https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/07/trucker-convoy-detours-into-conspiracy-irrelevancy/

"They’re on a road to nowhere."

"Now, they’re in the Washington area, camping out in Hagerstown, Md.,
and they’ve decided the best way to get themselves noticed would be to … make traffic on the Beltway?

Threatening to increase traffic on the Beltway is like threatening to
add water to the Potomac River: How would anyone notice the difference?
The 64-mile loop around the capital is in a state of perpetual slowdown.

The convoy organizers were further hoping that their circling of the already-choked thoroughfare would force members of Congress to “come to
the table” and negotiate — an unlikely prospect given that lawmakers haven’t been in town and would have little reason to travel on the
Beltway even if here."

"As Monday dawned at the Hagerstown Speedway, QAnon follower Micki
Larson-Olson addressed the convoy drivers from the organizers’ stage, according to videos shared on social media. Wearing a head-to-toe U.S.
flag suit, she identified herself as a “Q Patriot” and suggested she was facing trial for her role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

“I am now a proud General Flynn digital soldier,” she said, referring to Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s convicted (and pardoned)
national security adviser. “I am also a proud Protzmanian.” For the uninitiated, that’s a QAnon sect that believes the late John F. Kennedy
Jr. will return to reinstall Trump as president.

Larson-Olson said more, but the sound system cut out as she outlined a conspiracy theory about 9/11.

Convoy organizer Brian Brase, speaking from the same stage in Hagerstown
as the “Q Patriot,” drew a cheer for announcing that Republican Sens.
Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Ted Cruz (Tex.) would be meeting with them. Brase rallied those who would make the 200-mile round trip voyage of
irrelevancy: “We’re taking two lanes up to let the world know that we’re here and we mean business.”

Two lanes may sound like a lot — unless you know the Beltway has six in
each direction at points. A few hundred vehicles clogging the interstate
may sound like a lot — unless you know a quarter of a million vehicles a
day pass any given point on the Beltway."

Reports from the convoy suggest it is less a protest against fading
covid mandates than a rolling carnival for the Trump right, with talk of ivermectin, antifa, President Biden as a pedophile, evil Anthony Fauci —
and, of course, the “stolen” 2020 election."

The proud Protzmanian dressed up for the clown show:

https://twitter.com/lynchrome/status/1500844074198315009/photo/1

TB

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