Dana Milbank of the Washington Post compares the anti-vaxxers (those who fight for the right to get sick and die) to ‘60s radicals in this article.
The times, they are a-changin’.
Last month, when antiabortion activists and anti-vaccine protesters staged mass protests in the capital, speakers at both rallies quoted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “Today, we are going to reclaim Martin’s dream!” the first speaker at the anti-vaccine rally, Kevin Jenkins, declared from the Lincoln Memorial, the site of King’s immortal speech. “Are we ready to reclaim the dream?”
“Yeah!” shouted back the overwhelmingly White crowd.
“Martin is alive!” Jenkins told them. “We are here today fighting for the same thing he fought for.”
The crowd rejoiced at this discovery that King, like them, had battled for the right to take deworming medication instead of highly effective vaccines.
We shall overcome … mask mandates?
At the same time, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been making a strong bid to become the Hanoi Jane of the Ukraine conflict, calling for kumbaya with Russia. Night after night, he has been taking Vladimir Putin’s side and parroting Kremlin propaganda in the standoff against NATO and the United States. (Poor Putin’s just trying “to keep his western borders secure.”)
Carlson’s flower-child viewers have been calling lawmakers with a message that would have enraged Republicans just a few years ago: Give appeasement a chance.
Now, truckers are staging mass civil disobedience to occupy Ottawa and shut down border crossings with the United States in protest of public health rules. And Republican officials say: Right on, man.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) hailed the truckers as modern-day Freedom Riders, “heroes” who are “marching for your freedom and for my freedom,” while Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said they want only “what God gave them: freedom.”
“Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal. “Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
Stick it to the man — by, um, refusing to take a jab.
Just how far will this new New Right go in flattering the New Left with imitation? Well, they aren’t burning bras and draft cards — but they have been known to burn face masks. As Politico’s Jack Shafer argued last week, the truckers’ takeover of Ottawa streets is an “occupation”-style protest popularized by the left with 1930s labor sit-ins, the 1968 student occupation of the Columbia University president’s office and the Occupy Wall Street movement of about a decade ago.
“The American Right Hits Its Hippie Phase” was the headline atop a July article in National Review by Kevin D. Williamson. Like the leftist radicals of the 1960s, he wrote, “the contemporary Right also hates the government, the business establishment, much of organized religion, compromise, etc., but instead of LSD and Transcendental Meditation it has hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, absurd mask politics, election trutherism, anti-vaccine activism, 1,001 conspiracy theories, and QAnon.”
Turn on, tune in — and drop your sense of irony.
Covering the hypocrisy of the Trump right is a full-time beat these days. “Law and order” Republicans now embrace insurrectionists. Those who decried “cancel culture” now ban books and history lessons. Conservatives who supported “tort reform” now enshrine the rights of private citizens to sue one another. A party that welcomed libertarians now has officials incentivizing people to report on their neighbors. Onetime Cold Warriors now sympathize with Putin.
The inconsistency over street protests is particularly black and white.
When a convoy of White people in trucks promotes chaos and lawlessness on the northern border, Republican officials call them heroes, and former president Donald Trump invites them to the United States. When a caravan of Brown people on foot posed a remote chance of chaos and lawlessness on the southern border in 2018, Trump called in the military to protect against the “MANY CRIMINALS.”
When (predominantly White) crowds protest for the right to ignore public health rules in mostly peaceful but occasionally violent and highly disruptive actions, Republican officials hail the glory of civil disobedience. When (heavily Black) crowds protested for racial justice in mostly peaceful but occasionally violent and highly disruptive actions, Trump called them “rioters, looters and anarchists” not to mention “terrorists,” “arsonists” and “violent mobs.”
“I’m old enough to remember when Black Lives Matter shut down highways and the right responded with laws making it easier to run protesters over — and get away with it!” conservative Matt Lewis wrote in the Daily Beast. It’s true: Last year, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a law granting civil immunity to people who drive through protesters blocking a street. Texas, Oklahoma and other states enacted similar laws.
Now, Republican officials are lending rhetorical support and financial protection to the White men blocking the streets of Ottawa? This isn’t “reclaiming the dream.” It’s a bad acid trip.
Great joke by Bill Bailey: “People who say things like, ‘wearing a mask is like Nazi Germany!’
“Yeah, because that’s what the Nazis where known for: minor inconvenience.”
Great joke!
Maskis: Mask Nazis.
Vaxxis: Vaccine Nazis
“No flight for you!” — Vaxxi
Where have all the Vaxis gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the Vaxis gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the Vaxis gone?
