Head Tale

A few hot takes as I watched the debate…

• Does Molly Thomas still live in Sask? If not, weird optics to fly in a debate moderator from out-of-province during a pandemic.
• Moe looks very nervous right out of the gate, not what I expected from the Premier and frontrunner.
• Drink!  Moe says NDP has record of shutting things down (without acknowledging it was his party that created debts that led to that point!)
• Question about covid response.  I don’t know about you but think I’ll trust the doctor over the failed farmer on major questions of health.  I mean, Meili literally wrote a book called “A Healthy Society”.
• Moe: “Our main challenges are when people aren’t following public health guidelines” (like when I show up at an ice cream shop and pose for a photo without socially distancing or wearing a mask?)
• Is it an optical illusion or are Meili and Moe less than six feet apart?
• Mask mandate question.  Moe looks even more nervous if that’s possible, stammering and stuttering. Don’t want to piss off the anti-maskers.
• Why do they do “open debate” segments so they just talk over each other or monopolize the mic?  (Quick revision – the first one looked like it was going off the rails like Broten vs. Wall Part Deux but didn’t really happen for rest of debate.)
• Moe: “We’ve itemized the items!”  What I hear: “Propane and propane accessories!”
• Moe: (outloud) “Saskatchewan has a plan to balance the budget in 2024…”  (quiet) “…by selling off SaskTel and other Crown Corps.”  (To be fair, soon after, I think he says they won’t sell off Crown Corps.  I don’t believe him but he does say it.)
• Moe channelling his best Donald Trump talking over Meili and the moderator.
• Moe probably doesn’t want to bring up the North Battleford hospital as an example of great planning and foresight #200ProblemsAndALeakingRoofIsJustOne (
• Moe: “Food, fuel and fertilizer” is how Sask has created wealth for generations. And “stuck in the mud, status quo, and same old, same old” are also appropriate alliterations at this moment.
• Meili showing the most rage so far: “A thirteen cent rage, er, raise to the minimum wage isn’t enough.” 🙂
• Moe is looking really rattled.  I’m honestly glad that there’s a doctor on the stage!
• Sorry to harp on this but Moe seems unprepared.  Entitled knowing what the polls say so he didn’t put in the work?
• Meili: “You sent two of your Ministers to basically say ‘get off my lawn'”.  Line of the night?
• Question: “Kids have backslid massively during quarantine”  Moe (probably) “I guess we cut schools and libraries some more.”
• Elephant in the room – does Moe’s DUI history (including lack of disclosure about a DUI charge that was dropped) come up tonight?
• I’ve been a Meili supporter since his first run in 2009 and can’t believe how far he’s come as a debater.  Moe is out of his depth.
• Moe says the drugs on our streets now are a lot more deadly than the drugs that were on the streets a few years ago.  Me: Hmmm, how does he know?
• And just like that, it’s over.  Wow – that went fast!