The New York Post, Breitbart and others in the right-wing media sphere seized on a video that went viral on TikTok over the weekend to eagerly declare that truck drivers across the nation planned to boycott delivering goods to New York City following the verdict in the Donald Trump civil fraud case here last week.
• Predictably stupid.
•• Unpredictably short-lived.
••• Perhaps this may portend how quickly the Trump House of Cards might fall into the ash heap of history with a few more court cases and another election.
I once drove a Chevy S10 pickup truck into Manhattan with Kentucky plates. Back in the 90s. Got stuck in an intersection when the light changed and the horn honking started. Then the honking abruptly stopped. I still believe it was the KY plates that saved me. Don’t mess with a hillbilly, he might have guns. Then the light changed. That’s my trucker story
Notice how well the other common names for this toxic fish also describe Trump.
“ Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the orderTetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish , puffers , balloonfish , blowfish , blowers , blowies , bubblefish , globefish , swellfish , toadfish , toadies , toadle , honey toads , sugar toads , and sea squab .[1]”
I love that John Oliver is trying to privatize the SCRAP Act (@txlawyer) . Do he or his writers troll these boards for content? I will wildly speculate and say “yes”.
Is the first phrase a reference to increased incidents of food poisoning in freedom-loving red states? Safety inspections be damned, and all that jazz.