QAA Podcast - Episode 179: Truck Yeah, Canada feat Dan Boeckner

Episode Date: February 19, 2022

Emergencies act passed, redpilled truckers arrested, and convoy blockades disrupted by trolls. Liv is joined by Dan Boeckner (Bottlemen podcast, Wolf Parade, Operators) to form the Canadian half of th...e episode. Find out about the Ram Ranch Resistance and the big GiveSendGo hack. This is our Canadian Trucker Convoy, our Freedom Convoy. ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Follow Dan: https://twitter.com/DanBoeckner Check out the Bottlemen podcast: https://twitter.com/BottleMenPod Operators Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/operators Check out Liv Agar's stuff: https://linktr.ee/livagar Our first QAA records release: 'Hikikomori Lake' by Nick Sena is available to listen for free at http://qaarecords.bandcamp.com (12 original tracks) QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Doom Chakra Tapes (https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com), editing by Corey Klotz.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What's up QAA listeners? The fun games have begun. I found a way to connect to the internet. I'm sorry, boy. Welcome, listener, to Chapter 179 of the Q&On Anonymous podcast, the Canadian Trucker Convoy episode. As always, we are your host, Julian Field. Dan Beckner, Liv Agar, and Travis View.
Starting point is 00:00:27 By now, you're undoubtedly aware that Canada, is a big, fucking mess of honking, terrible EDM, and street hockey games. And that was before the trucker convoys. Wow. That's great. The anti-vax vehicular fleet is continuing to wreak havoc in the Canadian capital, leading to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing the O truck-no state of emergency. So this week we're setting out to cover this entire mess,
Starting point is 00:00:55 and with Jake still embroiled in wedding-related activities, We've called upon infamous Canadian Dan Beckner. He's the co-host of the Bottlemen podcast, and he's also in bands, you might know, like Wolf Parade and Operators. Welcome to the show, Dan. Hi, thanks for having me. I'm currently on assignment in humid, sunny New Orleans, Louisiana. Which is a district of Ottawa.
Starting point is 00:01:21 That's right. It's part of what they call Greater Ottawa. A lot of people on the Internet are going to tell you New Orleans isn't part of Greater Ottawa. they're wrong. It's all one, all connected. I'd be excited if we got like a global trucker convoy movement, but they all were like, we're in Greater Ottawa. Like, it's actually like a sovereignty movement
Starting point is 00:01:38 that spreads Ottawa's limits across the world. I'm operating on like a Morozovian missing time theory where the Louisiana purchase never happened. And it's just a contiguous zone of New France. God damn, that would have been so cool. You know how like Libs call China like West Taiwan? Instead, it's like Greater Ottawa. It's South Gattano.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Yeah. So first up we'll have Liv, who's going to bring us up to speed on the Canadian Trucker Convoy and the bad vibes it's causing for the Prime Minister. We'll also hear from Tegan McLean, who's been spending time in the organizing channels for the truckers convoy in Canada, causing them quite a bit of grief as part of this thing called the Ram Ranch Resistance. And then finally, Travis is going to tell us about the big give-send go hack, which has shed some light on the people sponsored the irate anti-vax truckers and surprise surprise it looks like Americans are involved so does this mean we're in for a proper Yankee convoy or even several of them I guess we're gonna find out folks can I get a truck yeah truck yeah truck yeah the Canadian trucker convoy updated the so-called freedom convoy has spilled outside of its home
Starting point is 00:02:51 country of Canada and is now inspiring copycat efforts by many red-pilled vaccine-hating people all across the anglosphere but unfortunately the original convoy is still going strong, and since my last update a couple weeks ago, quite a bit has happened. Firstly, as I briefly noted in an edited segment from last episode on the subject, conservative leader Aaron O'Toole was overthrown as leader in a vote of no confidence on February 2nd. This is connected to the overall failure of the Conservative Party and O'Toole to actually reconcile the portion of their base who supported the trucker protests and to our likely fond of politicians like Trump and the traditional Tories who revile this group.
Starting point is 00:03:28 The People's Party of Canada continues to become a source of pain for the conservatives and their ability to get this more radical Trump or base in line. What I didn't note in the previous episode is that this sort of thing has happened before. The current Conservative Party is actually a merger between the previously dominant progressive conservatives and the more right-wing populist Reform Party. The Reform Party of Canada is a lot like the PBC, insofar as it was formed because the dominant Conservative Party was not right-wing enough. In the 93 election, only five years after the Reform Party formed,
Starting point is 00:03:56 the dominant progressive conservative party went from 156 seats in parliament, so a majority, to only two, with the reforming party picking up 52 seats. And then the two parties would later merge together in order to not split the conservative vote, with the more right-wing party having a great deal of leverage on this merger. Given that it's the worst possible case scenario, I think something similar will likely happen in relation to the far-right anti-vaccine mandate People's Party of Canada and the current Conservative Party, which is unable to please the more rabid right-wing portions of their voter base. But moving on from electoral politics, there are still thousands of Canadians resisting vaccine
Starting point is 00:04:30 mandates by laying siege to the country's capital of Ottawa. This has been an incredibly unpleasant experience for those in Ottawa, with these protesters having no care for those living in the city, blocking traffic on vital roads, and honking their horns well into the nighttime. As an example, Hugh is an Ottawa citizen heckling convoy protesters from their balcony. You drove here to be part of a terrorist fucking insurrection piece of shit? Fuck you! Freedom!
Starting point is 00:04:53 Freedom is walking down. my fucking city fuck you Hey really come in my life you don't fucking get it
Starting point is 00:04:59 fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck on fuck you there's no for this guy that's
Starting point is 00:05:08 shit it's a fucking get lost eh he fucking put he put both fingers up like that was
Starting point is 00:05:17 pure Ricky hey fuck you it's amazing very accurate representation of the rage people are feeling It's got a hashtag clown boy and go home flutrucks clan
Starting point is 00:05:30 Hell yes The hashtags are getting worse folks I like the flea trucks clan when I got to hand it to the lips That's like it's like ironically good Yeah lips are learning how to meme and it's making the right nervous One reason this has continued for so long In the capital city of Canada no less is the lack of police response to the issue.
Starting point is 00:05:56 As I pointed out before, any equivalent, you know, indigenous protests would have been forcefully cleared out long before the two or three week mark of occupying a major city. Counter-protesters, frustrated with the police's lack of response, have mobilized in a few spots to block the convoy. One example is what is being called by the media the Battle of Billings Bridge.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Oh, gosh. It's a little dramatic. It's the BBB. It's the Canadian buildback better. Where counter-protesters managed to block off a segment of the convo. as it was heading to a part of the Ottawa suburbs. The counter-protesters waited out the trapped segment of the convoy for more than six hours before negotiating the release of their vehicles, which came with the condition of stripping them of all the extra fuel the segment of the convoy was carrying.
