Fortunate Son ///UPDATE///
Thedillpickl
Breaking news...
Ottawa is not the only recipient of the freedom caravan. Gaining more international attention, Canada leads the way in telling the government that the people have a voice and do vote.
(Watch for the sign @ 3:20 that says "Let's go Brandeau!".
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Not really supposed to bring up real life here but sometimes the real is so unreal it is astonishing. I'm not looking to start an argument, so please remain respectful while explaining your point of view. Remember, opinions are like assholes.
Holy Shit Batman!
As a rl American I expect things to get like this on occasion. Kind of breaks up the monotony. However Canada does not behave this way. If I didn't know better I'd think those truckers were pissed. Some may not agree with Mr. Trudeau regarding the running of government.
*DISCLAIMER* Old fart ramblings ahead!
Ya know, looking back over the 40 years or so of my adult life things have went from boring frustration (can't fight city hall) to total absurdity. As a child growing up during the cold war I paid little attention to the Civil Defense movies about nuclear war and gasses that can kill you. Now I'm supposed to live in fear, every day, of a virus that apparently changes at will how it reacts to masks, vaccines and other voodoo magic.
As far as leadership...
Don't get me started. The ones that might have a clue are boorish and rude. The others couldn't pour piss out of a boot if directions were on the heel.
Keep Yer Head Down...
...and yer powder dry.
Now back to your daily diversion.
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Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah
But when the taxman comes to the door
The house look a like a rummage sale
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I always choose to tune out the news because a lot of the things talking heads tell me are super important actually aren't all that important and doesn't really affect me.
Only very recently are things of actual impact and started sneaking into my daily life.
WISH I COULD TURN BACK TIME
TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS
Yep
They are free to choose not to cross the border.
Freedom has a price. Taxes not included 🙂
Might get rough if they become aware that they are free not to drive.
havent been paying much attention to it as it doesnt affect me directly.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
~Martin Niemöller
Oh no white people are unhappy with other white people. *grabs popcorn*. Covids doin a good job of thinning the herd a bit. It can keep doin its job.
You must live in fear Dill LOL.
The commies, the terrorist, the immigrants, the climate and now the virus. I honestly wonder what will be next.
Trudeau is a terrible leader , a traitor, corrupt and a lying entitled prick.. the guy syphon tax money to his family, admires chinese "basic dictatorship" .. the country has gone to shit in inflation
Truckers freedom march is against mandates..
Today is a peaceful march tomorrow is ambush 🙂
I fully support the Freedom Convoy. Aside from the merry hell that will happen in our economy and supply chain by so much as delaying unvaccinated truckers... I am absolutely opposed to any legal penalties of any kind for anyone exercising their medical rights to self determination in Canada. I mean seriously, abortion and euthanasia are legal here but deciding what to put in your body, that doesn't effect anyone else is apparently worth having your rights as a citizen removed.
I'm hoping that the protest brings Ottawa to its gridlocked knees.
Goran Thrax
G7 country with the highest vaccination rate and the only one unable to care for its sick citizens and forced to place more restrictions than the rest. Surely vaccination is the only way out of the pandamic as our leaders claim daily. Damn even third world countries with less ressources are living with less restrictions than us. Any critique on the current state of our health care system?
Of course not. It's way easier to find a scapegoat to blame. Sad 🙁
If abortion is a woman's right to choose what happens to her body, what the hell is up with forcing people to be injected with whatever concoction govt say is ok.
I was actually driving through downtown ottawa from my dentist during this yesterday afternoon. They will have a lot more people tomorrow, but it really was pretty quiet when I was there (about when this video was made). The non-truckers messaging (fuck trudeau) is harming the truckers messaging (don't make it harder for me to do my job).
I am far more concerned about the supply chain issues then the actual event. As the politics of the event will bolster Trudeau's popularity in the short term. Recent polling (ipsos) shows that a super majority of the Canadian public supports stronger vaccine mandates. So their event will not result in any gains for their cause, it will probably actually hinder it. The truckers would be better served just with-holding their labour to apply more effective pressure.
I will say that it's a clever idea to use trucks and trailers (and horns) to make your crowd look bigger. But they won't have anything close to the numbers of protestors of even some of the real recent rallies on parliament hill. Like the anti-racism march last year, or any of the annual abortion rallies.
But the intrigue around this protest being akin to the January 6th USA attempted government take-over thingy has all the media and public freaked out.
I suspect the -25 degree temperature in the capital today will put a literally chill on events today however.
also, while the organizers are claiming that they will bring 50,000 trucks to ottawa, police estimates from traffic cams expect it to be one or two thousand max.
The Turd decided to run away to " tested positive and as per Ontario health regulations need to self isolate " in ontario if you are double vaxxed you dont need to self isolate , so which is which he is lying about , vaccination status or the test? Freedom march is against mandate and for all those who lost their jobs or forces to take the vax to keep it
You know that linking this to Jan 6th is pure media invention to cause more hatred towards them right?
Shows the lack of real journalism in this country. Its all AP or Reuters copy paste. Instead of making up stories without any prove to back up why not send journalists to cover the convoy and interview as many people as possible. Did they send anyone?
