A very interesting interview with Chris Spear, president and CEO of the American Trucking Association.
During a House Transportation Committee hearing on supply chain issues, CEO Chris Spear shares an internal survey showing that 37% of truck drivers “not only said no, but said hell no” to the Biden vaccine mandates.
To give some perspective of the downstream consequence, the ATA President noted that “if just 3.7 percent, not 37 percent, just 3.7 percent” of the drivers left the industry, there would be over a quarter million vacancies resulting in a “catastrophic” collapse of the U.S. supply chain. Mr. Spear also shared his opinion the OSHA rule is completely unworkable and unlawful.
The consequences are grave if just 3.7% did not work. However, if ten times that many, 37 percent of truck drivers, stopped hauling products because of the Biden vaccine requirement, American civic society would collapse within days as panicked citizens took to the streets. Desperate Americans would be clamoring for scarce products, and the impact on society could not be measured. WATCH:
As we have continued to point out, a federal vaccine mandate might sound like a good idea on a think tank, academic or white paper policy level of consideration; but on a practical level, wiping out a large percentage of your most productive workforce over a vaccine mandate is unworkable, and might even end the operation of the entire business.
It is important to note the recent NBC poll on this issue amid the outlook of the vaccine mandates. A majority of the country do not support the vaccine mandates, and worse still, the number of unvaccinated workers is essentially unwavering in the past six weeks {poll data}. Remember, the number of Americans who willingly quit their jobs increased to 4.3 million in August {link}, and then increased again to 4.4 million in September {link}. People are not f**king around now.
The number of cumulative hard “NO’s” has gone from 26 percent of the workforce in August, to 27 percent in October.
We are down to the hardened group, an educated and solid bunch of people who use common sense, and they are not going to take the forced vaccination. In quantifiable terms, the increased pressure to force the jab into the arms of the American workforce has now crossed into “the law of diminishing returns.” More government pressure ain’t going to yield the previous level of compliance. This threshold crossed is also quantifiable in the Americans who quit working: “A record-high 4.4 million people, or 3% of workers, quit their job in September according to the Labor Department’s latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released Friday.”
There are 205 million legally eligible U.S. workers, between 15 and 74-years-old (census figures), with a workforce participation rate of 61% (BLS figures) which would equal 125 million legally eligible workers. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of working Americans at 161 million workers (BLS figures). The majority of the difference between the two figures are most likely illegal alien workers (yeah, lots of them).
Approximately 40 percent of the eligible population are not working. Some people are single family income (wives or husbands who don’t work), and some are just people who choose not to work, cannot work or have not yet started to work (college etc). With somewhere between 125 million and 161 million workers doing the jobs that keep the country functioning, there are also approximately 10 million unfilled job openings.
According to the most recent statement from Joe Biden on October 14th: “We’re down to 66 million — it’s still an unacceptably high number — of unvaccinated people from almost 100 million in July.” Approximately 60 million of those are within the current U.S. workforce.
If we split the difference (census -vs- BLS) and take the mid-point at 140 million workers, then 60 million workers refusing the vaccine mandate represents about 40 percent of the entire population of eligible workers. Put another way, in the best case scenario, if 60 million people quit working or were fired, the national unemployment rate would be at least 35% !
What we call the United States doesn’t function with 35% unemployment; systems of commerce start to collapse, then government, then civil society.
The U.S. economy is currently functioning with 5% unemployment and 10 million unfilled jobs.
Just imagine the economic impact of 35% unemployment and 70 million unfilled jobs.
Keep in mind, the vast majority of those 60 million jobs are the productive workforce that keep the entire machine of the U.S. functioning.
This is the workforce that keeps the goods moving, the lights on, garbage picked up, streets safe, shelves stocked, stuff fixed and facilitates everything that makes the entire system of society function.
It is the force of this crew or hard core, dirty fingernail, no-nonsense workers that is pushing those federal contractor companies to contact the administration and tell them this mandate is not going to work for them. If the companies have to choose between losing their ability to contract with the federal government, or losing the most critical part of their workforce, well, they ain’t going to stick with Biden’s mandate.
There ain’t no way in heck that government or private industry can function with tens of millions of Americans in the workforce getting forcibly removed for refusing the vaccine. I believe that is why you are now hearing from companies saying they will not fire the unvaccinated workers (ex Delta Airlines).
Pontificating leftists and academics, without a bit of sense for what actually happens in the Main Street economy, have no concept of what it looks like if ten million people quit or are fired from working next month…. let alone five times that many. Bottom line: THIS IS A NON-ENFORCEABLE MANDATE, even if they wanted to do it.
The power of the American workforce is in the scale of dependency each person brings to the system when they are united. It might seem like a few thousand here/there, because that’s the way the media are framing it. However, if you add up all those few thousands together, you end up with millions.
As we previously outlined, this is not about vaccines per se’, this is more about a slippery slope of having the government dictate how you can live your life and earn a living.
If they can force us to have a medical procedure, and then carry documentation of that procedure in order to work… why can’t they force us to get a small electronic implant of our identification, which would coincidentally include your medical authorizations for work?
It’s just a metal detector…. it’s just taking off your shoes… it’s just wearing a mask…. it’s just a vaccination….. it’s just a COVID passport… it’s always, “just”.
Factually, at the end of all this, I still do not believe a federal mandate for a vaccine is even possible or legal. It appears to me that all of Biden’s threats in this regard are simply that, threats.
The purpose of the threat is to push people to take the vaccine without actually attempting a legal federal mandate; and that approach so far has been successful. However, now they are going to encounter the more hard-core groups who will not concede liberty or freedom to a federal mandate.