Gone to Covid, every one.
Too late for them to learn.
Too late for them to learn.
haaaa!!!
Make love, not sense!!!
Mostly I remember protesting for the right not to be drafted and die in a stupid imperialist war.
Yeah, it’s the same …
Exactly!!!
http://wikipediareview.com/smilys0b23ax56/default/irony.gif ???
The article link is broken so I can’t tell if this intentional or unintended irony …
How many Roads must a truck drive down,
Before you can call it a cause?
And how many gallons can a fuel pump suck
Before we’re allowed to block the road?
Blow wildly in the wind
As long as Tucker C can make it go
Bonds For the Win website is telling USA parents to file “surety bond claims” against school districts accusing them of violating multiple laws unless they drop masking. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League call it “paper terrorism.”
https://www.aol.com/news/paper-terrorism-parents-against-mask-122100746.html
People who fight masking while it is needed for protection are irresponsible and dangerous.
The goal of the so-called freedom convoys is disruption. It is funded by far right groups like The Oath Keepers and a group of right wing Christians that set up a “Go Fund Me” page to finance the chaos. A so-called convoy is supposed to be starting in California. While anyone has a right to protest, blocking commerce is a crime. These trucker pawns should have to face the legal consequences of their actions just the way the civil rights activists did back in the 1960s.https://theintercept.com/2022/02/17/freedom-convoy-givesendgo-canada-oath-keepers-funding/
It’s funny how Biden keeps predicting a Russian invasion of Ukraine by the end of January, er, I mean, on February16th … or maybe the 20th, uh, well…, just like a televangelist preacher predicting the end of the world. And every time those dates come and go, it just proves how great Biden is because …. reasons. But never let it be said that the Democrats are a cult. Keep believing – war will happen some day! Biden and the Ukrainian nazis are working hard to make it happen no matter how many of their own kindergartens they have to bomb.
Dienne, have you figured out yet why Putin has 190,000 troops on the Ukrainian border?
Because American Democrats are forcing them to. It’s so obvious.
Those are just Russian folk dances.
Putin declared today that Ukraine is not a sovereign state. He intends to pick off pieces, for now. Maybe all of it later.
And here I thought it was trans kids to blame.
The war is already underway in the eastern Ukraine, there have been shellings and destruction.
From the guardian, 2-17-22: quote -Tensions in the east of Ukraine have risen dramatically after Russian-backed separatists launched an intense artillery barrage across the line of control with Ukrainian forces, shelling a nursery school and injuring three people.
According to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) there were “multiple shelling incidents” on Thursday morning across the frontline in the Donbas region.
The attack on the city of Stanytsia Luhanska blew a hole through the wall of kindergarten number 21. The school day had just begun when a shell landed on the building in Depovska Street. Video showed debris and masonry strewn over a play area.
“The children were eating breakfast when it hit,” Natalia Slesareva told the news agency AFP. “It hit the gym. After breakfast, the children had gym class. So another 15 minutes, and everything could have been much, much worse.” [snip]
The attack was part of an apparent coordinated bombardment by pro-Russian separatists in multiple locations across the 250-kilometre long frontline. The assault appeared to be continuing on Thursday evening with reports of further shelling of the city. end quote
Russia already swallowed up Crimea, that’s not some myth.
I think this post confirms dienne77 is a Russian troll. Isn’t it long past time to treat her like one.
“Biden and the Ukrainian nazis are working hard to make it happen no matter how many of their own kindergartens they have to bomb.”
Shorter version — Putin needs to kill whoever he wants to prevent the Nazis from taking over. Any killing of Kindergartens that Putin does will be because his hand was forced by “Nazis”.
dienne77 has an over the top double standard where Putin’s killing as many people as he wants in the name of “fighting nazis” has her total approval.
This is NOT “a different opinion”. It is sheer propaganda.
As I have pointed out many times, dienne77 has NEVER said any negative word about Putin.
She is a right wing troll. Not a person. No real progressive – even those who hate Biden – would be so careful not to criticize Putin.
Challenge her to say something negative about Putin or Trump. At most she calls Trump “orange-haired” – focuses on his physical appearance – because criticizing policies or immorality is not allowed.
The fact that she can say NOTHING negative about Putin should be a huge red flag.
Yes, all true, but those pecs! He’s so dreamy.
