Trucker's Convoy

[DogOnPorch]

 

[DogOnPorch]

I suppose one of the greatest unseen bits of fallout that may prove interesting is that many of these trucker folk, blue collar deplorables and what have you, are NDP voters as a tendency. Voting for that party of the worker for years. Normally without question. At least in BC. 

Meanwhile, NDP run BC continues with the severe restrictions and has a leader that is likely more concerned with his cancer outcome that much else...leaving someone else, as always, in charge. 

Mike "You've Got A Nice Casino" Farnsworth

North Burnaby Inn...Dmitrios Pilarinos...etc, etc.

(Sopranos theme starts)

 

[WestCanMan]

4 hours ago, eyeball said:

Retarded shit.

As usual.

Edited February 26, 2022 by WestCanMan

[WestCanMan]

6 hours ago, eyeball said:

Again, what is it with so many western conservatives likening the treatment of these particular protestors at the hands of real authoritarians to the imaginary monster ruling us in Ottawa?

As with most things, this isn't a simple instance where trampling people with horses and beating people who had surrendered peacefully is the whole story. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Trudeau handled the entire situation in a way that railroaded us to that eventual finale, and the MSM was there with him, lying and slandering all the way. At the end the MSM were there lying and omitting so much that even the NoKo news was looking around sheepishly, saying "OMG, please tell me that we don't look that pathetic."

I know that you get off on leftist/MSM baseless accusations, and nothing can ever convince you that the beating of civilians by police was bad, or that police and the MSM lying about incidents that occurred was bad. I'm not surprised, this isn't a new phenomenon. You're in the exact same position that Germans were in back in 1933. You either see those things as bad or you think they're awesome, but they're the same things. 

[Zeitgeist]

I just think that what we saw these past two weeks is really sad.  What could’ve been a national celebration of coming together and reopening became a horrible vilification of thousands of regular hard working people and families who have suffered throughout the pandemic and just wanted their voices to be heard.  Trudeau treated them like garbage.  It would’ve been so easy to meet them halfway, promise a timeline for the removal of vaccine mandates, offer a rationale for his policies, have a coffee and chat with the people.

Mostly they just wanted respect.  I found the mistreatment from Trudeau — calling them fringe and racist, unscientific and unworthy of space — to be inhuman.  I searched my mind for a reason why he wouldn’t meet them or discuss their concerns and couldn’t find one, unless he’s so bent on making all Canadians comply with his own plan, no matter what anyone else thinks or values, that he’s willing to smash people who were already next to broken.  It’s sadistic. Watching crowds of jolly families singing and dancing transform into an overwhelming mass of police bringing violence against peaceful protesters, after the blockades were already cleared…

I just don’t understand how anyone with an ounce of empathy could respect such a person.  I also think that if he could’ve gotten the Emergencies Act through the Senate, we would now see more abuses of rights.  I don’t like our country these days.  It’s a tense and tyrannical place.  The rest of the world has seen what unfolded and lost respect for Canada.  So many video clips of the events have been wiped by police or out of fear by protesters.  Free speech and the right to protest became outlawed and though they’re constitutional rights, Trudeau has made people afraid to exercise them. Freedom became dangerous. It’s like waking up one day in 1985 Poland or Cuba.

To see how our government has bought into dangerous external dystopian influences is just too big a pill to swallow.  I’m not sure I’ll ever feel good about Canada again.

And we still have no plan from Trudeau for the removal of vaccine mandates.  Why?  There’s no good reason and he won’t bother to explain himself.  People are so upset. How this government is permitted to persist in its tyranny is unfathomable. Now the show is more tragedy in Ukraine. We’re watching more people lose hope.

Edited February 26, 2022 by Zeitgeist

[Aristides]

1 hour ago, WestCanMan said:

As usual.

He’s right.