Starting point is 00:06:36 During the negotiations for this release, a counter-protester noted of how surprised many of those in the convoy were that so many local Ottawaans were so extremely opposed to them staying in the city. One might be wondering that if frustrated citizens were able to spontaneously organize counter-protests counter protests that successfully derail parts of the convoy, then why can't the police? Another example of extreme police incompetence on the subject comes from the blockade between the Canada and U.S. borders in support of the convoy in southern Alberta that had been ongoing for 18 consecutive days, preventing any shipments from passing across a relatively vital artery between Canada and America. There's a viral video posted by a trucker of an exchange
Starting point is 00:07:13 between the police and these blockaders from a few days ago, which shows the two sides shaking hands in a line, being friendly, and singing the Canadian national anthem. Yes. Yeah, just a simple grassroots working class uprising. Just simple workers just getting together and speaking power to the state, you know, and the state clapping their hooves together along with them. I mean, just as a personal anecdote, like I was at a protest of the Israeli embassy last summer. And, I mean, there were good numbers of, but compared to this, it was tiny protest.
Starting point is 00:08:14 and it took, I'd say about 45 minutes before the cops started just like lightly misting the crowd with pepper spray before getting screamed at, you know? Yeah. Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot in terms of like manifesting as a police strike because police strikes, I feel like kind of manifest in ways that aren't the same as like a general organized labor strike. And I feel like that's definitely the case in Ottawa of just like if you're a cop and you're just refusing to do, and I am by no means pro cop, I fucking hate the cops,
Starting point is 00:08:47 but it's interesting to watch them refuse to do their job to the point where, you know, their authority over the city is sort of amplified. It's kind of a Praetorian Guard thing. And, you know, like, classically, they immediately ask for more reinforcements, more money. This is why we need to dump more money into the fucking police force. Yeah, it actually gives them leverage to let it get a little out of control at least, right? I mean, it kind of makes sense politically. It's a flex.
Starting point is 00:09:14 Yeah. Yeah. I think it's very common for cops is they contribute to things getting bad and then say, look at how bad it is. Don't we need more? Yeah. See what happens? You see what happens?
Starting point is 00:09:26 See what happens when we are not literally an army with a tank? Yeah. And it's like, well, actually, fuck, man. Can we all just play hockey games and like dance in the streets? Because I'm not like against any of that part of it. I mean, see what happens? Yeah. They have fun.
Starting point is 00:09:40 I mean, they block commerce, which is the real issue to the majority of ruling class people anyways over there. Yeah, yeah. As of yesterday, this blockade in southern Alberta has peacefully left after 18 days of preventing a relatively major artery of trade. The organizers of the convoy are not particularly happy about this, as is seen in a clip released a few days ago, pleading directly to those in Alberta that just left their blockade. I have to ask all across the country, get to your borders, get to your city. come to Ottawa and support all Canadians.
Starting point is 00:10:15 So we'll demand to everyone to travel all the cities to part of where you're from where you're to come to to be in
Starting point is 00:10:22 measure to advance the things. Come on, man. This is like of a Basque ETA video had no swag. You say that
Starting point is 00:10:35 but like is that you in the background in black? That's you being... But no. But no. In Alberta, at Coots, I know there's people leaving. Please don't leave.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Stand your ground. There's help coming from the south. Stand your ground, people. And stand up for your rights and freedoms. Thank you. Okay. So I've been following these two guys, like Pat King and his little sidekick on the left here with a freedom shirt. They are the fucking funniest.
Starting point is 00:11:04 Pat King is like the kind of Julian. And this freedom guy is like absolutely just the Ricky. And he's just constantly stoked about everything. But also, like, very, very not smart to the point where he makes Pat King seem like a mastermind. And Pat King is a shambling mess from video to video. Last video I saw before this one was Pat King kind of like, not threatening, but like just being like, hold the line. Like, we hear there was deal sign, but it's not true. You've got to hold the line, you know.
Starting point is 00:11:35 It's a false flag. Yeah. The Alberta protest is interesting because. again, there was essentially like a private investigator infiltrated this group and his takeaway was pretty interesting. It was basically
Starting point is 00:11:49 what we've been seeing with the rest of the protest that it's being funded by like small business tyrants like the guy that owns the fucking, you know, concrete the one concrete place and red deer and like small independent trucking company. There's not a lot of actual truckers being represented.
Starting point is 00:12:05 But the other thing that was interesting is that this investigator realized that the protest organizers were shocked at how successful everything was. They were shocked at the lack of police response. I'm just reading from his Globe interview. He said, the protesters are absolutely amazed that the police haven't taken more enforcement action against them, particularly at the international border in Coates, Alberta.
Starting point is 00:12:29 They talked about blocking cargo terminals at Canadian airports and using children as human shields. which is fucking amazing where is it this is a quote from one of the protesters we know there have been discussions around the table at the headquarters of our protest at smuggler saloon mothers have openly questioned how their children
Starting point is 00:12:52 will react to being tear gassed and what effects we'll have on them but I gotta say the most and just briefly the most interesting thing about this is that one of the prime drivers of this particular protest is a Calgary pastor named Tim Stevens, and he addressed the blockaders. I'm just going to read from the video that
Starting point is 00:13:13 the private investigator took. This was his address. He's addressing the protesters at the blockade, and he says, the Bible likens the state when it is acting in an ungodly manner to a beast, and that beast seeks to devour everything. He exhorted them not to give into the state or rely upon it for welfare, jobs, or education. We have all forgotten as a country that freedoms are founded on the Supremacy of God and the rule of law, and not just the rule of any law, but the rule of the law, the word of God. So that's upsetting to me. No, it's very American. They're trying to do Sharia law.
Starting point is 00:13:49 Yeah. A section of the protesters who left the blockade in Alberta will not be returning to their homes, though. 11 of them were caught with a massive weapons cache and supposedly a desire to use it against the Canadian state. Police reportedly seized 13 long guns, handguns, multiple. sets of body armor, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition, and high-capacity magazines, many of which are, as far as I'm aware, explicitly illegal in Canada. Like, there are no provinces where you're allowed to have a fully automatic assault rifle, right? That spread looked brand new, like not a shot fired. Like, it just looked like whoever, you know,
Starting point is 00:14:26 purchased it, like, went to like just an American gun store and is like, I'll have like 13 guns, please, the big ones. I'll take the insertion. I'll take the insertion. Starter Pack deal? Following this and the clearing out of the coupes blockade, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, invoked the Emergencies Act, which grants police officers and the state special powers to deal with threats against it. Drudeau is specifically enacting a public order emergency, which, quote, arises from threats to the security of Canada and that is so serious as to be a national emergency. An example of things that this declaration allows the Canadian government to do is...
Starting point is 00:15:02 Prohibiting people from taking part in a public assembly where it's considered a breach of peace. Regulating the use of certain property, including goods used in blockades. Designating secure and protected places and infrastructure that are critical to the economy such as border crossings and airports. Authorizing financial institutions to essentially stop the financing efforts, including immediately freezing or suspending affiliated accounts without a court order. Imposing fines of up to $5,000 or imprisonment up to five years on those who breach any of the above orders. it does sound like they're kind of like well fuck the police isn't doing shit
Starting point is 00:15:38 we need the feds and we need to be able to tap into the private companies and just like cut off the money yeah because otherwise this shit's not and this is also kind of a shot across the bow of the police by Trudeau he's like listen guys I know you know how to split a skull okay don't pretend you don't know what
Starting point is 00:15:54 to do exactly Freeland is loving this I'm sure oh yeah I mean you know you know who would also love it was her Nazi grandfather oh yeah yeah they're They love court orders. Emergency regulations. The Deputy Prime Minister, Christia Freeland, noted in relation to the last point that...
