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kpete

(71,982 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:00 AM Mar 2022

Owning The Libs feels great!

Today out in Hagerstown, more and more truckers with The People's Convoy have complained about becoming sick with a bad cough. One streamer, “OTR Survival,” ended up going to an urgent care, and described the illness as getting “hit by a bus.”


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Owning The Libs feels great! (Original Post) kpete Mar 2022 OP
Wow, I am SO OWNED by their COVID!! hatrack Mar 2022 #1
Irony is a cruel mistress. Hugin Mar 2022 #6
OTR Survival is Irony Deficient. ... aggiesal Mar 2022 #20
So some of the people protesting against masks and vaccines now have covid? Botany Mar 2022 #18
Womp womp OnDoutside Mar 2022 #2
We got served! 🤣 TheBlackAdder Mar 2022 #60
Cause we got a Covid Convoy, coughing through the night tanyev Mar 2022 #3
+1 Hugin Mar 2022 #7
Very well put Farmer-Rick Mar 2022 #13
Well done! "This here's the duck. We're about to go huntin' bleach." Coonnvoooyyy. Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #35
Nice! But fifth line needs one more word, rhymes with "truckin"... FailureToCommunicate Mar 2022 #37
I'm singin this now. Love it! ananda Mar 2022 #46
This, of course, is the Deep State seeding Covid into the campground through those chemtrails... brooklynite Mar 2022 #4
Shh-hh-h-ssh.... The Magistrate Mar 2022 #10
Shoulda got that Covid vax! Budi Mar 2022 #5
You call that pwning teh libz? EYESORE 9001 Mar 2022 #8
Hit by a bus? How about a Semi? old as dirt Mar 2022 #9
I've Been Hit By A Semi... GB_RN Mar 2022 #14
Wow - lucky. Glad you survived that Achilleaze Mar 2022 #19
Thanks GB_RN Mar 2022 #22
Wow... Hugin Mar 2022 #21
Crazy Shit Happens... GB_RN Mar 2022 #24
... Hugin Mar 2022 #32
Lol! GB_RN Mar 2022 #34
High energy physics. Hugin Mar 2022 #39
Science Explains Everything. GB_RN Mar 2022 #44
I was t-boned by a USPS semi many years back. TygrBright Mar 2022 #23
I Feel Your Pain. GB_RN Mar 2022 #26
Exactly. It's amazing how long a few seconds can be when you're waiting to die. n/t TygrBright Mar 2022 #52
Yikes! old as dirt Mar 2022 #33
Done The Deer Bit, Too. GB_RN Mar 2022 #36
As a child, ... old as dirt Mar 2022 #42
I Hunted As A Teen... GB_RN Mar 2022 #47
Throughout the 1700s, ... old as dirt Mar 2022 #48
not a lot of beef on those earred cattle but they do good in hot buggy climates Kali Mar 2022 #58
Apparently, ... old as dirt Mar 2022 #61
I caught a glimpse of somebody handing something out to those cows Kali Mar 2022 #62
Speaking of chickens, ... old as dirt Mar 2022 #53
Geez! Marthe48 Mar 2022 #67
I'm Not Surprised... GB_RN Mar 2022 #70
It caused a lot of damage to the car Marthe48 Mar 2022 #71
Don't Doubt It. GB_RN Mar 2022 #73
I forgot to say Marthe48 Mar 2022 #74
I remember that movie well, because I actually had an experience like that. I was niyad Mar 2022 #25
Oh, Yeah. GB_RN Mar 2022 #28
I posted an article the other day Covid effect on brain Marthe48 Mar 2022 #11
There was another article about how Covid affects the heart, too, CrispyQ Mar 2022 #29
And kidneys Marthe48 Mar 2022 #63
To Answer Your Question... GB_RN Mar 2022 #51
Maybe I should ask why so many people haven't matured Marthe48 Mar 2022 #64
Mass Delusion? GB_RN Mar 2022 #65
Time for a horse dewormer RainCaster Mar 2022 #12
They are an embarassment to truckers everywhere. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #15
Nothing to worry about. I'm sure they have wnylib Mar 2022 #16
Republican whiners gonna whine Achilleaze Mar 2022 #17
Deep state is diabolical IronLionZion Mar 2022 #27
Wait until they find out about covid penis, then they'll have a reason Emile Mar 2022 #30
COVID penis for their micro-penis! If there is a God, it is just! AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #40
I'll keep an eye on 'sorryantivaxxers.com' and 'Herman Cain Awardzz' (Facebook) Siwsan Mar 2022 #31
Wow. . .I don't just feel owned, I feel pwned! WTG, MAGAts!!! AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #38
COVIDIOTS on parade. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 #41
This message was self-deleted by its author Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 #43
Next on the History Channel, the series finale of "Virus Truckers." Efilroft Sul Mar 2022 #45
Be sure to BlueIdaho Mar 2022 #49
Why don't they just stay in their trucks. The Jungle 1 Mar 2022 #50
Seriously this is the best way for this to end! Initech Mar 2022 #54
Karma baby! Karma! Joe Nation Mar 2022 #55
I hope they all hang out together in the evenings wryter2000 Mar 2022 #56
I have been amazed at how truly owned I have been by them the last two years. Rabrrrrrr Mar 2022 #57
Stupid fuckers gopiscrap Mar 2022 #59
Softly and tenderly, Herman is calling... Blue Owl Mar 2022 #66
First Herm, then Rush. It's been a rough couple of years for The Rich White Guy Party. czarjak Mar 2022 #75
They're going viral, and their movements are going bowel IronLionZion Mar 2022 #68
How many... lame54 Mar 2022 #69
Sure OTR Survival didn't say it was like getting "hit by a truck"? Hortensis Mar 2022 #72

