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Saint-Just and the Canadian truckers

"Revolutions, like Bourbons, are measured in proof."

Feb 24
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“He who makes half a revolution digs his own grave,” said Saint-Just.

Well… it was a different time. We have not seen many half-revolutions (revolutions, like Bourbons, are measured in proof; a half-revolution being 100 proof) in our days. Which is good—for its maker’s grave is not the only grave a half-revolution digs.

Saint-Just’s rule says that whatever a half-revolution means, it means something like a half-and-half split between an old and new regime. The two will then fight. The new regime, being young and tender, will lose. Being big and strong, though, it can put up quite a fight in this civil war. Ergo its fall is sure to be bloody and vindictive, digging many graves including a very fancy headstone for the revolutionary founder. QED.

The proof of a revolution is the peak purity of the monopoly of power it obtains. The lower the peak, the faster it falls. While a 180-proof revolution may be fairly stable, anything under 150 proof is very likely to turn out a disaster, and 100 proof has no end but fire. Once the proof gets down to beer levels, the failure, though no less certain, becomes much less dangerous—a mere golf-cart crash.

What else is in there? The typical contaminant in a low-proof revolution is, of course, the old regime. The more residual old-regime power, the more dangerous. If the new regime, at its peak power, only has 75% of total power, it will struggle to hold that 25% diehard remnant faction down. At 50% it has no chance.

Of course, the gold standard is the 200-proof revolution. The old regime just ceases to exist, becoming one with the Medes and the Minoans. The 200-proof revolution is often associated with catastrophic military conquest—the fall of the Third Reich, the reunification of Germany, or the storming of Constantinople are 200-proof revolutions—so is the path from Versailles to the Committee of Public Safety.

Saint-Just did not end up above the ground. Saint-Just bit it aged 26. As bikers say, he couldn’t keep the rubber side down. But Saint-Just made a real 200-proof revolution. He was not a good guy, Saint-Just; still, we rent his scorn for any half-hard coup.

Caesar too made the full revolution, and Caesar was a standup guy. Napoleon must have learned a lot from Saint-Just. And we Americans can’t forget old Al Hamilton. All these engineers of state were masters; novices must always learn from masters.

In any case, it was a different time. Just because you are changing regimes, even “all the way” as teenagers say, does not mean you need to chop off anyone’s head. These things are totally unrelated—and again, the less pure the revolution, the more heads are likely to roll. When in doubt, shoot for 200 proof.

If you get it right, the old regime just shuts down, like a company going out of business—the only bloodshed is when someone trips over a bankers box as she’s cleaning out her office. Don’t worry, that little button cactus will do fine in the living room. It’s like permanent work from home—just without the work. And did she really like the work?

Saint-Just’s law is that the safety of a revolution is a hill-shaped function of its purity. A very low-proof revolution is safe because it does not do much to anger its enemies.. A very high-proof revolution is safe because it will dissolve its enemies. In between, the purer the revolution, the more energy it liberates in fire when it crashes and burns.

The extreme endpoint of Saint-Just’s law is the launch equation of a rocket. If the rocket rises two inches off the pad, it will crash and burn in a huge fireball. If it gets 99.9% of the way to orbit, it will crash and burn in a huge fireball. An empiricist would be justified in thinking of any prototype rocket as a fireball machine. The rocket is the ultimate engineering symbol of any device that is used once and must work that once.

Well—rockets are scary. So the fashion these days is for the 0.1-proof revolution—classified in most states as nonalcoholic. This near-beer coup, this kombucha-Putsch, is safe for a toddler. Trouble is that regulatory limits keep dropping, so foolish civilians keep getting busted for Clausthaler terrorism and roadside-cider insurrection.

Of course, even if a kombucha revolution is harmless, it is at least a little risky. The question is: what can it accomplish? The answer is clear: absolutely nothing. But this then raises a further question: why do they do it?

Why would men make a kombucha revolution? To penetrate this mystery, we descend into the world of the political coomer and his endless and untiring quest for cummies.

Politics and politicummies

Men make a kombucha revolution because they are coomers. They are in it for mere stimulation—the cummies. All of right-wing media and most of left-wing media is in this lucrative retail business of political cummies, or—dare we say—politicummies.

