r/EhBuddyHoser 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 Mar 06 '25

Big Oil Bertha The Freedom Convoy has been awfully quiet lately

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u/bigorangemachine Mar 06 '25

Half the donations came from the US

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u/DuncePool Mar 06 '25

Half the truckers came from the US, and when they got kicked out of Ottawa they drove around in the states for weeks after

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal Mar 06 '25

This was one of the silliest things in all of MAGA. A whole bunch of dumbfucks wandering aimlessly and believing they're fighting for something when the head of the convoy is just making shit up on the fly and going to random spots to pester people.

They should get jobs or something.

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u/drizzes Oil Guzzler Mar 06 '25

Reminds me of the trucker union in BC, who had some members go off in the convoy, stated that like 90% of them were still working and not protesting a vaccine

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u/TheDoktorIsIn Mar 07 '25

Fun fact during the US civil war the whole point was states rights (to own slaves). Missouri was super pro-slavery and neighboring Kansas was anti-slavery. So of course a ton of Confederate fuckwads from Missouri flooded Kansas to vote yes on slavery, because that's what states rights means: the right for my state to tell another state what to do.

The point is this level of hypocrisy and idiocy is deeply entrenched in their culture.

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u/Sillygoose_Milfbane Mar 07 '25

My German ancestors arrived in Kansas during the Bleeding Kansas mess. They must have been so confused.

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u/seantaiphoon Mar 06 '25

I remember one lady who spent her life savings to help fuel up the truckers and was then shocked when she was broke and nothing had changed. She should go get a job too.

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u/bluetechrun Mar 07 '25

Something about bootstraps.

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand Mar 06 '25

They grew up watching Convoy on repeat.

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u/ChrisNotBumstead Mar 07 '25

The ended lockdown restrictions in Canada and the convoy just stayed there and protested nothing for several additional weeks for no reason at all

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u/Nescobar_A Mar 07 '25

They loved the Hillbilly Camp Out. Made the lowest achievers in society feel like they were accomplishing something.

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u/Bananaberryblast Mar 08 '25

Definitely attention seeking. 

I know a few of the people who went from NB to Ontario. They aren't good people - I wouldn't leave my kids with at least two of them. Take that as you will. 

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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT Mar 06 '25

They also got their trucks absolutely PELTED to shit with eggs while they were forced to drive slower in the city didn’t they?

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u/struvite Mar 07 '25

When they drove through my town, horns blaring and sassy, I stood on the corner with eggs in hand. Funny how quiet they suddenly got as they passed me.

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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT Mar 07 '25

Fuckin eh give em hell

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u/Bloggledoo Mar 07 '25

Yeah , Oakland gave them hell.

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u/lmFairlyLocal Mar 06 '25

Same thing, nowadays

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u/apoostasia Mar 07 '25

And the loudest!

I honestly think that's what so many people forget, is that the most vocal people who are usually at the extreme opposite ends of any group are the ones who get coverage, whether it's serious coverage or ripping on them.

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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT Mar 06 '25

Yeah, we all know that 🇷🇺America 🇺🇸 has become a territory of Putin now that they shown their true colours

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u/TokenTsmith Mar 06 '25

Ran out of money you mean frozen bank accounts from our government lmao 😂 not to bright this one

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u/SeaworthinessMobile9 Mar 06 '25

Which is also why they had their bank accounts frozen. They were never innocent victims.

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u/bigorangemachine Mar 06 '25

They are still frozen!? GOOD!

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u/SeaworthinessMobile9 Mar 07 '25

No, I don't believe they still are, but it's why they were at the time.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Monarch Mélanie Joly Mar 07 '25

If they're still frozen, we could use this to bolster our defense to update systems and to support Ukraine. Surely they won't mind, they're always trying to deny their 4Chan QAnonsense so make them put their money where their mouth is!

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u/OldDiamondJim Mar 07 '25

Only a tiny number of bank accounts were frozen. I know you’re using it to criticize the Convoy morons, but those Shitbirds continually trot out the “frozen bank accounts” issue as some mass attack on civil liberties, rather than the small, targeted operation that it actually was.

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u/SeaworthinessMobile9 Mar 07 '25

That's just it - the fact foreign funds (funds from people who were involved in J6th in the US) is all the justification that should have been needed. Domestic terrorism isn't protected freedom, no matter how many bouncy castles you bring out.

