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hvn_nbr_2

(6,671 posts) Thu May 1, 2025, 10:20 PM Yesterday

Anecdote about truckers and today's demonstrations

I live in a small town among miles and miles of pastureland, hay fields, and orchards, but all that is between two metropolitan areas. A two-lane highway is the main drag through our town. A lot of trucks use our two-lane highway as a shortcut (40 miles of small country road versus 100+ miles on freeways but going through one of the metro areas. It often seems that one third of our traffic is trucks taking that shortcut.

We had a demonstration today that we started in one location and then moved to a main intersection on that main drag through town. I couldn't stay and left while everyone was leaving the first location to go to the main intersection. I drove through that intersection on the way home and was stopped on the cross street at the red light. While I waited every truck that passed the demonstrators who were already there honked as they passed.

Later I talked to someone who stayed the whole time and she said that what I observed continued. Every truck that passed honked and waved.

I think the orange freak has lost one of his constituencies.

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Anecdote about truckers and today's demonstrations (Original Post) hvn_nbr_2 Yesterday OP

Well well, so the honkies are showin out, eh?! Leghorn21 Yesterday #1

Hope so, but skeptical of what it means. We do have some good Democratic truckers here. Silent Type 23 hrs ago #2

That's very emotional... Mahalo for Sharing! Cha 23 hrs ago #3

We had a pretty good crowd in Lincoln Nebraska today. 1WorldHope 23 hrs ago #4

I wrote a post tonight NJCher 23 hrs ago #5

All the Trumphumping voters DENVERPOPS 21 hrs ago #6

Maybe he didnt actually win IbogaProject 21 hrs ago #7

even if what "some people are saying" held any kind of substance stopdiggin 21 hrs ago #8

I don't know BaronChocula 21 hrs ago #9

Leghorn21

(13,863 posts)

1. Well well, so the honkies are showin out, eh?!

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Thu May 1, 2025, 10:37 PM

Yesterday

OH MY!!

Many thanks for posting, 2!! Stories like this keep me breathing!!

Silent Type

(9,142 posts)

2. Hope so, but skeptical of what it means. We do have some good Democratic truckers here.

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Thu May 1, 2025, 10:38 PM

23 hrs ago

Hope they chime in. It would definitely be encouraging if some of the 80% of truckers who supposedly voted for trump were turning on him.

My skepticism is probably influenced by fact I live where 70+% voted for trump.

Cha

(310,145 posts)

3. That's very emotional... Mahalo for Sharing!

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Thu May 1, 2025, 10:41 PM

23 hrs ago

And Encouraging and Inspiring ..

1WorldHope

(1,160 posts)

4. We had a pretty good crowd in Lincoln Nebraska today.

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Thu May 1, 2025, 10:54 PM

23 hrs ago

The traffic is 98% cars. But some concrete trucks came through and blew their horns for us. We were like a bunch of kids when those trucks honked. I know that i was just delighted. I don't know if this is doing any good but it sure feels good to be in a whole crowd of kind open minded people who aren't afraid to cuss.

NJCher

(39,923 posts)

5. I wrote a post tonight

Reply to 1WorldHope (Reply #4)

Thu May 1, 2025, 11:24 PM

23 hrs ago

Called “protesting is therapeutic.“

DENVERPOPS

(11,965 posts)

6. All the Trumphumping voters

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Fri May 2, 2025, 12:41 AM

21 hrs ago

are already getting screwed over by him....................

IbogaProject

(4,330 posts)

7. Maybe he didnt actually win

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Fri May 2, 2025, 12:44 AM

21 hrs ago

Some people are saying he might have gotten in via cheating.

stopdiggin

(13,634 posts)

8. even if what "some people are saying" held any kind of substance

Reply to IbogaProject (Reply #7)

Fri May 2, 2025, 01:07 AM

21 hrs ago

that clearly doesn't have any bearing on the reality of today. NOR what we are confronted with for the next 2-4 years.

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BaronChocula

(2,668 posts)

9. I don't know

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Fri May 2, 2025, 01:12 AM

21 hrs ago

In rapist's first term farm bankruptcies and suicides skyrocketed. He ate away at women's reproductive rights. Hundreds of thousands died of COVID in 2020. Yet here we are.

What's happening will likely work against him in the midterm elections like in 2018, but if a rapist v.2 emerges in 2028, they still have a chance. The hold the republican party has on cultural white voters is tight as a drum.

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