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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Crashing the Super Bowl

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These little guys are adorable!

These guys, not so much:

I personally doubt the ‘blockade’ will come to much, because if the ticket holders don’t call in a military drone strike, the corporations paying for those big-dollar ads will…

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  1. 1.

    Major Major Major Major

    I’ll admit I’m getting a kick out of watching right wingers celebrate Redneck CHAZ. They’d probably be thrilled if they fought with some cops, torched a police station.

    (Side note: my first attempt at this comment was written in the Visual tab and it told me there was no comment. I assume this is a known issue…)

  2. 2.

    debbie

    I heard a trucker claim on the BBC that he was willing to die to fight vaccination. I say call his bluff.

  3. 3.

    Jeffro

    How could anyone pay that much money to watch the Rams and Bengals?

    My Super Bowl is watching cult member Mace vs cult member Arrington down in SC. Did y’all see that video from Mace outside of trumpov Tower, trying to win back “daddy”s love? WOW

    Total John Cusack-holding-a-boom-box moment.

    Even the Post is getting in on it ?

  4. 4.

    Gin & Tonic

    I don’t get why this “blockade” threat is an issue. Arrest the drivers, impound the trucks.

  6. 6.

    Jeffro

    @Gin & Tonic: AND…AND…be sure to interrogate the drivers as to who paid them/encouraged them to do this.

    Follow that money trail quickly, loudly, and publicly.

  8. 8.

    VeniceRiley

    @debbie: I saw that crying snowflake. My bet is, like republican officials that get portrayed in interviews as diner denizens, that guy was inner circle organizer.

  14. 14.

    trollhattan

    Sounds like time for a blizzard on the Grapevine. Too bad it’s been more than a month since it so much as rained.

  15. 15.

    Shalimar

    DeSantis has passed laws in Florida making such blocking traffic protests felonies. I mean, theoretically. If laws in Florida applied to white people.

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    @Jeffro:

    CalTrans safety inspections for every damn one of them, on every Interstate leading into the Southland. Trust me, there’s always something.

  22. 22.

    debbie

    F’ing CEOs:

    As you read today’s inflation report, pay close attention to what the CEOs who set prices are saying. We got our hands on the latest batch of earnings reports, and it’s a doozy. They’re literally bragging about hiking prices while hiding behind “inflation.” The receipts…(1/7)
    — Lindsay Owens, PhD (@owenslindsay1) February 10, 2022

  23. 23.

    Kay

    Stricter voting rules enacted by Republican lawmakers last year continue to foil Texans trying to vote by mail in the upcoming primary, with hundreds of completed ballots being initially rejected for not meeting the state’s new identification requirements.
    The bulk of mail-in ballots have yet to arrive at elections offices, but local officials are already reporting that a significant number are coming in without the newly required ID information. As of Wednesday, election officials in Harris County alone had flagged 1,360 mail-in ballots to be sent back to voters — 40% of the mail-in ballots returned up to that point — because they lacked an ID number.

    40%.

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    U.S. agency warns that truckers’ protest could disrupt Super Bowl

    Maybe these shitstains should be warned that people will leave the stadium to beat to fuck out of their Dump-humping, Super-Bowl-disrupting, fat, orange, fascist, shitstain asses.

    I don’t really care about the Superb Owl, but I’d tune in for a beatdown of Dump-humping fascist shitstains.

  25. 25.

    Baud

    Don’t they usually fly jets or bombers to during the super bowl ceremonies? How difficult would it be to divert a couple?

  27. 27.

    White & Gold Purgatorian

    I don’t understand how these truck drivers can afford to tie up their trucks in protests for days or weeks. I mean, these are not corporate trucks and drivers blocking traffic, right? Are the owner/operators millionaires just driving trucks as a hobby, or has someone hired them to do this? And why the hell aren’t journalists asking that and delving into how they can afford the luxury of protest driving such an expensive to operate vehicle.

  30. 30.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: it does drive me nuts sometimes – we took Fro Jr on his first skiing/snowboarding trip around age 5 or six, and a decade later he is just ridiculous

    me, starting around age 40? Not so much ?

  31. 31.

    Kay

    The ID requirements forced a redesign of the carrier envelopes used to return mail-in ballots, allowing them to be sealed in a way that protects a voter’s sensitive information while traveling through the mail. The ID field was placed under the envelope flap. But based on early figures, local election officials this week said they feared voters were missing it altogether.

