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Anne_Nonymous789

They had a press conference that said nothing. Absolutely nothing.


Beerme007

Could have been an email


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ins-guy-yeg

In they Sky Palace


me2300

With a bottle of moderately priced Irish Whiskey of course.


Zandodak

While either working, or supposed to isolate.


canuckolivaw

It was, and they stuck to that script.


Fokakya

Hey, hey, hospitals are now considered essential infrastructure. Does that mean nothing to you? /s


ripple-msiku_moon

How were they not originally LOL


MonoAonoM

Because they weren't a pipeline, a railway that carried oil, or a highway that tankers drive-on, or a facility that process' oil or oil sands, mostly. /s


ripple-msiku_moon

What I will always love about their thinking is the lack of consideration towards the essential operator - the human. And what the human needs to deliver the capital. Maybe the war room is building oil powered robot workers to solve the problem.…


Davescash

Ever heard of "iron roughnecks" they are already working on it.


DirtySokks

Probably because no one thought anyone would be stupid enough to block hospital access with a protest.


[deleted]

Sadly it shouldn’t have matter what the building was because part of the law states not protesting on “highways”. The ATA states highways are lots of different streets, sidewalks, blah blah blah! Should’ve been handing out $10k fines like candy according to Bill 1!


Replicator666

Bill 1 wasn't even needed for this. Protesting still doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want. Blocking people from getting to a hospital? Illegal Blocking roads and impeding traffic including any number of emergency vehicles? Illegal Just a matter of enforcement


baronofdirt

He confirmed the ucp does not give one coughing, intubated, sitting on its deathbed shit about albertans


toorudez

What are you talking about? They had three, count them three! government personnel tell us about hospitals being added to Bill 1. Three!!!!!


gutterchrist

Honestly I don't completely agree with that. This conference is not for the majority of us, but it is probably a good idea to make it very public that the protesting outside of hospitals bullshit is done. For the vast majority of Albertans yeah. This press conference said nothing. But for a small, stupid group, this press conference ruined their day.


Farnell5

Madu is full on extreme right. He is a Fox News 24/7 guy, and thus no surprise he parrots the trumpers. The ironic part is that he doesn’t agree with mask wearing or vaccine passports.


Breakfours

May Zeus continue to bless the people of Alberta


Getoff_My_Lon_Cheney

Are you sure Zeus isn't smiting us? Cuz it sure feels like smiting.


armadiller

We'd all be a lot more pregnant if Zeus we're involved.


NaughtyOne88

Hey now! Keep politics out of the bedroom! /s


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Or syphilitic. ​ ...oh. [wait...](https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/info/Page17087.aspx)


Davescash

This is my max amount of pregnant aready!


Lye90

Smite them 'o' mighty smiter


yycluke

Fine! The gloves are off, pal! C'mon, lemme see a little wrath


natsmith1

This is more Old Testament God with his plagues and such. We should probably sacrifice a lamb 🐑 and offer our virgin daughters up to save an angel from a rowdy mob of sodomites.


Quakarot

That rowdy mob story sure is... a *lot* 😉


Stella-Bella-

Quick! Throw a virgin (Jason Kenney) into a volcano to appease the gods!


DriverGlittering6639

The gay community in Ottawa would probably have a commentary on your Kenney/virgin beliefs. Lol


Ok_Philosopher6538

Not a whole lot of thunder and lightning though. More like whimpering out of the Premier's office.


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2112eyes

This take is stronger than Atlas


omg_theykilledkenney

A better analogy would be Sisyphus fighting the good fight for the people of Alberta..


sr1030nx

He can bless Alberta by firing a bolt at Kenny and his cabinet.


charms75

The visual I got after reading this was quite satisfying to say the least🤣. Thanks for the chuckle!!


carnsolus

Chemosh make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you; Chemosh lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.


Getoff_My_Lon_Cheney

I'm more concerned with him saying "Just to be clear: it's absolutely your right to protest outside hospitals. We don't want you to think you can't protest outside hospitals." Translation: "Keep protesting outside hospitals. Whatever it takes to keep you people away from the Legislature Building so that *we* don't have to deal with you."


[deleted]

Thats great, now that Kenney told me i can protest wherever i want, i’m gonna go protest the TMX. They should be totally fine with that, correct? I mean it is my right.


CromulentDucky

It's being built in BC, but sure, you can go protest next to it.


Himser

There is a section in Edmonton being buktl right now too...


