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You are here: Home / Open Threads / “Popular Populism” Open Thread: The ‘People’s Convoy’ Is Getting Uglier

“Popular Populism” Open Thread: The ‘People’s Convoy’ Is Getting Uglier

by Anne Laurie|  March 22, 20229:01 pm| 93 Comments

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New POW flag out today. pic.twitter.com/tanaLLrva1

— Ron Filipkowski ???? (@RonFilipkowski) March 20, 2022

From local DC news station WUSA9, “What’s in a Convoy: How a lack of coherent leadership is causing fractures and factions in the large trucker protest”:

Over the last 27 days, much has been said about the convoy of truckers and supporters who arrived at Hagerstown Speedway after traveling across the country to protest COVID-19 mandates. A lot of that dialogue has come from truckers themselves as they live stream on YouTube from their morning meetings and their dashboards.

Now, it seems, the message is less unified than ever, and the ideas on what’s next for these thus-far peaceful protesters are becoming more extreme.

Over the weekend, vocal leader and People’s Convoy organizer Brian Brase told the participants that he was taking a leave of absence to Ohio to spend time with family and bring his truck back to continue the convoy’s protests. He did not specify how many days he would be absent.

The narrative has continued its back and forth on whether the convoy is making an impact, as their influence seemingly peaked when they met with U.S. senators Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson earlier this month. In recent days, videos showing cyclists and pedestrians blocking the convoy’s attempts to traverse D.C. freely have shown the resolve of D.C. residents, especially those used to heavy traffic…

The rhetoric from Ron Coleman, another vocal leader of the convoy, took a sharp turn Monday. Coleman claimed that Metro Police were conducting illegal activities by blocking highway exit ramps to filter the protest and prevent the convoy from moving into downtown as a large group. He also claimed some convoy members intend to make citizens’ arrests on officers and highway drivers causing dangerous road conditions.

In a video posted Tuesday afternoon responding to his own original comments, Coleman clarified that the idea of citizens arrests was posed as a question regarding the constitutionality of the road blockades by MPD, and is not a goal of the convoy…

Early Tuesday morning, emotions at the speedway came to a head when a live stream by First Responders Media showed a convoy participant on the microphone making false claims and a number of spectators approaching him and threatening him with violence over “attempts to misinform and divide us.”

Confusion mounted as a Thursday deadline to leave Hagerstown Speedway loomed, increasing the need to find a new venue to house the truckers’ large space requirements. However, by Monday night, leaders spoke to the convoy in Hagerstown and said they negotiated with speedway officials to stay another week…

I haven’t been able to find any solid information on how many participants remain at the Hagerstown campground, although certainly Bold Leader Brase is not the only defector. Someone on Twitter compared the remaining protestors to ‘the tar at the bottom of a week-old cup of coffee, increasingly concentrated and bitter’…

According to co-organizer and trucker Ron Coleman, The People’s Convoy has a new goal: conduct “citizen’s arrests” of Metro PD officers and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. “We have to put a summons out to the Metro PD and Mayor Bowser…we would do citizen’s arrests [of] them.”

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 22, 2022

Over the past week, there has been a growing fascination with the prospects of arresting DC residents. Some truckers have also suggested that they could arrest a Beltway driver if they successfully pin in the driver, take them out of their car, and then conduct an arrest.

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 22, 2022

The convoy was denied a permit to protest on the National Mall over the weekend, because there are rules, which is probably a good thing for all parties involved, given what some of the more overamped foot soldiers had in mind:

From the convoy’s morning meeting, sent by a friend.

“What’s gonna happen up here in DC: Black Lives Matter Street, we’re gonna take it back. All that paint’s coming off that street. … It’s gonna get tarred and feathered. And then we’re gonna tar and feather all our delegates.” pic.twitter.com/srcJPLgitv

— GodlessCommie Mouse (she/her) (@LiteraryMouse) March 18, 2022

Best (worst) they managed, after all the big talk:

Metropolitan police are investigating an incident in which a driver participating in the so-called “People Convoy” allegedly struck a pedestrian in D.C. as the right-wing convoy drove through the city on Sunday afternoon. https://t.co/xLrV6nbPya

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 21, 2022

JUST IN: A bicyclist is brilliantly trolling the trucker convoy in downtown DC right now, per @shutdown_dc. pic.twitter.com/zK375npeft

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 19, 2022

One potential final disruption — just don’t use the C(ovid)-word:

Today out in Hagerstown, more and more truckers with The People’s Convoy have complained about becoming sick with a bad cough. One streamer, “OTR Survival,” ended up going to an urgent care, and described the illness as getting “hit by a bus.”

