Posted on 02/18/2024 9:08:33 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The liberals smugly thought they had it all figured out. Get a deranged judge and a TDS prosecutor who campaigned primarily on Trump hate in New York to find Donald Trump guilty on an absurd charge that no one else in history had been charged with and for which there were NO victims. Of course, this totally bogus case was sure to be tossed on appeal but the whole point was that during the appeals process that could last for many months or over a year, Trump would have to come up with the over $350 million penalty and prohibited from doing business in New York for 3 years.
Yes, they had it all figured out except they overlooked one very NOT minor detail. American truckers. The "peasants" whom they despise. On the day after the the judgement was handed down, trucker Chicago Ray put out the word that starting Monday, February 19, truckers would NO LONGER be delivering shipments to New York City. And that movement almost instantly grew like wildfire with many many truckers pledging NOT to make deliveries to New York.
As Chicago Ray put it, F--- Around and Find Out. And New York will soon find out that there is little to no food on their supermarket shelves. Food prices in that city will soon reflect the lack of supply from truckers. Within days the price of eggs should rise to at least $10 per dozen which will seem like a bargain a few days later when they rise to over $20 per dozen. Call it an incentive, liberals. An incentive to FAST TRACK the appeals process from months to days so New Yorkers can eat again.
Oh, and don't blame the truckers for your woes, New York. Put the blame where it REALLY belongs. Upon Judge Engoron and D.A. Letitia James and upon all those liberals who were too cute by half with this dopey Trump punishment scheme.
Hate to see them make the sacrifice alone but I wish them well and resolve.
“ I think this is overblown but maybe some truckers can comment. I would be happy if I’m wrong. 16% of truckers are independent, doesn’t sound like enough. Some will be too worried about money to get involved. I don’t know how well indy truckers are doing these days.”
Truckers will know who is delivering loads to NYC and those rigs may have problems if they stop and leave their rig unattended for even a short period. They will be treated just like Union Scabs.
You sure got that right!
Oh, Lord! Please send us more of them deplorables!
Snake Plissken? I thought he was dead.
Correct, but one reason for Aldi to limit such outfits from cleaning them out of stock is that Aldi has a limited selection of everything by design - they have a smaller and cheaper-to-run store as a result. The problem for that model is that if someone cleans them out of several staples on a regular basis, their customers *will* go elsewhere rather than make multiple stops, causing a net loss. Stopping people from clearing out stock solves that problem quite nicely for them.
To be fair, the warehouse stores like Costco and Sam’s Club are actually set up to do that and market to business specifically to do that. If you look, both those companies were originally opened to sell to *businesses* and consumers were an afterthought.
God speed Truckers.
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The loads and costs will shift around. If only 25% of the rigs that are permitted boycott NYC then the cost to get loads in will go up a bunch. If it gets to 50% they will suffer high prices and shortages. If it hits 75% then NYC is in trouble. We will see.
“living in New York City”
I’d have to be hauled away in chains to go there.
I hope it happens.
If I were a trucker, I would happily join a boycott of deliveries to NYC, Not only because of the persecution of Trump but mostly because it is a nightmare to drive in the city.
I didn’t say they weren’t shady. Just pointing out that a business buying from Costco or Sam’s Club for resale is what those two’s business plans *are* and those people aren’t shady for doing that, particularly since they’re allowed to do so by their suppliers. If they’re buying from other non-warehouse stores and reselling - yeah, that’s absolutely shady.
The first injustice with this law is the invisible, un-knowable line you cross into fraud liability during ordinary commerce with a fully sophisticated bank.
The second is the absolute lack of a limiting principle in terms of how much you’ll be ordered to pay for your unavoidable transgression.
The third is the humiliation of having your payment enrich a government 100% controlled by your political enemies.
And the fourth is the absolute lack of any appellate option unless and until you pay the full amount of the judgment up front, at least into escrow.
What a perfect storm of injustice.
For different reasons, the East Coast of the U.S. is currently being simultaneously deprived of ease-of-access by inbound seaborne shipping through either the Panama Canal (drought conditions) OR the Suez Canal (Houthi attacks).
That leaves rail and OTR trucking.
Disrupting either to any appreciable extent while seaborne freight is being choked off would seem to constitute a real threat to supply/pricing stability going forward.
This situation really ought not to be brushed off as obviously insignificant.
How soon before this is illegal and they are all arrested and their trucks taken.
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