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A targeted strike would be good. It would be inspiring to see Truckers striking, not for their own paychecks but for Nationalism.
It’d be the drivers who stop, not the trucks. Enter stage left, Natiional Guard able to drive trucks and a gov crash program to train drivers and break unions. Think of the air traffic controllers back in the 80s. Disruptive, sure, but not for long. Nevertheless…
It is a terrible thing to think that a handful of snipers could accomplish the same thing. It would take longer.
So the govt would confiscate the trucks?? They don’t have the trucks to take over so they would have to abscond them from truckers…. THAT wouldn’t go over to well.
Air traffic controllers are one thing, interrupts air travel which is more an inconvenience. Trucking is quite literally a life blood necessity of a nation today. If truckers did actually refuse to drive there would be massive disruption of everything in days with the big consumer cities running out of supplies in days, followed by riots soon after.
Even a ‘crash’ course in training new drivers would take months, not days. You obviously do not know what it takes to drive a rig.
You can teach someone how to go forward in a few minutes assuming they know how a clutch works, which most do not. The air brake where most think the gas pedal should be, how to use the shifter with the multiple ranges will take a while. Backing up? Some guys never seem to get that down.
You could get a Reserve or Guard military transportation outfit, but most of those guys are truckers. So then who drives the military trucks? It might not work long term but a week in this scenario is a really long time, especially if cops have no gas, fire departments have no gas or diesel etc.
During the Persian Gulf War build-up (Desert Shield), the USMC was critically short of heavy, over-the-road truck transportation. There were literally tons of beans, bullets, spare parts etc piling up at Saudi ports in MARCENT. The USMC trucks were on ships enroute to the theater, weeks away from the action.
Their solution was to lease dozens of old Mercedes 18-wheelers from an Egyptian firm and to take Combat Support and Combat Service Support Marines from all kinds of specialties and units and turn them into truck drivers until the USMC heavy MT equipment arrived in port.
I was one of the guys they tasked to do this. I was a Landing Support Specialist (beaches, helo’s etc) aka a “Red Patcher”. We were in theather to support an amphibious landing that was never gonna happen. We were landed at a Saudi port.
I had never driven an 18-wheeler. I was tossed into a “provisional” unit along with my entire Landing Support Company. With us were cooks, bakers, aircraft mechanics, airfield service people, engineers etc. None of us were truck drivers by trade.
They gave us a 15 minute class at the port right on the pierside, and then turned us loose on the road. The ragged-out trucks we were driving were 1970’s Mercedes pieces of shit. We moved TONS and TONS of supplies for 60 days driving 16-20 hours a day before our “tactical” vehicles finally arrived in theater. Then they moved us into them, sans any training at all, and we drove them to war.
Don’t kid yourself. If I can drive a mother fuckin’, double clutchin’, speed shifting flatbed semi-rig loaded with howitzer rounds, anyone can do it. And the military doesn’t give two shits about civilian rules. They will rent the trucks even if they “rent” them at the point of a bayonet. Just like they impressed horses in the Revolution and again during the War of Northern Agression.
Anyone could learn to get their CDL, just like anyone pissed off enough could learn how to salt a field and/or ruin its pH in an hour. Slavery only goes so far and always runs on a street wide enough to handle two-way traffic. Poke enough of your own citizenry in the chest with a bayonet and things would go pear-shaped pretty quickly. They’d learn the street is two-way. Especially in a failing empire.
I’d like to avoid that with a peaceful alternative.
The gimmedats would be rioting and after two or three days guaranteed. It would light the fuse.
It doesn’t need to be long to send a message. It just needs to be nationwide. At some point those truckers aren’t going to want to enter cities anyways. Cue last summer on steroids where Biden is sending us.
Not if the trucks are disabled, the roads blocked, bridges dropped etc.
I think it more “When the trucks stop”
Operation: Big Rig!!! Lets get it rolling.
This just reminds me of why their Green New Deal ideas are so ridiculous. They can issue edict about Corporate Average Fuel Economy, but they can’t make transportation systems run on solar electricity or unicorn farts. There’s not enough electricity production to convert even 10% of vehicles to electric and they’re not building the nuclear power plants to change that. Twenty, thirty, forty years from now we’ll still be using gasoline and heating homes with gas.
In a way, it all seems like a giant set-up, doesn’t it? Whip up a frenzy of falsehoods about an unseen boogeyman called “climate change”, lie and tell everyone that the cause is “fossil fuel”, and dangle the carrot that the solution is a mythical “green energy” that is too expensive to apply on a large scale.
The whole scenario is a guarantee to fail, except for the “Oil families”, the mafia, who continue to profit from the “problem” they created.
