#1471 Taking Delight In Chaos (Trucker Protests Go International)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 2/22/2022
Today we take a look at the new right-wing protest tactic sweeping the world, truck convoy siege tactics in capital cities. Their causes are nonsensical, their tactics harmful but cracking down on them too harshly may boomerang on progressive protests down the road.
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SHOW NOTES
Canada’s anti-vax protest comes to a new head as truckers block off a major bridge connecting Canada and the U.S.
Timothy Snyder, author of "On Tyranny," looks at how the U.S. has become a bad actor in the global community as its antigovernment right-wing, inflamed by Fox News and social media, is triggering political and economic disruption by fringe extremists.
Ch. 3: Tucker Uses Convoy To Cosplay As Working-Class Ally - The Rational National - Air Date 2-8-22
Fox News host Tucker Carlson used the Canadian 'Freedom Convoy' to cosplay as a working-class ally.
Ch. 4: Trucker protests energize Canada’s far-right movement - The World - Air Date 2-4-22
Actions have energized a small but growing far-right movement in Canada. And similar protests have popped up in Europe, where people are trying to convene in a convoy in Brussels to protest against pandemic restrictions
Ch. 5: What the truck is happening in Canada? - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-15-22
A convoy of truckers angry over Covid-19 mandates is disrupting life in Canada’s capital city. Their movement is gaining traction in cities around the globe.
Ch. 6: Vaccine protests in Canada - World Review from the New Statesman - Air Date 2-3-22
Thousands have joined the so-called “Freedom Convoy” in Canada, which has spiraled from truckers’ frustrations over Covid-19 vaccine mandates into calls to overthrow the government.
As the Convoy occupation expanded beyond choking a single major city, the blocking of supply lines and border crossings raised more questions regarding how the government's reaction might affect political movements in the future.
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Ch. 9: What the truck is happening in Canada? Part 2 - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-15-22
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on a successful vacation and the weak allure of the internet
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at the new right-wing protest tactics sweeping the world. |
| 0:11.6 | Truck convoy siege tactics in capital cities. |
| 0:15.6 | Their causes are nonsensical, their tactics are harmful, but cracking down on them to |
| 0:20.0 | harshly may boomerang on progressive protests down the road. |
| 0:24.5 | Clips today are from the Daily Show, the Rachel Maddo Show, the Rational National, the |
| 0:29.6 | World Today Explained World Review from the new statesmen, and it could happen here |
| 0:36.5 | with an additional members only clip from today Explained. |
| 0:45.9 | There is a major anti-vaccine protest taking place in Canada's capital city of Ottawa right |
| 0:52.1 | now. |
| 0:53.1 | Now anti-vaccine protests are pretty common these days, right? |
| 0:55.8 | But these protestors are different because they're truck drivers, which means they have |
| 1:00.3 | trucks. |
| 1:01.3 | And people with trucks have more power than any other people. |
| 1:05.3 | They just do this like a fact of trucks. |
| 1:07.0 | Think about it. |
| 1:08.0 | In every high-smovey ever, what do they need to pull off the heist? |
| 1:10.6 | A truck. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, when a Batman villain tries to shut down the city, they need a truck. |
| 1:15.4 | Having trucks just gives you the ability to out muscle people who don't have trucks. |
| 1:18.6 | And so even though 90% of Canadian truckers are vaxed, this small minority is still able |
| 1:23.2 | to cause big problems. |
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