Seven-foot fencing topped with razor wire will be installed surrounding the U.S. Capitol next week, in advance of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union on March 1. The wall is to keep out truckers who are heading to Washington, D.C., as part of the Freedom Convoy protesting COVID restrictions.
Instead of shutting the truckers out, Biden should be inviting them in to sit in the gallery during his speech and have a chat afterward. He invited Vladimir Putin to talk — why not truckers who love America and say they want to “restore our nation’s Constitution”?
How Biden treats the truckers could be pivotal for his presidency and the Democratic Party. The people who truck our goods, serve us in restaurants and work with their hands are speaking out for American freedom.
If Scranton Joe were still at the top of his game, he’d welcome the truckers and regale them with stories of his blue-collar past.
Visiting a Mack Truck plant last summer, Biden boasted, “I used to drive an 18-wheeler.” The boast wasn’t true, though he once rode in a rig. The point is, Biden understood, even a year ago, the political payoff from treating working people with respect instead of greeting them with razor wire.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said he hopes the truckers do come, adding, “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
When thousands marched on Washington to protest George Floyd’s death, they weren’t met with razor wire. This is America.
Up north, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a whopper of a political miscalculation by crushing the truckers’ peaceful protest without ever giving them a hearing. But Trudeau is a born-and-bred elite. Biden claims working-class credentials.
Meanwhile, in unison, the mainstream media is dismissing the American truckers as “right-wing.”
Anti-science? Hardly. Science is proving the truckers right about the damaging impact of government lockdowns and mandates.
Johns Hopkins scientists see “no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” with the exception of locking down bars.
Lockdowns cost lives instead of saving them. Many are deaths of despair, likely linked to unemployment, economic desperation, and social isolation suggests University of Chicago professor Casey Mulligan.
At the height of the pandemic, more than 30 million Americans — mostly wage workers — were laid off or furloughed in a speculative attempt to curb the spread of the virus. Unemployment hit 14.7%.
Of course, government bureaucrats, journalists, and professors didn’t lose their jobs. Now the media is barely mentioning new findings that lockdowns didn’t actually save lives.
Nor are they speaking up to question the continuation of government emergency powers.
When Biden notified Congress on Friday that he was extending his emergency powers, which were scheduled to expire, the media was mum. Likewise, when New York Gov. Kathy Hochul extended her emergency powers last week.
It’s the truckers who are saying, “enough.”
New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall dismisses the truckers and their allies as ignoramuses who lack the “advanced education and top scores on aptitude tests” to get ahead. Edsall argues that when the truck convoy arrives in D.C., Biden has to prove himself by maintaining order. That would be a rerun of Trudeau’s mistake.
The truth is, these truckers speak for a large swath of America that is fed up with the government closing businesses, mandating shots, and forcing masks on their kids.
Biden routinely calls his agenda a “blue-collar blueprint to build America.” If he wants the country to believe he’s a friend of working people, he’ll listen to the truckers, not smack them down.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.
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Hypocrisy is a prerequisite to be a Dem.
Going to rerun Ottawa:
DC Targets:
Cap Hill, Lobbying firms,. RNC DNC Hqs, NIH CDC NAID HHS, IRS, pvt homes select,
Just surround the above sites aside Beltway
Comrade Democrats have been building a wall against Middle Class Americans since adopting “Socialistic” policies! . . . There is NO MIDDLE CLASS IN SOCIALISM just Rich and Poor, with the Poor representing 98% of the population! . . . What I don’t understand is Why isn’t this message being used daily by the Republican Party?
A noble cause, but wait until the truckers’ bank accounts and other assets are seized, such as has been the case in Canada. Biden and his Gestapo FBI and IRS will pounce on these guys and everyone who wants to join their protest by sending them money through GoFundMe.
I never thought we would ever reach the status of a Police State, but after sixty years of Socialist teaching and MSM lies, we are finally here. FJB!
Hey don’t the truckers just quit trucking? That in my opinion would be just as effective in getting their message out as driving to Washington. In addition it would mitigate the costs of operating their trucks. By going there it gives the opportunity to the Democrats to demonstrate their tyrannical power,
The pandemic mania has demonstrated the ineffectiveness of government on every level. From city to county to state to federal those in elective office took power where none was granted, mandated pseudo-laws where none were passed, and hid behind a media blitz that did little to inform, other than to forecast fear and doom.
Now we are dealing with the aftermath.
Our borders have been thrown open to undocumented entry by persons both ill and bearing animus toward us. We have crippled domestic energy production while imploring OPEC and even Communist regimes to expand their production so we might pay to have it imported to our consumers.
