Ted Cruz visits 'People's Convoy' protesters, rides shotgun in semi
Source: Independent (UK)
Republican US Senator Ted Cruz visited the Peoples Convoy in Maryland, even riding along in the lead vehicle and waving to protesters. Mr Cruz met with the convoy organisers earlier this week, and joined the truckers on Thursday near their encampment in Hagerstown, Maryland. During his visit, Mr Cruz rode in the passenger seat of the convoys lead truck.
Organiser Brett Brase, a trucker from Ohio, viewed Mr Cruzs decision to visit the rally as a needed shot of adrenaline for a protest effort whose media interest was largely eclipsed by the war in Ukraine. There aint no ignoring a senator riding in the lead truck, Mr Brase told to the crowd of truckers in Hagerstown. Thats basically an endorsement of what were doing.
Mr Cruz addressed the truckers during his visit to the site. Your voice is being heard, Mr Cruz said to the mass of protesters. What the men and women want here is for the government to leave you the hell alone. ... That is the most American sentiment you could imagine.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-the-peoples-convoy-protestors-b2033117.html
Thus far, the protest has not achieved the magnitude or cohesion seen during the Canadian Freedom Convoy that shut down border crossings and clogged Ottawas streets for a month.
Like their Canadian forerunners, the Peoples Convoy claims it is campaigning against emergency coronavirus mandates. However, most of those mandates have already been rolled back.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) rode shotgun on the Peoples Convoy on March 10 in Hagerstown, Md.
(Karina Elwood/The Washington Post)
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Lock them up.
underpants
(182,623 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)If you believe, Cruz, that all "we" want is "the government" to leave us alone please tell Gov Abbott and AG Paxton!!
If being endorsed by one of the most hated and reviled politicians in DC means something, well what can I say? Maybe dumber than what we all thought already!!!
PaulRevere08
(449 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,697 posts)PaulRevere08
(449 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,697 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,697 posts)Vinca
(50,237 posts)NHvet
(240 posts)I'm riding in a big rig.
keithbvadu2
(36,667 posts)C Moon
(12,209 posts)elleng
(130,732 posts)GO AWAY!
FSogol
(45,448 posts)F'ing idiot.
Farmer-Rick
(10,139 posts)Oh no, I have to wear a mask. Boho. Oh no, I get a free vaccine against a deadly virus. Poor me.
They would be the first to turn and run if any real danger ever got close to this country.
Go fight for Ukraine and find out what a real fight looks like.
usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)Disappointing that all those idiots keeping being a waste of carbon and water and people still support them.
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)EndlessWire
(6,457 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,144 posts)kristofarian
(75 posts)get to man-
ipulate the
Stickshift?
'what's this
one do?'
lees1975
(3,839 posts)getting nowhere.
The guy with the ugly wife whose father plotted the Kennedy Assassination.
sakabatou
(42,136 posts)maxrandb
(15,297 posts)It's called "riding bitch".
Anyhow, it's nice to see these inbred nutsacks moving the Truck Scrotums from the trailer-hitch to the passenger seat.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)till his daughter runs as a Democrat. She can't have any respect for Tuna Face Ted.