The truckers protest in Ottawa is out of hand

Damn, that’s a lot of impotent republicans in CA. 😏

Is CA14 Devin Nunes district?

Oh it’s Jackie Speiers. Lots of big mad snowflakes there, I bet.

That math is wrong - looks like Canada is 39% Gotta love twitter users who don't know how determine a percentage - really gives me a warm and fuzzy that any of their facts are correct. 

In case anyone gets upset..

And again, which mandates? Simple question, really. You keep saying this over and over - it should be an easy answer for you, no?

I think this is the funniest thing going on this week. The Ram Ranch resistance.  There are people who've infiltrated all the "trucker" meetings with a gay porn anthem.   Tonight's meeting is live streamed on twitter.  Bunch of losers.  I wondered why the local folks had signs with hashtag RamRanchResistance.   They've followed them from platform to platform listening in, broadcasting and playing this anthem.


Ram Ranch Resistance 

No. And you’re just cottoning on to the fact that this political?  The whole effing covid thing is political. And it has been since the beginning. 🙄🙄

For idiots like you it’s political. The rest of us just want to minimize the damage of a deadly virus and get through it. 

But, you and your ilk have made sure that as many people as possible died/will die while giving the virus room and time to mutate. Great job. 🙄

Lol, I knew that it was political, but didn’t think about Rs possibly using it as a wedge issue in the midterms. Maybe they won’t but it feels like a distinct possibility.

I’m getting reminded of something, watching one side of an exchange on here. 😅

If this is true, why do you care if migrants and refugees are vaxxed or not?  It's fairly clear from your posts that you object to requirements for white truckers to be vaxxed and at the same time continue to rant about people of color - migrants  and immigrants possibly not being vaccinated.

And truckers don't just stay in their trucks.  They stop at rest stops to get gas, food etc.

An interesting perspective

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/14/republicans-truckers-canada-cheer-chaos/

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Once upon a time, the Republican Party stressed social order, the rule of law and capitalism as a vehicle to deliver widespread prosperity. More recently, the MAGA crowd insisted it wanted an “America First” policy. Forget all that. Now, as evident in the GOP’s rooting for Canada’s right-wing trucker blockade protesting vaccine mandates, its goals are chaos, economic self-harm and lawlessness.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was among the recent right-wing politicians to cheer on the mayhem and root for it to come to the United States. The Post reports:
“I’m all for it,” Paul, a longtime opponent to masking and vaccine mandates, told the Daily Signal, a conservative outlet, on Thursday. “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
He added, “I hope the truckers do come to America, and I hope they clog up cities.”

Lovely. I’m sure the American autoworkers sidelined because of Canadian protests don’t find Paul’s comments to be amusing. (NPR reported, “Carmakers have had to cancel more shifts as the Canadian protests halt traffic on Ambassador Bridge, a vital transport line. … General Motors has canceled two shifts at Lansing Delta Township assembly in Michigan due to parts shortages.”) Filled with resentment and fanning white grievance, Republicans no longer bother to feign concern for American workers.

Law and order? Recall how Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) disclaimed any concern about White insurrectionists rampaging through the Capitol on Jan. 6 — but said he might have felt differently had they been Black Lives Matter protesters. Indeed, when Black Lives Matter protesters marched peacefully without even blocking traffic but heckled Paul, the senator professed that his “life was in danger” and called the demonstrators a “crazed mob.” Apparently, disruption is only a problem when certain people are involved.

Parents threatening school board members? No problem! Thugs menacing poll workers? Go get 'em! Truckers occupying cities and sending our workers to unemployment lines? Swell! You would never guess this is the party that inveighs against Democrats for being weak on crime or anti-business.

Whether it is amplifying Russian propaganda — as Johnson, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) have done — or rooting for Canadian right-wing rabble-rousers to make life miserable for ordinary Americans, the GOP’s white-grievance movement is increasingly anti-American. In the 1960s, Republicans accused the Democrats of fanning unrest in the streets to the detriment of the hard-working “silent majority”; now it’s Republicans’ ideological fervor that drives them to positions that threaten Americans’ health, financial well-being and physical safety.
J.J. McCullough: Why Canada’s trucker protest is inflaming its national anxieties

A party that considers it heroic to occupy major cities and wreak havoc on innocent people — or that thinks marauding through the Capitol and assaulting police officers is “legitimate political discourse” — is a party that is not antagonistic only toward democracy but toward the very notion of “ordered liberty,” which used to be a big deal for the right.

This is what all authoritarian movements do, from European fascists in the 1930s to thugs in modern Belarus to mobs perpetrating violence against Muslims in India. As the Carnegie Endowment’s Rachel Kleinfeld has written, “Gang-backed governments fundamentally distort democracy. Public authority and private muscle collude to maintain power and narrow the range of people who can vote. In the resulting mobocracy, supporting policies, rights, or candidates outside accepted boundaries becomes difficult and in some cases dangerous.” Moreover, when democracies cannot maintain order, the cries for a strongman to restore calm intensify.

The right wing’s infatuation with white grievance and increasing attraction to civil unrest at the expense of ordinary Americans is leading the GOP to increasingly perverse positions. Now, Republicans and their media cohorts root for economic distress, violence and disorder. And their newfound tendencies have a clear purpose: to undermine democracy and make way for the return of a strongman.

And I'm relieved that nothing happened here at the Super Bowl yesterday

Exactly this.  I work in an elementary school with kindergartens and first graders.  Even the kids with significant sensory issues are fine with wearing masks.  None of them have a problem or even complain about it.  The only ones complaining are adults.

And I look at masks differently.  When I see one on a child, it tells me that the adults around care about the kid and want to keep him or her safe.

This 52 yo trucker who won't be protesting any longer.