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Trucker convoy disbands after one day before planned trip to DC for Biden's State of the Union.
A convoy of truckers traveling to Washington D.C. from California for President Biden's State of the Union address has reportedly fallen apart, The Independent reports.
The organizers of the “US Freedom Convoy” disbanded the caravan and cancelled all rallies this Saturday after only five trucks arrived in Las Vegas. The truckers were instead urged to join "The People’s Convoy," which consists of 100 trucks that departed California for D.C. and has amassed nearly $1m in donations.
The convoy's organizers are reportedly accepting refunds donors and said, “to prevent another rally without our truckers— our team will not be moving thru SLC and Denver."
Far-right convoy ends up a near-total bust. Watch-
Today's pro-convoy rally at the Washington Monument resulted in a whole lot of not much; another reporter counted "about 20 people" in attendance, significantly below organizer estimates of, Jeebus, at least a full busload's worth.
That leaves us in the now-usual spot of being both in a position to point and laugh while still having to remind ourselves that the people who want to shut the United States government down by driving trucks around are some of the most radical figures in the country.
And law enforcement officials are obliged to take the Canadian-seige-"inspired" threats seriously because some of the things participants have claimed as goals border on the terrorism-adjacent, whether or not any of them actually come to pass.
The anti-Biden, anti-government, anti-vaccine crowds pushing for the convoys are some of the same groups that participated in or allied with the Jan. 6 insurrection, so a real possibility of genuine violence from the that crowd remains. In terms of the actual "convoys" being organized, however, there ain't much. There may be a minimum number of actual "trucks" required before you can call something a convoy, and whatever that number is, it isn't "one, plus some stragglers."
And no, putting flags on your pickup doesn't count. You're not a convoy, you're just a guy getting terrible gas mileage.
As far as the overall convoy "movement" itself, it's hasn't been in good shape anywhere. A Saturday California launch was humiliating for all involved, though various organizers continue to insist (that is, lie) about vast numbers of trucks headed towards Washington, D.C., but in places where, uh, nobody can see them.
Thankfully, this looks like one proto-insurrection that just isn't happening. While organizers make excuses and angrily bluster at reporters, few actual truck drivers are willing to fill their tanks and drive through the night for a job that only pays in public ridicule. It's a bust.
Amidst a National Guard activation and fence erection around the Capitol ahead of expected trucker protests at State of the Union, the “Stage of Freedom” is set up on the National Mall.
clotheshoffe- you are one of the most annoying women I've come across online.. You are beyond wothless- What the fuk is wrong with you-you lonely and seeking attention from a man?
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Subject: Re: Trucker Convoy Disbanded -- Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:22 am
I'm a guy you moran
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Subject: Re: Trucker Convoy Disbanded -- Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:07 am
oliver clotheshoffe wrote:
I'm a guy you moran
You're just a dog and pony show to Temple.
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Subject: Re: Trucker Convoy Disbanded -- Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:15 am
directorate wrote:
You're just a dog and pony show to Temple.
My guess is Temple's a chick more interested in the X-rated show
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Subject: Re: Trucker Convoy Disbanded -- Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:45 am
oliver clotheshoffe wrote:
My guess is Temple's a chick more interested in the X-rated show
Naw, Temple's a guy. His wife was a hottie twenty years ago. He posted a few pics of his family back in the good old days. He's prolly very slovenly these days, his wife musta gained a good 40 pounds, and his kids are all living in his basement scarfing down Doritos and warm beer while trying to figure out how an X-Box could someday control the universe.
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Subject: Re: Trucker Convoy Disbanded -- Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:48 am
Temple's bound to say he's never posted pics of his family, and that the FAQ here limits the use of PI, but here's a pic of him, his wife, and his kids that he can't bitch too much about.
Temp's been playing footsie for almost two decades:
That is not probable. Only a woman would spend the day searching for jpg and YouTubes to post after nearly every post. Doing that would pass time for a lonely woman. A man/male you are not.. But hey-- Do your thing. Silly nonsense is always tolerated, it's ok. <-- there. do you feel better now. yes you do poopsie.
WATCH: Pro-Trump trucker protest organizer dismayed only 10 showed up after predicting massive turnout.
Rage against Joe Biden failed to materialize on Tuesday at a trucker rally held near the Washington Monument ahead of the president's State of the Union address.