It is obvious Anthony Fauci also knows a federal vaccine mandate on the private sector will lose in court when challenged. The fact that Fauci brings up state vaccination requirements for education as examples of historically forced vaccinations is both a strawman argument and structurally false. There has never been a FEDERAL mandate for any vaccination. All the vaccinations Fauci discusses (ex. his kids) were state mandates. Each state also has a different set of standards and laws for children and vaccines. There is nothing federal.
The federal government is attempting to set up a federal work authorization standard for private businesses. Non-compliance means you cannot work, or you lose your existing job if your employer goes along with the government demand. THAT alone should alarm everyone.
There is a particularly enraging irony in that Joe Biden’s federal DOJ and Dept of Labor do not enforce employment eligibility authorization for illegal aliens based on legal status, while at the same time the Biden Dept. of Labor is putting OSHA in charge of a federal policy that will enforce vaccination requirements. Go figure.
All of the federal exemptions essentially undermine the “national health emergency” argument, because if there really was such a public health emergency, there would be no exemptions at all. The application of the executive order undermines the actual cornerstone of the executive order itself. It cannot withstand scrutiny…. hence, Biden doesn’t actually put any rules or regulations into writing because that gives lawsuits something specific to file injunctions against.
In the interim, as the freedom coalition digs in to mount a patriotic challenge, the authoritarian attempt of the federal government, the rebellious alliance is hitting back in unique ways as noted by the Southwest Airline pilots and Air Traffic Controllers, both groups hold a significant military service record. As noted, recently American Airlines was forced to cancel 1,700 flights due to staffing issues:
NPR […] American Airlines cancelled more than 1,700 flights over Halloween weekend, including more than 800 on Sunday alone, due to weather and staff shortages, the company said. […] American Airlines says that 343 were cancelled on Friday, followed by another 548 cancellations on Saturday. Most of the cancelled flights were coming to and from the airline’s main hub in Dallas/Fort Worth, as well as in Charlotte, N.C.
[…] In a letter to staff sent out Saturday, the company’s chief operating officer, David Seymour, said the company “proactively” cancelled flights on Sunday because of severe winds in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and a shortage of crews. (read more)
Another group who are pushing back against the federal effort are local law enforcement and firefighters. Again, another private sector group that has a heavy percentage of former military service members amid the ranks.
The blue-collar effort to bolster the resistance by these groups does not have to be too massive to have an impact. Remember, almost all of these leftists and elite minded communists who now operate as Democrats have no capacity for self-sufficiency. If the working class stops picking up their trash; stops mowing their lawns, shopping for them, doing their cleaning and essentially facilitating their lives, this entire group of scholastic-minded knuckleheads cannot function.
From a commonsense and logistical perspective, regardless of the federal outlook, there’s no way they can pull it off. We are the quiet, and according to those who look down their noses – the “invisible” unwashed masses. However, when it comes to keeping the gears turning, we are the majority.
WASHINGTON DC – Objections among certain vendors over President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors are reaching an inflection point. As the deadline for workforce vaccination approaches, some trucking companies are mulling whether to end their work with the federal government altogether, according to two industry insiders.
In an interview, the American Trucking Associations’ executive vice president for advocacy Bill Sullivan told POLITICO that some companies may simply decide that the cost of the mandate is not worth the government’s checks. Sullivan said he has raised concerns to the White House, Office of Management and Budget and other executive branch officials. He noted that if companies drop their contracts, it may be harder to get certain foods to troops, transport fuel for military vehicles, or even deploy the National Guard.
[…] interviews with more than a dozen industry advocates across the aerospace, distribution, defense and trucking sectors — some of whom have also been in discussions with administration officials — reveal they either have little confidence they will be able to meet the Dec. 8 deadline for their workers to receive their first vaccine shot or expressed concerns about difficulties the mandate would pose on their labor force.
The White House has repeatedly insisted — both in private meetings and publicly — that the federal contractors can avoid potential service disruptions during the holiday season. (read more)
We keep their shit working and just want to be left alone. The system will not function if tens-of-millions of American workers stand united against the vaccine mandate. It really is that simple.
Lyrics:
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’,
We’re gonna do what they say can’t be done.
We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I’m east bound, just watch ol’ “Bandit” run.
Keep your foot hard on the pedal. Son, never mind them brakes.
Let it all hang out ’cause we got a run to make.
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there’s beer in Texarcana.
And we’ll bring it back no matter what it takes.
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’,
We’re gonna do what they say can’t be done.
We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I’m east bound, just watch ol’ “Bandit” run.
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’,
We’re gonna do what they say can’t be done.
We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I’m ea“East Bound and Down” by Jerry Reed
Listen to to the album East Bound and Down
Truckers should just charge double time for deliveries to democrat states and cities. Nobody loses a job and some hit pay dirt.
one of my favorite feel good songs…
Simple solution – stop delivering everything to the Washington DC area.
So simple, it’s genius!
Stop delivering to all liberal cities – Chicago, NYC, DC, etc.
Problem is lots of this stuff originates in california…..
and if they do that…then I’m sure california would only spare trucks going to them cities
Maybe but “California” does not drive the trucks Truckers do.
“California” does not own the trucks either.
Human beings do and if they get creative they can run circles around “California”.
“Oops, I read my GPS wrong and somehow ended up unloading my truck in Texas. My bad.”
It may well happen and likely is to a small degree already. Most of the big city hell holes already complain about lack of stores and services and higher prices and the reason is simple. Merchants of all kinds have to account for theft as part of doing business. Where theft is high, prices will be higher or non existent if the merchant is unable to get enough business and compete at the price necessary to offset the losses. So they leave. If supply shipments start to get hijacked in certain areas, those areas will stop getting shipments or security will need to be higher in the form of people riding shotgun like the old days thereby increasing costs and prices.
starve the m f ers out
Stop delivering everything to ALL demonrat run cities including electricity, natural gas, heating oil, food and gasoline. We’ll find out real quickly how seriously they believe their socialist/communist garbage. With winter just around the corner let them find out how important fossil fuel really is.
