Truck Protests Here in America

[andydp]

Apr 18, 2022 18:21:46 GMT goldenvalley said:

My husband was driving to his office in Sacramento and yup, the "convoy" is here clogging up traffic.  Those of us who work downtown just blocks from the Capitol Building are used to some congestion when various events happen on the grounds.  

City commuters are so used to congestion they wouldn't even notice.  Block a road ? They know detours.  I'm betting the majority of the people in traffic would say "there's a protest ?"

I'm curious why they don't try that in rural areas.  I'm sure delaying a bunch of farmers trying to get their product out before it spoils would go over really well.  

[goldenvalley]

Apr 18, 2022 19:41:06 GMT andydp said:

I'm curious why they don't try that in rural areas.  I'm sure delaying a bunch of farmers trying to get their product out before it spoils would go over really well.  

No libs to own in the rural areas.

[andydp]

Apr 18, 2022 23:42:20 GMT goldenvalley said:

Apr 18, 2022 19:41:06 GMT andydp said:

I'm curious why they don't try that in rural areas.  I'm sure delaying a bunch of farmers trying to get their product out before it spoils would go over really well.  

No libs to own in the rural areas.

Personally, I’d be concerned about getting tires shot out (and not by ANTIFA).

[LFC]

Harassing assholes got run out of town and egged by kids. What a bunch of pathetic, posturing assholes.

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Peoples-Convoy-chased-out-of-Bay-Area-17122881.php

[LFC]

These f***ing dipshits want to take another swing at it. If they use their trucks in any illegal activity, like intentionally blockading streets, the trucks need to be impounded as property used to perpetrate a crime. Welcome to the wonderful world of civil forfeiture.

The so-called People’s Convoy is en route back to the Washington, D.C. area. But this time around, they hope to occupy the city instead of merely circling on the Beltway. “We are not doing circles around D.C. again,” the trucker who goes by the alias “Mug Pig” said during a Thursday YouTube stream. “Hopefully, when we go to D.C., we are in D.C.” Then, speaking over the CB radio, newly appointed convoy leader David Riddell aka “Santa” said he expects the group to only enter the city once. Further, while the convoy intends to have a base camp an hour and a half away from D.C. proper for “the woman” and “the children,” truckers have asked for volunteers to “run things in and out for us.” The move comes weeks after the convoy left D.C., defeated by residents and the Beltway. Since then, the convoy has been egged by kids in the Oakland, California area. “As part of our layered mitigation strategy and enhanced preparedness posture, MPD has all the necessary resources and support needed to monitor and respond to any instances of illegal activity or harmful disruption,” D.C. Police Public Affairs Specialist Brianna Burch told The Daily Beast regarding the convoy coming back into town. The group, that has become increasingly violent, is currently in the Grovertown, Indiana area and is slated to arrive in D.C. early next week.

[andydp]

As if we didn't see it coming.  I have bolded some of the "standard" results of fund raising.  

The MAGA Trucker Convoy Has Imploded. Again.


It was, by all accounts, a big dumb mess, and the Hagerstown Speedway General Manager Lisa Plessinger was none too pleased with all the drama. She decided to pull the plug on everything, according to the Hagerstown Herald-Mail.

"I'm not a babysitter,” she told the Herald-Mail after the hubbub. "I didn't sign up for that so when they got to act like a bunch of kids it was time for them to go home. Just like with any unruly child, you only put up with so many temper tantrums before you say 'enough’ and put them in time out. So that's what I did."

In response to their surprise eviction, the convoy's leaders bizarrely declared “victory” and hastily announced “the conclusion to the national convoy portion of this great movement.” Then, they quickly distanced themselves from the folks they brought to Hagerstown.

The convoy has raised millions of dollars—most of which, according to the Washington Post has been spent—for the organizers, drivers, and many supporters who had uprooted their lives at considerable financial and personal costs. On Friday irate supporters specifically demanded to know where their $15,000 rent check to the speedway went. The cops and the general manager told them it had never been paid.

The convoy’s website is now down, and the group's telegram page has taken a distinctive edge against the former leaders. The mood among the supporters remains apoplectic with followers making accusations of theft and people wanting to band together against those they used to follow.

“As people that drove around the country and raised money for them to pay, they lied to us,” one popular streamer said about the organizers. “Our job is now to expose them and press charges against them.”

