Sometimes a story comes along that’s so ludicrous that you rush to debunk it. Such as with the “700,000 truckers are descending on the Texas border to protest Biden’s refusal to halt the flood of illegal aliens” story.
EAGLE PASS, Texas (TND) — A convoy seeks to line the southern border with more than 700,000 vehicles and hold several rallies next week to demand action from the Biden administration.
The Take Our Border Back Southern Border Convoy will span from Virginia Beach, Va. to San Diego, Calif. and hold protests urging officials to enforce the Constitution’s amendments and halt human and drug trafficking across the border from Jan.29-Feb. 3.
Fellow citizens and compatriots … I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism and everything dear to the American character to come to our aid with all dispatch,” Pete Chambers, one of the coalition’s commanders, wrote. “If this call is neglected, we are determined to sustain ourselves as long as possible and act like soldiers who never forget what is due to our own honor and that of our country.”
The convoy aims to “send a message” to local, state and federal officials and law enforcement that they need to close the border and deport all illegal immigrants in its plan to “shine a spotlight” on open borders. Chambers claims Americans are “besieged on all sides” by evil “dark forces.”
“We have sustained continual bombardments of tyranny and have maintained our honor, prestige and esprit de corps,” Chambers asserted. “The enemy has demanded the surrender of Lady Liberty and her children. Tyrannical actors have tortured and oppressed without cause, without mercy and without reprieve.”
This is a bad idea and a silly story. Before we get to the ideological reasons, let’s explicate a much more basic one: Math.
Since there are three routes, let’s divide that 700,000 into three, which gives us 233,333 each going to Eagle Pass, Texas, Yuma, Arizona and one from California to Yuma (all details from their website).
They say that not just 18-wheelers, but cars, campers, etc. are welcome. So let’s use the average car length of 14.7 feet (rather than an average 18-wheeler length of 70 feet) just to be on the conservative side. There are 5,280 feet to a mile. That yields 359 cars per mile.
That’s 649 miles of cars per convoy.
But wait! It gets worse! According to their route, they are taking 290 through Dripping Springs, Texas on their way to Eagle Pass. 290 is a four-lane state highway (two lanes each way). Dripping (as the locals call it) is a small town of just under 5,000 people that used to be way the hell out in the country and is now in the Austin exurbs.
In April of last year, I went through Dripping on the way to and from a dog rescue event. They were having their Founder’s Day Festival, which they say draws “thousands,” and traffic on 290 slowed to a crawl.
I think there are seven stoplights in Dripping proper, and much more between it and Austin, between Austin and Manor, Manor and Elgin, etc.
There’s no way 649 miles of cars and trucks are passing Dripping in one day. It’s probably pushing it to expect one week.
By contrast, the Canadian trucker protests (for reasons very immediately concerning the truckers themselves) may have had 2,000 trucks join. Even that many would tie up Dripping for several hours.
This is evidently the guy behind it, who I’ve never heard of before:
LTC Pete Chambers, Former Green Beret Commander, Analysis Of Border Invasion, Announces Major Convoy@DocPeteChambers@TOBBConvoyMain@TOBBConvoyAZ@TOBBConvoyCAhttps://t.co/P1zEdLUiuc
— WeThePeopleTexas (@TOBBConvoyTX) January 25, 2024
The Infowars watermark doesn’t give me much confidence.
This is all before we ask why would truckers even go to the border in the first place. To make a wall that illegal aliens could just duck under between your tires? To be seen on TV? Neither are good reasons to massively inconvenience ordinary Texans who are already suffering the worst under Biden’s failure to secure the border.
I’m not sure if this is a false flag or some puffed up idea of a local gadfly. The 700,000 is an impossibility, and I would expect the actual turnout to be a tiny handful. (They might expect the same, which is why the Dripping rallying point is an HEB parking lot.)
If you wanted to do something equally stupid and counterproductive, but at least have the satisfaction of irritating the actual targets of your ire, a rolling roadblock of the Beltway and all the arteries into and out of D.C. for days on in, blowing your horns like they did in Canada, that would at least piss off the people responsible…
Tags: Border Controls, Eagle Pass, Illegal Aliens, LTC Pete Chambers, Texas, trucking
Your cars per mile calculation reminds me of an underrated comedy from 1980 starring Kurt Russell — Used Cars!
It’s a hilarious movie if you haven’t seen it before.
I believe “Used Cars” is on the movie list Lawrence and I maintain.
And checking Amazon, I just discovered that there’s a 4K restoration available.
Other than that, I have nothing useful here: I just want to say “11 long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse Microbus”.