But I see you don’t understand… the coomer, a classic 4chan meme, is the archetypal porn and/or sex addict:

(Much of the eye redness is also caused by marihuana—a recurrent coomer passion.) “Cummies,” creolizing as it does pornese and baby-talk, may be the most disgusting word in our century’s new Internet lexicon. Unfortunately it is too apposite to avoid.

The coomer, in the abstract sense, is the seeker for stimulation—the connoisseur of automatic pleasure. Scientists say that when we all have UBI, we will all be coomers. The future is a fountain of pure pleasure—of near-infinite robotic hedonic inflation. Even now there is no shortage of every kind of delightful flavored cummies.

The analogy between the stimulating powers of sex and politics is close. First, the sex drive and the power drive are intimately related—they are both critical human drives. Second, both sex and power are vulnerable to nonfertile stimulation—the application of a stimulus that produces pleasure but does not have its original functional result.

The mark of the coomer is his relentless devotion to nonfertile stimulation. Sexually, the coomer unlinks sexual orgasm from sexual reproduction, and even penetration. Politically, the coomer unlinks political participation from political authority.

While the ancient Greeks knew that politics is the highest pursuit of civic man, this applied only to actual politics—the capture and/or application of sovereign power. Aristotle would counsel anyone to avoid ineffective yet stimulating political action—politicummies. Anyone participating in coomer politics objectively serves his enemy.

Overview of coomer politics

The basic trick in coomer politics is lighting the rocket engine and lifting an inch or two off the pad. The capsule really rumbles and shakes. The passengers, strapped in, are played a video of their orbital vacation. Also, the process is normally quite safe. Although…

There are three kinds of players in coomer politics: spectators, producers and actors. The actors actually do things. The producers create content and the spectators consume it. Again all this is very reminiscent of porn.

We distinguish two types of political action in the present day: formal and informal. The traditional politics industry is formal action. The emerging, yet timeless, genre of street porn—like the 2020 Floyd riots, the January 6 demonstrations, or the Ottawa truck protest—is informal action.

Formal and informal action have two polarities: pro-government or anti-government. Pro-government action (like the Floyd riots) is out of scope in this essay. Go read, like, the newspaper or something.

Most participants in anti-government action do not understand the difference. The result is that they expect formal action to be much more effective than it is, and they expect informal action to be both much more effective and much safer than it is.

Of course, any punishment for anything but the most brazen and appalling pro-regime informal action will be a slap on the wrist. (As for the rare appalling deeds, punishing them makes great propaganda.) Strangely, the principle in which political motivation is a mitigating factor in law enforcement does not seem to apply in the case of anti-regime informal action.

The result of the asymmetry is that anti-government street porn is more dangerous than it looks—rather like a porn industry without condoms and STI tests. As in porn, this one is partly on the spectators and partly on the producers. And actors, producers and spectators alike should reflect on what they hope to accomplish here.

The Canadian trucker-cummies

As I write the stains have not yet dried from the occupation of Ottawa by Canadian truckers. This rich yet shallow vein of political cummies seems mostly tapped out for now, with lingering flurries of outrage-porn as the organizers are rounded up, relieved of savings, family and career, and assigned to transformative-justice camp in Nunavut. There they will learn to be happy productive Lyft drivers in the new, vibrant Canada.

So it may be fair to write about the truckers now. I hate to piss on anyone’s party, at least not until the pizza boxes have been stacked and the card-tables put away. But the objective historical narrative of the event now seems clear; we must not look away. There is a lesson here, I fear, for every kind of conservative.

The action

The proof of the truck occupation can be measured by the peak power it achieved. At its peak, it was shutting down the national capital and several border crossings, which is certainly not nothing. 0.1 proof may be to low—let’s be generous and call it 0.2. That would be 1/1000 of the way to ruling Canada. Generous? Ok, it’s generous.

One way to get an intuitive sense of very low-powered revolutions is to take the event itself and imagine increasing the proof. What could change?

Clearly, the truck occupation never considered a bid for absolute power. What would that have meant—Justin Trudeau would step down and hand power to Tamara Lich? Look who’s loving Nunavut now! It’s actually super nice in the summers—since the far-right won, of course, these are not transformative-justice camps, but boot camps. Crossfit! Trudeau may not need it. A lot of his friends do. He’ll see them all there…

The prospect is ridiculous. But history demonstrates that it is not ridiculous because it has to be ridiculous. It is only ridiculous because no one has made it unridiculous.

