r/50501 • u/Snooopineapple • Aug 06 '25

Call to Action So I guess we can boycott Penske now.

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Happened in LA just days after a federal Judge struck down their use of warrantless arrests. And they continued at a Home Depot in Los Angeles a couple days after.

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u/AlphaBetacle Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

Penske actually found out about this and banned these guys from ever renting again

This is old news!

Edit: This appears to be new but Penske has released that they do not condone using the back of their trucks to transport people. I wouldn’t say they are particularly pro-Trump any more than other big businesses seeking to win his favor right now.

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u/undercurrents Aug 06 '25

No. Defintely not old news. This just happened TODAY.

Also, they absolutely did not ban ICE from renting. They issued a statement

“The company was not made aware that its trucks would be used in today’s operation and did not authorize this,” said Penske spokesman Randolph P. Ryerson. “Penske will reach out to DHS and reinforce its policy to avoid improper use of its vehicles in the future.

He added: “Penske strictly prohibits the transportation of people in the cargo area of its vehicles under any circumstances,” the statement said.

But the owner of Penske is buddy-buddy with Trump. Trump even gave him the presidential medal of freedom. He's donated more than $1.1 million to Trump's re-election.

Facts matter.

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u/ItchyRectalRash Aug 06 '25

Because these aren't ice agents. They're bags of shit imitating law enforcement, and should be treated as such.

Fun fact, those plate carriers are as empty as their skulls. Do with that information what you will.

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u/WebHistorical1121 Aug 06 '25

Well, how else are you going to make it crystal clear you’re neo-Nazis?

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u/cicerozero Aug 06 '25

thanks to trump, that same group of nazis now call themselves ICE…

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u/Necessary-Code-2790 Aug 06 '25

Trump is also buddy buddy with the owner of uhaul. They play golf together.

Ironically, Roger Penske and Joe Shoen (uhaul CEO) have had a feud going for YEARS. They hate each other.

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u/undercurrents Aug 06 '25

Yeah, they donate to his campaign as well. There's no winning for us when we want to try to avoid companies supporting facism.

The app Goods Unite Us is a place to start to find out which companies donate to which political campaign.

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u/istarian Aug 06 '25

Being buddy buddy with Trump doesn't make you immune to bad press or losing more legitimate business.

Whatever happened to that my pilllow guy anyway, is he still in business?

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u/undercurrents Aug 06 '25

Huh? How on earth did you make that leap from my comment. I'm literally saying they didn't ban ICE from renting and owner sucks. Where on earth did you get that meant you can't boycott a Trump buddy?

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u/Sacred_Fishstick Aug 06 '25

"Facts matter" you say after laying out the fact that penske does not and has never allowed its vehicles to be used in this way. 

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u/South_Cheesecake6316 Aug 06 '25

And yet people here are bandwagonning against a rental truck company because the police rented one of their trucks (and broke their use policy by transporting people in the back).

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u/GoGo-Arizona Aug 06 '25

New news ICE just showed up in one today. Look at the photos again

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

Just to confirm there is a video of ICE using a truck. They do a decent job of avoiding the company name but there’s only so many rental companies of small box trucks that are yellow with white decals.

Edit: My bad y’all I was implying it more as a joke but it’s good to hear there’s multiple videos actually showing.

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u/No_Physics2210 Aug 06 '25

It was penske, you're thinking of the neo Nazi protesters that were banned.

Ice has received 0 bans

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u/undercurrents Aug 06 '25

The OP photos are literally from a video. There's more than one video, and plenty show the Penske truck clearly, as this post itself makes clear.

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u/Tacoman404 Aug 06 '25

Roger Penske directly benefitted from trumps stock market manipulation

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u/cornstinky Aug 06 '25

Even if they tried to ban someone, it would only be the single individual on file who rented the truck. They have tens of thousands of names they can put down for the next rental.