[goldenvalley]

May 26, 2022 16:19:47 GMT andydp said:

As if we didn't see it coming.  I have bolded some of the "standard" results of fund raising.  

The MAGA Trucker Convoy Has Imploded. Again.


It was, by all accounts, a big dumb mess, and the Hagerstown Speedway General Manager Lisa Plessinger was none too pleased with all the drama. She decided to pull the plug on everything, according to the Hagerstown Herald-Mail.

"I'm not a babysitter,” she told the Herald-Mail after the hubbub. "I didn't sign up for that so when they got to act like a bunch of kids it was time for them to go home. Just like with any unruly child, you only put up with so many temper tantrums before you say 'enough’ and put them in time out. So that's what I did."

In response to their surprise eviction, the convoy's leaders bizarrely declared “victory” and hastily announced “the conclusion to the national convoy portion of this great movement.” Then, they quickly distanced themselves from the folks they brought to Hagerstown.

The convoy has raised millions of dollars—most of which, according to the Washington Post has been spent—for the organizers, drivers, and many supporters who had uprooted their lives at considerable financial and personal costs. On Friday irate supporters specifically demanded to know where their $15,000 rent check to the speedway went. The cops and the general manager told them it had never been paid.

The convoy’s website is now down, and the group's telegram page has taken a distinctive edge against the former leaders. The mood among the supporters remains apoplectic with followers making accusations of theft and people wanting to band together against those they used to follow.

“As people that drove around the country and raised money for them to pay, they lied to us,” one popular streamer said about the organizers. “Our job is now to expose them and press charges against them.”

Grift disguised as protest.

[andydp]

This is worthy of going into the political humor section because its soooo freakin`stupid.  Once again, the Onion staff was caught sleeping

Spoiler:  It was ANTIFA.

Trucker Convoy Enraged After Being Tricked Out Of 100 Foot Subway Sub


The remainder of the trucker convoy faced another setback as they were promised a 100-foot-long Subway sub only to find out that it was a hoax.

After driving in circles, peeing themselves, and getting lost, the Freedom Convoy disbanded, and what was left of them rebranded as the 1776 Restoration Movement. The bladder-challenged truckers are in Bunker Hill, WV, where they tried to hold a rally.

At the rally, a trucker claimed that the pandemic was really about the government trafficking children. (Yep, the last people left at the trucker party are Qanon).

These folks were very upset that there was no hundred-foot Subway sub, which, being that there are only 20 people, would have been five feet of sub per person.

Most of the Freedom Convoy got tired of protesting the high price of gas by driving in circles and wasting gas, so they went home.

There was no 100-foot-sub. It was just another Antifa plot to trick the truckers into not bringing their own lunch.

www.politicususa.com/2022/06/05/trucker-convoy-sub.html

[jackd]

Seems totally appropriate that they are in West Virginia.

[andydp]

What were the odds ?

'A money grab from the very beginning': Questions raised over $1.8 million donated to the People's Convoy

In a report on the aftermath of the so-called "People's Convoy" comprised of a smattering of truckers and their supporters unhappy with a variety of policies under President Joe Biden, several participants -- and organizers -- are questioning where exactly the reported $1.8 million donated to the cause went while at the same time trashing the protest as both a "money grab" and a "circus."

<SNIP>

"More than $1.8 million was collected through the convoy’s fundraising platform, the American Foundation for Civil Liberties and Freedoms (AFCLF). What happened to the money that was supposedly collected over the four days preceding the official May 20 disbanding, which some participants and live streamers claim totaled around $15,000, remains a mystery," the report states. "Since the convoy was evicted from the speedway, organizers, supporters and rival trucking advocacy groups have taken to TikTok, YouTube and conservative social media channels to speculate about what happened to the money."

Questions about the money have focused on organizer Marcus Sommers, "who rode in the organization’s command center’s RV but didn’t drive his own rig during the 87-day event."

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-money-grab-from-the-very-beginning-questions-raised-over-1-8-million-donated-to-the-people-s-convoy/ar-AAY8Xiu?bk=1&ocid=msedgntp&cvid=100fe370d795498e8e0054d6d6f8b863

(My guess: ANTIFA took the money.)

