The U.S. "Trucker Convoy"

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Feb 12, 2022.

  1. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Kinda like you with this thread.
     
    #121     May 4, 2022
  2. c'mon GWB... you threw him a softball...
     
    #122     May 4, 2022
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Fair enough. But at his level -- anything queued up easily is helpful for him. He's basically playing at the tee-ball level.
     
    Last edited: May 4, 2022
    #123     May 4, 2022
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    The U.S. "Trucker Convoy" -- a continual sad joke. Now with a bonus eviction.

    Trucker Protest Gets Booted From DC-Area Staging Ground
    The Hagerstown Speedway has had enough of the People’s Convoy.
    https://www.motherjones.com/politic...test-gets-booted-from-dc-area-staging-ground/

    The trucker protest in the Washington, DC-area has finally come to an ignominious end after the manager of the Hagerstown Speedway, the group’s staging ground 90 miles outside of the nation’s capital, ousted the convoy . The rag-tag band of remaining truckers and their car-bound supporters who composed the People’s Convoy had returned this week for another round of protests in DC over, well, who really knows. But the Hagerstown, Maryland Herald-Mail reported Saturday:

    Speedway General Manager Lisa Plessinger said she asked the group to leave because of infighting over what to do next among the 100 or so people remaining after the organization officially shut down Friday afternoon.


    “I’m not a babysitter. I didn’t sign up for that,” Plessinger said, “so when they got to acting like a bunch of kids it was time for them to go home.


    “Just like with any unruly child, you only put up with so many temper tantrums before you say, ‘Enough. Put them in time out.’ So that’s what I did.”


    The remnants of the group vacated the facility peacefully by 10 p.m. Friday, she said.


    The convoy, which tortured DC-area drivers trying to take their kids to soccer practice and what not by driving in circles around the Beltway for three weeks this spring, had raised nearly $2 million through a nonprofit foundation started by a convicted fraudster for its kitchen-sink protest against vaccine mandates, Black Lives Matter, government authority, and other conspiracy-theory based grievances. It attracted support from a few luminaries, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). But the convoy had been slowly disintegrating since returning to California after its first Beltway tour. Disputes were flaring among organizers, and the Washingtonian‘s Andrew Beaujon, who visited the truckers at the speedway Friday morning, reported that an actual fight had broken out the night before. The money to fund the protests also seems to have run out; according to the Washington Post, the foundation’s president recently said that it would stop working for the convoy protesters. The speedway manager, who’d allowed the truckers to use the grounds for nearly a month in March, finally had enough of the unfocused protesters.

    “Initially they were just to be there one day, one night, and it just turned into…like when your mother-in-law comes to visit and decides to stay,” she told the Herald-Mail.
     
    #124     May 22, 2022
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #125     May 23, 2022
  6. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    #126     May 23, 2022
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Look who has Covid... something they don't believe exists.

     
    #127     Jun 3, 2022
  8. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Its probably a cold. Plenty of that going around. But anyone who says COVID doesn't exist is just as much of a fool as people like you who say its such a disaster.
     
    #128     Jun 3, 2022
  9. Overnight

    Overnight

    Wow, I totally forgot about that group. What was their ultimate goal again? Protesting vaccine mandates because their job is driving around for weeks in isolation in their big rigs camper cabs?

    It made no sense in Canada, and it made no sense in the US. Buhbye.
     
    #129     Jun 3, 2022
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

     
    #130     Jun 3, 2022