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OK, I came across this..where.. oh in a comment on HufPo (Yea, I still look over there occasionally).
"Truckers to Shut Down America"
https://www.facebook.com/truckerstoshutdownamerica
I read a bunch of the posts, and for the life of me I can't figure out what EXACTLY these folks are after. It says "too much corruption." Some real nasty anti-Obama bile, but... certainly not all by any means.
Hell, if they were going after the republican morons in congress I'd get on my '68 Bonneville and join them....
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Limbaugh-addled idiots. No one will notice anything, except the media, who are paid to notice anything, no matter how small, on the Right.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)Another "wildcat trucker strike". I've seen a few of them over the years, they never seem to amount to much.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)They're all mouth and no act. I'm pretty sure none of them can afford to miss any loads.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Instead of being angry about the banks and corporations who are responsible for most of what's wrong with this country they're pissed off over Obamacare, government spending, the "elite" (except they're sorta confused about just who the elite are), and generally whatever else right wing talk radio tells them to be pissed off at.
They need to turn off the wingnut talkers and turn on some good music in those trucks.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)They could shut down the highways by being on the road and either driving slowly or parking their rigs. Driving too slowly is the bigger problem.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)I believe the tea-bots are planning to park their rigs to show how important they are. I hope they do. They might learn something.
RandiFan1290
(6,206 posts)Just like the scumbag biker gangs that polluted DC to disrupt the Muslim march.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Invariably the host at some point during an episode will complain that the trucker is unable to make a decent living anymore because of "regulations". But never any specifics. I even emailed the show to ask "specifically what rule(s) are so onerous that you can't generate a paycheck?"
Never got an answer.
frylock
(34,825 posts)FOX Sports totally fucked up the programming on both SPEED and FUEL. Seems like it's non-stop UFC anymore.