[eyeball]

19 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

I know that you get off on leftist/MSM baseless accusations, and nothing can ever convince you that the beating of civilians by police was bad, or that police and the MSM lying about incidents that occurred was bad. I'm not surprised, this isn't a new phenomenon. You're in the exact same position that Germans were in back in 1933. You either see those things as bad or you think they're awesome, but they're the same things. 

It was certainly regrettable but a bit of rough handling and one unintended trampling in an operation involving hundreds of cops and thousands of protesters is indicative of a high degree of discipline and discretion.  It may have you breathlessly baaaaing but I have a grip.  You went into this so lit up with gas it's no wonder your head explodes twenty times a day.

[Zeitgeist]

This is what should be happening in Canada:

 

[DogOnPorch]

They're desperately trying to hide that the US trucker convoy is growing exponentially thanks to excellent route logistics. Folks know when and where to join-up. Who knew truckers were so good at this on-the-road stuff? Many tag along non-truckers and RV-ers are also coming as well. The Americans are employing multiple convoys that arrive in the DC area in the March 1st time frame. Their goal is similar...lift all restrictions. While the MSM hopes you're going to miss it all...you're unlikely to as this will likely result in some silly confrontation with the National Guard if Joe insists. Unlike the Canadian truckers, these fellows plan to camp around the perimeter of DC. Unlikely to be as easily moved by threats or force.

 

[Zeitgeist]

11 minutes ago, DogOnPorch said:

They're desperately trying to hide that the US trucker convoy is growing exponentially thanks to excellent route logistics. Folks know when and where to join-up. Who knew truckers were so good at this on-the-road stuff? Many tag along non-truckers and RV-ers are also coming as well. The Americans are employing multiple convoys that arrive in the DC area in the March 1st time frame. Their goal is similar...lift all restrictions. While the MSM hopes you're going to miss it all...you're unlikely to as this will likely result in some silly confrontation with the National Guard if Joe insists. Unlike the Canadian truckers, these fellows plan to camp around the perimeter of DC. Unlikely to be as easily moved by threats or force.

 

Let’s see if Joe shows more respect than Trudeau.  I wonder if he’ll lift the mandates or maintain punitive unscientific mandates like Trudeau.  

[DogOnPorch]

1 minute ago, Zeitgeist said:

Let’s see if Joe shows more respect than Trudeau.  I wonder if he’ll lift the mandates or maintain punitive unscientific mandates like Trudeau.  

 

He might not really have a choice as his options are limited and unpalatable. Attack America citizens while drumming up support for war in Russia??? Okay Joe...good luck with that. Pray the National Guard does as you order, I suppose.

[Zeitgeist]

What a contrast.  This guy stands for freedom.  Trudeau stands for fascism.  

 

Edited February 26, 2022 by Zeitgeist

[WestCanMan]

11 hours ago, Aristides said:

He’s right.

His own summary of his own post sure was 100% correct, when he said: 

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Retarded shit.

You guys should change your username to that just to save new people to the forum some time. 

[WestCanMan]

11 hours ago, eyeball said:

It was certainly regrettable but a bit of rough handling and one unintended trampling in an operation involving hundreds of cops and thousands of protesters is indicative of a high degree of discipline and discretion. 

It was inevitable is what it was.

Trudeau and the MSM spent weeks lying, gaslighting, slandering and vilifying the protesters to the point where sheeple like you supported unnecessary acts of violence against them. Our MSM ignored what the police did to those people and you still support our fake media.

I started the CTV, CBC and Global thread before they even shelved footage of cops beating a peaceful protester who had surrendered, on his knees, with his hands on his head, because I know in advance that what they're going to do is bogus in every situation. You still haven't even learned that yet. You're way late to learn. It's like it's 1948 and you're still in Munich bemoaning the death of your beloved fuhrer and worrying about the filthy jew problem. 

We have a problem in Canada and it's not small at all. It's the central theme, like the shark in the movie Jaws. 

[Zeitgeist]

10 hours ago, DogOnPorch said:

 

He might not really have a choice as his options are limited and unpalatable. Attack America citizens while drumming up support for war in Russia??? Okay Joe...good luck with that. Pray the National Guard does as you order, I suppose.

