“We are going to eat, going to celebrate and enjoy the company of people who think we are heroes.”
That's all this #TruckersConvoy2022 has been about–self-congratulatory yahoos who didn't have a plan other than to satisfy their craving for attention.https://t.co/zbPKnBjlzu
— Edge ?? (@TheLesson55) March 5, 2022
Local paper (Washington Post) — “‘Freedom Convoy’ spinoff rallies in Md. with about 1,000 vehicles and unclear plans”:
… The truckers and their supporters are now the closest they have been to the nation’s capital, where they want to hold lawmakers “accountable” for the government’s pandemic responses. Their plans for coming days remained opaque on Saturday afternoon, but organizers said they intended to stay in Hagerstown — about an hour’s drive from the Beltway — for the rest of the day and hold a rally in the evening.
The convoy’s motives are muddy, too. People gathered in the western Maryland city described frustrations with workplace vaccine mandates and other measures meant to limit the spread of the coronavirus — even though those rules have now been lifted in many places. The speedway crowds chanted anti-President Biden slogans and displayed support for former president Donald Trump. Extremism analysts point to a broader set of right-wing causes that have motivated participants.
Trucks and cars filed into the speedway complex Saturday morning, passing under an American flag waving from a cable between two 30-foot booms attached to semi tow-trucks. Within, truckers and their supporters were waking up after the Friday night rally. Most in the crowd were White men, but there were also some young children and dogs.
Rows and rows of tanker trucks, flatbeds, box trailers, RVs and pickup trucks lined the parking lot, bearing license plates from Utah, Maine, Arkansas, Texas and other states. A chorus of honking horns blared from the area where the convoy vehicles were stacked in lines, awaiting their next move…
Organizers of the self-titled “People’s Convoy” previously said they would aim for the Beltway area on Saturday and wouldn’t go into D.C. itself. But Brase announced Friday morning to supporters in Lore City, Ohio, that the schedule had changed. They were staying in Hagerstown on Saturday before probably targeting another location “only two miles from the Beltway,” he said, without offering specifics.
Asked about the group’s plans, People’s Convoy organizer Mike Landis said: “We’re going to keep annoying D.C. … Just make them wonder a little bit.” He continued: “Look, we’re truck drivers; we’re very spontaneous.”…
Area traffic advisory:
Update here from the American trucker convoy Telegram channels:
The group's nervous, and some of them think they're going to be framed by Nancy Pelosi (?) if they head into D.C.
They may block the Beltway Sunday/Monday, but expect them to hang around Hagerstown, Md. for a bit. pic.twitter.com/iPUeVVOziA
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 5, 2022
Is the People's Convoy really going to drive all the way from California to D.C. just to bail once they got to Hagerstown, Maryland?
Maybe.
It seems like they didn't think through the idea they might get arrested for blocking a highway or driving semis to The White House.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 5, 2022
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