Canadian Truckers Convoy 2022 - The Leaf calls you a Nazi as he gasses you

[mindlessobserver]

this ottowa meeting is pure faggotry. cant you fine the truckers? cant you tow them??

no tow trucks to tow the trucks.

Kek, the deputy is saying the people protesting are not reasonable. They keep issuing infractions and the infraction citations keep being ignored. What barbarians! Ignoring official papers like that.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

At this point, is there still the chance that Canada goes full-on authoritarian to snuff out the truckers, like how China put an end to the Hong Kong protests?

With Trudeau, who has openly stated he admires China's government, there is always that possibility.

 

[Chunoino]

Counter-protest in Vancouver

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The absolute state of Redditors:

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Why do people like this think they stand a chance against people that do actual, physical work?

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

She has no chance. Jason Kenney won for being nothing other than "Not Rachel Notley" and still smashed the NDP.

Which is why I think people were afraid she had a chance. Who else to be "Not Jason Kenney" but her? The Liberals? Are voters madder at the Conservatives for what they did now or the NDP for what they did then? (I yells ya, that party thing in April can't happen soon enough....)

The sad thing is, she not only still has her fans - I know, Twitter ain't real life - but they're exactly as smart as you'd expect of a follower on social media.

"Can you use emergency pandemic powers to choke a protest I don't like? Legislate me harder, Commie Mommy!"

Instead they kept Premier Karen on long after her expiration date, I doubt it will serve them well next election.

Oh, yeah, they are clinging on to her for the next election, aren't they? Takes a quality organization to look at a loser and decide to keep backing.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Which is why I think people were afraid she had a chance. Who else to be "Not Jason Kenney" but her? The Liberals?

Brian Jean. Who will be Premier after April 9th

 

[AnitaSarsleezian]

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https://twitter.com/JustEye33/status/1490064463852183557

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That one canadian using a hockey stick as a flagpole for his Canadian flag. That's the most Canadian thing I've ever seen.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

It’s a siege without the pillaging.

Wonder if there’s going to be resignations since “we don’t get paid enough for this shit”.

This is NOT a siege. That would involve actual violence and artillery.

This is simply a blockade.

 

[Random Internet Person]

With Trudeau, who has openly stated he admires China's government, there is always that possibility.

Sounds like someone wants a new position after Xi takes over the world.

 

[mindlessobserver]

hahaha, Ottawa's police chief just call it a nationwide insurrection!

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Watching that Ottawa Council Meeting and listening to those dolts talk about how they need to formulate a plan to deal with protesters more than a week after they arrived gives me hope that the truckers might actually win. These incompetent dipshits have no idea how to handle this situation and I'm hoping that public opinion is going to turn from truckers to the council for not doing anything.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

"It's not a demonstation, it's not an occupation, it's... something"
- Peter Sloly

Is this a walkback I see coming?

I believe the word you're looking for, dear mutt, is "beautiful". I will also accept "liberating" or "refreshing".

 

[Jarolleon]

This is the system's methodology with addicts, the impoverished, and the mentally ill. Catch and release. Canada won't waste money holding these people in prison for petty crime but also won't offer rehabilitation or solutions other than a pamphlet.

I can't say what happens to these kids now but when I got out, it was getting weird. I graduated post-2000. I took a history class and conveniently the unit on Mao and China was reduced in scale and scope until it eventually got squeezed out of the curriculum. Not a coincidence, methinks.

Edit: To be clear, I did take social studies all through school. History was a one year elective thing. Social studies goes on and on about French history and British history here. We talk about British imperialism and colonialism and how bad it was, but not like America, more like finding shame in the history. I started my education in the US which talked so much about the success of our forefathers, New England, the beauty of our land, and how everyone is welcomed (remember this is primary education). Canada is more like look at all the terrible shit we did and how awful we are, how dare we?! Also there's a subversive message that Americans aren't good and sometimes it comes right out with insulting comments from teachers in schools. Canadians are taught the War of 1812 was won by the British even though that makes no fucking sense.

Part of that could just be the structure. The rosy picture is painted in grade school so that it can get dunked on in high school. That way edgy teens can feel like rebels and philosophers for figuring out the things the teachers wanted them to figure out. Leftie fervour relies on the illusion of being the underdog, so starting out with an "orthodox" strawman is an essential step.

 

[Scale Smerch]

They have nothing to offer other than being the opposition. They could have had her step aside and repalce her with someone with fresh ideas or at least appeals to their base like the nutcase Shannon Phillips. Instead they kept Premier Karen on long after her expiration date, I doubt it will serve them well next election.

To be fair they kept her on because they literally have no one else. At least Notley can pretend to exude some charisma, the rest of the NDP field doesn't even have that to offset their usual policy nonsense.

