Okay! Truckers! All five of you! There’s an amorphous protest being funded by who knows who—possibly a conservative super PAC, and/or anti-vaxxer donations. The participants are trying to pretend they’re more numerous than they are, and meandering the roads around Washington, D.C., attempting to make their incoherent demands known.
What are those demands? Once again, “incoherent” is the word that comes to mind. It was originally something to do with federal mask and vaccine mandates, but since most of those don’t exist … Anyhow, the weather is rainy in D.C. today and the news being reported about the trucker “convoy” is tragic, comical, and entertaining.
How did things go yesterday?
Better read that book by Donald Trump Jr. about how liberals are the only ones who get triggered! It is important to note that many of these guys, who spend most of their time in the bubble of their own CB radio world, are terrified of boogeymen named Aunt Tifa.
How’s today going?
So far, the zenith of this tragicomic ‘activism’ was Sens. Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson, men who voted against saving truckers’ pensions just a few months ago, pretending to give a damn about whatever it was that the truckers were complaining about. This was followed up by Cruz awkwardly trying to get out of a truck. And that was sort of the most cohesive and inspiring this entire mish-mash of a right-wing spectacle has been.
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And while these Big Lie-spouting “patriots” fight off traffic and rain, a convoy of Scottish firefighters organized by the charity Scottish Emergency Rescue Association are bringing firefighting equipment to Ukraine. I suspect those folks will not be receiving the middle finger from locals.
To be clear, many of these “patriots” are straight-up full of shit. Watch the evolution from being a bad driver to victimhood for Mr. “Grey Wolf.”
But, as one might imagine, being out on the road and away from loved ones is tough. Fighting for the elusive “freedom” from tyranny we all desire can wear one down.
If you have a letter to send off to your loved ones in the convoy, please feel free to share it in the comments. Remember: Don’t make the letters too long—I still have to watch Yosemite with Carol tonight!