Posted on 01/30/2022 2:25:44 PM PST by Be Careful
Also……we should create a contest to see who wins re how many days it will take for Soy Boy Trudeau to surface. I am thinking 5 days. The truckers are there to stay, so I also predict that “They” will have to create a False Flag in order to move in on them. Hope I am wrong
Ya if they follow the kingpin law. Or bridge law as many describe it here in the States.
The estimates I read yesterday were:
Ontario Provincial Police: 100,000 tractors.
RCMP: 130,000 tractors.
This is not counting the regular cars and pickups involved.
It’s a LOT bigger than the press is letting on.
“But where do you park 50000 trucks.”
right on the road where their drivers parked them and took off with the keys and maybe one or two key engine parts ... only a few tow-trucks big enough to tow 18 wheelers, so they potentially could stay blocking the roads for weeks ...
“Fourteen trucks total. I heard it on CNN.”
I’ve always wondered how many were in a “fringe minority”.
I saw reports of 40k involved...starting in BC. Not all are still protesting.
They knew when all that convoy hit town there would be no stopping it, no hiding it.
They might have had to evacuate lil' T by helicopter and that would be VERY bad optics.
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Didn’t see trailers, just the large tractors and some large dumps.
Just saw large tractors and some large dumps.
LOL, yep. Minority, fringe, unacceptable views and all that. 😂
(Well played.)
A semi trailer is typically 40’ long.
Tractor about 15’.
65’ total.
About 3800 trucks, give or take
Protests against out of control governments are being given a total media and social media blackout.
Which is proving their point.
When you can not peacefully gather together with your fellow citizens and say to your government, "hey, we think you are wrong in this area," then you have a problem.
Also you have government, media and big business acting together. That is fascism.
Precisely !
Can’t speak to overall length, but the largest trailer is 53’ in PRC (Politically Repressive Canada). I would believe that max length would be fairly standard across N. America.
The difference between huge trucker protests and huge population protests is that truckers can bring daily business to a halt with road blockades, and no product gets delivered, including food. Truckers have lots of leverage here if they stick with the protest and don’t cave. Basically they have Trudeau and gov’t entities by the b*lls.
He (or she or it) has a naughty word on the side of the truck.
Oh my.
Cue the pearl clutching and the fainting couch for those delicate sensibilities.
Vids I’ve seen show hundreds and hundreds of very similar/identical signs, banners, and flags!
It’s GRRRRREAT !
Political context ... we just had an election in October. There was one new party (PPC) running on a clear anti-mandate platform and it got about 5 per cent of the votes, elected no MPs. The so-called Conservative Party lost a small amount of its previous number of seats but have taken a very ambiguous position, sometimes pro mandate, sometimes against, just hoping the government will fall and there will be another election (the Liberals have a minority and need the support of the socialist NDP to remain in government).
The government is likely to figure that the protest movement, while surprisingly large, is basically the entire committed support base of the PPC so they have no voice in parliament, if they just do nothing and stay out of sight, maybe it will be so cold that the people will give up and go home (there are other protests underway in other places mostly near border crossings or provincial capitals).
Another course the government might take is to say, well we sympathize but this is mostly a provincial matter, take your convoys to the provincial capitals, and see if you can convince them to end the mandates. In fact, whatever is going on behind the scenes, in theory the ten provinces could just end the mandates in days or weeks and the federal government would go along with it. Our rules and regulations are imposed provincially, other than the border crossing situation which is a federal responsibility but partly depends also on U.S. government policy.
If our federal government said okay we will go along and have an open border, truckers would still have to follow U.S. regulations when on the U.S. side of the border.
I don’t know how this is going to end up. It does seem to me that a lot of small business people and libertarians are active in this protest and not all of them were supporters of the PPC in the election, but not enough of them are Conservatives to affect that party’s ambiguous stand. A few of their MPs have spoken in support, the party leadership just say they support the general principle. That becomes a motherhood question because just about everyone across the spectrum is tired of the situation and hope it goes away this year, but a majority probably wait for “experts” to declare the pandemic over, and of course experts are mostly leftists so ...
the question returns to home base, what is this really all about? Globalist control, disguised angst about climate emergency so-called, a Chinese power play of some kind? I think it is mostly about making money for big corporations and billionaires who are then happy to reward the political class with generous donations and perks. The media in Canada are totally bought off by the government through an elaborate system of tax credits, grants and easy payback loans. They are nothing more than a Canadian version of Pravda back in the day. If you think the U.S. media are bad, they are nothing compared to this bunch. There isn’t one real conservative who ever appears on live television, just a couple of pretend ones who are there to lose arguments in an amiable fashion.
Whatever the # is, the convoy itself was 43.6 miles long. That’s a lot of trucks. I’ve read #s a couple of days ago that approximately 70,000 were there and others still arriving.
The USA Convoy has begun in California. The Canadians said that they would join the convoy to DC.
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