The truckers protest in Ottawa is out of hand

GM and Ford canceling shifts because of the Ambassador Bridge backup.

Those fuckers need to be arrested and their vehicles towed off the bridge.

Gia, you have no business schooling anyone on hypocrisy.

As I stated above, I do see a moral difference between the protests. BLM protests were against continuing disproportionate police violence against black people - a complaint that had gone largely unheard until the last few years, and which, sadly, required some extreme measures to bring people’s attention to the matter. Decades of quiet, peaceful protest had failed to bring about change, and have even often been mocked and scorned by people on the right committed to keeping the status quo. And yes, in many cases the police escalated or committed the violence themselves. I did not say in all cases.

The Ottawa thing is a bunch of babies who think their rights are being trampled by a paper mask or who have been convinced by YouTube that the vaccine may be dangerous. Their rage is fueled by nothing more than the typical conservative grievance narrative and a hefty dose of delusion. Just like the people who stormed the Capitol and tried to overthrow a fair and free election in this country. False victimhood and delusion.

Trying to draw any kind of equivalency between these two actions shows just how divorced from reality you are.

OF COURSE the village idiot thinks it’s funny that Canadian and American workers can’t work. 

Actually, what I think is funny is your responses to my posts.  We are all getting a big kick out of that over here. 🤣

I'm not schooling anyone. Just pointing out the facts. If they happen to show your astounding hypocrisy  you should have thought of that before you displayed it.




I don't believe that for a second. Everything you say discredits your own statement. If you truly and honestly saw a moral difference you wouldn't need to reduce FORCING a population to submit to injections whether they need them or not, to "being babies about a paper mask". You know damn good and well that if Trump had enacted vaccine mandates the Left would've lost their ever-loving minds.




The hell they did. We have seen so much change for the better in this country. For decades. What decade are you living in?
We have come so far from decades ago.
Don't conflate this with me saying there's no more racism, which we both know is nothing more than a dismissal of facts you don't like.
And stop conflating racists with all people on the Right. It does a disservice to whatever your message is. 



The way you stated that is nothing more than an amoral, completely dishonest justification for saying you can only protest what WE agree with. All while claiming in 2020 that the people who objected to the violence, murder and destruction going on then, just didn't want people to protest for black lives. Yes, that was a common dismissal and it's bullshit.




YOU trying to remove NOW, the equivalency between these two protests THAT YOU YOURSELF BROUGHT TO THIS VERY THREAD, is nothing more than your really bad - really, really bad (a true fail) attempt to dismiss the hypocrisy YOU personally displayed, shows how utterly and completely dishonest you are.

I might be misremembering, but I thought that you went on a tear about whataboutism not long ago. But maybe that was someone else. 🤔

To me it means a burst of activity, a spree if you like.

I’ll make sure to write my responses to you at a second grade level so you can all understand. 

Well as a working class independent in healthcare, I truly do respect all those who had to continue to do their job through the pandemic and appreciate it…just as I did.  I still can think they are selfish ( for many reasons) although I do not believe I ever call any of them idiots.  

I also believe that having a vaccine mandate to cross borders is not unusual or odd. There are vaccines that you must get when traveling to many places. There were vaccinations that I had to get before starting my job with my current employer over 20 years ago. If you want to cross the border and deliver your load you need to get vaccinated.  If you don’t want to, find another job or take another route.  

I also do not believe that such a mandate will lead to anything more nefarious.  It just seems that many people protesting this have very strong opinions on open borders and such…so you would think they would be more receptive to anything that made crossing any border more difficult (sorry I couldn’t resist) 🤔 😉😄  All the above is my opinion only.

Interesting. I wonder what the auto workers who are on the verge of a layoff have to say about the protest. This is the protest at one of the border crossings, but it’s applicable. From today’s WaPo:

“Rob Wildeboer may have to decide as soon as Thursday whether the Canadian trucker protest that is blocking a key bridge between the United States and Canada will require him to furlough some of his several thousand factory workers.
Wildeboer, 62, the chairman of Martinrea International, which produces components for every global automaker, said Wednesday that the protests are within hours of halting some of his production lines. The company’s engine blocks, transmissions, subframes and brake lines can be found in GM Sierra pickup trucks, Ford Escapes and Jeep Grand Cherokees.
Each day, Wildeboer’s trucks make 38 trips across the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, shuttling half-finished products between company plants in both countries. The shipments are just part of $300 million in daily commerce that transits the aging steel span and is imperiled by the traffic-snarling protest of Canada’s coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates.
For the auto industry, the borders between the United States, Canada and Mexico were effectively erased nearly 30 years ago by a North American trade deal. The industry has developed since then into a tightly choreographed industrial ballet that relies on parts arriving at a factory just in time to be used.
“We make a part Monday morning, it’s probably on a vehicle by Wednesday,” Wildeboer said.”

The fact of the matter is that this protest will affect other working class people. In Ottawa, it is affecting businesses and nearby residents.

Let’s all remember that you recently had to admit that you brought an article to this board in an attempt at a “gotcha” but had actually been taken in by a partisan writer who was just confirming your own biases.

It’s not the first time that has happened, btw, though it was the first time you conceded it.

There was at least one other instance where you copied and pasted false and misleading words from a propaganda site article and used them as your own.

Does being caught out in instances like that ever cause you to reflect about whether many of your other cherished beliefs come from a place of misinformation and bias? If not, you’ve got no business telling anyone else about honesty. You’re not even capable of being honest with yourself.

And of course there’s the whole matter of you continuing to insist that you are not the pea we all know you are, who has been here for years. That’s very dishonest.

The rest of your post is your typical grievance bullshit and matters not at all to me. I stand by what I said about the babies in Ottawa protesting something that shouldn’t even be a blip on their radar. But thanks for confirming that what they’re really protesting is a politician and not a real infringement on their rights.

Thank you internet for inspiring some French whackadoodles to create a convoy of freedumb of their own. They're driving up to Paris this Saturday from all over the country. I cannot even. The convoy has already been forbidden by the prefect of Paris so it looks like they'll be stuck creating mini riots around the capital instead. Fun, fun, fun.

You are SO completely wrong about that.  People are losing their jobs for not being vaxed.  They are not being let into stores and restaurants if they are not vaxed.  They are being denied healthcare if they are not vaxed. They are being treated like crap if they are not vaxed.  And don't try to lecture me about keeping people safe with vaccines.  Turns out, the vaxes didn't work like they thought they would and everyone is still getting the virus despite the vaccines and masks.  It will always be like that.  They never eradicated the flu and they will never eradicate the covid.  People will have to learn to live with it just like we do with the flu.  

In the next month or so, all mandates will be lifted, probably largely because of protests like this.  All of a sudden, the virus won't matter any more, no more masks, no more vax cards to get into places, no more quarantining completely healthy people.  The virus just magically disappears once the mandates are stopped?  What a crock of crap that people had to go through this in the first place.  

THAT is what this protest is about. 

This is simply not true. Many jobs, including military service, require vaccines.