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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:20 PM Mar 2022

People's Convoy making it hard for people who write satire

Rex Huppke
USA TODAY

... truckers .. assembled outside Washington, D.C., to protest something, but nobody quite knows what. Is it the mask and vaccine mandates that most cities and states have already dropped? Who knows.

On Sunday, they formed a convoy and did two loops around the Capital Beltway. What did they accomplish? Who knows.

... organizers say they’ll add an extra lap each day until their demands are met. What are their demands? Again, who knows ...

I desperately want to – and professionally need to – make fun of the People’s Convoy, but people in the convoy are making it impossible by being astonishingly ridiculous ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/03/07/trucker-convoy-capital-beltway-freedom/9407428002/

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People's Convoy making it hard for people who write satire (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2022 OP
They've insisted on turning even the most far fetched theater of the absurd into... Hugin Mar 2022 #1
One is not like the other. His failure is his alone. taxi Mar 2022 #2
There are very few truck. bottomofthehill Mar 2022 #3
Moving forward please refer to it as the temper tantrum convoy. bottomofthehill Mar 2022 #4
Just keep adding those trips, the dollar costs won't be too bad... Biophilic Mar 2022 #5

Hugin

(33,139 posts)
1. They've insisted on turning even the most far fetched theater of the absurd into...
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:27 PM
Mar 2022

non-fiction. Since, I'm not a journalist, documentarian, or historian, it has left me at loose ends. I've been thinking of taking up crochet.

taxi

(1,896 posts)
2. One is not like the other. His failure is his alone.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:44 PM
Mar 2022

It is hard to ignore how they mix the message in efforts to tie tfg to some nonsensical bs that's easy to forget.
The convoy is a joke. It has nothing to do with anyone else.

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