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 22, 2022

states responsible for issuing them should yank all of these people CDLs and their insurance providers should cancel their coverage. https://t.co/oDD5RYooLJ

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) March 19, 2022

More DC residents making free use of the first amendment today to the truckers. pic.twitter.com/XgnsyaqS8Z

— Ron Filipkowski ???? (@RonFilipkowski) March 18, 2022

The trucker convoy in Washington is the platonic ideal of being rightwing in that they’re complaining about things that don’t actually exist, not advocating for anything in particular, and are growing increasingly spiteful that people won’t thank them for being annoying

— Brendel (@Brendelbored) March 18, 2022

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  1. 1.

    Mike in NC

    March 22, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    These patriotic yeoman truckers must be pretty well off to spend unlimited time on this dumb stunt.

  2. 2.

    oatler

    March 22, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    “Gosh, look at the time! By the way, when does life begin?”
    – some confederate shithead today; the CNN ID chyron hides their names.

  3. 3.

    Ella in New Mexico

    March 22, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    Oh FFS just take off your masks and go the hell home you nutcases.

    Apparently you’re independently wealthy or unemployable as a trucker either way just get a life

  4. 4.

    Ken

    March 22, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    organizer Brian Brase told the participants that he was taking a leave of absence

    Oh? Is this his job? Is he being paid for doing this, and if so by whom?

    As for the cough, no reason to think it’s COVID. Could be any of dozens of other respiratory diseases. From what little I’ve read of their living quarters and gathering places, Legionnaires’ isn’t out of the question.

  5. 5.

    lollipopguild

    March 22, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    “We are here to protest Reality and demand that our fantasy replace your Reality.” I love how they love love love the cops until the cops tell them “no” and then it’s time to Gomer Pyle with “citizen arrests”.

  6. 6.

    dexwood

    March 22, 2022 at 9:14 pm

    What a fucking insult to POWs that flag is. J6 prisoners of war. Yeah, right. Delusional, traitorous scum. Good luck with your citizens arrests assholes.

  7. 7.

    SpaceUnit

    March 22, 2022 at 9:15 pm

    This is quite possibly The Stupidest Thing Ever, and yet there’s a part of me that really wants to see them attempt to put Metro DC police officers under citizens arrest.

    Please, please, please . . .

  8. 8.

    Brachiator

    March 22, 2022 at 9:15 pm

    I had forgot about the convoy, and shall soon forget about them again.

  9. 9.

    Cameron

    March 22, 2022 at 9:17 pm

    O noble truckers, long-suffering from the dawdle of impudent cyclists and the malevolence of vile bird-flippers! Where is thy Donald to bigly part the Potomac?

  10. 10.

    Martin

    March 22, 2022 at 9:17 pm

    Have to commend the residents of DC for not having slashed their tires already.

    And how does a trucker wind up pissing their pants? They invented the solution to that!

  11. 11.

    Kent

    March 22, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    @Ella in New Mexico: Dumbfucks probably can’t afford to get home now that Diesel is over $5 a gallon in the DC area.

  12. 12.

    Cameron

    March 22, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    @dexwood: Remember – one of these same chuckleheads said that they were showing true bravery.   Unlike those silly Ukrainians who just sat around suffering and dying and shit, these Merkin patriots were standing up for FREEDUMB!  And, yes, he actually made that comparison.

  13. 13.

    TonyG

    March 22, 2022 at 9:21 pm

    @SpaceUnit: I would love to see one of these dweebs attempt a “citizen’s arrest” of a DC cop.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    March 22, 2022 at 9:22 pm

    This seems like so much more work than getting the shot.

  15. 15.

    SpaceUnit

    March 22, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    @TonyG:

    Please Lord let them live-stream it too.

  16. 16.

    James E Powell

    March 22, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    @Baud:

    If only it were really about the shot. Or the masks.

