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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo just cruising the beltway, then
Jennifer Bendery @jbendery 58mUpdate: 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.
Link to tweet
Walleye
(31,035 posts)FSogol
(45,514 posts)His "convoy" will really cry when they get a taste of DC traffic!
Walleye
(31,035 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)underpants
(182,861 posts)LoisB
(7,222 posts)Hopefully, flashing lights and sirens will come his way if he does anything stupid.
underpants
(182,861 posts)Thats all Im saying.
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Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)In whatever comes (y)our way!
LoisB
(7,222 posts)nt
2naSalit
(86,743 posts)struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)Zachary Petrizzo
Media Reporter
Published Feb. 23, 2022 3:31PM ET
... MAGA trucker Bob Bolus vowed that his makeshift freedom convoy .. would choke the nations 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 groups 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
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Checks out!
struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)BY LORA KORPAR ON 2/23/22 AT 1:26 PM EST
... WhileBolus initially intended for the convoy to block highways around the capitaltelling 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)It was on the last video from the op. I don't know why it stuck me as so funny. So ridiculous!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Good luck with that
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)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)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.