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True Dough

(20,351 posts)
Tue May 16, 2023, 03:22 PM May 2023

Fox News, Newsmax give oxygen to small far-right Alberta group that wants province

to become the 51st American state.

Bunch of wackos being given a platform by wacko "news" outlets.


A tiny far-right Canadian separatist group pushing for Alberta to join the U.S. as the 51st state got a publicity boost when right-wing outlets Fox News and Newsmax reported about its existence Tuesday, in the latest fringe movement for Albertan secession—though the group’s hopes of breaking away from Canada are a tremendous longshot.

An anonymous source from the group, which launched in opposition to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Covid-19 restrictions, told Fox News he had “an affinity toward the U.S.” because of its “freedom, Constitution and just the entire Republican system versus the monarchy here, which is really a pseudonym for dictatorship.”

More recently, the group, which only has 67 members on Facebook and 74 Twitter followers, has risen to prominence among right-wing networks for its resurrection of a longstanding movement to redraw the U.S.-Canada border around the oil-rich, heavily conservative province (Forbes has reached out to The Alberta 51 Project for comment).



https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/05/16/what-is-the-alberta-51-project-hard-right-canadian-separatist-group-gaining-steam-from-fox-news/?sh=3b9a199342a1
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Fox News, Newsmax give oxygen to small far-right Alberta group that wants province (Original Post) True Dough May 2023 OP
Sounds like a bunch of Canadian insurrectionists and traitors TheRealNorth May 2023 #1
They aren't even a blip on Albertans' radar... Spazito May 2023 #2
I don't recall them being invited to join us. pwb May 2023 #3
Can we trade them Texas? Or Florida? AZ8theist May 2023 #4
How about Alaska? True Dough May 2023 #5

Spazito

(54,405 posts)
2. They aren't even a blip on Albertans' radar...
Tue May 16, 2023, 03:34 PM
May 2023

and no surprise. There has always been some rump nascent group pushing for separation and a delusionary 'plan' to join the US.

Most Albertans lean conservative but they aren't crazy with a few exceptions such as the group in the article.

pwb

(12,199 posts)
3. I don't recall them being invited to join us.
Tue May 16, 2023, 03:57 PM
May 2023

They need a whole shit load of States to want them. Are these little runt puke stations trying to make policy now. FM.

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