Republican Lawmaker Basically Begs Anti-Vaxx Truckers to Blockade the Super Bowl
Oh I hope that give it a shot. The Super Bowl is America's annual quasi religious event. I think most American truckers realize that and that they will conclude that it will be neither the time nor the place for faux outrage about freedumb.
@jaredlholt
spoke to
@RollingStone
about right-wing and anti-vaccine mandate activists' efforts to create a parallel trucker protest to the one ongoing in #Canada. One potential target? #SuperBowlLVI.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politic...wl-1296452
For the past 11 days, hundreds of protestors, many of whom are driving big-rig trucks have occupied Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, blocking streets and disrupting the city with raucous demonstrations.
These trucker protests, led by the so-called “Freedom Convoy” now besieging Ottawa, began after the Canadian and U.S. government enacted a rule requiring cross-border truckers to be fully vaccinated in order to get into either of the two countries.
The protests, like massive, heavily polarized movements are wont to do, spiraled into a wider, incoherent demonstration against public health measures as a whole. And now, they may be coming to the U.S.
Analysts watching right-wing chatter on apps like Telegram have recently seen an outpouring of organizing around direct actions similar to Canada’s trucker protests, which spread from the Ottawa occupation to large disruptive actions across the country, including at a border crossing to the U.S. in Alberta.
In particular, some right wingers seem to be plotting to shut down the Super Bowl this weekend. Trump megafan and Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers took up that mantle yesterday, giving us this particularly bizarre take:
Wendy Rogers
@WendyRogersAZ
If truckers shut down the Super Bowl it would partially be payback for Colin Kaepernick and the kneeling.
1:00 PM · Feb 7, 2022
Rogers is a fringe figure, deep in the far right, but there are signs that the “trucker protest” model is rapidly catching on with more mainstream conservatives. Here’s Rand Paul, often one of the main gateways of the idiocy exchange between the far right and GOP mainstream:
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
"Somebody's gotta stand up. Whether it's putting your semi in the middle of a town and honking the horn, or whatever." -- Rand Paul encourages Canadian trucker-style protests against public health regulations
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216341484
9. Yes! Piss off football fans!
Brilliant!
18. Hah! How many Repukes would be pissed if they can't use their Super Bowl tix?
People are paying ridiculous $thousands for those Super Bowl tickets.
If they can't get into the stadium they'll be royally pissed.
"Call out the National Guard and get these clowns outta my way!"
Oh I hope that give it a shot. The Super Bowl is America's annual quasi religious event. I think most American truckers realize that and that they will conclude that it will be neither the time nor the place for faux outrage about freedumb.
@jaredlholt
spoke to
@RollingStone
about right-wing and anti-vaccine mandate activists' efforts to create a parallel trucker protest to the one ongoing in #Canada. One potential target? #SuperBowlLVI.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politic...wl-1296452
For the past 11 days, hundreds of protestors, many of whom are driving big-rig trucks have occupied Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, blocking streets and disrupting the city with raucous demonstrations.
These trucker protests, led by the so-called “Freedom Convoy” now besieging Ottawa, began after the Canadian and U.S. government enacted a rule requiring cross-border truckers to be fully vaccinated in order to get into either of the two countries.
The protests, like massive, heavily polarized movements are wont to do, spiraled into a wider, incoherent demonstration against public health measures as a whole. And now, they may be coming to the U.S.
Analysts watching right-wing chatter on apps like Telegram have recently seen an outpouring of organizing around direct actions similar to Canada’s trucker protests, which spread from the Ottawa occupation to large disruptive actions across the country, including at a border crossing to the U.S. in Alberta.
In particular, some right wingers seem to be plotting to shut down the Super Bowl this weekend. Trump megafan and Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers took up that mantle yesterday, giving us this particularly bizarre take:
Wendy Rogers
@WendyRogersAZ
If truckers shut down the Super Bowl it would partially be payback for Colin Kaepernick and the kneeling.
1:00 PM · Feb 7, 2022
Rogers is a fringe figure, deep in the far right, but there are signs that the “trucker protest” model is rapidly catching on with more mainstream conservatives. Here’s Rand Paul, often one of the main gateways of the idiocy exchange between the far right and GOP mainstream:
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
"Somebody's gotta stand up. Whether it's putting your semi in the middle of a town and honking the horn, or whatever." -- Rand Paul encourages Canadian trucker-style protests against public health regulations
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216341484
9. Yes! Piss off football fans!
Brilliant!
18. Hah! How many Repukes would be pissed if they can't use their Super Bowl tix?
People are paying ridiculous $thousands for those Super Bowl tickets.
If they can't get into the stadium they'll be royally pissed.
"Call out the National Guard and get these clowns outta my way!"
