{"id":16912,"date":"2024-02-19T21:35:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T02:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2024-02-20T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T07:03:09","slug":"make-em-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/make-em-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Make &#8217;em PAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just find out who <em>really<\/em> has the power here\u2026and who does NOT.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/19\/us-news\/trump-supporting-truckers-vow-their-boycott-could-shut-down-new-york\/\"><strong>Trump-supporting truckers vow their boycott could \u2018shut New York City down\u2019 after $355M fraud ruling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>Truckers supporting Donald Trump are warning that their refusal to deliver to the Big Apple could paralyze New York City \u2014 as more drivers vow to join the boycott following the bombshell ruling in the former president\u2019s civil fraud case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could shut New York City down,\u201d said Jennifer Hernandez, a trucker who has joined in the protest against Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron\u2019s decision to fine Trump $355 million for inflating his net worth by billions to dupe banks and insurers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shut \u2018em down? It <em>could<\/em> damned well starve &#8217;em out, actually. Which would serve them right, far as I\u2019m concerned. Let \u2018em try chowing down on their own insufferable self-righteousness and sanctimony, see how much sustenance the shitlib asstards can draw from <em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Several other truckers have been posting on social media expressing their support.<\/p>\n<p>One man even suggested the boycott could go on for three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep on f\u2014ing around, you\u2019re going to find out, New York,\u201d he said in a video posted to TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>The boycott seemed to have been started by conservative social media influencer Chicago Ray, who posted a clip Friday saying he had spoken to some of his trucker colleagues who said they would stop making deliveries to the city starting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that 95% of truckers support the former president, and said the bosses of freight companies \u201cain\u2019t gonna care if we deny the loads \u2014 we\u2019ll just go somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Fake)Newsweak, in their typically-dishonest fashion, tried mightily to portray Chicago Ray as having \u201cbacked down\u201d and totally reconsidered his position (no link, look it up yourself if you don\u2019t believe me), but that doesn\u2019t appear to be the case at all.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I took that video down from Friday bc it went viral and my Grandson seen it on Tik Tok <\/p>\n<p>No one&#8217;s got to me &#8230; I heard what drivers were saying and I&#8217;m hearing some of that today <\/p>\n<p>I ain&#8217;t scared of shit. I grew up in Chicago <\/p>\n<p>I stand with Trump \ud83d\udcaf% Truckers for Trump\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XhvtHF9CUq\">pic.twitter.com\/XhvtHF9CUq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago1Ray \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Chicago1Ray)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chicago1Ray\/status\/1759578055679344804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Unexpectedly, NY&#8217;s governor seems to be fully alive to the disaster that even a small minority of truckers refusing to continue putting up with the extreme hassle, expense, and hazard both personal and professional of pulling loads into the Big Rotten Apple would result in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/18\/trump-verdict-new-york-business-governor-kathy-hochul\">for her state<\/a>, issuing a preemptive \u201cdon\u2019t worry, all is well\u201d notice to justly-worried New Yorkers that she had to know wasn\u2019t going to fool anybody.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The New York governor has told business owners in her state that there is \u201cnothing to worry about\u201d after Donald Trump was fined $355m and temporarily banned from engaging in commerce in the state when he lost his civil fraud trial Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on the New York radio show the Cats Roundtable with the supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis, Kathy Hochul sought to quell fears in some quarters that the penalties handed to Trump for engaging in fraudulent business practices could chill the state\u2019s commercial climate.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if businesspeople should be worried that if prosecutors could \u201cdo that to the former president, they can do that to anybody\u201d, Hochul said: \u201cLaw-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are businesspeople have nothing to worry about because they\u2019re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that the fraud case against Trump resulted from \u201creally an extraordinary, unusual circumstance\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>True, dat; in fact, it&#8217;s quite unique, no one else ever before having been persecuted, harassed, and fleeced to the tune of <em>half a billion fucking dollars (!!!)