The leaders never said it would only be two weeks. That is disinformation, I am reporting you to the authorities.

An impressive site, protestors in British Columbia brought an M1070 tank transporter to block the Pacific Highway border crossing.  That fucker is big and it's on their our side.

Then I saw a video of, I have no idea what these events are, but trucks blasting smoke and fire at stadiums for crowds, with the warning that these are coming in next.  I'm pretty sure they're basically useless for combat but ohmif-ingGOD what a sight!  If anybody wants my wife, you can have her.  I've just learned what REAL love is like.

Freedom of assembly is not going away without a fight.  And you gotta wonder, if the virus is so awful, shouldn't it be spreading with all these people together without masks and not socially distanced?  Unless the government wants to lie about it, always a possibility, this is proof that it's not a big deal.

Of course, just a couple weeks ago, Trudeau said this was a "small fringe minority."  So small and so fringe and such a minority that he needs to grab dictatorial powers immediately.

I do wonder, if our side's moves work, even briefly, the left's next response will be to hide.  I'm thinking of the Cirinists in Cerebus: Latter Days.  How will they go about it?

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It's possible the trucks have started moving out in ones and twos without making the news.  That's totally fine, we don't need the footage, we don't need to feel good cheering as they drive by.  We need the impact of them not transporting supplies.

Not clear what's going on in Ottawa at this point.  Police are preparing to take away all the vehicles and arrest whoever, they're passing out fliers promoting that but there doesn't seem to be any legal justification, just that they can do whatever they want and you can't stop them.

I should point out that if these truckers lose their jobs, the US has a trucker shortage and will let anybody cross the boarder for any reason.  Jus' saying...

□ [“'I Wouldn’t Say It’s the Politics' – Fauci Defends Democrats who Suddenly Lifted Mask Mandates Because of Bad Poll Numbers"]

The most obvious suggestion is that he's flat-out lying.  He knows it's political desperation but he has to pretend otherwise.  Another suggestion is that he's just saying whatever he's told to say.  If he's told to say masks are worthless against a virus, he says that.  If he's told to say everybody must wear masks to be protected from the virus, he obeys and doesn't question that contradiction.

I'm beginning to wonder if these people believe in magic.  They already demonstrate that by denying reality, whatever they believe is true.  That's definitely not how science works.  I have no problem with the concept of magic as a part of reality that we aren't capable of comprehending, but that's still in reality.  These people are opposed to the very concept of reality.

Gotta say, that's a pretty good description of the basic truth that I've spent all this time looking for.  Doesn't answer the 'why' but that's it in a nutshell, if there's any worth to the concept of 'magic,' it's not what these people are doing with it.

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Probably just a fluke, San Francisco's been Democrat-only for so long that they never have to lift a finger to expect to win.  They haven't had a Republican mayor since 1964.  They're going to make sure elections are stolen in advance just to keep from being surprised.  As it is, they'll just replace the ones kicked out with the same sort.

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□ [“'MDM' and the End of Free Speech"]

Free speech hasn't exactly been robust for the past decade or so. Cancel culture, asymmetrical enforcement of "terms of service" on social media, institutional capture of the television and movie companies, the lock-step narrative compliance of the news and everything else with which we're all so familiar have all been just so many arrows plunged into the shambling corpse of our fundamental right to speech. Late last month, the US government escalated the assault pretty meaningfully, loosing several more arrows into the body.

The "Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency" (CISA) put out a description of "Mis-, dis-, and mal-information," (MDM) ostensibly as it related to foreign election interference. This triple classification marks a formal and official US government action against free speech. But what exactly is MDM? From CISA:

Misinformation is false, but not created or shared with the intention of causing harm.
Disinformation is deliberately created to mislead, harm, or manipulate a person, social group, organization, or country.
Malinformation is based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.

So misinformation is wrong, disinformation is a lie and malinformation is merely derogatory even though it is true. And it is now a formal definition of a Very Bad Thing per the government and is targeted for destruction. Not being wrong, not lying, just being opposed to whatever the state wants.

Last week, the DHS jumped on board to exploit the framework put into place by CISA. In their terrorism threat bulletin, they call out that the threat in the US is "heightened" due to MDM:

The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.

So the CISA defined it and called it out as a risk for elections (no doubt inspired by those six-figure Russian ad buys back in 2016), and then the DHS exploited the new lingo to generalize it against the American people. Anything that questions public institutions, the government or - by extension - the official narrative is now a terrorism threat. Any derogatory information that could "undermine public trust" is now terrorism. In other words, your speech - even if truthful - is now a targeted "threat." And the government isn't shy about recruiting the private sector - in this case, it's likely Big Tech and the telecoms - to help make sure this dreadful MDM risk is contained:

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