    Between the registration mess and the returned ballots I think conservatives may finally have succeeded into actually calling the validity of an election into question. Gosh I hope everyone wins or loses by a landslide. 1000 here, a 1000 there, whatever.

  34. 34.

    RepubAnon

    Funny how oil pipeline protesters get sprayed with fire hoses in sub-zero weather, while nobody does anything about these dudebros. It’s almost as though the cops agree with them.

  35. 35.

    Kay

    @White & Gold Purgatorian:

    I think we’ll probably learn a lot about this completely spontaneous “Canadian trucker blockade”

    First question would be why the Canadian truck drivers are “making their way to Washington DC for the State of the Union”. That seems a little odd, no?

  37. 37.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    It will. Have to be over 65 or disabled for absentee. Well, now you have to be over 65 or disabled and spend weeks monitoring both your registration and ballot. 60% chance you succeed in voting! That’s unless you got knocked out in the registration round of this voting contest. Then it’s 0%.

  39. 39.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    It is truly amazing how much money the Right wing has. Just money to burn. It makes some sense though- the tax cuts alone are worth billions and billions every year they are in place. Probably a good  investment.

  41. 41.

    White & Gold Purgatorian

    @Kay: Odd, for sure. Also how the unvaxxed antivax truckers protesting not being allowed to cross the border because, unvaxxed, can cross that border so readily in pursuit of their protest. It’s like they are special or something.

  42. 42.

    Patricia Kayden

    @mrmoshpotato: Keep in mind that some red states have passed laws to severely infringe on the rights of anti-police protesters including giving drivers the right to run down peaceful protesters.

  43. 43.

    Ruckus

    @Kay:

    When the entirety of a parties concepts and “ideals” is to make the most money possible for the least amount of any fucking effort whatsoever, from whomever, no matter the negative effects for anyone else, there will be some money to burn.

  44. 44.

    Dan B

    @White & Gold Purgatorian: Word is that American billionaires are financing the truckers.  I haven’t seen any ultra reliable reporting yet.

    Related is the Ottowa 911 is being flooded with bogus calls traced for the most part from America.

    HT JoeMyGod

  45. 45.

    Shalimar

    @trollhattan: Always, and absolutely no drivers still do the inspection properly every time they head out.  It’s mostly something you learn for the driving test and forget the details of.

  46. 46.

    Kay

    Steve Reilly
    @BySteveReilly
    · Feb 8
    We researched some of the biggest Facebook groups promoting the Canadian trucker protest before they were shut down yesterday, and noticed something was a bit off.
    The only individual admin running some of the most active groups was one woman in Missouri. Or so it seemed

    @BySteveReilly
    The woman’s years-old Facebook account had no real history of political activity until January 2022, when it suddenly posted a fundraiser for Donald Trump.
    Below the post was a comment from the woman’sdaughter:
    “I like how you hacked my moms shit but you won’t answer my dm.”

    The rest is here. The worst part is how everyone will pretend a group of “Canadian truckdrivers” protesting Joe Biden’s SOTU is some kind of spontaneous uprising, because we’re not allowed to use even ordinary common sense and must play out this ridiculous charade no matter how ludicrous and clearly orchestrated it becomes.

  47. 47.

    Roger Moore

    @Kay:

    First question would be why the Canadian truck drivers are “making their way to Washington DC for the State of the Union”. That seems a little odd, no?

    I think you’re misreading that.  I think the idea was that truckers here in the US would disrupt the Super Bowl, then head to DC to disrupt things around the SOTU.

  48. 48.

    Kay

    @Dan B:

    American billionaires have a lot to lose if those tax cuts get undone. Huge amounts. Well worth shutting down a bridge for. Motivated!

  53. 53.

    different-church-lady

    @debbie: ​
     

    I heard a trucker claim on the BBC that he was willing to die to fight vaccination.

    Guy has literally no idea how likely he is to get his wish.

  55. 55.

    Kay

    @Roger Moore:

    I think it’s about as spontaneous as the uprising against school boards.

    I just tire of how we all have to pretend the Right isn’t funding this. It came out they were funding and managing those school board attacks and STILL we all were told to pretend it was organic. It’s crazy making. They are demanding we pretend not to know things we know. It won’t matter- some hardworking earnest researcher will follow the dots and show the thing and still all we’ll hear is about how we must listen to the anti-vaxx protestors. I don’t want to play this game anymore. They can all pretend to believe this bullshit. I’m not.

