'People's Convoy' plans to slowly loop around the beltway Sunday
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Mar 6, 2022
Organizers of the “People’s Convoy” say they are planning to circle their armada of trucks, cars and SUVs around the Beltway on Sunday morning and into the workweek at the minimum speed limit to slow traffic and get their message to lawmakers.
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‘People’s Convoy’ plans to slowly loop around the beltway Sunday
People's Convoy plans to slow roll the Beltway on Sunday and possibly into next week.
Jeff Tiedrich
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"end these nonexistent mandates" is not the winning message these grievance truckers imagine it to be
8:09 AM · Mar 6, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/05/peoples-convoy-protest-beltway-dc-region/
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Organizers of the “People’s Convoy” are en route to circle their armada of trucks, cars and SUVs around the Beltway on Sunday morning and into the workweek at the minimum speed limit to slow traffic and get their message to lawmakers.
They plan to drive around the Beltway twice before returning to the Hagerstown Speedway, where the protesters have spent the weekend so far. The convoy, which recently numbered about 1,000 vehicles, intends to repeat that ritual each day this week until the group’s demands are met, said convoy organizer Brian Brase.
On Sunday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered to hear the details of the plan. After a pastor started things off by telling the group they were “heroes,” Brase instructed them to drive between 45 and 55 miles per hour and stay in one line to best show their size. The mostly White, mostly male protesters raised their coffees in salute.
Around 9:15 a.m., the caravan began rolling toward the Beltway, horns blaring.
The truckers’ goal “is a show of just how big we are and just how serious we are,” said Brase, a 37-year-old truck driver from northwest Ohio. “But it’s very easy to get rid of us.”
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These aren't people, they're fucking jokes.
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So, they intend to speed up traffic on the Beltway.
Tricky! 
How to say you are a rural rube without saying you are a rural rube.
Considering they are staging at a NASCAR track. Maybe it is the right hand turn mandate imposed by traffic signals?
rain, rain, rain. 
On Sunday these idiots will simply be a curiosity. Meanwhile, if they plan to do this on Monday, this is what normal rush hour looks like on the Beltway:
Not pictured: a dumbass convoy.
That's the nightmare crawl that tens of thousands of DMV residents already participate in on a daily basis. My guess is the toddler convoy will get stuck in this traffic for several hours on Monday morning and then be like, "We did it!"
Have fun, I guess.
Aptly put.
Back when I thought I cared I did a little “research” and given even a generous thousand protest vehicles and a quick check of the DoT stats showing 100s of thousands passing through the area daily. I realized even in their big old trucks they didn’t rate a grain in the flow. I didn’t care any more.
The only people paying any attention now seems to be the breathless reporting in the major and social media. Which is likely on autopilot with other real happenings out there.
I’m grateful to have the luxury of pointing and laughing on teh DU. Thanks for that privilege!
