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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMember of the trucker convoy was asked what issues were important to her. Her answer was...
Link to tweet
smb
(3,471 posts)Sounds like a bad sci-fi/porn story.
leftieNanner
(15,082 posts)Don't they sell them in a porn store?
Or maybe she watched Austin Powers too many times. And thought it was a documentary.
Ray Bruns
(4,093 posts)smb
(3,471 posts)RocRizzo55
(980 posts)From personal experience? Sounds like some kind of pr0n to me.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)Shipwack
(2,161 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,093 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)i just watched it again last year. wasn't easy to find, either
ToxMarz
(2,166 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Lochloosa
(16,063 posts)Thtwudbeme
(7,737 posts)It would probably help.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)chowder66
(9,067 posts)Beachnutt
(7,311 posts)should do a mental evaluation of its employees.
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)We owe it to Merika to keep us free
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leftieNanner
(15,082 posts)"They're gonna digitile us."
Welcome to the American Edjumication System.
Stinky The Clown
(67,786 posts)God help us. She can vote.
Marthe48
(16,935 posts)God. Just God.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,365 posts)Seriously, you dont need much of an education to pass the test, and these days, most of the truck driving schools are merely teaching the students how to pass the test and have a modicum of safety awareness.
But you clearly dont have to have a proper command of the English language or much more sense than a carbuncle.
Ive said this before and Ill say it again;
I am a member of an industry overwhelmingly populated by morons.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)Because when she gets sick and needs medicines, she is being DIGITILED???
There are some real doozies out there.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)was hatched from an egg. Only gawd can make a tractor-trailer. No science involved there, is there?
PJMcK
(22,031 posts)She said she is protesting digitalis. This is from Wikipedia:
Here's the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis
The woman in the video has no idea what she's talking about but she's willing to drive her rig (and pay for the fuel) to protest against topiaries.
What. The. Fuck?
Is what he thinks they will do, as in a verb.
A digitile is, in their thinking, a human transformed by drugs into a robot of sorts... I think she really means zombie but she's not bright enough to get that part.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)Monty Python to the rescue.
Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
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Nevilledog
(51,078 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,221 posts)Nevilledog
(51,078 posts)The video was shared on Twitter by the people who produced it. At no time is TikTok needed to view it, and, since you obviously didn't watch it, it had subtitles.
Why you felt the need to respond to this thread as you did seems odd.
ZonkerHarris
(24,221 posts)is appreciated by many members who don't want to listen to the most ignorant of our society.
Also many here are checking in while at work so they can't watch a video.
In the GD forum is is standard practice to give a summation of the content for your fellow members.
In the Video and Multimedia forum it is standard to post a video context free with no explanations because that forum is about the watching.
Glad I could be of help.
Nevilledog
(51,078 posts)I suggest you write out your very special rules so all of us can abide by them to your satisfaction.
ZonkerHarris
(24,221 posts)blogslug
(37,998 posts)Maybe you should apologize.
ZonkerHarris
(24,221 posts)defensive but they never edit or add the info to the OP like they used to.
People used to point this out and a correction or edit would be made and we all move on.
Now there's a big trend here where many are refusing for whatever reason to add basic info for the benefit of the other members of this forum to clarify an OP.
When this happens I do get wary about why they won't correct/edit/add the info.
uponit7771 provided the info that Neville could have but refused to do.
Everybody seems to want clicks on the internet somewhere.
I thought I was being amusing because I didn't think long time member Neville is a clickbaiter.
Maybe I was wrong about being amusing or Neville, or both.
Nevilledog
(51,078 posts)I never provide info and access to info for any DUer.
You chose to respond to this thread in a negative way. Please, I invite you to skip on over my posts. I feel genuinely bad that the post made you unhappy.
Oh, and I hope you like my signature pic.
blogslug
(37,998 posts)I agree that sometimes things are posted without context and that can be frustrating. I'm sorry I mistook your humor for something else.
When you have the chance you should take the time to seek out The Good Liars. They're awesome.
zuul
(14,624 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,221 posts)and thanks for the info
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... really stupid people.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Or, is she a land whale? :ROFL:
blogslug
(37,998 posts)That is a Tweet from the account of a satire group called The Good Liars.
https://www.goodliars.com/
I understand some people on DU aren't fond of Twitter but TikTok is a completely different platform and the OP didn't post this to get personal clicks.
That was weird.
Scrivener7
(50,946 posts)Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)To taking a shot would come the words drink for stupidity would be said which would seal your fate as the more you drank the more ridiculous you would be and the more times you would be it.
I liked shoots and ladders better.
elleng
(130,864 posts)Digitalis is an example of a drug derived from a plant that was formerly used by herbalists; herbalists have largely abandoned its use because of its narrow therapeutic index and the difficulty of determining the amount of active drug in herbal preparations. Once the usefulness of digitalis in regulating the human pulse was understood, it was employed for a variety of purposes, including the treatment of epilepsy and other seizure disorders, which are now considered to be inappropriate treatments.
