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bigtree

(86,005 posts)
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:01 PM Feb 2022

So just cruising the beltway, then

Jennifer Bendery @jbendery 58m
Update: The one-truck "trucker convey" heading to D.C. today is now going to "drive around the Beltway responsibly" instead of driving into D.C. to tell Congress to embrace freedom.






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So just cruising the beltway, then (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2022 OP
If he stops traffic on the beltway, they will drag him out and beat him Walleye Feb 2022 #1
Haw! You are assuming traffic moves on our beltway! FSogol Feb 2022 #10
I agree. It's a jungle out there Walleye Feb 2022 #13
Yeah, he's really going to hate the Beltway. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #15
Get your motor running. Head out on the highway. underpants Feb 2022 #2
Looking for adventure. With whatever comes my way. LoisB Feb 2022 #3
Better stay off his cell phone. underpants Feb 2022 #5
LOL LoisB Feb 2022 #6
Looking for adventure Totally Tunsie Feb 2022 #4
You're right. I botched the lyrics. Been singing it wrong all these years. LoisB Feb 2022 #7
Okaaay. 2naSalit Feb 2022 #8
Plan sputters like a busted engine struggle4progress Feb 2022 #9
Definition of bolus FSogol Feb 2022 #12
"Bob is a real pill!" struggle4progress Feb 2022 #18
Just one 18-wheeler struggle4progress Feb 2022 #11
Did anyone else laugh out loud when you saw the truck with all those flags? Nictuku Feb 2022 #14
Driving around the beltway in rush hour? HipChick Feb 2022 #16
Lazy assholes, hiding in huge metal weapons instead of protesting like normal people. SharonClark Feb 2022 #17
This is probably why Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 #19

FSogol

(45,514 posts)
10. Haw! You are assuming traffic moves on our beltway!
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:50 PM
Feb 2022

His "convoy" will really cry when they get a taste of DC traffic!

LoisB

(7,222 posts)
3. Looking for adventure. With whatever comes my way.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:29 PM
Feb 2022

Hopefully, flashing lights and sirens will come his way if he does anything stupid.

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
9. Plan sputters like a busted engine
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:47 PM
Feb 2022

Zachary Petrizzo
Media Reporter
Published Feb. 23, 2022 3:31PM ET

... MAGA trucker Bob Bolus vowed that his makeshift “freedom convoy” .. would “choke” the nation’s capital ...

But .. when his .. convoy turned out to be a .. procession of one, Bolus backtracked, telling .. that his plans .. changed and he will not attempt to interfere with traffic ...

The .. 18-wheeler driven by Bolus has several SUV and pickup-driving supporters in tow, but .. all other big-rigs on the road have driven past the convoy. The group‘s voyage .. after Bolus got two flat tires ...

One day before departing for D.C., Bolus broadened the .. protest to .. the death of ..Ashli Babbitt, the teaching of “critical race theory” in schools, and rising fuel costs ...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-truck-convoy-organizer-bob-bolus-plan-sputters-like-a-busted-engine

FSogol

(45,514 posts)
12. Definition of bolus
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:52 PM
Feb 2022
bo·lus
/ˈbōləs/
noun
noun: bolus; plural noun: boluses

a small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing.
a type of large pill used in veterinary medicine.
Medicine
a single dose of a drug or other medicinal preparation given all at once.


Checks out!

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
11. Just one 18-wheeler
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:50 PM
Feb 2022

BY LORA KORPAR ON 2/23/22 AT 1:26 PM EST

... WhileBolus initially intended for the convoy to block highways around the capital—telling a local news station "it may be the whole Beltway that's blocked down"—he changed his mind after law enforcement contacted him ...

https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-truckers-convoy-dc-sees-just-one-18-wheeler-show-1681958

Nictuku

(3,616 posts)
14. Did anyone else laugh out loud when you saw the truck with all those flags?
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 05:59 PM
Feb 2022

It was on the last video from the op. I don't know why it stuck me as so funny. So ridiculous!

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
17. Lazy assholes, hiding in huge metal weapons instead of protesting like normal people.
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 07:45 PM
Feb 2022

They can't leave their security blanket trucks at home and protest on the streets like the rest of us. Are they too stupid to figure out the Metro?


Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,135 posts)
19. This is probably why
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 10:21 PM
Feb 2022
The Pentagon approved the use of 400 D.C. guard troops and 300 members from other states along with 50 "large tactical vehicles" to help keep traffic flowing, the D.C. National Guard said in a statement.

The Guard vehicles will take up positions at strategic intersections starting no later than 1 p.m. on Saturday or as soon as possible, the statement said. The troops will not be armed and they will not be authorized to conduct "domestic surveillance activities," the statement said.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/truck-convoy-nearing-nation-s-capital-pentagon-oks-use-of-national-guard-vaccination-drive-stalls-as-omicron-fades-covid-updates/ar-AAUc5nu

Don't know if these are Strikers or Humvees. I'm sure they're not a tracked vehicle.
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