Starting point is 00:16:14 As of today, a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend the account of an individual or business affiliated with these illegal blockades without a court order. In doing so, they will be protected against civil liability. Freeland would go on to expand upon this point. We are announcing the following immediate actions. First, we are broadening the scope of Canada's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use. These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies.
Starting point is 00:16:57 The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms, and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the proceeds of crime and terrorist financing act. Our banks and financial institutions are already obligated to report to the financial transactions and reports analysis center of Canada, or Fintrack. As of today, all crowdfunding platforms
Starting point is 00:17:28 and the payment service providers they use must register with Fintrack and they must report large and suspicious transactions to Fintrack Internal Magnitsky Act she loves this shit of course I mean yeah that's the whole idea here
Starting point is 00:17:48 is like we know who the bad guys are so just trust that these laws will only apply to them it's like oh great I'm sure that the different filters that you're going to put in place are totally logical and aligned with my personal political beliefs and grievances Yeah, yeah, I'm sure no other, you know, indigenous blockades will have their bank accounts frozen, surely. Everything. Everything. Yeah, this is the beginning of, it feels like a lot of the governments, whether they're, like, supposedly left or right at this point, are just, you know, like, listen, the civil liberties stuff, like, is getting in the way, folks, like, and just every two or three years something happens, and they're like, we need less, less of them. But we're absolutely not doing authoritarian capitalism like our bad.
Starting point is 00:18:31 neighbor China or the, you know, we're not doing that. Just as an aside, Christy Freeland's voice is like anti-ASMR to me. It hurts me. One funny thing that did come out of that, though, is that the crypto community is not happy about the big government interference against their way of life, should I call it. As one angry crypto Twitter poster noted, The Canadian government just woke up the Bitcoin Bulls. You can't make this shit up.
Starting point is 00:19:01 you absolutely can make it up you totally can make it up yeah i do have to say it's always funny to hear that crypto guys get mad whenever a state uses its powers to do something that like they swore was impossible like no the point of crypto is that they can't do this and they do it and it's like oh god damn it trudeau nevertheless but beyond pissing off crypto people the invoking of this act is quite a big deal as this is the first time in canadian history that any prime minister has invoked the Emergency Act since its creation in 1982. The predecessor to this act, the War Measures Act, was actually invoked by Trudeau Jr.'s father, Pierre Trudeau, against the FLQ in 1970, a Quebecois-Marchist-Leninist group
Starting point is 00:19:41 that was fighting for Capequois independence. To put into context how serious this act was, the FLQ kidnapped and killed the deputy premier, I guess basically the governor of Quebec. They also kidnapped a British ambassador and let them go eventually. people responsible for kidnapping him would eventually flee to Cuba. Oh, that rocks. And give birth to a son.
Starting point is 00:20:06 And that son and his family would return to Quebec and the son would become the prime QAnon pusher in Quebec. That's awesome. Incredible. The ideological endpoint of FLQ.
Starting point is 00:20:21 They're putting the Q in FLQ? Oh my God. I was so convinced that you were leading us into a joke about Dustin Trudeau being Fidel Castro's son. No, this is all real and even better. Oh, God. I'm sort of confused as to why Trudeau invoked this act, especially this late, although there are multiple possible explanations for why he might have. The invoking of this act is firstly strange insofar as giving police more legal power is clearly not going to solve the problem, as they were already
Starting point is 00:20:48 not using the power they had against the convoy in the first place. It's secondly strange because the blockade in Alberta was already over when Trudeau invoked it. The Canadian police had already arrested the 11 people, possessing illegal weapons that they intended to use against the Canadian state. So what's the use of invoking the act now? I wonder what you all think, but there are three reasons I think why Trudeau invoked the Emergency Act now. Firstly, I think he wanted to make it look like he was actually doing something against the convoy. According to an Angus Reid poll, 72% of Canadians do not support the protest continuing and want them to go home. Trudeau hasn't done particularly much, or at least it's been perceived by the
Starting point is 00:21:23 public that he hasn't. So he says, oh, I invoked this act. I've done something. I've freeze all the funding, you know, all the people who don't support the protest, please support me. Secondly, I think Trudeau wants to declare the recently arrested protesters who had a massive amount of illegal weapons as terrorists. As far as I'm aware, he doesn't need to invoke this act to do so, although it becomes much easier when it's done. Canada has been moving to declare right-wing groups as terrorists in the past month otherware as well, so at the start of February, Canada declared three far-right organizations, including the proud boys, as domestic terrorist organizations. And if you're wondering why Joe Biden hasn't done anything similar to this, unlike America, Canada is able to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations.
Starting point is 00:22:03 So it's actually more draconian than America on this, funny enough, which is a result of the FLQ, I believe. And thirdly, and most importantly, I think Trudeau wants the precedent of being able to invoke the Emergency Act and declaring those participating in blockades as terrorists, so we can use this precedent on left-wing and indigenous organizers as well. According to that previously mentioned poll, 68% of Canadians are fine with Canada using police or military force against the convoy to clear them out. And it's likely most of them will be fine with Trudeau invoking this act. This is seemingly getting the Canadian public comfortable with Canada labeling those who participate in blockades as terrorists.
Starting point is 00:22:39 If one is unfamiliar with Canadian politics, blockades on shipping routes within Canada have been a common and effective method of resistance against, for instance, the coastal gas link pipeline in northern British Columbia, which is being built unconstitutionally on unseated wetsuitant territory. One instance that shows the direction of the invocation of this act, or where it's going, is the statement made by Premier, or basically governor of Ontario, Dog Ford, who, yes, is the brother of deceased, former crack-smoking mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Doug Ford publicly agreed with Trudeau's invocation of the Act, and he then said that... Illegal blockades in Ontario and across Canada need to know that there are serious consequences for their actions. Now, considering that the blockades in Alberta are already gone, and they just, like, you know, walked away, it seems fairly obvious that Ford means, like, you know, wetsuettin and left wing and indigenous blockades. Canada is cracking down against the far right recently, but in doing so has very sharp aim on indigenous and left wing organizers, who often employ similar overall strategies for making the voice heard, insofar as they blockade shipments across Canada's protest. Editor's note, or yes note from me, live, a few days after we finished recording what you've just heard,
Starting point is 00:23:50 the story has once again developed too rapidly, and I have to update you all in between when this episode got recorded and when it got released. The police have now arrested over 100 people connected to the convoy in Ottawa, including key organizers to the protests like Pat King, who, in traditional boomer fashion, live streamed his arrest on Facebook. What's that? You're under arrest, sir? For what? For MISHA.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Counseling to commit the offense in this year? Counseling to commit the offense of instruct police officers. Counseling to commit the offense of disobeyed corridor. So if you please step out of the vehicle, sir? I'd like to get my lawyer on the phone right away. Sir. I have the right to a lawyer. Of course you do.
