Thread by @pdmcleod

Anti-mandate protesters are holding a twitter space “emergency meeting” in response to the state of emergency.

One who was at the Windsor/Detroit border blockade tells a story of how their communications were infiltrated, leading to organizational collapse...

Protesters were using Zello, a live communications app. The problem was counter-protesters were spamming their channels with the gay cowboy anthem Ram Ranch.

So they moved to a new channel. The problem was the moderator of the channel turned out to be a double agent. “This person gained our trust. We trusted them as a moderator,” the guy says.

“Traitor! Traitor!” another person yells.

That moderator who turned out to be “part of the resistence” apparently shut things down and ruined their ability to communicate, allowing the police to roll up the blockade. “It’s a morale blow,” he said.

Another guy adds: “What a clusterfuck."

Aaaand someone started playing Ram Ranch on this feed.

“Christ on a cross!” one protester yells.

Things have kind of fallen apart as the resistance infiltrates the space. “Yeah I’ve got a plan. Why don’t we go full court press tonight. I mean full court press. Fuck these cops,” says one guy though honestly I’ve lost track of who is legit and who is mocking them.

There’s lots of talk of needing money. “None of us know how to use that goddamn bitcoin,” says one guy.

“I’ve got kids… I need some money here. I can’t do this,” says another.

“What happened to the money we donated? I gave $600” says one woman.

“It’s gone. Byyyeeee” says another.

This has gone way off the rails. Actual quote just now: “What is this Ram Ranch people are talking about? Is it somewhere we can go and get our money?”

Oh my god… I don’t know how to explain this...

They’re trying to figure out options to insure their vehicles.

One guy says he’s got a live feed of an insurance company feed, then the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays. The ranchers, as they’re being called are just incessantly punking them.

Then some guy claiming to be a trucker supporter says he knows of an American company willing to insure Canadian truckers. It’s called [coded name of an extremely gross thing to google]

“Hold on, let me write that down…. Oh my god!"

After another guy goes on a monologue about sucking off truckers, the protesters are trying to figure out how to kick out all the Ram Ranchers.

“I don’t understand what’s happening,” says one woman. “People are just disgusting."

Quotes that are either from truckers or ranchers pretending to be truckers, I can no longer tell:

“Whose ramming?”

“I’ve been rammed too many times over these last couple weeks.”

[A solid 20 seconds of someone blowing their nose]

There will be stretches of earnest conversation about how to protect their trucks and livelihood. Then there'll be an exchange like:

“I feel like some bukkake is needed, I don’t know about you guys.”

“Oh for fuck’s sake. You’re outta here. You’re another one of them ranchers.”

“At this point, I think it’s a lot of ranchers,” says the stressed out woman who keeps pleading with people to stop it.

One woman tells a heartfelt story about her protester boyfriend facing verbal abuse, and fearing that the protest is going to implode if they don’t figure out a plan. Then there’s the sound of someone flushing a toilet.

Soooo I am going to end this thread here. The Ram Ranchers are running this meeting. I have no idea how many actual protesters are getting suckered in compared to rancher plants, but the latter is in control. It’s been an interesting hour.

To emphasize that last tweet, I have no idea how much of what I heard was real and how much was a prank. Ram Ranchers: feel free to dm me.

A Ram Ranch (I am just going to make up a title here) Vice Cowboy of Pranking Relations tells me that a couple dozen of the speakers were real trucker supporters, the rest were in on the joke.