Here’s the mighty truck convoy that was supposed to squeeze DC like a boa:
Bob Bolus is on the highway headed down to DC.
We have driven up and down the line, His 18 wheeler is the only one in the convoy followed by four or five pick up trucks and SUVs (that we can tell). All other 18ws passing him
His claim of having 25 trucks driving down is false pic.twitter.com/xvEeqxobnm
— Julio-César Chávez (@JulioCesrChavez) February 23, 2022
According to The Daily Beast, the protest was delayed when Bolus’s truck had two flat tires. Lord, what a bunch of clowns.
Open thread.
Baud
Thanks, antifa!
Alison Rose
Wish this truck would crash into Abbott’s house
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vxz5/texas-greg-abbott-transgender-kids-transition-procedures
Absolute fucking monster. This is so repugnant and hateful. I’m practically shaking with rage over this.
mellowjohn
Talked with my son in DC last night. He wondered how anyone would notice that it was a trucker convoy tying up traffic on the Beltway.
Baud
@mellowjohn:
They’ve decorated their vehicles so that people will know who the idiots are.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’ve been getting earworms of that song since they started talking about their convoy (Convoy!) Hell, I barely remember it and I think I’ve got about a decade on BC!
ETA: The song inspired the movie, which was a very 70s thing.
Old School
From the title, I was hoping this was going to be a baby picture from DougJ.
Leto
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: made me this of this classic Simpson’s song: Canyonero!
West of the Rockies
So Republicans continue to lie, deny science, and be loud and arrogant and rude.
This is my surprised face. ?//
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s such a classic 70’s novelty song.
West of the Rockies
Be cool if the flag truck had a blowout and rolled, leaving it and its flags in ruins. Driver can remain uninjured because I’m not a monster.
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I heard it a week or two back at the Cotopaxi General Store while I was buying gas – back when the Canadian convoy was still a thing. Lord.
You know they actually made a movie based on that song, right? I think Kris Kristofferson might have been in it – or maybe it was Mac Davis. Shoot, now I’m going to have to look it up.
*goes to IMDb*
Aw right, it *was* Kris Kristofferson! And Ali McGraw!
ETA: Evidently, you *did* know they made a movie out of it. And shit and be damned, it was directed by Sam Peckinpah!
scav
The mighty Vroom Vroom demographic is on the march. They do love their big boy trucks.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Yarrow: Up there with The Streak and Dead Skunk (in the Middle Of the Road)
SpaceUnit
Stupidpalooza on wheels
Where’s Darwin when you need him?
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, but nothing tops Hot Rod Lincoln.
Gin & Tonic
@Miss Bianca: What ever happened to her?
Gin & Tonic
@Miss Bianca: Raven should be here for that reference in 3, 2, 1 …
OzarkHillbilly
@West of the Rockies: I am. Fuck the drivers.
Chetan Murthy
@West of the Rockies:
*grin* I’m not sure it requires being a monster to wish all evil and hurtful things on these excuses-for-human-beings. This isn’t politics anymore: this is an incipient civil war. And any casualties the enemy takes early, are to our benefit.
I’d dance a jig if he were permanently paralyzed. Better than him dying.
Nettoyeur
@scav: Remember the boat parade with capsizing??
M. Bouffant
The writers are lazier & lazier. Bolus:
Miss Bianca
@Gin & Tonic: Well, according to IMDb, her last film work was in 1997, and she’s living in Santa Fe.
ETA: And she was born in 1939, which makes her 83 years old as of April 1! Whoa! I had no idea she was that old.
Gin & Tonic
That vid reminds me, a day or two ago worthless internet troll Jack Posobiec, for reasons which are still unclear, tried to post “Let’s Go Brandon” on Twitter in Russian. Except he doesn’t know Russian, so he used Google Translate, which gave him the wrong verb for that context, leading to a bunch of people dunking on him. I’m pretty sure he’s used to looking like an idiot by now, but I got a moment’s chuckle out of it.
Cacti
One yuge difference between Canada and the good old US of A is the basic niceness of the citizenry.
Americans are generally speaking, a lot less conflict averse than our northern neighbors in daily interactions with others.
The average greater DC resident is already in a bad mood during their commute because the traffic always sucks. Somebody purposely trying to make traffic worse is likely to get their ass kicked.
Yarrow
@Gin & Tonic: Apparently she’s mostly quit acting and lives in the mountains in New Mexico.
FlyingToaster
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I was thinking Kung Fu Fighting.
Paul M Gottlieb
Clowns? Yes. But homicidal clowns. Don’t forget that part
Starboard Tack
@Paul M Gottlieb: Bolus is also a convicted felon.
trollhattan
@Miss Bianca:
“Papa said son you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’…”
Cathie from Canada
Do not underestimate these guys. They want to overthrow the government and think their big trucks give them the right to do whatever they want.
Here in Canada we also thought they were clowns. But they managed to raise millions of dollars — about half from the United States — and that attracted more clowns to the “cause” and made them look credible.