Starting point is 00:24:32 Yeah, so I'd like to call my lawyer presently at this point in time. I need to make sure everything's safe. Oh, you're safe, man, and you always have been. I really appreciate that. I don't know. who your occupants are, I don't know what's in the vehicle. All our hands are free and clear. I have the opportunity right now.
Starting point is 00:24:45 It all stays the same. I'm going to let you talk to that lawyer. I need my lawyer to be at the ready because he's waiting to come. I know it's within your discussion. Now, if you just give me a knife, you, I understand that. I'm being arrested by these officers right now. This officer here, they've cornered me, had me at the ready,
Starting point is 00:25:04 and I'm being arrested. We'll talk to you guys soon. Are you live? Yeah. It appears that the Emergency Act was finally the impetus for the Ottawa Police to do what they would have done if this was a Black Lives Matter or indigenous protest on day one, which is clear everything out and arrest people involved in it. The right has been having a field day with photos and videos with what's come out of people being arrested as a result of this. With the hashtag Canada has fallen and China does, one of them I saw, and other ridiculous things trending at least on Canada on Twitter. Before his arrest, as police were sweeping the convoy and ending their occupation of large parts of downtown Ottawa,
Starting point is 00:25:42 Pat King could be seen streaming his plea for anyone to help the convoy as it was being destroyed. We could really use your help, Ottawa. Al, the residents of Ottawa, we're begging for you. Those ones who stand behind us and stand with us, stand beside us. Come down and help, help. Mayday, Mayday, break, break, break, S-O-S, whatever we got to do. Yet despite comparisons from the right between convoy protesters and, you know, tank man, there have been no serious injuries as a result of the clearing of the Ottawa Convoy protest,
Starting point is 00:26:23 according to the police at least, although there has been a man arrested for harming one of the horses used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after he threw his bicycle at him. And in related news, two Canadian civil rights groups are now challenging the invocation of the Emergency Act, taking Trudeau's government to court on the grounds that he could have solved the crisis through existing legal tools, and that the criteria for invoking the act of there being a quote-unquote national emergency have not been met. The litigation director for one of the groups taking true to court has said, Emergency legislation should not be normalized.
Starting point is 00:26:57 The threshold for using the Emergency Act is extremely high and has not been met. The decision to invoke the Emergency Act, which has never been used or interpreted by the courts, is unprecedented. If Parliament authorizes the proclamation of the public order emergency, the courts will be the last offense for the rule of law. While the police have said that the Emergency Act has helped them clear up the protest, it's fairly clear that if this was a blockade done by the left, the already existing legal tools available to the Ottawa Police and the Trudeau government would have dealt with them very quickly, far more quickly and more severely than it took them in relation to the convoy protest. So, you know, almost three weeks without serious injuries. So, in short, Canada is a land of contrast.
Starting point is 00:27:38 We have a liberal government unnecessarily invoking emergency acts against far-right pill truckers who then think through the main character at 1984. All right, so now we're going to be moving on to an interview with Tegan McLean. Travis, tell us about this jokester, this prankster. So, yeah, so first a little bit of background. So I don't think you can really talk about the Canadian convoy, at least I don't want to talk about the Canadian convoy, without also talking about the efforts to disrupt their attempts at organizing.
Starting point is 00:28:12 And for some left-leading trolls, this has come in the form of the Ram Ranch Resistance. So this is named after a 2012 song, Ram Ranch, which is a pornographic metal song about gay cowboys by Canadian musician Grant MacDonald. McDonald has a kind of a thematic through line with some of his songs. He's also known for the singles Prince Harry's 12-inch cock and you sure are hung. Good. Yeah. Copy. So the Ram Ranch Resistance was born out of Canadian counter-protesters who infiltrated convoy chats on the walkie-talkie app Zello.
Starting point is 00:28:51 These council protesters blasted the song in these channels as a way of jamming communications. Supporters of the protest, you know, they might be listening to these zealot chats, they're hearing organizing plans, or perhaps they're even listening to a patriotic rendition of O Canada, and then all of a sudden they'll hear this. 18 naked cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch, Big Herd Throbbing Cox wanted to be sucked. 18 naked cowboys wanted to be fucked. Cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch on their knees wanting to suck cowboy cocks. Ram Ranch really rocks. This goes.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Hot, hard, buffed cowboys, their cocks throbbing hard. Eighteen more wild cowboys out in the yard. Big bulging cocks ever so hard. Hey, this is, you know, this is, I mean, Dan, first of all, as I As both a musician and a singer, you know, what do you make of the kind of conjunction of instrumentals here with the voice? I love it. It's fresh. It's new. It's something Canada needs. I will be on the panel for the Juno Awards this year. And I will be recommending that Grant McDonald be nominated for in all categories. Yeah, that's assuming that Grant McDonald's the guy I see in this picture in the assless jazz.
Starting point is 00:30:17 It doesn't matter to me. The song just speaks for itself. It's beautiful. Now, one person affiliated with the Ram Ranch Resistance is Tegan McLean, who also goes by the name Medic Tsar online. He managed to infiltrate Zello chats in support of the protests in Windsor, Canada. Over the course of a week, he became a trusted moderator and even created his own channel containing over a thousand people. And in that time, he says he was able to sow division, create confusion, and convince some of the protesters to leave peacefully. This is all recently reported by Claire Gowforth in The Daily Dot. I spoke with Tegan McLean yesterday, and he told me that at first he was kind of indifferent to the protests in Windsor. They says that the protesters crossed the line when they blockaded the Ambassador Bridge.
Starting point is 00:31:04 Faith in Begora, the Ambassador Bridge. They started rolling in. They started having the slow rolls, which annoyed me, but I wasn't displeased. Those were fine. And then all of a sudden, traffic shut down and cannot at all get anywhere down here on church because of them. And so I started really going back into my Facebook group that I was part of for the last two years. And disclaimer, with this Facebook group questioning plague spreaders of Windsor, I joined the group when the pandemic first started and they first started it. But I never said a single thing.
Starting point is 00:31:48 Then Monday when they stopped all traffic across the bridge and whatnot coming in, I then started seeing them post on about Twitter stuff that they was getting shared, the Zello that was getting shared. So I started seeing that and I started reading into it more. And then I found the whole rabbit hole in Twitter and the Ram Range Resistance of Twitter. So I didn't really have a side until the illegal blockade happened. And now they just overstayed their welcome. In Windsor, I helped get rid of them here in Windsor.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Ottawa, they need to go home and everywhere else. This is good because he's talking to you while like doing chores in his house. Yes, he was out and about. He's a busy man. So I was able to catch him for a few minutes, fortunately. This is the true grassroots working class uprising, people doing normal shit like chores. Tegan told me he became a moderator of a Windsor protester Zellochet by asking to become a moderator repeatedly. He says I even met face-to-face with one of the de facto leaders of a Windsor protest who was a woman who goes by the name Hot Donna.
