1. Over the weekend, Trump hailed "those great Canadian truckers" protesting mandates. Joe Rogan, Jordan B Peterson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rob Schneider also love those Canadian truckers. What's going on?https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1487608620883738627 …
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4. There are more than 300,000 truckers in Canada; the maybe 1,000 or 1,500 who drove trucks are a small minority (and many, as it turns out, aren't truckers). 20% of Canadian truckers are South Asian, but protest was overwhelmingly white. So not a truckers protest.
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5. Simply on the level of political optics, protest - rich with scenes of confederate flags & swastikas (only sometimes used ironically) as well buffoonery - was an embarrassment to right-wing pols who hoped to co-opt. Conservative pols ended up having to distance themselves.
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6. Yet for all its small size & clownishness, protest is surely sign of a new wave of far right activism feeding off broader public weariness at pandemic. Trump's endorsement not an accident. Its likely to be replicated.
@NoLore & I break it downhttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-those-great-canadian-truckers?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …Show this thread
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@TheoFleury14 said there were 1.5 million.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Like the US folks you’ve mentioned, the main function behind this is the grift. There’s a near $9 million go fund me with shady origins and even shadier destinations for the funds
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Is Trump's plea to Canadian truckers in any way related to the anti-vaxxers who stormed and demanded food from a homeless shelter in Ottawa ?
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Less than half of your average Stanley Cup riot.
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There are a lot of *vehicles* but most are just pickup trucks, not actual trucker trucks.
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