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud:

    Maybe someone needs to buy BLM and antifa some semis. 

    Bazookas would be cheaper.  Fascist fucknuts go boom.

  57. 57.

    persistentillusion

    @Baud: Heh, I learned to ski in Council Bluffs, IA on a 100 foot slope that was a motorcycle hill in the summer.  Granted, I wasn’t very good when I got to the icy slopes of New England, but it’s possible to learn nearly everywhere.

  58. 58.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jeffro: How fun!  The Kremlin’s orange fascist shitstain continues to be a national security threat.

    But her emails, you Hillary-hating, stupid fucking brats!

  60. 60.

    CROAKER

    So this pretty easy to figure out.  Its Capitol Siege 2.0. Prep w Ottowa – distract with noise about stupid bowels :-) –  shut down DC in March

    so fix it with

    Call out Guard – shutdown traffic to DC –  Block interstate access into MD, VA and PA to truck traffic w/o permit – heck review the truckers permits, licenses and inspect the vehicles – happens everyday

  72. 72.

    CROAKER

    @debbie:States must be connected to the Commercial Driver’s License Information System (CDLIS) and the National Driver Register (NDR) in order to exchange information about CDL driver.

    I see this as a non starter here.  Sure they are gonna try but if my income was based on long haul.  No way I am risking my permits to cross country carry.

    The independent operators, local yokels, nazis who like to rent-a-truck will still try.

  73. 73.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Dan B:

    Related is the Ottowa 911 is being flooded with bogus calls traced for the most part from America. 

    And dumbfucks calling in bomb threats to Ottawa, Ohio police stations!

    I look forward to their fucking fascist faces being caved in.

  74. 74.

    Roger Moore

    @Kay:

    I agree that this is not at all spontaneous.  Hell, they’re planning their next move openly, through the media, and we’re supposed to pretend it’s all just happening.  But it’s supposed to be slightly more sensible than the Canadian truckers, who are ostensibly protesting because they aren’t allowed across the border without getting vaccinated, coming down to a protest in the USA.

  75. 75.

    The Dangerman

    It finally hit me. Generally speaking, there is no mandate to get vaccinated. It’s get vaccinated or test. I’m sorry, but testing is soooo not a violation of one’s previous bodily fluids. These assholes are being assholes because they like being assholes so they can go on Fox. They can all go straight to Hell.

    I said yesterday that any trucker dumb enough to fuck up LA freeways Sunday had best be ready for a  beat down if not bullets.

  77. 77.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Tim C.:

    I don’t think shutting down the superbowl is the win they think it is. 

    It’s the dragged out of their trucks and beaten in their fucking fascist faces that they don’t think it’ll be.

  79. 79.

    Roger Moore

    @Tim C.: ​
     

    I don’t think shutting down the superbowl is the win they think it is.

    You’re saying that stopping a massive show of American jingoism that is happily watched by a large fraction of the country won’t win friends and influence people? Hoocoodanode!

  82. 82.

    Roger Moore

    @The Dangerman: 
    The protests are only ostensibly about vaccination. They’re really a bunch of right wing assholes who are upset they aren’t in control and are acting out. They chose vaccination because they think it sounds better than demanding the government kowtow to their wishes even when they can’t win power legitimately.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack

    @Roger Moore:

    Yeah, I think the truckers going to D.C. would be American truckers roused by sympathy for their Canadian colleagues. ?

    That Grid story that Kay linked to sums it up pretty well:

    In some ways, the situation in Ottawa has evolved into a proxy battle for the American right, said Jacob Remes, a labor, working-class, migration and disaster historian of the U.S. and Canada at New York University.

    American donors are not interested in the nuances of the Canadian situation, such as what the Canadian citizenry wants [. . .].

    “But for the Americans, it’s totally irrelevant. They don’t care about who the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is,” he said. “They just like the idea of a bunch of white truckers being in a national capital and fucking shit up.”

  97. 97.

    Starfish

    @mrmoshpotato: They were ordering pizza for people in Ottawa. Let’s hope they are doing that for people in Ohio too.

    I am also not sure why they were ordering pizza for the truckers in Ottawa as it looked like the truckers had brought their own pizza ovens and were making their own pizza and treating the whole thing like a picnic.