What happened to investigation journalism? The paper I find that has a proper investigation unit is Journal de Montreal. And still it is garbage.
agreed. sadly our paid media (newspapers, etc.) industry is dying. The effects of that are on full display.
But, the reality is that the coverage (and frankly really bad messaging from the organizers) is actually going to undermine their cause. It will further intrench the public in favour of strong vax mandates. The truckers economic argument should be the prevailing message box, but that has been co-opted by the broader anti-vax movement.
And regardless of your beliefs, the fact is that in Canada 2/3rd of the public support stronger vaccine mandates. And over half now support taxing the unvaccinated with financial penalties: https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-and-polls/half-of-canadians-agree-government-should-enact-a-tax-on-unvaccinated-people
I personally worry that the longer the pandemic goes one, the more angry the vaccinated will actually become towards the unvaccinated, whom polling shows they believe are stopping a return to normal. I think we all know that stopping covid requires a lot of different health measures, not just vaccinations. But the unvaccinated are an easy target for mob mentality right now. And they provide very good cover for our governments of all political stripes to make the problem something other than their own inaction.
I agree Roger. Their messaging is not perfect and might not help their cause. Nobody is perfect and people are angry. Why demand perfection from them and not the politicians?
Why can politians get away calling names to the convoy members and fueling division but the convoy can't against them? It has to be applied both ways.
That tax is a joke. Some much for universal health care. It paves the way to consider it an insuramce now. So what now? I have not been in a hospital in 15 years. Are they giving me a tax refund? I contributed and never complained with the understanding that I will be taken care of if something were to happen.
Identity politics is one of the most disgusting things the media uses to divide the population and sew mistrust and hatred between the political divide. It's one of the main reasons why I hate journalism \so much. They take one person espousing crazy ideas and then magnify that person's opinions and applies it onto the whole group, linking it to something different. It's absolutely disgusting and it's moral decay at its finest.
New US holiday, Insurrection Day, 6th January. 😎
I strongly believe it is a sheeple planet now. we now "pray" to the almighty media as well as the almighty dollar. whichever one tells us jump we are all jumping enthusiastically, saying "how hi" I'm using the term 'all' very loosely here.
I wish we could 'all' get back to doing our due diligence instead of waiting for others to do it for us. Do the homework/research before formulating the steadfast belief. "2 ways to be foole😛 believing a lie! or not believing, the truth. make sure you know which one may be happening to you.
The stupid thing is the US has imposed similar rules and this protest is completely pointless as a bunch of Canadian trucker's protesting are not changing what the US does.
Canada does not control the US government just yet.
someday. fingers crossed. lol
“that these dead shall not have died in vain– that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” (U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863) Not my most favorite of our Presidents, but whatever.
If things keep going the way they are our current govt will find out what those words mean. US govt is not our God, not all of us worship it.
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Somehow the Federal govt has found convenient was to ignore this.
Someday Canada will rule the World !
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This was issued on Jan 25 in Nova Scotia:
Of the 92 people in hospital, 89 were admitted during the Omicron wave.
The vaccination status of those in hospital is:
— 17 (18.5 per cent) people have had a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine
— 55 (59.8 per cent) are fully vaccinated (two doses)
— 3 (3.3 per cent) are partially vaccinated
— 17 (18.5 per cent) are unvaccinated.
It is important to note that less than 10 per cent of Nova Scotians are unvaccinated.
So, 17 people out of 92 in hospitals are unvaccinated, 75 have some stage of vax, and the chief medical staff says, " see, we need more people vaccinated", now I might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but that doesn't make any sense at all to someone who thinks for themselves and doesn't just swallow what the Gov't and media put out there,
If only 10%of the people are unvaccinated what's the problem, we were supposed to "get back to normal" at 80% vaccinated.
LIES, LIES, LIES
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Nailed it.
Loving everything about this freedom convoy
The idiot fringe riding to Ottawa, screaming freedom, all the while defacing Terry Fox's statue and parking and taking pisses on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Wake me up when the nutters get cold and tire of yelling into the void.
That's worse the media could find. I regret to inform you that Terry Fox's statue gets vandalized every single protest in Ottawa. For crying out loud, Hockey riots in Vancouver and Montreal the past decade have been way more violent with multiple police vehicles set alight and a wave of business destruction. But hey, no one cares now, it was just funny hockey fans. The convoy members are the real threat LOL. There is always a stupid or two in every single protest. So convenient to put them all in the same boat.
Ok, sure, sounds like a bunch of ya buts to me. I am not sure what the point of this protest is beyond the freedom to be selfish and afraid of needles.
It's all good Quimbie. We can agree to disagree 🙂
It's so easy now to insult, judge people and assume to hold the moral high ground. I'm just bringing a different perspective. Every story has 2 sides.
I, for one, do not enjoy govt treating me like a 3 year old.
Dont judge the whole by action of the few , these guys better be heard or we are officially fighting tyranny, sheep are coloterals
truck you trudeau, you communist pos
Not since they discovered what caused the Black Plague has the health welfare of the few out weighed that of the many.