Our “representative” elected officials, oddly enough comprised of doctors, lawyers and people who have never held a job producing anything for public consumption, have spent money on pet projects and egregious “bail out schemes” rife with payoffs to political cronies with little regard to how to pay the bills. They have dissembled about new legislation not costing anything, or costing the “average tax payer” little, by using accounting tricks that disguise true costs.
All the while telling us that the economy is rebounding, 50% is a mandate, fiscal responsibility is right wing hysteria, Americans are incapable of taking care of themselves, and need government to tell them what to eat, where to live, and how to behave.
Let me leave you with a final thought. New legislation comes to the Congress consisting of thousands of pages not words. Most of the “representatives” voting on these “improvements” have never read the proposals they are voting on, believing the sham that “we have to pass it before we can see what’s in it.”
As the story goes, Moses ascended the mountain to learn what God’s guidance was for His people. He returned with two stone tablets and ten concise rules. Then the lawyers got involved and those ten rules turned into thousands of pages of a Bible.
There is a lesson here. If we the people don’t take the reins of government firmly in hand, the horses will continue to run wild and the crash ahead will be inevitable.
Absolutely worthless fake president and gender less (ball less) staff plus demonrat accomplices must be held accountable NOW and be placed in GITMO.
Blocking the truckers delivering our products, food, and necessary needs is a definite communist attack on our Constitutional Rights and is the last straw on the proverbial camel’s back.
Elitist, self-serving, narcissistic demonrats and repubs sit on top of all the wealth they have robbed from working Americans and handed over to their “friends.”
Time to build the gallows. Elitist must be held accountable!
Interesting isn’t it that the Administration is putting up a fence around the Capitol to stop hard working American Citizens from coming to Washington DC to protest, but BLM or Antifa were allowed to protest (riot). Furthermore, we aren’t allowed to build a fence/wall to keep ILLEGAL ALIENS, criminals, drug runners, sex slave-traders, etc out of our country though. The Democrats, Progressive Liberals want to have a Marxist/Communist controlled country. Thanks to George Soros and others that want a one-world order. The only one-world order we need is a world under God with Liberty and Justice for All!
All socialist administrations carry out the same kind of policies to separate themselves from the masses they rule over. Maybe this time Nancy Pelosi will finally get the guard towers manned by the soldiers with M60 machine guns, like she wanted last time.
Why just truckers? Why not fork lift drivers, dump trucks, trash trucks, cement mixers, delivery trucks and vans, and American citizens who have had enough.
What is it about the nature of many on the right to offer corrective actions for Democrats. Let the continue to screw up . Just yesterday , i saw a tv ad in which Biden is now claiming to want to bring jobs back to America, create jobs and quicken our supply chain problems . Folks , it’s only an act . He wants to create a phony image of him being pro America. He only wants to sound normal to get past the mid-term elections . Then immediately after , he’ll resort to cutting jobs in coal country and oil & gas country and elsewhere . This ad comes at a moment when Russia is invading Ukraine and so , it’s also being used to divert your attention, It’s a trick . Check it out for yourself .
there is something drasticly wrong when president is afraid of his own citizens and refuses to meet with them but is comfortable with criminals and thugs I wonder about his concience and his soul
More chaos by not talking to the truckers. After all, by doing this we will not have supplies to the stores, etc. What is he thinking?
Great article, very true, every part of it. Thanks for writing it Betsy.
I don’t know what it takes for people to realize that Sleepy Joe is nothing but a liar and a turncoat hypocrite. He told the people jus wat they wanted to hear and does the opposite. This guy is compromised by so manycountries with his dirty dealings. He could care less about the blue collar worker because he’s a puppet of the elite that not only runs this country but the world. People that voted for this empty suit will soon realize that he will use them then come for them also. Wake up Woke citizens..your children’s future is at stake
Biden is so weak and is destroying this country day by day. He hated President Trump so overturned everything he did and look at us? 30 trillion dollars in debt, inflation out of control, total failure in Afghanistan, destroying our economy with covid shutdowns . This man is not fit to be President and his VP is worse. GOD help us
Useless marxist democrats build fences and walls against Freedom Patriots while allowing open borders with millions of illegal,drug carrying criminals to enter America against our laws.
These scum MUST BE THROWN OUT!
What morons would support traitors, liars,haters and racist like the democrats???
We have a retard as president. No one in the world respects us anymore. Why should they?