Of course, the actual goal of the trucker action was an issue—vaccine/mask mandates. An issue is the weakest kind of goal, because it does not aim at taking power, only at using it—by somehow convincing and/or coercing power to change its mind.

Suppose we confine the action to the same area, but we redesign it to take power? We would imagine creating some kind of civic tribunal, not unlike the plebeian tribunes of ancient Rome, rigged to be controlled by the populist majority rather than sneering overeducated “doctors” and “scientists”, which could act as a civil jury that could veto these kinds of intrusive (but sometimes, with a really dangerous virus, still necessary) violations of the principles of a free society…

Again the idea is ridiculous. Maybe not only because no one has made it unridiculous. When we talk about the people governing, rather than a government in the interest of the people, when we talk about true democracy—what else would we be talking about? Is this actually the right way to govern Canada? Can the principle of the populist civil jury, with veto power over the acts of the progressive bureaucracy, get anywhere?

No, probably—but one could at least imagine it as a start. In theory, given an abstract human population. But not in practice, given the actual Canadian population—unless my impression that they are no different up there is wrong.

For prospective actors, the trucker protest has two lessons. The first lesson is that any amount of informal anti-government action, regardless of its traditional practice or even apparent legality, and entirely regardless of the safety of pro-government action, is extremely unsafe and effectively illegal. If, after the action, the old regime is still around to prosecute or persecute you—it certainly will. This is the normal condition of human affairs, so try not to cry a new Mississippi about it.

The second lesson is that ultimately every action against a government is military, and every military action can be measured by a simple yardstick. The action succeeds not if it achieves its nominal mission, but if it alters the balance of power in its own favor. A step that makes you stronger and your enemies weaker is a victory. A step that makes you weaker and your enemies stronger is a defeat.

Not only is it easy to see that the trucker movement was smashed and the Canadian regime gained new, tasty emergency superpowers, as well as experience dealing with this surprising new tactic, there is an excellent yardstick for any informal action. The simple question is: did this action make it easier, or harder, to repeat the same action? If you cannot do the same thing you did last time, you must be weaker than last time. Maybe you gained somewhere else—maybe not.

Not having been born yesterday, Canadian security officials or whoever can see that, if blocking the streets of Ottawa with trucks is an effective way for these peasants to get what they want, they will get a lot of trucker roadblocks—like farmer protests or union strikes in France in the ‘70s.

Therefore it becomes especially important not only to smash this action, but to make it clear that any such future action will fail—that the action will not be repeated. Thus in one clear way the balance of power has changed in the regime’s favor—before the trucker protest, truckers could do something like the trucker protest. Now they can’t. They would just lose—so they will never even try. That’s how power works.

Everyone hates to lose, so losers always cling to the Saxon-waking theory of politics—a great idea out of Kipling:

They were not easily moved,
They were icy—willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Well… the Canadians must have some Saxon blood. Right? They are certainly icy. And who can question their willingness to wait?

But now the count is proved, the Saxon awakes, the corrupt, tyrannical Trudeau regime will be swept away.. the new blood is rising in the strong, independent, liberty-loving peoples of the north… in 2014 as this sort of spirit rose in the feeble, nervous, weed-loving peoples of 4chan, some wag invented an unanswerable response:

He was waiting for the Saxon to awake. Of course, the actual reason that the Canadian Royal Militia or whoever is not mustering up to march on Ottawa and restore liberty is not that the Canadian people are icy and judicious—more like, pudgy and apathetic.

Regardless of their Saxon heritage, or whatever. And if any of them do wake up, and “learn to hate”—well, that’s literally a crime in Canada. Enjoy your time in Nunavut.

Actually, in the modern world, the rebound effect of oppression is negative. The effect of a crackdown is Stockholm syndrome, not Saxon hate—the more power the state uses, the more popular it gets. As Osama bin Laden said, people like a strong horse.

The audience

There is not much to say about the audience for political porn. Their fetishes may be detailed, but they all share the same lust. They want to see winning. They want hope. Their cummies are little spurts of delicious, evanescent hope.

