Wait, where’s the part about how Earl(s) pissed himself/themselves, running off into the night? That was the best detail!
Lol, this part always irritated me the most since it's such a blatant lie or exaggeration. So these terrifying, violent local fascists that have been sending you death threats finally decide to trespass onto your property (while armed!), but they're also so incompetent & cowardly that they flee at the first sight of a Trancher. And they even do some cartoon skit of dropping their weapons while scrambling to run away, turning back to oafishly pick up their guns, and finally beating an undignified retreat.
What was the guard doing this whole time? Didn't want to shoot, didn't try to detain or identify the intruders, didn't secure the dropped guns, and didn't even try to prevent the intruders from picking those guns back up? A likely story.
Not even a mention of how the intruders escaped (was there a vehicle? what kind?).
And of course, this incident was never reported to the police, and the Tranchers never said who this guard was.
I decided to check back on the timeline of this fascist attack...
It all seems to have
started here. Keep in mind that they had a
GoFundMe active this whole time.
On March 3rd/4th 2021, Penny, Bonnie, and Josie started acting antsy on Twitter because of rumors that the local fascists were up to no good.
Late night on March 4th, Josie says reporters for 9 News who did a story on the Tranch were sent a death threat letter.
Early morning on March 5th, Penny mentions patrolling the ranch because of death threats.
Midday on March 5th, Kevin & Jen mention the death threat sent to the reporters, as well as an "envelope of powder". Kevin shills their GoFundMe. Thankfully, someone
archived their GFM on March 5th. They were at $11.5k out of their $100k goal. The GFM had been running since August of 2020.
Early morning on March 5th, Jen says the powder was "food additive and an irritant", possibly "citric or tartaric acid". Kiwifarmers start questioning if this is a Jussie Smollett situation. They can't find anyone else talking about this in the Tranch's local community.
Sometime on March 5th, Bonnie weighs in. He says they're on high alert because of tips/warnings from locals (I guess we're supposed to believe that the fascists were blabbing their violent plans to neighbors, who then told the Tranchers). He also mentions "trucks trailing us", death threats to associates of the Tranch, and "powdered acid" sent to
Katie Eastman of 9News.
Bonnie claims the FBI are investigating the powder sent through the mail. Penny postures about how he'll shoot intruders on sight. This whole situation seems to be developing at a bizarrely fast pace.
At 8pm on March 5th, Kevin shills their GoFundMe again. He talks about how it's been "scary" because the Tranchers have been stalked, sent death threats online, and had strangers surveilling their property. A very weird, sudden escalation in their claims. Earlier they were mainly talking about death threats sent to the reporters...
Early morning on March 6th,
THIS IS IT. Bonnie casually says they had intruders the previous night (the night of March 5th? so probably only a matter of hours after that last Kevin tweet). Bonnie says the "security" (I guess a Tranch guest? nice plausible deniability) didn't shoot the intruders because they didn't want to risk hitting the neighbors... ??
No mention of the intruders dropping their guns, and actually, it sounds like they didn't even come onto the Tranch (wording: "try to breach our property line"). Strange wording, since I don't even think the Tranch's fences were built yet at this time. Did they just see someone off in the distance, possibly a neighbor patrolling their own property?
Funny side-note, Kiwifarmers notice that Kevin seems to be off in his own little world. He keeps coom-posting and talking about hanging out with a friend. Meanwhile, the rest of Tran Ranch is UNDER SIEGE, UNDER LOCKDOWN.
On March 8th, Kiwifarmers spot a brand-new, totally not suspicious Twitter account fedposting in Kevin's replies. Very conveniently gives the Tranchers "death threats" they can point to, and the anonymous account stops tweeting after that day.
Also on March 8th, Penny announces that the Tranch is under attack by local bigots & militia. He says they have encroached on the Tranch's property while armed, intending to harm the Tranchers. Penny begs for help and financial support. Very interesting to contrast this with what Bonnie said the previous day.
To wrap it up,
Kevin starts following Penny's lead in claiming that armed bigots had trespassed on the Tranch. He then shills their GoFundMe.
By March 10th, the GFM reached $48.5k. Remember that it was only at $11.5k on March 5th, and that was accumulated over 6+ months. This GFM went on to
earn a total of $117k.
I think it's pretty obvious that the Tranchers were lying/exaggerating for the grift. Maybe there are some grains of truth in there somewhere (I really want to know the story behind the supposed death threats and
citric acid powder sent to a reporter, since I doubt the Tranchers would invent that wholesale), but it seems clear to me that Penny latched onto the story and blew it up out of greed - possibly paranoia as well.
After reading this all again, I think if there was an "intruder", it was just one of the Tranch's neighbors out walking around on their own land, maybe near the Tranch's property line. A Tranch guest happened to see them and got spooked. Same thing with the story about a drone spying on them - probably just a neighbor using a drone to check out their own property. That's pretty common for ranch owners.
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Hey, uh, wait a fucking second - didn't Fedposter J move in
after the attack? I can't remember the timeline well enough but I'm fairly sure he wasn't living there at the time.
Nah, he was there. He joined the Tranch in late 2020.
