The amount of workers in the oil and gas sector has been shrinking for years. It is not a large part of the population. They are mostly red neck conservatives anyway so not like the are gaining any voters. Sounds like he wants a Trump like goon cult.

to gain voters. That is how to take them on.

but watched him this morning in a press briefing or something and my immediate reaction was that he reminded me so much of Pierre Poilievre. Not just the glasses (although Poilievre has ditched his for contacts lately) but the fast talking, blame everything on the other side. This SOTH blames democrats for everything and Poilievre blames Trudeau for everything and I mean everything. He cannot go a sentence without bringing Trudeau's name into it. I trust neither of them.

others do not doesn't happen all the time in Government. He is building upon the politics of resentment that has worked so well for conservatives in Alberta and in the US.

As to the new Speaker, I have not seen the man live but boy is he concerned about gay people having sex.

Alberta. I am still shaking my head about that election.

about this new guy and that. It has been on my mind because of Hamas terrorism but I think it applies to some in the Republican Party too. He seems to have just bashed and bashed and bashed people outside of the Bible. I think I'll call him Bam Bam.

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His Israel funding gambit to increase the deficit by reducing IRS investigations was layed bare. Then he gaslighted when that was pointed out to him. Was that him gaslighting? Or is he a vessel. He is not a real Christian. That will help Democrats because he doesn't have the Trump charisma to sell **** sandwiches to the American public and get away with it.

https://archive.ph/i8iQq

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So in Speaker Johnson we have a man whose Christian worldview has led him into a hall of mirrors—historically, scientifically, legally, and constitutionally. A “rule-of-law guy” who laments a lack of “absolute standards of right and wrong” was a key participant in undermining the rule of law and has been a steadfast defender of Donald Trump, who has done so much to shatter absolute standards of right and wrong.

From what I can tell, Mike Johnson—unlike, say, Kevin McCarthy and Elise Stefanik, or J. D. Vance and Lindsey Graham—is not cynical; he seems to be a true believer, and a zealot. A polite and mild-mannered zealot, to be sure, especially by MAGA standards, but a zealot nonetheless. And what makes this doubly painful for many of us is that he uses his Christian faith to sacralize his fanaticism and assault on truth. I can’t help thinking this isn’t quite what Jesus had in mind.

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