They have no actual hope of actual power—if they did, they would instantly change the channel on all these nonalcoholic revolutions, formal and informal alike. Mere self-abuse can rarely compete with actual penetration.

Can the audience learn to stop beating it to outrage porn? Some of them, maybe. But the right way to cure their debauched coomer ways is to give them actual hope. Porn is for the celibate—it can rarely compete with actual sex.

The production

It is the actors who have been the victims of this show, and the producers who have profited from it. The actors should have known what they were doing—but they didn’t. But they were ordinary fools, so no one could expect them to.

The producers had the responsibility to know what they were doing—if they didn’t, they should have. The persecution of their followers is on these Pied Pipers: shame.

Respect the pornstache

Here is a timeline subset from one major producer of trucker politicummies. This producer, an attorney, actually went to the trucker protest to make video reports. He has almost 200,000 Twitter followers.

Behold this chronological stream of timely ejaculations, each delicious in its own way:

Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
This is how you know a movement has acquired its own exponential momentum.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Canadian truckers rule

January 27th 2022

505 Retweets3,495 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
The #FreedomConvoy2022 has picked up exponential momentum, nationally and internationally. @elonmusk tweeting about it @rustyrockets talking about @ZubyMusic on it. The only people ignoring it are @JustinTrudeau funded @CBC. The emperor has no clothes, & the entire world sees it.

January 28th 2022

1,265 Retweets4,985 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Parliament Hill belongs to the #FreedomConvoy2022. And the lying coward @JustinTrudeau knows it, which is why he surrendered his office to the people.

February 1st 2022

281 Retweets1,626 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
I think he already has been overthrown, he just doesn’t know it yet. He still thinks everyday freedom -loving Canadians are the “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views”. This feels like an unstoppable peaceful revolution, which is the most powerful and long-lasting kind.

Eli Klein @TheEliKlein

Is Justin Trudeau getting overthrown?

February 1st 2022

580 Retweets2,716 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
There is no greater shame to any mortal than not being able to walk among your law-abiding people @JustinTrudeau

February 2nd 2022

208 Retweets1,414 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
I will be back in Ottawa tomorrow to show why @JustinTrudeau is not only a pathetic coward, but an absolute shameless liar. This is your legacy, Justin. The most vile, loathsome politician to have ever cursed our country’s history. Enjoy your exile. The people own the Parliament.

Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau

Today in the House, Members of Parliament unanimously condemned the antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia that we’ve seen on display in Ottawa over the past number of days. Together, let’s keep working to make Canada more inclusive.

February 2nd 2022

543 Retweets2,100 Likes
Twitter avatar for @FiveTimesAugustFive Times August @FiveTimesAugust
@JustinTrudeau Imagine letting the entire world watch you dig your own grave.

February 2nd 2022

663 Retweets16,755 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Anyone calling the #FreedomConvoy2022 intolerant, racist, antisemitic, transphobic, xenophobic, etc. is an idiot, pure and simple.

February 4th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
The same truckers that feed Canada, freed Canada.

February 4th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @JackPosobiecJack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec
Amazing watching @thevivafrei level up in realtime He is fighting for his nation 🇨🇦

February 4th 2022

448 Retweets2,927 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Justin Trudeau is the villain of our century.

February 6th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @marcorandazzaMarc J. Randazza @marcorandazza
I did not give money to the trucker convoy until @gofundme played games. Now, I gave on @GiveSendGo including the largest suggested "tip" for the site.
givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2…

February 6th 2022

65 Retweets339 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
The obvious question for @JustinTrudeau: are you willing to starve or freeze a trucker to death to save your ego? Because the world is watching.

February 7th 2022

4,714 Retweets17,240 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
The next phase in @JustinTrudeau realizing he has lost all influence and he’s no longer an authority figure in this country? The police stop listening to his orders.

Justice Centre @JCCFCanada

Today in Ottawa at the Freedom Convoy. https://t.co/oXFKOPn0Nf

February 8th 2022

193 Retweets981 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
To the Ottawa Police, York Police, Ontario Provincial Police, and RCMP: It is OK not to listen to @JustinTrudeau. He is an intolerant fascist, and you are all better than that. @OttawaPolice @OPP @YRP @RCMPONT The next phase in this depends on you.