    Or anything but white supremacist rage.

  17. 17.

    RSA

    March 22, 2022 at 9:25 pm

    [T]ruckers haven’t been able to “go to the bathroom” while circling the Beltway, which has left “people hav[ing] actually pissed their pants!”

    “Son, lemme tell you about way back in 2022 when we drove in circles on the highway until we pissed our pants.”
    “Yeah, Dad, I remember the story.”
    “You were just a kid then, too young to understand that we were saving the country!”
    “Uh-huh.”
    “We were heroes!”
    “Yeah–have you taken your evening meds yet?”

  18. 18.

    FelonyGovt

    March 22, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    I saw a “Freedom Convoy” sign hanging over a freeway in Southern California over the weekend. What nonsense. And with the war in Ukraine going on, they really need to read the room and go the fuck home.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    March 22, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    Coleman claims convoy lawyers are looking into it.

    I would love to see their memo.

  20. 20.

    Phylllis

    March 22, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    I’m in DC at the Omni Shoreham & they’ve come down Connecticut Ave a couple of times constantly blowing their truck horns. The DC folks are mostly impervious to them.

  21. 21.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2022 at 9:29 pm

    I think Stand Your Ground laws are a collective abomination. But a no-longer-small part of my psyche wishes that DC had SYG laws, and that DC residents about to be citizen-arrested would avail themselves of SYG’s protections.

    And that disgusting J6 “POW” flag and flagpole should be used to administer a little “attitude adjustment” to those treasonous bastards.

  22. 22.

    Barbara

    March 22, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    You call it “citizens’ arrest,” I call it kidnapping. Wanna guess which one the US Attorneys Office will go with?

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    March 22, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    @Baud:

    This seems like so much more work than getting the shot.

    You libtards don’t appreciate the sacrifices they’re making to protect your FREEDOM!!!!!!!

  24. 24.

    Papa Boyle

    March 22, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    POW?  So they finally admit the January 6th assault on Congress was an act of war.  Baby steps, I guess.

  25. 25.

    Baud

    March 22, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    @SFAW: 

    Is it any more disgusting than the apocryphal hippy Dem who spit on that Vietnam vet in 1972?

  26. 26.

    Baud

    March 22, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    @SFAW:

    I absolutely do not appreciate it.  True dat.

  27. 27.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 22, 2022 at 9:32 pm

    @Ella in New Mexico:

    Oh FFS just take off your masks hoods

  28. 28.

    Baud

    March 22, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    @James E Powell:

    Maybe they’ll settle on protesting Loving v. Virginia.

  29. 29.

    BottyGuy

    March 22, 2022 at 9:38 pm

    How can these “truckers” take a month plus off of work for this bullshit? These aren’t truckers, they are some retired folks that own a truck.

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 22, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    New POW flag out today.

    HOLY SHIT!  That’s some deplorable, despicable shit right there!  Makes me wish John McCain was still alive to get in that shitstain’s face.

  31. 31.

    delk

    March 22, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    Anybody else hear citizens arrest in Barney Fife’s voice?

  32. 32.

    West of the Rockies

    March 22, 2022 at 9:40 pm

    “Your Majesty, the truckers are revolting”

    “They certainly are!”

  33. 33.

    debbie

    March 22, 2022 at 9:41 pm

    @Barbara:

    They should be arrested, chained to school desks, and forced to listen to lectures about what is and isn’t in the Constitution and what their actual rights and powers are.

  34. 34.

    Captain C

    March 22, 2022 at 9:43 pm

    @SFAW: No.  No, we don’t.

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 22, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    @debbie:

    They should be arrested, chained to school desks, and forced to listen to lectures about what is and isn’t in the Constitution and what their actual rights and powers are.

    They should be made to read the US Constitution first.  Then actual adults can lecture them about it.

  36. 36.

    J R in WV

    March 22, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    From the original post:

    “What’s gonna happen up here in DC: Black Lives Matter Street, we’re gonna take it back. All that paint’s coming off that street. … It’s gonna get tarred and feathered. And then we’re gonna tar and feather all our delegates.”

    These fools display their total ignorance of our government. There are no delegates in DC, there are Representatives and Senators. I guess there are a few delegates, nonvoting members of Congress from territories?

