What's, like, bewildering to me is how these guys have the time to camp out for their days of doin whatever in DC if they're in fact working truckers and not, say, just jerk offs.
As for the grift and resentment, that's pretty much all our GOP rulers give their deplorables.
And how can I put this tastefully? Any, maybe all, misogynistic terms, phrases, whatever apply remarkably well to these butch poseurs. Gotta true me, because I have issues about using the language, etc., to make that case. But I guess we can start with acting like they have any agency when they don't; they just scream and yell -- one maybe can call it hysteria with all the baggage that word has -- and leave it that.
"the “Freedom Convoy” that remains camped out in Hagerstown, Maryland"
I think the 'camping' aspect should be perused a bit more. There's a thing in Effete World called 'glamping' which is a hash of 'glamour camping' wherein one drives to some idyllic countryside glade and walks a few yards from the car to a small hut/cabin/yurt/b&b that is equipped with more kitchen stuff than your average apartment, tho you'll never use anything but the coffeemaker, because everything is catered anyway. And posh sleeping accommodations or forget it...
Anyway, what Junior and the Truckerboys are doing in Hagerstown ain't that, tho if they had any sense, what with the sweet grifty cash that's building in drifts up to the wheel wells, they could be. No, what the tboys are doing I'd call 'cramping'. Camping, ramping up the rhetoric, amping up the testosterone...but still, on vacation, just havin' a little funtime seein' the DC sights like all the high school kids on spring break.
“It’s a trap!” Lmao. Yeah, it’s absolutely a “trap” when you break a law or local ordinance and the authorities respond accordingly. When the cops pull you over for doing 75 in a 55 mph area, that’s also a “trap.” When you cheat on your taxes and the IRS audits? Another “trap.” I’m surprised right-wingers don’t use the trap excuse more often, tbqhwy.
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I still wanna see those trucks try to make a go of it in town. Soon's they stop to unload or whatever I envision one decent sized forklift (if you've never seen them at a big port, you've a treat in store – the big ones could pick up a fully loaded truck with ease) ambling over, and hey presto, trucks flopped over on their sides, wheels gently spinning, and a few dazed joyriders climbing outta the windows.
Mar 17, 2022·edited Mar 17, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso
I'm taking a day off of work so I can work on my house. I will have to work longer this weekend to make the time up because this time of year I work 7 days a week, I
thought I'd point that out before I launch into a skree about just how fucking chuffed it makes me to hear some conman asshole talk about "Hard workin' Murkins"who always seem to be white, male and somewhat on the doughy side. With really soft hands. Hardest workers I know are named Juan, Diego, Maria and Manuel.
"Hardearnedmoney"always pisses me off too. The asshole using that phrase is always some easy money motherfucker who works no harder than it takes to make the the grift pay off.
So hanging around Hagerstown looking for cameras to rant into, punctuated by angry loops of the Beltway, constitutes hard work and good ole American initiative? Nice work if you can get it.
Remember Freedom Truckers: It's the DEMOCRATS who constantly spit upon you and disdain your work. Republicans have nothing but respect for you hard-working salt-of-the-earth Americans. Just ask Neil Gorsuch! He'll explain that it's your duty to freeze to death when your truck breaks down! Or ask any Republican Senator--like Ted Cruz--about how they'd like to repeal all those stupid regulations that keep you from dying on the road.
When these guys piss off some peon who has to drive around the Beltway during rush hour (almost certainly a totally unimportant person), they really think they're sticking it to the Man. That's consistent with their being so easily conned by the right (white) people spouting the right (ignorant, hateful) rhetoric.
The end of that ABC article about Ted Cruz hanging out with the Freedum Dorks is priceless: Cruz bloviates about whatever fucking thing he thinks is important and someone in the crowd yells back, "You should run for president." I think that's a pretty good trolling -- you could hear his tiny little heart breaking from all the way over here...
Ted Cruz is so out of touch with every day in America that he thinks you need to plug in an IHOP...
Rightwing theater, from Tea Party cosplayers to rootin’ tootin’ unregulated militias to Truck Nutz, would be sort of entertaining if it wasn’t a distraction from the depredations of fascists like Governor Abbott or Chief Just-us Roberts. Every inch of ink, minute of tv news and scroll of screen time (excepting Roy, of course) about these morons robs sentient Americans of real news about the racist, misogynistic hell Republican politics is condemning us to, not to mention climate change, endless wars and other calamities. Oh well, if the media did stop giving these people air, they’d probably pivot to “Inflation is killing us!” 24/7 (btw gas prices went down yesterday, so maybe the gaspocalypse isn’t going to force hard jerking ‘Murkins to sell their children to raise the money to pay for Disney+).
"Today, long-haul truckers are some of the most closely monitored workers in the world. Cameras and sensors dot their trucks, watching the road, the brakes and even the driver’s eye movements. Once, when his truck’s cabin heater broke, Mr. Knope was forced to sleep in freezing temperatures for several days while traveling across northern Ohio and New York because an automated system made sure his engine was turned off at night. The company told him there was no way to override the system."
These guys love the "weakling liberals are terrified of Real Men like us" story. Reminds me of the portrayal of liberals in the later Allen Drury "Advise and Consent" series. If you've never read them, the story lines will sound "Q"uite familiar. The last one I read had a Teddy Kennedy character elected President, and the Soviets took him to their War Room and showed the awesome might poised to destroy America. Teddy of course collapsed into a weeping puddle on the floor and unconditionally surrendered.
"When last we left our zeroes, they were farting around in a parking lot. But today. . . ."
What's, like, bewildering to me is how these guys have the time to camp out for their days of doin whatever in DC if they're in fact working truckers and not, say, just jerk offs.