Starting point is 00:33:05 Damn. I went into it on Monday and kind of was just listening. and just there was basically what it was and then they were talking about things and I was watching the trolls do their thing and then I just kept asking to be a moderator for like two days straight I just kept asking to be a moderator and day two I finally was made a moderator and was privy to more information and then figured out there was a moderator tried and got access to the moderator chat and then it just kind of went down from there and I got I got I I was even face-to-face with Donna. She was the one who kind of was the leaders, what everyone made her, made her to be and whatnot. She was the one doing the negotiation. She was the one, the point person,
Starting point is 00:33:54 the point contact person with the clown voice. And so I was face to face with her. And, you know, I was able to take, I was quite appalling because there were quite a few screenshots. You know, I posted. every now and then in our Facebook group and on Twitter about certain things. And then the one thing I was talking about is Mitch was another moderator in there. And he was trying to compare first responders and garbage truck people. And so I kind of laughed about it on Facebook. And I posted
Starting point is 00:34:31 on Facebook about it. And then he messaged me on Zello with a screenshot of what I posted on Facebook. but he didn't know that I was that person on Facebook and he was like we have a mole like this person is saying that I'd try comparing this and and whatnot so it's quite comical because he's like we have to figure this out when I was like yep Mitch you know what we have to figure this out and I think it just kind of fell to death's ears of trying to figure it out so I was almost caught a couple times it was quite it was quite comical so that So I got sent that. And then after that, I was kind of nervous about going down to the meeting people.
Starting point is 00:35:13 But I knew that if I wanted to gain any more trust, I had to show up in person. So I did show up after that. And I knew that once I showed up and nothing happened, they had no clue about who I was. Taking advantage of Hot Donna like that is wrong. Cruel. Cruel to Hot Donna. So this chat group, they're aware that they're being infiltrated, which made the moderators paranoid. And so they started purging people and infighting.
Starting point is 00:35:40 And Tegan says that he was able to leverage its paranoia by sowing more division, among the moderators, and then creating a new Zello channel, which he had total control over. Moderators started going against each other. Well, they already were starting to argue with each other. And they made a special group with just moderators only. And they ended up, I think it was Wednesday night. they ended up, I woke, yeah, because I woke up Thursday, and they were purging people. It just ended up just blatantly, like, started removing everyone from the channel because
Starting point is 00:36:15 they're like, oh, we got overran by trolls, and so we just need to start fresh. This one moderator, Chris, said that, okay, 24 hours, no contact, no one can know anything. And there's another guy, Ray and Jackie, is what they went by. too tall is his zello name and he wasn't too happy that what Chris was proposing so I knew that I could kind of swing Ray I messaged him and I was like hey I'm not really following Chris I'm not he's not not leaving people out of the out of the loop is not a good thing it's going to lower morale people need people enjoyed having the place to talk and everything he's like yeah you're right Chris Chris isn't in it for the for the better he's hardly ever here got it out of
Starting point is 00:37:03 right up. So I proposed to Ray. I was like, hey, listen, like, I'll, I'm going to make the new Zello channel and invite everybody again. So I ended up inviting two dozen people. And then within the matter of 25 minutes after inviting my, the people that I invited, uh, within 25 minutes, there's up to 400 members in the new Zello channel that I owned, that I ran that I was the owner. And then within, within, you know, an hour or so it was up of 2,600 subscribers in there. So I gained everybody who was in the old Zello channel, everyone back. And then I finally controlled their communication in terms of how they were talking and everything. It's a classic example of left-wing factionalism, ruining revolutionary potential.
Starting point is 00:37:51 Yeah, set up his little Trotskyist booths. Splinter Group, yeah. Now, here's one of the funny things. So Tegan tells me that he managed to make some of the protesters lead. the scene by basically doing a Q-Anon. He says that he acquired publicly available documents about the Canadian response to terrorism, and he read it to the protesters. But he claimed that these documents were secret, and he acquired them through serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. Yes. Now, Tiki tells me, actually, it is true that he's a reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces,
Starting point is 00:38:28 but he didn't require any secret information through this position. I was basically just going off of, like, trying to reason with them on this time. Like, don't, and then I had, don't, like, just don't stay, just leave. It's not worth it. Terrorism charges. I started reading, you know, I started reasoning documents that were available to the public, but I told them that were confidential and privy to a certain eyes only, so I can't be reading all of this.
Starting point is 00:38:56 and it was from my area commander in the military. I am part of the Canadian Armed Forces, but there was no directive sent down. I didn't have a conversation with any area commander. I was reading a document of the Canadian terrorist response plan that you could easily find on the Department of National Defense's website, which I literally Googled terrorist response plan, Canadian forces or I
Starting point is 00:39:27 searched something like that on Google and I found it and I just started reading it I think it started scaring people the more reasonable ones that didn't want to screw up their whole life so I was able to get a lot of them going and then a lot of people were messaging me saying hey I'm coming in
Starting point is 00:39:45 I'll be there in like 30 minutes just coming down do we need anything do you guys need anything I was like they're going to be storming soon it's not worth it just turn around and go home they're like oh yeah Yeah, I'm not going to kick around and stay. We're just going to go home. I was like, oh, perfect. That works.
Starting point is 00:40:01 So that's how I was able to kind of send them out. A lot of them did leave. I had a lot of them messaging me that were on the line saying, hey, like, listen, like, basically defeated wise and was like, if they start storming, they're going to start coming in here first. Like, what do you suggest that we do? So I gave my honest suggestion. I was like, honestly, just leave. Like, it's not worth it. and a lot of them all believed me.
Starting point is 00:40:27 And I think that was part of my success in terms of having the control and for them to believe what I am. Because then I started having other people in there saying, yeah, just listen to medic. And he knows what he's talking about. You know, it's not worth it, guys. Like, just it's not worth it. And they were like asking like, well, are you still there?
Starting point is 00:40:55 I was like, God, no, no, I'm not there anymore. Like I'm not risking, I'm not risking terrorism charges and everything. So I think once they realized that even I wasn't there kind of helped, helped a lot of them. But then you have the more extreme radical ones that are like, oh, where there, that's no choice telling how is that a choice telling people not to be there and whatnot. It's my choice if I want to be there. So let people give the choice. And I was like, you guys have the choice. But this is what's going to happen if you choose the choice to stay.
Starting point is 00:41:28 And I think a lot, I think realism kind of kicked in for a lot of them. This is a good example of stealing valor for good, you know. Because on the other side of the process, like in Ottawa, you've got Mazaro, who's the self-appointed police liaison. And if you look into that guy, he's a software programmer who likes to talk about his time in the Canadian military, where presumably he was doing software programming, but that has given him some kind of authority to speak to the police
Starting point is 00:41:56 and spin these sort of cue adjacent free man on the land tales of like setting up a provisional government, you know? Yeah. I do worry that co-intel pro is like this easy in any group. Oh, man. Shit.
