I had planned on a thread discussing Johnston's antics yesterday, but Pat King's continued descent into sovereign citizen woo sort of preoccupied my time. 2/
In any case, prior to appearing on the bed of a truck on Stephen Ave promoting his fringe mayoral campaign, he was on the bed of a truck outside Artur Pawlowski's cult compound.
Here are the lowlights. 3/
Snipers? 4/
Kevin Johnston is the smartedest man in history! 5/
Could you make yourself appear any MORE creepy? 6/
Kijiji also wants to grift in the United States. 7/
Health mandates = treason and war crimes. 8/
Racism didn't exist in Canada until 2015 apparently. 9/
Kevin Johnston predicts violence if he doesn't win which, he perhaps doesn't realizes, says a great deal about his supporters if true. And that isn't good. 10/
"Everything I don't like or understand is communism" 11/
Yeah... I don't think I wans to learn my science from Kijiji.
He also tells us his price. 12/
Just kidding! He TOTALLY doesn't have a price!
READ: He TOTALLY has a price. 13/
In reality, the entirety of Kevin J. Johnston can be summed up in these 40 seconds. 14/
And when he finally comes out, Artur shows Kijiji some love and endorses his mayoral run which is another knock me over with a feather moment (you think a lonely tear fell down Larry Heather's face when he heard this?) 15/
Now all of this is pretty standard, however Kijiji did catch an exchange that I want to focus more attention on when he was on Stephen Ave.
Long story short, Dawid Pawlowski has a very short fuse. 16/
Prior to this incident, Dawid was promoting is run for city council.
There is a lot to unpack here.
Dangerous vaccine misinformation.
Anti-Semitic and Islamophobic tropes (Soros, Globalists, Aga Khan).
Praising nationalism that "protects our borders." 17/
His language, describing the government and health officials as "murderers" is bordering on stochastic terrorism though I could be convinced that he crosses the line here. 18/
In fact he hits on a lot of the conspiracy theories which he promotes as truth. 19/
He urges people NOT to get vaccinated with what he describes as poison. 20/
He does have time to chat briefly with who appears to be Rob Anders. 21/
And we learn that getting kicked out of Girl Guides for not abiding by the rules is communism because everything is communism apparently. 22/
But what might be most concerning is his interaction with others as he seems to be spoiling for a fight.
Here he is with the city workers again. It appears that while working one accidently blew soil in Dawid's direction. Dawid takes it as a personal affront. 23/
That's not the only encounter.
The good Christian also harasses a couple in particularly disgusting manner. 24/
He also harasses restaurant patrons and who looks to be an employee.
Notice Dawid's not-so-subtle dig questioning the man's citizenship. 25/
This echoes statements made during Artur's sermon the same day. 26/
1. By now I'm guessing that most of my Twitter followers are aware of the most recent threats against Trudeau and the subsequent of a suspect. I think there is an even more important story though related to the poisonous influence of social media
2. Dawid Zalewski was arrested for making death threats against the Prime Minister. The following video was posted to his second Facebook profile. Be warned that it may be triggering as it promotes graphic violence against the PM and others.
3. Zalewski is clearly not well, but I think would be wrong to dismissively call him "crazy" move on without further examination. There is a reason why he got to this point and I believe we can learn a great deal from his social media footprint.
1. I’ve been enjoying my summer break and have not been paying a lick of attention to the Olympics. Until today however since Twitter has collectively lost the plot.
2. Earlier boxer Imane Khelif defeated her Italian opponent in the first round when Angela Carini quit after 45 seconds stating that she had never been hit so hard.
To be fair, I don’t enjoy being punched in the face either so I can at least sympathize with Carini.
3. Now a preliminary fight would never be important enough to make international news under normal circumstances however we are, as the saying goes, living in interesting times.
1. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) was arrested in Calgary on an immigration warrant apparently. He may have since been released, though he has to turn in his passport and remain in southern Alberta.
I'd prefer that he be kicked out immediately.
2. Despite claiming to have been a "political prisoner" many of Yaxley-Lennon's criminal convictions his Islamophobic "activism" and a number of convictions since have had nothing to do with his political views.
3. In 2005, he was convicted assaulting a police officer who intervened during an argument Yaxley-Lennon was having with his then girlfriend.
1/ It's been a while since I've done a thread here, but the recent focus on Pat King got me to wondering what was up with his own Salacious Crumb, Tyson "Freedom George" Billings.
2/ Last time I looked at Billings he was a part of the efforts to set up a permenant camp outside Ottawa so there could be daily protests, though the original plan involved surrounding the police and arresting politicians.
Suffice to say it didn't go anywhere.
3/ Billings and Ron Clark soon headed home, but they both soon got involved in other protests including the anti-carbon tax protests occurring in the province. The numbers at these events have been small but that hasn't stopped from politicians from courting the fringes it seems.
1/ Though I'm not especially active these days, I'm still sometimes gobsmacked by some of the ridiculous (though sadly effective) rage farming by some on the right. Harrison Faulkner of "True North" is just a recent example of that.
2/ So a bit of background. Musical artist Karan Aujla won the 2024 TikTok Juno Fan Choice Award at the award ceremony this past weekend.
I think it was this weekend. Truth be told I don't pay a lot of attention to awards shows.
3/ It should be noted that Aujla has been in Canada for years emigrating as an orphan. He graduated from high school in Canada. The album was produced by a Canadian on a Canadian label.