DC Trucker Protest Fizzles As Organizer Revises Permit Numbers Down To Below 500 People

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-trucker-sotu-protest-fizzes-as-organizer-revises-permit-numbers-down-to-below-500-people

The National Park Service approved a permit late Monday evening for a right-wing protest slated to occur in Washington, D.C. midday Tuesday ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Beast.

In the permit application—first filed back on February 18 for the “Stage of Freedom” event with the National Park Service and later obtained by The Daily Beast—Kyle Sefcik, the rally organizer, touted that upwards of 3,000 individuals might “hopefully” attend the event.

However, the now-issued park permit has since revised the initial 3,000 attendee prediction downward, with the number now fewer than 500 participants who will gather besides the Washington Monument at the Sylvan Theater.

“Permittee has amended his application to reduce the expected maximum crowd size to less than 500 attendees,” the approved and edited permit now states.

As for what activities are on the agenda, the organizer listed on the permit that rally-goers during the eight-hour-long gathering will partake in “Peaceful Demonstration/Assembly! Christian Music/Speakers against mandates. Support of Convoys in Canada. Lifting mandates in DC/USA.”

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[C_U_L8R]

1. There will be more portapotties than doofus truckers

[SergeStorms]

2. "Speakers against mandates".

What mandates?

"Christian music", to go along with their extremely anti-christian rhetoric and antics.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Maybe the funding from the Russian oligarchs was frozen.

So they are no shows.

[BlueIdaho]

4. Bingo!

[C_U_L8R]

5. The payment was in rubles.

Maybe they can all share a big gulp down at truck stop.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[Tree-Hugger]

6. What Fucking mandates? nt

[Irish_Dem]

8. It never was about masks, vaccines or mandates.

It was about weakening our democracy.