    You would think people willing to protest would know something about the government they are protesting. I think all of these people are Russian stooges set to disrupt our society while WW III is simmering over in Europe, and should be in internment camps under guard where they can’t do any more harm until hostilities are over and done with. Stooges of Putinski.

  37. 37.

    cliosfanboy

    March 22, 2022 at 9:47 pm

    @delk: I do now!   Yes, PLEASE try to “citizens arrest” a DC cop. Pretty please!

  38. 38.

    Ken

    March 22, 2022 at 9:47 pm

    @SpaceUnit: Please Lord let them live-stream it too.

    For one horrible moment I thought you meant the pants-pissing.

  39. 39.

    Betty

    March 22, 2022 at 9:51 pm

    @Martin: I have heard speculation that these folks are not actually truckers. Even Amazon drivers know how to take care of business on the road.

  40. 40.

    SpaceUnit

    March 22, 2022 at 9:52 pm

    No, but honestly that wouldn’t surprise me much.

    “Look what the libs made me do!”

  41. 41.

    Suzanne

    March 22, 2022 at 9:52 pm

    Seems that the British royal family visit to Belize is not going well and they are being called out for, oh, you know, centuries if colonialism and slavery.

    And not to body shame, but Mrs. Prince William looks terrifyingly skinny, much thinner than she used to. I wonder if she’s healthy.

  42. 42.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 22, 2022 at 9:52 pm

    @James E Powell:

    white supremacist rage.

    These assholes aren’t even that.  They’re white supremacist whining.

  43. 43.

    Martin

    March 22, 2022 at 9:54 pm

    Gov Newsom just signed a bill that bans out-of-pocket costs for abortions. No deductibles or copays. By law insurers in CA must cover abortions. MediCal covers them as well using state dollars where federal dollars can’t be used.

  44. 44.

    Spanky

    March 22, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    @delk: Barney actually had the authority to make an arrest. That was Gomer.

  45. 45.

    Raven

    March 22, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    Blackburn is one nasty fucking bitch.

  46. 46.

    M31

    March 22, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    @Ken: lol bringing extra meaning to “live streaming”

  47. 47.

    Spanky

    March 22, 2022 at 10:01 pm

    Yeah, I’m kinda curious how many of these “truckers” actually have a cdl. Would be a shame if they were pulled over without one.

  48. 48.

    Roger Moore

    March 22, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    @Baud:

    Maybe they’ll settle on protesting Loving v. Virginia.

    Loving is just a step on the path to getting Brown v. Board of Education repealed.

  49. 49.

    dexwood

    March 22, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    @Cameron: Well they have the DUMB part right, it’s bottomless.

  50. 50.

    Martin

    March 22, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    @Suzanne: I’d qualify that by saying that they aren’t British Royal Family. They renounced that. As such I wouldn’t call them out so much as ask them how to reach the folks still in the family.

  51. 51.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 22, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    @Spanky: but when Barney told Andy what was going on, he impersonated Gomer, in an unkind way, I don’t mind saying.

  52. 52.

    StringOnAStick

    March 22, 2022 at 10:05 pm

    Sounds like it’s concentrating down to sovereign citizen BS; this will go ooh so well for them when they try that citizens arrest warrant on a DC cop that is completely out of fucks to give after 1/6.

  53. 53.

    Ken

    March 22, 2022 at 10:06 pm

    @Roger Moore: And then, the 19th and 13th Amendments.

  54. 54.

    ian

    March 22, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    @J R in WV:

     should be in internment camps under guard where they can’t do any more harm until hostilities are over and done with

    Lets go with no on that part.

  55. 55.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    @delk: Yes!

  56. 56.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2022 at 10:10 pm

    @Martin: She’s talking about Kate and William, not Meghan and Harry. They most certainly are Royal Family.

  57. 57.

    Ken

    March 22, 2022 at 10:10 pm

    By the way, anyone know if Fox is still covering the truckers, or has it become too pathetic even for them?

  58. 58.

    skerry

    March 22, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    @Martin: I think you’re confusing the royal brothers. Prince William and his wife Catherine are in Belize. They are considered senior royals, as William is 2nd in line to the throne. His brother, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan Markle, have renounced their senior royal status and are living in California.

