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

[Blewberry Nausea]

I am not okay with any of this. This is all a right bother.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

"Starve them out" is as old as the book on sieges. Classically sieges took months or even years (sometimes even decades) because constantly attacking wasn't sustainable in the same way sitting and staring at each other until someone blinked was.

There's a reason a Trebuchet is called a siege weapon.

 

[Big Nasty]

Any news on the dump truck situation?

If they get them straight into Ottawa then it's Hockey Night in Canada for sure.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

Say what you want but it's been endlessly entertaining to see the government try to throw as many negative labels onto these people and hope they stick.

"Yeah Bubba Joe might just be honking and cleaning the streets, but he's actually a WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST VIOLENT TERRORIST BIGOT SCIENCE DENIER THAT NO ONE AGREES WITH"

These people can use all the adjectives they want to describe their opponents, I don't care. All of those words have been meaningless since 1995. But when you start whining about people disregarding the law that the government broke first, I can't help but wish to be possessed by the ghost of George Washington.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

There's a reason a Trebuchet is called a siege weapon.

Siege works were built on site, not transported with the army. Things like trebuchets took days or even weeks to build and were rarely deployed in anything approaching large numbers, usually by the time the trebuchets and siege towers came online the defenders were starving, diseased, and ready to surrender anyways. Typically in a siege if you couldn't take the city quickly using a ladder rush or other quick form of attack you would then immediately set about cutting off all routes of resupply and reinforcement, if you could do that it was functionally impossible for the enemy to outlast you since you could be resupplied and they could not. Almost every historical instance of a siege being broken in pre-modern military history was a case of the besieged either gaining reinforcement from the outside or a case in which the besieging force was forced to pull up stakes and deal with another threat elsewhere thus leaving the city in peace.

In the modern day sieges rarely last that long because modern weaponry makes all but the most formidable of static fortifications sitting ducks for an armor penetrating bomb (bunker busters) or a concentrated artillery barrage, hence the modern focus on maneuver warfare, but I don't exactly see a lot of modern military equipment being employed here currently.

 

[a lurking leaf]

Any news on the dump truck situation?

If they get them straight into Ottawa then it's Hockey Night in Canada for sure.

Looking it up they seem to be at Sarnia-Port Huron border crossing, unsure if they're still there. This was earlier (can't remember if this is the same video posted, I don't think so):

But the bridge is still being blocked, this is from 44mins ago:

Also a Windsor video on the Ambassador Bridge:

This actually is turning into a clusterfuck of epic proportions lol. Everyone is screeching about Ottawa honking while THIS is happening.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

Something to remember about automobiles is that things we take for granted like fuel filters and oil filters didn't become commonplace until the sixties or in some cases the seventies. Modern engine management systems will be able to either shut down or adjust the engine far before catastrophic failure such as that and modern fuel systems are much better protected than vintage cars. On a modern vehicle your best bet for fucking with fuel is to either jelly the gasoline or to add bad gas that you have laying around, modern high pressure fuel systems and filters actually do a pretty good job of making sure that shit like this doesn't hurt your engine and modern computer fuel management will generally do a good job of preventing catastrophic failure.

What if you just pour water in there?

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

What if you just pour water in there?

You'd need a lot of water by ratio.

 

[Nami-Swan]

This is the most whitepilling thing in years. Seeing people come together for a common cause, while lefties seethe and complain on reddit is pure kino. I've got some friends in Canada who are also pro convoy and she said most Canadians are. Go Leafs!

 

[MirrorNoir]

Additional Can Con. This Tragically Hip song is about the October crisis.

It's not.

Gordie wrote "Trapped in the Trunk of a Car" about writer's block, with the song comparing not being able to write lyrics (and the pressure he was under at the time to produce them from his bandmates) to being a serial killer who was carrying a not quite dead body to a secluded spot where people buried bodies they want to never be found that he needed to bury fast.

His live performances almost always mentioned this in the intro before playing the song along with the fact that the live version almost always including extra lyrics from the POV of the killer and his victim.

 

[ForTheHoard]

r/Ottawa is on their 44th convoy megathread.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

r/Ottawa is on their 44th convoy megathread.
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Buy them coffee? Who will deliver it to the bug hive?

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

r/Ottawa is on their 44th convoy megathread.
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Look at all those app posters. Do these people not own computers?

 

[Just_Somebody]

Honestly, the Ottawa stuff is fun (and I'm going tomorrow) but the border blockages are far more impactful. Federal bureaucrats and politicians being miserable and slower at their jobs is likely a net BOON to the economy, but every hour delayed at the border (especially Windsor) is millions of dollars.

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Email from NDP.

Man....I miss Jack Layton. He'd probably be out there with the truckers.

He'd be spinning in his grave seeing the Conservative Party of Canada become the blue collar/labour party.

 

[Scale Smerch]

Got some Coutts border updates.

So to remind everyone, they had opened a lane at the border into the US as a show of good faith to the govt. Today Premier Kenney was supposed to make some sort of announcement - presumably lifting the provincial mandates - but didn't do shit, so the farmers as of an hour ago decided to shut the border down again to hopefully prompt some sort of response.