\u2014<\/em>along with two (2) of his sons\u2014for a so-called \u201ccrime\u201d that\u2019s been committed by pretty much every living soul who ever applied for a loan, in the course of which one of the putative \u201cvictims\u201d actually testified that Trump was, in essence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/except-for-fraud-donald-trump-was-good-deutsche-bank-borrower-2023-10\">the very model of a model customer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Trump never missed a loan payment, the credit reports and the banker&#8217;s testimony showed. In almost a decade as a borrower, Trump was never even late making a payment \u2013 not before, during, or after his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far as I can recall, the loans were performing,&#8221; the banker, Nicholas Haigh, told the judge in the non-jury trial, at which attorney general Letitia James seeks to banish Trump Organization from her state&#8217;s borders, and to ban Trump and his eldest sons from ever running a New York company again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And all the obligations of the borrower were met,&#8221; Trump attorney Jesus M. Suarez asked the banker in his next question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as I know, yes,&#8221; the banker answered.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump&#8217;s prompt payments were not enough to burnish his borrower bona fides, the former president&#8217;s collateral also grew, the credit reports showed. It grew by millions each year, as the projects Deutsche Bank funded with $400 million in loans \u2013 his tower in Chicago, his golf resort in Miami, his luxury hotel in Washington DC \u2013 were developed.<\/p>\n<p>And all the while, the bank made &#8220;millions&#8221; in interest, the banker testified, to that extent bolstering a frequent Trump defense talking point: that the fraud trial is a political grudge in search of a victim. Trump, who last week attended the first three days of the trial, is expected to return in person next week, The Messenger and the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s because, as everyone in the whole damned world knows, &#8220;a political grudge in search of a victim\u201d is <strong>EXACTLY<\/strong> what this horseshit is. Trump is being persecuted by TPTB for the heinous crime of having the temerity\u00a0to not be one of their clique and go ahead and run for \u201cPresident\u201d anyway. Why, the unmitigated GALL of the man! Uncle Peter, my smelling salts!!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update!<\/strong><\/em> Via <a href=\"https:\/\/theferalirishman.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/i-think-new-york-not-only-fafod-but.html\">Irish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Liberals laugh at the thought of a trucker boycott of NYC<br \/>A few years ago, a trucker boycott brought the state of Colorado to its knees. <br \/>MAGA patriots make this country run. <br \/>Liberals make our coffee. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TruckersForTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TruckersForTrump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/btG0ceRtw3\">pic.twitter.com\/btG0ceRtw3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Real Trucker Jake \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@bigskyfit)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigskyfit\/status\/1759221198611976275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Brings to mind a memorable Gandalf quote from Tolkien&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quotes.net\/mquote\/1194546\"><em>The Two Towers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Gandalf:<\/strong><br \/>It was more than mere chance that brought Merry and Pippin to Fangorn. A great power has been sleeping here for many long years. The coming of Merry and Pippin will be like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aragorn:<\/strong><br \/>And one thing you have not changed, my friend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gandalf:<\/strong><br \/>Hmm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aragorn:<\/strong><br \/>You still speak in riddles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gandalf:<\/strong><br \/>A thing is about to happen that has not happened since the elder days. The Ents are going to wake up&#8230;and find that they are strong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And so they did\u2014did they ever! God help &#8220;blue&#8221; America if ever the majority of truckers wake up one day and, like the Shepherds of the Trees of Fangorn Forest, realize just how strong they truly are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just find out who really has the power here\u2026and who does NOT. Trump-supporting truckers vow their boycott could \u2018shut New York City down\u2019 after $355M fraud rulingTruckers supporting Donald Trump are warning that their refusal to deliver to the Big Apple could paralyze New&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/make-em-pay\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Make &#8217;em PAY<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,20,31,33,36,204,52,55,61,64,208,77,79,84,85,114,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-american","category-believe-it-or-else","category-brilliant","category-counterrevolution","category-culture-of-corruption","category-damn-thats-funny","category-enemies-domestic","category-fuwar","category-gangstergovt","category-hmmm","category-in-it-to-win-it","category-keep-up-the-skeer","category-meltdown-what-meltdown","category-muahahahaha","category-passthepopcorn","category-patton-would-be-proud","category-counter-revolutionary-ideas","category-trump-derangement","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-31-id","wpcat-33-id","wpcat-36-id","wpcat-204-id","wpcat-52-id","wpcat-55-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-64-id","wpcat-208-id","wpcat-77-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-84-id","wpcat-85-id","wpcat-114-id","wpcat-117-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16919,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions\/16919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}