I don’t see this ending well. And knowing the Democrats they’ll pin it on President Trump. God Bless America
Do not under estimate the intelligence of our truckers, many have college degrees in fact & have chosen their new professions by choice… I have met doctors & lawyers that have chosen this field of work driving OTR, many truckers work as a husband/wife team as well. I retired from driving big trucks in 2010…Truckers have nothing to be ashamed of & never forget, the food we eat & the clothes we wear, the lumber we buy, sooner or later, gets delivered on a truck…
What the ” Wimp of the North ” has done to the good people of Canada as well as allowing his Gestapo Police to get violent against the truckers spells the end of Trudeau’s pathetic career…
Make no mistake, Biden shares this same mentality, maintain power at any cost, regardless of the impact on American citizens or our beloved truck drivers…
The truckers have other options after their DC visit which will be met with hostility towards them as the razor wire fencing going up is a pretty good indicator of things to come, they can simply hang up their keys & lock the trucks up, stay home & watch America screech to a grinding halt, i.e. NYC being a prime example of their total dependence on truck deliveries would go into panic mode after ( 3 ) days of NO deliveries…Does anyone remember ” Escape From New York? ” I can assure Y’all, it won’t be pretty…
F**K Trudeau & F**K Joe Biden…
Bill… :~)
Joe Biden will treat the Truckers as the enemy because they will not fall in line as the media has. The problem for Ol’ Joe is the truckers can very easily make Joe pay for this disrespect for them. My advice, meet with them actually listen to them and work with them. Don’t be a belligerent ASS and ignore them.
When you have to surround yourself with razor wire for protection in order to make a speech to the nation, even a dummy like biden has to know how despised you are to a majority of the people and how tenuous your so called “leadership” really is. Biden is laughed at, mocked, made the butt of a million jokes and thoroughly disliked and despised by not only most Americans but people all over the world. but does he know it? Does he even know what day it is?? I think not!!!
look how racist and bigoted the democrats are. when antifa and blm were burning, looting, beating and murdering people they called them mostly peaceful protests, they bailed out the rioters, and they told the police to stand down and protect the rioters free speech rights.
now that the truckers are coming it is a whole different thing.
Democrats are horrible disgusting people.
C’mon man! one of you liberals try to justify your actions.
edsall is as dumb as his namesake ford was ugly. fencing always provides direction to the paths to success.
Biden & Company; continue contorting and distorting the English-Language. Obfuscating, concealing the real meaning of ‘democracy’. Shattering and splintering the First Amendment. Allowing the rampaging of Our Southern Border. Encouraging destruction of Our Historical Property. Making it the NORM of destroying images of Our Founding Fathers. Spinning the meaning of ‘progressive’; (when they really are ‘regressive’.) Dems/Communists are living and breathing regression; and have ushered in the ‘Dark Ages’. Are we then surprised at the ‘cold shoulder’ that Biden & Company is giving to the ‘Patriot Canadians’?
What makes an educated person BETTER than an uneducated person? Unintelligent people with a degree who think that a piece of paper and Student loan debts makes them better.
I honor the working class people who bring us our every need and wants to our stores and to our doors. Educated people bring ideas and ideals but not our food, clothing and other essentials.
God Bless the truckers, merchant mariners, the Momma & Papa neighborhood shops who have been so wrongfully hurt by these lock-downs, door-dashers and insta-cart delivery people, the baby-sitters. God Bless all those people who might not have a “degree” but have good common sense and loyalty to our great nation.
The end result of the truckers protest in Ottawa is that it has enabled Trudeau to turn Canada into a fascist nation. We have to hope that enough Americans still support the Constitution to protect us from the same thing happening in DC.
The wall is a direct result of what happened at Jan 6th Riots at Capitol. Results of that riot was $1.5 Million in damages, so why let this happen again. Plus, the Capitol Police will be protected better than they were on Jan 6th. As a result, this wall is costing taxpayers dollars every time wall goes up.
Just remember this you a**hole Democrats, Democrats want a wall if they think it will protect their sorry a**es but put a wall on our border where they won’t see the consequences and they don’t give a damn
Excuse me mr edsall, I have been a truck driver, as well as a Mechanical Engineer registered in the state of wisconsin as a professional!!! Would you like to repeat your insults about truckers??? I would guess not, as you can only see part of the truth!
Everybody stock up while you can. My husband and I have been buying a lot of bags of noodles and rice, cans of meat and soups and veggies for a while now. Also buy a big pack of paper towels and toilet paper everytime we go to the store. This could get real ugly for a while. I just hope the truckers stop delivering to DC. I’m sure they have other ways of getting their needs met, but hopefully it’s time our American Patriots are deciding to fight against the tyranny being forced on us, and do it right. Create something for truth and Justice these Villians have never seen!
Wow – the sorry bunch of bafoons in charge of the swamp now want to fence out citizens out their own capital complex but don’t give a rat’s a$$ about the U. S.’s Southern Boarder and the illegal alien neer-do-wells breeching our border.
