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.

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    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.

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      You know the answer. Theyre on social security. Storytime. I have a psyho trump flag ultra maga neighbor. Has a bumpersticker “Silly liberal, paychecks are for people with jobs”. This was before his car was reposessed recently and now he bums rides off neighbors. Of course hes like 80 years old long since retired and has never gone to work once in the 8 years Ive known him. The county provided free senior bus picks him up once a week to go get groceries. The church bus picks him up on sundays. Seems his only purpose in life is hanging his fuck you flags in the morning, taking them down at night and walking his dog. Btw, he lives in absolute hoarder squalor and his trailer is collapsing around him. When he dies theyll have to demolish it, its beyond repair. I see all this as my wife and I leave for work every morning.

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

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        Your neighbor sounds like the average MAGA airhead:

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

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

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        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.

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          I dont begrudge him his social security or retirement one bit. He deserves it, we all deserve it. Im pointing out the hypocrisy of having a “Silly liberal, paychecks are for people with jobs” while being unemployed and living on the dole. Both things exist.

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          Yeah, but this is the sort of dumbfuck who has voted for politicians who dismantle and oppose social safety nets all his life.

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          It’s possible he prefers to live simply, because he is actively investing in DWAC and Trump NFTs…

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

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

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      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.