[goldenvalley]

Jun 6, 2022 18:32:44 GMT andydp said:

What were the odds ?

'A money grab from the very beginning': Questions raised over $1.8 million donated to the People's Convoy


(My guess: ANTIFA took the money.)

But you and I know it was all taken by someone who was on the Convoy's "side."  Like the build the wall grifters, they start with some project based on ideology or grievance and then make money from it! 

[AnBr]

"People's Convoy"? Sounds commie to me.

[andydp]

Jun 6, 2022 19:45:57 GMT goldenvalley said:

Jun 6, 2022 18:32:44 GMT andydp said:

What were the odds ?

'A money grab from the very beginning': Questions raised over $1.8 million donated to the People's Convoy

(My guess: ANTIFA took the money.)

But you and I know it was all taken by someone who was on the Convoy's "side."  Like the build the wall grifters, they start with some project based on ideology or grievance and then make money from it! 

One of the things I remind my friends is to make sure the money you're sending actually gets to the cause/person you want it to go to.  For the Ukrainian charity I sent the money to the Convent of Saint Basil the Great run by Ukrainian Sisters.  I saw their efforts and I'm sure the money/goods etc are going to get there with a minimum of administrative costs. The bracelets are nice, but I'm sure they only give a few cents to the cause.

[pg]

Jun 6, 2022 20:30:54 GMT andydp said:

Jun 6, 2022 19:45:57 GMT goldenvalley said:

But you and I know it was all taken by someone who was on the Convoy's "side."  Like the build the wall grifters, they start with some project based on ideology or grievance and then make money from it! 

One of the things I remind my friends is to make sure the money you're sending actually gets to the cause/person you want it to go to.  For the Ukrainian charity I sent the money to the Convent of Saint Basil the Great run by Ukrainian Sisters.  I saw their efforts and I'm sure the money/goods etc are going to get there with a minimum of administrative costs. The bracelets are nice, but I'm sure they only give a few cents to the cause.

Andy, no truer words could be said. I learned that lesson awhile ago, when I became a PR person for a HUGE  veterans "charity Biggest in our country", only to learn that most of their money is spent on promotion. Far too many of even the biggest charities on Earth use at the least, 40% donated to get more interest and pay salaries to those who get them more interest- and those are the most legit ones.

Now, for me this thread has been sort of a 'giggle". I say "sort of", since people like these infantile so-called "truckers" do nothing less than prevent others from getting to-and-fro. It's disgusting.


It's a serious point you make. 

[goldenvalley]

Jun 7, 2022 3:49:22 GMT pg said:

Jun 6, 2022 20:30:54 GMT andydp said:

Andy, no truer words could be said. I learned that lesson awhile ago, when I became a PR person for a HUGE  veterans "charity Biggest in our country", only to learn that most of their money is spent on promotion. Far too many of even the biggest charities on Earth use at the least, 40% donated to get more interest and pay salaries to those who get them more interest- and those are the most legit ones.

It takes money to make money.  It's just as true in charity as it is in business. The charities that spring up in response to an event might do ok for a while when interest and passions are high, but a charity that is trying to address a long term need will have to have staff that exists to promote the cause and raise the money.  People forget and lose interest...oh yeah foster kids again? The problem is never fixed and compassion fatigue sets in.

I wouldn't worry so much about pg's situation as I would about the type of charity like the one Bannon and other grifters were in paying themselves big bucks and some charities that basically exist to employ family members of the founder.

[andydp]

Here we are, thinking they had their 15 minutes and would go away.  (Note an interesting connection.)


Right-Wing Truckers’ Leader Gets Arrested While Protesting Non-Existent COVID Mandates in D.C.

The leader of the right-wing and COVID anti-vax 1776 Restoration Movement—formerly called The People’s Convoy—was arrested near the National Mall on Wednesday after his group came to town protesting non-existent mandates. Far-right Proud Boy member and leader David “Santa” Riddell was taken into custody for a warrant out of Maryland, D.C.

www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-truckers-leader-gets-arrested-while-protesting-non-existent-covid-mandates-in-dc?fbclid=IwAR2VO8kCrdYMoZ9CowJ8bP-UWMnyJMn0lVs-wAuI00h1rzWaBLOj1NutZyA

[LFC]

It's frightening that somebody that dumb has a license to drive a large truck.