Hugin

(33,120 posts)
6. Irony is a cruel mistress.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:15 AM
Mar 2022

FAFO.

We should start a pool on when the first ambulance with a Poople's Convoy member gets blocked by the Poople's Convoy.

Botany

(70,489 posts)
18. So some of the people protesting against masks and vaccines now have covid?
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:52 AM
Mar 2022

And now they are seeking science based medical care?

schadenfreude
[ˈSHädənˌfroidə]

pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
"a business that thrives on schadenfreude"

TheBlackAdder

(28,183 posts)
60. We got served! 🤣
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 12:18 PM
Mar 2022

.






Let me talk to their coach.






They shouldn't play with COVID, else they'll get served back.



.

tanyev

(42,544 posts)
3. Cause we got a Covid Convoy, coughing through the night
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:06 AM
Mar 2022

Yeah, we got a Covid Convoy
Ain't she a messed up sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't no mask gonna get in our way
We gonna spread this Covid
'Cross the USA

Farmer-Rick

(10,154 posts)
13. Very well put
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:43 AM
Mar 2022

I can hear it playing in my head.

Who knew Covid was still spreading....oh wait..... isn't their whole thing about doing away with protections from Covid? So, they know COVID is spreading......

COVID Convoy.....spread this Covid across the USA......Convoy.....

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
14. I've Been Hit By A Semi...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:46 AM
Mar 2022

Literally. December 14, 2007 at around 1930 hours (730 pm for you non medical/military people). Let me tell you, from personal experience, a run-in with an 18 wheeler is not a fun experience. The guy drifted into my lane, hit my left rear quarter panel, spun me so that I slammed into the front of him and he shoved me at least* a quarter mile up the highway before we stopped. My window blew out in my face, and I was staring into the grill and headlights. The post and door got crushed into my shoulder, pushed into the interior of the car a good six inches.

Only reason I’m alive is because we were on concrete and not asphalt: If it had been asphalt, my car would have flipped as the right front tire blew and the steel rim was being pushed sideways on the road and on asphalt, it would have dug in. As it was on concrete, the steel rim was just throwing up sparks, which is what alerted the truck driver that I was even there to begin with, as he’d never even felt the impact with my car (a Honda Civic).

I still have PTSD around those goddamned things on occasion.

*We don’t know for sure how far, but it had to be at minimum that far as we were at highway speed, it took a while before he noticed we were there, and then he had to slow and stop a rig loaded with long, 18” pvc pipes for water mains.

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
22. Thanks
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:56 AM
Mar 2022

Me too. My son was just barely three at the time. When asked about joining a lottery ticket pool, I tell people there’s no point in me buying tickets as I used up all my luck that night! 😂

Hugin

(33,120 posts)
21. Wow...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:54 AM
Mar 2022

Ouch.

Yep, you were very fortunate.

I always remember a news story about a wheelchair bound guy who got caught up on the front bumper of a truck while moving across a sidewalk cutout and not being seen as the vehicle was leaving a parking lot. He was shoved along on a terror-coaster ride for several miles until someone in a passing vehicle was able to alert the driver of the truck about the unwilling passenger. Miraculously, he wasn't seriously injured.

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
24. Crazy Shit Happens...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:00 AM
Mar 2022

Like that guy, I wasn’t really injured, except for a sore shoulder. Although that’s seemingly coming back to haunt me now. 🙄

My now, ex-brother-in-law, somehow had window glass in his boxer shorts! Don’t ask me how that happened. 😂

Hugin

(33,120 posts)
32. ...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:23 AM
Mar 2022

Yes, it does.

Not to get too far away from the profound irony of the thread topic and into an, I'll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours.

While avoiding hitting a large animal, I spun my vehicle through at least a complete 720 in a very wide and grass covered median. I don't know how it didn't flip. Three of the tires had been pulled off of their rims, but, the fourth was still intact and inflated. When I was disassembling the wreckage to determine if anything was salvageable, I found that inside that still rimmed tire was around ten #s of dirt and gravel.

