Is there a way to get conservatives out of trucking?

[dutch508]

fescuerescue (3,885 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216341836

Is there a way to get conservatives out of trucking?

Why are they allowed to have so much power over commerce.

Conservatives actually work, DUmbass.

LiberatedUSA (1,196 posts)

1. I don't understand the question.

Do you mean as in truckers? Like don’t hire people if they vote a certain way? That likely won’t pass constitutional muster.

Star Member Trueblue Texan (1,521 posts)

3. Their licenses should be revoked along with their insurance

Star Member brooklynite (76,013 posts)

6. Followed by BLM supporters?

I’m mean, if we’re letting State Governments seize the licenses of people who disagree with them, I sure that DeSantis / Kemp / Abbott will have some ideas.

Star Member captain queeg (7,434 posts)

7. I'd venture a guess that the majority of truckers lean right

Not that they are all wingnuts. But it tends to be an uneducated group. Of course I’m speaking from experience 40 yrs ago when I drove for awhile. It’s a way a hard worker with limited education can make a living. And it’s a rough life in so many ways. Long hours, long times away from home, hard physical labor between long stretches of sitting on your ass. Not a healthy lifestyle. So most people that can find better will not do it too long although there are those that enjoy that lifestyle. I’m sure plenty of them listen to RW radio for hours every day. All that being said they are doing a service that a lot of left leaning folks wouldn’t want to do.

 

Star Member Jilly_in_VA (4,677 posts)

8. I think

it has to do with AM talk radio, which was taken over years ago by the right wing. And that's what they all listen to.

ForgedCrank (350 posts)

9. Can we all

hear the things we are saying right now?
I don't want people harassed and destroyed over their personal opinions.
I'm a Democrat, I don't just vote that way.

 

[DefiantSix]

fescuerescue (3,885 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216341836

Is there a way to get conservatives out of trucking?

Sure.

Apply for the job, DUmbass...

 

[DLR Pyro]

They are so unhinged they are now looking to punish people for their political leanings.

[franksolich]

I dunno.

Being a trucker isn't easy, and demands putting up with a lot of inconvenience.

So who's going to replace them?

The primitives?

 

[SVPete]

Star Member captain queeg (7,434 posts)

7. I'd venture a guess that the majority of truckers lean right

Not that they are all wingnuts. But it tends to be an uneducated group. ...

Having a difficult and valuable skill is "uneducated" by DU's standards? Example 572,397,145,620 of why DUpipo are called DUmmies.

I knew a high school drop-out who farmed successfully for some 6 decades, drove a combine professionally, did much of his own mechanic work, and worked with UC Davis wheat seed development programs. When he had to retire the only government programs from which he received benefits were Social Security and Medicare, into which he had contributed those same 6 decades. The rest of his retirement expenses came out of $$ and assets he had saved up over his lifetime. My Dad was wa-a-a-a-a-aaaaayyyyy smarter than most/all DUmmies, college-degreed or not. Maybe I'll be a smart as him some day.

[DLR Pyro]

Having a difficult and valuable skill is "uneducated" by DU's standards? Example 572,397,145,620 of why DUpipo are called DUmmies.

I knew a high school drop-out who farmed successfully for some 6 decades, drove a combine professionally, did much of his own mechanic work, and worked with UC Davis wheat seed development programs. When he had to retire the only government programs from which he received benefits were Social Security and Medicare, into which he had contributed those same 6 decades. The rest of his retirement expenses came out of $$ and assets he had saved up over his lifetime. My Dad was wa-a-a-a-a-aaaaayyyyy smarter than most/all DUmmies, college-degreed or not. Maybe I'll be a smart as him some day.

yep

[landofconfusion80]

I tell people that driving a truck is like trying to concentrate on balancing a basketball on the end of a pen for hours. It's a tough thankless job. You keep it moving despite the weather, stupid people in the cars around you and perpetually changing road conditions.  Primitives wouldn't be able to deal with it

[SVPete]

Libs and Progs have a history of economically marginalizing and attempting to marginalize people they disdain and/or disagree with:

* Strict quotas to minimize the number of Jews in (now becoming formerly) elite universities;

* Attempting to make performing abortions mandatory to become a doctor or nurse, to keep Pro-Life people out of those professions;

* Stacking admissions processes decks to limit the number of whites and Asians admitted to universities and academic-oriented high schools.