That would suck for me. I live 20 miles outside Portland, I have nothing to do with except i live near it. I’m a Navy vet, retired and have voted Republican for 40+ years. Why would you wish evil on me? Some patriot you are. Did you serve your country as I did? Why don’t you think before you spew your crap.
Did you not see this coming? Have you not understood that the powers that be will burn this country to the ground if it meets their end? They would rather see us all dead or locked up, ruling over a country of ashes.
I live in Oregon too. I feel your pain. But my household has prepping on food and all other supplies we will need. We got as faraway from Portland and all the blue cities we could. But as you know. The I-5 corridor rules this state.
You have two options at this point, start prepping best as you can, or move to a real Red state.
This the price we pay for living behind enemies lines.
God bless and keep you.
We have heard something like what Dan is saying before.
This is not the best example but over 40 years ago when my oldest child started school the schools were just starting to get up to their dirty tricks of dumbing down the curriculum, allowing violent kids to control the classroom etc.
Parents were beginning to become alarmed and talked about filing lawsuits way way back then.
But the msm wrote articles explaining very seriously how dumb that would be because the money that the school districts used to defend these lawsuits would come out of the taxpayers pockets, ours, and how stupid we would be to waste that money and blah blah blah.
So we didn’t sue.
And the schools become worse and worse and worse and now are not even trying to educate kids.
If we had done what we started to do back then would we be so far behind now with our desperate laws suits that we are now finally filing and which are costing and arm and a let.
Could we have stopped this 40 years ago with a bit of a pushback instead of this full blow war we are in now?
So yes, the good people in these cities will suffer but if we do nothing now because we do not want to hurt them I guarantee that what we will be facing later might be so difficult to beat back that we will not be able to do so.
Every one needs to prepare the best they can in the way the think works for them because the easy ride is over.
I mentioned in my above post that Gandhi had the native Indian population go on strike to break the backs of the British who had taken control of India.
Some of these strikes went on for weeks and the native population were not wealthy so the Brits though all they had to do was wait them out until they were hungry enough to give up.
But Gandhi had prepared the people to store up food and other necessities and to help each other out and they did not give in which puzzled the Brits.
So preparation will be important.
Get prepped Treepers. It’s coming.
I live in the I-5 corridor of wa state.
Been prepping but heat and electricity are going to be hard to prep for.
That being said,
Bring It On!!
The I-5 corridor rules up north here in Washington too. I’m on the east side. south east.
We’re not going to vote our way out of this.
Stock up Dan. I served 2in Vietnam and have prepared for the eventuality of the hard times ahead. It’s not personal brother but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette. Or maybe we should continue down the road to Marxism.
Serve? No offense but you got paid. That’s a job…
When you give up a job to serve in the military, ain’t the same as civilian job. In my day, I got paid $99 a month when I went to boot camp! I had to give up a $100 a week job to get my @$$ shot at in Vietnam. Obviously, you have no idea what it is to sacrifice for your country!
LD,
You ungrateful so-and-so. You may have only been making $99 per month when you were in VN getting your derriere targeted by Sir Charles, but you have to admit that the USG would have let you keep any bullet(s) you might have caught in said derriere for free. FREE! The USG could have said they belonged, along with your derriere, to them. Don’t be trying to give some mistaken impression that Uncle Sam wasn’t absolutely downright generous to you!
/s
Obviously, you have never looked death squarely in the face and came out a winner!
If you did, you would appreciate all those little things in life!
Dan, I’m about 30 miles from Portland…been prepping deeply for a long time, my sons even longer…..those who speak rudely about our predicament are just Konservative Karens. Never mind them. We will survive.
If you get a chance to watch the movie “GANDHI” watch it or read the book.
Gandhi became the unofficial leader of 300 million of the natives of India.
He figured out that their strength was in their numbers, they had no guns no ammo but they had gobs of Indian Patriots.
So he used their strength and had them go on strike which really did shut all of India down and I mean all of India.
When these people sat the whole country stopped working.
No shops were open, no public transportation, no construction workers no factory workers nothing for weeks on end sometime.
All 300 million native Indian’s stayed home.
The 250,000 British who thought they were “running” India and making things work learned a very hard lesson because not only were their houses not cleaned their clothes not washed and their food not cooked but the Government shut down because the native population worked in the government offices as clerks and paper pushers etc.
The real work of making India get along day to day, week to week, month to month was done by every one EXCEPT the British Big Shots who thought they were the indespensible important movers and shakers.
This is how Gandhi and his people drove the Brits out of India and took their country back without firing a shot or any other kind of violence.
America’s fussy pampered Princes and Princesses are about to learn an important Life Lesson if they do not stop trying to push us around.
CC,
You should not take what you have read about Gandhi at face value. He was a major league fraud and a pervert to boot. When he got sick, he had no problems with having Western medical practitioners treat him, but he forced his wife, when she became ill, to get by with only traditional Indian medicine. She died. There are a LOT of other things he did that were quite dishonest and certainly questionable. One should note that EVERY time he called for satyagraha, or “nonviolent” protest, a great many people, almost all Indian, ended up dead or badly hurt.
Britain left India in 1947 because they could no longer afford to maintain their rule over that country and because the Indians had more than paid the dues to claim self-government, which had been promised by Britain in 1942. There were more than two million Indians in the British Indian Army, ALL OF WHOM WERE VOLUNTEERS, and the majority of them fought incredibly valiantly for the British Empire.
