Ron Bulman Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: I ran through the main msn headlines yesterday and this morning and didn't notice anything about this. I went looking after your post Steve. Why isn't this national news? https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/10/31/biden-harris-stops-canceled-texas-pro-trump-convoy-threats/ https://twitter.com/KatieNaranjo/status/1322311181168758784/photo/2 This is from a right wing site but read the comments/see the pictures by Cervini. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/10/31/dems-become-unhinged-because-trump-supporters-give-the-biden-bus-tour-a-big-welc-n2579166 I guess this did make the national news at least once. Finally, without much of the detail. I hope they catch whoever rammed the staffer's car and throw there ass in jail. The same dozen cars/people following the bus around the country sounds like harassment to me, maybe stalking of the occupants? I guess they're just protesting peacefully. something they detest. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-condemns-bus-incident-and-trump-fan-behavior-at-his-home/ar-BB1aAW8L?li=BBnbfcL Edited November 2, 2020 by Ron Bulman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 The actual video is about a quarter of the way down the page in this link. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-nw-biden-campaign-bus-texas-20201101-4bvnr7xeg5hypimatt45vhi5bi-story.html I guess it's not just me that ought of it as harassment. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/11/01/trump-glorifies-drivers-who-swarmed-biden-bus-in-texas-as-others-see-harassment-and-felony-assault/ Trump loves Texas. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-hails-highway-ambush-video_n_5f9e174cc5b6bef9f18e22ce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) Even here in our relatively small coastal town of Monterey, CA we have our TRUMP flag and banner caravans! I was walking into a gas station store 4 hours ago when I heard constant loud horn honking and shouts of people back and forth. I looked up and sure enough it was a Trump caravan...honking and slowing traffic at the nearest intersection. I am being truthful...most of the 12 or so Trump banner and American flag adorned vehicles involved were pickup trucks. The jacked up high ones with big wheels. Some with ladder racks. They looked like the kind of trucks you would see hunters and construction workers use. A squat big bellied, straggly haired woman next to me started waving her arms frantically and shouting encouragement to the caravan. Just to be sure I asked her...was that a Trump deal? She got real beligerent and growled back at me ..."Yeah it was...you gotta problem with that?" Later I heard on KCBS radio station in San Francisco that hundreds of business owners in downtown San Francisco were closing down and boarding up their windows in anticipation of violence after the election. The city police force is going to beef up with hundreds more personnel as well. Same thing in San Jose. A political election historian was interviewed during this news report and said we ( the United States) have never experienced such heightened anger and violence anticipation during a presidential election. He cited Trump's encouragement of his base to go to polling places to watch out for irregularities as an act of intimidation. He mentioned Trump's Twitter response to the Texas Biden Campaign bus intimidation. Trump's calming, condemning words? "I LOVE TEXAS."!!! Clearly this fear and violence atmosphere is being fed by Trump according to this contributing news guest. Clips of average people expressing their feelings about this violence threat included one young lady saying almost desperately..."this is crazy!" I can't believe someone as blatantly vigilante encouraging as Trump could be elected again. If he is, that young lady's assessment of what is going on in our country ( "this is crazy!" ) is seriously and tragically true. Edited November 2, 2020 by Joe Bauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: The actual video is about a quarter of the way down the page in this link. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-nw-biden-campaign-bus-texas-20201101-4bvnr7xeg5hypimatt45vhi5bi-story.html I guess it's not just me that ought of it as harassment. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/11/01/trump-glorifies-drivers-who-swarmed-biden-bus-in-texas-as-others-see-harassment-and-felony-assault/ Trump loves Texas. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-hails-highway-ambush-video_n_5f9e174cc5b6bef9f18e22ce The question's going to be: Is this the future of American politics after Trump and Biden are history? Is this learned behavior that will be with us in 2024 and after? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Montenegro Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Hank Albarelli's book "Coup in Dallas: Who Killed JFK and Why" got pushed back another three months, literally later than the publication date of his other book "Wormwood Exposed: The Truth About Frank Olson and Other Terrible Mistakes". So much for me being the bad guy, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) Just watched the Texas Biden Bus bullying video again. Knowingly and purposely using one's moving vehicle to endanger, threaten or harm others is a crime so obvious in every state in the Union. Look at the video! I would have had a panic attack if I was the driver and or a passenger. Try this to a police or first responder vehicle and see what happens. Any Highway Patrol would stop and arrest you. And you will do time. And for a President of the United States to encourage this vigilante intimidation lawlessness with comments like "I LOVE TEXAS" to the entire nation, should be considered so outrageous, it should cost him the election. These are highly aggressive and beligerent acts of endangering done by roving bands of taunting and intimidating vigilantes. These individual acts of tolerated aggression are risking blowing things even more wide open. What if the Biden Bus had crashed and some Democratic party officials on board were killed? And all this President can say regards this violence heightening risk KKK type threatening bullying action is ... " I LOVE TEXAS?" What a scary outrage. Edited November 2, 2020 by Joe Bauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) Vote. Flags for Change is sold out. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-year-of-the-vote-how-americans-surmounted-a-pandemic-and-dizzying-rule-changes-so-their-voices-would-be-heard/ar-BB1aB9si?li=BBnb7Kz George Floyd's niece was scheduled to speak but never got the chance. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/peaceful-march-to-the-polls-in-north-carolina-is-met-with-police-pepper-spray-and-arrests-causing-outcry-on-eve-of-election/ar-BB1aBeGH?li=BBnb7Kz Edited November 2, 2020 by Ron Bulman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Brancato Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Makes me wonder whether making less of a spectacle about voting would be better tactics. If they were literally locked from voting, rather than blocked from rallying in front of a courthouse, wouldn’t that be clearer messaging? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Texas Tribune takes on Biden bussing in Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/31/biden-trump-texas-bus/ "These patriots did nothing wrong". https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/01/trump-biden-bus/ imho the bus driver made a big mistake. If he would have slammed hard on his brakes for a half second a good part of the train would have eat each others asses. Hit the gas and take off. The bus could have absorbed a slight hit from the pickup behind if timed properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Robert Wheeler said: There are numerous videos that showing a white Biden supporter SUV driving aggressively, and nearly forcing a Trump pickup truck into another lane. If you don't think most of the trucks and cars in the Trump Escort Caravan didn't have dash cams and phone video then you are going to have to re-access how to create an effective narrative, because your "Mad Max Styled Trump Supporters Attack Biden Bus Filled with Children and Puppies" story is not flying. Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging Blue State ... money.yahoo.com › trump-supporters-spend-weekend-... 18 hours ago — Trump Train from Seaford to Montauk, Long Island NY ... Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging Blue State Highways ... going to try to steal it back after the election,” Jason Miller, a Trump adviser, told ABC's This Week. Police respond to multiple incidents during "Trump Train" - CNN www.cnn.com › 2020/11/02 › richmond-trump-train 4 hours ago — Richmond Police Department officials responded to multiple incidents Sunday afternoon during a "Trump Train" mobile vehicle rally, according ... Missing: virginia | Must include: virginia Donald Trump praises supporters who surrounded Joe ... - ABC www.abc.net.au › news › trump-praises-supporters-who... 13 hours ago — United States President Donald Trump expresses his admiration for supporters ... were in the "Trump train" with some yelling profanities and obscenities. ... that Trump supporters "tried to run [the campaign bus] off the road". Missing: clogging | Must include: clogging Road warriors called "Patriots" !!! I personally witnessed a big pickup truck Trump caravan purposely slowing traffic and constantly and loudly blaring their horns through a major intersection of my home town yesterday. The effect of this scary loud aggressive action on other drivers and people on the street was one of fear and even confrontation. It was a purposeful and powerful act of intimidation and instigation. Getting a political demonstration permit and gathering in a safe and open place in a city with hand held signs and maybe even a lot of yelling is one way of legally protesting or promoting your candidate and party. A traditional and safe type of demonstrating we are all used to and somewhat comfortable with. But to take your demonstration on the moving vehicle roadway with traffic slowing, eye distracting sign and flag adorned and loud horn blaring pick up trucks is a new level of political demonstrating. Clearly a more aggressive and road safety threatening one. We have never seen anything like the more aggressive and confrontational political actions of Trump supporters this election. You can't deny this reality. Encouraging Trump supporters to go to polling places to "watch" for Democratic voters cheating? Tens of thousands of Trump supporters all across the country participating in dangerous highway clogging and slowing "Trump Trains." Clogging traffic and potentially effecting emergency vehicle access and response time. "Mad Max" road warrior types intimidating and endangering Biden supporters ( the Biden Bus encircling incident in Texas ) on our roads and highways? People all across the country afraid to post Biden campaign signs or use Biden bumper stickers for fear of drawing fire? I