“The People’s Convoy” isn’t really about the people as much as it is about a very loud and increasingly dangerous group who believe medical scientists are sinister, profit-driven liars but Donald Trump is honest and understands the working class. Their grievances are eyeroll worthy and their tactics are to cause traffic jams indefinitely by being as annoying on the road as humanly possible.
On Sunday, a Washington, D.C. bicyclist gave the truckers a little taste of their own medicine.
“I’m sorry, I can’t hear you, it’s too loud.”pic.twitter.com/0GC5kc7XOn
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 20, 2022
Generally, the truckers have banded together in protest of mask and vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 crisis, but in time the movement became an overall celebration of white male rage. For anyone unfamiliar with “The People’s Convoy,” Rolling Stone magazine summed up the movement very well.
‘The Trucker Protest is the right wing’s next big thing: a heavy metal show of power aimed at the nation’s capitol itself, in service of a nebulous set of goals that wrap executive powers, state and federal Coronavirus protections, fringe conspiracies, and general government skepticism into a catch-all movement for anyone who thinks Joe Biden is taking our country down an insufficiently star-spangled path.’
The bicyclist, a symbol of everything that is not the Right, owning the truckers is just the perfect amount of karma for a Sunday afternoon.
Twitter had a lot of fun with the video of the truckers’ growing frustration at being, of all things, held up in traffic. Read some of their comments below:
