Let me start this podcast episode write-up with a correction. Evangeline Lilly actually posted about her support for the Canadian trucker convoy on her Instagram, not Twitter as I stated in the audio for this podcast. As it turns out, Ms. Lilly's Twitter account has laid dormant since the summer of 2021. So go figure.
But the big story is not a popular Hollywood actress getting on board with protests against vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Though that is welcome, the bigger story is that perhaps tens of thousands of truck drivers are already in or else on their way to Canada's capital city to shut the city down as a kind of park-in protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's devastation of the country and its economy in the name of fighting the spread of COVID.
As the son of a semi-retired truck driver - pun intended - I've long held that truck drivers are a sort of unsung hero class, bringing goods to market which we depend on for every day life. I wish our big rig captains of the road up north well in their effort to liberate the land of maple syrup and hockey from tyranny. Hopefully their loyalists don't come south to find refuge in the U.S.
Imagine what the domino effect might be if they succeed in pressuring Trudeau to step down. Our mainstream media in the U.S. apparently is. Otherwise, why would I be hearing they're refusing to cover this?
Meanwhile, they will cover in spades, and amplify, calls on Spotify to censor or deplatform Joe Rogan's podcast for covering, among other things, the Canadian truck driver protest. Go figure.
Perhaps we should have the audacity of hope that it's just time for the English speaking world - in Canada, the U.S., and maybe even Australia - to throw off the shackles of our globalist overlords and their petty tyranny who say like so many digital Mary Antoinette wannabes, "Let them eat VR cake" even as they collapse our economies and force our children to wear masks and endure story-time outside in the cold of winter, or throw husbands and fathers out of work if they refuse experimental COVID vaccines and an endless number of follow-up booster shots because the first one clearly didn't work.
I too wish the Canadian trucker convoy well, and hope they succeed. But even if they don't, perhaps these power-mad safety czars are cruising for a bruising, at least in America.
The announced retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer so President Biden can appoint his successor before the mid-term elections in November more than implies that Democrats expect to lose at least the United States Senate to Republicans, but perhaps the House of Representatives as well.
At last count, 42 current representatives have announced they will not seek re-election this November. And of those, 29 are Democrats and 13 are Republicans.
Though our ultimate hope as Christians is not with princes or politicians, it is still proper to hope and pray for the leadership of our country so we can live peaceful, quiet lives under authority which rewards those who do good and punishes those who do evil instead of the other way around.
In closing, give a listen to a little diddy my cousin Brent sent me recently by 'Drive-By Truckers' called 'Where the Devil Don't Stay.' And imagine with me the DemocratsÂ
