s/o. Truck convoy now headed to DC
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Anonymous
Unless you work for the federal government, you realize that there is no way for the government to make that happen, right? |
Anonymous
The protests were actually quite large. Just because they didn't cause you much inconvenience does not mean they did not happen. I could hear them from my house and I don't live that close to the beltway. |
Anonymous
Meh, I could hear them, too. Didn't last long. Wasn't all that impressive or noisier than a typical day on the Beltway. |
Anonymous
Right? I have yet to hear a single person articulate what the issue actually is (something real, not the pretend stuff they think is happening but really isn't' happening). |
Anonymous
| They're protesting the mandates, but are unaware that the mandates have been dropped. Maybe OANN didn't cover that. |
Anonymous
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Did anyone f with them on the road? Block them?
Where are the 4x4s when you need them? |
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I was on 270 and then outer loop yesterday from 3-3:30. I barely saw anything. A few random pickup trucks with flags and one school bus. None of them were together. A few people were standing at overpasses and holding flags/signs and drivers would slow down to look at them but that was the extent of the traffic disturbance. As we crossed the American legion bridge the school bus started to slow down to a crawl. I was behind it and thought the driver was lost or that the bus was breaking down. So I drove around it and as we did we saw “F Joe Biden” painted on the side. So I guess he might have been trying to stop traffic in his second to the right lane out of 6 lanes there. As I looked in my rear view mirror, everyone was just driving around him and ignoring him.
There was no convoy because for that, the trucks would need to be together in a line. 495 always wins, always. |
Anonymous
Not worth it. They have no cause and so there is no counter cause. It's just theatre, you know? |
Anonymous
Yes! Love it! Thank you for representing the moron community!!! Low-information idiots... driving around the beltway twice to show they are upset because… wait for it... the government tried to mitigate a deadly, global pandemic. Morons. |
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A reporter from the Daily Beast has been following the convoy all weekend and reports they left Hagerstown at 9:30am this morning with the objective to be on the Beltway, and take up 2 lanes of traffic, by 10:30 am.
Wow, will make a huge impression while everyone is at work or in school. I don’t get it. Did no one do actual research on 495 or the daily schedule/norms of DC traffic? |
Anonymous
I think they are protesting to make sure mandates never come back. Some places still have the mandates too, Oregon has indoor masking and NYC is till masking toddlers and preschool age kids who aren't eligible for the vaccines. Eric Adams also didn't remove all private employer mandates yet.. even while OSHA imposition of vax or test mandates was stalled by SCOTUS. NYC is now under the color coded danger system and it was made clear that should the cases rise mandates and vaxxports can come back. We aren't off the hook and this isn't over. |
Anonymous
Ugh, my son drives back from UMD-CP to Nova around that time. I hope he doesn't get caught in it. |
Anonymous
He should use Waze and he will be fine. |
Anonymous
Government screwed up this whole thing, they focused on the wrong thing right from the start instead of focusing on treatments, they are just starting to do this now 2 years into it. They focused on mandates and population behavior control instead of the disease which has a very very skewed risk profile. They should have put more funds into investigating genetic markers in healthy young people who die of Covid to get a better idea who is at risk, vs. blanket one-size fits all approach. 2 weeks to stop the spread became 2 years of yo-yo ineffective measures that did nothing but divide people making them responsible for this entire thing. They screwed it up big time and there will be a price to pay, they cannot blame it on "changing science" bullshit forever. They already knew that vaccines do not stop transmission back in August, this was BEFORE all the vax mandates and vax passports. Mandates had nothting to do with stopping the spread, the "science" was already out. And what about kid vaccines? These were rushed into EUA without proper data and now this data doesn't look so good for efficacy. Yet they rolled out coercion campaign that in some places practically forced parents to vaccinate their little kids against their will. People aren't dumb, they had remembered and followed up, and they are angry. The protests are a result of this. Deal. |
Anonymous
Do they realize they look idiotic, when the entire world is mobilized to save as many Ukrainians as possible and waiting with bated breath on potential spillover into WWIII? The truckers are so trivial, so whiny, so meaningless. No supporters whatsoever, except a token person waving a flag. Pitiful fools. |