Joe and Justin are completely lost to identity politics and the internationalist green crusade. Tucker Carlson is right that government and NGO’s spend more time worrying about mandating arbitrary equity outcomes and cultural Marxist pseudoscience about race like CRT than they actually do the work for which they were hired.  It’s infected big business too.  It’s woke fascism meets green fascism.  Anything related to building up the country is called colonial or racist.  It’s literally bringing the West to the point of no return as China and Russia fill the void.

John Kerry’s biggest concern about the invasion of Ukraine is its impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Lol.

Our countries aren’t run by serious people.  They are vacuous Manchurian Candidates.  Conrad Black sums it up well:
https://apple.news/AhRrFSE_PTHetyAiCay8psQ

Edited February 26, 2022 by Zeitgeist

[WestCanMan]

10 hours ago, Zeitgeist said:

What a contrast.  This guy stands for freedom.  Trudeau stands for fascism.  

While CNN, MSNBC, WashPo and NYT are worrying about Trump, DeSantis is emerging as the clear #2 in the Republican party. If Trump doesn't run I think there's a really good chance that DeSantis will be elected Prez in 2024. 

It's sad that Canada was [rightfully] used as an example of a covid dictatorship: "Had Florida not led the way, this country could have looked like Canada or Australia."

[WestCanMan]

1 hour ago, WestCanMan said:

It was inevitable is what it was.

Trudeau and the MSM spent weeks lying, gaslighting, slandering and vilifying the protesters to the point where sheeple like you supported unnecessary acts of violence against them. Our MSM ignored what the police did to those people and you still support our fake media.

I started the CTV, CBC and Global thread before they even shelved footage of cops beating a peaceful protester who had surrendered, on his knees, with his hands on his head, because I know in advance that what they're going to do is bogus in every situation. You still haven't even learned that yet. You're way late to learn. It's like it's 1948 and you're still in Munich bemoaning the death of your beloved fuhrer and worrying about the filthy jew problem. 

We have a problem in Canada and it's not small at all. It's the central theme, like the shark in the movie Jaws. 

@eyeball are you really going out with a whimper? 

I outed you as a member of the sheeple in a fascist society and you can't even say that I was somehow wrong?

Are you admitting that CTV, CBC and Goebbels are outright propagandists, that you can't defend their actions, and that you feel like that it's ok if the police issue beatings to peaceful protesters who surrender peacefully? 

Run away then eyeball. Drop your fake progtag and pick up your shiny new LPOC Hakenkreuz. You've earned it. 

[Zeitgeist]

34 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

While CNN, MSNBC, WashPo and NYT are worrying about Trump, DeSantis is emerging as the clear #2 in the Republican party. If Trump doesn't run I think there's a really good chance that DeSantis will be elected Prez in 2024. 

It's sad that Canada was [rightfully] used as an example of a covid dictatorship: "Had Florida not led the way, this country could have looked like Canada or Australia."

Yup Canada is verging on failed state status.  Don’t kid yourself that the Liberals and NDP have anything to do with progressive policies for working people.  They’re elitist fakes who are seeking to expand their powers at the expense of working people and the rights of all Canadians.  They’re literally trying to dismantle our constitutional rights, using the excuse of various emergencies to instil fear: death from Covid; fear of the unvaccinated and those who support their constitutional right to bodily autonomy, by labeling them all fringe racists; stoking fear of violent protest (which never happened) to implement martial law; and now fear of the impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  The result of all this is that Trudeau has alienated millions of Canadians; stripped the rights of all Canadians, especially the unvaccinated; and done lasting damage to Canada’s international reputation.  

Edited February 26, 2022 by Zeitgeist

[WestCanMan]

25 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

They’re elitist fakes who are seeking to expand their powers at the expense of working people and the rights of all Canadians.  

