A convoy of vehicles headed to Texas, organized by a group called “Take Our Border Back,” has had a chaotic start, including slashed tires and a stranded participant, according to WIRED.
Organizers of the convoy, one of whom described it as “God’s army,” per Vice, had aspirations of mobilizing tens of thousands of trucks to stop migrants from crossing the Texas-Mexico border into the US.
But despite an influx of donations, plenty of media attention, and a growing social media following, things haven’t gone exactly to plan.
According to WIRED, it all started to go wrong even before the convoy had set off.
Some attendees woke up to find the tires of their cars slashed outside a hotel they’d been staying at, one of the convoy’s live-streamers said, per WIRED.
I wonder what kind of jobs these chuckleheads have that they can just skip work for a week-long LARP. No wonder they are afraid of immigrants, immigrants work harder than these losers.
They don’t. They collect unemployment and/or disability from the government. Such entitled snowflakes.
It’s just a group of cops that are currently under investigation, so they have some free time
I guess any job with vacation time? I’m not doing any of their convoy bullshit of course, but if I wanted to I could use PTO to take a week off.
They aren’t employed
Weren’t migrants causing disaster in new York city? I saw it on YouTube :(
This has already been posted, but I have to share the part of this article that made me laugh the hardest, which would be at the end of this paragraph:
Almost immediately, one of the vehicles in the convoy got lost, according to messages posted in the Zello walkie-talkie app that the group is using to communicate while on the road. Later, when the convoy linked up to discuss evening plans, the meeting quickly descended into an argument about where they were going to be staying. Even trying to meet up at a gas station was difficult: Due to the size of a Buc-ee’s in South Carolina, convoy members couldn’t locate each other.
So it’s a… Convoy of Babel?
Considering it started with a prayer for guidance and they immediately got lost, I supposed the idea that they angered a vengeful god wouldn’t be too out there…
Sounds like this was part of gods plan 😂
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Yeah but which god? The christian god of the crazy maga people or the Catholic god of the immigrants?
Why not both?
Anyone who can afford to go on a “save the boarders” escapade (which is purely political grand standing) and not have it disrupt their entire life making them essentially homeless… does not represent me.
And anyone actively blocking poor migrants from getting help is not “gods army” they’re fucking psychos.
I mean I would think calling yourself God’s Army already implies you’re psycho.
That’s fair.
Sounds about what I expect from religion
Borders*
I’d be fine with saving boarders, they don’t have anywhere else to stay.
Sorry about that. It was worth the unintended lols, though.
I’m always wondering how these whackjobs are able to sustain this shit? Are they taking the little vacation the get to do this shit? Or are they on unemployment? Absolutely bananas.
Oh yeah but let me tell you about those welfare queens abusing all of my taxes.
Churches, inheritance, small businesses owners, retirees, and rubes who’ve made it their life grifting.
Divorced, kids don’t talk to them, and on disability. Leaves them plenty of time. Chris Simcox is a really good example.
This headline is the opposite of clickbait. The details are amazing!
"WIRED reported that, at one point, the convoy’s main bus pulled over onto a highway shoulder and kicked out one of the passengers.
It was unclear why the man was ejected, but he was left stranded in Florence, South Carolina, without his wallet, according to details from a livestream of someone in contact with the man."
Imagine the sort of piece of shit you’d have to be to first want to join in on this (and not in an undercover journalist sort of way) and then get rejected by them.
My guess is that he wasn’t a big enough piece of shit, probably objected to pulling a full Greg Abbot at the border.
Never go full Abbott.
Seems like God doesn’t want “his” army getting anywhere.
He tends to do that. See the history of his “chosen people,” the Jews.
How exactly the convoy plans to confront migrants at the border and stop them from entering the US remains unclear.
Well, I assume that those nut jobs are carrying an arsenal “just because they can”. So they should be treated as armed and dangerous criminals once the shit hits the fan.
Finally, a resistance is starting to wake up in this country. I’ve been left with this belief that the lawless vigilante fascists can do whatever they want and the populace is just too scared to try to stop them.
Americans seem to be the most clueless about other countries and cultures, while also acting like they know all about them.
This reminds me of the convoy of “protesters” a couple of years ago in Ottawa, except those idiots actually made it to their destination…
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Reminds me a bit of the crusade of the poor. let’s hope history does not repeat entirely.
