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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGinni Thomas and the truckers' convoy: Why the right seeks refuge in conspiracy theories
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https://www.rawstory.com/peoples-convoy-2657054319/
In the end, the People's Convoy ended how it began: Pointlessly.
Daily Beast reporter and Salon alum Zachary Petrizzo reports that, after three weeks of trolling the residents of Washington D.C. by driving around aimlessly, the truckers are finally going home. With great drama Sunday night, organizer Mike Landis declared that, while the truckers were packing up and going home, they would, at some vague future time, "come back to finish this job."
"I am not running away," said Landis' co-organizer Brian Brase before he ran away.
All this insecure masculine preening about coming back and not running away is all the more comical because it continues to be obscure what, exactly, the truckers think they were fighting for.
Originally, the People's Convoy was organized to protest COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The problem was there aren't any meaningful restrictions to protest. Lockdowns haven't been a thing for at least a year. President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates on private businesses were decimated by the Supreme Court. And nearly all remaining mask mandates were falling just as the truckers were making their way to Maryland after the CDC adjusted its recommendations based upon hospitalization rates instead of mere case rates.
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Ginni Thomas and the truckers' convoy: Why the right seeks refuge in conspiracy theories (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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arlyellowdog
(866 posts)1. A guy in a truck outside DC pulled up next to me
He signaled me to roll down my window (I thought he wanted directions) and said so hows voting for Biden working for you. I said hes great. Guy went off on migrants, etc, etc. But, it was the anger and crazy look and his willingness to verbally attack a 72 year old woman. This time I was lucky I knew where to turn to lose him. Im taking my sticker off. Any good Democrat realizes how scared that means I was. Thomass wife is an old school villain to support these people.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)2. Reality tears at the fabric of their illusions...