It was always going to be an ugly spectacle, an assault on the values that make this country great.
A Con convoy demanding the end of vaccine mandates that are allowing us to at least hope of winning the war on Covid.
And threatening to bring down the government, and even kill Justin Trudeau, if they don't get their way.
But when they arrived in Ottawa it became a real horror show.
The Con convoy started laying siege to our democracy last night, and by this morning the air must have been thick with the stench of beer, piss, and feces.
As well as the stench of bigotry.
Because now there can be no doubt who they really are.
And it couldn't be uglier.
Many of them are religious fanatics who want to bring down the government, and arrest and even kill Justin Trudeau.
Which is why I'm glad that police are getting ready to make sure that they don't get anywhere near the heart of our democracy.
At least nobody can accuse me of not trying to warn Canadians about the FreeDumb convoy.
Warn them that it had a heart of darkness, and that it could be very, very, dangerous.
Many Canadians didn't want to hear about it, they didn't believe it could happen in Canada.
But it is happening, and it's a horror story.
They are roaring down the highway, hundreds of them, heading for the heart of democracy.
Some of them are vowing to bring down the government, and arrest Justin Trudeau.
They call themselves the FreeDumb Convoy.
But many decent Canadians are calling them the Karen Convoy.
It's been almost three years since hundreds of truckers surrounded Parliament Hill demanding an end to the war on climate change.
And Andrew Scheer and Pierre Poilievre went out to welcome them, even though many of the truckers were spouting racist and anti-semitic slogans, and demanding that Justin Trudeau be jailed or executed.
It was a disgusting spectacle, one that never should have happened.
But one I'm sorry to say, that seems about to happen again.
I've always had the feeling that Jagmeet Singh sees himself as some kind of medieval warrior.
A shining King of Khalistan who would not look out of place on a throne.
But who knew that throne would be so expensive?
Sometimes these days I feel like I'm living on some kind of bizarro planet, where Erin O'Toole and his alien Cons stumble around with their shiny pokey noses, lying like thieves.
But almost nobody in our corrupted media calls them out.
So the truth must struggle to survive.
I must admit I had no idea Erin O'Toole could endure so much humiliation, and like the Eveready bunny still keep going.
I honestly thought that when Harper's former flak Andrew MacDougall, accused him of "flapping around like a coked-out, second-string Fox News host," O'Toole would finally get the message, and resign.
Before his own ugly Cons chew him up, and spit him out.
But he didn't resign. So now he has been humiliated. Again !!!!
The big snow storm came rushing up from the south, it hit Toronto hard, and for a while it made getting around much of the city difficult and dangerous.
To make it easier for those who couldn't stay at home, the police sent out this message:
For there was Boss Ford, standing in the snow, looking ridiculous.
When I saw the anti-vaxxers marching down the waterfront last summer, with their kooky Con signs and their crosses, at first I didn't take them seriously.
All I wanted to do was laugh at them, and maybe even douse them with a bucket of cold water.
But when I saw how aggressive they were becoming, I started to despise them.
And when I saw them threatening and trying to intimidate exhausted healthcare workers I got really angry.
Uh oh, this is horrible. Believe it or not I'm starting to feel sorry for Erin O'Toole. How much punishment can the man take?
But then it's not hard to feel sorry for a man who has got himself into a terrible place, and now can't get out.
And to make matters worse, even some hard core Cons have looked at his deranged video, the one I wrote about in my last post.
And some of their reviews are BRUTAL.
In my last post, I included the latest video from Erin O'Toole, which was a deranged attack on Steven Guilbeault, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
I ran it to show why I thought O'Toole is losing his marbles, and is just about ready for the rubber room.
But I didn't have time to expose the Big Lie in that video, so I thought I would run it again.
And now I'm even more convinced that he's ready for the rubber room.
For having to channel Mad Max Bernier to try to get back some of his anti-vaxx supporters must be painful enough.
A real exercise in humiliation.
In the age of Omicron this is a recurring nightmare, that is becoming more real by the day.
A code red warning that there are no ambulances available to transport sick people to hospital.
My other nightmare is that because cases are exploding, there is no room in the hospitals to receive them.
And then there is this nightmare.
The way Erin O'Toole has been behaving recently, one might be forgiven for wondering whether he is losing his marbles.
He has been blaming Justin Trudeau for causing the pandemic, suggesting that he's some kind of fascist for urging Canadians to get vaccinated. And it's crazy stuff.
But don't worry, hold the straitjacket, for now.
For it seems that what's making O'Toole sound so crazy, is that he's channeling Mad Max Bernier.
For weeks Erin O'Toole has been hiding from Canadians, like a loser chicken in a closet.
Too afraid to show his face lest he might be asked why he has not urged Canadians to get vaccinated, which is the best thing that can be done to keep our hospitals from collapsing.
Too afraid to admit that if he did the right thing, the many anti-vaxxers in his caucus would eat him alive.
But now he's back trying to smear Justin Trudeau. Again.
It's now a horror show teetering on the edge of a medical catastrophe. As the Omicron variant continues to surge and exhausted health workers are already fighting a desperate battle to keep hospitals from collapsing.
Patients are being transferred from one hospital to another, staff are being moved around to shore up wards hard hit by nurses and doctors self isolating, or calling in sick.
But don't tell Erin O'Toole, because he's missing in action and trying to pretend it's the pandemic that's gone missing.
