Freedom Convoy, Ahoy

A lesson in how the parties treat their radicals.

via Jim Renacci

America’s lame attempt at Canada’s Freedom Convoy rolled through Columbus yesterday in the middle of the afternoon.

Hundreds if not thousands of Ohioans stood on the overpasses and highway ramps from Dayton to Columbus and cheered their wheeled gladiators on their journey to the nation’s capital to protest the country’s laughable vaccine restrictions that none of them followed anyway.

If I were a Republican talking about a similarly styled leftist protest, this is where I would remark those protestors were able to protest in the middle of a Thursday because they are unemployed bums with nothing better to do than attend a parade like a toddler.

Coordinating a convoy is serious business, and the Freedom Convoy lacked the military precision required to execute one, which is why their rookie attempt stretched over 25 miles and clogged traffic throughout the city.

I envy the people who are so out of tune with current events that they had no clue why a bunch of truckers and other vehicles adorned with 50 political bumper stickers would be crawling along the highway waving “Let’s Go Brandon” flags. It must otherwise be a much happier existence than my own.

The Columbus Division of Police did everything but literally roll a red carpet over the highway. They watched from the air from their helicopters and coordinated with the convoy over radio to encourage them to travel 30 miles an hour in the left lane along the 270 outerbelt.

That’s because the CDP agrees with the protest, especially since it’s not any threat to rich people’s property. Never forget that “law and order” only applies to people that won’t polish cop boots with their tongues.

That’s how the Canadian convoy, which was largely financed by wealthy Americans who aren’t taxed enough, avoided being beaten and arrested for blocking an international port of trade.

That won’t stop Republican politicians and their echo chamber of corporate media from seizing the party’s eternal zeitgeist of white grievance politics in service of the notion that they are the ones that represent working, Salt-of-the-Earth America.

Why, they’d say, there’s nothing more noble for a working man to do than drive a truck as a 1099 contractor after Big Business ratfucked the unionized industry and pilfered their pension and health benefits.

That trucker votes Republican because they don’t look down their hooked noses and call him, a hard-working son of Joliet, Illinois, a racist for flying a Confederate flag on his big boy truck like than those faggy liberals would.

The culture war is the perfect incubation chamber for his anger about the changing world around him. It’s easier for him to blame marginalized populations like the transgender community or undocumented migrants than for him to understand the plunderbund that nickel and dimes him at every turn. That’s the fuel on which this convoy runs.

Every election it seems like there are Democratic consultants that think we can reach these people if only we could deliver them a set of facts like Moses did when he came off that mountain tripping his balls off all those years ago.

No. We can’t. They’re gone—from the drivers to those that stood on forsaken overpasses of the state’s crumbling bridges to wave and cheer as a bunch of semis tooted their horns as their truck balls swung in the wind behind them in the exhaust smoke that’s choking the planet.

But it’s hard not to notice how Republicans treat their protestors and how the Serious Democrats Who Know How Government Actually Works treated theirs.

Half the Freedom Convoy would probably go on the record saying Joe Biden is a sundowning pedophile who drinks the blood of children. Not a single Republican would condemn them. Look how quickly they picked up the new company tune about January 6th.

That’s the opposite of how Serious Democrats treated “Defund the Police,” which was a slogan that didn’t happen anywhere as police unions once again leveraged social unrest into massive transfers of wealth into their budgets since most Americans get scared when a homeless person asks them for spare change outside a gas station. The Serious Democrats are always parading some poll around like they’re not in charge of one of the few institutions capable of moving massive amounts of people’s opinions.

That’s how we got Joe Biden spewing tripe like “the answer isn’t to defund the police, it’s to fund the police” at his State of the Union Address. That line earned thunderous Republican applause because the top Democrat just capitulated to their messaging.

One of those cheering Republicans, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, heckled Biden as he talked about his dead son. Earlier in the week she said she had “no regrets” about attending a white nationalist conference.

I can’t even envision what an equivalent of the left would look like, but the offending Congresswoman would probably earn a bipartisan ticket to Guantanamo Bay.

The Republicans are winning the war of fanatics. This is probably where somebody like Michelle Obama would remind us that, “When they go low, we go high!” Well, she’s married to a repulsive war criminal who only comes out of retirement to chide Democrats for not being a sociopathic campaign mastermind like himself despite being repeatedly cucked by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell throughout his second term.

We see how the high road has worked out for the rest of us. But hey, at least the other side seems to be having fun.

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