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Thanks to all of you for posting these updates and links. It's appreciated :bighug:
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Foggy wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:51 pm :snippity:
I'd go out and practice with my team at 3 a.m., and we'd close that highway down. The bottom line is, these freakin' morons are BAD DRIVERS, which is totally UNAMERICAN. :mad:
Ummmmmmm....not to argue with you Mein Dick-Tater....but I think bad driving is something the US is world famous for....
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Zachary Petrizzo @ZTPetrizzo wrote: After sitting idle on I-395 for a few hours, seemingly stuck due to exit closures, The People's Convoy received a Metro PD escort. "I am trying to get my officers to help to keep your convoy together," a police officer said over the CB radio.
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Is it customary to give insane people truck driving licences, or do they get that way after driving many long distance trips on their own listening to Fox?
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These fucking people…want a revolution over BULLSHIT!! And they’re getting mean about it.

Oh, this whole thing is so bad for my blood pressure!

Sugar in their damn gas tanks, folks. A carpet of nails at the entrance to the Hagerstown camp. Quick, before they torch the city looking for the adrenochrome storage tanks.
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Frater I*I wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:03 pm
Foggy wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:51 pm :snippity:
I'd go out and practice with my team at 3 a.m., and we'd close that highway down. The bottom line is, these freakin' morons are BAD DRIVERS, which is totally UNAMERICAN. :mad:
Ummmmmmm....not to argue with you Mein Dick-Tater....but I think bad driving is something the US is world famous for....
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raison de arizona wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:55 pm What, Jiffy Lube wasn't available?
American Trucker 🇺🇸 @taylorbilt wrote: Lookie there, someone done went & got married this morning, here at the convoy..
Until I see the wedding certificate, I won't believe this was a real wedding. ;)
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Trucker hits car, subsequently threatens to run over driver. Moar at link.

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These truckers are morons, part #6732895.

Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza wrote: Late to an important doctor’s appointment because of a trucker convoy protest in NE DC. Driver said he would only let me by if I swore to him that my appointment wasn’t for an abortion.

I refused to do any such thing but his appropriately mortified wife eventually made him let me through.

Before letting me by, the driver told me to call my Congressional representatives and tell them to vote to roll back COVID restrictions. He was absolutely shocked to learn the DC residents he’s harassing don’t share the same rights of representation he does.

Furious this happened and it is extra insulting for the trucker’s convoy to be taking out their frustrations about their representatives on a population that isn’t even represented.
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Phoenix520 wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:42 pm These fucking people…want a revolution over BULLSHIT!! And they’re getting mean about it.

Oh, this whole thing is so bad for my blood pressure!

Sugar in their damn gas tanks, folks. A carpet of nails at the entrance to the Hagerstown camp. Quick, before they torch the city looking for the adrenochrome storage tanks.
Earlier I was getting pissed off. I didn't want them in DC.

But did the convoy do anything meaningful in DC? No. They were loud. They slowed traffic... again. They did exactly what they've been doing on the beltway.

But they got a real sense of how unwanted they are by locals antifa. There are almost no reports of the convoy getting signs of support by non-convoy members in DC. I think that surprised them.

The convoy did nothing of substance in DC. There was no message. There were only loud horns.

But tomorrow.... the convoy will be surprised by a large number of LE with orders to arrest anyone who gets out of their truck or doesn't follow their instructions.

Tonight the convoy will crow about their BIG WIN. But what win? They got past LE. That's it.

The group has been desperate to get into DC. They did. And tonight they'll realize that driving in DC was more anticlimactic than they thought possible.
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The lack of support means all of DC is the DEEP STATE SWAMP.
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The only reason LE helped them is because they were jacking up traffic and it was easier to just guide them through and get them out of the way, as opposed to continuing to let them stop and start and punch and hit cars. I'm sure they'll spin it into "LE loves us!" but the only people they are fooling are themselves. And that is only because they are incredible fools.
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I wish there was a way to report incidents to the convoy leaders. I can't find any contact info for the group. I guess I could post on a convoy person's social media account, but the the woman that was confronted by the truck driver would be doxed, as would I.
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LM K wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:01 pm I wish there was a way to report incidents to the convoy leaders. I can't find any contact info for the group. I guess I could post on a convoy person's social media account, but the the woman that was confronted by the truck driver would be doxed, as would I.
The protest leaders would see nothing wrong with what the truck driver did and said.

That is the whole point of their "protest".
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:yeahthat:
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Phoenix520 wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:42 pm These fucking people…want a revolution over BULLSHIT!! And they’re getting mean about it.

Oh, this whole thing is so bad for my blood pressure!

Sugar in their damn gas tanks, folks. A carpet of nails at the entrance to the Hagerstown camp. Quick, before they torch the city looking for the adrenochrome storage tanks.
I can assure you the adrenochrome is safe, under the protection of His Illuminated Majesty's finest Assault Dachshunds. They a9in't got a chance of getting our fresh harvested hormones.

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Kyle Sefcik demonstrating that he has no concept of the word insane. Their lack of self awareness is just... astonishing.
Kyle Sefcik @KyleSefcikForMD wrote: DC authorities are still blocking the convoy from entering! Some of the cars that are part of the convoy made it through only to be pulled over because of their flags flying from their vehicle. This is insane.
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D.C. Municipal Regulations
Section 18-2213. OBSTRUCTION OF DRIVER’S VIEW OR DRIVING MECHANISM: IMPROPER RIDING

2213.1 No person shall drive a vehicle with any object in any position that obstructs a significant portion of the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle, or interferes with the driver’s control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.



2213.2 No person shall drive a vehicle with more than three (3) persons in the front seat when such occupancy obstructs the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle or interferes with the driver's control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.



2213.3 No passenger in a vehicle or streetcar shall ride in such position as to interfere with the driver's or operator’s view ahead or to the sides, or to interfere with control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle or streetcar.



2213.4 An operator shall, when operating a vehicle, give full time and attention to the operation of the vehicle.



2213.5 No driver of any motor vehicle in motion shall permit any person or persons to stand on the running board and no person shall ride on the running board when the vehicle is in motion.



2213.6 No person shall ride on any portion of any vehicle which is not designed or intended for the use of passengers, and no driver of a vehicle shall permit such riding. This provision shall not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary discharge of his or her duty or to persons riding within truck bodies in space intended for materials.
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BREAKING NEWS

5 semis got into DC! How, you ask? The 5 sat in neighborhoods all day and then each went in a different direction as they drove into DC!

Take that trickery, DC Police!

BIGGGGG WIN!!

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Ok. Whew. I feel better now, Gregg. NOTHING gets by them schnozzes!

Thanks!
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Convoy is likely taking Thur off because of rain.

This Oregonian isn't impressed. Do these snowflakes think they'll melt in the rain?

All it takes to defeat the convoy... water.
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raison de arizona wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:55 pm What, Jiffy Lube wasn't available?
American Trucker 🇺🇸 @taylorbilt wrote: Lookie there, someone done went & got married this morning, here at the convoy..
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Rain? Well, that and its illegal to have a parade on St. Patrick's day, don't you know.
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Looking down on the Capital Beltway this morning, I see no freedom at all, just cars and trucks without flags racing along at 70 mph. Very sad. :biggrin:
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