A group of medicines extracted from foxglove plants are called digitalin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis
RobinA
(9,888 posts)was prescribed digitalis back in the 60s - 70s. It was a green liquid and we were warned to absolutely never touch the stuff because it affects the heart. I wish I had been old enough to ask some in-depth questions about what she took it for. All we knew was it was taken for her heart.
2naSalit
(86,534 posts)Accent. I think she was trying to say "...digitile us." but her sloppy speech makes it hard to tell. I had to read the subs to see what she was saying, and I speak truckese!
elleng
(130,864 posts)2naSalit
(86,534 posts)Digitalis is in her vocabulary, and digitile is barely a part of it. I think it's a made up word that they think is cool and so they use it like the use democrat to own libs.
That being said, I think she doesn't understand a good half of the words she uses.
These clowns have been rolling around for a week and a half looking for an excuse to be rolling around with no argument to defend.
This song indicates their problem...
Good Excuse
John Butler Trio
All around I see raining
Things don't seem to go my way
God a dark cloud is hanging
And it seems to follow me
Boy, won't you just wake up
Hear the humming
This cool world is giving you
Better start running
Catch up with your life
I catch on up
Before the whole thing is through
Have you once have you twice
Have you even considered
It would be good for you
To gotta go and take another look around
You are just another white boy
Thinking your so hardcore
Go take a step out side and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step out side and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step out side and see what's shaking in the real world
But you don't know how my heart laments
I've really got a good excuse to complain
My parents got divorced can't heal the pain
Now there is only cheap regrets
I guess that's just the way it be
Is it the world, oh how I see me?
Boy now you are really
Really bugging
Yes you are bugging me
Can't you just shut right up
Your cup is overflowing
Overflowing
And you think it is too deep
You don't even know what side
You are vouching for
Boy would you turn your Game-boy off
Stop pretending it's you against the world
I am sick and I am tired
Of hearing you always say
I really got a good excuse to complain
My parents got divorced can't heal the pain
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Go take a step outside and see what's shaking in the real world
Songwriters: John Wiltshire-Butler
calimary
(81,210 posts)What the heck is "Digitile"?
She's evidently on something but I doubt "digitile" is it.
Beachnutt
(7,311 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Great research!!! Gotta be the same one.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)Digitile us? Female robots? If you can swallow this swill anything and everything is possible.
This is the House That Ignorance Built.
blue sky at night
(3,242 posts)the SS Carrier Facebook Page, suggested they may want to rethink their Business Plan and perhaps hire someone for their management team that is a bit smarter than the folks there are now...just saying. Hope I didn't get her in trouble...
I just noticed the link above and thought I would save everyone a few seconds by pasting the first thing mentioned:
ALERT: There are 2 PPP loans for a total of $95,690 in our database for businesses with the name "SS Carrier Inc" in Dallas, TX. This this is typically due to the same business receiving both first and second-draw loans, but may also include similarly named but unrelated businesses, multiple branches of the same business, mistaken multiple applications, or potential fraud. Click each loan below to see full details.
Just Saying...getting my dictionary out to look up the term: H Y P O C R I T E
hyp·o·crite
/ˈhipəˌkrit/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a person who indulges in hypocrisy.
"the story tells of respectable Ben who turns out to be a cheat and a hypocrite"
2naSalit
(86,534 posts)The big problem nobody wants to recognize is that trucking isn't the kind of job anybody can do. The trucking companies treat their employees like serfs, always have, which is why there is a shortage, that and drug testing for pot.
If the companies were more humane to work for, there wouldn't be a shortage of drivers and there would be a better caliber of drivers out there. Once upon a time it was a much friendlier troupe of drivers out there, when that stopped, I was glad to retire.
2naSalit
(86,534 posts)Not surprised by the driver at all.
Baitball Blogger
(46,699 posts)judgement kills someone.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,919 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)She's in a truck cab umpteen hours a day, listening to some radio station or podcasts or something. And someone is paying for this content to be created and aired.
This is some serious brainwashing.
2naSalit
(86,534 posts)h2ebits
(644 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,365 posts)Anyway.
They are trying to digitize us. Makes a bit more sense, but still whacky as fuck.
Either way, it is a really dopey reason to lose more than a few days of revenue for.
Shell protest being digitile but wont protest the fact that truckers havent had a raise outside of inflation in over 30 years.
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)You need limbs, and a central nervous system, and vision, and keys.
(Just kidding, all you DUer truck drivers, don't be mad)
Jim__
(14,074 posts)multigraincracker
(32,673 posts)Sarah Palin talk.
Srkdqltr
(6,271 posts)Nevilledog
(51,078 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,411 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)(I slay me)
Oh, and goose egg.
(Again, I slay me)
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)northern liberal
(3 posts)I live in the DC area and the truckers aren't doing much, traffic is always heavy on the Beltway, we are sort of just ignoring these people and passing them. The convoy left to get on the Beltway at 9:30 this morning, rush hour is over then. They are just wasting their money and gas.