If you are interested in seeing why I make this claim, read Defeat Into Victory by Field Marshal Sir William Slim. He is writing about the campaign in Burma against the Japanese, which was a bitterly tough fight. The battles of Kohima and Imphal have been compared by military historians as being equal in ferocity to the battle of Stalingrad. The British victory in Burma inflicted the greatest military defeat upon Japanese forces ever suffered in Japan’s long history.
Britain was not “driven” from India. They left at a time of their own choosing. Their departure was not quite as they wished, because they would have preferred that India and Pakistan stay together since they thought that Indian unity was one of the greatest gifts bestowed on India by British rule. They were right in thinking that, by the way. However, they conceded separation to diehards like Gandhi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah who were determined to have sectarian dominance. As Gandhi said, it wasn’t Britain splitting India apart, it was INDIANS splitting India apart because the Hindus and the Muslims refused to let it remain as one country.
Just as a final point, I would note that Britain and the British were never more popular in India during the entire time of the Raj than as they were winding it up and preparing to leave. The Indians were amazed, and very grateful, that the British would actually keep the promises they had made about Dominion Status in 1942 and let them become independent without a fight. They knew Britain really didn’t have to do that, since they still had very large numbers of troops in India and a great many Indians still wanted the Raj to continue, so the fact they honored their commitments made a salient impression on the Indian middle and upper classes.
One last comment: when I was in graduate school for history at university, I remember speaking to a number of Indian students about Britain’s governance of India. They all agreed that Indian-run government has invariably been corrupt and that the only honest government India has ever had, even to the present day, was under British rule.
Earl, does that mean we dont get to shoot’em now?
LOL
So that’s where all the real men are. Unlike in our courts and Congress. God Bless Our Truckers!
Glad to see those numbers, a tad higher than they thought….oops.
It is a poll of “adults ” only…the least reliable of all polling subsets.
I believe they are higher not only for the truckers, the bedrock of our country, but higher for most of the rest of us.
I’ve wondered if things were going as well as this wretched administration claims, why the now hysterical threats and force? No…I think they know their numbers of people jabbed are nowhere near what they say they are. Not even close.
Double Amenn to that NJMAGA. Grew up in the motel business and truckers were our bread and butter. 97 percent were always awesome. The rest, just grumpy after a very long day/night on the road. Loved them all! A big “thank you” to all those who keep their wheels rolling!
I’m pretty sure that is the intended outcome. They are purging industry and the workforce as well of all conservative voices.
The spirit of blindness is alive and well. God has given people over to the list of their minds that they will believe a lie.
I ask people how a vaccinated person who can get and transmit COVID is any different than me, who is not vaccinated? Dumb look on their face and they resort to the fact that the vaccine helps reduce the symptoms.
Seriously? How stupid can people get. No wonder a guy as dumb and incoherent as Biden can get votes. Equally stupid people abound in great numbers.
DD
Yes, the collapse of civil society is a feature, not a bug, to the Marxist left, which is the entire Democratic party. They would have convenient fall guys, the same ones they’ve been demonizing for weeks now. Then they would sit back, twiddling their fingers like Montgomery Burns and saying “ excellent” while people tear each other apart. The ruling class is demented.
Yep, they seem to be trying to re-create the Rwanda genocide here in America.
“Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die” – Dave Matthews Band keeps playing in my head.
That phrase is far, far older than Dave Matthews.
They are gob smacking stupid if they think they can survive and thrive the collapse of society.
But I am sure that they might be thinking this, that they can shape the world into something of their own making.
Demented little tin pot gods.
Oh see when I ask that question I’m told that its the unvaccinated that are taking up hospital beds and “preventing people getting their cancer treatment”. Basically they’re saying ANYTHING to avoid seeing the truth.
Actually, their new reply to that question is to assert that the “vaccine” reduces the recovery/clearance times. When you ask then what that avg clearance time is for the jabbed according to the CDC, you get crickets. If you proceed to ask what the average clearance time is for the unjabbed who follow the now established natural/therapeutics protocol, you get crickets. (Here you can point out how people like Joe Rogan cleared in 3 days, or Aaron Rodgers in less than a week). Finally, ask them if the CDC has done a comparative study of the clearance times for each group. At this point all the crickets have died and you get a vacuous silence.
I saw a youtube that mentioned the clearance times and there is published research on the subject showing vax > non-vax.
Yeah, taking that claim at face value means taking the word of people who have done nothing but lie to us for the last couple of years straight. I’m not buying that one, or anything else they say. Frankly, I wouldn’t believe a word they say if the told me water was wet.
Ivermectin and hcq reduces symptoms too. Wouldn’t that be easier and cheaper than covid jab?
Definitely safer.
They take those who just wanted to be left alone and turn them into those with nothing left to lose.
These are not thoughtful people.
Sharon. Spot on. Once you have pushed a group of men like this into a corner where they have nothing to lose, exactly right!!! They will awake to an unbridled storm of fury that will not end well for them.
DD
It’s too bad you are “out East”
I could introduce to a very “ a ver merry band of misfits” if you were here in Southern British Columbia.
Our crowd is not messing around…and although we have to keep our heads down.
We are creating serious trouble for the tyrants.
Vaccinations have stalled, many of the sheep or blackmailed are balking at getting a third shot of the poison.
Cheers!
Excellent news fine sir! If ever you find yourself in this neck of the woods, be sure to drop a line before coming.
You might be interested. The RCMP officer that was on Trudeau security detail that was let go. I met him and shook his hand. He spoke with boa much passion about our loss of freedom, and about the illegality of what was going on, that he choked up in tears. Not a dry eye in the room.
