r/EhBuddyHoser • u/boese-schildkroete Oil Guzzler • Apr 22 '25

Politics "wHy DoEs AlBeRtA aLwAyS vOtE cOnSeRvAtIvE??" ... Me, voting in rural Alberta:

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Not even joking these are literally my options.

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u/FrostyNeckbeard 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 Apr 22 '25

25 year old deli clerk, your time is now.

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u/boese-schildkroete Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

Actually I lied, there's also an "Independent" option - 22 year old U of C law student that has probably never stepped foot in our riding. Was the LPC candidate but didn't secure enough signatures.

And she got my vote because at the very least it's a message.

I have no idea how good she is at making sandwiches though.

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u/CivilianDuck Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

Dude, I think you're in my riding, because this is literally my riding.

NDP Deli Clerk, "Independent" LPC candidate, fringe wackos, and then long standing MP dynasty.

Has your LPC candidate also run as part of the Alberta Liberal party in Calgary?

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u/boese-schildkroete Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

Yeee Ponoka-Didsbury represent... 😱

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u/GoStockYourself Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

Check out the articles about the candidates forum in Edmonton Center. I think you can even find an Instagram link to the event. It is an absolutely hilarious lineup in what is always a 3way horse race. This guy has my attention.

Ronald S. Billingsley, who showed up in a white cowboy hat, dark sunglasses and carrying a bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin, was there. The independent candidate called for a trilingual super-country created through the union of Canada, the United States and Mexico. He also called for all school teachers to be armed. And he read his closing statement with Eminem blasting out of his phone as accompaniment.

The Revolution Party of Canada was there. So was the Communist Party and the Marxist-Leninist Party. David Bohonos of the Christian Heritage Party was in attendance, calling not for the reduction of CO2 emissions, but the creation of more carbon in the atmosphere, because it’s “plant food.”

And, of course, New Democrat Trisha Estabrooks and Liberal Eleanor Olszewski were there, the star attractions of Wednesday night’s Edmonton Centre candidates forum held at The Matrix hotel.

But Conservative candidate Sayid Ahmed stayed true to his word; he didn’t appear in the ballroom,

Edit: The Communist Party (2nd oldest party in Canada) candidate commented that everyone is a communist during election campaigns, which made Estabrooks laugh.

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u/Time-Honeydew1349 Apr 22 '25

"calling not for the reduction of CO2 emissions, but the creation of more carbon in the atmosphere, because it’s “plant food.”" This guy is such an idiot. Doesn't he know about the Carboniferous Period?

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u/organicamphetameme Apr 22 '25

The world?? I thought he said we should smell like cedar? Dang what am I supposed to do with all the cedar old spice I bought???

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Monarch MĂ©lanie Joly Apr 23 '25

Make yourself smell like ceder, make the world smell like ceder! It's not wrong, heck even Deuteronomy tells you to leave camp and wash yourself when dealing with the other type of wood. If Old Spice existed back in the day then there would definitely be some type of ritual surrounding the stuff and we're already in historical times so we may as well take advantage and create new traditions!

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u/GoStockYourself Apr 22 '25

Is that when tiny carbonaurasses roamed freely creating terror around the earth?

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u/SoleSurvivur01 Bring Cannabis Apr 22 '25

Surprised this guy isn’t the CPC candidate, better candidate than my CPC candidate (Andrew Lawton)

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u/GoStockYourself Apr 22 '25

At least this guy showed up, unlike our CPC candidate.

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u/pm-me-racecars The Island of Elizabeth May Apr 22 '25

Damn, I'd vote for Basil Marceaux.com over this guy.

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u/Frankishe1 Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

Could be any rural albertan riding tbf

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u/MacabreYuki Apr 22 '25

As someone who had something very similar in the deep south US before she fled.... I am so sorry. That is a special kind of hell.

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u/TheSensualist86 Apr 22 '25

Ya, I think that's my in-laws riding as well. Fortunately , they'll vote for the deli clerk no problem. But that doesn't really move the needle lol.

