"I Truly Cannot Believe How Dumb This Convoy Shit Is"
"By now you’re likely aware of, and possibly exhausted by, the dumb trucker convoy protest thing. First there was the dumb thing in Canada,
then various abortive dumb things in the United States: Truckers, in
trucks, being dumb and pointlessly obstructive, together and for unclear purposes. Some kind of aggrieved incoherent Trumpist rage-brain tantrum.
Who knows. Certainly none of them. A representative sample:
[video]
"Ah yes. The threat of being digitiled into a robot. Glad we cleared
that up.
Anyway lately, as you may have seen, there’s the dumb thing where a
bunch of dummy truckers with paranoid right-wing brain-soup politics are driving in circles around Washington D.C. on the Capital Beltway,
Interstate 495, in what they imagine is an act of protest against, like, people agreeing that it’s good or at least not-evil to take reasonable precautions against contracting COVID-19, or anybody in the government
doing literally anything at all to help, or something. They have gotten
lots of bewildered and/or ominous media coverage for it. Much of this coverage has done these dolts the immense favor of pretending they have actual actionable demands or even any clear complaint other than that
the world generally isn’t enough like how they want it to be. Much of
the rest of the coverage has politely declined to address the subject of what these morons want or claim to want, in cringing both-sides-ist fear
of seeming to Do A Bias in describing truthfully a ludicrous, incoherent spasm of entitled foot-stomping. None of the coverage I’ve seen has concerned itself with the logistics."
The truckers congregated at the Speedway in Hagerstown, Md., when they arrived last week in what press coverage very generously has tended to
call “the D.C. area.” They rallied there for a couple of days, I gather, before heading toward D.C. to circle the Beltway, which as far as I can
tell they’ve been doing daily for the past few days. (Today Ted Cruz is with them!) What I had not quite registered until this morning is that, apparently, at the end of each day of this protest of driving in a large circle around the most miserably congested highway in the country, they
have been driving back to Hagerstown. That makes this, by miles, the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.
Readers from outside of the wider D.C. area may not understand this, or
may get a misleading impression from coverage that grants Hagerstown a
place in “the D.C. area.” Google maps might clear it up a little, when you see that the Hagerstown Speedway sits approximately 68 miles from
the nearest point of the Capital Beltway, in Bethesda, Md. Sixty-eight
miles is a pretty long way, on just about any road, to be driving back
and forth each day, especially when you’re doing it just to drive in a circle for a while. Even people who experience 136 miles of round-trip driving only in the context of the straight and largely empty
interstates of, like, northeastern Wyoming, might at least wonder
whether there’s any place nearer than 68 miles away from which to stage your pointless daily circle-driving."
[snip of the actual horrific commute]
They rank #1 for congestion. Portland generally ranks around #10.
We're not even close to being in the same league with them. It takes a
real maniac to commute the sort of distances they're driving there.
"Hagerstown is a further 30 friggin’ miles of interstate driving beyond Frederick, beyond the end of 270. It’s on the far side of a hellish interchange that turns into a giant snarled parking lot at least as
often as it doesn’t. Hagerstown might as well be freaking Cleveland! It might as well be the surface of the moon. It is “the D.C. area” like a rat is “basically a dog.” And these goons, these absolute nimrods, are driving all that distance, voluntarily, one day after another, just to
drive in a fucking circle around the Capital Beltway some number of
times, get flipped off by 10,000 different people …
Forget bothering to come up with a list of specific grievances, or any
kind of plan for how driving their trucks around aimlessly for a while
might persuade or force anyone to address those grievances—these
dinguses haven’t even bothered to figure out where they are. They congregated from around the country to Hagerstown, Md., to voluntarily
make North America’s worst possible commute, twice a day, in order to drive in a circle on the most miserable road in the world and possibly unintentionally improve its flow of traffic, to protest being digitiled
into robots. Not only have they somehow convinced themselves that this
is a punishment for anybody but themselves but they’re not even fucking doing it right. These are professional drivers, man! They literally
drive for a living! I have figured out the recent problems with the
supply chain. All of the truckers apparently suck shit at driving places
in trucks! I think this is the dumbest the world has ever been."
https://defector.com/i-truly-cannot-believe-how-dumb-this-convoy-shit-is/
On Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:17:32 PM UTC-8, Technobarbarian wrote:and told how honored he was, being able to ride along in the trucks, on the beltway.....