Starting point is 00:42:12 It was. Yeah, pretty simple. So, yeah, this particular operation lasted just five days. Tegan joined the group Monday, and then on Friday, he decided it was time to reveal his true intentions with his co-conspirators in the new Zello channel he had created. So in the midst of a chatter of this Zellow channel, Tegan and his allies revealed that
Starting point is 00:42:35 they were not who they appeared to be. Here's from a recording of the group during that moment. So does that mean two lanes have to empty out or just one lane has to remain open so traffic can move? So do we have to move off the road or do we just have to leave the one lane over? how like how does that work hold the line amen um so uh it's come to my attention that this group has been infiltrated um they set out to have one goal in mind and the goal kind of worked worked its way in the inner circle um and it actually worked didn't actually think it was
Starting point is 00:43:19 going to work it was kind of a little too easy if i'm being quite honest wanted to be sucked, eating naked cowboys wanted to be sucked. Cowboys in the showers at Ram Ranch, other games wanted to suck cowboy cocks. Ram Ranch really rocks. Talk hard, tough cowboys, the cox robbing her. You guys, like I was saying, are knitwits, just too easily. And I got set up to what I had to do. And the cops are coming to hit hard.
Starting point is 00:44:29 They have all the information they meet. You guys are welcome. Ram-Rance resistance! Get fuck you, sons of bitches! Ram-Ram-Rans resistance! Ha-ha, losers. Ram-Rans resistance. medic that's fucking amazing dude ram ranch baby
Starting point is 00:44:52 hey thanks boys keep on trucking 18 naked cowboys in the showers at ram ram how does it feel to have the ram ranch resistance control your communications have fun dealing with the popo on behalf of my family to yours
Starting point is 00:45:14 you little terrorist fucks I hope you all rot in prison. Enjoy those rubber bullets. Love, love. Ray of Sunshine motherfuckers. Grant us coughs. Grant us coughs, you fucks. Fuck all you fascists.
Starting point is 00:45:29 There we go. The love for police and hatred for fascism goes on. Kind of a tricky one. Sort of. So Tegan also told me he was attempting to do the same sort of infiltration up for the protest in Ottawa. but they appear to have better security, better OPSEC over that particular Zello channel. They're missing out on a specific number of dicks. Specifically cowboy dicks, too.
Starting point is 00:46:01 That's right. Now, I also want to talk a bit about the crowdfunding efforts for these protests. So, you know, an occupation of a couple cities requires resources. People need food, other supplies. And so in order to raise funds, the organizing, first had a bright idea to raise money with the help of GoFundMe. The GoFundMe page, Freedom Convoy 2022, managed to raise about $10 million Canadian, with $1 million released to the organizers.
Starting point is 00:46:29 However, the remainder of the money was locked up. In a statement, GoFundMe said that the demonstrations were peaceful when the fundraiser first started but had since violated their terms of service prohibiting the promotion of violence and harassment. GoFundMe initially said it would give supporters of the defunct campaign until February 19th to request refunds, and also said it would direct any remaining donations to, quote, credible and established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy 22 organizers and verified by GoFundMe. But the company later reversed course, saying it would automatically refund people who donated to the campaign. This reversal was probably instigated by the fact that
Starting point is 00:47:07 several states announced their intention to investigate GoFundMe as a consequence of this. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that his office would investigate GoFundMe for blocking and withholding donations made through the platform. He claimed that removing the campaign from its site could violate the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia also said that there would probe GoFundMe's handling of the Freedom Convoy campaign. It's very, very strange. I mean, all these people are getting their money back, basically. But like all these attorneys general from, you know, Red State specifically. trying to crack down. I don't know. I think it's more saber-rattling and sort of signaling to people
Starting point is 00:47:47 that, you know, they're fighting back against, you know, big tech censorship. Since that didn't work, the organizers of the protest instead turned to the alternate crowdfunding platform give-send go. If you're not familiar with give-send go, it's Christian go-funding. The site was founded in 2015 and was originally targeted towards missionaries and missionary work. But it quickly became the go-to platform for crowdsourcing efforts that were too extreme for GoFundMe. Here's how GivesendGo co-founder, Heather Wells, described the original intention of the website in a recent interview. Sure.
Starting point is 00:48:24 So Gives-Seng-Go was started about seven years ago with my brother, Jacob, my sister Emily and I, with three of 12 siblings. And so we were all sitting around talking about what it would look like if the church actually did what the church was supposed to do, like when there's a need, everybody comes together and help. And we saw GoFund may be coming a thing where, you know, people are starting to crowd fund. You're starting to see some of these donation platforms come through. And we said, that's awesome. Like people are coming together to meet people's needs. That's what we should be doing. But as Christians, we understand that money only meets the material needs. What if we were
Starting point is 00:49:01 to build a crowdfunding platform that didn't just meet the material needs, which are our needs, like actual needs that people have? What if we had it where we allow people to crowdfund, raise money, all the while we shared the hope that we found in Jesus with people, because a lot of times they're in pretty hopeless situations. So, wait, can you donate thoughts and prayers? As a matter of fact, campaigns actually have a pray now button, and they actually said, click the pray now button to let the campaign owner know or know you are praying for them.
Starting point is 00:49:34 Yep. Yeah. I'm just happy there's a crowdfunding platform that I can use to support my new multimedia project, Ted Kaczynski, too. Big things. Yeah. Now, at first, everything seemed to be going swimmingly with the crowdfunding on Give Send Go.
Starting point is 00:49:54 They, I mean, they openly declared their support for the protest and said that it processed more than $4.5 million in donations for the so-called Freedom Convoy protesters during its first day of the company hosting the campaign. However, since then, the company has suffered. a series of security lapses, hacks, and leaks, the first of which was reported by TechCrunch. That outlet reported that a security researcher found an exposed, Amazon-hosted S-3 bucket containing over 50 gigabytes of files, including passports and driver's license that were collected during the donation process.
Starting point is 00:50:30 Bad up, sec. Terrible stuff. Yeah. They appeared to fix the problem, but just a few days later, on February 10th, the journalist's collective DDoS secrets obtained files that the site failed to secure. This was filed by another hack a few days after that on February 13th. A hacker managed to redirect the GiveSendGo website to the domain GiveSendGone.WTF. So there, probably bewildered visitors.