It’s all a plan to justify a “carbon tax” to suck the middle class into poverty and keep those in poverty down there.
Thank God that electric self driving trucks are just around the corner. What could go wrong?
https://www.usaproductsonly.com/
Another author who I have profound respect for told me that even a 1 day strike nationwide would be effective. He told me that we need to start small.
Yes yes, bust my balls for being part French. But at least we know how to strike!
I don’t see any other effective, peaceful alternative. If we don’t try, we end up in total war and collapse. And I do believe every reader here knows it.
I would tell people that if the “Heartland’ ever decided to not co-operate with the Dem controlled states, there would be a very short temper tantrum from them but that they’d very quickly come around. The Heartland controls all the food and energy in the nation.
So when the dem controlled states run out of food and energy, it would be MONTHS before they could ship product in. Even if they could get another country to immediately ship food or energy the quickest would be a two to three week minimum arrival time.
Think about it. Want your nation back?? Want a free and fair audit of the last election??
Then stop ALL shipments from the Heartland into communist cities. Supply neither demoncrap or Gop alike. See how fast things turn around… less than a week.
Both coasts produce a lot of food. 95% of several types of nuts (the food, not people) come from Oregon and Washington. Fish, lotsa fish from the coasts. Don’t forget about Cali’s huge central valley.
Energy also is not exclusive to the Heartland. There’s off-shore oil and Alaska.
But, my main point is that The Heartland is not self sufficient. Right? Even if they do control ALL “the food and energy in the nation” don’t they need stuff from outside the Heartland to produce that food and energy?
You don’t need total control over anything. Just determination and a plan. Our supply chain management is so centralized and JIT that just a little sand would cause a lot of problems. Look at what happened last year and multiply it out by a factor of 100. TP would be the last thing on people’s minds.
Want a return to local butchers, bakers, and farmers, and the death of corporate control? That’s how you get it.
If you are talking about a wider diversity of foods, including nuts, then you are right there is lots of food produced by coastal regions. But the bulk of foods IS produced inland for the most part. The meat’n potatoes generally come from the heartland areas. Alaska has energy and fish for exports but last I looked it was a red state, no??
So my question is do you think Commiefornia, Oregon, Washington, NY, etc, the blue states, produce enough food to feed their local populace?? How long will the nuts last??
Obviously the control isn’t entirely as in no foods or no energy whatever but not in sufficient quantities to sustain themselves for any length of time. . But even that which is produced locally, in state, still has to be moved, who’s gonna do it??
I think you under estimate the heartland. Self sufficiency isn’t a problem and the adjustments would be easy. As for needing things from outside of the heartland… Like shiny new cell phones and Starbucks… why?? It wouldn’t be a long protracted battle with blue states. Should the ‘strike’ go longer than a month then truckers could simply move goods in red states and avoid blue states.
You underestimate the Ag power of Commiefornia.
“California’s agricultural abundance includes more than 400 commodities. Over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts are grown in California. California is the leading US state for cash farm receipts, accounting for over 13 percent of the nation’s total agricultural value.”
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/#:~:text=California's%20agricultural%20abundance%20includes%20more,the%20nation's%20total%20agricultural%20value.
The Ag industry in Oregon is $8 billion / yr.
Washington has 39,000 farms operating on more than 15 million acres, also producing about $8 billion a year.
Yes, it seems to me that they can “produce enough food to feed their local populace”.
I would love for you to be correct though. But, you make it sound too easy.
It’s like when Generals want to go to war … “We’ll be in and out of Afghanistan in three months!”.
Riiiight.
Doing something on that large a scale is never easy … and never comes without unforeseen consequences … and sometimes those consequences can be devastating.
I think your example of Afghanistan is on target. Look what the Afghan goatherders were able to accomplish, multiple times in a desert, against some of history’s greatest empires.
America couldn’t even figure out how to stock toilet paper on the store shelves during a flu.
It wouldn’t be easy nor would it be precision perfect. Nothing that’s worth it ever is. But think about the alternative and where we’re headed. If we had opted out in 2008, we would have had more options. Those options are rapidly dwindling.
At best we have 10 years left in the dollar and every year that goes by with the status quo, the worse it will be for us. The printing press has consequences of its own, Stuckmeister.
All these states rely on trucking to move product. Trucks don’t move then product doesn’t move. Much can be stored but again it does a lick of no good if it can’t get into the hands of the people. Yes there will be truckers that will haul but I’m going to say they will be minimal too.