February 8th 2022

1,236 Retweets4,852 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Just appreciate that what has united Canadians behind the Canadian flag was a collective hatred for @JustinTrudeau. What a legacy, Justin.

February 8th 2022

1,702 Retweets10,048 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
The worst Prime Minister in the history of Canada is in full meltdown mode. @JustinTrudeau better get ready to go into hiding. I have a suggestion for your disguise… but I think you know what that is already.

Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau

So far, hundreds of RCMP officers have been mobilized to support the Ottawa Police Services. We’re also working with municipal partners to further strengthen our response, and we’ll continue to be there with whatever resources are needed to get the situation under control.

February 8th 2022

214 Retweets1,161 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
If anyone thinks that I would rather be doing this than fishing, you’re wrong. I love fishing. But the pursuit of freedom for our country and for our people is slightly more important.

February 9th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
That’s the expression! I love it.

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec

Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics The state has no way to move all those trucks

February 9th 2022

181 Retweets1,352 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
These idiot politicians in Ottawa thought a bunch of big rigs sitting on Parliament Hill was a disruption. Well played… The #FreedomConvoy2022 called your bluff. Now they are sitting on Ambassador Bridge. This is the undoing of @JustinTrudeau, in real time. Get your popcorn. 🍿

February 10th 2022

2,215 Retweets10,516 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Canada is still a democracy… Except the government tells you what goes over your face. What goes in your body. When you can work. Who are you can see. When you can leave the house. When you can protest. Who you can donate to. Yep… With democracy like that, who needs tyranny.

February 11th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Imagine thinking the best way to end a grassroots movement is to freeze the $10.5 million raised through grassroots donations. Of course these are the same idiots who think a vax passport -for a vax which prevents neither carrying nor spreading- is the best way to fight the virus

February 11th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @CernovichCernovich @Cernovich
I can’t stop laughing at the blue check libs saying JUST MOVE THE TRUCKS. Like it’s that easy. Push a couple of buttons. Make a phone call. Boom. Trucks gone.

February 11th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
It is nothing short of criminalizing the Constitution.

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec

If the Canadian government succeeds in stealing the peaceful demonstrators funds, it is the end of democracy. The transformation to regime will be complete.

February 11th 2022

165 Retweets887 Likes
Twitter avatar for @GiveSendGoGiveSendGo @GiveSendGo
Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo. All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.

February 11th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
This just in: A highly politicized and weaponized Canadian court has issued an injunction against exercising constitutional rights. #Sarcasm

February 12th 2022

266 Retweets1,726 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
The political left is intolerant. It actually upsets me to make this tweet. But the truth of this tweet has been reaffirmed to me, both privately and publicly. The political left is fundamentally intolerant.

February 12th 2022

1,035 Retweets5,330 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
After two years of destroying our economy and eviscerating our Constitutional rights, @JustinTrudeau all of the sudden pretends to care about the economy. End the mandates. End the constitutional violations. Resign. For the good of Canada.

Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau

Today, @POTUS Biden and I spoke about the illegal blockades at the border – I updated him on the situation, and we discussed the American and global influence on the protests. We agreed that, for the security of people and our economies, these blockades cannot continue.

February 12th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
If Ottawa is the symbolic epicentre of the #FreedomConvoy2022, Windsor and the Ambassador Bridge is the economic epicenter. This is what’s going on there.

Isabelle Rivoche @isabellerivo

LIVE FROM AMBASSADOR BRIDGE - Police descend upon blockade https://t.co/ZrXN9zpdYb

February 12th 2022

79 Retweets407 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
You’ve kind of got a crisis at home to manage. Ignoring it is not going to make it go away. And demonizing the people is only going to make it bigger. @JustinTrudeau

Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau

Canada, the United States, and countries across Europe are committed to supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. I spoke about that today with @POTUS and European leaders – we’ll keep pursuing de-escalation and a diplomatic solution. https://t.co/SNla761OGP https://t.co/ySKp7gGqT4

February 12th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
I will always remember freedom.

February 13th 2022

397 Retweets4,338 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
“Vaccine Passports” are the new Jim Crow laws. And anyone who says otherwise is a racist.

