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"These are not wealthy people. I wonder who is bankrolling this."
Last edited Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:51 PM - Edit history (1)
These are not wealthy people. I wonder who is bankrolling this.
They must not have actual jobs either since they seem to be able to pull these long stunts without having to worry about missing work. Maybe this is their work now, ...
They must not have actual jobs either since they seem to be able to pull these long stunts without having to worry about missing work. Maybe this is their work now, ...
As for those convoys, someone's paying for them. I'm not talking about diesel (thought "they" - whoever "they" may be - may also be covering fuel costs). What was the cost of renting the spot they are calling their DC-area headquarters when they are not mindlessly and pointlessly driving around the beltway? Are the truckers themselves being paid? After all, they're not working, and yet they are still buying diesel and food. Someone - Russian oligarchs, RWNJ billionaires (Thiel, Uelein, Musk, Koch), Alex Jones, Steve Bannon - is picking up the tab. Notwithstanding the warning that we as a nation to take these buffoons seriously, the truckers themselves are useful idiots manipulated into eroding our democracy while filling the pockets of their paymasters.
Who are these truckers who can find the time not to actually work, and then undoubtedly whine about how they can't find whatever it is they want in the grocery store or Home Depot? Are there no jobs for truckers? Are they really truckers? Anyone check Craig'slist for ads for fake truckers?
Who are these truckers who can find the time not to actually work, and then undoubtedly whine about how they can't find whatever it is they want in the grocery store or Home Depot? Are there no jobs for truckers? Are they really truckers? Anyone check Craig'slist for ads for fake truckers?
Words to that effect were spoken by every last segregationist elected official and more than a few Southern editorial writers in 1961 and 1962 in reference to the outside agitators who ventured to the American south to work for civil rights. Somebody had to be paying them. Don't they have jobs? Who's organizing this?
The Long History of the ‘Outside Agitator’
Amid widespread protests over police brutality after the death of George Floyd, some federal and local officials have blamed outsiders for stoking violence. Similar claims were made during the civil rights movement.
By Jacey Fortin
Published June 8, 2020
Updated June 9, 2020
After demonstrations for racial equality in Alabama were inflamed by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, a black activist who was shot by a state trooper, state officials issued a resolution asking people to stay home, citing “continued agitation and demonstrations led and directed by outsiders.” ... The resolution was signed by Gov. George Wallace 55 years ago, and the demonstrations it referred to included a series of marches from Selma to Montgomery, one of which ended on March 7, 1965 — now known as Bloody Sunday — with state troopers attacking the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas. ... The wording of the resolution, which suggested that the demonstrations did not involve or were not supported by Alabama residents, was typical of the time.
“The notion — or rather fiction — of the ‘outside agitator’ was a persistent trope, especially during the early years of the civil rights movement,” said Thomas C. Holt, 77, a professor of African-American history at the University of Chicago who helped organize demonstrations during the 1960s. ... “Part of the motivations for the charge was to sustain the myth that the locals were satisfied with things as they were,” he said, “and if you could just crack down on the outsiders, the protests would cease. As the movement grew and spread, that myth became more difficult to sustain.”
But the concept of “outside agitators” in popular protests has persisted, in part because it is rooted in some truth: Then as now, activists and leaders traveled from city to city to help organize demonstrations or mutual aid programs. Freedom riders took buses across state lines to protest segregation. The civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was from Atlanta, traveled frequently and was regularly labeled an outsider by local officials.
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Correction: June 9, 2020
An earlier version of this article misstated who fatally shot student demonstrators at Kent State University in 1970. The students were shot by members of the Ohio National Guard, not by state troopers.
Amid widespread protests over police brutality after the death of George Floyd, some federal and local officials have blamed outsiders for stoking violence. Similar claims were made during the civil rights movement.
By Jacey Fortin
Published June 8, 2020
Updated June 9, 2020
After demonstrations for racial equality in Alabama were inflamed by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, a black activist who was shot by a state trooper, state officials issued a resolution asking people to stay home, citing “continued agitation and demonstrations led and directed by outsiders.” ... The resolution was signed by Gov. George Wallace 55 years ago, and the demonstrations it referred to included a series of marches from Selma to Montgomery, one of which ended on March 7, 1965 — now known as Bloody Sunday — with state troopers attacking the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas. ... The wording of the resolution, which suggested that the demonstrations did not involve or were not supported by Alabama residents, was typical of the time.
“The notion — or rather fiction — of the ‘outside agitator’ was a persistent trope, especially during the early years of the civil rights movement,” said Thomas C. Holt, 77, a professor of African-American history at the University of Chicago who helped organize demonstrations during the 1960s. ... “Part of the motivations for the charge was to sustain the myth that the locals were satisfied with things as they were,” he said, “and if you could just crack down on the outsiders, the protests would cease. As the movement grew and spread, that myth became more difficult to sustain.”
But the concept of “outside agitators” in popular protests has persisted, in part because it is rooted in some truth: Then as now, activists and leaders traveled from city to city to help organize demonstrations or mutual aid programs. Freedom riders took buses across state lines to protest segregation. The civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was from Atlanta, traveled frequently and was regularly labeled an outsider by local officials.
{snip}
Correction: June 9, 2020
An earlier version of this article misstated who fatally shot student demonstrators at Kent State University in 1970. The students were shot by members of the Ohio National Guard, not by state troopers.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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That's where a lot of the MAGAs seem to be getting their money lately. 
