After a week of circling the nation’s capital on the Beltway and bitching about people giving them the finger, the “People’s Convoy” finally entered the District of Columbia to register their discontent with living in an America where more people voted for Democrats than Republicans in the last election, the Washington Post reports. The convoy entered the city via the 14th Street Bridge on Interstate 395 and slowly slogged their way along I-695 in afternoon traffic that was already basically at a standstill before they decided to make it worse. “I believe we’re making a good statement today,” said one clustertrucker livestreaming his otherwise virtually unnoticeable act of patriotic defiance. “We’re right in the swamp now and creating a horrible mess down here.”
Cops positioned at exit ramps on I-695 ensured the clustertruck did not make it off any of the exits and onto actual surface roads in the capital. “These rolling road closures are occurring in real-time as they are needed, and will be lifted as soon as they are no longer necessary,” said an alert from the DC Homeland Security department. While the clustertruckers have managed some degree of disruption to the already brutal commutes for folks in the DC area, their now eight-day old ongoing “protest” is still a far cry from the havoc their Canadian compatriots wrought upon Ottawa, a much smaller capital city in a much less densely populated metro region taken by surprise.