February 13th 2022

1,166 Retweets6,261 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
This dude is still too proud or dense to understand that he's politically toxic / incompetent and his days in office are numbered. @JustinTrudeau, if you don't resign witgh dignity, your own party is going to oust you with prejudice. You have no political goodwill left.

Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau

Today, I convened another Incident Response Group meeting. We covered further actions the government can take to help end the blockades and occupations. We’ll keep working urgently on this – to protect jobs, public safety, our neighbourhoods, and our economy.

February 14th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
No need to dox me. I gave $1,000 USD to @GiveSendGo before the “restraint” order. And if a corrupt government tries to impede my ability to support the people I choose to support and who make sure my family has food to eat, I will find another way to support them. ✌️
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Thanom @redalert989

@thevivafrei @JustinTrudeau They doxed @GiveSendGo 🤡 world.. https://t.co/BjEZZk6aea

February 14th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
It is really starting to look like @JustinTrudeau will not become the dictator who so aspires to be until he provokes a Tiananmen Square-type incident.

Travis Dhanraj @Travisdhanraj

#BREAKING: @CBCNews has learned PM @JustinTrudeau will inform provinces he will invoke emergencies act to give the fed gov't extra powers to deal w/ protests across country. But In a meeting w/ Liberal caucus he said there were no plans to deploy the military. #cdnpoli

February 14th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Don’t worry, @JustinTrudeau isn’t “calling in the military”. He is just authorizing banks to unilaterally freeze your accounts on the basis of suspicion alone, no court order required, with legal immunity. I hope everyone realizes how much more dangerous this is than the military

February 14th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
If you support doxxing anonymous donors, you might be the Nazi.

February 15th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Justin Trudeau thinks that he will crush the truckers by threatening to steal even more from people with nothing left to lose? He’s even stupider than he looks and sounds. @JustinTrudeau

February 15th 2022

1,979 Retweets9,679 Likes
Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Anybody who sleeps well tonight telling themselves “oh don’t worry, the government would only seize & freeze the bank accounts of those white nationalist truckers” is a naive moron who doesn’t deserve to sleep well, but probably will. At least until the government comes for them.

February 15th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
This is an underrated tweet

Maxime Bernier @MaximeBernier

It started with rainbows and unicorns. It ends with a fascist crackdown.

February 15th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
No, @JustinTrudeau used his state-funded media to dishonesty portray a peaceful protest as a violent insurrection so that he could enact the emergencies act, seize bank accounts & private property with impunity. History doesn’t repeat, but it tends to rhyme. Mark Twain

Mass Herder @BisquitsButtery

@thevivafrei @JustinTrudeau Trudeau planned a violent insurrection so he could hold power like a dictator or you're doing the hyperbolic thing again?

February 15th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Wow… Some serious upheaval within the government. @JustinTrudeau may actually have gone too far this time, even by the standards of the other equally inept politicians in Parliament

@Newsmined @newsmined

@thevivafrei Trudeau on the spot again https://t.co/rBpXWBaRhS

February 15th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
While the provinces, states, & countries across the world are rescinding Covid restrictions, @JustinTrudeau invoked the Emergencies Act. While simultaneously saying he will revisit Covid restrictions in the coming days. The last temper tantrum of a petty tyrant losing his power.

February 16th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @thevivafreiViva Frei @thevivafrei
Justin Trudeau is the true threat to democracy.

February 16th 2022

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Justin Trudeau dressed in “black face” multiple times. Groped a reporter. Breached his ethics duties twice. Was investigated multiple times. Prorogued parliament to stifle the investigation. But yeah, if you protest him, you’re a racist, misogynist, extremist. #forgettrudeau

February 17th 2022

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Hey @JustinTrudeau, when you have lesbians, gays, Jews, and blacks (among other groups) standing in support of the #FreedomConvoy2022, maybe… just maybe… it is in fact not a homophobic, transphobic, anti-black racist, antisemitic convoy. Just a thought. #TrudeauMustResign

February 17th 2022

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The @JustinTrudeau government is using contact info from a donor list that was illegally hacked & leaked, to freeze bank accounts & seize private property, with no court order or due process. But don’t worry, he said he would respect the Charter of Rights. #TrudeauTheCriminal

February 17th 2022

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On what charges?

