Truck Convoy Drives on Capital Beltway in Protest

[Dutch Uncle]

They both failed. Lack of interest, lack of media coverage, short attention span, everyone moved on to the next poutrage.

Disagreed. The Occupy Movement died, but the Tea Party went national and then evolved into the Alt-Right.

IMO, the reaason the OM failed was precisely because they didn't want to go national after seeing what happened to the Tea Party when it went from local to national.

 

[Diesel]

Yeah, people were tweeting alternate routes they were taking to avoid the truckers.

So let's recap:

* Some number of bored, privileged, whiny MAGA bitches drove from any number of places around the country to protest COVID restrictions that are virtually gone

* They did so in a copycat attempt of a failed protest in Canada last month

* They did spectacularly worse than our neighbors to the north, who failed

* They spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on fuel in an inflationary economy to drive to a meaningless, failed protest and tweeted at each fuel stop to complain about the price of gas

* They annoyed DC residents who had to drive around them for a few hours as they slowly drove in circles with Confederate flags billowing in the country's capital

Ah, the American right: Aggrieved, self-entitled, and dumber than drywall.

 

[Diesel]

predicting that when the convoy stops and totally disrupts traffic flows, the liberals will demand that they get 'government bullets'....................

When's that scheduled?

 

[reagansghost]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500224223784091658

 

[Althea]

Why do you think the Occupy Movement failed? Compared to the Tea Party movement?

The occupy movement started out well enough. It was a statement about the crime on Wall St.. But they never really organized a real program of action that might change anything. The best thing they could have done is to address the criminal investment practices in Congress.

It became a street party, with cops undermining the movement by ushering all of the homeless into these encampments. Then citing crime and filth as a reason to break up the crowd.

From there it moved across the nation with any and all 'movements' usurping control of the 'Occupy' moniker.

IMO, the difference between the Teaparty and the Occupy movements is that the former was well funded by the Koch Bros, and existed to disrupt everything that the 'black bastard' in the White House worked toward. The latter was a bunch of kids who didn't bother to vote, but just wanted to voice an opinion. No different than Kaepernick or the BLM.

 

[Althea]

If 6 was 9.

Five to One.

LOL. She wanted to know about the time.

 

[Althea]

They both failed. Lack of interest, lack of media coverage, short attention span, everyone moved on to the next poutrage.

Teaparty was actually very successful at achieving their goal of destroying Democracy

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Teaparty was actually very successful at achieving their goal of destroying Democracy

Could you provide a few examples of how that happened?

 

[Althea]

Could you provide a few examples of how that happened?

Sure. Attend roll call in the House

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Teaparty was actually very successful at achieving their goal of destroying Democracy

OTOH they did nothing to stop Obama's tax increase for the uberwealthy. They needed #TRE45ON for that.

 

[Althea]

OTOH they did nothing to stop Obama's tax increase for the uberwealthy. They needed #TRE45ON for that.

I'm not aware of Obama's tax increase? I know that he had that card in his hand as the Bush tax cuts were about to sunset. In the 11th hour, he traded that card for an end to DADT.

 

[Nordberg]

The occupy movement started out well enough. It was a statement about the crime on Wall St.. But they never really organized a real program of action that might change anything. The best thing they could have done is to address the criminal investment practices in Congress.

It became a street party, with cops undermining the movement by ushering all of the homeless into these encampments. Then citing crime and filth as a reason to break up the crowd.

From there it moved across the nation with any and all 'movements' usurping control of the 'Occupy' moniker.

IMO, the difference between the Teaparty and the Occupy movements is that the former was well funded by the Koch Bros, and existed to disrupt everything that the 'black bastard' in the White House worked toward. The latter was a bunch of kids who didn't bother to vote, but just wanted to voice an opinion. No different than Kaepernick or the BLM.

They were very successful in pointing out and identifying the top 1 percent. Occupy was a bunch of people who were politically involved and voted. They were well represented by teachers who were part of the movement. They were far from kids. They had people from all walks of life and ages.

 

[Into the Night]

Right, they are protesting against mandates that nearly don't exist any longer, definitely a group that should get out of their trucks and get out more, a lot more

They do. Masks are still mandated on public transit systems, including aircraft. Ludicrous.

 

[Into the Night]

Not to mention states are dropping mandates like hot potatoes. Oops. lol

But not The Oligarchy.

 

[Into the Night]

Mandates subsided after the omicron surge faded, try to keep up

There is no such thing as an 'omicron variant'. It is not possible to have a variant of a variant. The so-called 'omicron variant' is pure fiction.

It's either covid19 or it's not.

 

[Into the Night]

Poor anchovies. Mandates subsided after the pools showed the public was tired of the scam. The federal mandates went away as soon as the vulnerable Democrat mayor's panicked and canceled their own states mandates.

Nope. Masks are still required for public transit including aircraft.

 

[Into the Night]

Agreed. These idiots are going to lose their trucks and their jobs...if they had one...for nothing.

Such theft will not go unanswered.

 

[Phantasmal]

There is no such thing as an 'omicron variant'. It is not possible to have a variant of a variant. The so-called 'omicron variant' is pure fiction.

It's either covid19 or it's not.

 

[Into the Night]

The mandates were predicted on how much Covid was running through the people. They have slowed down sufficiently so they ended them. You are actually arguing that it was not political because they did not keep them going until the election. That was illogical.

Nope. Mask mandates produce Paradox M. Vaccine mandates produce Paradox V.
It is for nothing but political reasons.

 

[Into the Night]

yeah, truckers are trying to cripple the economy by disrupting the supply line. Their freedoms are not at risk. However, the turnover in trucking is over 90 percent. They are in charge of their jobs, so they should do them. https://bencrump.com/truck-accidents/what-causes-most-truck-accidents/

Making up numbers again. That's a fallacy, dude.