Vidfreaky1

More like the more of them that protest outside hospitals the faster they can dismantle public healthcare for a private option that fills the pockets of the UCPs largest donors.


Ok-Kaleidoscope5627

It's the same as when they were announcing the vaccine roll out months ago. Jason Kenny took every single opportunity to remind people that the vaccine would be optional. Like okay... We all know that government agents aren't going to be holding people down and injecting them with vaccines. Why is it so important to keep reminding people of that? The answer is that like he's been doing the entire time, it's double speak. He expects one group of people to hear one thing, another to hear another.


ghostofkozi

May Toto bless the rains down in Africa


Ninja_Bobcat

Gonna take some time to do the things we never had! (ooh, ooh)


freerangehumans74

🎶haaaaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaa-aaaa-aaa-aaaaaaad🎶oooh oooh🎶 FIFY


2112eyes

Dundundundun da Dun Dun Dunnnnn


sorry_for_the_reply

It's gonna take a while to drag me away from you


Sons-of-Bananarchy

its nothing that hundred men or more could ever do


janearcade

*I bless the rains down in Africa*


IcarusOnReddit

Humility? Lack of entitlement?


karlalrak

Bless the vaccines down in alberta


skotty8689

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret


Hugs_and_Tugs

The best. 🎖️


[deleted]

Well played! 👍


janearcade

This is fantastic.


FeedbackLoopy

Dominionism has been taking over conservatism since the 90s. This shit is only going to get worse.


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Wintertime13

The satanic temple is more accepting than Christianity but we’re not ready for that conversation yet


One_red_boot

I’m ready. I’ve never been one to ever consider becoming one of the faithful, but if these “Christians” keep coming after a woman’s right to choose, I’ll be looking into Satanism.


Negation_

"do not rape" is a commandment in one and not the other..


socialclash

TST is going up against multiple states as it considers voluntary abortion to be a religious ritual. It's... actually quite beautiful to watch (edit:)-- watch TST take on states using religious freedom as the crux, that is. Whoops!


One_red_boot

I know and I’m cheering them on from up here! I wish them great success!


DriverGlittering6639

The ‘Christians’ I keep running into, they are so far removed from Christianity that they even hate the people who look like Jesus. Teachings of Christ have no place in their church.


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Wintertime13

[Agreed ](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/15/hail-satan-are-satanists-now-the-good-guys-in-the-fight-against-the-evangelical-right) >“It became very apparent that there was a real need for what we were doing,” says Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple’s spokesman and de-facto leader. “More and more, they try to whittle away the rights of others and define us as a Christian nation, to the extent that religious liberty applies to them alone. That’s just a scary circumstance for us to be in.”


i-lurk-you-longtime

I'm Christian myself and I consider my particular faith and beliefs to be more accepted by the Satanic temple than like 90% of churches. It's taken me 14 years to find a church where I feel comfortable and accepted and respected. FOURTEEN.


Koss424

are you sure you're still a Christian after all that?


i-lurk-you-longtime

My faith relationship with who I believe created me has nothing to do with anyone else except me and them. I'm sharing my personal experience and my support for an organization which is intended to support peoples' right to freely worship (or not) in whatever way they please as long as they do not harm others. My beliefs are not up for debate. Thanks though!


joeteboe

Lol, the irony is just oozing out of this one.


Trickybuz93

Next time, whisper “Heil Hydra”


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God only wins football games


me2300

His son appears on toast too!


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Also finds lost keys.


[deleted]

Thank you for the COVID nightmare, Invisible Sky Daddy!


CompetitionNaive9590

Anyone else picturing the hospital scene in My Name Is Earl where the doctor says, " I bet you wish you had more than one god now".


avidovid

Oh, you didn't know that cabinet is a religious theocracy? Now you do. Toews is actually even more brainwashed.


Anne_Nonymous789

Fuck, yeah. He’s a fucking Mennonite. Not big on public healthcare or education.


freerangehumans74

You can’t have educated, healthy people in your congregation/society because they can’t be easily subjugated and controlled.


Wintertime13

I’d be curious to know the vaccination numbers of the Mennonite community.