Joe Warmington @joe_warmington

BREAKING— #FreedomConvoy organizer Tamara Lich has been arrested by ⁦@OttawaPolice⁩ https://t.co/cK9CadOPaR

February 18th 2022

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Something tells me that for every protester arrested, hundreds of fresh Canadians will descend on Ottawa this weekend.

Andrew Lawton @AndrewLawton

Lich shouts out "Hold the line" as she's walked away in handcuffs. https://t.co/rMauYzPsg3

February 18th 2022

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Trudeau has to make as many arrests as he can before the vote on the Emergencies Act. Because if declaration gets denied, at least he’ll have gotten a few arrests under his dictatorship belt. But if it gets denied, @JustinTrudeau is politically finished.

February 18th 2022

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How long until they start freezing bank accounts based on who you are friends with on social media? I mean, if you are friends with someone who donated to GiveSendGo, surely that makes you morally culpable under the Emergencies Act. Right, @JustinTrudeau @cafreeland

February 18th 2022

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Justin Trudeau needed the #freedomconvoy2022 to be his January 6th so badly, he erected fences , brought in riot police, teargas, and *literal* cavalry, to try & provoke the desired response. And it still didn’t work.@JustinTrudeau you are a disgrace and a menace to free society.

February 18th 2022

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Either way, it’s terrible. If she survived, @JustinTrudeau got lucky from such unnecessary escalation. If she did in fact die, Trudeau needs to be held accountable for such egregious escalation. Strutting horses through a crowded protest in icy, subzero temperatures? Criminal!

Danny Deck @DannyDeck68

@thevivafrei @JustinTrudeau Why not wait till we know?

February 19th 2022

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There are literally dozens of people livestreaming the protest in Ottawa in real time, for millions of people to see. How does anyone think they will get away with lies?

February 19th 2022

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If the police response to the protest in Ottawa is not the undoing of @JustinTrudeau, it is the undoing of Canada.

February 19th 2022

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We will do all we can to reveal the brutality.

Drew Hernandez @DrewHLive

The TRUDEAU REGIME is going to do all it can to cover up its brutality

February 19th 2022

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In Justin Trudeau Canada, government tells you when you can protest, where you can protest, how long you can protest for, and when you have to stop protesting. They then look to press criminal charges against you, and seize your assets for protesting. #OhCanada

February 19th 2022

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Justin Trudeau has deployed more resources in terms of dictatorship police response and more public debates to deal with the protest, than actually discoursing with the protesters. He is a failure and a disgrace and should be removed from office yesterday.

February 20th 2022

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I hope the people of Ottawa appreciate that the downtown core was never shut down by “violent protesters”. Any business that stayed open would’ve done amazingly well. But downtown Ottawa is now definitely shut down by the government. Those fences aren’t going anywhere for a while

February 20th 2022

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The government is playing for keeps. And they’re playing for our freedom.

February 20th 2022

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Apparently police are now going after business owners that remained open during the protest. But don’t worry, @JustinTrudeau said he would respect the Charter of Rights while invoking the Emergencies Act. The destruction of the fabric of Canadian society, right before our eyes.

Daniel Bordman @Ranting4Canada

The police tried to get into the Iconic Cafe, a small business that commited the crime of serving coffee to the truckers, to arrest the owners. They were scared off by a citizen live streamer, for now I'm on the scene and will there when the police come back. #TrudeauHasGotToGo

February 20th 2022

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Criminalize peaceful protest. Criminalize fundraising. Criminalize freedom of speech. Criminalize freedom of association. Ignore due process. What @JustinTrudeau @fordnation @OttawaPolice are doing to peace-loving Canadians is pure state-terrorism. #TrudeauStain #ShameOnTrudeau https://t.co/THeSvEAk6A

Ottawa Police @OttawaPolice

If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. #ottawa #ottnews https://t.co/Ic6Q9byfvY

February 20th 2022

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How is it conceivable that release is not being granted as a pure rubberstamp matter of fact and law? As far as I understand it, people have only been charged with mischief. How can they possibly warrant continued detainment? @DavidAnber

David Anber, Criminal Lawyer 🇨🇦 @DavidAnber

I am in bail court this morning, 9 files are here among arrests from yesterday and 11 more on their way today. At least one of my clients the Crown is not consenting to release. I’ve set a bail hearing for him for later this week.

