The 'God's army' convoy traveling to Texas to stop migrants has seen a vehicle get lost, tires slashed, and someone stranded on the highway: report
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:
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...
Theme song for the chuckle-fucks
Sounds like this was part of gods plan 😂
Thoughts and prayers
Yeah but which god? The christian god of the crazy maga people or the Catholic god of the immigrants?
Why not both?
Well they’re Republicans. The closer they get to actually having to put their words into actions, they freak the fuck out because they know it’ll be nothing but a disaster. They’re probably slashing their own tires and blaming Antifa
Could be, though I do really hope that this was locals fucking up their plan.
Looking at this, seems like God is against them.
But I am an Atheist. Maybe God treats his followers like this...for fun?
I need a Deadwood rewatch.
In the middle of that myself. :)
How do you like it?
Seen it about 20 times and it just gets better and better with every watch. :)
It’s the best written TV show I’ve seen. Milch doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
True. I'm still pissed at HBO blowing off a season 4 in the way they did.
My 2 favs are Deadwood and The Wire. Both are just top notch shows.
Job enters the chat
"God is testing them" is their usual excuse when things don't go their way.
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.
It's them FBI agents who slashed those tires! Darn federal gubrnment!!!
Taylor Swift did it, I saw her!
Are we sure the tires were really slashed in the first place? They don't have a good track record on that.
https://www.boredpanda.com/fake-slashed-tire-tweet-laura-loomer/
Lol goddamn.
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.
I've always wondered how slashing tires works. In my mind it's like a balloon that pops, sending the knife flying into my eye or something.
Normal car tires it just deflates really really fast. You can seriously fuck yourself up going after a semi though. There's a video of a dude in China who tried that. He got blown back several feet, his arm of his jacket was in tatters, and he was bleeding like crazy.
You kinda gotta poke and make a mark and then cut horizontally. The sidewalls of the tire are easier to get through. Also stand back because the air pressure can still fuck you up a bit, especially larger car and truck tires.
I....in mincecraft....never slashed a tire except for the sidewalls and honestly its been like 30 years so iono maybe its harder now? but back then...in minecraft....30 years ago...it was nothing.
Interesting and cool to know! In Minecraft, of course. There are probably varying levels of tire quality. I imagine the quality of the knife probably helps a bit, too. I bet something sturdy like an ice pick would make it pretty easy.
In highschool i worked for a steel shop and they sent me out during a storm to unload a tractor trailer with the forklift, I hadn't dressed appropriately for the task and the rain that day was cold enough that I passed out temporarily, anyway I punctured a tractor trailer tire, while loaded full of 80,000lbs of steel bar. It exploded, I have no recollection of what happened. They found me half a mile away, collapsed on the side of the road. Truck driver saw me slumped in the seat, went to see if I was ok, tire exploded and then I jerked up, launched myself off the forklift and ran down the road.
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.
I’d all but wager on a guarantee that this is no residence. They’re doing this shit to themselves to garner sympathy and victimize themselves in order to justify the shit they know will be sketchy at best and downright criminal at worst.
There is no denying the possibility that this is the case.
This reminds me of the convoy of "protesters" a couple of years ago in Ottawa, except those idiots actually made it to their destination..
Americans seem to be the most clueless about other countries and cultures, while also acting like they know all about them.
Wait, how much of the population find a hateful crowd not alarming?
Link to wired article https://www.wired.com/story/day-one-take-our-border-back-convoy-texas/
Reminds me a bit of the crusade of the poor. let's hope history does not repeat entirely.