It's what makes the current polling so funny, anyone who honestly believes the NDP will beat the UCP next year needs their heads examined. Unless the UCP splits in half it'll be another Con majority.

 

[Random Internet Person]

hahaha, Ottawa's police chief just call it a nationwide insurrection!

Happy 1/6, everybody! Now does this mean Justin won’t feel bad if he brings in the army?

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Watching that Ottawa Council Meeting and listening to those dolts talk about how they need to formulate a plan to deal with protesters more than a week after they arrived gives me hope that the truckers might actually win. These incompetent dipshits have no idea how to handle this situation and I'm hoping that public opinion is going to turn from truckers to the council for not doing anything.

It's something else. They are taking turns throwing each other under the bus and repeating the hysterical complaints by the locals.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

She has no chance. Jason Kenney won for being nothing other than "Not Rachel Notley" and still smashed the NDP.

The NDP was totally unprepared for government last time and when they accidently won, they managed to accomplish almost nothing in their entire time with a supermajority aside from a dumb move to regulate whether kids on farms can do certain jobs, and changes to the education curriculum that were dropped by Kenney the minute he came in.

They have nothing to offer other than being the opposition. They could have had her step aside and repalce her with someone with fresh ideas or at least appeals to their base like the nutcase Shannon Phillips. Instead they kept Premier Karen on long after her expiration date, I doubt it will serve them well next election.

Don't forget regulating how much a driver's insurance could be raised in order to spread the burden to all drivers and keep bad drivers on the road. They did get that done!

 

[Just_Somebody]

Watching that Ottawa Council Meeting and listening to those dolts talk about how they need to formulate a plan to deal with protesters more than a week after they arrived gives me hope that the truckers might actually win. These incompetent dipshits have no idea how to handle this situation and I'm hoping that public opinion is going to turn from truckers to the council for not doing anything.

All the truckers should just call their registration office and insurance companies and state "Yeah hey my truck is parked for the foreseeable future."

They're still hoping the fucking army bails them out.

Meanwhile the Winnipeg Chief of Police has called it what it is, a peaceful fucking protest, which, last I checked, Canadians can still do, and after two years of double fucking standards, anti-lockdown people have rallied and gathered in enough numbers to not be harassed by the enforcers of state tyranny.

In Montreal, in early January, people protested the curfew (TOTES SCIENTIFIC YOU GUYS COVID ONLY COMES OUT AFTER 10PM IN QUEBEC) and the cops basically grabbed people one by one to issue $1000-$6000 fines as they returned to their cars after 10 PM. Now? The cops will be surrounded and forced to retreat.

I'm going to shut my mouth to avoid fedposting, but fuck every police officer who has enforced any curfews, mandates, or other bullshit against the people.

 

[TheClappening]

Not directly related to the Leafs, but there's an anti-mandate protest about a block from our shop. 50ish people. Just on the corner waving signs at a major intersection.

I'm in an almost comically blue area, and the city where I work is bit like a lite cheesecake (kind of rich, kind of white). Back in 2020 I saw more TDS signs than I saw pro-Orange Man signs. Also had a pro-BLM rally back during the summer of love.

Every third or so cars that drove past the picket would give them a honk.

I guess the Canadians actually doing shit is tangibly encouraging others.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

>The Premier must commit that this will never happen and that he will remove any of his Caucus members that believe it should.
This except with respect to further lockdowns over the fucking common cold.

That really is the worst part of the "trust the experts" crowd. These unelected officials are supposed to be expert ADVISERS to the government, not policy makers, and the experts from all fields are supposed to be consulted, not just one moron from one department too autistic to understand that problems don't exist in a vaccum.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

Candice Bergen named interim leader of the Conservative Party

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I thought you were meming, thats hilarious. Why would you do that to your daughter?

The Main problem with going full authoritarian is that 1. the last Canadian PM who had to use those powers famously was also named Tradau and 2. It showed that most of the military and police were ironically enough decent people and were perfectly fine refusing orders, which resulted in a massive reduction in military power because polls showed that all it would have taken was anyone willing to and the generals could have couped them hard.

Because the government itself is already so powerless any attempt to use these powers would probably result in a similar if not worse result, unlike the US, the military isn't majority immigrant lead, if anything most veterans probably end up either truckers or police, so even if they could find enough units to scramble together for such an operation it would piss off way more essential workers than it would help. Think about how often police up there end up being stuck on the side of the road and need help from a passing trucker, the conventional wisdom would be to tell the feds to shove it, which leads back to point 2.

Honestly the governments best bet is to try what they're already doing, let the siege last as long as possible, and shove as much blame for the supply chain breakdown on these truckers.