Thread by @ARCCollective

1. So I've spent the past 24 hours or so monitoring the Canadian far-right's reaction to the search of Donald Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago. It is mostly as you would expect.

Let's start with Tyler Russell who founded Canada First but is now apparently a full-time US resident.

2. Russell was among the Trump supporters who showed up at Mar-a-Lago to show their support for the disgraced former President.

3. And since he isn't subtle about his beliefs, Tyler Russell embraces fascism and the use of the state apparatus, should his kind achieve power, to target all he deems to be the enemy.

Really, this is a very clear example of when someone tells you who they are, believe them.

4. "Why would we abolish the FBI when we can use it to kick in the doors of EVER SINGLE liberal in the country?"

Followed by a photo alleged to be the judge who signed the search warrant.

5. @antihateca has a number of articles about Tyler Russell and Canada First. Here is a selection.

antihate.ca/canada_first_e…

6. antihate.ca/canada_white_s…

7. antihate.ca/tyler_russell_…

8. Shane Marshall, who appears to be a leader in the Canada First hate group, corresponded with Russell discussing the execution of the search warrant.

9. Again, here is Shane Marshall courtesy of @antihateca

antihate.ca/ppc_riding_dir…

10. Marshall, as readers may remember, is the individual arrested and charged with throwing stones at the Prime Minister during a campaign stop.

antihate.ca/white_national…

11. Diagolon's Alex Vriend had this take.

Honestly, he just seems to get excited when journalists are harassed and threatened.

12. antihate.ca/holocaust_deni…

13. Jeremy MacKenzie has an interesting take on the event.

14. antihate.ca/diagolon_movem…

15. Rebel Media posted about the raid on their Instagram page. The responses were as one might expect.

16. Former NHL player Theoren Fleury offered his "nuanced" view though he mostly retweeted enraged, reactionary, far-right American political and media figures.

Still, for someone who battled substance abuse himself, the last tweet is pretty disgusting.

17. Fellow Olympic gold medalist Jamie Salé who also fell down the conspiracy rabbit whole basically parrots Fleury, though she does inject a bit of End Times Rapture rhetoric into the mix.

18. One of the first of the right-wing media in Canada to discuss the execution of the warrant was the Alberta-based Western Standard.

Here the author tries to terrify his readers by suggesting Trudeau will be after his political enemies next.

19. No doubt there are more comments since I last looked, but I can't imagine it will be different from these one which basically threw all the conspiracies together in a giant word salad.

20. When I looked on Facebook, there wasn't a lot there initially though that will no doubt change. These ones are representative of what I did find.

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22. Jay Riedel, who makes no bones about his love for Trump, has posted this thus far since I last looked.

23. Y'all might know Jay from his partnership with Pat King during the first convoy to Ottawa ostensibly to support the oil industry but which was sort of a front for the far-right Yellow Vest movement.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

24. That said Riedel was given the Keys to the City of Estevan which, fun fact, is where I grew up.

discoverestevan.com/articles/local…

25. And if you ever thought that voting in municipal elections is a waste of time, Jay Riedel was elected mayor of a small village not long after the convoy took place.

26. Logan Murphy, a QAnon believer who was at the Capitol on January 6 and who was walking with James Topp is excited about the raid as he believes it will usher in the "Great Awakening."

Also, he seems to be encouraging people to harass the judge that signed the warrant.

27. There are now a number of posts from the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada and now the world Romana Didulo as well as comments. I don't think it is necessary to post everything but the comments range from excitement to confusion.

28. The Telegram posts from the Global Freedom Convoy which was set up to promote the #OttawOccupation and spread vaccine disinformation has been... uhm... busy.

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31. Yeah, lots of calls for civil war which is really rather unhelpful.

32. Seems that someone has noticed the thread.

33. Son, I've been called much worse things by far better people. :)

34. So, this post from an overtly pro-Nazi Telegram page is certainly a choice.

35. So want to down an interesting path now?

Meet Georganne Buke who has been retweeting a lot of the far-right figures who are apoplectic about the exercising of a search warrant on Trump's residents.

There is a reason she blocked me which I will get to soon enough.

36. This is a selection of retweets which includes (of course) Ezra Levant and other Rebel personalities, but as I said also American figures on the right and far-right.

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39. Thing is, Burke is no random figure as she has played a significant role in Canadian Conservative politics for years.

40. She isn't a fan of mine as I wrote about her connection to anti-Muslim groups, Worldwide Coalition Against Islam and Cultural Action Party.

"Anti-Omar Khadr Rally Planned For July 16 on Parliament Hill: An Examination of One of the Organizers"

tinyurl.com/yhjpkep4

41. Burke also interacted with some of the tweets.

42. Including one in which she was taken aback by what the right are suggesting is a connection to a notorious rapist.

43. For a much more nuanced context I invite readers to take a look at this site.

politico.com/news/2022/08/0…

44. Also, you know what they say about people living in glass castles, eh?

45. And this individual, who I plan on writing about at greater length later, is connected to some of the most significant Conservative figures in this country.

Yikes!

46. Well, this seems perfectly normal.