To thine own self be true

They probably should just move to the States along with any others waving American, Confederate, and Nazi flags.

The truckers have made their intentions clear with their trucker (instead of the maple leaf) Canada flags. Likewise, as they vandalize and assault health-care workers and law-abiding citizens wearing masks.

All this hate and violence are supported by Trump and there have been a lot of Americans financially supporting the idiot truckers running amok on Canadian streets today.

The majority of decent, civil Canadians are being terrorized by these yahoos who figure they have carte blanche to wreak havoc on Canadian society.

Who will bell the cat and restore order? Justin, the federal Liberals/NDP/BQ, the provincial governments, the police, or the military ?

in my study of late. A new wall clock acquisition.

A prevailing choice of the Western world the last 2 years…

which suggest that it makes sense (“is(s)ense”) to smoke weed are put out by the AB Gaming commission to encourage young people to smoke marijuana (only young people depicted in commercial). So the commercials are mainly for teens and young adults wondering if they should ‘do up’.

Dope is a $43 billion industry thanks to Trudeau who Kenney wants nothing to do with, but hypocrite that he is, he will sidle up to the trough and lure young people into pot-smoking without a trace of moral conscience/responsibility.  As he simultaneously destroys our health care system (privatization has been his goal all along) which will be needed to deal with all the health problems he’s gratuitously creating with dangerous commercials like these.

Putin and Xi Jinping.
Things could get worse if they ever got Kim Jong Un to side with them.

on the part of the ‘Freedom’ Convoy.
-not acknowledging that 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated and adhering to the rules on both sides of the border.
-not appreciating that, being unvaccinated, they could get sick and spread it to their families, kids, friends, and coworkers, thus aggravating and extending the very real, continuing pandemic.
-not appreciating essential health-care workers who potentially, may end up taking care of them, their kids, families, friends, and coworkers–even saving them from death.
-confusing the limits of the pandemic with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust: a far different, much more serious/tragic event than the pandemic.
-vandalizing Terry Fox’s statue and the war memorial, not appreciating how these true heroes laid down their lives for other Canadians.
-destroying the lives of the innocent people living and working in Ottawa and other cities on a dumb-ass whim.
-destroying the economy after 90% of truckers (vaccinated) have saved Canadian lives by keeping supply lines open.
-thinking Canada is the imploding States and that they are like ‘noble’ Alamo-style GOP rednecks acting out the absurd “Live free or die” GOPism.
-on and on…

But other Canadians are also living in this precarious time and not making distinctions which is increasing violent racism and gender hate crimes. We have been under siege for two years from the pandemic and American media/politics.

Some personal distinctions, notwithstanding:

I woke up this morning very happy that 90% of Canadian truckers are smart, responsible good guys who have kept this country afloat for two years.

I am thankful for a flawed PM, and the much more sensible Liberals, NDP, and BQ who are running this country, not the PC/Green/People’s Party extremists.

And I am optimistic that most Canadians support the former’s beliefs, values, and public platforms instead of the rogue noise-making rebels in Canadian cities this weekend.

And it’s another day, it’s warming up in Edmonton despite the snow, there is food on the table, money in the bank, our daughter is dropping by for brunch, I’m listening to beautiful music by Telemann, I will get to read the local newspaper, and watch some golf from a nice soul-warming green-grass place.

There are many different realities and perspectives. And we do not all, mercifully have to live the same limited/limiting ways of some minority. We can choose to live differently, understand and appreciate all the good things in our lives, past and present, of which there are many.

There are much larger, more uplifting perspectives than some dumb-ass lout’s “I want to be free” (me, me, screw the rest of you), and, fortunately, these losers will eventually be rousted out of our cities so the latter can get back to a truer, more reflective normal again.

I give thanks today to long-term perspective and the ability to make distinctions and reason unlike some loser-dopes out there. And I accept their existence and right to protest, but I do not pity their actions, their freely-chosen, dumb-ass pig-headedness, and their adherence to Confederate flags instead of the maple leaf.

Having ousted O’Toole, Candice Bergen has been outed wearing GOP attire; she is the Donald Trump of the PCs.

“There are good people on both sides.”

(She also qualifies as the gun-totin’ Marjorie Greene/Lauren Boebert of the PCs.

hooligan-truckers are apparently wiser, more experienced, and more astute. Therefore, they deserve the keys to all the national and provincial cars. They know better than anyone else how to set up blockades to shut down the economy and drive this country into the ground.

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” (in Canada much as in Trump Nation)

RNC believes Capitol rioters were “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse”.
*Wait for this line to be used soon by hooligan-truckers in Canada.

Fortunately, they have no power and no credibility.
They can stop calling the GG’s office anytime; wrong number: she legally and logistically can’t do what they want, and start calling their PC buddies’ office. However, the latter won’t be able to do anything either (except shake hands and deliver coffee), since they don’t have a leader and are a somewhat divided party who can’t squeeze votes from anyone else. Maybe the truckers should try the People’s Party or the Greens who, likewise, lack the seats and power to ‘cashier’ Justin, BQ, and the NDP.