Posted on 11/09/2020 3:28:54 PM PST by MtnClimber
Here’s how it’s being organized. There’s a group on Facebook (for now – we all know how it goes on Facebook) called Stop the Tires Truckers that is organizing the strike. As of the writing of this article, more than 15,000 people had joined the newly formed group.
Here’s their message (and I’m also posting a screenshot in case it gets removed.) Note that they are specifically asking truckers who transport medical supplies not to participate.
Our message is simple and hopefully effective. We fully intend to exercise our rights, and will not have politicians making crippling decisions, that will negatively affect our future and the future of our children.
President Trump has worked diligently for four long years to protect the rights and freedoms of all Americans, and very importantly the blue-collar workers of this country. The blue-collar workers are literally the ones that make the wheels turn! Without truck drivers this country could not survive for long. Our intention is not to harm anyone. We would like to make a point that we do NOT wish for any companies or private truck drivers, supplying any kind of medical supplies and/or services, to participate in our movement.
We will not participate in the leftist, Biden/Harris Green New Deal. We do not support the banning of fracking. The United States of America operates as a capitalistic economy and OIL is the fuel she survives on. With this being said, we will STOP ALL TIRES for 24 hours on Veterans Day 11/11/20. If this is not effective and our leaders do not respect that blue-collar truck drivers are having to face domestic terrorism, primarily in democrat run cities all over the United States, and that we do not support the banning of fracking in any way, then we will have our second STOP OF TIRES for FOUR full days 11/26/20-11/29/20.
We are calling for all patriots to share this all over the country. We may not last long on Facebook, but please do not be deterred, and continue to share this on any social media or other outlets, that you have available to you.
Thanks for the heads up!
Hope more than 15,000 strike - how about 50,000?
I’m sure women & minorities will suffer the most.../s
That’s correct!
At this point my give a damn meter is mighty low.
Over / under on how long until Facebook pulls the plug on their group?
I don’t truck food. But even if I did, I’d still go on strike. A small price to pay for freedom.
Not this one.
I’ve been ready for months.
As we finish our moving in, I am consolidating and inventorying everything.
This past weekend, I taught my son, who is becoming very prepper minded, how to pressure can meat. We did up several quarts of round that we got on sale for $1.99/lb!
His wife, a city girl through and through keeps ragging on him about the amount of stuff he’s been buying. He’s taken to hiding it. I’m going to tell him that if he wants, he can store stuff at our house. It’s a hike to his place, but we can figure something out.
He is fortunate to live on a dead end street that doesn’t look like it’s inhabited until you go around a sharp bend and the street is jam packed with Trump supporters. BIG signs in many of the yards. A very defensible location.
Yeah, but if anyone isn’t ready by Wed evening, that’s their problem.
It’s not like Thanksgiving sneaks up on anyone these days.
Stop ALL Truck Deliveries from entering DC and Virginia, sit back and watch with a few cold ones
Same here.
Amen!
Very well thought out and planned.
The longer this election drags on the more tense the situation will get.
We’re about as ready as we’ll ever be. Come what may.
We still have a few more things to nail down.
Pray that we can get to them post haste.
They are in mr. mm’s court.
Lots of Trump supporters live in large cities, too.
Lots of Trump supporters live in places like California, Oregon, and Washington state.
Starve the woke populations & there will be collateral suffering. Just saying.
I’m a trucker. If this hare-brained scheme checked any more stupid boxes, I’d be tempted to assume that it was a false flag/Darwin Award setup by the left.
Their page has 29,000 members. No word that I can tell from Teamsters or major companies.
Under wins. FB just pulled the plug with 30,000 members.
Some things are on twitter still
https://mobile.twitter.com/StopTheTires/with_replies
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/stopthetires?src=hashtag_click&f=live
Soon we will all learn how it was in Russia in 1930.
It’s at least good organizational and tactical war game practice. Possibly more effective is a “tunnel of love”, where truckers park across all lanes headed into big cities so that cars can squeeze through a narrow curvy channel down the middle, but scrab tractor trailers cannot fit. American flags can be draped down the channel and shotgun holding truckers can stare at people in their Suburu Foofoos as they snake by. A traffic jam upstream would form, but not a total blockage. It would be helpful if the highway patrol got peaceful protest stand-down orders like the city police get for rioters, and make sure there are few available heavy tow trucks in service. Believe it or not but this would be a key tool when the city-slicker socialist vs. American patriot civil war gets hotter.
Two choices:
1. These people are sincere, and thus moronic enough to believe that FB would leave their page up.
2. It’s a troll by the left to see how many people on our team appear petty and chaotic enough to publicly identify with a half-assed plan to starve cities, interrupt businesses that employ their neighbors, and paralyze the transport grid to make a political point. Specifically targeting two cherished national holidays. Associating this BS with President Trump while he’s still in office and carrying a crushing burden of urgent responsibilities. Does anyone think he wants this turd hung around his neck?
How would it be if we didn’t uncritically jump on every bandwagon that comes by?
arbee4bush :" Will this have an definate effect? They should do it the following week after all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
If yer gonna do, do it right! Lol
#Maga"
From the OP article :
"If this is not effective and our leaders do not respect that blue-collar truck drivers are having to face domestic terrorism,
primarily in democrat run cities all over the United States, and that we do not support the banning of fracking in any way,
then we will have our second STOP OF TIRES for FOUR full days 11/26/20-11/29/20."
(My Comment): This is an attempt to get the American public's attention, not really to do any permanent national economic harm.
If you consider the fact that most retail and grocery stores have limited supply on hand, and are dependent on trucker re-supply every three days;
this could be an effective economic statement of support by flexing the trucker influence and economic muscle.
However, this could be the start of real domestic turmoil, especially since, other than small regionalized strikes, the US has never had a massive strike.
There is no indication at this time whether any of the national unionized truckers are supportive of this strike call, even if it is for their own benefit.
It is the unrecognized and under appreciated truckers, both local and "long haul" truckers, who keep this nations products moving from point to point.
Be prepared :" Hope for the best; prepare for the worst" !
Hare-brained?
Do you have any idea what BiteMe’s handlers have planned for the trucking industry?
This is self-defense.
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