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babylonsister

(171,060 posts)
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 04:34 PM Mar 2022

'Birds flying everywhere!' Convoy trucker...complains about...drivers giving him the middle finger



https://www.rawstory.com/peoples-convoy-2656913983/

'Birds flying everywhere!' Convoy trucker bitterly complains about Beltway drivers giving him the middle finger
Brad Reed
March 10, 2022


A member of the "People's Convoy" that's been circling the Beltway around Washington D.C. is not happy about the reception he's received from local drivers.

In a video posted by The Daily Beast's Zachary Petrizzo, a convoy driver complains that other drivers along the Beltway are giving him obscene gestures as they pass by.

"You go around the Beltway, birds are flying, birds are flying everywhere!" he said. "That's the kind of people that live up there, you know? It's a different world, D.C. is a different world."

The driver went on the say that "we're trying to straighten [D.C.] out, we're trying to clean it up, that's what this is all about, trying to get it cleaned up."


The convoy was inspired by a trucker protest that occurred last month in Canada against the government's vaccine mandates. However, it's not clear what this particular protest is about since the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate, and indoor mask requirements throughout the United States have been completely lifted in recent weeks.
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'Birds flying everywhere!' Convoy trucker...complains about...drivers giving him the middle finger (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2022 OP
Hmmm. "Clean it up"? MontanaMama Mar 2022 #1
Clean it up by burning gas and clogging traffic. brush Mar 2022 #5
I ship all day every day. MontanaMama Mar 2022 #10
Poor widdle snowflake in his big boy truck SoonerPride Mar 2022 #2
Delusional dipshit. lpbk2713 Mar 2022 #3
"It's a different world." We call it reality, asshat. lindysalsagal Mar 2022 #4
Yes it is a different world gratuitous Mar 2022 #13
Go home, fucking morons dalton99a Mar 2022 #6
OK....No birds! world wide wally Mar 2022 #7
Come to RI and I'll give him one too! n/t Totally Tunsie Mar 2022 #8
They're not birds, they're Snowflake Catchers Mr. Ected Mar 2022 #9
Did they think they would be greeted as liberators? Walleye Mar 2022 #11
Sorry MAGAt, this isn't freaking Texas up here. Kingofalldems Mar 2022 #12
To all D. C. area drivers, a request: several friends and I would ask you to flip niyad Mar 2022 #14
The sealed room of bean-eaters desensitize themselves to their own outgassing JHB Mar 2022 #15

brush

(53,776 posts)
5. Clean it up by burning gas and clogging traffic.
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 04:45 PM
Mar 2022

OK, buddy, keep repeating that as you aimlessly drive around.

How do these idiots think they're accomplishing anything by doing that?

They need to go home and get to work as trucking companies need drivers desperately to relieve that backlog of containers in the ports. They also need to stop copying the Canadian truckers who didn't accomplish anything either.

MontanaMama

(23,313 posts)
10. I ship all day every day.
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 05:00 PM
Mar 2022

We have a small business that relies on trucks to get our product all over the US and Canada. It is getting more difficult to get trucks on site than it ever has been. I wish there were another way to ship our stuff...but there just isn't.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. Yes it is a different world
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 05:38 PM
Mar 2022

When these mental deficients go into more liberal enclaves, snorting and spewing their bullshit, they get met with extended middle fingers.

What happens to more liberal folks who venture into their territory with a bumper sticker of mild support for a liberal cause or candidate? Getting flipped off is probably the least of our worries.

niyad

(113,288 posts)
14. To all D. C. area drivers, a request: several friends and I would ask you to flip
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 05:47 PM
Mar 2022

those convoydiots off on our behalf, since we cannot be there in person. Thanks in advance.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
15. The sealed room of bean-eaters desensitize themselves to their own outgassing
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 05:52 PM
Mar 2022

To them, bio-methane production and release is a wonderful thing, and they don't understand why outsiders make faces, wave their hands, and open the windows.

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