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Trudeau flees as trucker convoy enters Ottawa
Yahoo News ^ | January 29th, 2022 | Grayson Quay, Weekend editor

Posted on 01/29/2022 1:19:40 PM PST by Mariner

As thousands of protesters entered Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family were moved from their home to an undisclosed location somewhere in the city on Saturday afternoon due to security concerns, CBC reports.

A "Freedom Convoy" of some 2,700 trucks entered the Canadian capital city of Ottawa Saturday to protest Trudeau's COVID-19 policies, Reuters reported.

According to the Independent, around 100 big rigs blockaded a main street running past the Canadian parliament building.

The convoy, which approached the capital from all sides, began as a protest against a vaccine mandate for Canadian truckers crossing the U.S.-Canada border but grew into a wider expression of discontent with the government's COVID-19 policies.

"These demonstrations are national in scope, they're massive in scale," Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly said Friday, expressing concern about the possibility of violent "lone wolf" individuals carrying out violent acts.

The protest has drawn criticism from many sides. The Canadian Trucking Alliance condemned the convoy. Nova Scotia banned people from congregating along the highways to support the protesting truckers. A Washington Post cartoonist drew a convoy of tractor-trailers with "Fascism" written on the side of each one. Trudeau said Friday that the convoy members and their supporters hold "unacceptable views," The Guardian reported.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; convoy; demonization; drivers; protest; search; supplychain; truckdrivers; truckers
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To: VeniVidiVici

That has got to be one of the dumbest political cartoons I have ever seen. The “artist” is an idiot. He knows as much about fascism as he does about trucks. How are those things supposed to turn? It’s like he drew a rigid frame box truck and then added tractor-trailer wheels and exhaust stacks.

Regarding fascism, some excerpts from Wikipedia:

Fascists sometimes regarded their movement as a type of nationalist “socialism”... describing it as national solidarity and unity. (Everyone must get vaccinated for the good of the community, right?) Fascist economics supported a state-controlled economy... In particular, fascists criticized capitalism (Does that sound like truckers or Trudeau’s Liberal Party?)

And finally, this cartoon is not subtle or humorous. This is one step above just writing “I think truckers are racist” in block letters, but just barely. I made more thought-provoking artwork in grade school.


61 posted on 01/29/2022 3:01:52 PM PST by OA5599
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To: Mariner

If he “flees”, does that mean he was in fear of his life, and that therefore the truckers are insurrectionists, and should therefore be rounded up, and imprisoned and tortured? Asking for a friend. Actually, an enemy.


62 posted on 01/29/2022 3:07:15 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Mariner

Isn’t that what Saddam did?


63 posted on 01/29/2022 3:10:30 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Mariner

WAPO and The Guardian...
I’m sure they deemed the BLM riots as mostly peaceful.


64 posted on 01/29/2022 3:17:02 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

“Quite sure the idiot Washington Post “cartoonist” has no idea what words mean.”


I’m pretty the cartoonist has an idea. To him/her any who oppose the ‘progressive/socialist/communist ideology is ipso facto, a ‘fascist’.

Trump supporters: fascists
Don’t support BLM: fascists
Don’t embrace the vaccine: fascists
Oppose critical race theory: fascists
“Let’s go Brandon”: fascists


65 posted on 01/29/2022 3:24:37 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: stinkerpot65

Im sure our very own pukes in this country who were successful with antifa and BLM will be helping the little Canadian Nazis pukes in control against the white supremacists racist uprising


66 posted on 01/29/2022 3:36:02 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Mariner

Quel un poltroon!


67 posted on 01/29/2022 3:38:27 PM PST by left that other site (A Man Without Self-Control is like a City Broken Into and Left Without Walls (Proverbs 25:28))
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To: Mariner

Same thing the Kenyan did on 9/12. A million and a half of us peacefully gathered to petition for redress of our grievances. He got in a helicopter and flew over us without ever acknowledging our presence. It wouldn’t have surprised me if the SOB had leaned out and given us all the finger.

The point I am making is that as heartening as this Convoy is, it is not going to change a thing. Some kind of nationwide trucker strike that causes all the grocery stores to be empty might have an effect. But they don’t care how many people protest as long as that’s all they’re going to do. They do not fear you. As far as the optics are concerned, remember they have the entire media essentially working for them.

When die hard Democrats go to the store and can’t get food for a week then they will take notice. But not before.

But you say people will suffer if that happens. Yes they will but not as much as they’re going to suffer if it doesn’t happen.


68 posted on 01/29/2022 3:40:22 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: JudyinCanada
 
 
It's aggravating - all this sort of drama is avoidable if the West would drop all the draconian hysterics and quit acting like Iron Curtain nations of the 1960's. Sheesh.
 
 

69 posted on 01/29/2022 4:05:01 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Mariner
The convoy, which approached the capital from all sides...

Beauty.

70 posted on 01/29/2022 4:17:56 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Mariner

Trudeau may have to redefine what a “small fringe minority” is, because it’s stretching from Manitoba to Ontario...


71 posted on 01/29/2022 4:37:43 PM PST by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: cockroach_magoo

Most truckers are armed. Antifa is going to need more body bags for their Swiss cheese brothers!


72 posted on 01/29/2022 6:03:23 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: alloysteel

28. Trudeau’s national anthem, “Coward of the Country”!!!


73 posted on 01/29/2022 6:06:51 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: cuban leaf

6. Re Trudeau hiding in a “bunker”. A lot of good that did Hitler. May Trudeau meet the same fate in some cesspool hole in the ground.


74 posted on 01/29/2022 6:09:32 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Beave Meister
 
 
Yeah, what doesn't get much mention is that Canada has something like 1/8th the population of the US, so the level of turnout is a big deal, and no wonder why chicken boy has fled the castle. Feeling the heat.
 
 

75 posted on 01/29/2022 6:14:42 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Re “and he has Neil Young on autopsy”.

I’d like it to read “and he has Neil Young on the Autopsy Channel”.

After seeing Young on tv the other night, I’m sure he qualified to star on the Autopsy Channel. He sure looks and sounds like it!

Worms gotta eat, even if it tastes like crap!


76 posted on 01/29/2022 6:15:22 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Spellchek screwup, again.

First sentence should read “and he has Neil Young on AUTOPLAY”.


77 posted on 01/29/2022 6:21:28 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Mariner

“’Cause we got a big ole convoy/ Rockin’ through the night/ Yeah, we got a big ole convoy/ Ain’t she a beautiful sight/ Come on and join our convoy/ Ain’t nothin’ gonna get in our way/ We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy/ Right in Trudeau’s face/ CONVOY!”


78 posted on 01/29/2022 6:26:49 PM PST by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: ChildOfThe60s
 
 
Could be. But there are a bunch of additional if not different circumstances in play now than when Ohaha was in. A whole lotta plates spinning on the ends of sticks than back in his time, the whole planet and not just us is in an uproar over comparable issues, a lot of people mad about the same stuff. No way would you catch me trying to predict what a reaction to an action might come to these days.
 
 

79 posted on 01/29/2022 7:14:12 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: JudyinCanada

Way to go, Judy. We’re mighty proud of our Canadian brothers and sisters. Wherever Trudeau is hiding, I hope he can still hear the horns blowing and the protests.

He’s probably finished after this. It feels like another Berlin Wall came tumbling down.

Wonder when the fake media will have to mention this. Ha ha!


80 posted on 01/29/2022 7:29:45 PM PST by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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