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)I had hoped they'd be largely ignored.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)and away from this madness.....
Someone please send a rumor over CB radio that Secretary Clinton pulled strings and had the GPS satellites transmit bad positioning for the DC area. Everything now runs in circles......
KY.........
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)A lot more in her body she should be worried about compared to her making a decision to stop taking a prescribed heart medication.
Then I thought she didnt want her VHS tapes digitized (hey Im grasping at straws here), but really how important is that?
The kicker is so common. Well thats what theyre saying.
Seriously?
God help me if I thought sterilization would help Id advocate it but there is nothing that can stop this mindless drivel from being perpetuated. Between the information on the internet with their bots sending you down a rabbit hole, Faux news, and a corrupt political class willing to talk shit, I wonder where hope for change will come from.
smb
(3,471 posts)...and thinks that heart medication is turning people into robots or something.
ShazzieB
(16,368 posts)She doesn't want to take "medicine that will hurt people," and she's worried about people being controlled by "what they put in our bodies." I'm convinced this is about the covid vaccine and the (false, debunked) rumors about Bill Gates and his microchips. Remember, the Canadian convoy was about protesting vaccine mandates.
The rumors and conspiracy theories have gotten garbled after over a year of being posed back and forth, but I believe that's what's at the heart of this.
Ford_Prefect
(7,886 posts)czarjak
(11,266 posts)appleannie1
(5,067 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,425 posts)...there should be some penalty/accountability for spreading misinformation on public airwaves that causes people to make decisions that wreck their lives. When financial advisors and real estate experts give bad information to the public that causes people to lose money in investments, they are often sued. Why shouldn't the same apply to the right wing media (wonder what station that lady trucker listens to?) outlets who cause people to make such disastrous choices?
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)Even frozen foods sometimes have several inches under ingredients, not to mention fast food and drugs. I guess that doesn't count.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)I dont know whats sadder that, or thinking that you have the intelligence to be acting like you know what youre talking about.
Demovictory9
(32,448 posts)TheRickles
(2,057 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 7, 2022, 05:17 PM - Edit history (1)
ShazzieB
(16,368 posts)She doesn't want to take "medicine that will hurt people," and she's worried about people being controlled by "what they put in our bodies."
Remember the (false, debunked) conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and his microchips? If that's not what this was about, I'll eat this keyboard I'm typing on.
Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,411 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I swear to God...what else could be wrong with these people?
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)sdfernando
(4,930 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Sickening, really. She makes me want to vomit.
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)can I have one?? pretty please? ONEGAISHIASU
PSSST: Siri doesn't cut it. Nor does Google Assistant..
Warpy
(111,244 posts)Dear, if you don't want to be digitalissed, don't develop heart disease. Lose those 60 pounds and do some exercise at truck stops and on your days off. Oh, and learn to READ. Even Fakebook is better than talk radio. Talk radio is the ooze on the very bottom.
That's why truckers are so vulnerable to this garbage, turning on talk radio because they're bored.
An oldie but goodie:
Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)iluvtennis
(19,846 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:09 PM - Edit history (1)
AverageOldGuy
(1,523 posts)She is barreling down the interstate highway at 75MPH in an 80,000 pound truck -- in your rearview mirror and coming closer by the second.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)jmowreader
(50,553 posts)orleans
(34,049 posts)Sedona
(3,769 posts)Woodwizard
(842 posts)They go on about that and much more batshit crazy stuff. I usually read through but since Ukraine I had to take a break they are off the deep end on pro Russian propaganda.
3catwoman3
(23,971 posts)How do people this stupid/gullible manage to function? If breathing required cognitive ability and deciding whether to breathe in first or out first, these folks would be dead before they could decide.
There is a verb for putting someone on digitalis - digitalize.
nowforever
(302 posts)She's already been digiitialized...sadly.
sloopdog50
(36 posts)Oh, good Lord....
Slammer
(714 posts)...and might rack up a few more convictions.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)This is the direct result of republicans "dumbing down" the United States.
She thinks the government is trying to control her using COVID vaccine.
Lady, there's only one party in this country that's trying to control your brain - such as it is - and that's the Trumpublican party. They want you dumb as a box of hammers (mission accomplished) and completely devoid of any critical thinking skills (again, mission accomplished).
Instead of raising your awareness and intelligence (but that makes muh' brain hurt!), you lower your already bargain basement thinking, to a level only slightly higher than that of a potted plant.
This is the GQP vision for America. They want everyone as intellectually stunted as this woman. This is why they detest Democrats.
Emile
(22,667 posts)Ohioboy
(3,240 posts)and people like this woman are worried about things that aren't even happening. God help us.
mcar
(42,301 posts)notKeith
(138 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)Nevilledog
(51,078 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)nonchalantly fingering through her digitile without her noticing.