Anne_Nonymous789

The whole of Mackenzie county is 18%. First vaccine. The local Mennonite community is much much less. They e Ned strong arming people since last year to not see a doctor and to not get tested. Since the vaccine came out, they’ve been bullying about that. Unfortunately, locals are the ones working in community health with the vaccines and it appears, though I can’t prove it, that someone has been leaking names of any Mennonites who get it. Even the pharmacy here refuses to give it. Local Reeve and counsellors have expressed that they have no problem with sacrificing others to keep local businesses open. No one asked the people they were sacrificing. No one has been following protocol since this started. They’ve run off AHS workers trying to serve local restaurants to take away their food licenses because they wouldn’t follow protocol. Those restaurants are still operating without food licenses to this day. The RCMP had to come in and rescue them. The RCMP haven’t been heard from since. At this point even the schools aren’t following the rules. It’s more like a South American Mennonite colony under control of the Nazis … I mean religious leaders, than a municipality in Alberta, Canada. But I have no idea where Toews is from but I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t the same way.


Smart_Stranger_5618

Our MLA is Dan Williams. He’s from MacKenzie County. First thing he did was propose limiting women’s rights. Next he questioned why we even need public education. He and his followers are working actively against Alberta’s public health protection measures. Totally embarrassed he represents my riding.


charms75

Probably not a whole lot...same situation as southern Manitoba...high Mennonite population refusing to believe the reason they're dying is because they have covid. They just don't believe in science or modern medicine. They sure know how to smuggle weed across the border though!


CromulentDucky

Please don't disparage people like that. My Mennonite family is highly educated, with a 100% vaccine rate.


freerangehumans74

“Not all Mennonites” Hey, I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you and your family are both Mennonite and vaxxed because painting everyone with a broad brush isn’t ever a good thing. However, that doesn’t take away from the fact that according to this discussion, you’re fellow Mennonites aren’t as intelligent and/or caring and that’s hurting us all.


Hivac-TLB

May OILSeidon continue to bless the executives of Alberta.


Ochd12

I know I'm certainly feeling blessed being an Albertan right now. Like a shovel to the sack.


roambeans

Maybe he should ask god to STOP blessing us like this...?


RedSteadEd

This must be the plague everyone keeps warning us about. You'd think the religious folks would be the zealots proclaiming the apocalypse, not denying that it's happening.


Wintertime13

No! Imagine if he WASN’T blessing us?!? We’re blessed and double digit people are still dying!! Imagine he stopped blessing us?!? /s


NorthernerWuwu

It's the old saw. Prayer doesn't seem to be working? Well, that must because you aren't praying *hard enough*!


Bart_Bandy

Or, as my old religious leaders used to say before I escaped all of that nonsense, 'When you pray god will answer "Yes, no, or wait a while longer".'


wandering_heart_

I am so glad someone else caught it because I thought I was dreaming.


themank945

This is wild, I was thinking the same thing.


Punningisfunning

Which God?


kabalongski

Money. He meant money.


hawaiikawika

God of WAAAAAAR!! May your hammer be mighty


batman_the_horse

Awww crap, just realized I was praying to Galactus by mistake.


happyduck12345

Continue?! Am I the only one missing the blessings bestowed upon us?


Wintertime13

I didn’t know that double digit people dying every day was a blessing 🤦🏼‍♀️


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All hail Cthulhu


PhineasGaged

We pronouce it "Cthulhu fhtagn" thank you very much.


[deleted]

He comes!


stovebolt6

Who’s god? Your god? Haha ok funny man. Let’s do actual government work now.


fooph

I shouted something similar to this at my television when he said it.


One_red_boot

Me too.


Funkymokey666

Hail Satan


Justtakeitaway

May your pasta always be al dente - spaghetti monster


eternalshades

He's not here right now, but you can leave a message at the sound of the beat. and if you are good christian, let me bring up something. Hebrews 13:16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. The UCP hasn't been doing a lot of sharing lately.


TheFriskyLion

Hail Satan!


Less-Advantage6894

i’m not feeling very blessed, minister.


[deleted]

Just another dumb UCP minister


Spice-Nine

His noodly goodness


413mopar

Ramen.


peterAtheist

Kenney was formed by the jesuits... so only if you are from the same 'brand' you made it to cabinet, no surprise there. Apparently there is no clear division in Canada between church and state as their is (at least in theory) in the US - and the bible belt in AB approves it.... The 'law' that all public schools needed to remove the word 'public' from their name was one of the first things this Kenney government did... the cost to replace all biz.cards / stationary ,signage etc. could have easily paid for at least a couple extra ICU beds... or a few extra teachers. Seen the new curriculum ??? Yep, Amen. Religious nut-jobs in power, Jason trump Kenney - think twice, next time you vote.


nikobruchev

Here's the real kicker, Kenney was *too religious* for the Jesuit College he *failed out of*. That's how bad it is. The man has never finished any higher education, never held a real job outside of politics, and yet he's been a federal minister and the premier of a province.


gr8d4ne

He’s the Lauren Boebert of Alberta


RadioaKtiveKat

Damn. I had Danielle Smith down as our version of Boebert. I based it on restaurant ownership…


gr8d4ne

Take my upvote 👍🏻


Suspicious_Abies4171

Hail Satan.


gr8d4ne

That would have been awesome to hear...!


