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Feds Try To Bankrupt a Moving Company for Hiring Strong, Young Movers
Reason ^ | 07/21/2025 | J.D. Tuccille

Posted on 07/21/2025 8:24:58 AM PDT by DFG

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1 posted on 07/21/2025 8:24:58 AM PDT by DFG
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This is a awesome company.


2 posted on 07/21/2025 8:31:35 AM PDT by bobrlbob (I BELIEVE IN LAW AND ORDER. )
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To: DFG

https://www.eeoc.gov/

look at their news releases.


3 posted on 07/21/2025 8:32:13 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: bobrlbob

“This is a awesome company”

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Which is apparently why some POS bureaucrats feel it should be destroyed.


4 posted on 07/21/2025 8:33:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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The EEOC didn’t like Steed going public, so it told the company to shut up. Meathead Movers wouldn’t be allowed to share its ordeal or its side of the story with the public.

“The EEOC issued a gag order demanding that Aaron and his company cease all public communication—including social media posts—about the case, under threat of additional legal action,” according to the Goldwater Institute, which is now involved in the case. “In other words, the government is now trampling on the First Amendment rights of the company’s founder, simply because it doesn’t like that the company is sharing the truth about the government’s actions in this case.”


key points


5 posted on 07/21/2025 8:33:56 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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The Only People With a Complaint Are Federal Bureaucrats

Interestingly, the EEOC isn’t backing a lawsuit filed by aggrieved current or former employees—it’s still trawling for anybody with an axe to grind against Meathead Movers on the agency’s website,


Another key point


6 posted on 07/21/2025 8:34:39 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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There must not be enough real eeoc work, that they pursue something that has no victims.

Reduce their budget by a bunch, since they have all this money to burn and nothing legitimate to use it on.


7 posted on 07/21/2025 8:36:18 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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“I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.”....................


8 posted on 07/21/2025 8:36:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/litigation/our-cases/

The Goldwater Institute frequently takes the fight for liberty to court. Through our Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, we litigate cases and file briefs to advance freedom and defend individual rights across the country, on issues ranging from free speech and property rights to school choice and equal protection under the law, and much more.

We opened the Scharf-Norton Center in 2007, making us the first state-based free-market think tank to deploy a team of lawyers to promote our vision in court. In the decade-plus since, the Institute’s litigation team has advocated for freedom before state supreme courts, federal courts of appeal, and even the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are some of the cases we are working on today:


9 posted on 07/21/2025 8:40:18 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Here’s a dilemma:

“The head of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is Andrea R. Lucas, who is the Acting Chair. She was appointed to the position by President Donald J. Trump.”

Not that it’s of any consequence, but she is a black female.


10 posted on 07/21/2025 8:41:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

They’ve got to create work for themselves, otherwise they might get DOGE’d,


11 posted on 07/21/2025 8:44:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“ The Only People With a Complaint Are Federal Bureaucrats Interestingly, the EEOC isn’t backing a lawsuit filed by aggrieved current or former employees—it’s still trawling for anybody with an axe to grind against Meathead Movers on the agency’s website, “.

EEOC is gubermints version of your company’s HR

12 posted on 07/21/2025 8:45:26 AM PDT by Jumpmaster (U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/case/heavy-lifting-heavier-price-goldwater-sues-feds-over-15m-shakedown-of-moving-company/

So why did the federal government target this successful American business. The Institute sent public records requests to find out.

In March 2025, the Goldwater Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request demanding answers: Were any complaints filed against Meathead Movers? Has the EEOC taken similar actions against other companies? The agency refused to hand over that basic information, citing privacy concerns. But privacy is for individuals. Transparency is for the government. Instead of providing the transparency the law demands, federal bureaucrats are keeping the public in the dark.

The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit against the EEOC to compel compliance with the FOIA and to require production of the requested information.


When you shine the light on bureaucrats, they don’t like it.

A reminder to all of us to shine the light on things. Don’t say “no big deal” and let it pass. I have reported thefts knowing I wouldn’t get justice but I think it stopped a lot of future thefts. Word gets around.


13 posted on 07/21/2025 8:46:09 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: V_TWIN
"Here’s a dilemma: Not that it’s of any consequence, but she is a black female."

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Andrea Ruth Lucas is an American lawyer, currently serving as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She was appointed as the commission's acting chair by Donald Trump in 2025. Lucas is a vocal opponent of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, believing that they motivate reverse discrimination. She has also criticized the application of federal civil rights protections to transgender individuals.

wiki


14 posted on 07/21/2025 8:46:20 AM PDT by TexasGator (/I1.here is no Sharknado system)
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To: DFG
This is a California based company. Most moves in California have been outward bound, with middle class people moving eastward. Hiring young, strong men is the most rational strategy. Older workers tend to get injured more frequently, driving up worker compensation costs, which are passed on to customers.

Understandably, the EEOC has to be low on President Trump's radar given the massive and treacherous nature of his enemies in the Federal bureaucracy, the Deep State, the Democratic Party, and the RINOs in his own party. The EEOC is going to bat against companies that have used DEI as a reason to discriminate against white heterosexual men and for Christians fired or demoted because of their faith. Under the current leadership, the agency is much better than it had been under Biden.

15 posted on 07/21/2025 8:47:28 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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Hire the workers as “Models”.

You can discriminate any way you want.


16 posted on 07/21/2025 8:47:53 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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Anti-Trump people with the governmental apparatus.


17 posted on 07/21/2025 8:49:22 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Because 70 year old women can move couches and fridges just like the young men can.


18 posted on 07/21/2025 9:00:22 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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This is one where Trump’s DOJ and EEOC should get involved. They should provide all the records and fire the ones guilty to send a message.


19 posted on 07/21/2025 9:08:19 AM PDT by alternatives?
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“anti-meathead jihad”

Like we have to sue to find out. The federal government is run by homosexual deviants, trannies, queers, and angry fat black women. They HATE all things healthy, male, and strong.


20 posted on 07/21/2025 9:08:56 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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