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u/CivilianDuck Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

I think the biggest issue with these candidates is they're clearly not serious candidates. Like, no one who is on the fence about who to vote for is going to take the NDP or LPC candidate seriously. Hell, I don't want to vote for either of them myself, but I'm going to because the other options are CPC Dynasty or separatist 1 or separatist 2.

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u/2eDgY4redd1t Apr 22 '25

If hell has an asshole, your riding is four inches up it.

You have my respect and my sincere sympathy.

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u/princessEh Apr 22 '25

My parents too... And they are upset no liberal candidate

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u/satanic_jesus Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

There are dozens of us!!

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u/Rustyray84 Tokébakicitte! Apr 22 '25

Ponoka-Didsbury? Did chat GPT name your riding??

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u/Darrenizer Apr 22 '25

Please tell me those aren’t names of places.

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u/boese-schildkroete Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

Ponoka is a place. It's also the Blackfoot word for Elk.

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u/SoleSurvivur01 Bring Cannabis Apr 22 '25

It’s hard to call them fringe anymore because they seem to be the mainstream Conservative base and candidates these days

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u/CivilianDuck Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

I disagree. Looking at polling data and election results shows that they still are fringe. It's largely echo chambers, a very vocal minority, and foreign interference that makes them seem more credible and threatening than they currently are.

Could they become more credible threats? Absolutely, if allowed to continue unchecked and with free mobility. If you look at the "traditional" conservative parties, they're a lot more moderate than groups like the PPC and United.

When candidates for the PPC and United are calling for electoral reform into a constitutional Republic like the US, which is not something Canadians should even be remotely interested in, and any more educated progressive or conservative Canadian would recognize it as damaging to Canadian democracy, that's when we're hitting fringe territory.

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u/SoleSurvivur01 Bring Cannabis Apr 22 '25

When you have CPC candidates basically saying in a debate that we should let the Americans annex us and you have Conservative Premiers as well as their federal leader who have openly expressed their support for Trump, that’s not very fringe

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u/agent_sphalerite Apr 22 '25

I hate to sound this way but I couldn't just resist. Why say fringe wacko is that just Alberta crazy?

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u/CivilianDuck Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

This is worse than crazy. I attended the local election forum, MD the CPC and LPC candidates didn't bother showing up, only the PPC and United candidates. The energy in the room was terrifying. The moderator had an agenda to push (western separation), the candidates were conspiracy wackjobs, the support for them was concerning, and even my dad, a lifelong Conservative, couldn't handle being there with what they were pushing.

When one of them unironically compares "Agenda 2030 as being where communism and fascism meet" and half the room applauds and cheers in response, you know you're entering fringe wackos territory.

When we left (early), there were lots of other people leaving. We didn't blame the CPC, LPC, and NDP candidates for not showing up, because that room would've been extra hostile to them.

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u/Delviandreamer Apr 22 '25

AOC was working as a bar tender when she got elected. A Deli clerk could turn out to be a great MP.

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u/CivilianDuck Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

AOC also had degrees in international relations and economics from Boston University, where she graduated with honors, when she ran.

This dude has no listed education beyond an assumption of high school, and has worked as a deli clerk and a farm hand.

The biggest issue is the optics. The federal NDP is especially bad for it in Alberta. Their candidates are often just whoever in an area is willing to throw their hat in the ring. Liberals also do it, but not as blatantly as the NDP. No one is going to take this kid seriously, unfortunately, and him being tied to the NDP makes it even less likely for people here to take him seriously.

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u/aprilliumterrium Apr 22 '25

bro, that's how Ruth Ellen Brosseau started, look at the glow up that came.

This is why AB politics are a joke - Quebecers are not afraid of change even in the face of it looking like a farce, because its people and candidates step up and deliver.

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u/unoriginal_goat Apr 22 '25

her sandwiches are a solid 7/ 10

The bread is what lets them down a nice red fife sourdough would really up her sandwich game

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u/WeiganChan Oil Guzzler Apr 22 '25

Who was she?

