Thursday, January 27, 2022

It's Called Cowarditis

Mere hours after calling a popular national movement "a small fringe minority" -

this minority:

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 - Justin has suddenly and mysteriously come down with COVID:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is isolating at home after learning that he was exposed to someone who had tested positive for COVID-19.

And he so wanted to meet the truckers, too!

I guess that flu shot doesn't protect one from truckers ... or anything else:

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Who will take Justin's place?

Will Chrystia, too, become suddenly ill?:

It’s also about media coverage. Endless blather from the usual political panels, each a carbon copy of the other: a mix of partisan spokespeople, lobby and “communications” firm high-flyers, ex-politicos and a sprinkle of long-term journalists. On a story like the convoy, has anyone at Global, CTV or CBC thought to set up a panel of … truckers? Perhaps three or four actually in the convoy. You know, the people who actually know about the convoy.

If not one of those laborious panels, why not, by now, some frequent by-the-side-of-the-road interviews with the participants in the convoy? Instead of talking about the truckers, how about talking to them? It also wouldn’t be such a bad idea to go among the supporters who greet them as they pass through communities and ask why they are in such visible support.

I know one interview I would like to have seen. There’s a much-circulated photograph originally posted on Facebook of six Hutterite women holding signs in support of the convoy in Swift Current, Sask. I don’t think these women are being “stirred on” by “far-right extremists” in support of a “Jan. 6-style insurrection” to occur when the truckers reach Ottawa. I base this judgment purely on their perfectly cheerful faces. They lack the obligatory grimness and dark intensity that marks the would-be Che Guevara set. I really don’t think they are the “plotting” sort. ...

It would be very nice to have the prime minister and the leaders of the other parties in the home of Canadian democracy to offer a response (Jan. 6 theories to the contrary) to what certainly appears to be a grassroots demonstration. It would be nice, too, to have Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole say something definitive as to where he stands on the same. Fudge is a fine candy, but it is not a good policy.

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Butts then labelled truckers terrorists. Well, they took it like an arrow to the heart, which is exactly what Butts predicted and which naturally had social media light up like Times Square on a New Year’s Eve.

Meanwhile, the eastbound “Freedom Convoy” rolling towards Ottawa in protest of government mandates is now well underway with hundreds coming out to support the truckers’ departure from B.C.’s Lower Mainland early Sunday morning.

The recent mandate is forcing truckers crossing the border into Canada to provide proof of vaccination upon arrival if they want to avoid testing and quarantine requirements.

Prior to this restriction, cross-border truckers were considered an essential service.

 

The truckers are unphased:

“It’s not about the vaccine. It’s about the mandate…. We’re done with mandates.”

While truckers from Ontario will arrive in Ottawa on Friday, the majority will arrive on Saturday, and that’s when the protest will begin in earnest, said Jason LaFlace, an organizer who previously planned events and protests for a group called No More Lockdowns.

“The first day is going to be the 29th. We’re just going to go on a roll. And that will be the starting point, to get ourselves set up. On the 31st, the Monday, that’s the first day of business for Ottawa and for us, us freedom fighters, and Canadians all across the country. And we’re expecting a huge amount,” LaFlace said.

The plan is to essentially gridlock the city, while leaving room for traffic to businesses and emergency vehicles to get through, LaFlace said.

 

Keep in mind that Justin had ZERO problem with thugs shutting down railway lines.


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