Starting point is 00:51:00 They can see a message that said, Give Send Go is now frozen, and the page included a video from the Disney film Frozen, which include a scrolling manifesto condemning the website and the Canadian convoy. So the message started by saying this. Attention, give Sango grifters and hatreds. The Canadian government has informed you that the money you assholes raise
Starting point is 00:51:22 to fund an insurrection is frozen. TD Bank has frozen several accounts. You helped fund the January 6th insurrection in the U.S. You helped fund an insurrection in Ottawa. In fact, you are committed to funding anything that keeps the raging fire of misinformation going until it burns the world's collective democracies down. On behalf of sane people worldwide who wish to continue living in a democracy,
Starting point is 00:51:44 I am telling you that Givesendgo itself is frozen. This is so cursed, man. The epic bacon, like, citizens' lib army is now representing the state in every possible way. We're going to freeze your bank accounts. Have fun with the rubber bullets. I know. You freaking hatreds. Just as an aside, this is all very funny to me because on my podcast,
Starting point is 00:52:06 On Bottomman, we've been tracking Canadian, like, quote-unquote, disinformation experts, journalists, of which there are just like a small handful who have outsized representation in Canadian media and are responsible for brain poisoning people like, my dad, who I have to deprogram once every three months, you know? And for the last few years, it's been nonstop articles about how China is undermining our democracy through cyber attacks, how Russia is undermining our democracy through cyber attacks, how Russia is undermining our democracy through. cyber attacks. And it's just funny to read this where there's essentially like a cyber civil war going on, not to mention the fact that like American political organ, post mega political organizations are directly trying to influence Canadian democracy here. Like, yeah, does it feel good, Canada? We're reaching our hands deep inside. I don't like it. No. I don't like it. And where were these disinformation experts, you know, like where are our brave cyber soldiers? They, they missed it. So the trolling hack and redirection was, I guess, fine, but like much more concerning,
Starting point is 00:53:12 at least for the people who use the site, the site itself, was the fact that a file containing information of about 93,000 donors to the protests was leaked. And this data includes names, email addresses, IP addresses, and donation amount. Oh, since then, they've dumped the entire database. So now it's literally every single donation made on that platform until February of this year. Great. Yeah. Yeah. So they are thoroughly hacked. But the file about the donors to the protest campaign, that file actually, I mean, it revealed a lot of information about like what kind of people were sort of donating. And, you know, interestingly, the majority of donors are
Starting point is 00:53:56 Americans. 56% of the donations came from the U.S. Well, only 29% came from Canada. So, you know, Sparking the conservative movement. Could we get an American popular vote on whether Trudeau should be hung? Well, I know. I think maybe critical support to Trudeau as he resists this American imperialist attempt. Yes. Yes, it's clearly a color revolution by it's Canadian Maidan. Here's the other interesting fact is that despite the fact that Americans were the majority of the protesters,
Starting point is 00:54:34 On average, the Canadian donors were more generous. The U.S.-based donations totaled $3.6 million, while as the Canadians donated, 4.3 million. Yeah, that makes sense. I wonder if people, like, saving their Serb money and donate. No, they're just like, I'm lending this to my cousin Terry. Now, I feel like I should mention that this is not the only foreign meddling involved here. There'll certainly a great deal of organic support for the protests. It has also benefited from some astroturfing and overseas amplification.
Starting point is 00:55:11 Reports from NBC News and Grid News found that content mills ran out of Vietnam, Bangladesh, Romania, and other countries set Facebook pages to promote the so-called Freedom Convoy. But isn't this just like hiring Fiver to like get yourself more followers? Yeah, you know, yeah. It's like there's, it might be sort of just cheap. sort of way to like get this, get this operation running. But still, there's this level of like secrecy there where we don't know, you know, exactly who's involved in sort of these efforts to set these campaigns. In fact, that was that there was a grid found that the Bangladeshi
Starting point is 00:55:46 digital marketing firm was behind two of the largest Facebook groups related to the Canadian Freedom Convoy. So, you know, obviously it might be just someone who was organizing it, who wanted like, you know, a cheap way to sort of get the ground running for their social media campaign. But again, there's this level of secrecy there that sort of raises questions. I'm just like, I'm just like really doubting that there's a Vietnamese, Bangladeshi and Romanian kind of secret ops kind of run on fucking Canada for the freedom convoy. What is the political purpose there? To bring back communism. By taking down the communist Justin Trudeau, the Trotskyist. It's all communist. It's all communist.
Starting point is 00:56:30 infighting. That's my new theory. That it's all like inter-communist infighting. Trudeau is a trotskyist wrecker and Vietnam Bangladesh Romania are principled Stalinists. That's right. That's right. Also interesting was that
Starting point is 00:56:48 the data from the leak shows that some of the donors are government employees in the U.S. about a dozen donors use dot-gov email addresses in association with their donations. Oh, you fucking morons. I know. These include accounts from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Starting point is 00:57:10 See, there is. All these institutions have been infiltrated by people who can't set up a dummy account to donate to, like, the truckers. I think it's more like NASA wants to set up, like, a Bikinor-style, like, space platform in Saskatchewan or something. That's their endgame here. The data also contains one Canadian government. email address. Hell yeah, dude. To be that guy?
Starting point is 00:57:35 Yeah. The data league also included comments left by the donors. And when you search through the document, you'll find that Q and on rallying cry, where we go one, we go all, appears over 90 times in the comments. And I noticed there was also three donors who left a mention of Q sent me. Nice. I mean, Q would be posting about this. This is kind of a time where Q would shine.
Starting point is 00:58:02 Yeah. And, uh, you know, uh, we miss. We miss them. No, we don't. No, we don't, Julian. We, we don't miss. Travis sometimes calls me late at night and says, I don't. What I would do for just one more drop, you know? This is not criticism we've received.
Starting point is 00:58:16 I don't know why Q stopped posting. Travis. Man. Travis. I'm grateful for it. Travis. It's sad and, and our podcast is going down the shitter because Q can't do his fucking job. Yeah, we're really starving for material in the word.
Starting point is 00:58:29 try exploring far-right conspiracism. In a world where everyone has everything figured out and nothing could possibly go wrong, where's the place of QAnon Anonymous podcast? The best part is writing Q sent me, like, that makes me think that there's a JPEG of, like, a fake Q drop passing around, which is just as credible. Like, who cares whether it's really from Q at this point? Everyone knows to meme. Everyone knows.
Starting point is 00:58:55 You know, like Liv mentioned, there have been sort of, uh, sort of, uh, sort of repeat or gets copycat convoys like all over the world, but not quite yet here in the U.S. So I think the big question is, when is it coming home? Because this is something that caused a lot of disruption. It was relatively successful and that caused it caused pain for people who were in positions of authority. So obviously, the far right here in the U.S. is going to want to copy it. So there are a few organizations who are scrambling.
Starting point is 00:59:25 And it's kind of a jump ball at the moment. There are a few people who are trying to figure out how to organize a convoy. But the one that seems to have their shit together the best is called the People's Convoy. And on Newsbacks, People's Convoy co-organizer, Brian Brace announced his intention to assemble a convoy in Barstow, California, on February 23rd, which would then drive all the way to Washington, D.C. Got to start in California to gas up, you know? That's right. You know what I mean? Actually, I'm super happy to announce on your show, first time here, dropping the start date here.
Starting point is 01:00:03 So officially, this is from the top, this is what's happening. We will be launching our convoy, February 23rd, Wednesday, February 23rd, beginning in the Barstow area. Roots will be announced within the week, exactly. but we are launching February 23rd out of the Barstow, California area, and we will be marching our way east. The best way to do anti-state action is to tell everyone on a big news channel exactly where you're going to be and when and what you're doing. It's like he's announcing like a season of his show that he's on.