I have also met OPP officer that is retired and, wow. This guy is well connect with other forces around the world.
Keep strong.
DD
We do have a few of our own “merry band of misfits” here in America.
Like yours Dekester ours also work in the shadows.
Perhaps a good time to repost this.
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’.
They try, so very hard to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’ are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be.
Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy, but it will fall upon deaf ears.”
Exactly. I have a color print of that on my office wall, featuring the silhouette of a tired but completely resolute warrior walking away from the camera…….nothing left to lose.
And this:
“During an arrest, you think since you are not guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation worse; you will make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It was always thus I’m afraid.
Exactly ?
? ? Thanks for the reminder from brother Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn!
The time is nigh when MEN must decide, to kneel or rise
The time is close when MEN must choose, slave or free
MEN must chose for their family, death or life
How will you chose?
Author unknown but speaks for many of us who just “want to left alone” but will “fight with unholy vengeance” if forced/cornered! I pray to God it doesn’t get to that but the boot of big brother government is upon our neck and the Democrats/deep state are upping the pressure almost daily!
A certain teenager got put into a pressing situation and acted in accordance with the above. It now rests with thoughtful people his fate. People are rational animals, just not rational humans.
They know juries are the end all to every act taken ever. They also predict instinctively that the above jury will not find innocence within the first hour of deliberation. That fact alone cements the entire nation’s spines into a supine position before organized/state aggression.
So many bad issues here, the prosecution makes crap up ( nothing new there), defense sat back, the Judge passing the buck to the Jury and the Jury passing it right back to the Judge.
Mistrial with Prejudice if there ever was one.
The Marshall reports 2 of the jurors are holding up the verdict (innocent I presume). These 2 are worried that BLM and Antifa will burn down the city. AGAIN! And their worry is justified if the Mayor doesn’t protect them. If those 500 National Guard aren’t ordered to react with force to terror tactics, then not only is Kenosha lost; but all of the U.S.A.
You don’t by any chance think there are some real men in Wisconsin who are tired of the manhood of everyone but Kyle Rittenhouse being mocked for the past several days, who might just show up in Kenosha as needed?
Thank you for that truth, Evergreen. I had never let myself put words to that truth before.
They’re thoughtful….filled with thoughts of themselves. Selfish evil monsters.
Noswaith dda, cymrufem. You are completely correct.
Spot on Sharon!
When you lose everything and have nothing more to lose, you lose it!
We all know how this story ends because thousands of years of history tells us so. There is no turning back.
Not very smart either, way underestimating what 400+ million guns can do to ruin a takeover!
Speaking of which . . .
He also said we would live in a country called America, but it won’t be America (as we know it) anymore.
Such a good quote. When I hear it, I see in my head , Clint East Eastwood as Jose Wales. Jose was a man who wanted to be left alone.
OR they could simply allow them to continue to work anyway.
The people have the power…if they’d just use it.
Yes! Always have.
Great piece that enhanced my thoughts on the mandates. As a retired Navy mustang and former government contractor I can say with some authority that if just the military retirees who work as contractors for the military quit the entire DoD would be in big trouble. There were a boatload of military retirees throughout the industry. Same goes for the military’s support agencies like SPAWAR, NAVSEA, ISEC, etc.
If the truckers stopped working for 3 days and parked their rigs in the middle of the Washington Beltway, even the Congressional Democrats might want to impeach Joe.
21st century siege warfare.
I’ve thought exactly this as well. If, as a trucker, you will be fired for not getting the vax, then the best place to turn in your resignation is by parking your rig on a major beltway bridge. Maybe let the air out of all 18 tires before walking away.
I love the way you think!
Retired Navy here too and I agree completely. All those government employees just think they are the brains even though most never served a day and can’t really relate to the jobs or people they are supposed to be supporting.
Thank you for your service, Dave. Guys like you have had to endure MANY situations we can’t even begin to fathom. Where would we be without you? Many thanks!
My concern is they’ll simply use the illegals they’ve been flooding us with. Also, with the push to automate everything including trucking, this would only work as long as that tech is approved on a large scale. And the goal is to automate EVERYTHING eventually. Make to mistake, the long term goal is to rid the world of “deplorables”.
Do you think that is the goal of Covid?
not going to just replace that body of knowledge with refugees…
Sorry, IMHO that won’t work. The elite politicians will simply helicopter over to their mansions in NoVa and Central Maryland. Or to the airport where they’ll fly home and feast on expensive food from their $30,000 refrigerators. The Congress critters are all wealthy and independent of normal supply chains. They’ll get their needs satisfied by their multinational corporation cronies who have lots of connections….and access to lots of helicopters and delivery drones.
OR they’ll authorize the military to bulldoze a path through the trucks and haul away dead rigs.
Effective solution are going to have to be planned out many moves ahead with an array of options to cover possible counter actions by the DC communists. Remember they have global resources.
BRING IT!!!!! Let’s do this!
such dangerous ground everyone is on -lots of ppl feeling cornered- ppl on all sides of these issues. The media bellows are not helping…molten steel is dangerous.
When you go against Americans, you gonna lose. Media, you need to listen. The majority does not agree to with you. You got to have our Dollars or you gonna go do down.
The media pukes who foment the riots and hatred should be the first to feel the pain – up close and personal. If the SHTF people should storm the studios of all the networks spewing their divisive rhetoric.
Precisely. The head the hydra that should be killed first.
This case might put a wound into Biden’s mandate. Its all Federal Worker’s suing against a “perceived disability” aka future infection that they are currently being discriminated for
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/42337986/ALTSCHULD_et_al_v_RAIMONDO_et_al
Very clever.