  59. 59.

    zhena gogolia

    March 22, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    @Raven: Yes, she is. Are you talking about her questioning?

  60. 60.

    Jay

    March 22, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    @Ken:

    Oh? Is this his job? Is he being paid for doing this, and if so by whom?

    Dude set up a 501 or 503, to be able to take in donations, with out taxes, dark money, online,

    However a few days ago there was a report that he was walking around with a grocery bag, collecting cash from the Flu Trux Klan participants.

    I am certain, that he is abiding by the IRS’s requirements to properly document all donations and expenses,//

  61. 61.

    Roger Moore

    March 22, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    @Ken:

    I think they’d be happy to get everything from the 13th Amendment on.  But don’t be surprised when the first one they target is the 16th; the people funding the movement will have their way.

  62. 62.

    Wapiti

    March 22, 2022 at 10:16 pm

    The “old” POW flag appeared in the early 1980s, when I was going into the Army. It seemed driven by conspiracy theory and popular action films where Stallone or Norris would save the abandoned POWs who were left to rot in Viet Nam. Total bullshit, then and now. I gag every time I see that bullshit flag flying at a federal building.

  63. 63.

    lollipopguild

    March 22, 2022 at 10:19 pm

    @Roger Moore: I think that what some of them really want is to bring back is legal segregation or some how figure a way to give private business owners a legal right to descriminate  against all of the people that they do not like.

  64. 64.

    Roger Moore

    March 22, 2022 at 10:24 pm

    @Wapiti:

    The POW flag started out as an attempt to create a Dolchstoßlegende, claiming that the US could have won Vietnam if those (Democratic) politicians hadn’t kept the military from doing what was necessary to win.  Imaginary POWs left to rot in Vietnam were the perfect way of keeping our loss in Vietnam fresh in the public memory.

  65. 65.

    Karen

    March 22, 2022 at 10:26 pm

    They were punching the windows of cars whose drivers gave them the finger. The spokesman for this “convoy” was saying they’ll clog up 911 because the cops did nothing to the drivers that flipped them off. I still haven’t figured out what this protest was about since COVID requirements are stopping.

  66. 66.

    Roger Moore

    March 22, 2022 at 10:26 pm

    @lollipopguild:

    I don’t think legal segregation will be enough.  It was always a poor substitute for actual slavery, and if they ever manage to get it back they’ll start scheming to reinstate formal slavery again.

  67. 67.

    different-church-lady

    March 22, 2022 at 10:27 pm

    @Ken:

    Could be any of dozens of other respiratory diseases.

    I’m hoping for “All of them, Katie.”

  68. 68.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 22, 2022 at 10:36 pm

    New Orleans can’t catch a break, here’s a tornado for ya.

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    March 22, 2022 at 10:36 pm

    Dunno if there are any billboards visible from the Beltway.

    If so, an opportunity to figuratively fry the grits of these Squawl Reveres.

    (Ping-ponging back and forth as to whether Crawl Reveres is more on point.)

  70. 70.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2022 at 10:39 pm

    Eventually these stupid motherfuckers are going to exhaust the patience of the public and, at long last, find out what fucking around gets you.

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    March 22, 2022 at 10:41 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est

    Or run short of amphetamines.

    //

  72. 72.

    Mike in NC

    March 22, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    @Wapiti: As a 30 year Navy vet I also hate that flag.

  73. 73.

    West of the Rockies

    March 22, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    @Karen:

    Isn’t “the finger” protected free speech?  I’m sure many here recall that notorious Mad magazine cover from almost 50 years ago (the first issue I ever bought).

  74. 74.

    hueyplong

    March 22, 2022 at 10:47 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: Getting a little impatient for “eventually” to turn into “now” and see some video of that transition.

  75. 75.

    Suzanne

    March 22, 2022 at 10:48 pm

    @skerry: Barbados removed the Queen as Head of State. Wouldn’t be surprised if much of the rest of the Commonwealth does the same.

    Also, nobody likes Prince Charles and William also kind of sucks. And Catherine just has this uneducated look to her. I don’t predict the monarchy lasting much longer than Elizabeth.

  76. 76.