This is a bit OT, but Dr Petersen made a really interesting point about the whole "green energy" debate that I thought was quite interesting.

The global elites who fly around in private jets, pontificating to us peons about global warming, aren't affected at all by rising energy prices. If you have a $2M jet and a $40M yacht it doesn't make any difference to you if your gas for a cross-country flight to play in a polo match costs $3,000 or $6,000. 

However, for the people who are trying to escape poverty, high energy prices are a huge budget crisis. If you have a $15 to $20/hr job and it costs $90 to gas up your car instead of $40, or if your home heating bills go up by $160, you're working a lot of hours a month just to pay for the basics. It makes a huge difference to your bottom line.

The global elites are doing a masterful job of getting the people who are the most sorely affected by their hypocritical plans to dance to their tune. 

[Zeitgeist]

12 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

This is a bit OT, but Dr Petersen made a really interesting point about the whole "green energy" debate that I thought was quite interesting.

The global elites who fly around in private jets, pontificating to us peons about global warming, aren't affected at all by rising energy prices. If you have a $2M jet and a $40M yacht it doesn't make any difference to you if your gas for a cross-country flight to play in a polo match costs $3,000 or $6,000. 

However, for the people who are trying to escape poverty, high energy prices are a huge budget crisis. If you have a $15 to $20/hr job and it costs $90 to gas up your car instead of $40, or if your home heating bills go up by $160, you're working a lot of hours a month just to pay for the basics. It makes a huge difference to your bottom line.

The global elites are doing a masterful job of getting the people who are the most sorely affected by their hypocritical plans to dance to their tune. 

Yup.  Cheap energy should be a cause of the left.  Green energy is heavily-subsidized, especially through tools like carbon taxes, and it produces a small amount of energy for the amount of up front investment, which takes decades to pay down. I do think some green tech and policies have a net benefit that reduces emissions without adding substantially to cost, but that cost-benefit analysis tends not to happen for political reasons.  Once the green left parties take power, the game becomes throwing as much money at green power as possible without sensible analysis, as well as shutting down essential fossil fuel energy even when the supply is cheap and abundant. We even have twits who dismiss nuclear power outright. When a project doesn’t make financial sense, don’t embrace it.  Never reduce your access to secure and affordable energy. Without it our population is a sitting duck for poverty and exploitation.  

Edited February 26, 2022 by Zeitgeist

[DogOnPorch]

Thousand of trucks in Oklahoma City overnight...having a rally before hitting the road again. One of many US trucker convoys.

Protests in Canada start again after initial shock of Trudeau's dictator grab.

[Zeitgeist]

Let’s not forget to make sure Trudeau lifts vaccine mandates.  Until I see those vaccine passports gone, I don’t trust that this government won’t have another go at implementing fascism, segregation, and persecution of citizens that he says have “unacceptable” views and for whom he doesn’t want to “make space”.

Edited February 26, 2022 by Zeitgeist

[DogOnPorch]

6 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

Let’s not forget to make sure Trudeau lifts vaccine mandates.  Until I see those vaccine passports gone, I don’t trust that this government won’t have another go at implementing fascism, segregation, and persecution of those he says have “unacceptable” views and for whom he doesn’t want to “make space”.

 

It's those passports...evil. 

[eyeball]

4 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

@eyeball are you really going out with a whimper? 

I outed you as a member of the sheeple in a fascist society and you can't even say that I was somehow wrong?

Are you admitting that CTV, CBC and Goebbels are outright propagandists, that you can't defend their actions, and that you feel like that it's ok if the police issue beatings to peaceful protesters who surrender peacefully? 

I'll be going out LMAO.

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Run away then eyeball. Drop your fake progtag and pick up your shiny new LPOC Hakenkreuz. You've earned it. 

[Jack9000]

18 hours ago, Zeitgeist said:

What a contrast.  This guy stands for freedom.  Trudeau stands for fascism.  

 

lol supporting someone like ron desantis dear god.  he's almost as bad as trump