Around my area a couple miles north of the Washington British Communista border, the main crops are fruit, with apples dominating. There are few, very few vegetable farms and no grains. Oregon much the same. I’m not saying that there would be ZERO food and energy moving there would be some. Again the giant IF is should the truckers strike, in mainly blue states, it would cripple them very quickly.
Obviously I can’t prove none of this, its my opinion. The biggest crunch in transportation is very few businesses warehouse any more, it mainly ‘Just in Time (JiT). This alone can cripple a business for days if not done right. Its a tough catch up if you get caught behind the eightball. I worked in the shipping industry, bulk carriers, intermodal transportation and limited container shipping, paper pusher at a bulk terminal. Doesn’t make me an expert but I can say I’ve seen the results of missed deadlines and cargo not moving.
Well … I do LIKE your opinion. As I said, I hope your prognostications come true.
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Halftime. Is it some rule that halftime shows must be done by Kneegrows?
How ’bout that Brady dude? I can’t stand him. BUT, he probably is the G.O.A.T.
The commercials are pathetic this year. Every shitfuk company is relying on Comedy this year. Comedy is hard. Just ask HF.
It is not even a question at this point. Brady is the best football player, at ANY position, of all time. Anyone who says differently is a joke.
the heartland produces meat and more importantly,grains–
the coasts do not produce an appreciable amount of vital foodstuffs–
Again, CA alone produces 1/3 of the country’s fruits and veggies.
The Irish survived on potatoes.
The Russians survived on beets and cabbage.
People from Kentucky survive on Coon Ass.
I’m sure the coasts can survive on fruits, nuts, and veggies.
Even if they do control ALL “the food and energy in the nation” don’t they need stuff from outside the Heartland to produce that food and energy?
No. The great rust belt was initially the manufacturing heart of the country and it lived in the midwest. Huge amount of cargo float the Mississippi, car manufacturers exist in the heartland. Texas and Florida have Gulf coasts, huge amounts of rice are grown around the Houston area. Refineries are in Texas, ditto oil fields.
Fact is, the coasts may grow food and have ports but what do they actually produce that can’t be made in the Heartland? Catfish are raised in ponds, ditto crawdads and CA’s central valley is being dehydrated to death by political decree.
wishful (delusional) thinking.
It can either happen in an orderly fashion, or it will happen in a disorderly fashion when we face civil war or global war. Or like I said in the article, both. Those are baked in the cake otherwise.
The options are limited at this point. Either continue to pay for your own slavery and don’t complain when you’re re-educated, or rip the band-aid off.
Well,there is an upside….
It’s funny, under the guise of *progress* we have all manner of daily use shit trucked in from who the fuck knows where? Go to Denny’s & order a salad that arrives still frozen? It came from Texas to PA.
Whatever happened to all the locally owned & operated bakeries, dairies, restaurants, clothing stores, hardware stores, etc.?
They disappeared when we tossed capitalism and replaced it with an over-regulated, corporatist/government fusion. Know what’s really sad? The remaining small businesses are refusing to acknowledge the truth and are attempting to pull a Hank Reardon.
Good luck with that.
Well, if they were to strike, hope the do not get the idea to take a tiny little critical piece from each truck. That would really complicate things. Keys would be one thing that any substitute driver might miss. They would also miss the hoses that connect the brakes, or the air valves out of just one tire. I am sure that drivers would have a really good idea as to what bits would keep a truck from moving. God forbid if they just ran them out of diesel and left them where they stopped. Hopefully not in the 30 blocks. Yes, if there is a strike, I really hope that they do not really think about making sure that the trucks do not move.
Yes, a national strike by truckers would collapse the system quick smart. That would suck.
And those that say the NG could fill in – horseshit says I. Not nearly enough of them that could drive those big beasts. Not many would have experience pulling the big rigs.
There are about 3.5 million truck drivers according to census bureau, there are about 440,000 national guard total.
How about stopping all food and fuel deliveries to the democrat cities that stole the election, you know Detroit, Chicago, NYC, Atlanta, Philadelphia, LA, SF, Sacramento and of course the big one Washington DC.
THAT is an interesting idea. And targeted…
Why strike, when you can just follow the namby pamby rules that they have in place. Something trivial not working, park up until a mechanic comes out to fix it. Union rules. Meal break and rest breaks taken exactly on time and for the complete duration. Drive at the exact speed limit as posted, follow all the road rules to the letter. Maintain safe distance from other vehicles etc etc etc. Just the extra time all this would take would completely fuck up all the JIT schedules. After 3-4 days of this the chaos would be unbelievable.
Then on the 5th day go back to what was being done before hand and completely slam the receivers with earlier than expected JIT adjusted receivals. Continue to rinse and repeat.
The 5th day, call in sick.