The 'fifteen-day curve' has cone from forcing everyone to wear a mask to freezing their bank accounts.

□ [“We Just Lost Canada: Ottawa Police Chief Warns Citizens Against Participating in 'Unlawful Activities of Engaging in Demonstrations'"]

"Our message has been pretty clear on that. And, more importantly, our message from our community and our residents has been pretty clear around that. Do not come to our downtown court. We are tired of what’s been happening there. We’re sick of what’s happening in our streets so leave our area. We will continue with that message this weekend. What you’re seeing is an increased enforcement presence. And we won’t be allowing people to come down for the unlawful activities of engaging in demonstrations."
- Ottawa interim Police Chief Steve Bell

Just following orders.  Why don't they ever cite the previous examples of shutting down demonstrations?  Not just the ones we've seen in the last few years but the ones that went on a decade ago, five decades ago, they all did a lot more than park trucks and honk horns.

I think a couple of the Convoy leaders have been arrested by now.  The police are sealing off the area in Ottawa.  It's the new East Berlin, people will have to prove they have a reason to be there or they won't be permitted in.  There are already references to "Checkpoint Trudeau."

One thing we know the left will do is threaten all the truckers involved with arrest.  Their argument will be that it's such an easy job, anybody can do it.  Googling truck driving schools, training would take an absolute minimum of three weeks and more likely seven weeks.  The US already has a trucker shortage - on February 9, 2022, the New York Times said we were short 80,000 truckers - just what do they think it would take to replace the ones they forbid from driving?

They're checked out for medical problems, drug problems and bad driving records.  That would remove a number of replacements anyway and who else does the left have?  This isn't counting the personality required.  Another google search shows up details for that type and it's not the sort of person you find on the left.  The personality on the left wants to arrest people they don't like without any actual crimes.

So who else would they get to replace all the truck drivers they want to arrest?  It's not the kind of job you can mandate people for and who else can you trust with a large amount of valuable items and no supervision?  Someone forced to run a truckload of food across the country might just vanish and keep the food.  What's that going to do for the people receiving it?

Remember, the government is already crushing the supply chain.  If you're sensible, even without the Convoy, stock up NOW!  That's why I'm such a big supporter of this Convoy (big in the sense that I'm really in favor of it, not that I have much of anything to contribute) and wish it had started a week ago.  THIS is what it looks like when actual workers quit working.  At least I know enough about supply and logistics to understand that, the people who claim to be in charge of us, not so much.

So, having said all that, I'm curious what the left thinks they'll do to replace the truckers.  That's why I wanted to look up what it takes to get a license, specifically how long it would take.  Military can't do it, they have actual jobs, so do police.  So do any other government workers who actually know how to drive.  So how do you get replacements?

The reason I started thinking about all this is realizing that, however long the training took, that would be weeks that the country has to go without truckers bringing supplies.  Ok, let's pretend that "three weeks" is the correct answer, no grocery store can last for three weeks without regular deliveries, no restaurant.  Hospitals?  Any place that uses chemicals or other large items?

Three weeks would be enough for total disaster and the more-realistic seven weeks would be far worse.  And that's assuming the left has thousands of replacements ready to get started on the spot.  Remember, truckers have to follow government rules just to be allowed to drive.  The only option would be to ignore the laws in order to replace the people they arrested who didn't break the laws.

Who's going to fall for that?

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The police are moving in against the Ottawa protestors.  Dunno how many are being sent to jail and how many just run away.  Just saw this message:

Start creating your own law enforcement in your local neighborhoods made up of volunteers.
Have a contingency plan.
Have a way to communicate without their technology.
Start today. What is happening in Canada is a test run.

If the news was accurate, the US Convoy will start on Wednesday.  If not everything has fallen apart by then, the rest will quickly follow.

It's possible they could bring slaves in from south-of-the-border to do the driving.  Don't know if that's workable in the long-run but our rulers don't seem to think in the long-run anyway.  If they did, they could have listened to the truckers' complaints weeks ago.  They'd probably have to throw out the rules on the truckers speaking English but that's probably doable.

I just learned that instructors stay with new drivers on-the-road for up to several months.  That does sound like a good option for replacement, assuming the instructors have up-to-date licenses (I'll assume they do) and they're willing to replace their students who have been arrested for disagreeing with the government (that's probably less likely.)

□ [“Biden Says He is 'Convinced' Putin Has Made the Decision to Invade Ukraine"]

Even if he hasn't been told about the set-up, he's gotta read whatever is on the screen, why doesn't he just say that there is peace in our time because he solved everything?  It's not like he would know the difference.

Maybe his masters haven't been told by Putin yet what's going on?

□ [“Louisiana teacher admits giving kids cupcakes laced with husband’s sperm"]

Teachers are going to put sperm into your kids whether you like it or not.  And whether your kids like it or not.  They don't need permission.

□ [“BLM protest organizer Chris DeVries pleads guilty to 20 counts of possession of child pornography"]

These people have always been working towards this.  

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