The "Take Our Border Back" convoy, aimed at stopping migrants from crossing the Texas-Mexico border, got off to a rocky start, according to WIRED.

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.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2262·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        105·
        10 months ago

        I sense real “Keep government out of my Medicare” vibes with that one

      • Ekybio@lemmy.world
        621·
        10 months ago

        Your neighbor sounds like the average MAGA airhead:

        Nothing good in his life, so everyone else has to suffer as well.

        • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
          22·
          10 months ago

          Classic need for mental heath care. It’s not just about medication, it’s about understanding that you can feel better than “good enough”

      • dmtalon@infosec.pub
        354·
        10 months ago

        Sooo…

        I get the crazy trumper hate and stupidity 100% I wish everyone could see him for what he is and stop following blindly thinking he cares about anyone but himself.

        But an 80yo shouldn’t have to work or have had to work for the last 8 years. He should be collecting SS, and should not have to live in absolute squalor. But we (as a whole in America) don’t care about mental health or old people, it’s not profitable.

        The loving trump stuff can be tied to him not being mentally sound but it shouldn’t have anything to do with an 80yo getting money he likely paid into SS back out in retirement.

    • 800XL@lemmy.world
      24·
      10 months ago

      They don’t. They collect unemployment and/or disability from the government. Such entitled snowflakes.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 months ago

      It’s just a group of cops that are currently under investigation, so they have some free time

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      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.