{"id":15049,"date":"2022-02-27T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2022-02-27T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T23:19:07","slug":"saturday-stupid-human-tricks-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=15049","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Stupid Human Tricks on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next in my <a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?cat=13\">ongoing series<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to stay out of it but this convoy thing brought out some truly stupid human escapades. The best of which, IMHO, was the total lack of understanding we Canadians seem to have of how our government works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ggprotest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ggprotest-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ggprotest-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ggprotest-400x314.jpg 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ggprotest-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ggprotest-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ggprotest.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/factnest.com\/activism\/file-a-vote-of-no-confidence-against-justin-trudeau\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/factnest.com\/activism\/file-a-vote-of-no-confidence-against-justin-trudeau\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this wasn&#8217;t the only site. The misinformation\/misunderstanding\/outright falsehood (depending on your own point-of-view) had spread far and wide and was being distributed freely amongst the protestors and supporters. Apparently this stupidity was so widespread that the GG had to issue a statement explaining that she (or her office as representative of the Queen) cannot dissolve governments willy-nilly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-27-at-3.14.44-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-27-at-3.14.44-PM-391x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-27-at-3.14.44-PM-391x400.jpg 391w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-27-at-3.14.44-PM-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-27-at-3.14.44-PM.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/governor-general-no-confidence-1.6360883\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/governor-general-no-confidence-1.6360883<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care what you politics are, but come on&#8230;at least familiarize yourself with the thing you are protesting against. Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit more on the subject of what the parliamentary system is actually about: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/charter-gg-disinformation-civic-awareness-1.6365223\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/charter-gg-disinformation-civic-awareness-1.6365223<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next in my ongoing series&#8230; I&#8217;ve tried to stay out of it but this convoy thing brought out some truly stupid human escapades. The best of which, IMHO, was the total lack of understanding we Canadians seem to have of how our government works. \u2014https:\/\/factnest.com\/activism\/file-a-vote-of-no-confidence-against-justin-trudeau\/ And this wasn&#8217;t the only site. The misinformation\/misunderstanding\/outright falsehood (depending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}