can hardly find Biden signs in our city or neighboring ones. Never seen this almost complete absense of presidential candidate election signs and bumper stickers before. Never seen such stark public fear like this in our presidential election history. City businesses boarding up their windows in anticipation of post election violence? Quit pretending Trump times aren't the most anger feeding and violence fearing in our election history. Edited November 2, 2020 by Joe Bauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/alarm-sirens-are-blaring-expert-explains-the-chances-of-extreme-political-violence-in-america-after-election-day/ "At Trump’s rallies, the United States flag has almost officially replaced by the fascist, racist, authoritarian “Blue Lives Matter” flag. This is another encouragement of state-sponsored violence by Donald Trump against his movement’s perceived enemies — meaning nonwhite people, Black Lives Matter activists, liberals and progressives, and anyone else deemed to be “justifiable” targets. Writing at the Milwaukee Independent, Mаurіcе Chаmmаh and Cаry Аspіnwаll explore this: What originally began as a banner supporting law enforcement in recent years been increasingly hijacked by White Supremacist groups who use it as a Neo-Confederate flag and symbol of the anti-Black Lives Matter movement. Since the death of George Floyd it has been flown alongside the American flag at Trump rallies. At his “superspreader” event in Waukesha [Wisconsin] on October 24, Trump’s campaign took the unprecedented step of replacing the patriotic red, white, and blue of the “Stars and Stripes.” Instead, the cold black, white, and blue was displayed as the dominant background for Trump at the event, in what critics call a visual dog whistle. Those who fly the flag have said it stands for solidarity and professional pride within a dangerous, difficult profession and a solemn tribute to fallen police officers. But it has also been flown by white supremacists, appearing next to Confederate flags at the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville. Philosopher Jason Stanley described this on Twitter as the “replacement of the American flag by a fascist one. Whether Trump manages to stay in office or not, the second Confederacy now has a banner.”" http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/syndicated/controversial-thin-blue-line-flag-replaces-americas-stars-stripes-trump-rally-waukesha/ Flags matter. They are the tangible symbol of a people united for a cause. That Trump replaced the American flag with the Thin Blue Line flag as the centerpiece of his rally is a rejection of the nation itself in favor of his role as the leader of the alt-right. And it was not inadvertent: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called attention to the prominence of the flag, tweeting: ‘The Thin Blue Line flag is flying HIGH at President [Trump’s] rally in Wisconsin!’ – Heather Cox Richardson Steve Thomas Edited November 2, 2020 by Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Years from now, historians will look back on the last two weeks of Donald Trump's Presidential campaign and shake their heads at the sheer incompetentancy. From his campaign manager stealing $40 million, and hackers in Wisconsin stealing $2 million, to stranding rally goers in the cold and dark in Nebraska and Pennsylvania and dropping like flies in the heat of Tampa, FL; at his rally in North Carolina, they were playing the theme song from the movie, Titanic. People are going to look back and ask, "Who hired these guys?" Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 46 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said: Years from now, historians will look back on the last two weeks of Donald Trump's Presidential campaign and shake their heads at the sheer incompetentancy. From his campaign manager stealing $40 million, and hackers in Wisconsin stealing $2 million, to stranding rally goers in the cold and dark in Nebraska and Pennsylvania and dropping like flies in the heat of Tampa, FL; at his rally in North Carolina, they were playing the theme song from the movie, Titanic. People are going to look back and ask, "Who hired these guys?" Steve Thomas Really wierd that this unprecedented and laughably absurd Trump incompetency campaign stuff isn't being discussed or reported more in the national media. Money missing all over the place which is a Trump signature. They still can't account for those missing millions in the 2017 Trump inauguration fund. Just look at Trump's former top campaign advisors and where they all ended up. Manafort in jail for corruption involving millions of dollars. Steve Bannon charged with siphoning millions from his Trump Wall charity fund? Brad Parsacle, missing funds and he's arrested while drunk and threatening to harm himself and tossed into a looney bin? All immersed in corruption scandals. How about Roger Stone? Rudy Giuliani? It truly is a crazy comedy reality show. Trump's talent for picking the best? Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) And now der Fuhrer ist barricading himself in his White House bunker... Scheisse... 🤥 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-erects-fence-before-election_n_5fa004ccc5b658b27c3c8d04 Edited November 2, 2020 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 If you're going to protest, go to Barcelona. https://boingboing.net/2020/11/02/street-pianist-plays-on-as-barcelona-ignites-with-protests.html Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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