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"Trucker Tantrum" (Original Post) lagomorph777 Feb 2022 OP
And they are spreading the virus . ... Lovie777 Feb 2022 #1
+1 Baitball Blogger Feb 2022 #2
it goes way beyond tantrum, they are evil Blues Heron Feb 2022 #3
Yep, that will stick PatSeg Feb 2022 #4
Trucker Fucker Tantrum MLAA Feb 2022 #5
Or just trucker fuckers. wnylib Feb 2022 #15
Yes, that's it! MLAA Feb 2022 #38
Try it and they should be truckless. C_U_L8R Feb 2022 #6
They are coming my way this weekend. wnylib Feb 2022 #23
I agree whole-heartedly... these right-wings crazies need to get their asses back to work!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2022 #7
I'll never understand right-wing idiots Ohioboy Feb 2022 #8
Most of the attendees are dupes, tbh. knightmaar Feb 2022 #9
I think it is mostly about clogging up the system to make Biden look bad. flying_wahini Feb 2022 #10
Words and deeds BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #11
They are most certainly organized and funded by Putin. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #13
Dark Money BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #14
And they are spreading. Tomorrow wnylib Feb 2022 #36
Agree, I care what they do. Populism pours gas on and weaponizes Hortensis Feb 2022 #17
At last! BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #19
Yes, and right and left are now UNITING as "anti-establishment" populism. Hortensis Feb 2022 #26
Sing it Hortensis! BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #29
Lol, great description. Populist idiots must be by far the most useful. Hortensis Feb 2022 #37
Populism is such a terrible misnomer. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #24
Look up the definition for Populism BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #27
I'm saying the word itself is completely inappropriate. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #28
Language can be dangerous BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #32
Exactly. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #33
And they're anything but a majorly or popular. Ligyron Feb 2022 #35
As you say. Too many still think it refers to "the people" and "popular," Hortensis Feb 2022 #30
Exactly! BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #34
Yup. Self-centered anti-democratic snowflakes. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #12
Post removed Post removed Feb 2022 #16
Welcome to DU. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #18
Lol that was fast XanaDUer2 Feb 2022 #20
I didn't even notice the hearts! lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #21
There were 2 XanaDUer2 Feb 2022 #22
For a second there I thought the title was "Tucker Tantrum" Crowman2009 Feb 2022 #25
Me too srose58089 Feb 2022 #31

Lovie777

(12,218 posts)
1. And they are spreading the virus . ...
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 10:18 AM
Feb 2022

typical GQP. They have no "concerns" about their fellow human beings.

wnylib

(21,341 posts)
23. They are coming my way this weekend.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:34 PM
Feb 2022

I do not live in Buffalo, but in a nearby small city.

Yesterday the Buffalo NPR station reported that a truck convoy is headed to Buffalo from NYC and areas around the US side of the Great Lakes. They plan on a "support rally" to block access from the US side to the Peace Bridge between NY state and Ontario.

This is the main bridge crossing for truckers in this area, and the 3rd largest Canadian/American crossing in the country. It is the route that people take to Niagara Falls. It is also the crossing point for people who cross daily between the two countries for work on the other side.

This is NOT about vaccine mandates. This is about deliberate disruption of economies in the US and Canada, who both have liberal leaders in office.

It is also about deliberately provoking violence. They want the left to respond. So, how do we respond without violence?

I think we should blast them with very LOUD recorded laughter. Nothing hurts these self-important fools more than being laughed at.

If they really are unvaccinated, it sure would be a shame if they got infected by a vaccinated person who has mild or no symptoms and walks among them shaking hands and hugging them to congratulate them.

(OK, that is a bad fantasy that came out of the lower side of my psyche.)

What would happen if they drove their trucks over a bed of nails?

(Another bad fantasy.)



But blasting laughter really does appeal to me.

Any other ideas?

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,121 posts)
7. I agree whole-heartedly... these right-wings crazies need to get their asses back to work!!
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 11:16 AM
Feb 2022

These assholes are trying to bring down the North American economy. The U.S. & Canadian governments need to step in and end this bullshit "protest," even if requires military force to restore order.

