At the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts, Alberta:
Given that the irresponsible hacks from Der Rebel will undoubtedly be egging on the blockade truckers to ignore or resist the RCMP, the most likely outcome will be a bunch of drivers with bullet holes in them, and another tear-soaked fundraiser from Ezra Levant, who recently got a $252,000 legal ass-kicking:
So ... whatever.
Well, this is ... intriguing:
At this point, I thing GoFundMe has some serious 'splainin' to do.
Awesome ...
Because nothing says "law enforcement" like refusing to enforce the law because people might not like it.
It's getting really tiring to watch every single interview begin with the interviewee's sycophantic pandering to the general principle of, "First, I want to emphasize that I absolutely defend every Canadian's right to gather and peacefully protest ... blah blah blah ...". Yes, yes, we get it, you're covering your ass and supporting democracy and yadda yadda yadda. But can we, for the love of God, understand one thing?
Those idiots had their protest. They came, they gathered, they protested, they blew their stupid air horns, and so on and so on.
So, yes, they exercised their right to protest; now they can all fuck off and go home, since the right to protest does not include the right to continue to protest, day after day after day. You wanted to protest? Well, you protested. You tied up downtown, you paraded around with your Trump banners and swastikas, you danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and urinated on the Cenotaph and invaded the Rideau Centre and shut it down, and defaced the Terry Fox memorial, and you assaulted people just trying to do their jobs and you stole food from homeless people.
You got what you wanted. You protested. Now fuck off already.
It's actually impressive how Andrew Lawton can type with half a dozen truckers' dicks in his mouth:
I'm sorry ... that was probably rude.
Truckers and convoy supporters who relentlessly slagged Justin Trudeau as a gutless pussy for being moved to an "undisclosed location" for his personal safety will now gleefully tout an interview with convoy organizers from ... an undisclosed location.
You can't make this stuff up. You just can't.
Any half-competent journalist should be prepared to follow up with anyone they interviewed, and see if they regret being part of this appalling fiasco.
More critically, is anyone going to be checking on whether the truckers are reimbursed for expenses, and to what extent?
This story is so far from over.
Truckers and their supporters who respond to complaints about Rideau Centre closing for the day and depriving homeless of a place to warm up, saying, "Hey, last time I looked, Rideau Centre wasn't a homeless shelter, was it?", same entitled assholes who barged into Shepherds of Good Hope homeless shelter, demanding free food and a place to warm up.
With his grotesque pandering to the convoy, I can only assume that someone is holding Michael's family hostage in a warehouse somewhere.
Jesus Christ, and he continues to apologize for their behaviour.
Ignore all of the other issues and focus on this: Are Ottawa police prepared to allow this protest to continue into the work week? At what point do we get our city back from these racist, Nazi yokels?
That's it. That's the post.
P.S. Jesus fuck, but she's awful. I will explain why later.
P.P.S. We will be returning to this topic, but what was nad-grindingly maddening about Barton's invu this morning was that she failed to push back on even the most egregiously inane claims by the trucker she was interviewing. At one point, the trucker expressed frustration that, unlike all of the other protests he was aware of on the Hill, there were no Porta-Potties for the protesters.
Well, as more than one person pointed out this week on social media, that (and other things like security and medical staff) were the responsibility of the organizers, who failed to do any of those things. Unsurprisingly, Barton simply let that idiocy slide and soldiered on.
Lord, but she's awful.
Rancid racists who pore over world news, looking for any example of a Muslim behaving badly to immediately conclude that Islam is a religion of hate and violence, same people currently lecturing you as to how you shouldn't condemn entire "Freedom Convoy" because of a few bad apples.
Noted.
If some early observations today are any indication, I think we can expect the same level of ineptitude and fawning accommodation from Ottawa cops for the "Nazi Truckers Convoy" that we saw yesterday.
I went walk-about around my 'hood this morning (Byward Market), and what caught my eye were a number of big rigs parked on the right-hand side of St. Patrick, between Dalhousie and Sussex, all comfortably nestled up to the sidewalk. And what's the problem there? I'll tell you what the problem is there.
It's that St. Patrick is a two-lane, one-way street, and those rigs were rendering the right-hand lane heading towards Sussex completely inaccessible to traffic, meaning that all traffic in that stretch will be forced into the left-hand lane as long as those trucks are there. (Oh, and did I mention the numerous "NO STOPPING" signs along that entire stretch? Not "NO PARKING", but "NO STOPPING".)
And the icing on the cake? The Ottawa cop cruiser that, while I was standing there taking all this in, casually moseyed on past that entire line of stationary rigs and not doing SFA about it.
Perhaps they'll be cleared out later, who knows? At the moment, I'm going to keep my optimism to myself.
P.S. "SFA." Look it up.
BY THE WAY, it's unclear whether there is an official agenda for the Dumbass Nazi Convoy today (Sunday) other than milling about unmasked and giving each other COVID-19, so if the cops let boys be boys for one more day, I suppose we can all hold our noses and lock up our pets and put up with it. But I think it's safe to say that this better not last into Monday, when everyone who actually lives here wants to get back to normality.
Because numerous organizers (and truckers) have promised that they're here to stay until all mask and vaccine mandates are rescinded (not going to happen), so perhaps some enterprising journo can ask someone from Ottawa Police for their plans starting Monday morning. And they better have one. We, the people who live here, have had just about enough of these hillbillies.
Those hillbillies are your demographic now, so you better fucking own them, you pandering asshat.
P.S. Here you go, Erin ... these are your people, you ignorant, pandering dumbass.
