Convoy news for Thursday, March 17, 2022, for DC

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hat tip, an email I just received

A street adjacent to the place I nominally refer to as "my workplace" has been blocked to keep out the truckers.

The truckers are about to learn that DC's most efficient department of them all is parking enforcement.

Horrible day for convoy-goers as most of them have now been separated and are stuck in bad traffic and rain - all while there are numerous road closures in the city.

And it’s raining now 😂

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I'm out in Washington, D.C. where The People’s Convoy has descended on the city in small groups. Saw one slow group with four cars, flags. With no cohesive plan, they’re mostly driving in circles around downtown amid rain -- while expressing frustration over the lack of parking.

One small group of truckers gets chased away after parking authority rolls up on them.

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Wait. Traffic is bad AND roads are closed in DC? Deep state must have known they were coming because those two things never happen in DC!!!!!!

And rain in spring! This goes all the way to the top!

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[SergeStorms]

1. The Rodney Dangerfields of protesters.....

"They get no respect". Take my protest sign......please!

Asswipes.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Convoy Cluster Coming, Again

Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Convoy Cluster Coming, Again https://popville.com/2022/03/trucker-traffic/

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[IronLionZion]

3. High fuel prices, traffic, rain, in Joe Biden's America

There wasn't much traffic in the last year of Trump's presidency.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I'm adding these videos on Friday morning and afternoon.

Zachary Petrizzo Retweeted

The trucker convoy is making its way through Capitol Hill horns blaring, with residents yelling at them to “go home” and “fuck off”

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DC Metro Police told The Daily Beast - regarding the hit and run incident by a trucker with The People’s Convoy yesterday - that a “traffic crash report was filed and it is being investigated.”

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“I heard some citations were issued today,” trucker convoy organizer Brian Brase said tonight, after a long day of trucks attempting to get into DC from “multiple directions.”

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🤣🤣😂 get em

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PoPville Retweeted

Truckers, honking horns to protest covid rules that have mostly gone away, spotted near DC school for deaf, where most people likely can’t hear them, per
@PoPville
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"Truckers near Gallaudet for some reason"
Thanks to Joe for sending just before 4pm "Truckers near Gallaudet for some reason." Regarding the highways Alert DC just updated: "The Metropolitan

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. People's Convoy Battles Imaginary Antifa Drivers, Traffic And A Lack Of Downtown Parking

People's Convoy Battles Imaginary Antifa Drivers, Traffic And A Lack Of Downtown Parking

Because average people could never get angry at idiots tying up traffic, blaring their horns and wasting gas

By Erin Marquis
An hour ago

In a completely predictable turn of events, the People’s Convoy have groups splintering off from the main protest to try and find ways into D.C. proper, though they are finding conditions less than favorable. While some managed to get an unexplained escort through town by D.C. Metro police, protesters are mostly claiming they’re being harassed by Antifa as residents go about their daily lives now made more difficult by the presence of huge trucks purposefully slowing down already bad traffic.

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Two days ago, our favorite reporter on the ground, Daily Beast’s Zachary Petrizzo, reported this exchange:

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It’s almost as if they can’t even imagine a scenario where they aren’t viewed as heroes by regular people. This isn’t the first time truckers have blamed that shadowy Antifa “organization” for their woes. Vice also spoke to a grad student who is researching far-right movements and keeps an ear to the ground on trucker’s Telegram channels:

The truckers who’ve been snarling traffic on the Beltway that surrounds Washington for several weeks are a bit of a jumpy bunch. Antifa could be anyone and anything. A car cutting off a trucker a bit aggressively, a commuter flipping the bird at them, or just people in vehicles they don’t like? Must be antifa.

“Sometimes they just don’t like the look of the car and they assume it’s antifa,” said Sara Aniano, a graduate student studying far-right rhetoric who has been watching the convoy for weeks. “It does seem like any car that is driving some sort of way that does not align with their ideal of driving is labeled as a possible instigator.” ... Aniano said it’s possible some of the truckers just don’t understand how rough driving can be on the Beltway, so “regular commuter traffic and possibly a bit of road rage comes off as a deliberate antagonist aggravation.”

Regardless, barely a livestream goes by without a protester peering out the window and muttering about “antifa.”

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