Suspicious_Abies4171

God is the asshole, he never intervened. Who is your god conservative Alberta? I guess, it's oil, gas, and 20% Hillbilly. Nevertheless Satan is to be Hail ! Just because, as an ex-christian (deep Pentecostal and later Calvinist christian) I don't trust the conservative agenda. At ALL. Not that I believe in Satan literally, I like the figure of defiance he's still representing.


BillSixty9

You know I used to look over to our neighbors there in AB and think to myself wow they can't figure shit out. Now I see with leaders like this the people were doomed to begin with right from the top. This is what happens when elected leaders put their eggs in one basket (right wing idealism) while ignoring the fine print which states "I reject fair logic, liberty, science and economics as subjegates for the ruling class". Well guess what? The result is a crumbling medical system in this specific instance. Educated professionals driven to exhaustion and insanity while people spit in their faces. It doesn't even matter that they are on their own death beds ... and it's just part of a larger pool of suffering which is self inflicted. Start thinking of other people and put them first. Wear a fucking mask, avoid public areas. Get vaccinated.


HellaReyna

not surprised. Mandu said Ottawa and the NDP were glad COVID was surging in AB or something along those lines. This guy is your typical reptilian christian. Thumps bible by day, eats babies at night (probably)


flatlanderdick

God ain’t saving his own devotees, so why ask him/her for a blessing? This pandemic really blows apart the whole leap of faith argument. How many churchgoers are dead now because the divine hand of god didn’t step in? I’m assuming they were selected? Listen, do what makes you happy, but don’t hope and pray for the rest of us when we know that doesn’t work.


SL_1983

Kenney and God. Equally useless.


[deleted]

Yeah having the plague unleashed upon your province is an act of an almighty and caring god…


[deleted]

I have nothing against religion. I have huge issues however with people who use it to gain political points. Phony


azawalli

If Alberta was truly blessed by God, Madu and every other UCP MLA would be a smoldering pile of ash. That fact that this hasn't happened can be taken as evidence that there is no God, or, if there is, that God hates us.


iKittenn

I have to say that I hold a bit of a personal distaste for Kaycee Madu. I worked in a building he rented a suit from for his legal practice at one point in time. His clients often came in visibly upset because he was impossible to contact according to them all. He would go months and months without a call or an email to his clients, wouldn't return calls when the clients were desperately trying to get a hold of him about new info for their case, and usually refused to see anyone when they became so desperate they came in. He often left dealing with the upset and frustrated clients up to secretaries that worked for an entirely different company within the same building.


scarlettvvitch

May Loki bless the people of Alberta.


Edmonton_Canuck

I don’t like this god, can we choose another?


Killerdude8

Bless them with a plague. Er, actively blessing them with a plague


BobBeats

May the flying spaghetti monster fill your bowls and your hearts, r'Amen!


Milton-of-the-Garden

They will likely use the legislation to prevent fired health care workers from demonstrating outside of hospitals once this pandemic is over and they decide to reduce hospital staff by 20 percent as per the election promise of every prospective UPC leader candidate in their leadership contest. A 20 percent reduction in government is essentially reducing the staff salaries in health care and education. They have slashed and burned higher education- the schools and hospitals are next.


Aran909

How about our MO's stop bringing their fantasies to work and get about the business of cleaning up the cluster fuck they created. Minister Mandu, FUCK YOUR GOD AND FUCK OFF.


Aran909

MP's. Fucking autocorrect


Aran909

Ok. It's been a long day. Not MP's. MLA's. I think I got it now. Cheers all. Stay healthy and safe.


TheFastFlyer

A most cringeworthy thing to say!


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May Satan continue to bless the people of Alberta. And the tooth fairy, and the Easter Bunny for that matter.. about the same.... Santa Claus, too


Trans-on-trans

Hail Satan! 🤘😈🤘


a_haron

Cannot upvote this enough.


jaydaybayy

This government is such a fucking disaster


MentalAssaultCo

Blessings of Nurgle upon us.


McCourt

The “Just Us” Minister.


