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Tucker Carlson: How long before protests like the 'Freedom Convoy' come to America?
FOX News.com ^ | February 8, 2022 | Tucker Carlson

Posted on 02/08/2022 6:43:19 AM PST by Kaslin

Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. That's from Karl Marx, of course. He wrote that famous phrase in 1848. The weird thing is, it's pretty likely that Marx himself never met an actual worker.

Wait a second. He didn't spend a decade in a cotton mill, witnessing the oppression firsthand. No. Karl Marx never spent a moment in a factory. He was a rich kid who became a journalist. Of course he was. But for more than 150 years, Karl Marx inspired generations of other rich kids who also became journalists to repeat his line or variations of it.

Over time, workers became working men or working class and then with feminism, working people or working families, but the idea itself never changed. Ordinary people, wage earners, are getting shafted, so they've got to unite. They've got to come together for protection and for dignity. This was the idea, of course, behind the organized labor movement, and every Democratic president from Andrew Jackson until now has made the very same point over and over again. "The noble people of Scranton..." You hear it even today. So, Democrats have repeated that line often enough. You would think they really mean it.

Do they really mean it? Let's take the test. Here's how you know. Watch what happens when actual workers, working people from working families who constitute the working class, actually come together as a group to protest how things are going.

What happens then? Does the intellectual class greet these workers as heroes? Throw a parade? Listen intently to their stories? Does NPR do a sympathetic feature on them? Or, do self-described progressives recoil in revulsion and horror at the grubbiness of the people who as we used to say,

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To: ridesthemiles
Perhaps Texas needs to be sure whomever they vote in as “Governor” can handle things when Texas Secedes.

That too.

41 posted on 02/08/2022 7:52:19 AM PST by fwdude (If a fraudulent election falls in the woods and no judge is around to hear it, did it fall?)
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To: Sans-Culotte

I live south of Houston but close enough to have to work there a couple of times a week. Compared to where I live, the number of people still wearing masks there is astounding. I see fewer sheep in the country.


42 posted on 02/08/2022 8:07:27 AM PST by txeagle
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To: allendale

All these people out in the streets surely won’t be voting for the politicians they are protesting. Let’s see if the Canadians boot Trudeau out of office when they get the chance.


43 posted on 02/08/2022 8:16:51 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Little Ray
Also look out for provocateurs. They will try to get the truckers to commit crimes, or commit them themselves and blame the truckers.

Just like 1/6/21. The violence was false flag.

44 posted on 02/08/2022 8:23:21 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Kevmo

Bent on is a nautical term meaning tied to.


45 posted on 02/08/2022 8:27:42 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Kaslin

bookmark


46 posted on 02/08/2022 8:30:49 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: JimRed

I didn’t know that. The whole time we spent denigrating “the bent one” here on FR we coulda used that expression.


47 posted on 02/08/2022 9:05:05 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kaslin
Great video! Classic Tucker!! Excerpt…

“Joe Scarborough is notoriously tough on his young employees. Some say he’s a killer in the office!”
48 posted on 02/08/2022 9:08:46 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Kaslin
A Freedom Convoy in America would instantly be infiltrated by Antifa thugs.

The truckers would notice them immediately, and threats of violence would escalate proportionally.

The Antifa thugs won't stand a chance against a horde of truckers, but they won't have to. They just have to start the violence and then flee, letting the LAAP-dog media take it from there.

-PJ

49 posted on 02/08/2022 9:10:02 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

The trick would be to have bouncers with cameras and upload it to the web. Then everyone can see what is really going on.


50 posted on 02/08/2022 9:17:29 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo
I'm sure they all have GoPros and DashCams in their trucks.

Maybe they need to get some people to fly drones over the area to get arial footage, too.

-PJ

51 posted on 02/08/2022 9:21:43 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Pollard

“They’re organizing as we speak, on facebook again. LOL. Americans are dumb.”

Maybe the Feds are organizing something on FB again...


52 posted on 02/08/2022 9:35:13 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Kevmo

Yes


53 posted on 02/08/2022 12:27:24 PM PST by Redleg Duke (“I’m not the only one!”)
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To: Singermom

If every independent trucker called in sick for one day it would be a huge problem for every city in this country. If all trucks stopped moving for one week, there would be food riots.


54 posted on 02/08/2022 5:19:46 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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