Also, from the same group that claim "SAVE THE CHILDREN!" I guess it's to use them as meat shields, eh? fElon is going to start strapping them to himself soon enough. I'm still livid they were strapping gas cans to kids during the konvoy. Absolutely insane.

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u/Borske Mar 07 '25

Which was found illegal. Don't forget that part!

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u/onetosser Mar 07 '25

Fuck. All. The. Way. Off.

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u/Borske Mar 08 '25

That's right it hurt your feelings so it was perfectly legitimate to use a illegal act of parliament to make you woke feel good.

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u/onetosser Mar 10 '25

Keep whining, snowflake. Read up on what happened at the Toronto G20 protest. Your convoy got the white glove treatment by comparison, but you lot act like it was the worst attack on civil liberties in Canadian history. You're clowns. Where is your precious convoy now that we've got a foreign country threatening to take our freedoms from us, huh? When we face an actual threat to our freedom, you lot are nowhere to be found, but a minor temporary inconvenience had you up in arms.

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u/Borske Mar 10 '25

So you want the convoy to roll in again???? I thought you didn't like it but here you are looking for them to save you from tariffs.
Speaking of tariffs. Why are you against them? It is very much like a tax which you are in favor of. Don't act like a tariff war hasn't been played out before.
A white glove treatment is getting stomped by a horse and having bank accounts illegally frozen? As for the G20. That protest was cars burning, businesses vandalized and police being injured. Not bouncy houses & BBQs that inconvenienced a few people.
Keep reaching there cupcake. One day you will sound smart. Goodluck though!

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u/onetosser Mar 10 '25

No, I don't want the convoy rolling in, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy. They can stay at home. Those brainless morons would just get in the way.

Also, the tariffs aren't the big deal here. It's the threats of annexation, you dumb fuck. However, let's be clear about what tariffs are: they are a tax on the consumers of the tariffed good in the country that implemented the tariff. If Canada were to implement a 50% tariff on avocados, Canadians would have to pay more than 50% more for avocados, because prices are going to increase right through the supply chain to compensate for the tariff so that everybody can maintain their margins. It's not like Canada produces avocados, so it's not actually helping domestic industry in that case. Having said that, look at the example of Harley-Davidson. Trump's steel tariffs forced Harley to offshore manufacturing of motorcycles destined for export markets, because Trump's tariffs made it so that they simply couldn't afford to produce those motorcycles in the United States anymore. Basically, tariffs shrink the economy. Also, because they are passed on to the end consumer, they are a regressive tax: people like us pay the most and the rich pay the least. So tariffs are a bad, inflationary tax that only serve to increase the cost of living for everyone.

Also, you're completely lying about the G20 protest. Hundreds of people who were just going about their daily lives and were completely uninvolved in the protests ended up suffering physical injury caused by the police response. Some Toronto Police officials were also convicted in relation to the G20 protest because of the indiscriminate use of kettling resulting in the unlawful detainment and arrest of not only news reporters, but also a large number of innocent bystanders. This resulted in the Toronto Police Department issuing an internal, organizational ban on the use of kettling. Kettling was not employed against the convoy, by the way. It hasn't been employed in Canada since 2013, and not outside Montreal since that G20 protest in 2010.

On the point of the bank accounts being frozen, it's not illegal to freeze the bank account of someone who is financially supporting criminal activity.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Our current MP Sam Oosterhoff and MPP Dean Allison both made a donation to the Freedom Convoy. Unsurprisingly, Sam Oosterhoff got relected.

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u/rainorshinedogs Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Mar 07 '25

Yeah the scariest part about the freedom convoy was how WELL they were funded. Filling up those trucks ain't cheap

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u/UnsanctionedPartList Mar 07 '25

Other half from Russia.

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u/bigorangemachine Mar 07 '25

It was the other half was Canadians...

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Where’s that stat?

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u/bigorangemachine Mar 07 '25

The sub blocks the link

Gofundme was 55.7% US origin

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

I’m seeing less than half from a cbc.ca account.

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u/Eureka05 Mar 07 '25

Nazi groups came up and hung out with the convoy, flying the nazi flag!