I am all for being critical of any president when it is warranted, and Biden seems to be working a more diplomatic edge than going all out with sanctions like the Republicans want now. I am no foreign policy expert, but I would like to see how this plays out before it becomes World War III which, this modern country has proved it will not survive. (The citizens made personal sacrifices left and right during the Second World War and we cannot even get a bunch of zealots to wear a face covering in the name of public health. However, I am getting off point here.)
With all due respect to Diane, I am thoroughly convinced that Dienne is out of her mind. Maybe it is time to show her the door out of the living room?
Please, no!|
Don’t make her go!
She makes me laugh.
I love her so!
Oooo Putin!
Oh he’s the manliest manly man.
He poisons dissenters as nobody can!
When fish see him coming, they forsake their clan,
and jump right into his frying pan!
Rootin’ for Putin had best be your plan,
for none dare stand up to this manliest man!
He can go shirtless without any tan!
That model of so manly, manliest man!
TuckerCarlson supports Putin. So there. Is Carlson our Tokyo Rose?
That O, manly; so manly; manliest man!
A further invasion of Ukraine would be a war crime. Full stop.
cx: will be
Putin just sent troops into Eastern Ukraine.
Biden’s prediction of an imminent Russian invasion is BRILLIANT strategy.
Putin hoped that his shills would be able to push their lies that his invasion was “provoked”.
But Biden has been saying over and over again that the invasion is imminent and that means that as soon as Putin invades and tries to push the far right propaganda that we see from our resident Putin troll — Biden can say “I told you so” and everyone remembers that Biden correctly was warning that Putin was going to find a pretense to invade. If Biden hadn’t done that, the media would be blaming him for not “warning” about it and repeating the same lies that warmongering, pro-war, pro-bombing, pro-Putin dienne77 posts about how Putin “had” to invade and her warmongering was justified..
And the real mark of courage that Biden has always had is that he is a moral man and he understands that having war-mongering folks like dienne77 saying that Biden was “wrong” because he predicted the invasion and it didn’t happen is a small price to pay for putting Putin in a spot that makes it much harder for him to invade and much harder for his nasty trolls to justify baby killing or blame Putin’s baby killing on Biden, as our resident Putin troll does so often.
What kind of nasty warmongering Putin-troll is dienne77 in that she is upset that Biden is “wrong” and Putin had to delay his invasion?
Biden is brave enough to take the fallout for being “wrong” because it helps to avoid an invasion that will kill many people whose lives are expendable to the folks here who are not allowed to say one word of criticism against Putin,
The most popular and most addictive drug to a large number of Republican voters today is not alcohol, pot, acid, heroin, meth, crack, et al., it’s MAGA.
MAGA is a terminal cancer.
MAGA destroys brains, eats them from the inside out, if there were any brains to eat in the first place.
MAGA is more addictive.
Yes, Dr. King was murdered by a white supremacist because he fought for the right to spread a virus in the name of personal freedom. Why didn’t I know that before?!? Darn those woke liberal teachers for not including this in Black History Month!
Sign this woman up to work on the 1776 curriculum!!!
“Make Love, not Vaccines”
Make love, not sense!
Free from Vax! free from Vax! Thank Trump Almighty. Free from Vax!
haaaa!!!
Xi Jinping (习近平) is looking at the Ukraine situation, the maneuvers of Putin and the reaction of the US and its NATO allies. Will China try to absorb Taiwan while the rest of the world is preoccupied with the Russian attempt to neutralize an independent Ukraine?
China has time on its side and it can infiltrate Taiwan with Quislings, fifth columnists and other back-stabbers. Americans are war weary after Iraq and Afghanistan and who wants a hot war between nuclear powers? Nobody wins in the case of a nuclear war; one hydrogen bomb could erase Washington, DC, or Moscow, etc. But on the other hand, doing nothing emboldens folks like Putin and Xi Jinping. I guess Biden is doing the best he can with the threat of severe economic sanctions on Russia.
Will China invade Tawain when Ukraine is attempting to defend itself against the bombs and troops of the war criminal? Just what I’ve been wondering.
How come it is okay to make people wear shirts or make them wear foot coverings to enter a business?
Did MLK also fight for the right of barefoot folks to have the “freedom” to be wherever they want?
Can you imagine if instead of arguing with these folks, people next to them just started taking off their shoes, crossing their foot over their other leg and giving their dirty bare feet a nice massage. At the table next to them at the restaurant and in the airplane seat next to them. To demonstrate their support for “freedom”.
And are these the same folks who object when women breastfeed in public?
They don’t believe in freedom. They believe in their own right to decide what other people must and must not do.
