Totally hear you. But! To mitigate my inner George Carlin (sorta growling & grumbling in there) I've been on the lookout for more videos to transcribe of people who stood up and spoke out in 2021. I found this one cheering-- perhaps you and readers here will as well:
Totally hear you. But! To mitigate my inner George Carlin (sorta growling & grumbling in there) I've been on the lookout for more videos to transcribe of people who stood up and spoke out in 2021. I found this one cheering-- perhaps you and readers here will as well:
Josh Yoder is co-founder of US Freedom Flyers www.usfreedomflyers.org. This was a rally speech he gave for the The People's Convoy of truckers, which protested the covid vaccine mandates with a convoy and series of rallies from California to Washington DC.
TRANSCRIPT / EXCERPT
0:12
JOSH YODER: Hi, good evening. I'm so happy to see all of you here this evening. It absolutely warms my heart every time that I'm in a group of patriots like this.
The reason everyone's here tonight is because you're standing up. Finally. We've been waiting for so long across this country for people to stand up.
[Applause]
For me this journey started in August, August 6th, sitting in a hotel room in Chicago. United Airlines had just come out with a mandate for their employees. They said, you're going to get this jab or lose your job.
At that point there was no federal mandate. I spoke to a couple of friends and decided we had to do something about it. So we stood up and formed an organization known as US Freedom Flyers.
[Applause]
You may have seen the meltdowns that happened at Southwest and American Airlines.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Yes!
JOSH YODER: They blamed it on clear weather in Florida.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Yeah.
JOSH YODER: You know it's really pesky. But it turns out, when you mistreat your employees, you take their rights for granted and you think you're going to bring tyranny into the workplace and to people's lives, they don't take it well.
And I'm happy to say, we still have a lot of patriots in this country who stood up and didn't just say no, they said, hell no, we're not going to take it!
[Applause]
That, hands down, is the most effective thing that we ever did.
On November 22nd we filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration. We're suing them.
[Applause]
This is the federal contractor clause that mandate that all these airlines, large trucking companies, sea shipping and rail, they're hiding behind it, they're saying, hey, it's not us, it's the government, they're making us do it.
So we said, OK, no problem. We're going to help you out, we're going to get rid of that and see what you do when you stand on your own.
We're currently out of 27 airlines, 5 rail companies, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, most of them have backed down. They've accepted relations to medical exemptions but to this day we do still have 4 airlines who have stood on these, so we're going to have a mandate regardless of what the federal government says and we're getting ready to file lawsuits against them as well.
[Applause]
2:25
That part of this trip across the country with these truckers is that the American Spirit is not dead. It has been amazing. I'll be honest, I've been really concerned over the past six months, especially. I was afraid that the American Spirit was dead. But I can tell you, driving from California—
MALE VOICE: Yes!
JOSH YODER: —all the way out here to Indy [Indianapolis] I think I counted less than seven overpasses they didn't have Americans standing on them with flags.
[Applause]
This is one of the most powerful things I have ever been part of!
[Applause, standing ovation]
I can't even tell you how proud I am to be an American right now, the fact that you're all here.
[crowd chanting, inaudible]
This is the people's convoy, it's about you! We are going to take this country back! [inaudible] is just like you standing up with us.
[Applause]
I want to give a huge shout out to the truckers. I'm obviously not a trucker, I'm an airline pilot. I actually come from a family of truckers, that's one of the ways I got involved in this. I have a lot of faith in this nation, all the citizens of the United States. You know we see what Canada did, they're standing up. This is happening all around the world. So many people are fed up. This is about all of us—
MAN'S VOICE: We're fed up!
JOSH YODER: —humanity, standing up for human rights for each other. And I would just encourage you, never underestimate the power that you make or have as an individual. When you stand up and when you do the right thing, you never know who you're going to influence around you. And that's what you're seeing, you're seeing people who stood up, and everyone's rallying around those people, and we're changing the world.
Totally hear you. But! To mitigate my inner George Carlin (sorta growling & grumbling in there) I've been on the lookout for more videos to transcribe of people who stood up and spoke out in 2021. I found this one cheering-- perhaps you and readers here will as well:
JOSH YODER - THE PEOPLES CONVOY 2022
March 3, 2022 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyW5AzbnkA&t=71s
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Josh Yoder is co-founder of US Freedom Flyers www.usfreedomflyers.org. This was a rally speech he gave for the The People's Convoy of truckers, which protested the covid vaccine mandates with a convoy and series of rallies from California to Washington DC.
