Sen. Cruz rides with 'People's Convoy' truck to D.C. as Beltway protest enters fourth day

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/10/peoples-convoy-protest-ted-cruz/

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) visited the “People’s Convoy” at the Hagerstown Speedway on Thursday and rode shotgun in the lead truck, with plans for the vehicle to head into to Washington for a news conference, while the rest of the convoy circles the Capital Beltway to protest pandemic health restrictions aimed to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

“The convoy is not [going into D.C.],” Brian Brase, the group’s organizer, said from inside the lead truck. “The convoy’s going to continue its normal operation. This truck will be going into D.C.”

Though many pandemic-related restrictions at the federal and local levels have been blocked or rescinded, the convoy organizers have rallied supporters by calling mandates an infringement on their freedoms.

“There ain’t no ignoring a senator riding in the lead truck,” Brase told the crowd at the Hagerstown Speedway earlier. “That’s basically an endorsement of what we’re doing.”

Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you better
Watch your speed
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
And you know that notion
Just crossed my mind?

[dalton99a]

1. Putin's lot lizard

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. So pathetic!

[essaynnc]

3. So,....

Even to this point, we have no idea what these out-of-work truckers are protesting yet? And why the fuck is Cancun Ted riding with these guys? What is he standing for or protesting about? Does he have any clue, except getting the base all riled up??????

[IronLionZion]

7. Maybe he lost his freedoms to socialism

He looks deeply oppressed

[modrepub]

12. He's Driving On Socialism

All our highways are payed for by taxpayer dollars (even if a tax payer never uses them).

Obviously a more equitable system would be to charge folks based on their vehicle milage. But, you know...

[Chipper Chat]

4. Cancun to DC.

Yeeeeeeeeee÷HAHhhhhhhh.
Go get ’em cruziebaby.

[lapfog_1]

5. Other than this article...

does anyone care? This won't make the local evening news except on D roll (after weather and sports.. "Finally, Ted Cruz (R-Moronville) road with the lame truckers protesting something today... have a great tomorrow!"

The most hated person in the Senate rides in a convoy of idiots protesting things that don't exist.

[jalan48]

6. Showing his support for an authoritarian right wing takeover of our government.

White, male and christain. Just like Russia.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. What mandates? Do you all read a newspaper or even listen to the news? It seems that

COVID 19 mandates are finally being relaxed, etc., and here you all are, moaning like cats screaming at each other in the alleyway.

Kind of pathetic, really, considering the truckers I've known in the past, who were good, hard-working people. Maybe these people are but I don't understand how they were all able to literally take off a whole week or more, just to ride across the Country without a paying load, and basically just drive around.

Unfortunately, the entire trucking industry has undergone a huge change, w/ probably too many independent truckers chasing after too few loads, a lot of companies brought trucking inhouse, no longer contract out, and a lot of tasks associated w/ trucking have fallen upon the trucker themselves to do, e.g., unload the loads, etc. As a result, I've had several friends drop out of trucking (the hours riding is brutal too).

[IronLionZion]

14. They protest mandates that have ended

protest high diesel prices by wasting as much as they can. And protest the supply chain issues by not hauling any loads. Well, I guess Ted Cruz is a load but hauling him around doesn't help anyone.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. ted cruz doesn't help anyone out but ted cruz. He's one of the most pathetic reps on the Hill.

[Blue Owl]

9. Did they warn the other trucks behind him about the slime trail?

[oasis]

10. If any unfortunate incident should occur, Cruz will say his kids persuaded

him to take that ride.

[spanone]

11. What a moron

[czarjak]

13. Senator Stand Strong Don't Blink? Even when you're wrong. Failsafe policy.

[world wide wally]

15. Trucker Ted from Cancun.

What a man!

[RAB910]

17. how much gas and diesel have these anti-American assholes wasted?

[IronLionZion]

18. They'll pay any price to own the libs

which might take a while since I don't know any libs who feel owned.