Ohioboy

(3,238 posts)
8. I'll never understand right-wing idiots
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 11:37 AM
Feb 2022

They think masks and mandates are hurting their business, so they destroy their business first by clogging up an already stressed supply chain.

knightmaar

(748 posts)
9. Most of the attendees are dupes, tbh.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 11:38 AM
Feb 2022

But the organizers are right wing, white supremacists. You can google them and find the one guy ranting about anglo-saxon bloodlines and naming your kids "Ching Chang Chong Chin Chang".

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
11. Words and deeds
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 11:40 AM
Feb 2022

I don’t care what these Cultists say but I do care what they do. Right now they are following the populist playbook - something Putin strongly supports both here and in Europe.

wnylib

(21,341 posts)
36. And they are spreading. Tomorrow
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:17 PM
Feb 2022

a convoy is coming to Buffalo to block the Peace Bridge here. They are American truckers "in solidarity with" supposed Canadians.

Right, this is NOT about vaccines. This is about disrupting governments and economies of democracies with liberal leaders. Maybe Putin retaliation about Ukraine.

It is spreading to other regions of the world and the US. There is talk of a disruption of the Super Bowl.

I think that this is meant to be a trigger event for the fascist revolutions and civil war the RW has wanted for so long.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. Agree, I care what they do. Populism pours gas on and weaponizes
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:22 PM
Feb 2022

the worst in people prone ot negative hostilities. Using their big rigs as powerful weapons against society, as some cheer them as heroes and others are helpless before them, must be like angry fantasies becoming possible.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
19. At last!
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:26 PM
Feb 2022

Someone who has taken the time to understand the dangers of populism. We find it on the right and left and it almost always ends in disaster.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
26. Yes, and right and left are now UNITING as "anti-establishment" populism.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:50 PM
Feb 2022

Democrats of course representing America's establishment.

The left's anti-establishment class-warfare populists, frustrated because the only mobs big enough to matter were anti- (Democratic) establishment authoritarian, can now join in one giant mob that may be capable of smashing all before it.

If they vote combined numbers. This is how majorities that voted to destroy themselves in other nations tyically formed. With the inevitable disastrous ends following.

I feel like we're in a political wildfire season.

Grab the shovels and hoses.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
29. Sing it Hortensis!
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:58 PM
Feb 2022

When Putin talks about “useful idiots” he means these folks willing to destroy their own nation at the behest of outside forces - getting them to do their dirty work while waving a flag.

Bucket and shovel in hand!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
37. Lol, great description. Populist idiots must be by far the most useful.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:39 PM
Feb 2022

And presumably his personal favorite. After all, his own were used to turn all of Russia over into an oligarchy of criminals with him on top. And then put down.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
24. Populism is such a terrible misnomer.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:44 PM
Feb 2022

These assholes are anything but popular. They are anti-social extremists, driven by Putin's propaganda and funding, and their own deep-seated psychological problems.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
27. Look up the definition for Populism
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:53 PM
Feb 2022

This is exactly what it looks like. Don’t be fooled into thinking it is anything else.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
28. I'm saying the word itself is completely inappropriate.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:55 PM
Feb 2022

I am aware of how it's been used over the years.

The word was deliberately chosen to make it seem as if evil ideas are somehow "popular".

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
32. Language can be dangerous
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:10 PM
Feb 2022

Especially to the uninformed. Populism? Must be about the people, so that’s good - right? WRONG. It’s a cynically chosen phrase used to motivate people to destroy their nations.

Ligyron

(7,616 posts)
35. And they're anything but a majorly or popular.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:13 PM
Feb 2022

I bet those truckers listen to RW crap like Joe Rogaine, etc., on satellite radio or of course Fox which is available coast to coast. Outright propaganda and perhaps even subliminal messaging has fried their brain and produced much if not all of what we see now.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
30. As you say. Too many still think it refers to "the people" and "popular,"
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:07 PM
Feb 2022

which a lot of subversive manipulators push as a huge bait and switch to overthrow of the will of the people.

Response to lagomorph777 (Original post)

srose58089

(214 posts)
31. Me too
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 01:08 PM
Feb 2022

I happened to accidently watch a few minutes of Tucker Carlson last night. My brain was half asleep when I saw Trucker Tantrum.

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