Showing posts with label truckers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truckers. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Searching for Sara Carter

 

A Fox News contributor, of all the people in the world, made a very bad mistake by amplifying a viral video purporting to be of a protester trampled under the feet of the "obviously" heavy-handed and tyrannical fascist government of notoriously insane and not at all PMILF Justin Trudeau. The woman is fine. Someone threw a bike at the horse and the horse is fine. Ted Cruz left a tweet up about how terrible this was for longer than the story lasted after anyone followed up, but I guess he's okay, but like, no, everyone check in on that guy because he's been way more signifying than usual and that is generally a sign of people being not okay in his world. like is he worried about liability for stirring up the crowd at 1/6 and his reputation stinking more than usual, because wow. Nice time to notice. 

So, the reality is, the pro-trucker crowd were denied their Ashli Babbit for the time being. For what it's worth, Sara Carter eventually dropped her story and Ted Cruz deleted his Tweet, but the idea that the response in Ottawa was trampling the FREEDUMBS of the protesters will live on, because that was the idea. Asking the Fox News audience to even consider the source is probably too much. Asking Fox News itself to consider whether running with this is definitionally journalistic malpractice is stupid when you consider Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity exist.

Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Blockade isn't Over

 


You can see this is pure malevolence against a journalist. It is very much like the claim of Trumpers that journalists are the "enemy of the people"--unless they are personalities that they like, such as Tucker Carlson.  

Here's why you won't see me comparing Trudeau to Hitler, like some dumb South African billionaire did--because a blockade would be an act of war, actually, and because the supposedly civil protestors don't even understand how civil rights protests work. Of course you can go to jail--it's supposed to be the point. These people are insurrection-minded and Nazi-adjacent, and I don't respect any inch of their snow-sculpture autonomous space. 

The funders of this stupidity want to do this here. I am genuinely thinking that funders of terror in the US should be subject to confiscatory justice, and just get their whole capacity for monetary shenanigans taken away. 

There is really a part of me that is cool with people fucking around, to the extent that they will also be finding out. But the finding out part is non-negotiable. As in, everyone associated with any such a thing in the US should be finding out--but that these guys used tactics like using their own kids as human shields makes me shudder. 

And I guess I also have very little time for people extending their best wishes towards this stubborn street stain. I am anti-convoy, or antiblockade. I think blocking the streets with massive trucks is dangerous to commerce and the cause of freedom. I don't think much of what these people do, or the tactics they employ, and am glad Canada has shut them, lawfully, down. 



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