"I Truly Cannot Believe How Dumb This Convoy Shit Is"
"By now you’re likely aware of, and possibly exhausted by, the dumb
trucker convoy protest thing. First there was the dumb thing in Canada,
then various abortive dumb things in the United States: Truckers, in
trucks, being dumb and pointlessly obstructive, together and for unclear
purposes. Some kind of aggrieved incoherent Trumpist rage-brain tantrum.
Who knows. Certainly none of them. A representative sample:
[video]
"Ah yes. The threat of being digitiled into a robot. Glad we cleared
that up.
Anyway lately, as you may have seen, there’s the dumb thing where a
bunch of dummy truckers with paranoid right-wing brain-soup politics are
driving in circles around Washington D.C. on the Capital Beltway,
Interstate 495, in what they imagine is an act of protest against, like,
people agreeing that it’s good or at least not-evil to take reasonable
precautions against contracting COVID-19, or anybody in the government
doing literally anything at all to help, or something. They have gotten
lots of bewildered and/or ominous media coverage for it. Much of this
coverage has done these dolts the immense favor of pretending they have
actual actionable demands or even any clear complaint other than that
the world generally isn’t enough like how they want it to be. Much of
the rest of the coverage has politely declined to address the subject of
what these morons want or claim to want, in cringing both-sides-ist fear
of seeming to Do A Bias in describing truthfully a ludicrous, incoherent
spasm of entitled foot-stomping. None of the coverage I’ve seen has
concerned itself with the logistics."
The truckers congregated at the Speedway in Hagerstown, Md., when they
arrived last week in what press coverage very generously has tended to
call “the D.C. area.” They rallied there for a couple of days, I gather, >> before heading toward D.C. to circle the Beltway, which as far as I can
tell they’ve been doing daily for the past few days. (Today Ted Cruz is
with them!) What I had not quite registered until this morning is that,
apparently, at the end of each day of this protest of driving in a large
circle around the most miserably congested highway in the country, they
have been driving back to Hagerstown. That makes this, by miles, the
absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.
Readers from outside of the wider D.C. area may not understand this, or
may get a misleading impression from coverage that grants Hagerstown a
place in “the D.C. area.” Google maps might clear it up a little, when >> you see that the Hagerstown Speedway sits approximately 68 miles from
the nearest point of the Capital Beltway, in Bethesda, Md. Sixty-eight
miles is a pretty long way, on just about any road, to be driving back
and forth each day, especially when you’re doing it just to drive in a
circle for a while. Even people who experience 136 miles of round-trip
driving only in the context of the straight and largely empty
interstates of, like, northeastern Wyoming, might at least wonder
whether there’s any place nearer than 68 miles away from which to stage
your pointless daily circle-driving."
[snip of the actual horrific commute]
They rank #1 for congestion. Portland generally ranks around #10.
We're not even close to being in the same league with them. It takes a
real maniac to commute the sort of distances they're driving there.
"Hagerstown is a further 30 friggin’ miles of interstate driving beyond
Frederick, beyond the end of 270. It’s on the far side of a hellish
interchange that turns into a giant snarled parking lot at least as
often as it doesn’t. Hagerstown might as well be freaking Cleveland! It
might as well be the surface of the moon. It is “the D.C. area” like a >> rat is “basically a dog.” And these goons, these absolute nimrods, are >> driving all that distance, voluntarily, one day after another, just to
drive in a fucking circle around the Capital Beltway some number of
times, get flipped off by 10,000 different people …
Forget bothering to come up with a list of specific grievances, or any
kind of plan for how driving their trucks around aimlessly for a while
might persuade or force anyone to address those grievances—these
dinguses haven’t even bothered to figure out where they are. They
congregated from around the country to Hagerstown, Md., to voluntarily
make North America’s worst possible commute, twice a day, in order to
drive in a circle on the most miserable road in the world and possibly
unintentionally improve its flow of traffic, to protest being digitiled
into robots. Not only have they somehow convinced themselves that this
is a punishment for anybody but themselves but they’re not even fucking
doing it right. These are professional drivers, man! They literally
drive for a living! I have figured out the recent problems with the
supply chain. All of the truckers apparently suck shit at driving places
in trucks! I think this is the dumbest the world has ever been."
https://defector.com/i-truly-cannot-believe-how-dumb-this-convoy-shit-is/
Yesterday, a spokesperson for the freedumb truckers called in to a local talk radio program, braying how Ted Cruz showed up to sympathize with their "mission", and about all the attention their movement was getting..... He also wanted donations,
The host of the program asked the spokesperson if had had a regular job, since he wasn't a trucker himself, before the protest... He proudly answered, "Of course, I have a job! My job is defending your freedom!" HawHawHaw!
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