[andydp]

We’re in the Baltimore area to attend our nephew’s delayed 2020 wedding reception. Had to navigate the beltway on Friday and Saturday.

Friday: rush hour was expected to be yutzy and it was. Coming back only half yutzy.

Saturday afternoon semi yutzy. Just busy and a few slow areas.

Bottom line: no one would have noticed a “slowdown”

PS: I think if they wanted bigger impact they should have done it in Texas. Then again bullet damaged truck tires are expensive.

[Bact PhD]

Jul 17, 2022 14:35:04 GMT andydp said:

We’re in the Baltimore area to attend our nephew’s delayed 2020 wedding reception. Had to navigate the beltway on Friday and Saturday.

Friday: rush hour was expected to be yutzy and it was. Coming back only half yutzy.

Saturday afternoon semi yutzy. Just busy and a few slow areas.

Bottom line: no one would have noticed a “slowdown”

PS: I think if they wanted bigger impact they should have done it in Texas. Then again bullet damaged truck tires are expensive.

With my typical luck, on the Virginia-to-Jersey leg of my recent travels, I hit I-70/I-695 right at afternoon rush hour. Yes, it was just as yutzy as it sounds; I concur that any sort of “planned slowdown” likely would have passed without notice. FTR, from my childhood recollections of that trek, it was no less yutzy, and no less torn up, a half-century ago.

Hope the reception went well.

[LFC]

Gee, why would anybody think you guys are a bunch of chumps to be scammed? [snicker, snicker]

Last year’s trucker convoy protests threatened to storm into the nation’s capital, but ended with a whimper in May as the group disbanded amid intense infighting. However, in recent days, the movement was reawakened by text message “scammers” calling for the truckers to join a multi-level marketing scheme.

On Saturday, people who had given their phone numbers to the “People’s Convoy” group received an anonymous text message.

“Hi Patriot friends!!! Biden is killing us at the pump, we have some help for you!” the message said.

This offer to the convoy patriots was not another plan to take over Washington. Instead, it was a decidedly questionable business opportunity that was quickly disavowed by some of the group’s organizers.

On Facebook, the group’s main page was dormant for over three months until Saturday when one of the administrators, Kris Young, sent a message addressing the mysterious texts.

“Hi everyone! We just want to let everyone know that if you are receiving text messages that say The People’s Convoy, they are from scammers and are not from us,” Young wrote, adding, “Please do not click the links and delete the messages.”

The text message linked to a website with an all caps header declaring “TIRED OF OVERPAYING FOR GAS?” Readers were invited to submit their contact information and “learn how to save money on gas and help others do the same.” Those who did so were led to another page informing them that “Success is a choice” and inviting them to “Be the CEO of your own life.” It also opened up a video pitch from Josh Zwagil, the CEO and founder of MyDailyChoice, a company that bills itself as a “House of Brands.”

In the ten minute clip, Zwagil offered viewers “an unmatched home-based business opportunity” selling one of his company’s offerings, “Fuel Factor X.” According to MyDailyChoice’s marketing materials, “Fuel Factor X,” which the company launched last year, can reduce emissions and dramatically improve your gas mileage.

Clearly these people have "SUCKER!" tattooed all over their foreheads.

However, fuel additives weren’t necessarily the main thing being sold in the text message that went out to members of the “People’s Convoy” group.

MyDailyChoice is a self-described “network” marketing company that sells products through affiliates who recruit other affiliates. The video promoting “Fuel Factor X” was sent to the “People’s Convoy” group by a MyDailyChoice affiliate who identified themselves as “TMP Solutions.” In the clip, Zwagil suggested people who sold his company’s products would experience massive success.

“I was a nobody when I got started, but my future belonged to me,” Zwagil said. “I was able to achieve some of the most wildest dreams through this industry.”

In addition to “Fuel Factor X,” MyDailyChoice’s offerings include “Mantra Synergy” essential oils, “Cosmikology” skincare, and the “Hempworx” line of CBD products.

The affiliate sales business model, which is also known as multi-level marketing, is not illegal. However, it is viewed by many experts as a “scam.” Jon Taylor and the Consumer Awareness Institute produced a book on the industry that concluded 99 percent of people who participate in multi-level marketing businesses “lose money.”

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