I'm sure there are more such, those are just off the top of my head.

[SVPete]

I tell people that driving a truck is like trying to concentrate on balancing a basketball on the end of a pen for hours. It's a tough thankless job. You keep it moving despite the weather, stupid people in the cars around you and perpetually changing road conditions.  Primitives wouldn't be able to deal with it

Among the many things my Dad (and his brother and business partner) did as a farmer was dumping the combine into flatbed trucks onto which they had installed sides with unloading gates and hydraulic lifts to allow dumping. They installed, the trucks were mid 1940s and late 1930s vintage. Anyway, they then drove their loaded trucks to their dryer and their empty trucks back to the field. Even as a kid under age 10 it was really clear to me that driving those trucks - small compared to a multi-trailer semi - was very demanding, and car drivers could be a PITA (it being a rural area, few were ... most had similar experience).

Too many DUmmies have very narrow life experiences and pontificate about things of which they are abjectly ignorant.

[Karin]

The original post from fescuerescue was the stupidest thing I've read on the internet all week. 

WhiskeyGrinder (15,438 posts)

28. This ****in place

No kidding. 

But here's some stupid to add to the stew:

Iris (15,178 posts)

31. Maybe by bringing back the fairness doctrine?

To counter the nonstop conservative talk radio?

They KEEP FORGETTING these are Canadians. 

And some more genius:

lagomorph777 (28,100 posts)

79. Get them all to gather in one place and commit crimes.

Then arrest them and confiscate their trucks.

I'm sitting here open-jawed.  What does that look like?  "Hey all you guys!  Come over and commit some crimes for me!  Thanks!  Now I'll just take all your trucks!" 

That lagomorph DUmbass is one of the ****ing stupidest pieces of shit over there.  Thread is worth rowing over. 

[Zathras]

Star Member captain queeg (7,434 posts)

7. I'd venture a guess that the majority of truckers lean right

Not that they are all wingnuts. But it tends to be an uneducated group.

Education isn't all that it's cracked up to be DUmbass if people like you are the result.

[SVPete]

One of the things obscured by partisan MSM coverage of this protest is that the majority - possibly vast majority - of Canadian truckers are vaxxed. They are not protesting the vaccines, they are protesting government tyranny as expressed in mandates. DUpipo can't let the reality invade their stereotype and realize that many vaccinated people - e.g. me - oppose vax mandates on both principle and practical grounds (such as this Canadian push-back, or numerous US medical and fire/police people (and others) responding to mandates with, "Go ahead and fire me!").

[Karin]

Cuthbert Allgood (3,721 posts)

133. How is this different than RWers saying "How do we get liberals out of teaching?"

I'm baffled by DU sometimes.

fescuerescue (3,891 posts)

138. Well they are wrong

And we are not.

That's the big difference.

   Genius!

[67 Rover]

  Genius!

fescuerescue (3,891 posts)

138. Well they are wrong

And we are not.

That's the big difference.

Ah yes the impervious argument of I'm rubber your glue. Damn he's good!

[fatboy]

If you have not already, now is the time to lay up a store of basic food and energy items to survive a several weeks long trucking/general strike in the US. No need to block roads when no one is on the roads.

[landofconfusion80]

If you have not already, now is the time to lay up a store of basic food and energy items to survive a several weeks long trucking/general strike in the US. No need to block roads when no one is on the roads.

Any random walmart is one delivery away from empty shelves. The show really starts when the meat and dairy truck shows up...all hands on deck and no other deliveries matter

[Texacon]

The original post from fescuerescue was the stupidest thing I've read on the internet all week. 

No kidding. 

But here's some stupid to add to the stew:

They KEEP FORGETTING these are Canadians. 

And some more genius:

I'm sitting here open-jawed.  What does that look like?  "Hey all you guys!  Come over and commit some crimes for me!  Thanks!  Now I'll just take all your trucks!" 

That lagomorph DUmbass is one of the ****ing stupidest pieces of shit over there.  Thread is worth rowing over.

 

You KILL ME!!!  LOL OMG!!

^5

Thanks for the laugh.

KC

[Ralph Wiggum]

 

You KILL ME!!!  LOL OMG!!

^5

Thanks for the laugh.

KC

My goodness, that entire DUmp thread is hilariously stupid! Hi 5's all around!