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packman

(16,296 posts)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 11:11 AM Mar 2022

"Wrap up the convoy Rubber Ducky- Head on home" - 3 weeks of sound and Fury signifying nothing





Three weeks after the so-called “People’s Convoy” landed in Washington, D.C., the group is calling it quits after accomplishing nothing except injuring residents and circling the Beltway.

Co-organizer Mike Landis announced Sunday night that the group would pack its things up in the coming days and drive back to California.
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Over the past three weeks, the convoy has struggled to gain traction with lawmakers in Washington. The group met only with Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, and a handful of House Republicans while never brokering a meeting with a single Democratic lawmaker despite attempts to do so.

From claiming that average D.C. residents who flipped off truckers during their never-ending Beltway loops were agents of “antifa,” to being hilariously trolled by a single bicyclist and eventually getting a permit swatted down by the U.S. Park Service, the convoy kept stepping on rakes.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/peoples-convoy-gives-up-will-leave-washington-dc-area-after-three-weeks-of-doing-nothing?source=politics&via=rss
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"Wrap up the convoy Rubber Ducky- Head on home" - 3 weeks of sound and Fury signifying nothing (Original Post) packman Mar 2022 OP
The sh*ters must be full. Hugin Mar 2022 #1
That little venture had to have cost them a pretty penny. I saw one complaint Frustratedlady Mar 2022 #2

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. That little venture had to have cost them a pretty penny. I saw one complaint
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 11:19 AM
Mar 2022

from a participant who quit a few days ago that he had expected compensation for all it took to get there, room and board, meals, etc. Did Trump promise them help...again? Like when he told rally goers to take down protesters and he's pay their legal fees? ROTFL! He has to beg for donations to pay his own...if he pays them.

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