America’s 1984

If you're just going to rather rudely ignore what someone took the time to research and list sources for that debunks your comments, then continue to make the same comments ignoring what was provided, I frankly don't see the utility of having any further engagement with you here. This isn't your personal sounding board. You're welcome to participate and interact in discussions, and if you have any, offer useful information, but not to waste other people's time and resources.

At the time of the incident you refer to, truckers were endangering other people's health by denying the science and not getting vaccinated and traveling great distances when the world needed to try to contain the spread of a disease it still didn't fully understand at the time. They were imitating what MAGAt anti-vaxxers were doing in the States, and if I recall correctly they received funding from MAGAt anti-vaxxers. Trudeau did the right thing. To call that dictatorship is to demonstrate your ignorance of the word.

Little Marco orange-nose, besides blowing innocent people out of the water to make MAGAt snuff films, wants to take away the passports of U.S. citizens and deny entry into the country of anyone who criticized the racist assh0le who was shot and killed in Utah last week. THAT'S what a dictatorship does. If you deny the obvious dictatorship qualities of the current regime in the USA while ascribing them to Trudeau for trying to SAVE LIVES, then you're simply living inside your head and not in the real world.

Ah, c'mon, Rob. Tell us how you really feel about the MAGA mutant.

Personally, I am racking my brain trying to understand how decent people can avoid, make excuses for, equivocate, deny, obfuscate, etc. the gravity of the situation where a white supremacist, morally bankrupt, cruel, vindicative, corrupt, sick, narcissistic, pussy-grabbing rapist pedofile has been elevated to the one of the most powerful positions in the world.

"This country is so fundamentally strong it can survive its leaders." -- Louis Rukeyser

Louis Rukeyser was a fixture on PBS for over 30 years. He was educating the common folk about the benefits of investing long before cable and the Internet. He said this in the early 2000's as the Bush Adminstration was hurtling us into a disastrous war of choice based on lies of weapons of mass destruction. He passed away in 2006. I am hanging on by a thread to these precious words. May God help us.

Oh, by the way, speaking of 1984, the second half of the title of this thread. I recently reread it after literally 50 years. It was even more terrifying than I remembered. We iz sooo skrewed! (Psst. Read Animal Farm first. They are both fairly quick reads.)