    Daoud bin Daoud

    March 22, 2022 at 10:50 pm

    @lollipopguild: do you mean Barney Fife? He was the hapless deputy on Mayberry RFD.

  77. 77.

    Daoud bin Daoud

    March 22, 2022 at 10:54 pm

    @Baud: One suspects Convoy lawyers to have the same high pedigree of jailhouse lawyers.

  78. 78.

    bbleh

    March 22, 2022 at 11:02 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: They should be made to read…

    Objection, assumes facts not in evidence.

  79. 79.

    bbleh

    March 22, 2022 at 11:08 pm

    Strong Support For Truckers in Hagerstown
    Diner patrons cheer protestors, express disdain for D.C. residents

    Special to The New York Times

  80. 80.

    Cameron

    March 22, 2022 at 11:20 pm

    @Daoud bin Daoud: I’ve been told that at least a few of them are graduates of the prestigious Four Seasons Total Landscaping School of Law.

  81. 81.

    lollipopguild

    March 22, 2022 at 11:26 pm

    @Daoud bin Daoud: Gomer Pyle actually started the “citizens arrest” chant. People remember Barney making fun of Gomer.

  82. 82.

    prostratedragon

    March 22, 2022 at 11:29 pm

    @delk: It was Gomer. And yes I do.

    ETA link.​ And nice to see so many Mayberry initiates here.

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    March 23, 2022 at 12:15 am

    @prostratedragon

    Obligatory?

    :)

  84. 84.

    Sloane Ranger

    March 23, 2022 at 4:50 am

    @Suzanne: Probably a dead thread but felt I had to respond. I agree that most of the Caribbean realms will become republics over the next few years but you are incorrect about the rest  Yes, Charles is not as popular as some other members of the family, but slightly over 50% of the British public still approve of him and William is the 2nd most popular royal after the Queen, with over 70% approval ratings  As for the long term future of the British monarchy, the last opinion polls I have seen showed nearly 80% of people wanting it to continue. Ironically, the defection of Harry and Megan has actually hardened support for the monarchy here

  85. 85.

    Zinsky

    March 23, 2022 at 5:56 am

    These losers don’t really have any meaningful “demands.  Liberty and freedom are just words the right-wing uses to mask the fact they cannot even articulate their grievances in an adult manner.  Give them all a very LARGE parking ticket and revoke their CDLs.  If they want to be full-time performance artists and poseurs, instead of moving our nation’s freight – let ’em!

  86. 86.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 23, 2022 at 6:36 am

    It will be… interesting to see what happens if they take some random driver hostage in a “citizen’s arrest”. You know they wouldn’t really try it on a cop. But if it’s just some person who gets penned in by trucks, they may think that the police will just let them do it.

  87. 87.

    Brantl

    March 23, 2022 at 6:55 am

    @delk: Goober Pyle’s voice.

  88. 88.

    ez

    March 23, 2022 at 8:43 am

    @delk: it was Gomer saying that as he reacted to Barney commiting a driving violation

  89. 89.

    fancycwabs

    March 23, 2022 at 9:09 am

    So as best I can tell the “truckers convoy” is a continuation of the January 6 terrorist attacks.

    And should be treated as such.

  90. 90.

    MisterDancer

    March 23, 2022 at 10:03 am

    @Sloane Ranger: the defection of Harry and Megan has actually hardened support for the monarchy here

    Replying to a dead thread’s deadness — yeah, there’s a wealth of material on Twitter about how that came about. And it’s so frustrating how deeply it penetrates — I dead-stopped reading a fanfic (yes, really) because they utterly broke my immersion with an ugly joke comparing Ivanka to Megan, and then doubling down in the comments when people rightly complained.

    It’s ugly.

  91. 91.

    Gravenstone

    March 23, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    Some truckers have also suggested that they could arrest a Beltway driver if they successfully pin in the driver, take them out of their car, and then conduct an arrest.

    So, openly conspiring to kidnap people. Glad we have that on the written record…

  92. 92.

    Gravenstone

    March 23, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: They should be made to read the US Constitution first.

    Out loud. That way they can’t claim to have read it when they just glaze over the words on the written page.

  93. 93.

    cpinva

    March 23, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:  you assume a fact not in evidence, that they can read.

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