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So some Americans are stuck over here but they're being fed and taken care of lol.

And a drone shot of the Windsor situation:
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god bless those bastards, love the utter refusal to back down and keep blocking it off whenever they think the message isn't being heard. It's interesting to note that the expectation is Kenney will make the announcement tomorrow (rumours are the UCP voted on it in secret today), but unless it's eliminating the vax pass this week and having every restriction gone within 2-3 weeks it won't matter, the truckers have no reason to back down when they're now clearly winning.

The same goes for Ottawa as well. Bringing in a federal negotiator is the sort of stunt that's right up Trudeau's alley to keep him away from the rabble, but if it happens it also legitimizes the protest. Exact same thing happened with the native railway blockade, it's the first signal of federal compromise. Doubly so if Windsor proves to be a thing, there's no missing the implications of that for the Ontario economy.

Next few days are going to be very fun to watch unfold.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

Man....I miss Jack Layton. He'd probably be out there with the truckers.

No. He'd be at some gay club in Toronto having a train pulled on him.

 

[a lurking leaf]

Actually now I'm unsure if the Bluewater bridge (Sarnia) is actually blocked, apparently the Ambassador bridge crossing is rerouting traffic to it.
All this is very confusing lol. Some people are saying the dumptrucks were 2 days ago.

Bonus:

Imagine being a nurse who crosses the border to work in US hospitals rather than working in our oVeRwHeLmEd ones

 

[inception_state]

No. He'd be at some gay club in Toronto having a train pulled on him.

His preference was apparently "massage parlors" suspected of employing underage Asian hookers.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/massaging-the-truth-about-jack-layton/article624459/

 

[Lord Xenu]

From my understanding the elder Trudeau had to deal with a similar worker's strike or something and broke it up violently. I'm not well educated on Canadian history or politics though so don't take my word for it.

Put it this way, it's starting to share a lot of parallels. Under Justin's father, Pierre's watch, this happened:

Police were motivated to strike because of difficult working conditions caused by disarming FLQ-planted bombs and patrolling frequent protests. Montreal police also wanted higher pay, commensurate with police earnings in Toronto.[2] In addition, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau, who had been elected as a reformer who had promised to "clean up the city" by cracking down on corruption, turned out to be no different from his predecessors and left many people disillusioned.[3] Drapeau's focus on grandiose projects such as Expo 67, instead of trying to improve the daily lives of Montrealers, had also added to the frustration.[3] The journalist Nick Auf der Maur wrote that by 1969, the working class of Montreal had a feeling that Drapeau cared only about building the gleaming modernistic skyscrapers that dominated the city's skyline and was indifferent to its concerns and needs.[3]

The police wanted an annual salary for a constable to go from $7,300 to $9,200 and charged that policing in Montreal was more dangerous than in Toronto, with two officers being killed in the line of duty in 1968, and that the frequent rioting between French-Canadians and English-Canadians in Montreal in 1968 and 1969 added to the danger.[4] Between February 1968 and April 1969, there were 41 gangland murders in Montreal, which was more than the previous 15 years combined, as a younger generation of French-Canadian criminals sought to challenge the power of the Mafia, which had traditionally dominated the Montreal underworld.[5] Overall, there were 75 murders in Montreal in 1968, which gave the city the reputation as the "murder capital of Canada."[5] Rioting on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day on 24 June 1968 was committed by Quebec separatists, angered by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's visit to the city since his federalism had made him into a bête noire for the separatists. Then came demonstrations by junior college students demanding more placements in the universities and taxi drivers protesting the monopoly of the Murray-Hill company's taxis and buses at the Dorval Airport.[4]

And that, culminated with this:

The October Crisis (French: Crise d'Octobre) refers to a chain of events that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence. These events saw the Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoking the War Measures Act for the first time in Canadian history during peacetime.

The Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, supported Trudeau's invocation of the War Measures Act, which limited civil liberties and granted the police far-reaching powers, allowing them to arrest and detain 497 people. The Government of Quebec also requested military aid to support the civil authorities, with Canadian Forces being deployed throughout Quebec.

Although negotiations led to Cross's release, Laporte was murdered by the kidnappers. The crisis affected the province of Quebec, Canada, especially the metropolitan area of Montreal, and ended on December 28.

At the time opinion polls in Quebec and throughout Canada showed widespread support for the usage of the War Measures Act. The response was criticized by prominent politicians such as René Lévesque and Tommy Douglas.

After the crisis, movements that pushed for electoral votes as a means to attain autonomy and independence grew stronger. At the time, support also grew for the sovereignist political party known as Parti Québécois, which formed the provincial government in 1976.

 

[D'edge]

I would go and help but I'm not vaxxed (have had the coof twice so why bother) and can't cross the border into Leafland legally. Of course there are ways other than official border crossings as long as you don't try to walk in snow wearing Walmart sneakers while there's a blizzard raging. Hmm.
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Would you use sled cats instead?