Fuck you, Erin. That can't be said enough.
UNDERSTAND THIS: Having hoovered up over eight and a half million dollars in donations, the "Freedom Convoy" in Ottawa is now, literally, barging into homeless shelters and taking food from homeless people.
Fuck these assholes. And if you want to make up for for the classless, graceless yokels that have defaced Ottawa for the last couple days, you can donate to the Shepherds of Good Hope here.
I look forward to Marco's subsequent insistence of 750,000 truckers and 8.6 million people, all on Parliament Hill.
Um ...
Or you could have just got vaccinated and not have had to whine so pathetically about your self-inflicted lot in life.
And how do I know this? Because even though everyone is making a big hullabaloo about those disrespectful yahoos being towed later in the morning, I personally drove by there around 5 a.m. this morning, and was stunned to see all those vehicles already there (possibly having been there all night, who knows?), as well as a white SUV police cruiser just across the street from there, with a clear line of sight to all of those vehicles and doing sweet fuck all about it.
Those trespassers were finally towed, but only after the outrage became sufficiently public. Until then, the cops were just fine with it.
UH HUH:
As I have just explained, they were already there at 5 a.m., in full view of a police cruiser parked across the street, who seemed quite content to do nothing about it.
If the local constabulary were any more accommodating to these deranged loons, they'd be buying them dinner and giving them hot oil massages.
Oh, you poor dear ...
No, Ezra, you stupid fuck, they turned it off given the danger of such a crush of people being that close to it.
You stupid fuck.
According to CBC, sizable convoy coming from Arnprior is about 90 minutes out of town, heading for Parliament Hill to ... what? What exactly is their plan? From the TV coverage, all of Wellington in front of the Hill is totally occupied, so what are the useless twonks that are the Ottawa police going to do with all those incoming vehicles?
Expect stupidity. Lots of it. Especially from the constabulary.
Ah, I see Sheila Gunn Reid has made the scene ... good for her.
Tune in tomorrow when Ezra lectures us sanctimoniously on "fake news."
Rebel News' Ezra Levant, who has for years criticized Justin Trudeau by name, fabricating stories about him, lying about him, misrepresenting him, photoshopping disgusting images of him and -- most appallingly -- running a comments section that openly allowed people to fantasiize about murdering him, will now ... lecture others on the unseemliness of demonizing people:
OK, then.
AH, IRONY: Would it not be awesome if some of these imbeciles got into trouble in Ottawa, were arrested and charged, and ended up with a criminal record so that they lost the ability to drive their expensive rig anywhere?
Please, God, I rarely ask for anything ...
Brian Lilley, a co-founder of Rebel Media, will now take issue with shameful, inflammatory, one-sided news coverage:
Yeah, he went there.
These are the people you announced you're going to talk to:
You are such an asshole.
Only a few days ago, I suggested that the Dumbass Truckers Convoy probably didn't think ahead all that much in terms of planning and logistics and such.
Behold:
Dumbasses.
... you might want to cut him some slack, as he's not having a good day:
Being told to hand over a quarter million (in addition to your own lawyer's fees) can do that to a person.
Oh, dear:
Oh, let's just skip to the bottom:
Read the whole delightful thing.
P.S. What's interesting is that, after all these years to figure out how Ontario's anti-SLAPP legislation should work, the original motions judge in these two cases was still a dumbass imbecile and fucked up the cost awards (awarding only partial indemnity which the CoA corrected to full indemnity). Jesus, but these people are goddamned idiots.
Kingston police report the convoy has left the city and is proceeding to Ottawa. 17 tractor trailers, 104 tractors, 424 personal vehicles and 6 RVs.
It was positively cringe-inducing, listening to Erin O'Toole giving the Dumbass Trucker Convoy the common courtesy of a reacharound last night on live TV, but perhaps the cringiest part of his pathetic pandering was his insistence that everyone's voice needs to be heard and that he was willing to meet with the truckers to learn what they want.
What they want, Erin? We know what they want. Everyone knows what they want. Everyone with an Internet connection knows what that group of bigots, racists, white nationalists and anti-Semites wants: They want an end to vaccine mandates and passports, and they want to hang Justin Trudeau from a streetlight in front of Parliament.
What they want, you spineless twat?
How in the fuck have you not figured this out? What do you think you would learn from them by sitting down for a chat? What piece of information do you think you're still missing, you irredeemable suck-up?
Here's a challenge for you, Erin. Go have your meeting, then promise us that you will have a live press conference immediately afterwards, and let us in on just one thing you learned from that meeting that you assure us you did not already know.
Can you do that, Erin? Because that would be must-see TV.
P.S. It's even more maddening when mealy-mouthed appeasers like O'Toole insist that "everyone's voice has a right to be heard."
Really? Since when? Seriously, at what point did even the most deranged hillbilly spewing violent eliminationist rhetoric earn the privilege to have a guaranteed audience with federal politicians? If some trucker rolled into town sporting graphics on the side of his truck insisting, for example, that O'Toole should be "road kill":
would Erin take to the podium and assure us that everyone's opinion was relevant, and that he was willing to sit down and listen to the grievances of someone who openly suggested that he should be killed?
Can we please knock it off with this, "Everyone's opinion is valuable and worth hearing?" It's bullshit.
... he'd be offering to give their cabs two coats of wax, then giving away free hand jobs behind the junior high school.
It was just yesterday that I facetiously asked if the yahoos and hillbillies in the Flu Trucks Klan had really thought this through, and had pre-arranged things like accommodations and parking and so on. Well, sure enough ... no:
And, yes, I saw that coming.
