US trucker convoy coming: Joe Biden will
ignore protests at his peril
Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/4/2022 12:03:16 AM
As hard as it is to imagine, President Biden’s political fortunes are about to get worse. The massive trucker convoy that crossed Canada to protest against that country’s new vaccine mandates will almost certainly be replicated in the U.S. and will bring with it huge headaches for the Biden White House. Biden pretends to be the champion of the “little guy”; he claims to support blue-collar workers. Truckers are exactly the kind of folks Biden is meant to embrace, but he will not do that. The drivers protesting the vaccine mandates have already been portrayed by the liberal media as right-wing zealots
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Hurricane Canada
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Hurricane Canada, a category 5 political storm, has made landfall on the country’s capital city in the form of a massive truckers’ strike protesting illegal COVID mandates and vaccine passports, a phenomenon that has galvanized the attention of the world and inspired similar demonstrations internationally. This has become common knowledge, and commentary pro and con has been proliferating with abandon.
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There’s bad news for the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa Sunday.
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Now, the police are trying to go after those donations of gas and propane
Crisis for the Climate Models?
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One of my heterodox positions on climate change is that many of our scientific efforts to improve our grasp of the earth’s climate system since it became a hot topic (no pun intended) back in the 1970s have actually moved our knowledge backwards. That is, we actually understand it less well than we did 40 years ago.
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As hard as it is to imagine, President Biden’s political fortunes are about to get worse. The massive trucker convoy that crossed Canada to protest against that country’s new vaccine mandates will almost certainly be replicated in the U.S. and will bring with it huge headaches for the Biden White House.
Biden pretends to be the champion of the “little guy”; he claims to support blue-collar workers. Truckers are exactly the kind of folks Biden is meant to embrace, but he will not do that.
The drivers protesting the vaccine mandates have already been portrayed by the liberal media as right-wing zealots
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That’s nice. Welcome to Aspen, my friends.
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Do you trust the U.S. government? I don’t recommend it.
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Results
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This never ends well.
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Fine and dandy. But how they get it presents increasingly bad options.
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