What happened to the "Freedom Convoy"?

[PJMcK]

2. Pfft

It was one of the dumbest... things.

The "truckers" were protesting something but they weren't sure what it was. It started out to be about mask mandates but those rules were lifted so they had to think of something else. But they couldn't think of something. Geniuses, all of them.

It amuses me that they were going to protest against the government but they were driving on the D.C. Beltway, I-495. This highway runs around the District in Maryland and Virginia; it never enters D.C. The highway is ALWAYS crowded and during rush hours it crawls, if you're lucky. So the protesters' desire was to snarl traffic on a road that's always packed. That's not a brilliant strategy.

The media didn't focus on it with the intensity that they covered the Canadian protest so these "patriotic truckers" didn't get the juice that they hoped for. It had to cost them a lot of money to fuel their trucks and buy food. Most importantly, they weren't earning any income and their businesses must have been impacted by the drivers' behavior.

So, I guess they acted with the passion of their convictions but it appears to me that their "Freedom Convoy" was a big nothing.