the fuggers' convoy. 6.

 

6. here's where we are.

it's both unsettling and exhilerating to watch events unfold pretty much as i expected. and of course i'm not the only one, just the only one in this room. now it's becoming more and more about trudeau and, as i've heard the term used so eloquently lately, his henchmen.

you surely can't still believe this trucker's convoy was ever about the mandates. you surely can't still be thinking they drove hundreds or thousands of kilometers because you lost your cushy federal job. which btw you lost because you stubbornly refused to accept an overwhelmingly safe and effective vaccine offered free to help save your life and the lives of people around you. you surely can't still think it was ever about truckers needing proof of vaccination to re-enter canada when they wouldn't have been able to go into the u.s. in the first place. come on: this was always going to be about trudeau. 

as an extremely normal shmo, i'm assuming i'm not privy to bits of information that government officials and others might have. but, i'm sure as hell privy to at least as much information as all the other shmos have. and i have no doubt that research i've tried to do over the past months and years has been far and away more objective, diverse and comprehensive than the shmos sitting in their trucks on wellington street, not to mention, with all due respect, you and so many other shmos. 

i've also been a pretty uninvolved observer as trudeau and his henchmen certainly seemed to be sincerely trying any way to save lives from a virus that claimed millions upon millions world-wide. they financially supported most everyone in the country through the worst of it. receiving a couple thousand bucks per month was no doubt ok with you. but, when he made coffee-shops inaccessible to the unvaxxed, that was not ok and he morphed into a nazi. you got angry at that point. it became a human-rights issue at that point.

i'd rather not be entirely misunderstood, if at all possible. losing your job did not sit well with me. whether justifiable or a governmental over-reach, it did not sit well with me. vaccine passports for unessential services: i was ok with that. but as much as it pissed me off that you wouldn't just this one time during a fuggin pandemic let go of your holier-than-thou attitudes and get the jab, i just didn't feel ok with you losing your livelihood. i wanted there to be another way. and if you had protested that, i wouldn't have written a word against you. but this mess, this perversion of the word 'protest', this abomination of the word 'freedom' was never about your job or the mandates. oh, maybe it was for you. but for the real 'patriots' this was always going to be about trudeau.

now while the mandates are swiftly disappearing the truckers are not. why not? why not claim victory and drive home, sit in front of their tvs, watch 'trucker' carlson and guzzle beer? because they've been waiting for this very moment, waiting to honk and jump around and yell: 'hey look, fuggin trudeau's tryin to be dictator! we told ya! we gotta save yous all from that immigrant-lovin bathdurd and his frickin henchmen!' in fact, this was probably never even specifically about trudeau.

so where do we go from here?