Will be interesting to watch it develop, assuming a court doesn’t kill it right off the bat.
judge denied immediate injunction, and has something set for nov 22nd according to that pacer link above
37% of those surveyed said “Hell No!”
I take it there was no checkbox for GFY.
God forgives you?
I am shocked it’s only 37%.
That will be on the next round of surveys.
The tyrants want the chaos. They want societal collapse.
Say, can we collapse the tyrants instead?
Throw tractor trailers filled with sand in their gears!
Remember, complete collapse means NO TAX DOLLARS! That huge percent of Federal, State and Local Civil servants will go without pay. And a real collapse means without pay forever!
They only THINK they want it because they stupidly think they can control and direct it. America is not Russia; they never had a tradition of independence nor an armed populace who can engage in guerilla warfare to make the tyrants’ lives miserable and short.
Seriously… if this civil war goes from cold to hot, do you really think the media elite won’t be the first target of the Men With Nothing Left to Lose? Followed by every last leftist billionaire and politician they can put the sights of a hunting rifle onto? If it ever goes hot, Bill Gates, George Soros, Bezos, Zuckerberg and their entire families and close associates are either hanging from lampposts or cowering in bunkers by the end of the week. Pfizer’s offices will be a crater. Antifa and BLM won’t even take the field if their checks are bouncing.
The tyrants are delusional idiots who have a magic vision in their heads of precisely how the collapse will go and how they will be heralded as saviors… instead of as the wicked rulers who wrecked everything. The system wouldn’t collapse itself so they jumped the gun and seized power, forgetting that when the revolution comes, its always the people in power who are first on the chopping block by the enraged masses.
See this Florida judge’s commentary leading up to an injunction denial in a suit brought by to-be-fired employees.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qi7x86dxiyh8e0w/20211110%20-%20Ascension%20Injunction%20Ruling%20Excerpt.pdf?dl=0
Plaintiffs unlikely to win claims. Need to apply for religious exemption, get denied, then go to administrative remedy first before court.
2nd. No significant disruption to operations if nonvaxxed employees remain on staff because medical expert testimony has established for the court that the vaccines do not prevent transmission—> THE ENTIRE FOUNDATION OF STAFF PROTECTION <–. The spread-prevention does not exist (but may actually increase) with vaccination. Thus, the underlying rationale for the mandate is implausible on its face.
Seems to me that simple facts should be enough to rip the rug out from under any clever administrative ploys: bring in the medical experts and the virologists to establish fact: what is the harm caused by not vaccinating? Lacking harm, a mandate based on safety is ill-founded. OSHA then no longer has a basis for a rule.
3rd. Any employer who adjudicates an employee based upon vaccine status risks a lawsuit, because that becomes irrelevant/immaterial personal information which has no bearing on the corporation’s activity nor the health and well-being of the personnel (see OSHA above). If the presence/absence of a vaccine passport is no different in all application and utility than the presence/absence of an LGBZ membership card or a gender ID, then what you have is discrimination.
My friend, a govt contractor, took the jab to keep his job. He died two weeks ago at age 64.
Everything is going according to the Davos plan as shown in event 201. Its all in here. Thanks Archbishiop Vigano
https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/timeline-great-reset-agenda-event-201-pandemic-2020/
https://rumble.com/vok6h9-trumps-a-big-fan-of-lets-go-brandon-chant.html
Trump’s A BIG Fan Of “Let’s Go Brandon” Chant
On Frank Speech tonight, with Brannon Howse is a lady, Sherona who had her door busted in by the FBI today while she was homeschooling her children.
She is the friend of Tina Peters, the clerk in Colorado who is being persecuted by the SoS in that state. The communists are attempting to shut people up, and scare people. This woman has an organization that finds out about bills coming up for vote and shares the information so that people can contact their representatives before the vote.
Ordinary people are no longer allowed to speak or organize. DC is out of control. I personally like the idea of shutting all contact with DC off and make the elites get off their rears and do their own lawns, scratch around for food, etc. Shut it all down. Starve them out.
I agree Truckers need to stand up no deliverys to DC period until we get this communist state under control. Screw them.
The “elites” have disposable income, often have some retreat outside of DC, and figure to have means to get what they want. I don’t think they’re sweating that.
I live in Mesa County and have heard none of this other than a short news report on an obscure web site.
The left is truly trying to keep this on the down-low for some reason. One would think if Peters was so bad, they would be smearing her daily in the press.
we must spread the word
I’m speaking. I’m organizing. I think I’m pretty ordinary. I see ordinary people around me planning how to not comply. DC wants you to think they control you, but control is slipping away from them, because people have stopped being afraid and have started being furious.
Damn he said 3.7% would fubar things. And the real number is 37% and its a solid “Hell No” To this I say….Roll ON!!
Where are all the LETS GO BRANDON decorated Big Rigs?
They are out here. Often, you will see that or similar slogans written on the grime on the back of the trailers.
We’re dealing with people that have fundamental psychological problems, as such the symptoms take on a whole array of behavioral defects such as:
controlling and greedy, petty with a thin skin (how’s that for an exponential problem), beyond stubborn (can’t admit anything), arrogant, dis-honest and hypocritical, ignorant perhaps stupid (Affirmative Action), lacking any understanding or wisdom, vicious with-out mercy, envious and covetous to a degree of denying others any human dignity, despising your liberty and especially your freedom of choice, blinded to the utmost by cognitive dissonance, toxic through their lack of accountability, incompetent through their lack of accountability, remaining that way into old-age because of this lack of accountability, growing a political constituency of other Morons through this unaccountability, and taking us all head-long to a place where they won’t be able to avoid accountability after they wreck the Monetary System of the United States; which they’ve been using to gloss over all their incompetence. We won’t forget who you are when this happens. The outcome will be too severe.
