I don't know what he expected. He thinks DC is a different world.
I don't think it's all that different. I'd expect the same response
anywhere I had announced my intention to have my childish temper tantrum
i the middle of a public highway.

"'Birds flying everywhere!' Convoy trucker bitterly complains about
Beltway drivers giving him the middle finger"

https://www.rawstory.com/peoples-convoy-2656913983/

This is a more detailed version of recent events. I love it. It's
a grand little circus that's taking itself way too seriously.

"The truckers convoy camped outside of DC is running on fumes"

"Before the convoy made its initial foray around the Capitol Beltway,
organizer Brian Brase told an angry crowd gathered at Hagerstown, Md. on
March 5 that the convoy would “sit there in their backyard” and “wait until they legitimately drop the state of emergency, they drop the
vaccine mandates, and they begin the process of bipartisan
investigation… to find out the transparent version of the pandemic’s origins, and ask who is responsible for screwing this up so badly.”

By Tuesday, when a delegation from the convoy met with Sens. Ted Cruz
(R-Texas) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Brase indicated he was heartened
just to get a meeting with elected representatives and some media coverage.

“I got what I was hoping for,” he said. “I got two respectful members of the Senate here, and I got all the media in this room to come and start covering. That’s a win for me. That’s a win for the People’s Convoy. Later today, we have more meetings, and tomorrow’s a new day. And the convoy’s going to keep rolling around that Beltway until we achieve what
our goals are.”"

"Beginning on Sunday with an initial foray that barely made a dent in
the Beltway traffic flow, the convoy appears to be diminishing by the
day. It peaked on its first day with about 1,200 vehicles, including
both rigs and personal vehicles, according to a homeland security
official who spoke to Raw Story on condition of anonymity, and dropped
to about 500 vehicles on Thursday."

The beltway has around 250,000 vehicles at any given point in 24
hours.

"“You know, this isn’t just about mandates,” Gerald Johnson, a trucker who livestreams on YouTube, told the crowd at Hagerstown Speedway on
March 5. “Mandates is just the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

“It’s about control!” a man in the crowd yelled."

“It’s about control,” Johnson agreed. “You’re exactly right. They’ve
been doing it way too long.”"

"As the week has worn on, the grievances expressed by convoy
participants have evolved into more general complaints about
“politicians” and the media.

Referencing a kerfluffle over an initial stipulation that the convoy
delegation wouldn’t be allowed to live-stream the meeting with the two senators, Brase said, “What we learned is that even on the right side of
the aisle, some just don’t care what we have to say. What we learned is
that there are plenty of people in office that are way too comfortable
with their cushy seats.”

And on Sunday, Brase complained about media accounts reporting that “we fizzled out,” followed with a broad salvo that included right-wing media.

“So, Fox News, listen up,” Brase said. “MSNBC, NBC, CNN and whoever you may be, I think it’s probably time you come down here and see for
yourself what’s really going on, because you’re starting to act like the politicians.”"


https://www.rawstory.com/truck-convoy-2656912908/

Those poor fools don't seem to understand the basics of getting
more attention, whether you're throwing a temper tantrum or a protest,
if you want a lot of attention you have to make a bigger splash.

TB

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