Pointlessly driving in circles, the so-called "Freedom Convoy" fails to make points or block traffic

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/03/pointlessly-driving-in-circles-so.html

I guess there wasn't anyone available to tell them that what government officials have been saying all along is that the mandates and regulations are temporary, and when COVID numbers drop, so do the mandates and regulations. Perhaps they were absent from the world that day, living in an alternative la-la land. I guess most of them skipped their eighth grade constitution and history class, or they would know that the Supreme Court gave states and municipalities the constitutional right to protect their residents and citizens with mandated vaccines in the event of a contagious pandemic disease outbreak in 1905, when smallpox was raging.

Can I assume, since pointless driving around in circles requires paying that high price for diesel fuel that President Biden is supposedly responsible for causing, that these truckers and convoy participants are just fine with the price? With the kind of money the trucking industry is gouging out of its customers at this point, it seems kind of odd that there are truckers driving around the Beltway, not really accomplishing any purpose, avoiding making the kind of money they could be earning by being real truckers with real payloads. Then again, I wonder how many of them have taken advantage of President Biden's and the Democrats' COVID relief packages, and have stuffed their bank accounts with our tax dollars, giving them all of this free time?

[NQAS]

1. If I were smarter. . .

I'd come up with some witty comment about this sad behavior being a metaphor for something.

But I'm not.

So this is just sad and pathetic. Hell, it's so sad and pathetic and will almost certainly be in the first paragraph of their eventual obituaries, whether they die tomorrow or 20 years from now. What a proud legacy for the descendants.

It's particularly pathetic, and more than a little vile, that they are doing this when people in Ukraine are risking their actual lives while fighting for their actual freedom.

[Blue Owl]

2. Was all worth it for the trucker who yelled "Ted Cruz Sucks!"

[3catwoman3]

3. Traffic on the beltway around DC is a mess much of the time, so...

...the truckers couldn't cause it to be much worse.

We lived in upper Marlboro MD, not far from (at the time) Andrews AFB, where my husband was stationed. I worked in Silver Spring, 30 miles away. On a good day, it was a 45-60 minute trip.

The traffic always slowed to a crawl at the New Hampshire Ave exit, where 4 lanes went down to 3. Sometimes it was so slow, I could file my fingernails while waiting for the cars to inch forward.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. When I lived in Georgetown and traveled that way I used to keep a book or

Some other reading material in the car it got that slow. I met lots of interesting people and had some fun conversations on the nice days when I had my T tops off. I also met George Stephanopoulos there but that was in the elevator at my apartment building. Good times.

[lagomorph777]

12. I sat at the NH exit for hours once, and was VERY late for a job interview.

And I thought I had allowed an extra hour to be safe.

In retrospect, damn good thing I didn't take the job!

[3catwoman3]

4. Traffic on the beltway around DC is a mess much of the time, so...

...the truckers couldn't cause it to be much worse.

We lived in upper Marlboro MD, not far from (at the time) Andrews AFB, where my husband was stationed. I worked in Silver Spring, 30 miles away. On a good day, it was a 45-60 minute trip.

The traffic always slowed to a crawl at the New Hampshire Ave exit, where 4 lanes went down to 3. Sometimes it was so slow, I could file my fingernails while waiting for the cars to inch forward.

[lees1975]

7. After having taken many trips along the beltway in Maryland

trying to get on it from I-95, and then go around as far as College Park, it's pointless to jam up a beltway that is already jammed.

[getagrip_already]

5. It seems someone got a message to the organizers......

All of a sudden they got a very direct respect for the law. On Friday, they were going to circle the white house. On saturday, organizers were pleading with the group to stand down and wait for them to come up with a plan, but the organizers really stressed they shouldn't go downtown or they might get arrested.

The organizers seem to be wary of conspiracy charges of one kind or another. Or maybe they just didn't want the funds raised to be seized.

In any event, they changed plans to circle the beltway without disruption.

And that is where they are. Truckers are grumbling about what their goals are and where all the money raised went.

And so goes the grift.

[lees1975]

8. Looks like they got "owned by the libs"

[Grins]

9. Shouldn't they be at the ports picking up ship cargoes...?

Or was that just more Reich-wing bullshit?

[GenThePerservering]

10. But...but...but...

they got Ted Cruz riding shotgun! I mean, they have a senator now and "that means something" - I'll leave it to more imaginative minds to think of what that something might be.

[FakeNoose]

11. Somewhere a very wealthy RWNJ is paying for this

These guys aren't driving around Washington for free, they're getting paid. Their expensive diesel fuel is being bought for them. Where's the money coming from? How's the money getting to them? Find it and shut it down. These drivers will go packing immediately.

[dalton99a]

13. +1