COUTTS, AB - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has arrived on foot at the Coutts-Sweet Grass border crossing station, petitioning for refugee status in the US on the grounds of being persecuted in her home country.
  • ZC3rr0r
    58·
    11 months ago

    In the “Beaverton headlines I wish were real” category, I present the January 2025 winner.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    321·
    11 months ago

    I can’t believe we voted her in. I mean I can because Albertans are gullible morons, but I can’t believe it got this bad.

      • Encephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
        29·
        11 months ago

        Upon having it explained to her that applying for asylum in the United States first requires one to register with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Smith exclaimed “But I’m white,” before demanding to speak to the concierge at Mar-A-Lago

        Is it though?

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        16·
        11 months ago

        You can tell its satire because it sounds less insane than any of the real things Smith says or does on a daily basis.

      • Sturgist
        12·
        11 months ago

        I’d argue that even knowing the article is satire, their comment stands.

    • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      11 months ago

      She wasn’t ‘voted in’ in the traditional sense…

      Jason Kenney stepped down due to numerous scandals and mishaps. The conservative party of Alberta (The UCP) then held a members only vote to elect their new fuhrer.

      70k people picked her in a province of multiple million

  • ArxCyberwolf
    13·
    11 months ago

    Welp, I definitely ate the Onion with this one. Reality is so fucking bonkers at this point that it’s hard to tell what’s satire and what isn’t.

  • Victor Villas
    5·
    11 months ago

    I know people should know better but there should be a rule (or a bot that enforces this) about adding [SATIRE] before these kinds of posts

  • Phoenixz
    4·
    11 months ago

    FFS, for a a good minute they actually had me!

    Its so hard to discern reality from fiction these days, am I having some psychosis or schizophrenia, and the real world hasn’t gone insane?

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Ultimately she’s a whore for Alberta’s oil and gas industry, and Trump is just a means to an end. She’d put out just as readily for a Japanese tentacle monster if it promised to buy oil from Alberta. So this isn’t really about Trump or the US at all.

            • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              5·
              11 months ago

              It’s . . . arguable. The Alberta oil and gas industry doesn’t really benefit “all Canadians”, just the ones working in that industry, and most of us who whose paychecks don’t depend on Alberta oil think the environmental oversight needs to be tightened up. In terms of advocating for the short-term interests of the subset of Albertans that elected her, Smith could be said to be doing her job. Problem is, she’s doing so in a manner that goes against the long-term interests of everyone in the country, including the people that elected her.

            • Knoxvomica
              3·
              11 months ago

              Mmmm, not quite. Industry and good paying jobs are not worth bending the knee everytime king little hands makes a quip about whatever. It shows weakness and shows that we will do whatever it takes to appease.

    • Anykey
      13·
      11 months ago

      Dude, you are not making any sense. Are you from Alberta? She was elected to represents interests of Albertants, and this is what she is trying to do, as she understands it. It is up to the Alberta’s voters to judge her next election, not some internet randos.

        • Anykey
          11·
          11 months ago

          Don’t be surprised if they eventually do

            • Knoxvomica
              2·
              11 months ago

              You know the funny thing here? I’ve had this conversation with a few fellow Albertans about easterners not caring about Alberta’s problems. They can never seem to wrap their heads around the rest of Canada quite literally not giving a a shit about the oil and gas industry. When I ask them what there thoughts are on the fisheries in there maritimes, or the auto industry in the GTA or bombardier cutting employees in Quebec they answer they don’t care. And yet…they don’t see the hypocrisy. Always amazes me.