Those silly 700,000 truckers have the wrong idea. All they need is 257,928 of them to go drop a standard 40′ shipping container at a predesignated spot. Only like ten of them even need to go to Eagle Pass.
D.C. wants another January 6th event. Something big to again turn conservatives into pariahs.
The southern border would be a great place for such an event. Stage an organic-seeming protest, encourage (or perform) some shitty things, ensure the only people remaining are the red-hatters, and hold them solely responsible.
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I have been to Eagle Pass on many occasions at a previous job. There is NO WAY the roads leading there can handle the traffic suggested. This is a pipe dream.
I just wish I had the bottled water and sandwich concession for all the folks stuck in traffic!
FLASHBACK …
Mar 6, 2022 · A convoy of vehicles lapped the Washington, DC, beltway Sunday morning to demand an end to Covid-19 mandates and restrictions. Christopher Rodriguez, director of the District of Columbia’s Homeland and Emergency Management Agency, estimated that there were 1,000 vehicles at the time up in Hagerstown, Maryland, and that the ultimate number of vehicles could reach 2,000 over the next several days.
It’s all about leverage. If they park the trucks just outside the walls, they won’t be able to push them down.
\\Classic Dawn of the Dead reference.
It’s all about as real as those Feds cosplaying as “right-wing extremists”.
News flash for the Biden Krime Krewe: When the time comes that you’ve pissed everyone off enough to actually start taking action? Won’t be a goddamn thing you can do about it. There aren’t enough cops, FBI/CIA agents in the agencies to keep a lid on things, once the general public decides to no longer consent to your governance. The Chinese call this “losing the Mandate of Heaven”, and once that happens? Not a damn thing to be done about it. And, as an aside? They’re moving closer, every day.
With this latest LNG thing, it’s abundantly clear that Biden’s handlers are working to take down the United States in favor of the troika: Iran, China, and Russia. They’re who paid him the most; that’s who he is beholden to, not the people of the United States. We made a big mistake, in his eyes: No bribes.
I think the number started out as “700 ‘r thousand” and got deliberately misunderstood cause they thought it sounded better. Which sounds like journalism in action.
Reminds me of that 5,000 pound gorilla we keep hearing about. False Flags. Biden trying to set up another Jan Sixth event or that Oklahoma City bombing that saved Bill Clinton, who would have been a one-term POTUS otherwise. Oh, one Freedom Caucus Shutdown will give us an “emergency” Omnibus with the Lankford “5000 migrants a day, 50,000 work visas a year, Full Amnesty & Open Borders” included. Bet it WILL happen–especially if Biden gets his wished-for Jan 6th at the Border!
The Friends of Jesus is what you get when you combine the Society of Friends with the Society of Jesus (who have far more in common politically than they do religiously, alas).
When they finally get what they think they want, they’re really not going to like the denouement of it all.
The guys you saw in all the January Sixth shenanigans? Last people you really need to be worried about; they’re not the ones who’re likely to actually do anything.
The guys you need to worry about? They’re the quiet businessman/farmer types who’re slowly going bankrupt under the current set of idiots. When they decide they’ve had enough, it won’t be people dressed in furry outfits storming the halls of Congress, it’ll be Congressional delegations taken prisoner and put on trial back in their home districts, accompanied by ropes.
Same-same with the local reps of the Federal government. Start worrying about things going really south when you hear about the local asshole from the Forest Service going missing, or some other official who didn’t make it back to their offices in the Federal Building. When you hear about their houses burning to the ground, with all occupants? Worry about insurrection.
January Sixth was Federally-sponsored and directed cosplay theater. The real deal will be ugly, up and personal-close. The idiots behind this do not grasp the scale of the thing, just how few and far between they really are. Their instrumentalities of power are only going to work so long as everyone out here in “rest of us” land are willing to acquiesce to the legitimacy of government. That willingness is evaporating, the more these assholes piss down our backs and try to convince us it’s raining.
If things go kinetic this summer, which I wouldn’t be surprised at, do keep an eye on the local feds and make sure you’re not likely to get caught up in the machinery of cause and effect; you live next door to one? Invest in fire extinguishers and make sure that everyone else in the neighborhood knows your house and car aren’t “the ones”.
I honestly can’t believe these idiots behind it all are this innumerate, and this confident about keeping everything bolted down. All they’re really doing is tying down the safety valve on the boiler, and when that boiler finally reaches the safety limits, the whole goddamn thing is going to blow bigly, all over them.
I won’t be a participant in any of it, but I can see it coming a mile or two off. Morons.