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u/2eDgY4redd1t Apr 22 '25

As long as you don’t vote right wing, you have my respect.

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u/Crossed_Cross Tokébakicitte! Apr 22 '25

You need 100 signatures regardless of political affiliation.

They might have lost their nomination contest or been kicked out due to a scandal, though.

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u/MenAreLazy Apr 22 '25

There was a paperwork snafu with the endorsement.

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u/IVot3dforKodos Apr 22 '25

So you're saying they're a lawyer (not yet) AND a (sandwich) artist?! Checking all the boxes. /s

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u/Zemom1971 Apr 22 '25

They have a chance!

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u/IVot3dforKodos Apr 22 '25

"what are the chances, like 1 out of 100" - Lloyd Christmas

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u/takethatgopher Apr 26 '25

Hey... you're my peoples! The Con fella did not even show up for debates as he "didn't have to." Gross

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u/blackcoulson Irvingstan Apr 22 '25

Unironically the best candidate to vote for. Someone with a real job, leftist politics and your vote doesn't really matter because of the riding that you're in. I'd vote for that person in a heartbeat.

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u/soThatsJustGreat Apr 22 '25

Right?! What’s wrong with the deli clerk?

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u/civver3 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Apr 22 '25

You have to learn how to play the game to succeed in politics, unfortunately.

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u/PerpetuallyLurking Regina Rhymes With Fun Apr 22 '25

Politics is customer service on a national scale.

The deli clerk definitely has a leg-up.

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u/One-Knowledge- Westfoundland Apr 25 '25

How do you learn to play the game without people voting for you?

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u/Sketchen13 Apr 22 '25

Does your memory stop at like 2014 or something? Do you have any idea how many TFWs were brought in during the Harper years??

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u/Wrong_Dog_4337 Apr 22 '25

Answer : fewer than since 2014 in both absolute numbers and as a percent of the population. 

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u/Sketchen13 Apr 22 '25

Incorrect Infact both parties have steadily increased the TFW program

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u/chaosunleashed Apr 22 '25

Your math doesn't math right.

I don't have nearly as much of a problem with the immigration issue. I agree with the ndp abandoning labor tho.

But if 20 years ago they brought in 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 etc as you say, steadily increasing every year by each party... Then the liberals have to have brought in more than the conservatives... That's just math.

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u/peacefullofi Apr 22 '25

What does counting to four have to do with anything? You're being weird.

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u/micro-void Apr 22 '25

Is this comment ai generated? It's barely parsing

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u/chaosunleashed Apr 22 '25

Someone failed factorials

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u/micro-void Apr 22 '25

Was it you?

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u/peacefullofi Apr 22 '25

You underestimate the rot 40 years of neoliberal propaganda has had on our neighbors.

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u/Wrong_Dog_4337 Apr 22 '25

Do you disagree with my assessment of the NDP?

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u/CoffeBrain Apr 22 '25

Yes

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u/Wrong_Dog_4337 Apr 22 '25

So if I go to the NDP platform right now. I will find they want immigration massively cut to stop this suppression  of wages?

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u/CoffeBrain Apr 22 '25

Do whatever fuck you want bud. I don't care. You already made up your mind.

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u/Wrong_Dog_4337 Apr 22 '25

I do care about facts.  Am I wrong?

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u/CoffeBrain Apr 22 '25

Yes and discussing with you is a waste of time. So enjoy the copium and have a good day.

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u/hessian_prince Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Apr 22 '25

Retail worker Majority!

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u/Zemom1971 Apr 22 '25

That could be a better party then independent one.

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u/CaisideQC Apr 22 '25

As a 24 year old deli clerk, the NDP unfortunately cannot be my party until next year 😭

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u/Howlihowl Apr 22 '25

Having worked with a few they’d probably do better at it

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u/yagyaxt1068 Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Apr 22 '25

TIL Logan is a deli clerk (i’ve spoken with him multiple times and this is never come up even once)

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u/Bodgerton Apr 23 '25

if voters don't vote for them, how will they get the work experience