As for the grift and resentment, that's pretty much all our GOP rulers give their deplorables.
And how can I put this tastefully? Any, maybe all, misogynistic terms, phrases, whatever apply remarkably well to these butch poseurs. Gotta true me, because I have issues about using the language, etc., to make that case. But I guess we can start with acting like they have any agency when they don't; they just scream and yell -- one maybe can call it hysteria with all the baggage that word has -- and leave it that.
"the “Freedom Convoy” that remains camped out in Hagerstown, Maryland"
I think the 'camping' aspect should be perused a bit more. There's a thing in Effete World called 'glamping' which is a hash of 'glamour camping' wherein one drives to some idyllic countryside glade and walks a few yards from the car to a small hut/cabin/yurt/b&b that is equipped with more kitchen stuff than your average apartment, tho you'll never use anything but the coffeemaker, because everything is catered anyway. And posh sleeping accommodations or forget it...
Anyway, what Junior and the Truckerboys are doing in Hagerstown ain't that, tho if they had any sense, what with the sweet grifty cash that's building in drifts up to the wheel wells, they could be. No, what the tboys are doing I'd call 'cramping'. Camping, ramping up the rhetoric, amping up the testosterone...but still, on vacation, just havin' a little funtime seein' the DC sights like all the high school kids on spring break.
“It’s a trap!” Lmao. Yeah, it’s absolutely a “trap” when you break a law or local ordinance and the authorities respond accordingly. When the cops pull you over for doing 75 in a 55 mph area, that’s also a “trap.” When you cheat on your taxes and the IRS audits? Another “trap.” I’m surprised right-wingers don’t use the trap excuse more often, tbqhwy.
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I still wanna see those trucks try to make a go of it in town. Soon's they stop to unload or whatever I envision one decent sized forklift (if you've never seen them at a big port, you've a treat in store – the big ones could pick up a fully loaded truck with ease) ambling over, and hey presto, trucks flopped over on their sides, wheels gently spinning, and a few dazed joyriders climbing outta the windows.
I'm taking a day off of work so I can work on my house. I will have to work longer this weekend to make the time up because this time of year I work 7 days a week, I
thought I'd point that out before I launch into a skree about just how fucking chuffed it makes me to hear some conman asshole talk about "Hard workin' Murkins"who always seem to be white, male and somewhat on the doughy side. With really soft hands. Hardest workers I know are named Juan, Diego, Maria and Manuel.
"Hardearnedmoney"always pisses me off too. The asshole using that phrase is always some easy money motherfucker who works no harder than it takes to make the the grift pay off.
So hanging around Hagerstown looking for cameras to rant into, punctuated by angry loops of the Beltway, constitutes hard work and good ole American initiative? Nice work if you can get it.
Remember Freedom Truckers: It's the DEMOCRATS who constantly spit upon you and disdain your work. Republicans have nothing but respect for you hard-working salt-of-the-earth Americans. Just ask Neil Gorsuch! He'll explain that it's your duty to freeze to death when your truck breaks down! Or ask any Republican Senator--like Ted Cruz--about how they'd like to repeal all those stupid regulations that keep you from dying on the road.
When these guys piss off some peon who has to drive around the Beltway during rush hour (almost certainly a totally unimportant person), they really think they're sticking it to the Man. That's consistent with their being so easily conned by the right (white) people spouting the right (ignorant, hateful) rhetoric.
Dear Beltway truckers, get a fucking job.
The end of that ABC article about Ted Cruz hanging out with the Freedum Dorks is priceless: Cruz bloviates about whatever fucking thing he thinks is important and someone in the crowd yells back, "You should run for president." I think that's a pretty good trolling -- you could hear his tiny little heart breaking from all the way over here...
Ted Cruz is so out of touch with every day in America that he thinks you need to plug in an IHOP...
Rightwing theater, from Tea Party cosplayers to rootin’ tootin’ unregulated militias to Truck Nutz, would be sort of entertaining if it wasn’t a distraction from the depredations of fascists like Governor Abbott or Chief Just-us Roberts. Every inch of ink, minute of tv news and scroll of screen time (excepting Roy, of course) about these morons robs sentient Americans of real news about the racist, misogynistic hell Republican politics is condemning us to, not to mention climate change, endless wars and other calamities. Oh well, if the media did stop giving these people air, they’d probably pivot to “Inflation is killing us!” 24/7 (btw gas prices went down yesterday, so maybe the gaspocalypse isn’t going to force hard jerking ‘Murkins to sell their children to raise the money to pay for Disney+).
"Today, long-haul truckers are some of the most closely monitored workers in the world. Cameras and sensors dot their trucks, watching the road, the brakes and even the driver’s eye movements. Once, when his truck’s cabin heater broke, Mr. Knope was forced to sleep in freezing temperatures for several days while traveling across northern Ohio and New York because an automated system made sure his engine was turned off at night. The company told him there was no way to override the system."
Fucking Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/opinion/truckers-surveillance.html
Can anyone provide a translation?
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The best I can do is "100 hearts the Canadian Northern Railway poop."
In a couple of weeks it could be a slice of Humble Pie: "Thirty Days with Assholes".
These guys love the "weakling liberals are terrified of Real Men like us" story. Reminds me of the portrayal of liberals in the later Allen Drury "Advise and Consent" series. If you've never read them, the story lines will sound "Q"uite familiar. The last one I read had a Teddy Kennedy character elected President, and the Soviets took him to their War Room and showed the awesome might poised to destroy America. Teddy of course collapsed into a weeping puddle on the floor and unconditionally surrendered.