Starting point is 01:00:41 Yeah, big drop. It's so the cops can gather to clap. Something that I found interesting about this as well is like, I feel like Canada is a lot more, like, it's more east to west. Yeah, all the, all the major cities are within, like, a very short distance of the American border, right? Like, Canada is a huge country where the population is just massed on the U.S. border, essentially. Yeah, like, you can start on the west and then just drive east and you hit all of the cities. Yeah, I know this from fucking touring Canada, which sucks.
Starting point is 01:01:14 Yeah, sure. The, uh, the, the Canadian cities are like little piglets, uh, and they're, They're all pressed to the teats of this giant sow, America. We're all suckling at the great Satan. They had to shut down exactly one street, the one that goes through all of Canada. The transgate of the highway. We'll see where their route is and where they're trying to cover. Because surely you can't drive across all of American cities.
Starting point is 01:01:39 No. But I do, like, everywhere I check, people are stoked about this thing. And it's basically taken the place. It's combined with the VAC stuff, obviously. And it's kind of based around the VAC stuff. But it's kind of, it just, like, people are renaming their groups. Like, there used to be MAGA groups, used to be a Q&N group. But now it's like trucker.
Starting point is 01:01:58 We're all truckers now. No, you know, yeah, this is kind of like an interesting sort of development. You're right. It's like they were like, you know, super pro-Trump maga pages, Q&on pages. They turned into Stop the Steel pages. And then they sort of, they sort of converted now to Freedom Convoy pages. And now it's just, it's really not about like any one specific thing. It's just a network that.
Starting point is 01:02:19 sort of is designed to like, you know, coalesce around whatever issue was causing the most pain for whatever is the hot new thing. They're like the Borg hive mind. Yeah, I mean, you see a similar thing in the sort of anti-imperialist post-left, certain slice of that demographic is, is whether cynically or they've done self-hypnotism into thinking this is some kind of working class uprising, they're promoting this as well. And in their case, I think it's either just straight grift, or just self-hypnosis because it's so incomprehensible that you would be able to get your hands on the levers of power and change anything. You know, any sort of action seems exciting.
Starting point is 01:03:03 Yeah. The People's Convoy is backed by Freedom Fighter Nation, which is a far-right conspiracy group led by lawyer Lay Dundas. Dundas is a repeat speaker at the Q-adjacent Reawaken America Tour, which is also frequently host Michael Flynn. Dundas is also an associate of Q&N promoter Scott McKay, a.k.a.k.a.k.a. In a live stream from McKay, he claimed that the people's convoy is being organized by war planners from the Pentagon.
Starting point is 01:03:34 He also said that convoy is part of a war against the cabal powers. They have logistics team provided by high-ranking retired war planners from the Pentagon. This is a serious operation, this convoy. they have planned for fuel along the way when these truck stops may get jammed up they've got tankers running along it's kind of almost like mad max tankers with fuel running along trucks shower trucks coming along security etc this is a big operation it is being funded and the management of these funds are being held by an exemplar financial overseen by lawyers and accountants and kept in private banks to avoid the government criminals from freezing these
Starting point is 01:04:15 accounts or seizing the money. They're accepting crypto. We've got a pretty good infrastructure growing for this trucker's convoy that's ready to make its move. The exciting thing about it is we are seeing people of all socioeconomic demographics coming together to fight this war, to fight this criminal regime, the cabal powers, the republics, and the Democrats, that include Republicans in there because they've sat by and they've watched this shit go on for decades.
Starting point is 01:04:39 It's interesting to me that he mentions Mad Max because, you know, there is a finite timeline where America and the American public got absolutely seduced by the idea of the trucker as like the new American cowboy. With the beginning being 1973, independent truckers protesting against fuel restrictions and a speed limit restriction brought on by the Yom Kippur War and OPEC essentially saying, you know, we have entered into new paradigm. We're running the shots now. And then the end point of it being 1979 with the Iranian revolution and more independent trucker protests that led to several murders and the public being exhausted. And I think you can look at two pieces of media. There's the positive end at the start of this in 1973, 74 with like Smoky and the Bandit and the Sam Peckinpaw movie Convoy. And then at the very end with, of course, Mad Max, where, you know, the convoy mutates into a post-apocalyptic sort of like horrid. Yes, and Mad Max, you know, a reminder in the first one is a fucking cop, like literally in a cop uniform going around making sure these damn convoys. These damn rednecks get the liberal rubber bullet to the face.
Starting point is 01:05:59 That's right, that's right, man. So they're taken off from Barstow, California. Unfortunately, that's pretty close to me. I'm sorry, man. Travis doesn't mean anything by that. He would be smarter than doing Opsack in this manner. Well, that was fantastic, folks. What a fun ride.
Starting point is 01:06:18 I have a feeling this is not going to be the last trucker episode. Far from it. I have a feeling this is just a new meme, basically, that people are going to continue to manifest, I'm all for it. And yes, Canada, finally, you've innovated. You finally are the actual tip of the spear of a movement. How does it feel? It feels great. It feels amazing, right? Like, not only if we spent two or three weeks on the world stage, we just announced that we're spending another $500 million in Ukraine, some of which $7.8 million is going to lethal aid. So Canada has arrived. The 2020s are going to be
Starting point is 01:06:53 the Canadian decade. It's the Canadian century. It's the Canadian century. Get used to it. Dan, tell us where people can find you and also your podcast and also all the damn good music. People can find me on the stage where I will be playing rock and roll music or synth pop sometimes in my many bands including Wolf Parade and operators. If you're interested in that music, I have a Patreon with my partner, Devoika, where we put a one to three three songs a month and sometimes watch movies in a nice friendly Discord channel. So there's that. It's Biblioteca, Patreon. And then I have a podcast called The Bottleman where we talk about Ukraine and force American
Starting point is 01:07:40 podcasters to watch shit like Heartland or Quirner Gas and make them read extremely disturbing fan fiction about those shows. That's me. Go check it out, folks. And Liv, you also have a podcast, right? Oh, yeah. Just search Live Acar on whichever podcast does things I use. Also, the Patreon on Patreon.com slash LiveAgar. And I stream on Twitch, also at LiveAgar. Go check it out, folks. And yeah, thank you so much for listening to another episode of the Q&On Anonymous podcast. You can go to patreon.com slash Q&Oan Anonymous and sub for five bucks a month. You'll get a whole second episode every week, plus access to our entire archive of premium episodes. And when you do that, you help us stay advertising free and editorially independent. We also have a website. to QAnonanonymous.com for anything else you need. Listener, until next week, may the deep dish bless you and keep you.
Starting point is 01:08:31 It's not a conspiracy, it's fact. And now, today's auto-key. Hi, can I get a large chocolate shake? Make that two of them? And a large fry? A large French fries? And can I get a Trudeau special? Sorry?
Starting point is 01:08:59 Can I get a Trudeau special? A Justin Trudeau special. Justin Trudeau special? Yeah, I make chicken. Oh, yeah, sure, sure. Anything else? Yeah, no, that's it, buddy. Do you want the Trudor's a special as a combo, or?
Starting point is 01:09:22 Yeah, I'll take the Tudor's a special. Trudeau special as a combo. Yes, please, with a large Pepsi. That's everything? That's it, but... Thanks.

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