In spite of Tucker and others chattering about thousands of trucks, they really never had more than 50 to 100 actual big rigs as they drove across the country, but they also attracted several hundred trucks and vans and motor homes as they went. And it doesn’t take very many big rigs to create absolute chaos on freeways and on city streets.
The mistake the city of Ottawa made was to think these guys were just like all of the other protest marches that Ottawa gets on many weekends all year round — the ones that show up Saturday or Sunday, walk past the Parliament Buildings, listen to speeches, make their point, and then everybody goes home.
The trucks never intended to do that, they parked and stayed, they wanted chaos and insurrection and they got it. They hated all the people who live in Ottawa and they thought it was great fun to run their engines and honk their horns day and night. Really, it was the horn honking that finally made Canadians realize these guys were just bullies and a**holes — they actually thought they could force Trudeau to resign — the QAnon elements in their midst had constructed an elaborate scenario involving the Governor General somehow, which was news to her. It also got real when trucks blocked the Ambassador Bridge and other border crossings across the country.
It was only after Trudeau brought in the Emergencies Act — which included provisions to freeze bank accounts, cancel vehicle insurance, call in loans, confiscate trucks and money, and otherwise threaten to pauperize these people and anyone who supported them — that the insurrectionists started to back down and the whole thing fell apart for the time being. They still have dozens of trucks parked on farmland near Ottawa, I guess because they think maybe they can come back someday.
I suspect that some of the money they got in January and early February was actually from Russia, who would love to overturn Trudeau to destabilize NATO and disrupt the Canadian alliance with Biden. On twitter we have noticed an extraordinary increase in the number of bots during the last three weeks too, also trying to undermine Trudeau.
JPL
@Old School: This.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@FlyingToaster: Ha! how they fought with ex-pert timing?
pretty soon we’re going to get into “novelty” or “sincerely bad”? and insult somebody’s prom theme
scav
@Nettoyeur: That would chime brilliantly with their over-flagging tendencies! My mind was originally off amidst the law-chair lounging protectors of the borders become slightly more ambulatory to honor their big boy’s bestest good day on the White House lawn. Weren’t their also golf-cart armadas as a half way step? Such a lot to play with. We could assemble their mobility development a la the march of progress posters.
Ksmiami
@Chetan Murthy: sometimes this world doesn’t need a hero; sometimes people need a monster… I do wish death and destruction on the fascist dregs… it’s all they understand
CROAKER
CONVOY CRITTERS 2022
Ah breaker breaker this Here is Big Ninny…I broke my wheels …
Come again … Big Ninny…
I broke my wheels…
Ah copy that Big Ninny…10-4…we’re gonna choke at puke at the Chick’Filla
A Ghost to Most
Arrogance and incompetence have always been the cornerstones of the Dunning-Kruger Rebellion.
JoyceH
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: CB radios were such a Thing then. I had one – my handle was Cinderella.
JoyceCB
As of this afternoon Prime Minister Trudeau has revoked the Emergencies Act, saying that it is no longer needed. That’s how you do it – rescind extraordinary powers the moment you can. Sighs of relief from all of us who rightly feared the scope and duration of the act, although it was surely needed at the time.
OzarkHillbilly
@JoyceH: CBs can be handy, especially when part of a convoy of cavers on mountain roads in Mexico.
apocalipstick
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sincerely bad: Disco Duck for the win. Doesn’t even possess novelty value now.
delk
My wedding anniversary is October fourth. That’s 10-4 good buddy.
RandomMonster
Just wait until their (checks the numbers again) one 18-wheeler and four or five other vehicles surround DC.
CROAKER
@RandomMonster: 16 wheeler
Baud
@Ksmiami:
I’m getting lots of good Baud! 20XX! slogan ideas from Juicers today.
Ken
You can’t measure the impact of this convoy by mere numbers of vehicles. You have to consider
how much the GoFundMe took inthe passion and patriotism of the participants.lowtechcyclist
@RandomMonster:
I hope they’re on the Beltway near the Mormon Temple right about now. We DC area denizens have got this ‘tying up the Beltway’ thing already covered, thankyewverymuch.
Brachiator
@Miss Bianca:
Holy Guacamole!
I remember when she looked like a cute hippie flower child.
The Wiki notes this tidbit about her.
I think I am remembering this correctly. At my college in the 70s, there was a smallish, little used TV room. When “Love Story” showed for the first time on network television, the place was packed.
I do remember the scandal when MacGraw left her husband, producer Robert Evans, for Steve McQueen. Hot couple.
Good to know she is still around.
Bill Arnold
I particularly loath the Traitor Truck which sullies all those American flags.
Bill Arnold
@Alison Rose:
That’s to take news cycles away from his loathsome (alleged) actions during the Texas Big Freeze:
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
That was after the two shot “The Getaway”, original edition, also by Peckinpah and featuring Sally Struthers like you’ve never seen her before or since.
CROAKER
Ah the traffic https://chart.maryland.gov/map/default.asp
Oh how I hate thee …loops of inners and outers ….LOOPS!
