Canada's January 6th?

"trucker" protest

Because when I think medical advice, I think guys who piss in empty soda bosses.

*Sips my high falutant infused coffee*

Well, when it's "truckers" protesting like this it's usually because the Liberals in Ottawa are making it too hard for them to make a living... Which is weird, because they always have enough money for fuel to drive halfway across the country to attend protests, even when their protest is allegedly about fuel prices being too high.

let's not forget that they were protesting Liberals in Ottawa originally because (checks notes) the US government set rules and conditions for truck drivers entering the USA.

and the grift continues...

Truckers who participated in a cross-country convoy culminating in protest at Parliament Hill this weekend have been duped into believing the convoy was about them.

It never was. It wasn’t about your rights to continue crossing the border unvaccinated. And by the time the convoy rolled through Ontario it had already fully morphed into something much bigger – and more dangerous – than what truckers were ever told.

I raised alarms early in a blog ‘The murky matter of protests and the donations that drive them,’ when I noticed who was behind the convoy. These weren’t truckers organizing a GoFundMe that at the time of that writing had yet to surpass $1 million, on the way to $8.5 million just a week later.

The principal fundraiser was Tamara Lich, the secretary of the federal separatist Maverick Party in Alberta. Prior to that role, she was active with other far-right movements such as Wexit Alberta – a party whose founder advocated for Alberta to separate from Canada and join the Trump-led U.S.

The blog fueled a lot of anger. How dare you question the motives of the organizers? Why don’t you support the revolution? How much money did Trudeau pay you to write such drivel? Take your jab and die.


It also brought a lot of attention to the fundraiser and the people behind it. GoFundMe froze the funds for a time until it was satisfied the money would be disbursed appropriately.

I received many calls from mainstream media outlets, asking me what the protest was about. I couldn’t bring myself to call this a trucker protest. I opined it was an anti-vax, anti-mandate, anti-government, and possibly even pro-separatist movement that’s attached itself to the frustrations of a small segment of the trucker population.

And then Canada Unity, another of the organizers, posted a ludicrous Memorandum of Understanding/Manifesto on its website, which it plans to present to the Governor General of Canada. It essentially calls for the resignation of everyone within the federal government, the formation of a new government comprised of the Governor General, Senate, and members of Canada Unity, and the removal of all Covid-related measures – even those put into place at the provincial level. The trucks will remain until the document is signed, organizers said, dubbing its mission Bearhug.

I understand the frustrations truckers feel over the border vaccine mandate, I really do. You’ve done your jobs safely for two years going back and forth across the border keeping our economy moving and our stores stocked, and were declared heroes as you did so.

Canada bungled the communication around its Jan. 15 vaccine mandate, creating confusion and for 24 hours giving truckers false hope they’d be exempted. But the reality is, Canada’s arrival requirements for unvaccinated Canadian truckers are completely moot now that the U.S. has put into place its own requirement.

It matters little what you have to do upon re-entry when you can’t travel into the U.S. in the first place. And if you think the Biden Administration is going to reverse that mandate over a trucker protest in Ottawa, well, that’s about as likely as the mass resignation of all our federally elected politicians in Ottawa.

I feel bad for the truckers who thought this was about them. It never was. There was never any discussion around the real issues you face every day. Lack of safe parking. Poor road conditions. Access to clean restrooms. Unpaid detention time at shippers and receivers.

You were taken advantage of, because you were frustrated and you have big, loud machines that can be quite disruptive. You became the rallying cry of an anti-government group whose ambitions went well beyond the reversal of the vaccine mandate.

The true objectives of convoy organizers became clearer as they neared Ottawa and are now on full display. The unruly behavior in Ottawa – the waving of Swastika and Confederate flags, dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, and desecrating the Terry Fox memorial – were shameful and were not the doing of truckers. But anyone who participated in or promoted this convoy is guilty by association. You were duped.



But... FREEDUM!!!! Right Al?

Not a fan of the bolt-on tiddies, myself, but nobody under 18 should be getting elective cosmetic procedures OR hormone therapy.

Or a person can object to more than one thing.

Like Mexicans and transes.
Or strawman feminists and strawman liberals.
Or black women and anything.

those confederate and swastika flags could mean ANYTHING!!!!

Would you care to speculate on why, when somebody proposes amendments to make these bans also apply to teenage girls getting boob jobs, Republicans keep shooting them down?

You would have to ask them. I'm not responsible for their motives.

Just because he parrots their talking points @tafkats doesn’t mean he shares any beliefs with them.

Hems just a little smol bean.

With us or against us! With us or against us!

so how long before UA finally gets rule 8'd?

I mena, the guy hasn't brought a single shred of supporting or counter argument to anything he's posted in, ever...

Narrator: He was clearly against us, but didn't appreciate being reminded of it.

Being against you doesn't force me to join anyone else's team. That's as bad as some fucktard calling me a liberal because I think drugs and abortion should be legal. It's fucking stupid tribalism that gains us nothing.

Next, some mouth-breathing fucktard will try to reduce it to a scoreboard where the most superficial agreements dictate my affiliation.

The MAGAs will decide for you when they tell a wife beating joke, and you don't laugh hard enough, and they rip your eyes out, and fuck your sockets.
But yeah, keep thinking you're an island.

Why should they do your work for you? Lace up those sneakers and get to work, killer.

I don't wanna fuck your eye sockets.
I'm fine letting you have your pot, and Jenee, and be left alone.
The liberal boogeymen really aren't out to get you.
It's the Nazis that are the "eager beavers".
And if you tell me your steel shop isn't lousy with 'em, I'll know you're lying.

It's hilarious that you presented "with us or against us" as a ridiculous strawman position held by those who disagree with you, only to admit you really are "against us" one post later.

I have done no such thing. I'm sure each of you holds at least one position I'd agree with. Purity tests are for idiot children.

Oh, I am WELL aware you're a bag bag of rancid hot air who will never carry out your own violent fantasies.

Specific freedoms remain in jeopardy. Reducing that to people being out to get me is just your typical reductive stupidity.

Now go ahead and clip out a few words for a bad faith attempt at subversive" humor." I'm sure mom and dad will be suitably impressed.

I'd ask you to describe which ones without consulting a GOP mouthpiece, but you'd short out like a Star Trek villain computer.

Must be convenient to dismiss everything as a talking point instead of addressing it.

Cry more.