1. While I'm not able to do a lengthy thread on the events of the day there are a lot who are. For example, @antihateca is covering the events very closely.
For example, Plaid Army/Diagolon member Derek Harrison drove to Ottawa yesterday. Followers will remember Harrison from this prior to the #OttawaOccupation where he hopes for Canada's own January 6 event.
5. Today Josh "Mr. Freedom" Bigger headed to the events.
Comments which suggest the imminent arrest and future execution of the Prime Minister are a bold choice for people who don't want to be viewed as extremists.
6. Hmmm, a Red Ensign eh?
7. Though disingenuous bad actors are outraged that @antihate included the Red Ensign, it is a fact that right-wing extremists have coopted this symbol for their own ugly purposes.
8. This person says the quiet part out loud, but thank you for proving our point.
9. For more information, @antihateca has created an excellent tool kit for use by teachers and school administrators..
1. Since I see that V4F plans an event in Ottawa and is promising a summer of protests, I thought this might be the time to talk about their relationship, or lack thereof, with Marcus Ray (aka Mark Chilcott).
2. Before I get to that I will begin with what might seem to be an irrelevant video of Chris Saccoccia (aka Chris Sky) berating his volunteers back in 2021.
Spoiler. Saccoccia is a really, really, irredeemably, terrible person
3. I bring this video up to make a point that Saccoccia is a narcissistic asshole.
And narcissistic asshole seem to gravitate towards other narcissistic assholes as he was working with Marcus Ray since at least October 2021.
1. So Tyson Billings, known to the convoy crowd as "Freedom George" or to my readers as the discount QAnon shaman, was released today after pleading guilty to counselling mischief.
2. Because this was expected, all of his fans showed up to greet him.
Those numbers were not especially impressive.
3. But what they lacked in numbers, they made up for in... I don't know... the ability to bellow "freedom" and "let's go" over and over again which after a while sounded like the bleating of sheep.
1. I haven't written a lot about the Soldiers of Odin for some time, mainly because it sort of fell apart and most members moved on to other groups or drifted away entirely.
However the SoO out of Red Deer is still active and, as seen here, are still jackasses.
2. One of the "men" bravely giving a sign the finger before scampering away is a new recruit but someone who isn't new to readers.
For those not familiar, meet Ricky Rush/Miller/Vincent/Tollekko/etc
See Rick has many FB profiles but there is always a lot to unpack.
3. If you know Rick it is likely as a result of his jumping from leather vest hate group to leather vest hate group.
He has been (in no particular order) a, Canadian Crusader, Urban Infidel, Norther Guard (briefly), and the group he created, the Woke Onez Rebellion.
1. So this is going to be a stream of consciousness that may or may not make sense but what the hell?
I'm sorry to say when I heard of another mass shooting in the United States resulting in more dead children, my initial reaction was:
"Yeah. And? It is a Tuesday in the US."
2. It isn't that I'm not horrified, disgusted and furious, but in the end, that isn't going to change anything.
I know millions of Americans feel the same way but that isn't going to change anything either.
This is American life. It just is what it is.
I'm just numb to it all.
3. The US is a country whose "pro-life" politicians are also pro-death penalty and anti-anything that would actually improve the lives of their citizens in any appreciable way because, you know, socialism.
1. When looking at the tragedy in Buffalo, NY where a murderer (inspired by another murderer in Christchurch, NZ) took the lives of 10 human beings, I've seen a lot of Canadians being smug and saying, "at least that can't happen here."
2. In fact Canadian right-wing extremists have punched above their weight when spreading the "Great Replacement" conspiracy which motivated both the Buffalo and, earlier, Christchurch murderers who rationalized their murders in racist screeds (I won't call them "manifestos").
3. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
When the murders took place I checked to see what the reaction of right-wing extremists was.