What’s Happening With The “Freedom Convoy” In The USA?
From California to the Beltway, a wire-to-wire portrait of the American trucker protests
News2Share chronicles the convoy’s journey from Adelanto, California to Washington, D.C.
Ford Fischer and his crew also shoot a counterprotest in Washington, as well as a meeting held between the truckers and three oft-maligned Republican members of congress: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Thomas Massie.
Tepid resolve meets flaccid bombast, nostalgic slogans meet antique cliches.... the term 'underwhelming' springs to mind, just like every other time I have seen where a few GIFs, a handful of blogs and a farcebook page now comprise some 'movement' in this laughably bovine Century of Stupid. Tell them what they want to hear, the less coherent and substantive the better so long as there's cues for rowdy cheers interspersed, and they'll do whatever they're told, until somebody else does it better. As all the while, as with all alleged 'movements' throughout history, the only crucial question in need of an answer is the same one every time: who's financing all this?
Surely an old theater hand such as our host knows a scripted performance when he sees one. Too bad the extras on both 'sides' of this misrepresented and ungenuine divide we keep being told is about to tear us apart, actually do seem to believe, at least some of them, that all this idle ranting and raving with nothing but simplistic ritual and subliminal cues to hold it together actually stands for something. Looks to me like just another money-laundering venture in behalf of parties unknowable, like all organized politics.