9. Here is where he says he hopes the individual "ropes himself."
10. Regarding other terrible people, Tyler Russell is upset with Ezra Levant who claimed Canada First were "feds" paid for by the Trudeau government and promoted by the media to create narrative that the #OttawaOccupiers are bad people (they are).
11. So how do you think a group of virulent racist and anti-semites would respond?
13. In other news, QAnon crank, and a person who was on Capitol Hill January 6, seems to think outsiders (let in by some students) should have the right to protest in schools because there are no safety concerns at all right? 🤡
14. We also see an interesting response by the police in Toronto. When a group of Torontonians blocked part of the convoy the police came to remove them.
Not the convoy tormenting people. No, they removed the people blocking them to allow the convoy supporters to torment people.
15. Now onto Pat King.
16. As I post this King is doing an absolutely bonkers live stream (claims Ottawa is the "Most evil city in the world" because it has "666" in it's logo... it sort of goes down hill from there). I'll post it when he is done.
17. In the meantime he posted another video asking for help to move a "cook house" (they are building structures), claims the police are lying, congratulates other occupations in the country, and claims that they "are winning."
18. Let's take a look at what else this occupation has wrought.
Harassment of people they believe "don't belong" in the country.
In a province where people are occupying a border area and an environment where far-right American insurrectionists are helping to pay for an attempted coup on Canadian soil, the Premier of Alberta posted this.
26. But he isn't referring to the criminal actions by fringe figures holding his own province and the country hostage.
No, he is using it as another opportunity to attack Canadian environmental groups opposed to pipelines, oils sands development, and strip mining for coal.
27. By the way, what this the inquiry say about his and the UCP governments claims?
32. The former Proud Boy chapter that rebranded as Canada First (as opposed to Tyler Russell's Canada First) is encouraging people to call the @OttawaPolice bluff.
34. Now I'm sure Pat King and the occupiers will be commenting on this emergency declaration, but even before Pat was growing increasingly agitated.
Here he plays statements by the police as if he has cracked some sort of DaVinci code.
35. Ever play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"?
This is basically it, but dumber and more paranoid.
36. Mentions fuel not being delivered. Claims the trucks "can't be towed" because they are parked in designated truck zones which seems not at all true. He further claims that residential areas are unaffected.
Residential areas would beg to differ.
37. Pat King things this makes the occupiers look good.
I can assure him that it does not.
38. Someone got a ticket!
For honking their horn!
In their car!
Uhm, yes. You know, city noise bylaws and all that (though to be fair they haven't been enforced for more than a week).
39. Reading comments Pat King pushes back on someone seemingly asking if it was time for civil war (real peaceful folks there Pat). Pat says not but goes on to say that this is the first time Canadians have fought for their rights/freedom; all other times it was "gifted" to them.
40. Calls on police to join in their great fun and disobey direct orders.
41. This is rich.
Claims the occupiers have never been violent or acted in a disrespectful way. Instead, THEY are the victims of Ottawa citizens not being nice to them.
Don't worry though. Pat King promises hugs all around when this is over.
42. Claims media and police are corrupt. Also claims 1.5 million were/are participating in the occupation.
I can not stress how out to lunch this number is.
43. Police and mayor admit they shut down the @gofundme. Pat would realize this wasn't such a scoop if he watched the news he maligns which reported a couple of days ago police showed GFM credible acts of violence the occupiers had engaged in and it was shut down for that reason
44. Pat keeps claiming this is "theft by conversion" which again illustrates Pat King does not understand the meaning of words.
45. Get out your bingo card.
"The media is the virus".
46. "They" are trying to shut him down again.
"They" are doing nothing of the sort.
47. Pat King's proof of a conspiracy doesn't seem like much proof at all, especially given this took place in an open council meeting.
48. Pat King says again that this is "theft by conversion" (it is not) and says the mayor and the police chief need to go to jail.
By the way, and again if he watched the news, he would know @gofundme is refunding the money directly.
49. Claims that spies in the mayor's office and the police force are providing the occupiers with secret information because they support them.
So secret that it has been reported by the media several times over the past several days.
50. We are getting biblical folks!
Pat King claims they are engaged in psychological AND spirital warfare and Ottawa is one of the most "evil cities" in the world because it has 666 in their logo.
51. I'm guessing he is talking about this one.
I mean, evil? No.
Boring? Yep, I can get behind that.
52. Signing off from "Pat King's control room" he throws in one more complaint that people are being kicked out of hotels for not wearing masks. He seems to believe paying for a service gives you the right to abuse it and the staff.
53. In the meantime Pat King's ex, Kelly Anne Farkas, is trying to get @PierrePoilievre to read his email and enact one of the far-right's fever dreams of a "Constitutional Convention" which is a play out of the American sovcit playbook.
54. This is from about an hour ago.
55. From an #OttawaOccupiers standpoint, I'm not sure this stunt made a lot of strategic sense since it actually shows how relatively few in numbers the occupiers are.
Also, I'm not sure they have heard about the emergency declaration yet.
56. Plaid Army/Diagolon defacto leader Jeremy MacKenzie has noticed though.
Apparently there are plans to reproduce Coutts across the country.
A trucker going by the name Stacey claiming to be the BC rep for the effort was caught on audio at a Vancouver event yesterday (sometimes hard to hear with background noise).
65. This might be our Stacey.
“Chilliwack trucker Stacey Midgely said he would have taken part in the Ottawa event but just arrived back on Thursday from Florida with a load.”
102. And defacto Plaid Army/Diagolon leader Jeremy MacKenzie also used his platform to discuss the bad news.
103.
104. Tyler Russell of the Canada First hate group really just seems content with bitching that Ezra Levant is using his material as Russell's followers engage in casual antisemitism.
110. But it has been 8 days (9 if you count Jan 29 when the first vehicles arrived) and people are being arrested so... I think you're past your 7 days.
Also, I am damn tired of QAnon quackery.
111. There's a very good chance that Pat King isn't a good person.
113. Randy Hillier continues to incite his supporters.
Also, people who believed that the potential use of the military to put down their occupation was tyrannical are okay using the military for their own political purposes if given half the chance to do so.
114. Finally, Alex Vriend posted these updates with the caveat of being careful about verifying information.
115. And with that I think I'm going to call it a night.
I probably am going to slow down a bit this week. Hopefully a large part of the slowdown will be because things have started to normalize.
116. Also, I kind of want to get back into my daily routine a bit more as I've been skipping a lot of it (gym, cooking, reading, etc) to keep up with what is happening.
117. In any case I still plan on carrying on for the long term.
And though I say I'll slow down, I know myself too well to know that will definitively happen.
118. In the meantime, here is Parliament Hill at 2:15 am est.
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2. Being a Saturday the numbers are unsurprising higher than previously as evidenced by this shot of Parliament Hill at noon.
3. It seems the QAnon "Queen" Romana Didulo decided that after her proclamation that truckers were "no longer necessary" in Ottawa and ordered them home.
3. Today is the day that supporters of the events in Ottawa and at the Coutts border claim they will be blocking "all major thoroughfares" in Alberta. Time will tell if that will occur.