I was looking at it saying to myself, "Hooow?" To this day, I still SMDH.

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
44. Science Explains Everything.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:52 AM
Mar 2022

We may not understand how/why (yet), but physics works every time.


As the great Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” 😁

TygrBright

(20,756 posts)
23. I was t-boned by a USPS semi many years back.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:00 AM
Mar 2022

If I had been wearing a seatbelt, I would have been strawberry jam.

As it was, I was thrown over to the passenger side of the front seat, and although the driver's side was well-mashed, the semi just pushed it along until its brakes kicked in.

I figured that was my one-in-a-kajillion weird survival chance incident and I have worn a seatbelt ever since.

But yeah, I get a little PTSD around the big rigs too, especially on the interstate when they're all around me.

reminiscently,
Bright

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
26. I Feel Your Pain.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:08 AM
Mar 2022

If my grandfather had still been alive, I would have told him that I think I might have some small appreciation for what it must have felt like when his plane’s bombardier took over flight controls from him and all he could do was sit there as flak went off or fighters flew by to strafe his B-25 - he was a bomber pilot in WW2: Absolutely no control over your situation. Hell, at least the gunners could shoot back. All he could do was sit there until the bombs dropped and he got control back.

Most terrified I’ve ever been. No control. Nothing I could do but sit there and watch.

 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
33. Yikes!
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:24 AM
Mar 2022

Lucky to be alive!

a Honda Civic

The closest we ever came to something like that was a battle between a Toyota Corolla and a deer.

It was the middle of the night, driving home from Chicago with 4 people, including myself. I didn't even see it, just felt a bump, and the car started shaking as I tried to steer it to a halt.

One of the front weels was ripped right off off the car (something called an A-frame, if I recall correctly), which made steering difficult at 70 mph.

The deer was totalled. One of its legs was ripped off and ended up jammed up into the engine compartment.

We didn't suffer a scratch, though.

Deer are bad enough. I'm not ready to take on any Semis.

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
36. Done The Deer Bit, Too.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:38 AM
Mar 2022

Hated that. Don’t like seeing animals get hit, and I really hate being the one who did it. ☹️

 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
42. As a child, ...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:50 AM
Mar 2022

...my wife used to kill birds (with a rock and slingshot)`and cook them for food. Aparently, they taste like chicken, but there's not much meat on them.

Don’t like seeing animals get hit, and I really hate being the one who did it

Today, she feels sorry for the birds.


GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
47. I Hunted As A Teen...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:56 AM
Mar 2022

Never killed a deer (as I never saw any while I was out - go figure), but did kill a few birds. Yeah, dove* tastes like chicken. Wouldn’t do it now unless I had to for food.

*Incidentally, I’ve eaten alligator, and it tastes like chicken. Does everything taste like chicken or does chicken taste like everything else? Lol

 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
48. Throughout the 1700s, ...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:07 AM
Mar 2022

...her ancestors are famous for their cattle rustling.

Every family grouping was alloted one cow a week.

She doesn't come from a vegetarian culture...lol.

Where's the beef?

Kali

(55,007 posts)
58. not a lot of beef on those earred cattle but they do good in hot buggy climates
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 12:05 PM
Mar 2022

thanks for that, I like watching how cattle are worked around the world. that looked a little chaotic but it often gets that way for us too. LOL

 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
61. Apparently, ...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 12:19 PM
Mar 2022

…the ability of her ancestors to support cattle in the valley had something to do with the presence of salt. At least according to historians. I’ve never seen this fully explained, though.

Kali

(55,007 posts)
62. I caught a glimpse of somebody handing something out to those cows
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 12:25 PM
Mar 2022

and I thought it might be salt. they can live without it but they do better and sure enjoy it. it can be an important management tool.

 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
53. Speaking of chickens, ...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:29 AM
Mar 2022

...there's something that I've been wondering about for sone time, now.

Incidentally, I’ve eaten alligator, and it tastes like chicken. Does everything taste like chicken or does chicken taste like everything else? Lol

Why does the rooster not sing?

The hen sings in the afternoon, sings in the morning, but the rooster never sings.

Why does the rooster not sing?


Marthe48

(16,934 posts)
67. Geez!
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 02:49 PM
Mar 2022

My sister and her fella were driving home, and a semi hit her car, knocked her into a barrier. Truck didn't bother to slow down or stop.

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
70. I'm Not Surprised...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 04:44 PM
Mar 2022

The driver probably didn't even know he'd hit her vehicle. As big as those damned things are, bumping a car is nothing in terms of making the driver feel something. For a car on the other hand, even a "slight" bump can send you careening.

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
73. Don't Doubt It.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 05:35 PM
Mar 2022

Totaled my car, too. Glad they were OK. Not many people are able to walk away from an encounter with an 18 wheeler.

