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The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history.
Twitter ^ | 2023 06 07 | CatGirl Kulak

Posted on 06/10/2023 10:08:51 AM PDT by Silentgypsy

I keep encountering this misconception from people who don't follow Canadian politics...

That somehow the Trucker convoy was defeated.... People remember Trudeau's crackdown, old ladies having their skulls cracked with batons, Disabled indigenous grandmothers trampled by police horses, Bank accounts frozen and public employees investigated for mere donations...

And there's a big reason people remember this... It was dramatic, and the media and the regime certainly wanted you to think resistance was futile...

What people don't remember is what happened in the immediate aftermath: The government caved on absolutely everything within a week for the most important things, and then a month or so for the rest.

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; canadian; convoy; covid; covid19; protest; strike; successful; trucker

1 posted on 06/10/2023 10:08:51 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: All

Honk Honk means Hail Hitler!
Lol


2 posted on 06/10/2023 10:13:57 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Silentgypsy

Sounds interesting. Unfortunately, the link does not work for me.


3 posted on 06/10/2023 10:15:05 AM PDT by marktwain
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It sure saddened Fidel junior


4 posted on 06/10/2023 10:16:20 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Silentgypsy

What people don’t remember is what happened in the immediate aftermath: The government caved on absolutely everything within a week for the most important things, and then a month or so for the rest.


Repeat LOUD and OFTEN


5 posted on 06/10/2023 10:17:30 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: marktwain

Works for me.

https://twitter.com/FromKulak/status/1666563019076141057


6 posted on 06/10/2023 10:24:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Silentgypsy

It was great. But little Fidel has continued on without batting his prissy little eyelashes ever since.


7 posted on 06/10/2023 10:29:28 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Silentgypsy

A good summation. Worth reading. The later link worked.


8 posted on 06/10/2023 10:35:31 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Silentgypsy

Don’t ever expect a freedom convoy in America. The vast majority of American truckers are from the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, South America, Russia, and India. True.


9 posted on 06/10/2023 10:50:17 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

There was a freedom convoy in the US. One day we joined, at one point we completely encircled a 65 mile beltway around Washington DC.

Police blocked all exits and totally screwed up traffic. DC Metro police are directly responsible for the deaths of two motorists. They parked a dump truck to block an exit and the driver didn’t see it.


10 posted on 06/10/2023 11:38:45 AM PDT by cyclotic
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To: Silentgypsy

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11 posted on 06/10/2023 1:41:00 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Silentgypsy

It motivated me to travel 1800 miles to haggertown MD and back. Slept in my truck. Part of DC convoy. Memories.


12 posted on 06/10/2023 2:29:35 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: vpintheak

But little Fidel has continued on....
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You are so right and he might yet escape a public inquiry on this latest issue but I suspect the great unwashed have had enough...

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/johnstons-resignation-leaves-trudeau-with-few-options-but-a-full-public-inquiry-into-foreign-interference


13 posted on 06/10/2023 2:40:07 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
"The vast majority of American truckers are from the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, South America, Russia, and India. True."


14 posted on 06/17/2023 6:14:39 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Nice try. But since I am a truck driver I live in the real world of trucking. You have been gaslit if you think these numbers reflect reality. Number one, every farmer in America has a CDL; they is it a dozen times a year. Your graph is a lie on an epic scale.


15 posted on 06/17/2023 9:33:31 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

“Number one, every farmer in America has a CDL”

ROTFLMAO!


16 posted on 06/17/2023 9:50:17 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

I live in farm country. I drive a truck. What exactly am I missing here? Do you have some special knowledge? I don’t have to Google US Census stats, I live it everyday.


17 posted on 06/17/2023 12:20:00 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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