Suffice it to say hiding behind the government trying to control other people’s lives instead of serving them is a condition that cannot be tolerated in a massive modern society. That’s the antithesis of the spirit that got us here. To acquiesce to this kind of leadership is catastrophic.
Man can’t survive under this kind of control. He won’t be able to put food on the table. And now so more than ever because he’s living in a specialized Machine (specialization is away from control, juxta-opposed, as far as the east is from the west); but we have a hard time apprehending this practical urgency for survival that remains within the Machine because we’re detached in our specialization.
But Woe unto us, if we short-circuit the Machine and it comes crashing down over-night. Then we will see how we can’t put bread on the table.
Nice visuals of the matador. Gives me a smile. God Bless Our Truckers! Stay strong! Leading the charge with massive testicular fortitude!
The Borg have finally met kindred spirits, people who think like us and aren’t afraid to expose the new Nazi America for what it really is. If the occasional f-word greatly offends you, then you may not want to read. On the other hand, we find the author’s use of that particular profanity to be most judicious and appropriate given the topic. This is one of the rare instances where we tolerate it (the other two are George Carlin and Robin Williams).
We discovered this website — market-ticker.org — about a month ago. Go back through their archives and read / comprehend their COVID-19 clot-shot editorials.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker-Nad
I’ll just put this info out here.
https://stovouno.org/2020/12/13/the-georgia-guidestones-and-the-globalist-plan-to-reduce-humanity-to-half-a-billion/
Now you might better understand Covid and the uncontrolled drugs coming across the border.
Why are there no figures on drug deaths?
Released today: This year’s overdoses exceeded 100,000 for the first time.
Holy Cats, Mamadog! That confirms we have reason to resist the jab! SO much information there.
Many thanks.
Oh well….. at least we’ll have 37% of experienced truckers healthy and able to drive when this sh*tshow is over.
I’m happy this # is as large as it is.
They trying to get rid of truckers? What dumb butts. You better plant you a garden and get you some chickens, you goona starve!
We need our own currency that isn’t part of their economy. A crypto currency will work. I’m close to a prototype crypto that will work without bandwidth or connectivity. A phone in airplane mode will work. Only enough power for phones or tablets is needed. The problem is adoption.
Do you have a white paper? Would love to read.
Crypto is fine until (and they will) limit or eliminate your access to the internet.
19 YO full of blood clots after vax:
Why in the heck would a young person take this in the first place
Drives me crazy.
Especially when I think back on my life at that age and know I could have done So. Many. things if I had to take a year or 2 off.
And I’m sure these kids could, too, if they used a bit of creative thinking.
College. After this mess, there needs to be some Draconian legislation about colleges’ interest and control over students’ medical business. They are practicing medicine without a license.
Because her parents told her it was “safe and effective”.
Right turn, Clyde.
I’d stand up and applaud. I’d like to see the city dwellers freak out – you get what you vote/cheat for…
This should not even be an issue, ignoring the side effects — Adults should have a choice to decide if they want to be vaccinated or not. It’s as simple as that.
By ramming the issue down via fiat and fear mongering makes matters worse, not better.
This WHOLE DEBACLE is due to life long Politicians and Academics who don’t understand how the REAL world works and can’t understand why their elaborate byzantine planned Utopia can’t be implemented.
SHUT IT DOWN! Let the perfumed princes and princesses have to do without.
They won’t be satisfied till they crash the system anyway, let’s git ‘er done on our terms.
I suggest everyone stop trying for religious and medical exemptions and just say no. Applying for an exemption gives credibility to the mandate. Refuse to acknowledge it. Refuse to play the game. No mask, no vax, no test, no social distancing.
Petitioning a tyrant is surrendering our sovereign power to a paper tiger.
Fight, resist, refuse, maneuver, confront, unite and challenge, but never ever plead for the grace of a petty tyrant.
Eric…: I agree. Stop playing the game.
YES this is it
Agree totally but if your employer is against mandates but would fold due to fines etc and is hoping you’ll take an exemption to keep them afloat, maybe that’s a diff. story.
That is the circumstance I am in. If the mandate holds up in court my company will immediately implement it. I will not bow to Biden to save them. Forced vax or forced mask and test forever is a commie sh*t sandwich cut in half. I will not fight for the right to eat the half that has less corn in it.
Respectfully disagree. It cements the mandate in place as a defective policy both in legality and in application from a medical/epidemiological standpoint. It’s rather like taking your opponent’s duel challenge in which he offers you the first crack uncontested before you officially square off. Uh, sure, buddy. Sounds good to me. “Oh, but duels are so risky!”…”Yeah, but didn’t you hear his terms?”
The offered religious exemption means one thing precisely: civil rights precede public health.
There you go. That’s it.
The architects allowed that an individual right supersedes that of the collective in regard to public health–in this instance.
Therefore, every downstream ramification is colored by this hue. Has to apply to the shut-in, remote employee who never sees coworkers or travels? Why, no, because you carved out an exemption for the religious, and their presence amidst your vaccinated is the definition of acceptable. Gets to the point of what’s the point of the mandate in the first place?
Starts begging questions that end up in the medical department for litigation under the rigors of scientific principles and evidence. That’s where this should ever have been long ago.
The problem is that the “exemption” is nothing more than an an alternative punishment, if you are lucky enough to get it. Forced masking and weekly testing is no better than forced vaccination. A slave is a slave.
I am only requesting exemptions to delay being fired long enough to get to retirement.
When that trigger is pulled, it will take me about 10 minutes to gather any remaining things from my office, walk out the door and never look back.
I should add….I am playing their game for now. When they refuse either exemption, I can appeal. If they deny the appeal, I can submit an EEOC complaint.
