Blame Canada

[WLJ]

Well, tomorrow they have to vote on his overreach so I hope he loses. Alberta is suing PM Blackface.

On one of the live feeds one member of his cabinet actually use the word permanent while describing the emergency powers. Trying to remember what her position was. And no it wasn't out of context.

[MechAg94]

The Canadian press looks to be doing some damage control for Trudeau.

One of the structuring delusions of right wing politics today is the idea that neoliberal centrists like Justin Trudeau constitute "the left"

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/02/20/suck-it-up-blue-check-jacobin-writer-tries-desperately-and-fails-hilariously-to-pretend-justin-trudeau-isnt-really-on-the-left/

That goes both ways.  Don't quite a few people to the left of center make the assumption that all right wingers are wannabe authoritarian dictators who want to set up a theocracy? 

Almost makes you think there is some purposeful manipulation going on.  No, that can't be right.

[Ben]

If I've read it right, the US version of this seems to be timed to arrive in DC in time for the State of the Union Address. It appears commie pinko big tech is at security level purple chartreuse omega to remove their online presence.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebook-dc-trucker-page-freedom-convoy-censorship

[Bogie]

I think I'm gonna have to watch this...
 
https://youtu.be/Uxp6OG8izQg

[RoadKingLarry]

If I've read it right, the US version of this seems to be timed to arrive in DC in time for the State of the Union Address. It appears commie pinko big tech is at security level purple chartreuse omega to remove their online presence.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebook-dc-trucker-page-freedom-convoy-censorship

It won't be allowed. Standby for a major false flag operation aimed at ending it.

[WLJ]

Woman being interviewed who is suing the protesters
"Violence of the honking"

Woman who was being interviewed https://twitter.com/super_spreaders/status/1495756044362039305?s=21
She even posted the truckers tried to run her down
Be warned, quite a bit of on that guy's twitter account so a grain of salt warning should apply.
Further down her lawyer is now claiming the posts are fake but she was repeating a bunch of what was said in the interview in what little i saw so....

[WLJ]

Since that interview was going on in a live feed and at this point I can't tell you which one unless someone posts it separately it's going to be near impossible to find.

[WLJ]

Whole thing has a Swalwell feel to it.

[WLJ]

 

[Bogie]

I figure that right now Dems are doing focus groups to test public opinion on how the folks will react if trucks stop delivering stuff to cities... And they're trying to figure out how to spin that for maximum hate.

[zxcvbob]

I figure that right now Dems are doing focus groups to test public opinion on how the folks will react if trucks stop delivering stuff to cities... And they're trying to figure out how to spin that for maximum hate.

I believe that is the correct response by the truckers.  Trudy doesn't want them in Ottawa so they should leave and not come back (as in no deliveries)

[sumpnz]

I believe that is the correct response by the truckers.  Trudy doesn't want them in Ottawa so they should leave and not come back (as in no deliveries)

What percentage of truckers do you think would play that game?  10% would be annoying to folks.  30% would be a big economic disruption.  50%+ would be crippling.  I’m not sure they’d even get 10% though.

Maybe if they said food, medicine only would be delivered (because let’s face it, starving people and denying them medicines is pretty extreme in the eyes of most, and even a lot of supporters would be turned off if they got too hungry and had family dying because they can’t get medicine) but absolutely nothing else and they could get well over 50% to cooperate that would be pretty significant.

[BobR]

What percentage of truckers do you think would play that game?  10% would be annoying to folks.  30% would be a big economic disruption.  50%+ would be crippling.  I’m not sure they’d even get 10% though.

Maybe if they said food, medicine only would be delivered (because let’s face it, starving people and denying them medicines is pretty extreme in the eyes of most, and even a lot of supporters would be turned off if they got too hungry and had family dying because they can’t get medicine) but absolutely nothing else and they could get well over 50% to cooperate that would be pretty significant.

I agree, continue food and medicine shipments but at a reduced capacity so that the lines you used to see in the Soviet Union would  look like a walk in the park compared to what the Canadians could be put through.

bob

[dogmush]

Hell, just stop delivering fuel for about a 100 mile radius.

[Ben]

I actually think such a work stoppage is better than blocking public roads. I'm not sure how I feel about the US version at this point, as they are pretty much advertising that they will be blocking public roadways.

If they managed to do that only in the vicinity of the capitol, I'm not opposed to creating a pain in the ass for the politicians. As I mentioned before though, I hated when blm and antifa basically kidnapped innocent people just trying to get home or to work, so it's a little hypocritical of me to cheer on the truckers doing the same thing.

[Perd Hapley]

What percentage of truckers do you think would play that game?  10% would be annoying to folks.  30% would be a big economic disruption.  50%+ would be crippling.  I’m not sure they’d even get 10% though.

Maybe if they said food, medicine only would be delivered (because let’s face it, starving people and denying them medicines is pretty extreme in the eyes of most, and even a lot of supporters would be turned off if they got too hungry and had family dying because they can’t get medicine) but absolutely nothing else and they could get well over 50% to cooperate that would be pretty significant.

It's not a blockade. They could still get all those things. They'd just have to go farther to get them.

Granted, that could be a very significant hardship for the people with the least influence over govt policy, so there is that.

[dogmush]

I actually think such a work stoppage is better than blocking public roads. I'm not sure how I feel about the US version at this point, as they are pretty much advertising that they will be blocking public roadways.

If they managed to do that only in the vicinity of the capitol, I'm not opposed to creating a pain in the ass for the politicians. As I mentioned before though, I hated when blm and antifa basically kidnapped innocent people just trying to get home or to work, so it's a little hypocritical of me to cheer on the truckers doing the same thing.

They could completely gridlock Mordor on the Potomac inside the beltway and i wouldn't care.  When the blocked streets get to Blatimore and Manassas,  I'll think about condemning the truckers.  Think.

[bedlamite]

In other news, Canada is now a dictatorship:

https://apnews.com/article/business-81b32eef882f6e23ff7fea24913c513d

[Jim147]

Now I need to change whiskey brands.

[bedlamite]

[Ben]

Wow. This guy is a former Marine. Guess the whole oath thing didn't take.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/02/22/dem-rep-ruben-gallego-wants-the-government-to-seize-trucks-participating-in-the-dc-convoy-and-redistribute-them/

[RocketMan]

Wow. This guy is a former Marine. Guess the whole oath thing didn't take.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/02/22/dem-rep-ruben-gallego-wants-the-government-to-seize-trucks-participating-in-the-dc-convoy-and-redistribute-them/

The real problem is that there a many more like him.  They conflate the whole "protect and defend the Constitution" with protect and defend the government.  They believe the Constitution and the federal government are pretty much the same thing.

[Boomhauer]

Wow. This guy is a former Marine. Guess the whole oath thing didn't take.

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/02/22/dem-rep-ruben-gallego-wants-the-government-to-seize-trucks-participating-in-the-dc-convoy-and-redistribute-them/

Do you want to get killdozers? Because that’s how you get killdozers.

[Ben]

Start a gofundme, get arrested for it, go to jail, and be denied bail because you might start another gofundme. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Remain in jail.

Holy hell.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/02/22/woman-behind-gofundme-campaign-for-canadian-truckers-denied-bail-on-belief-that-she-would-re-offend/

[WLJ]

Meanwhile if you're BLM you can try to murder a mayoral candidate and walk out the door.