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Irene The Insomniac's avatar

There are so few people I can speak to openly about the convoy (and anything else covidian). It is shocking how quickly our fellow Canadians would throw “those people” in jail or under a bus. I don’t know how we come back from this. Whether one is able to forgive or not, how do you move forward in a relationship with people who’s way of thinking is diametrically opposed to yours? What’s the point? For those family members that I’m still on speaking terms with we keep well away from anything that happened over the past few years and I’m happy to do that to keep the peace because they are family. But former friends? No. Too much heartache.

I read in a SS somewhere yesterday that only 13% of the population are critical thinkers. I wonder what percentage of that are willing to stand up and say so out loud.

My husband and I are currently at our little lake, away from it all. If I put the phone down and don’t read any SSs I can almost forget that the world we now live in is not at all what I thought it was BC. I can almost forget that our kids futures are likely screwed, that the retirement life we had envisioned is gone and that Canada is not a democracy and hasn’t been for a very long time, minimum since #TrudeauTheTyrant went back on his promise of proportional representation.

Thank you Trish for your work. As I’ve told you many times, you helped me keep my sanity. Please pass on my best wishes to Tamara and Chris. They are our Davids. May they take down all the Goliaths in Ottawa.

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As an Ottawa resident I can attest to the fact that the vast majority of Ottawa citizens were all in for believing every bit of false bullshit about the Convoy. I live in a neighbourhood populated by mostly upper middle class federal government employees in Ottawa. I brought up the Convoy with a number of people in my neighbourhood when the Convoy was in town. This was because I had actually gone down to see them and quickly discovered just how much the media was lieing about them, I tried to tell people of my experience. When I told them it was like a Canada celebration down there, and that every one was so kind and happy, they refused to believe me. All they could talk about was Nazi and Republican flags (that's what the idiots called the Confederate flag). Till this day, there is no point in discussing anything about the truckers with them. But, they feel quite free and safe in disparage them in conversations--because they assume everyone thinks the same way about them. This is much in the same way that the vast majority of people in the states and here too think they can trash Trump with no pushback at all. And on the subject of the War in the Ukraine, I had to cut short a call with one of my best friends, when she asked me for my thoughts on the war. Now it was she that asked me, not the other way around. When I gave her my thoughts, that it was nothing more than a proxy war between the US and Russia, or NATO and Russia and that it needed to end, well she wouldn't have it. So we decided to end the discussion before it got even more heated. I have since sent her links to Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor and your podcasts Trish--particularly your interview with Eva Bartlett who was actually on the ground in the Donbass area. Whether she will listen to them or whether it will change her view I don't know. I feel like I am living in world of two solitudes. One, is where I exist and get my news and form my opinions on various subjects. I follow Tucker Carlson, I subscribe to your podcasts, I read many articles in substack, although I cannot afford many more paid subscriptions. I also subscribe to the Epoch Times, the National Post, True North News, the Western Standard, which certainly gives me a different spin on current events. I also check out Rebel News from time to time. But I also watch CBC news, and CTV news, on their 24 hour news channels, as much as I can stomach it, I don't often get a chance to read the Globe or the Star, because I don't subscribe to them, and they have firewalls for their one line papers and I am not a wiz at hacking. What I am trying to say, is that I do try to get both sides of the story--or versions of it rather. But my friend, who lives in the US, watches CNN etc, and sees PBS as her go-to for getting a neutral reporting on the news, which is as far left and captured as the rest of them. So my friend lives in the other solitude relying in mainstream media period. As much as you, Trish, and your listeners, recognize the gigantic failure and dishonesty of the mainstream media, there are still millions and millions of Canadian who still see them as their 'trusted' news source. As I live in Ottawa I am hoping to attend from of Tamara's trial, again to see it first hand without the filter of a biased media who will be salivating--no doubt--to report all things bad, and turn a blind eye to any evidence that shines a positive light on this brave little woman.

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