Organizer Kyle Sefcik told Washington NBC 4 that he hoped several thousand people would attend his rally at the Sylvan Theater.
Daily Beast reporter Zachary Petrizzo reported there were "more press and police than rally-goers."
The trucker protest by the Washington Monument is off to a slow and cold start. As of now, only 10 folks with the Stage of Freedom event are here. More press and police than rally-goers.pic.twitter.com/x85xEvzlNn — Zachary Petrizzo (@Zachary Petrizzo) 1646152560 "Where are the trucks?" Sefcik asked during his speech.
"Where are the trucks? I know the ones that I had planned coming that are local friends and family, I know they're not even allowed in because they need a commercial license and have proof of a checkoff today because of the checkpoints so they weren't even able to stage and make it look cool here," he complained.
"But I still showed up, even if none of you did, I'd still be right here, because I keep my word," he said.
Watch: him bitch whine and moan to a crowd of a handful bwaa!
That is not probable. Only a woman would spend the day searching for jpg and YouTubes to post after nearly every post. Doing that would pass time for a lonely woman. A man/male you are not.. But hey-- Do your thing. Silly nonsense is always tolerated, it's ok. <-- there. do you feel better now. yes you do poopsie.
Mysoginistic with a hint of homosexual tendencies... let me guess, you live in Seattle
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Subject: Re: Trucker Convoy Disbanded -- Sat Mar 05, 2022 6:37 pm
Watch Live: Convoy Of Truckers Arrive At Final Staging Area Before Push To D.C. Region BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, MAR 05, 2022 - 02:10 PM
At least 1,000 'freedom convoy' vehicles converged at a speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Friday night and through Saturday morning into the afternoon as some made the 2,500-mile journey from Southern California, according to WaPo. The convoy is at a staging area where their next move could be Washington, D.C., to protest the COVID-19 vaccine and other public health mandates.
NBC4 Washington reports the convoy is planning to drive onto the Capital Beltway on Saturday, but a convoy spokesperson said they'll stay in Hagerstown for another night.
((((BWAA! the trucker folly is so ridiculous that it's become a laughingstock--)))))
‘Truckers convoy’ protest circles D.C. Beltway a couple of times, searching for something to protest.
No one is exactly clear on what their demands are. But the rabid Trump supporters who formed a convoy that crossed the country and ended up at a raceway parking lot on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., are going to keep doing loops on the Beltway interstate around the city until they are met. Whatever they are.
The “People’s Convoy,” which originated in Los Angeles and then traversed the nation till it reached a raceway in Hagerstown, Maryland, performed a couple of loops around the Beltway on Sunday to little noticeable effect. They plan to keep doing it, they say, until their “message” is heard—though it’s hard to tell exactly what that message is.
In the meantime, the “truckers”—over half of whom are not truckers at all, but rather drive pickups and SUVs and passenger vehicles—have been working up their dander among each other and directing it journalists who try to report on them, indulging their bigotry in the process. One reporter from an ABC News affiliate, a Black man, was heckled out by the crowd.
An observer named Terry Bouton posted about the scene on Twitter:
The most worrisome moment was when a crowd surrounded a Black reporter for DC's ABC affiliate. They asked why a Black reporter was sent. They demanded he say, "Truckers are heroes!" on air. When he refused, a man repeatedly shouted "LEAVE!" in his face. He left, visibly shaken.
The ostensible cause behind the convoy protest originally was similar to the one deployed in Canada, where a group of truckers managed to shut down Ottawa’s downtown for three weeks—namely, COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and mandates. They call these measures infringements on their freedoms.
The problem is that most of these restrictions have already been rescinded or blocked in the courts on the federal level, and on the local and state levels are in the process of ending. So protesters have been saying that what they’re really about is “taking back our freedom,” or other standard Patriot movement conspiracist cant.
Some of the discussions among the convoy participants have revolved around figuring out a new target for their protests. A number have suggested they focus on demanding the release of the dozens of January 6 protesters currently imprisoned in the D.C. detention center. Others want to protest Joe Biden’s presence in the White House, still firmly convinced that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
The most recent permutation is a demand to end the government’s ability to declare national emergencies. A spokesperson for the convoy, Maureen Steele, told WJLA-TV those powers were toxic for America: “The cure was worse than the disease, suicide rates through the roof, divorce through the roof.”
