Big Truck Republicans

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Texas  GOP Senator Ted Cruz spent part of yesterday - or maybe it was the day before - riding the beltway around Washington, DC, in a large "18-wheeler" semi - as a passenger.  A few truckers - and there weren't many - were trying to emulate last month's trucker protest in Canada that put pressure on the Canadian government to end COVID restrictions.  Unfortunately for US truckers operating south of the Canadian border, our government is already eliminating COVID safety measures at a reckless rate, so the passion for protest just was not present.

But Ted Cruz was.

The pot-bellied Texas senator somehow managed to get into and out of the big truck without assistance and without physical mishap, though it appeared to be touch-and-go for awhile, especially as he was disembarking.  Cruz, who always seems to regard himself as above the average man, no doubt enjoyed his elevated perch looking down on the little people of Washington, DC,  as they scurried to-and-from work.  There were only a very few trucks in the "convoy" which was unable to block anything.  As the irritated commuters raced around the trucks, many flipped their regards to Cruz and his brother truckers!

Sarah Palin, the Lauren Boebert of the North, is another GOP politician who likes big trucks.  This week Palin made an appearance on the Jesse Watters show on Fox, the only network where GOP has-beens can seem to find airtime.  Palin had come on the show to snarl about high gas prices and to try to join Fox in placing the blame for the rising prices on President Biden.

For some odd reason Sarah wanted to let America know that it cost her nearly $140 to fill her truck up with gas.  She then defended her choice to drive a gas-guzzling big truck by taking potshots at White House press secretary Jenn Psaki, whose name she seemed to intentionally mispronounce, and then to make an attack of fuel-efficient Asian cars which she pejoratively referred to as "rice rockets."

I drive a "rice rocket" and I like it.  My Kia is roomy and comfortable, has a nice sound system, and, even with today's gas prices, can be filled from empty for right around forty dollars - and it will go more than 400 miles on that tank of gas!

But Sarah Palin, who has been in Manhattan suing newspapers, spreading COVID, and doing guest spots on Fox for most of the last several weeks, probably needs her big truck for farm work, or hauling around the carcasses of big animals that she has killed.  And she is certainly entitled to roar down the road destroying the environment and consuming far more than her fair share of the world's scarce resources - because Sarah works hard for her money!  (Wheeze, snicker, guffaw!)

Big guns and big trucks.  It's all messaging.  Some folks want the rest of us to understand in the clearest possible terms that they are bigger and more important than we are.

Ten-four, good buddies.  Message received!  I'm flipping you my personal response as I type!