TRANSCRIPT / EXCERPT
0:12
JOSH YODER: Hi, good evening. I'm so happy to see all of you here this evening. It absolutely warms my heart every time that I'm in a group of patriots like this.
The reason everyone's here tonight is because you're standing up. Finally. We've been waiting for so long across this country for people to stand up.
[Applause]
For me this journey started in August, August 6th, sitting in a hotel room in Chicago. United Airlines had just come out with a mandate for their employees. They said, you're going to get this jab or lose your job.
At that point there was no federal mandate. I spoke to a couple of friends and decided we had to do something about it. So we stood up and formed an organization known as US Freedom Flyers.
[Applause]
You may have seen the meltdowns that happened at Southwest and American Airlines.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Yes!
JOSH YODER: They blamed it on clear weather in Florida.
WOMAN'S VOICE: Yeah.
JOSH YODER: You know it's really pesky. But it turns out, when you mistreat your employees, you take their rights for granted and you think you're going to bring tyranny into the workplace and to people's lives, they don't take it well.
And I'm happy to say, we still have a lot of patriots in this country who stood up and didn't just say no, they said, hell no, we're not going to take it!
[Applause]
That, hands down, is the most effective thing that we ever did.
On November 22nd we filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration. We're suing them.
[Applause]
This is the federal contractor clause that mandate that all these airlines, large trucking companies, sea shipping and rail, they're hiding behind it, they're saying, hey, it's not us, it's the government, they're making us do it.
So we said, OK, no problem. We're going to help you out, we're going to get rid of that and see what you do when you stand on your own.
We're currently out of 27 airlines, 5 rail companies, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, most of them have backed down. They've accepted relations to medical exemptions but to this day we do still have 4 airlines who have stood on these, so we're going to have a mandate regardless of what the federal government says and we're getting ready to file lawsuits against them as well.
[Applause]
2:25
That part of this trip across the country with these truckers is that the American Spirit is not dead. It has been amazing. I'll be honest, I've been really concerned over the past six months, especially. I was afraid that the American Spirit was dead. But I can tell you, driving from California—
MALE VOICE: Yes!
JOSH YODER: —all the way out here to Indy [Indianapolis] I think I counted less than seven overpasses they didn't have Americans standing on them with flags.
[Applause]
This is one of the most powerful things I have ever been part of!
[Applause, standing ovation]
I can't even tell you how proud I am to be an American right now, the fact that you're all here.
[crowd chanting, inaudible]
This is the people's convoy, it's about you! We are going to take this country back! [inaudible] is just like you standing up with us.
[Applause]
I want to give a huge shout out to the truckers. I'm obviously not a trucker, I'm an airline pilot. I actually come from a family of truckers, that's one of the ways I got involved in this. I have a lot of faith in this nation, all the citizens of the United States. You know we see what Canada did, they're standing up. This is happening all around the world. So many people are fed up. This is about all of us—
MAN'S VOICE: We're fed up!
JOSH YODER: —humanity, standing up for human rights for each other. And I would just encourage you, never underestimate the power that you make or have as an individual. When you stand up and when you do the right thing, you never know who you're going to influence around you. And that's what you're seeing, you're seeing people who stood up, and everyone's rallying around those people, and we're changing the world.
Thank you so much for coming out this evening.
[Applause]
4:13
[END OF EXCERPT]
Too bad the reality with humanity is more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ
=Transcript MP 'Life Of Brian - "You are all individuals"'
Brian! Brian! Brian! Brian!
Good morning. A blessing! A blessing!
No, no. Please. Please, please listen.
I've got one or two things to say.
Tell us! Tell us both of them!
Look, you've got it all wrong.
You don't need to follow me.
You don't need to follow anybody.
You've got to think for yourselves.
You're all individuals.
Yes, we're all individuals!
You're all different.
Yes, we're all different!
I'm not. Shhh.
You've all got to work it out for yourselves.
Yes, we've got to work it out for ourselves!
Exactly.
Tell us more!
No! That's the point! Don't let anyone tell you what to do!
Otherwise Ow!
That's enough. That's enough.
Ooh, that wasn't a minute!
Oh, yes it was! Oh, no it wasn't!
Now, stop that! And go away!
My favorite bit in that extended scene:
Brian: "But what about Judith?"
Mandy: "Oh, leave that Welsh tart alone!
Brian: "But I don't really want to Mum!"
LoL