It was a smart way of protesting... None of the rabid violence of BLM needed, just hit the arteries of the economy by clogging them up, and symbolically demonstrating the importance of logistics and the impracticality of the mandates, never mind the extremism of them. Truckers can easily say they are not blocking the road, they are waiting for the road to clear - a kind of "I'm not Spartacus" moment, that makes any police or military action look extremist. Trudeau was then exposed as an extremist, and it's hard to see how he can continue in politics at all, or even in Canada at all. If that blonde MP becomes the new leader of the Canuck Tories, then maybe there's a replacement government ready and waiting?
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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoAs much as I love the truckers, I am seeing a lot of conflicting numbers, especially the streamers with drones who are at the scene.
Some say 50k trucks, some say 1k.......
To be honest, at this point it won't matter. 1k trucks are already going to take months to move even by the army. They already got huge media exposure and are pressuring politicians bigly.
Regardless of the actual number, they've stirred up a hornet's nest and things are about to change. Yay !
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
SLAYERofTOBACCO@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Trudeau will go down in history as the Coward of Canada. Pierre Poilevre is running for PM soon as Trudeau is thrown out.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
But how precisely can he be thrown out? He stands up there in parliament lying his arse off, with the media and god knows who else behind him...
SLAYERofTOBACCO@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Nobody likes him anymore. Even the liberals are saying he’s corrupt. It’s only a matter of time.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Don't bring BLM into this. BLM was virtue signalling mixed with grifters making millions, democrats who wanted to win 2020, and actual criminals who killed and robbed openly, after defund the police became a thing.
If you want to compare to a real protest, take the Martin Luther King Jr. protests. Non violent civil disobedience to end real discrimination, just like against antivax today.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I think you missed my point.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Don't get me wrong. I understand you were criticizing BLM.
I just don't like that people even call it a "protest".
To me, it was political theatre, without any real injustice worth protesting at its heart.
SLAYERofTOBACCO@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
So far there is 3,000 semi trucks and hundreds of tractors and thousands of 4x4’s. They can’t move us. We hold the power and they know it. They are scared right now and only conservatives are actually trying to help us out.