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am_Unition  ·  971 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Truly Cannot Believe How Dumb This Convoy Shit Is

The MSM has avoided promoting the truckers in the form of free press coverage, so Andrew Callaghan has to go in with a lavalier mic yet again. I set the timestamp to begin at my favorite interview.

Remember the (sometimes kinda fair) criticisms of Occupy Wall Street's scattershot messaging? This "convoy" is far, far worse. At least OWS touched on wealth disparity, privatizing gains and socializing losses via bailout, and the revolving door between big business and its supposed regulators. The forces behind the "convoy" have successfully misdirected legitimate class-warfare-based grievances into absolute nonsense. Trumpism in a nutshell. edit: I guess it's hard to argue you're part of a lower, oppressed socioeconomic class if you're bitching about high gas prices in between doing laps around DC in an 18 wheeler.

I still think it's only a matter of time before a majority of these people talk each other into escalating their protestings, which probably requires ousting the current leadership. I bet a bunch of these same folks will heed future rallying calls to serve as armed poll watchers and whatever else is perceived as beneficial to Trump.

But for now, a shoutout to me, to whom I also issue a "Damn boiiiiiii, you were hilariously wrong!!". So far.