Dumb ass truckers mandates are ending but your un vaccine are still going to get sick and die. Gas prices are up because if demand there is not enough truckers not move the good like gas. Price what is going on in Eastern Europe band Russia dick head truckers. Truckers are morons. You should get paid by the hour not the load. It basic economics. Demand and supplies. More demand than supply that why prices are up. It’s also weather can cause problems. Etc Take a economic classes micro and Marco you fking morons.
Moron people online. You dumb shits don’t know nothing about economics micro and macro economics. Demand and supplies. What causes problems like weather, etc
BLOCKADE CANADA, NO MORE GOODS FOR ANYBODY
Dumb ass morons it’s basic demand and supplies. There is more demand than supply. What Dumb ass moron here. causes supply and demand problems. Weather like a cold snap freezing the orange crop in Florida, floods, drought, wire fires. This can cause insurance prices up, building supplies up. When the dumb ass truckers in Canada it’s caused auto companies not closed due no parts being shipped to the USA. Billions of lost profits wages higher car prices.if your not vaccinated than if you get sick higher health care prices you pay and others. Yes your employer can charge you more like smoking. Take economic classes. The greatdepression in the 30’s in USA also went effect international too. Wars cause problems too. Like Russian gas 40 percent on market. When you have war things go to war in to civilian markets. Trump had 15 failed businesses. 6 bankruptcy. He had a good economy when in office. Trump did nothing. China deal with trump not a single more product shipping. Lying trump. You trump supporters are cry babies. To were taken in ..you think the earth is flat. Trump is a sire loser. He tried to take people vote away and did a coup. Nazi German was factionalism state. Guess you assholes know nothing. Guess you failed history.Your bitchs buy into shit get a education. Trucking is pay by the load not the hour. Most don’t know anything about USA history economics financial etc
Interesting how a secure fence can be built around the Capital in a matter of days, but we’ve been asking for Border Security for YEARS.
A more effective protest and one harder to stop would be for the truckers to simple park their rigs for two weeks.
Biden sucks
Appears the only places that still have mask mandates are the ones controlled by federal government. Airports and medical facilities that get Medicare payments. I’m ready to see the faces of the people I deal with. Enough of the mandates.
I’m currently flying home across the country. With layover and delays I’ll be spending at least 27 hours straight in a mask. I doubt the
Buearocrats would do that
The fact that they are building a wall shows what cowards they are. The Dems and RINOs know they are against the rights of Americans and should be afraid. I hope they stay behind their walls and starve. They can isolate like they forced us to do. They are useless traitors. FJB
Keep the distractions coming. If Biden isn’t ousted soon there will be very little to fight for other than our own personal pantries…
So let’s talk stupid move the wall to keep trackers out United States citizens people that deliver your food your fruits your gas and anything else that comes across but will not build a fence to keep out illegals that bring in diseases trouble and all sorts of problems I think they got it backwards folks
Right on target Betsy!
The so called elites are trying to change our country into something very different. Bigger government and large corporations will control even more of your life. People who are ok with that will realize in future are wrong they were but then it will be too late. Life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness is still important.
To be a great country we must be strong economically, militarily and most importantly morally and we are currently slowly getting weaker in these areas.
Surprised? Typical sensationalized show by the Godless liberal media mucks. While our men n women continue to fend for themselves at our Southern Borders, these career politician Dem????crats who btw are all about gun control, scurry like Rats to isolate n insulate themselves in the dc sewer. Why not as Elected Reps n Servants of the American people ???? meet and arrange talks with our HARD WORKING TRUCKERS? Nahhh spend Tax Dollars on Self. Shameful and SINISTER!!!
Wow, my travel is limited, but I have seen more than I like, exposing the personality and character of those believing that they are certainly “Holier than Thou” – Never did I think that those that we elect and those that are employed by us, would establish such a high regard for their existence above any single person’s purpose – What Sad, Egotistical Admiration they have for Themselves and No Regard for Any Other!
Fire Them All for Failure to Take Direction from Their Employers and Having ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY!
I actually have nothing but hate for the left utter distain. They are not fellow Americans they are Marxist Nazi fucks, enough said.
Once again, we clearly see the democrats’ arrogance in action. That this information from the CDC was also withheld from doctors is beyond belief! If the liberals can’t trust us to handle the truth and the science, then maybe they should take a look at public education and see how it has failed us. Then let the truckers get on the road again, so I can have my rye bread and lumber.
When tbe Republicans regain control will they also fence themselves in? I hope not. The message this fence sends is extremely offensive. Can’t wait to see
So these dumbocrats are putting up a wall to stop Americans from protesting unfair mandates and damaging laws. They do this but building a wall to keep our country safe and secure is immoral and wrong. These elitists bend all the laws and rules to benefit themselves. Time for term limits.