Conservatives hitch their wagons to the convoy protest without knowing where it's going

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Conservatives hitch their wagons to the convoy protest without knowing where it's going

The protest is unpredictable, its goals are uncertain — and the nation is watching

Aaron Wherry · CBC News · Posted: Feb 01, 2022 1:51 PM ET | Last Updated: February 1

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-conservative-otoole-convoy-vaccine-mandate-1.6335286

"SNIP........

As the convoy rolled into Ottawa on Friday afternoon, Pierre Poilievre stood on a highway overpass to film a promotional video. 

Speaking directly to the camera, with trucks honking behind him, Poilievre proposed an expansive view of the convoy that went well beyond its nominal goal of protesting the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers.

The protest, Poilievre said, "was not just for truckers, but for the 60 per cent of Canadians who say they worry they can't afford food." It was for "the 60-year-old small businessman who has spent his entire adult life building up an enterprise and watching it wiped out … the depressed 14-year-old who's been locked out of school" and "the families that can't take it anymore."

In Poilievre's telling, the convoy represents "the people who want to stand and speak for their freedoms" and "all those that our government and our media have insulted and left behind."

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[applegrove]

1. Poilievre is so smug. He is like the Ted Cruz of Canada.

[Spazito]

3. There is little doubt in my mind Poilievre will throw his hat into the ring...

for Leader, it could get very interesting for sure.

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4. Isn't Ted Cruz from Canada? That means there are two of them?

[applegrove]

5. Oh my God. What will happen when Ted Cruz clones himself. You know he

will.

[Probatim]

6. They're all Assholes. I'm surrounded by Assholes.

Spaceballs wasn't that great (relative to Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein) but it did have a few funny moments.

[applegrove]

7. Never saw it. Never seen any of them. I tried to watch blazing saddles

but could not.

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9. Mel Brooks was once asked if he ever went too far in his movies.

He answered - Yes, Blazing Saddles. He was further asked, which part. He replied - all of it, haven't you seen it.

I like to think he's poking fun at every racial stereotype and, at the end, where everyone (whites, blacks, and Chinese) is building the fake town to protect the real town, shows that we have more in common than differences.

I never understood the ending, but it's still funny.

[applegrove]

10. I could not take it.

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11. My wife feels the same way - but she doesn't appreciate the Princess Bride.

If we all liked the same things, there'd be no creativity.

[applegrove]

12. Princess Bride I've seen a few times. The last time was my dad when he

was in his early eighties. At first he was like "I don't want to see a princess movie!". He complained a few times. Then he liked it. Exactly like the child being read to by Peter Falk. It was so funny. He had no idea he was doing that.

[RKP5637]

2. Absolutely incredible!!! It's a disease that kills, WTF!!! Canada and US have a lot of wackos. n/t

[PortTack]

8. No doubt this is being stoked by american Nazi types. Canada..weed them out and throw them

Out of your country

[applegrove]

13. Unfortunately they can influence from outside the country. And they

are not Nazis because they were selling yellow round star of David patches so that gives them a pass The true manipulators get off in how hypocritical they can be while still fooling people.