    I think that if we were not in the middle of a pandemic, this would not have happened because people would have other things to do than 1. Go to Canada. 2. To clog the roads. 3. And bake pizza. 4. In winter.

  99. 99.

    Geminid

    @Roger Moore: According to Wikipedia there are 2 million semi trucks in the U.S. Even if 99.5% just go about their business that leaves 10,000 to make trouble. Fortunately, the Canadian truck blockades gave U.S. law enforcement, also trucking companies, and rental companies like Ryder, a heads up.

    We’ll see what authorities do with foreknowledge. State police outfits can be pretty hardnosed when it comes to highway law enforcement. A lot will come down to the Governors in charge. For instance, I think Virginia Govetnor Northam would have done what he could to keep convoys from disrupting the Capital. I’m not so sure about his shabby successor Youngkin.

    I wonder how criminal conspiracy laws can be applied here. Some organizers may have to go to prison to deter this kind of disruption in the future. Civil confiscation of trucks may also be necessary. As a political matter, I don’t think trucker blockades can ever win much popular support, no matter what those oafs at Fox News say.

  102. 102.

    Kay

    @Steeplejack:

    They would shut down the whole country if it meant keeping those tax cuts. The entire political battle since Biden was elected could be summed up in three words “Trump tax cuts”.

    Anything that includes retaining them is not what this battle is about. I knew it when they passed. That’s the hill they’re willing to die on.

  105. 105.

    Roger Moore

    @Starboard Tack:

    I would suggest that blowing up the trucks blocking traffic will not help to unblock things; it will make them worse.  The right solution is to arrest the people who illegally block traffic and impound their vehicles.

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    @Starfish: That’s appalling.  It really is a cult and they are willing to sacrifice their kids.  Horrifying.  Even worse, the kids are probably excited to be a part of this “great” thing.

    :: shudder ::

  107. 107.

    Bill Arnold

    @Kay:

    First question would be why the Canadian truck drivers are “making their way to Washington DC for the State of the Union”. That seems a little odd, no?

    Any truck convoys are a potential security risk, especially in urban areas, and doubly especially near seats of government. Any one or more of them could be loaded with tons of ANFO by seditionists or other enemies of the USA.
    Seriously; these convoys are potentially serious security threats in a time where seditious activities are “normal political discourse”. E.g. a few trucks burning with unknown cargo on a few critical bridges could do serious months-to-years long economic damage.

  108. 108.

    Steve in the ATL

    @mrmoshpotato: I play a drinking game in which I have a drink every time you post without using the word “shitstain.”  Normally I don’t get to drink at all but I may catch a buzz tonight!

  111. 111.

    laura

    @CROAKER: you are absolutely correct regarding this new nationwide database and regulatory revisions. Any commercial driver who wants to FAFO could certainly fund themselves unemployable. Not saying that some freedom patriot idjits won’t do it, but the mechanism of consequence is in place.

  112. 112.

    jnfr

    Puppy Bowl! I love Puppy Bowl every year.

    Okay, I’m glad to see the thread is about the Canada stuff. Going to read that now. But I love Puppy Bowl.

  113. 113.

    Subsole

     

     

    @RepubAnon:

    Didn’t some Mounties outright say as much?

    Jay would prolly be a good source for this. I seem to recall they are Canadian.

     

    @Kay: I believe it is a copycat mov’t here, not the same truckers. Like how every country gets its own Qanon branch, now we get this.

    Also, this whole thing is turfed. My old man drives a truck. No effing way he’d let his rig sit idle for seven days. He’d be on his ass paywise. Or fired for explaining some things to the folks who tripled his workload by sitting on their asses (and leaving their work orders for him to clear). Someone is picking up the tab on this. Would explain all the gofundme solicitation.

  114. 114.

    Subsole

    @Kay: You act like you don’t even CARE if Maggie and company gets invited to the GOP’s next totally bitchin’ tireswingapalooza…

  117. 117.

    Subsole

    @laura: Hey, they want the glorious martyrdom halo of being oppressed. Let ’em have it – provided they earn it honest.

    I think that’s part of why they resent black folks so much. They WANT to be oppressed, without the oppression. They wish they got to be the protagonists of history, with a super cool origin story. It never occurs to them that literally all they have to do is NOT show up for Team Dixie Swastika’s big game at the Edmund Pettus bridge.

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