I actually think I softly disagree with this one. i think a lot of our problem with these people is they have no families. They don't care about what their actions will do to the country because they're not leaving behind kids that will have to live in the mess they're creating. While I see what you're suggesting with being unable to be blackmail it's more likely though they're not worried about being blackmailed if they get attention and power.
In Saskatchewan, Canada, foreigners were allowed to own up to 160 acres of land total (a quarter section of land). That's very small but big enough to let you have a house and enough land to sustain yourself. And that's fair. If you wanted to own more, you have to be living in the province which up until recently meant you had to be a Canadian citizen.
The Sask Party threw those rules out almost a decade ago. The one thing I absolutely do not like about their party was that. Since then they've got foreign investor companies running around buying land up from retiring farmers who simply can't pass on their farms since it's too expensive to farm now.
The only JD piece of equipment my father ever had on his farm was a 290 pull type swather (one you attach to the back of a tractor to use). Every other tractor, piece of machinery, and even lawn mowers were all various other manufacturers like Case, MF, Roper and more. He would not touch JD because their parts were outrageously priced and always had to be shipped from the United States.
Not every farmer was dumb as to fall into the JD trap.
P.S. A little fun fact about that "green" paint. That particular color of paint is somehow copyrighted much like the way that that particular color or red for Coke is also protected. You want some JD "green" to patch up blotches on your machinery well that's gonna cost you. Also not 100 percent sure on this but I was told by a dealer that they internally call their "green" paint "JD Orange." and I think it also has something to do with the same copyright bull so internally they called it by a completely different color. Keep in mind this was some 30+ years ago so things have likely changed if this was ever true.
Sorry, I was rambling. Carry on.
I'm wondering. What is your laws in the states regarding a terrorist/nuclear attack say close to midterms? Do they suspend the elections and impose new wartime measures? Maybe they're so desperate they'd go as far as set off an incident in a city just to not only keep power but go full suspension of rights across the board.
Just thinking here. I really am not sure.
As many people suddenly discovered in Canada this weekend, debit and credit cards work only so as long as the network works. A failure this weekend left about half the population here without the ability to use either.
Watched a guy frantically go to an ATM to get money after learning his debit and credit cards didn't work. Stormed off slamming doors when his card was rejected.
Always use cash when possible and always make sure you have at least a month's worth of cash stashed away for emergencies.
Well to be fair I'd be a little teed too if I was trying to push my propaganda and everyone around me was screaming.
It's become a good wake up call to those people in Ottawa just how very little we trust or like these slime. Most of the news around here knows we loathe them. They know we know they are lying. But those in Ontario did not until this convoy dropped a culture clash of them on their doorsteps.
CTV camera man on his twitter feed remarked this the other day when he, paraphrasing, remarked 'they are treating us like the enemy.' No shit. Decades of lies tend to do that.
America should have led the way in the fight for freedom. I think the reason Canadians started it is that they have had it worse than us. Their restrictions have often been harsher. Also, in the US, we've had states like Florida, Texas, and South Dakota, and red towns scattered throughout the country that ignored a bunch of the mandates, allowing freedom-lovers to flee the most restrictive blue states rather than organize to fight back.
This is exactly why and it hasn't just been covid. It's been many things. Justin Trudeau has been active in trying to wreck Western Canada from day 1 he was in office. Business has fled from Western Canada in massive waves. Our province alone was reaching a record high for people moving in to take on work and almost overnight that all changed with the Liberal government. Suicides went up drastically as did foreclosures while not a single one of our urban neighbours in the larger places cared. Finally after a while things reached a sort of balance (not a great one mind you) and then came the triple whammy of Covid.
This is the system breaking down and the workers rising up to tell the elites their time is up.
not quite apparently. From Laura Rosen Cohen posting on Small Dead Animals, a right conservative blog in Canada:
Jason Kenney gotta Kenney so the honking will continue.
Carrot: Masks off.
Stick: Infinite annual “booster” jabs, threat of re-defining “fully” vaccinated, allowing private businesses to impose their own vaccine passports, keeping the disgusting QR codes for human beings “to help” the federal government with travel restrictions, and basing freedom (allegedly) on the mismanagement of the provincial health care system.
Also, I didn’t hear anything about the province of Alberta ceasing their Covidjihad against Christian pastors. What is so difficult, Premier Jason Kenney, about keeping yours and your army of repulsive AHS bureaucrats grubby, disgusting tyrannical hands off of Christian pastors?
He thinks we are all stupid. He’s laughing at all of us. Well, we’ll see who laugh lasts. My shekels are on the truckers.
Truckers: HOLD THAT LINE.
So they want to cut off the fuel so those trucks run out of gas and continue to plug up the downtown area?
Are you stupid? They run out of gas they'll take off the tires and really plug up that city. Or maybe they'll decide to take their trucks on the outside of the city and plug all activity going in and out of their city. You escalate, they escalate.
Probably won't be effective anyway. Just like at the Alberta border they'll just charge in anyway and bring supplies if things get bad.
Yeah. Saskatchewan is a smaller province. If you live in a bigger place you wouldn't understand but even in our largest city the people are for the most part friendly. Not everybody of course and having a good judgement of who'd want to chat is important especially in this post-covid hysterical environment. I'd bring it up during conversations simply by saying, "Man that guy's an idiot, isn't he?" just out of the blue after discussing things like weather, local things and the Roughriders or so. I've been doing it for about a month now.
It was cool. One guy I had a chat with was at his home as I was picking up work and he's so left leaning that he's got CNN on his TV. Had to dance a little around that one by saying 'some of those politicians are idiots' and he starts on Trudeau. That was a surprise TBH.
I'd love to do this in a larger centre but since covid my travelling has slowed down. Truck all these lockdown politicians.
There was a meme going around that reads: 90% of the population instantly know if you say "He's an idiot" they will immediately know who it is.
It's true. I walked around town and stated this very thing to complete strangers. Everyone know who it was.
In Canada there's what they call the 'milk cartel'. These lobbyists work to put laws in place and elect politicians like Andrew Scheer, a spineless conservative leader, that they can control. True fact: To celebrate his win as leader of the opposition he drank a glass of milk on the stage to signal to everyone how he won.
If you wonder how we got such crappy PMs like Justin Trudeau, this is the reason. Will Pierre Polviere be any different? He talks a good fight but is that all it is? Time will see.