A person carries flags past tractor trailers during the Peoples Convoy at Hagerstown Speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland, on March 5, 2022. - Hundreds of truckers and their supporters in the convoy set off from southern California to Washington to protest against Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. The gathering in Hagerstown was indistinguishable from an ordinary ‘Trump Train’ rally, except with big trucks. When the convoy first gathered on Saturday, there was considerable confusion about what the next step might be. Hundreds of vehicles, as Left Coast Right Watch reported, parked in the raceway lot overnight, and more kept rolling in. Notorious right-wing grifters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman showed up and were given the boot.
What they apparently decided early on was that they didn’t want to go into downtown D.C. because they suspected authorities were laying a “trap” for them. One participant told a videographer: “We don’t want to be framed and set up by Nancy Pelosi ... We’re all too smart for that.”
Later that evening, chief organizer Brian Brase told the crowd that he and others had scouted out downtown D.C. and had spotted a “trap” waiting for them. So their next plan was to “try diplomacy,” and if failed, they would “take the next step,” whatever that is.
Brase told the gathering that they planned to stick with driving in loops around the Beltway, vowing that local workers would only experience a “normal commute,” and that there would be no violence or lawbreaking.
“We just have a message that we want heard,” Brase said. “We’re not going anywhere until it’s heard.”
On Sunday, they set out to drive two 64-mile loops around the Beltway before returning to Hagerstown. “We’re not going to shut anything down today, we’re just going to do a convoy so they can see we’re in their backyards, and that we are huge,” Brase told the crowd.
However, their presence was hardly felt at all, since the convoy participants all wound up spread throughout the everyday congestion on the freeways around D.C. Observer Zachary Petrizzo noted that after one lap, “the circular Beltway left the truckers defeated this afternoon as most of them have been separated from one another by standard traffic.”
The director of the District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Christopher Rodriguez, told the New York Times that the protest did not cause any major disruptions to the city’s transportation routes Sunday, adding the cautionary note that it was a “fluid and unpredictable event.”
One participant reported that someone in an SUV driving past the convoy was “causing shit,” so the truckers decided to box him in on the freeway, eventually forcing the SUV to a complete stop. “Those are people that are paid by people like George Soros,” he said.
Another participant, interviewed by videographer Ford Fischer, was dressed in chain mail armor and wearing both a Knights Templar symbol—favored by Christian nationalists—as well as a shirt decorated with the Celtic crosses popular with neo-Nazis.
“Yeah, I believe this is a people’s Crusade,” he said. “It’s a crusade in that people have to fight the evil in the world, man. … People have to band together and fight on the side of the Lord. You know, God wills it, man.”
At one of the Telegram chat channels for the convoy, an organizer indicated that the protest will keep adding laps until they get their proper due: “Monday 3 laps, Tuesday 4 laps, Wednesday 5 laps and so on until the people are heard. They have not ruled out going to DC proper if it comes to that.”
Participants have likened Washington to enemy territory, claiming that corrupt politicians are looking for an excuse to wield their power and arrest the truckers. Their primary demand has been for the government to “restore our Constitution” by ending the COVID-related state of emergency declared by Donald Trump in March 2020. Its effects remain largely technical and related to limited rules and regulations, such as allowing off-site screening operations by hospitals or allowing them to expand telehealth services.
On participant who spoke to the Times—Ron Dimaline, a 67-year-old pastor from Pike County, Ky.—explained that, while he was especially angry at pandemic-related measures, he was also frustrated with the rising cost of gas and feared that the United States was drifting toward communism.
All of this, however, may well all be in service of just another right-wing moneymaking scam. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the primary fundraising operation for the convoy is run by a woman convicted in 2020 of felony fraud and exploitation.
They got a big boost for their convoy project when they were platformed on Lindell TV, the media outfit created by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of the primary promoters of the 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories.
Anyone who clicked on hit the convoy website’s “Donate Now” button was directed to the AFCLF’s website. Once there, they could donate by check, credit card, or cryptocurrency. Among the options was the opportunity for riding with a trucker for a day on the journey. It cost $5,000.
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