February 20th 2022

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“You are watching live images of police committing atrocious abuse”. Fixed that for the reporters. This is Justin Trudeau‘s Canada. @JustinTrudeau

₿itcoin Gandalf The Orange 🟧 @BTCGandalf

Let’s make sure millions of people see this. https://t.co/Oq5XTEsCpM

February 20th 2022

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I sure hope there are enough parliamentary employees to keep those small businesses open for the next several weeks / months of this unlawful police blockade. But you’ll just blame the protesters for the interruption that the police are causing, right? @OttawaPolice

Ottawa Police @OttawaPolice

Please be advised that no pedestrian traffic is permitted north of Sparks Street between Elgin and Bay unless you are a parliamentary employee.

February 20th 2022

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Deconstructing the trucker cummies

What is amazing about this producer—selected quite at random—is that he seems to both have a perfect understanding of what will happen, and no understanding at all. Not only does he have no clue, but he gets it completely.

What makes all the rhetoric in this remarkable month-long arc stimulating? Why does this mustache-libertarianism work so well, even as it goes from the most blustering of boasts to the most pathetic of whines?

It is easy to see why the boasts stimulate the proud ape in us. The whines stimulate them too—because of a piece of political mythology that transmutes the two. You see, out there, somewhere, the Saxon is waiting—proving his counts, or whatever.

Any time the Trudeau dictatorship regime does some awful, dictator-like thing, it looks like it makes the regime stronger. But it actually makes the regime weaker—because of the silent, invisible Saxo-Canadian, out there weighing up the evidence, ready to come to Ottawa “in the hundreds” once that count is finally proved.

True, the dictator Trudeau actually can move a few trucks. And stuff. But it’s not true that he’s winning—because of all the legitimacy his regime has lost to these crimes. Etc, etc, etc.

This whole narrative can only exist in a world of quantum superposition, in which the despot Trudeau both is and is not a dictator. In a dictatorship, resistance is obviously useless. Imagine a trucker protest against Kim Jong Un. In a democracy, however, not only is protest legal, protest works—protest is the only way to get things done.

This is why we see so many of these conservative coomer-milkers constantly declaring that today is the day that democracy has fallen. It is the only narrative note that works in the middle of their arc.

But these days have been happening for decades in this genre. Somehow, the day is forgotten by the middle of next week—and the producers keep on selling democracy as the cure for dictatorship. Which is a little like selling paper as the cure for scissors.

Trudeau, of course, is not a dictator. He is a talking head on TV—an actor. His regime is not a personal autocracy, it is a institutional oligarchy. In fact, autocracy is the only cure for oligarchy. So not only has this kind of narrative led the actors in the story into personal disaster, and the coomers in the story into unexpected detumescence—it has politically confused the poor peasant coomer into a state of complete ineffectiveness. But he did get plenty of cummies, I guess.

In fact, this narrative could not be a more powerful weapon on behalf of the regime than if it had been designed by the cruel Justin Trudeau (son of Fidel Castro, I insist). In the end, the coomer is always an incel. Sad!

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Foseti
Mar 1

One quibble. This does seem to gloss over Trudeau's invocation of emergency powers. Suspending habeus and at least temporarily confiscating peoples' assets from banks is really letting the mask slip. That's not something that happens every day.

Very few of the normies that I discussed were willing to defend that. The comparison to last summer's riots was inducing some heavy cognitive dissonance. It was fun to watch them squirm.

That said, it does appear that no one cares anymore. Canada had a dictator for a few days and now it can quietly go back to having one of the highest Democracy Indices as calculated by The Economist, or whatever. It is, in the end, a pretty big black pill.

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The_Last_Roman
Mar 1

Trucker activism may be just cope but between the freezing of assets, threatening to take away their children, and now the United States freezing Russian assets abroad I believe Western Governments to be accelerating the understanding of the Kulaks for the need of decentralization.

We don't need a top down revolution in order to increase the utility and ubiquity of crypto. I have now come to understand Curtis's advocacy for the Benedict option. Build your own social networks and contribute to the Cathedral in the least amount that you possibly can.

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