Disappointed' remnants of People's Convoy are living in cars/vans wondering why movement didnt catch

[Demovictory9]

https://www.rawstory.com/peoples-convoy-2657822483/


'Disappointed' remnants of People's Convoy are living in cars and vans in DC: report
Tom Boggioni
August 07, 2022
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According to a report from the Washington Post, a small group of die-hard conservatives and Donald Trump supporters who took part in the the so-called "People's Convoy" have yet to go home and have been living in their cars or vans for weeks, meeting each day and wondering why their movement didn't catch on


The trucker convoy, also known as the "1776 Restoration Movement," was ostensibly organized to protest vaccine mandates, but gradually changed into a grab-bag protest against the policies of President Joe Biden which mostly dissipated as they were ignored and then was dogged by accusations about where donations were going.

In June, trucking industry website Freightwaves issued a special report stating that $1.8 million in donations had been taken in with no accountability about spending which had organizers pointing fingers at each other.

That report stated, "In the days prior to the convoy’s collapse, participants and supporters say they were asked to 'pass the hat' and chip in cash to pay the Hagerstown Speedway for allowing them to camp there and use the site as a staging area to launch its slow rolls and loops around the Washington Beltway.


On Sunday, the Post's Joe Heim reported some members have yet to leave.

"They were hoping that thousands or maybe even millions of other Americans would join their cause, Tom Fisher, 70, a retired state park ranger from Arizona said as he stood in the shade on a blistering hot Washington afternoon last week," he wrote. "Instead, there are about two dozen stalwarts who’ve camped out with American flag-draped cars and trucks since July 6 to demonstrate against what they say is America’s slow but sure abandonment of the Constitution and to call for a peaceful return 'to a constitutional Republic through the restoration of a moral society.'"

[bahboo]

1. true believers....you know....morons....

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. .....

Always loved this movie, there wasn't one scene that wasn't hilarious.

[bahboo]

14. you got it!

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Tom Fisher, you old foolish fuck, go home and STFU.

[Lovie777]

3. Dallas . . .

How many are still there waiting on Kennedy Jr.?

[Takket]

4. the reason it didn't catch on is the vast majority knows you are traitors

that want to destroy our way of life. also you are dipshits.

[PortTack]

5. I truly believe that hate and haters never win in the end!

[louis-t]

6. And not one of them has ever read the Constitution.

Repugs love the Constitution, except for the parts they hate. Or ignore.

[raging moderate]

7. They want the Articles of Confederation back.

That one made it so easy for them to lord it over people they despised. The United States Constitution gave their victims too many chances to defend themselves.

[rsdsharp]

8. Why didn't the "movement" catch on?

Your attention getter was to disrupt traffic in areas where traffic was already a nightmare, and you were protesting mandates that either never existed, or had ended. In short, you pissed people off for nothing, and left no doubt you were morons.

That’s why!

[IcyPeas]

9. there's about a dozen still protesting. It's morphed into the 1776 restoration movement

their permit just expired to stay on the mall in D.C. now they are on the way to Bunker Hill (they are still doing some livestreams on youtube).

I remember reading (maybe on DU) a while back that there was infighting within some of the different groups within the convoy.

here is a clip from today. go to the end to see how many of them are there.

[Beetwasher.]

10. Dead Enders, the Epitome

Losers.

[BadGimp]

12. Dilusionment does not adequately describe what they are going through.

They may have a world record for Rabbit Holes...

[Wounded Bear]

13. The rest of Americans went back to work...

[BlueIdaho]

15. I hope they went BK

Lost their trucks and houses. Reality is such a cold mistress.

[mercuryblues]

16. remnants of People's Convoy are living in cars and vans

IOW they are homeless.

[nolabear]

19. Likely same people who spit on the homeless.

Oh but nooooo, we’re just camping. We’re not living out of vehicles. We’re not misusing public land. We’re PATRIOTS, dammit!

[mercuryblues]

22. exactly

and they're pissed their funding dried up.

[Sky Jewels]

17. They're like the Japanese soldiers hiding in forests who

didn't know WWII had ended years and years ago.

[Hekate]

18. Idiots. Got taken for a ride by The Biggest Grifter.

[Kaleva]

20. They could team up with those awaiting the return of JFK

[NickB79]

21. Lol