear for more than a few minutes.
The “mask” has brought me as close to a stroke or heart attack as anything in my life. How? Every time I walk halfway across the Home Depot parking lot only to realize I’ve forgotten my mask … my blood pressure explodes as I have to turn around and retrieve my mask. Muttering expletives as I stomp back to my car.
I just carry a roll of duct tape in my pocket. Cheaper and probably more effective. If you do it right, it won’t stick to your nose, so you can breath.
It will come in handy during the next election debate when talking over points become unpersuasive.
“A mask is a minor inconvenience and a part of a series of measures to mitigate spread of the virus,”
Swedes don’t have to wear them, it seems no “mitigation” is needed at all.
Go ahead and wear yours, Bootlicker. It should mitigate against the need for me to wear one.
After all, if your mask prevents the virus from getting out, it should prevent the virus from getting in too. Yes?
One of these days someone will figure out mass mask mandates spread, not limit transmission of covid or any other virus.
People drive around in masks, go from one location to another, so if the virus is present, they’re cross-contaminating.
Masks give people a sense of false security, so they don’t do what’s most effective, social distancing, which youth eschew.
Data makes it clear masks have little true effect, one way or the other, they can help a little but more likely hurt a lot.
Masks are therefore the personification of amoral leviathan statist overreach and power mongering.
But they’re very effective at cowing the population with irrational fears, while the neo-oligarchs get richer from lockdowns.
They’re also very effective at moving the people to the next threshold of neo-regal rule, just insert the excuse er, science.
Like the settled science of climate change. Collectivists, aka statists in a hurry won’t be satisfied with just carbon taxes.
It’s time to build it back better, actually bigger so the furthest thing from better. But better for them, not you.
Reminds me of the old joke of Freedom 55. The punch line it’s Freedom 55 for the insurance agent, not the client.
But, that was in the voluntary sector. Now the apparatchiks want to assure their retirements in the compulsory sector.
Why not tax back the excess “economic profits” of the oligarch profiteers to recover social costs? Not in your life peasants!!
“One of these days someone will figure out mass mask mandates spread, not limit transmission of covid or any other virus.”
Where are the barrels/garbage cans marked with the Bio-Hazard symbol outside of or inside of any institution(grocery stores) for people to dispose of their masks as they exit these places?
We here in Airdire Alberta still have our recycled trash picked up on a weekly basis.
Guess where we toss our used Blue Surgical Masks we’re forced to wear to get service? LOL
After they are overthrown by their former victims;
After they are subjected to whatever enhanced interrogation techniques are necessary to make them stop lying to the face of decent people
After they are obliged, under oath, to make a full confession of all their crimes;
And after sentence is passed, and they are being frog-marched at gunpoint with their harlots and bastards into a prison basement to be put down like the vermin they are by good men with guns, their carcasses burned and the ashes scattered in the nearest convenient landfill—
Then, maybe, they’ll have some inkling of how much pain they caused.
More likely though, they’ll go to their deaths perfectly unrepentant. I can more easily imagine Christian Chomiak going to her death screaming “the Zionists will shoot YOU one day!” than even pretending to apologize.
ST, Why would you scatter their ashes in a landfill? Why not just dump em and be on your way to the next bonfire!
Ok, we are doomed, but, can we at the very least have the satisfaction of witnessing a couple of real cowboys giving Nenshi the full rodeo treatment? Or are you all now just broke back and all hat and no cattle?
Oh, and Kenny and Iveson and Blackie and Horgan all your nerdy health nazis….piss the fuck off. Yeah, you too, Bonnie.
Peace.
Stevie
I’ll take the bait.
Have you ever met a cowboy? I’m not talking about the ones you meet in the gay bar.
The chance of a cowboy taking Nenxi out to the woodshed exists as a fiction in your mind. And it wouldn’t take a couple of cowboys to do it.
How about reporting that a couple, or more, if that’s what it takes Ontario cowboys take jello tory out to the woodshed?
Let us know when it happens.
I know a couple of cowboys. They don’t waste their time on folks like NenXi. No profit in doing that. Too busy doing what cowboys do, to waste time on His Largeness and others like him. Git ‘er done, is their motto.
But Dear Leader Blackie isn’t taking his family on his annual taxpayer funded Winter Solstice vacation down south this year. He cares about us.
Well, when the Chinese attacked most of us were doing very well. That’s why they attacked.
If the gubmint “workers” stretch this out a little longer they know the neighbour up at the cottage will have to sell and they’ll be able to extend the lake frontage of the compound.
I don’t know why you all insist on being such buzzkills.
Re: the letter to the Calgary Sun by Mike Soch: Bravo !!! “We are [definitely not] all in this together.”
When will Canadians wake up to the realization that they have been used and abused by the Trudeau Government. I submit to you that there is no question that the Liberals have used the COVID-19 virus to accomplish a purely political agenda, the decimation and/or annihilation of their main political adversary, the Conservative Party of Canada.
The financial pain of the shutdown and phased stages of re-opening of the economy is not being shared by all groups in society on an equal or even a proportion basis. What is undeniable is that there are clearly identifiable groups of winners and losers, corporate behemoths versus small independent businesses, union versus non-union, government bureaucrats versus non-government employees. Further, each group has a political proclivity to either support the Liberals or their main political adversary, the Conservatives.
How can the Liberal’s policies designed to help all Canadians have the unintended consequence of crippling the financial base of support for their main political adversary, the Conservatives, while at the same time having the unintended consequence of helping or favouring the Liberals financial base of support?
What we have witnessed is a well thought out political strategy put in place by the Liberals to financially cripple groups of people who are less likely to support the Liberal Party. In my opinion this is no mistake. It is a calculated and deliberate strategy.
What can and should be done to turn the tables?
When patriots spill their blood on the streets.
ontario John – Dear Leader Blackie’s “family” does not consist of wifey Soapy. They have been estranged for years. She only shows up ( begrudgingly no doubt) when absolutely necessary – as in the Gay Parades! She is a flake but at least had a brain to ditch him.
So, um, hosed, are you saying she’s a soap flake?
I agree.
We need to take inspiration from the people of Prague. The term, “Defenestrate” came about three times in Prague in 1419, 1483 and 1618 when mobs threw the leaders out of the top windows of the castle.
I recommend three groups of politicians in three parts of the country.
Nah. We’d be charged with committing several crimes. Littering might be one of them.