Anti-Protest Conservatives Sure Do Love the Trucker Blockade Causing 'Deep Pain' to American...

[Nevilledog]

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Republicans and those on the right get to choose which protests are worthy? And now they’re offering encouragement to a disruptive situation in a fellow ally’s affairs?

How privileged and mighty they think they are 🤨

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TORONTO, ON - FEBRUARY 05: Supporters dance and sing near Queens Park on February 5, 2022 in Toronto, Canada. A convoy of truckers and supporters have occupied downtown Ottawa since last Saturday in protest of Canada's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, with convoys branching out this weekend to other major cities. (Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images)
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Anti-Protest Conservatives Sure Do Love the Trucker Blockade Causing 'Deep Pain' to American...
Republican politicians and conservative commentators have praised the Canadian trucker convoy wreaking havoc on the automotive industry.
6:01 AM · Feb 12, 2022

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/canadian-trucker-convoy-protest-republicans-support-blockade-1298752/

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Republicans were appalled in the summer of 2020 when Black Lives Matter demonstrations broke out in cities across America. The demonstrations were overwhelmingly peaceful, but the GOP cast the entire movement as violent, paving the way for several states to pass anti-protest legislation. GOP-led states passed similar legislation a few years earlier in response the wave of demonstrations objecting to newly elected President Donald Trump.

Some of that legislation focused on cracking down on protests that blocked roadways, which just so happens to be a pretty key component of the Canadian anti-vax trucker convoy the same conservatives who decried the Black Lives Matter movement are tripping over themselves to praise. The truckers have now brought Ottawa to a standstill, forcing the closure of businesses and terrorizing citizens. One of the roads they’ve blocked is the Ambassador Bridge, a thoroughfare between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit that carries 25 percent of all trade between Canada and the United States. The blockade has cause a supply chain crisis that is wreaking havoc on international commerce.

This, Tucker Carlson says, is a good thing. “The blockade has forced the Ford Motor Company to shut down one of its manufacturing plants, and to operate another plant with a skeleton crew,” the Fox News host said on his show Thursday night. “Toyota says it won’t be able to manufacture in Ontario for the rest of the week. General Motors has canceled multiple shifts at its plant in Lansing, Michigan, due to part shortages.”

Carlson then lauded how the protest is causing “deep pain” to the industry, calling it “the single most successful human rights protest in a generation.”

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[Busterscruggs]

1. BLM and occupy

Were 100% peaceful and non-destructive. These truckers are anything but that.

[beaglelover]

2. Sorry, I live in L.A. and the BLM protests were hardly 100% peaceful and non-destructive!

Buildings set on fire and looting galore! Did you not watch the news in the summer of 2020?????

[Busterscruggs]

7. Agent

Provocateurs would be the obvious cause of arson and looting. Anything that is on our side is always peaceful without outside agitators

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Zero success. Vaccine mandates in place. Government not overthrown. . . . . nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Yes, but, Libs are being Owned!

There lies the victory.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. They'll have more success owning the libs if they went to more Covid parties. . . . nt

[gulliver]

6. This could turn into the Republicans' "Defund the Police" debacle