To the hells with thee Tysons Corner…Falls Church you might but never will you make Springfield this night…
Alexandria you say or Capitol Heights you might…never ever … you should have taken I-80 such a silly sight
Stop and go never look off to the right … clutch at the wheel with all your might for you lost souls on the Capital Beltway this night
Bill Arnold
@M. Bouffant:
You’re going to hurt their feelings. Be honest; you were amused. :-)
Spanky
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh! The Theme from “Carrie”.
dexwood
Mrs. dexwood spent five years as a curator in Santa Fe in the 90s. Ali Macgraw was often present at exhibit openings and fundraising events. She was approachable, friendly, and generous. I poured a glass of wine for her once.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@apocalipstick: I’m not even gonna type the name of that contemporary sincerely-bad song featuring two semi-aquatic mammals
Almost Retired
@Cathie from Canada: I agree that we should not get complacent, even though my instinct is to point and laugh. But the Canadian truckers had the advantage of novelty (a truck protest! In Canada!), a society less accustomed to disruptive protest, and some actual coronavirus mandates in place to oppose at the inception of the convoy-of-clowns.
The American rerun lacks all of those things (“we object to those mandates that were repealed before we got here?”), and would probably have to pivot to a grab bag of unrelated grievances to sustain any momentum.
American wing-nuts dropped the ball here- they should have hauled out the inflatable hot tubs in January and organized a simultaneous event in Washington. They didn’t Bonus points for the idiocy of driving giant trucks from Los Angeles to Washington at a time of near-record fuel prices.
The pale imitation American version of Truckapalooza is a total shit-storm, to use Balloon-Juice’s word-of-the-day for today.
Ocotillo
I guess I should be sure and carry a carton of eggs with me should I ever pass any of these sh*tbirds on the road.
Jinchi
I have a picture of these guys getting stuck in a legit traffic jam outside Atlanta and screaming at the other drivers to get out of their way so they can go shut down some other highway.
Ohio Mom
@CROAKER: Did you write that just for us? Quite clever.
persistentillusion
@Miss Bianca: It wasn’t a bad movie for the 70s. Which I guess sets the bar pretty low….
Jinchi
So these aren’t active truckers? They can just leave their vehicles sitting idle for weeks at a time?
Brachiator
@trollhattan:
Yep. I remember that. Sally Struthers was definitely NOT saving unfortunate children.
And the Baldwin/Basinger remake was a lesser film, but had its moments.
David Collier-Brown
Justin Trudeau’s father Pierre did something the same with the War Measures Act: applied it, and then seemingly just days after the exploding post-boxes stopped, lifted it and funded groups through the “Court Challenges Program” to sue the government for any overreaches it had committed. And yes, to this day we fund people to sue us (;-))
The Pale Scot
@Miss Bianca:
I see you and raise you Uneasy rider
I kinda always figured that Charlie would go fundie, but damn his shows in the 70’s were fun. Long Haired Country Boy was my creed for a time
CROAKER
@Ohio Mom: I strike at the Turnpike too with its tunnels four across which travel to Ohio’s Door
Tony Jay
You could buy a single bunch of bananas to stuff up their tailpipes and still have a few left over to drop in a bin where those yucky tubes of slugsmegma belong.
And yet I bet the Media give them all the attention their grifting yearns for.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@The Pale Scot: you ever hear how he re-wrote that song after he went nuts? if you haven’t, you don’t want to
The Pale Scot
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I saw the title, don’t wanna hear it.
Just like I’m not on freakbook, you can’t go back home again. My best friend, there’s a pic of him with a tie die and furry freak brother hair, we’d go to the squats in lower Manhattan to score Sid, he’s a trumper. We still talk, skirt uncomfortable subjects, but Damn!!!
Geminid
@Nettoyeur: “Dumbkirk,” on Lake Travis, Texas.
Comedian Brent Terhune’s 2 &1/2 minute video about that boat parade is hilarious (his boat the Magaritaville sank). Terhune’s “A Message from Q-Anon” is pretty good too.
The Pale Scot
@scav:
the march of progress posters.
There’s a great pic of Cro-Magnom man turning around holding up his hand saying “go back we fucked up” the next step is the Orange Fart Bag
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Brachiator:
from time to time, PBS will show “Goodbye Columbus” and she’s drop dead gorgeous in that late sixties-early seventies period (photo)
Geminid
@Cathie from Canada: Wikipedia tells me there are 2 million semi trucks in the United States. If 99 per cent of truckers just go about their business, that would still leave 2000 to make trouble.
At least, Ottawa gave American law enforcement a heads up; we’ll see what they make of it.
M. Bouffant
@Bill Arnold: I did almost spit out my bolus when I read it.
bbleh
@M. Bouffant: @Bill Arnold: @M. Bouffant: Lol I said the same thing about the writers, except my first thought was that it’s also a term for a big blob of mucus.
mrmoshpotato
Oh goody! Prepare for a beatdown from an entire police department, Trump trash!
Hoppie
@Miss Bianca: Definitely not a novelty song, though. 100% mainstream country rock….