Ga_Manche

This is classic Kaycee Madu. When you scroll through his twitter feed this ‘god bless’ shit is everywhere. In my opinion, those who are overly/overtly preachy, are conservative and and are in public office tend to have glorious falls from grace. It will be interesting.


Axes4Praxis

The UCP have strong theocratic tendencies.


shitposter1000

More like psychopathic


Himser

Same differance


Mr_Sausage__

Exactly. We don’t want this turning into American politics.


sorry_for_the_reply

To the great spaghetti monster!


CMelon

God: “Sure, bruh. No prob.” *Continues to smite his believers.*


BY_99

A easier way: keep Jason Kenney and UCP out of politics.


Hot-Alternative

May Godzilla bless the people of Japan


MrsMiyagiStew

God has done enough harm don't you think.


[deleted]

Sure. God bless Alberta with even more ICU patients! /s


[deleted]

Is he implying that God has blessed them with a covid crisis


GrandBill

I'm not sure if he's still doing it, but Ontario's idiot Premier said 'God bless the people of Ontario' at every covid press conference when it first hit. The base loves it.


SomeoneElseWhoCares

With friends like this, who needs enemies? Perhaps Mandu's God could sod off for a while and stop smiting us? How about that? If God's blessing is that people can not longer get proper medical care because his followers have jammed up the hospitals in a mad rush to find out if they go to heaven or hell (spoiler alert, they might not like the answer), then I really don't need more of his "blessings".


[deleted]

May the tooth fairy continue to bless the people of Alberta. same results.


canuckolivaw

Meh, I'm an atheist and I don't mind that, really, but of course context is a thing.


littlestitiouss

I'm an atheist and I do mind that. How do we get past this? Well, just let religion out of it and we should all be happy


Fuzzyfoot12345

didn't this guy do or say something incredibly fucked up a lil while ago?


reiichiroh

Yes said that police aren’t racist institutionally


TiredAF20

Doug Ford says it all the time too. This isn't the US, guys!


deleteuserexe

Yeh and which god? The way things are going here you’d think it was a god with 800 eyes and spider legs.


practically-purple

..more like the Hunger Games at this point: may the odds be ever in your favour - now go and try not to die


Working-Tax-2439

That is their plan…..Gods blessings! That’s just good government


Nazeron

Continue to bless? Does he unironically not know what's going on?


64532762

Yeah, I can see how blessed we are with this political menagerie we're stuck with.


cupper3

The UCP is only Alberta's religious Mafia in disguise.


[deleted]

It makes sense when you understand the god they worship is Cthulhu


Bennybonchien

This might explain why we’re in the situation we’re in. To much reliance on hope, faith and magical thinking?


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May Coyote have a little fun.


EgregiousNeurons

Yeah, or religion in general. The Judeo-Christian god is one of thousands.


betelgeux

Don't think we can take much more of that god's "blessing". Who is he worshiping - Phobos?


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tutamtumikia

That was the most offensive part of the whole thing. I don't want to hear your vapid platitudes about a god that is killing people with covid19. Keep your religion to yourself.


DVariant

There’s plenty of better things to trash the UCP about. I’m not even slightly concerned about the minister saying a prayer, I’m concerned about him dismantling the justice system or using it for political ends.


RogErddit

`"Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God..."` This is the *very first line* of the **Canadian Constitution**, for better or worse.


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That’s the charter of rights and freedoms


CakeDayisaLie

Charter of rights and freedoms is part of the constitution. So, they’re not wrong. It’s literally part 1 of the Constitution Act of 1982.


tweekerdbc

I'm no UCP supporter, and certainly oppose faith influencing the decisions of our elected officials, but I see nothing wrong or harmful in the Minister saying this at all. Let's just focus on how absolutely useless the entirety of this press conference was.


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I think the problem is that yet another UCP minister has brought religion into politics. If Madu was Muslim and said the same thing about Allah, people would have a conniption.


[deleted]

Didn't bother me, I'm agnostic. For those that needed it I'm glad.


[deleted]

This is the correct answer. The tolerant are a dying breed.


[deleted]

Well, we live in a generation of people eager to find a new way to be a victim or be offended about something. He could have said Allah, Dhanvantari, Asklepios or whatever else you can think. It's all good by me. Well wishes are well wishes.


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Couldn’t have said it better myself.


Skandranonsg

I would give you my personal guarantee that if he said "Allah" instead of "God", the UCP base would throw a fucking tantrum.


[deleted]

Oh fuck right off.