Marthe48

(16,934 posts)
74. I forgot to say
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 05:39 PM
Mar 2022

Glad you lived to tell about it.

There is a post in DU Lounge, cilla4progress was asking for advice from accident survivors. Maybe she'd like to hear your story.

niyad

(113,253 posts)
25. I remember that movie well, because I actually had an experience like that. I was
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:01 AM
Mar 2022

completely freaked out. And the state patrol did absolutely nothing about it.

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
28. Oh, Yeah.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:10 AM
Mar 2022

Trooper wanted to write me up as being at fault at first. I was like, “Are you fucking kidding me!?!?”

In the end, he decided he wasn’t writing any tickets. But that was better than writing me up when I knew the guy had come over into me, and not vice-versa.

Marthe48

(16,934 posts)
11. I posted an article the other day Covid effect on brain
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:37 AM
Mar 2022

But I don't think the Covid convoy drivers need to worry about damage to something they've never had.

Why are there so many willfully stupid people out there who would rather believe pure unadulterated horseshit than thruth? The stupidity is like its own plague.

CrispyQ

(36,457 posts)
29. There was another article about how Covid affects the heart, too,
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:14 AM
Mar 2022

but they don't have to worry about that, either!

Are you feeling better?

Marthe48

(16,934 posts)
63. And kidneys
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 01:26 PM
Mar 2022

my daughter works at a dialysis clinic and mentioned that they are getting many new younger patients with kidney failure. She suspects they had Covid.

I am feeling much better, thanks for asking

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
51. To Answer Your Question...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:19 AM
Mar 2022

Because lies that reinforce what we’d like to hear are more comfortable than the truth which often isn’t pretty.

That’s why we often tell someone/ourselves “little white lies”; we don’t want to hurt their feelings and/or make ourselves uncomfortable in the process. Unfortunately, that habit grows into covering up bigger things that people need to see.

Marthe48

(16,934 posts)
64. Maybe I should ask why so many people haven't matured
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 01:31 PM
Mar 2022

their frontal lobes. Way too many children wearing adult clothes.

Before your reply, I have read that people believe what they want to, and believe what reinforces their beliefs, but geez, thinking JFK Jr is alive, some of the crazy things the truck drivers believe, how do they even have a worldview those ideas support?

GB_RN

(2,347 posts)
65. Mass Delusion?
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 02:44 PM
Mar 2022

That's the only thing I can come up with as to your last question: Shared, mass delusion. And within the confines of said delusion(s), comfort in ignoring reality.

wnylib

(21,425 posts)
16. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure they have
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:47 AM
Mar 2022

a good enough supply of Ivermectin between them to cover everyone.

But if they start going into local hospitals in large numbers, the locals will not be too happy about their presence.

OTOH, while they are in the hospital, their abandoned trucks could be towed away. Guess that's one way to clear them out.

IronLionZion

(45,421 posts)
27. Deep state is diabolical
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:09 AM
Mar 2022

by targeting mainly unvaccinated unmasked hard working salt of the earth "real Americans" with COVID. COVID doesn't take down quite as many vaccinated people because that's how the globalists designed it.

Emile

(22,655 posts)
30. Wait until they find out about covid penis, then they'll have a reason
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:20 AM
Mar 2022

to be outraged at themselves!

Siwsan

(26,259 posts)
31. I'll keep an eye on 'sorryantivaxxers.com' and 'Herman Cain Awardzz' (Facebook)
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:23 AM
Mar 2022

They posted an already long list of truckers who caught Covid, a few weeks back. And both sites are pretty good about finding these casses.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,680 posts)
38. Wow. . .I don't just feel owned, I feel pwned! WTG, MAGAts!!!
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:42 AM
Mar 2022

You sure showed me a thing or two about a thing or two.

Response to kpete (Original post)

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
49. Be sure to
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:11 AM
Mar 2022

Drink you piss, take your ivermectin, snort some Clorox and stand in front of a very bright light source.

Initech

(100,062 posts)
54. Seriously this is the best way for this to end!
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:31 AM
Mar 2022

Succumbing to the very disease that they're calling a hoax and refusing to get vaccinated for! Bravo!

This is a failure so grand that it requires the John Oliver laugh:

Rabrrrrrr

(58,347 posts)
57. I have been amazed at how truly owned I have been by them the last two years.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:53 AM
Mar 2022

They have owned more than I ever thought possible. Their intellectual and moral superiority as they die in defiance of scientific conspiracy and libtard snowflakiness is beyond owning.

They've all really put me in my spot.

IronLionZion

(45,421 posts)
68. They're going viral, and their movements are going bowel
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 04:03 PM
Mar 2022

Ivermectin can help them get rid of any worms or intestinal lining. Thoughts and prayers

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