I am NOT going to be shoved out the door quietly. They WILL live by their rules, or have them shown to be completely worthless.
I agree stand down
I will be fired Friday for exactly this. I will not participate in this. I will not encourage these monsters to continue their crime wave. I will not validate their actions by begging for my job.
If you don’t follow company policy and file an exemption request, they can fire you for that. However, if you follow their policy and submit a request and it is denied, you can say you followed company policy. Then file your EEOC complaint for religious discrimination. Now you have them in a box.
Play by their rules, and then strike back. You don’t want to be fired for anything that isn’t within your rights.
“We are down to the hardened group”. I’m proud to be a member of this group. I will not be forced or threatened. They can dangle carrots but once they brandish the stick the only correct response is FU
I couldn’t have said it better Sundance, and here is a glimmer of strength from Austria.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/revolution/austria-rises-up-resistance-is-not-futile/
And should a Trump parade or peaceful protest convoy ensue:
Sorry, technical difficulties over here … Moderator is welcome to delete this post.
Other (confounding/interacting) issue:
Excess deaths are now increasing on the books in the EU, correlated with the NotVaxx delivery, especially in the younger (productive) groups, andthe U.S. will follow along behind them. Could be Feb-ish, could be May-ish. Regardless, there’s a perfect storm brewing.
Go long on your pantry and optical zero. Don’t bet the farm on your ballots.
Link?
Let’s be clear: There is no mandate. It’s a malevolent fraud.
Don’t need a shot for 99.95…
Don’t need a shot because some malevolent moron said so…
The shots are stupid.
Hold the line.
FJB and FBP
I have always thought and said that these master planners who go into their offices, their conclaves, their meetings…completely disconnected from reality or experiences amongst those they think they are much better than…and draw out their plans on their little drawing boards, and actually believe they can control all the external forces which they have no control over, are getting a lesson in life.
As Britain’s Macmillan purportedly said, “Events, dear boy…events”.
Events are always unplanned and unexpected. Always. For the first time in a long time, I’m feeling Divine Providence, which these despicable cruel people do not understand, is making an appearance. It is a beautiful thing to behold.
“.. there would be over a quarter million vacancies resulting in a “catastrophic” collapse of the U.S. supply chain.”
I suddenly completely and totally support Brandon’s OSHA jab mandate!!! Please, please, please 5th circuit stand down and let them have at it!!!
Well, what does this mean for all the businesses and municipalities who are requiring the vaccine as a condition of employment ?
Does this mean they can’t impose it ??? I know people who are furloughed due to not taking it.
And what about the colleges who require it as a condition of enrollment or of participation in lieu of masks and constant tests ?
Seriously – what does this mean for us right now ??? Or is it nothing more than companies won’t get fined for not going along with it ?
Sorry – thought I was in the other thread when I posted this. I’ll Copy/paste it over there.
It means that there will be a certain amount of animosity festering for generations-
Paybacks are gonna be a bitch…..
I am a hard HELL NO!
As a meme I saw put it brilliantly, ” My pronouns
are I/Will/Not/Comply.
I’m good with this. It serves the same purpose as a strike. I think it would bring down the gov’t.
Take 9/10 of everything you use,eat,function your life and household with and thats what you WONT HAVE ANYMORE if the trucks stop.
I can’t think of anything that doesn’t come by car or truck. How’s it going to get to you? Hitchhike on a sunbeam?
Anyone else ready for some good news?
Have any?
The sun came up this morning. We woke up alive. God loves us and is with us
We live in scary times, but I’m doing my best to keep the faith and carry on.
Hope this helps a little.
This is so frustrating. It is the compliant that are causing the problem. Had 50% of the workers at businesses pushing this mandate simply not complied and went on strike or just made them fire them, this would all have been over awhile ago.
The propaganda media mil is churning out fear. death and destruction 24/7/365 and those who
watch or listen to are those who no connection to God and faith in him. The government is their
god.
Let’s go Brandon.
Unfortunately, hospitals and clinics are forced to mandate the jab because CMS, which doles out the Medicare money, have tied reimbursement to the hospitals mandating the vaccine. If not enough employees are vaccinated reimbursement rates are decreased. This has also been going on for years regarding the flu shot. Once again the government is extorting our healthcare system/workers. This is another reason all of the doctors are spouting the same line as the government and mainstream media instead of providing good care to people. Such a shame that many lives have been lost due to our government and the almighty dollar.
While I don’t disagree with the fact that this would be catastrophic for a period of time, this may be healthy long term. When there is no food on the shelves it will be a wake up call to those still sleeping. Of course this is a feature to get us to the GR.
I would suggest that if you’re not actively preparing I would start immediately. The thing is, unless you’re Uber rich then you’re not buying your way out of being severely impacted by this. That ship has sailed.
Start preparing for a garden next spring now. Meat rabbits and chickens for eggs if you can. You will not learn this stuff overnight so start today. If you think buying seeds and calling it a day will get you through this you’re not thinking correctly. Look into JDAM organic gardening. Also lookup David the Good on YT for survival gardening.
Got 54 eggs from my chickens dehydrating at the moment. Life is good ?
According to CDC’s website, as of 8 p.m. today, only 195.6 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, equalling 58.9% of the total US population. Simple math means that there are 136.5 million people who are not fully vaccinated, so Biden earns 5 Pinocchios for claiming only 66 million are unvaccinated.
Same CDC website also says 228.2 million have had at least one dose. That leaves 103.8 million with less than one dose, i.e., no doses. So even using that more stringent definition of “unvaccinated”, Biden et al are understating the resistance by 40%.
No surprise.
CDC website – https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total
no mandate to get welfare