Newly Arrived in Springfield, The Freedumb Convoy!

Or a Freedumb Convoy.

Or three wingnut CDL holders in search of validation.

Or three liberal CDL holders pulling  a very satisfyingly April Fool's caper.  

But the number is correct.  Whatever they are -- or think they are --  when I shot this at little after ten this morning, there were three of them.

Three.

Which means that as of this writing, there are more trucks parked on two blocks of Fourth Street because of crews doing tree removal and pothole filling that are to be found in this anemic little offshoot of the Freedumb Convoy.  

But wait a minute.  Perhaps I am not being Fair and Balanced?  Perhaps the bulk of their Mighty Smarmada is parked elsewhere, its drivers communing with nature or having a hearty Freedumb breakfast of Freedumb waffles and Freedumb cola, and will swing by closer to the lunching hour.

Or perhaps they got to bed late and are sleeping off a Freedumb kegger and six hours of Toby Keith karaoke somewhere, but will be by closer to the lunching hour.

Or perhaps...

Nope.

I went past again to verify three hours later (journalism!) and there stood the same three rigs --

-- and the same 3-4 IHOP Patrick Henrys and Dollar Store Nathan Hales --

-- waving the inevitable Gadsden flag and the hand-lettered "Freedom not Fear" sign, showing the world their unbending opposition to something that had been, at worst, a mild inconvenience and is no longer being mandated here in Illinois.  

No one tried to "cancel" them.  No jackbooted Deep State goons descended on them. No wild mob of Woke Lefties showed up to so much as muss their hair.  In fact, during this brief sunny interlude between rain showers here in central Illinoi, it appeared that barely anyone noticed or cared at all.  

They were out there, listlessly protesting something that isn't real, while a few families and state workers on their phones walked past on their way to wherever they were going, and the statue of Lincoln looked down at them as if demanding to know:  

America!

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