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Freedom Convoy protests [Split from All things 2019-nCoV]
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FSTO
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So all the Pearl clutching from the National Media, LPC, Progressive Left has been a bit overblown?
Possibly but I would say the same thing about the protest people saying they’d have 10k trucks and and half a million people lol. So like most protests on the hil, the organizers like to inflate their numbers.
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FSTO
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Not going to dispute that the convoy numbers were well over slated as well.
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Like Trudeau saying (after the latest electoral waste of 2/3 Billion dollars), “You are sending us back to work with a clear mandate…” when it was only 32.6% of 62.3% eligible voters, or only 1/5 of eligible Canadian voters, statistically the weakest basis of election ever in Canada since 1867?
Are there some fringe elements in this group? Yes, that’s quite clear (Confederate flags on vehicles, Stars-of-David taken out of context, yes), but there are still a lot of folks participating and many on the heavy handedness of many levels of government overall, not just the more specific point of anti-vaccine focused demonstration. I haven’t seen Trudeau use speech to acknowledge the mainstream concern while in a balanced manner, carefully separating the extremist tag along elements…it’s a deliberate mealy-mouthed sweeping statement methodology to gaslight the whole effort as fringe, and discredit the underlying message of a large share of the citizenry approaching their limit of one of the weakest government mandates in the history of Canada. If Trudeau wants to play the Divide-and-Conquer game, he may damn himself (or if he goes all soft and runs away taking a knee, and ‘passing the flame of progression’ to the next Liberal Leader when things look ugly, which is where I think 2023 will be) then I look forward to his likely having to rue the day of Canadians’ greater discontent…
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Speaking of which, here's what a leader who's actually trying to bring people together instead of make them fight each other for votes sounds like:
O'TOOLE: It’s time for solutions, and it’s time for Canadians to come together
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As I’m driving north towards Saskatoon I just met a line of vehicles, semi trucks pick ups and cars heading towards Regina. I’m assuming that they are going to the legislature on a coordinated protest with the folks in Ottawa. I saw an odd looking Canadian flag with red stripes actually red horizontal stripes and then stars within the Mapleleaf. Some of these clowns should remember we fought against the Americans.
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Taken word-for-word, far more clearly peeling off the nutbars from the generally frustrated (highlight mine) ....
.. than PMJT's take
Meanwhile, some Twitter traffic's pumping up how the PM has paid Antifa $45M to be bad - although the post in the screenshot seems to have disappeared from the OP's account @ this point.
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Precisely. Trudeau is deliberately vague in his wording…could mean all people coming to Ottawa, or he could slide it back and say, “I didnt mean everyone in the movement is in the fringe, just those who are….ummm, uhhhh, ummmm…”
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If ya have to explain it later, how clear was it, right?
Mind you, asking everyone to "lower the temperature (and) stop demonizing your fellow citizens and calling them names" would have been looked better on O'Toole than just asking those nay-saying the convoy to do that, I still give Team Blue WAY more marks for being clear & precise.
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Trudeau would like nothing better than for this to turn violent. I think he desperately wants his own Jan 6 "insurrection"
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Even Prince John knew when the jig was up and signed a trivial little document at Runnymede. Our Narcissist In Charge would never stoop to this level.
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So far it seems peaceful. Some guys parked their pickup trucks on the war memorial grounds but we asked to move and did so without issue.
Anecdote: i drove out this morning on my way to exercise my freedom to buy a magazine, some paint and get a muffin. On my way I saw supporters at the Huntclub, walkkey and Innis over passes. About 20 or so at the huntclun one and maybe half a dozen at each of the other two. On my way back I saw what looked like small convoy coming in. One transport truck and maybe about 20 or so cars and pick ups with flags so people are arriving at various times.
Anecdote: i drove out this morning on my way to exercise my freedom to buy a magazine, some paint and get a muffin. On my way I saw supporters at the Huntclub, walkkey and Innis over passes. About 20 or so at the huntclun one and maybe half a dozen at each of the other two. On my way back I saw what looked like small convoy coming in. One transport truck and maybe about 20 or so cars and pick ups with flags so people are arriving at various times.
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I love how all the focus is on a few crazies, and not the vast majority of people who aren't crazy, just upset with the government.
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