Thread by @jonkay

Those denouncing Ottawa police for timidity have been oddly forgiving of Trudeau's disappearjng act. Police (& soldiers) need a sense of purpose & leadership. "Take out the trash while I hide" is a bad look. Trudeau's brittle rhetoric, & weak, fearful behavior have sapped morale.

https://twitter.com/cathmckenna/status/1492629980651524097

The rhetoric about the police has been bizarrely dehumanizing (even when you discount the hilarious hypocrisy of #DefundThePolice activists demanding that they now act as stormtroopers). Police are human. They're not automatons or chess pieces. Put yourself in their shoes....

During trudeau's last 2 years, the theme from Libs, NDP & media has been that they're all just a bunch of racists in cop drag. Even before that, they were thrown out of pride parades. Jagmeet (to this day!) fuels the batcrap theory that toronto cops threw a woman off a balcony...

And what Ottawa regime are cops being asked to defend? Oh right: the municipal nerve centre of the self-confessed white supremacist genocide state that lowered flags for 6 months to show us what a shitty country we are. Yeah, that one. Go defend it, boys! For God & country etc...

There comes a time when the leadership of a country becomes so hypocritical and out of touch with ordinary people that those people...even the ones paid to keep order... start to forget why they show up to work. That's the truth the convoy has shown us. And it stings hard

The Ottawa brat pack was perfectly happy to take a knee to whoever wanted to smear cops as bigots. BLM, indigenous, antifa, yeah whatevs. Cost-free progressive theater... a vapid performance farm for clicks & likes. Until now, suddenly, they *need* cops.

Gee, what's the lesson?

meanwhile, at CBC, the 8th earl of grantham is denouncing the spectacle as just a pack of "anti-social yobs with delusions of grandeur." Well guess what, fellow journos, if youre asking cops (or ANYONE) to pick between "yobs" & ppl who talk like that, guess which side they pick ?