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Brickbats

Brickbat: Freeze

Charles Oliver | 10.28.2022 4:00 AM

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't waiting for Parliament to pass a new gun control bill that lawmakers have been debating since May. He has announced a freeze on the sale, transfer and import of handguns effective immediately.

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  1. Adans smith   3 years ago

    Just like he's daddy did. His real daddy, nudge , nudge, wink, wink.

    1. Mother's Lament   3 years ago

      His legal daddy was an authoritarian communist twat too.

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    2. perlmonger   3 years ago

      https://gummibear737.substack.com/p/deep-dive-is-fidel-castro-the-father

      I thought it was a joke meme. It looks very possibly legitimate. Means, motivation, opportunity, and evidence all line up.

    3. Earth-based Human Skeptic   3 years ago

      Hey, people can have two daddies. Just ask any 2nd grader in a blue state school.

    4. Utkonos   3 years ago

      Justin knows where his fidelity lies.

  2. Fist of Etiquette   3 years ago

    To stop fascism.

    1. InsaneTrollLogic   3 years ago

      To stop fascism, he’s gotta be fascist.

    2. Moonrocks   3 years ago

      That's what a fascist would say.

      1. Earth-based Human Skeptic   3 years ago

        What about an anti-fascist?

  3. Mickey Rat   3 years ago

    This is what "progressives" think is an act which is an exemplar of "democracy".

    1. Quo Usque Tandem   3 years ago

      When Jacinda Arden took similar measures in Kiwiland, the “sqad” remarked “this is what leadership looks like.”

  4. Jerryskids   3 years ago

    Canada is a parliamentary dictatorship, you act surprised when it behaves like one.

  5. Jerry B.   3 years ago

    Shh. Don't give the Democrats any ideas. Biden may pop up and claim his gun confiscation bill passed by just a couple of votes.

  6. libby-terry-ann   3 years ago

    Fuck this guy and Joe Biden.

  7. mad.casual   3 years ago

    Is it just me or does Trudeau's face get more and more punchable as he ages/loses 'it'? Like the psychopathy creeps into his vestige the longer it marinates in it.

    1. Moonrocks   3 years ago

      It's not just you.

    2. Utkonos   3 years ago

      If I had a face like that I’d….I dunno….paint it?

      1. Eeyore   3 years ago

        At least a little black face.

  8. Duke of URL   3 years ago

    He disarmed his security detail first, right?

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   3 years ago

      Only the lesser people lose their guns. This doesn't apply to the anointed elite.

  9. GroundTruth   3 years ago

    So glad to know that it can't happen here in the US since we have The Second Amendment, which everyone agrees on, even Californians, New Yorkers and Bostonians.

    1. Earth-based Human Skeptic   3 years ago

      Could we somehow cede US coastal (including Great Lakes) cities to Canadia? And maybe take Alberta in trade?

      1. Quo Usque Tandem   3 years ago

        They don’t want our shithole cities.

  10. MoreFreedom   3 years ago

    Trudeau shows his dictatorial tendencies. No discussion, no input from the legislature, no ruling by the courts on the soon to be expected lawsuit, and no ability for citizens to protect themselves when the police aren't showing up because you can't wait 15 minutes when you call 911 for them to answer.

    Just a reminder, Nazi Germany passed the 1938 German Weapons Act that made it illegal for Jews or fully or partly owned Jewish business to manufacture guns or ammunition, shortly followed by 1938 Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons law.

    1. Earth-based Human Skeptic   3 years ago

      Dictators must sometimes act quickly in order to save democracy.

    2. Rob Misek   3 years ago

      “Only the Palestinian security apparatus is allowed to own arms in the West Bank, according to the Oslo Accords.“

      Palestinian civilians can’t own guns in Gaza. Jews can.

      Jews and Nazis are very similar. In fact history shows that Jews have behaved worse for a much longer time.

      Both part of satanic secret societies, Jews claim ownership of the Freemasons, Nazis the Thule society.

      Nazis considered themselves the master race, Jews the chosen people.

      In fact Nazism was the result of the behaviour of Jews.

      What’s a Jew without the bullshit Nazi narrative?

      Only what you can’t refute, above.

  11. perlmonger   3 years ago

    I truly hope that very shortly, Justin Trudeau becomes warm for the rest of his life. By which I mean that I hope he spontaneously combusts.

  12. Dillinger   3 years ago

    "Hoping to avoid being shot by Canadians ..."

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