There are many ways in which our “freedom” is limited by law.
We are not allowed to drive as fast as we wish.
We are not allowed to drive on any side of the road.
We are not allowed to smoke in most public places or in airplanes.
We are not allowed to be nude in public.
Every law constrains our freedom.
The anti-vaxxers are anarchists.
AWe are not allowed to drive as fast as we wish.
We are not allowed to drive on any side of the road.”
Unless “we” are a Tesla in self driving mode. Then we can do whatever the hell we please because how can one ticket a car without a driver?
I belong to a FB group that is essentially a rant party about the traffic on a major NJ highway. The posters on their tend to lean to the right and when I say right, I mean hard right. They keep posting articles and memes about the truck blockade with the intent to lend their support and announce that these blockades will be making their way to the US very soon so “stock up on consumer goods now.”
Two days ago, I posted an article that counters that support and basically said there is another side to this, to follow the money, look at the timing (restrictions are loosening so this is about mid-terms), that people still have the freedom to travel and work whether they choose to get vaccinated or not. I pointed out the hypocrisy of the fake oppression they claim they are suffering and also the major disruption to not only the economy but to people’s lives, in general. I was flamed, roasted, belittled, called names, and doxxed so that everyone now knows my full name, where I live, who I’m married to, where I work, and my age. These are things I keep private on FB. One poster said he wonders how my superintendent would feel about me posting political thoughts online. Was that a threat to my job? He dug deep and connected dots. Another poster told me he was screen shotting my comments and sharing them with his friend who is in a trucker group. I reported all the threats and got a lot of their posts removed. I was silenced from posting on this group for thirty days despite the fact that I was harassed.
I have a friend whose nephew works for the state police and will contact homeland security if I am harassed because of this. My next door neighbor is a cyber cop. I am not worried, but I endured hit after hit from the zealots.
They won’t listen to any other side even if you point out the funding source and the political connection. These people are ruthless and disgusting.
LG, how awful for you. These thugs don’t believe in freedom or liberty.
So tragic and unjust.
Sorry, LG, but keep at it!!! Awesome!!!
Bob, so many of my kindred spirits won’t even post any political opinion on social media anymore. They just don’t want the hassle. However, when we are silent in the face of misinformation and propaganda, we enable it. I get that some just don’t want to be involved in this type of discourse anymore. I just cannot stay silent.
My cyber cop neighbor said that a lot of these folks are hard to catch as they have found ways to change IP addresses. It’s getting harder and harder to police the internet.
I read that over 80% of Canadian truckers are actually vaccinated, so it’s a small minority who are complaining.
And not just complaining, but making everyone else suffer because of their moronic belief that they have a god given right to block traffic.
If you or I blocked a public road for even an hour, we would be quickly removed from the street, but for some odd reason,these blockades have been allowed to go on forever.
And the term “truckers” is used very loosely when it comes to the blockade, since some of them just have pickups. Hell, i drove a pickup for about ten years. Does that make me a trucker?
(Posters on “there.” Predictive text sabotage.)
Russia aside for a minute .
Repeat after me !
“Aren’t you tired of paying for your unvaccinated neighbor to be hospitalized”
Now on to Putin.
Use the defense production act to force American Oil and Gas to up production and partially offset any lost Oil and Nat Gas on World markets. Regulating the price while you do so. At the same time as you double down on Green energy conversion. American Oil producers have been manipulating production. They are content to sell less at higher prices in a big screw you to any Green Energy plans. A conversion to Green Energy will never happen with the oil industry causing economic pain on consumers. Witness the Gilets Jaunes over a lousy 25cent tax. The political blow back from rising energy prices may be Putin’s end game destabilizing Western Democracies more important than a province or two in Ukraine.
yes!
Also not for nothing BLM protestors were not allowed to shut down highways for more than hours. They attempted but were greeted by batons and tear gas, pretty much everywhere.
What Kills Me:
“Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal.
Civil disobedience? What’s that? Slavery? Civil rights? Huh? I don’t remember covering any of those things in history class. I even checked in the library — I couldn’t find any books about any of it. What’s he talking about?
Tweet from Canadian ambassador to UN sums it up with succinct talking points we could all use:
A truck is not a speech. A horn is not a voice. An occupation is not a protest. A blockade is not freedom, it blocks the liberty of all. A demand to overthrow a government is not a dialogue. The expression of hatred is not a difference of opinion. A lie is not the truth.
Excellent. Why did Canada wait so long?
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