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Biden Confused by Free Speech
Evidence provided by Biden campaign of terrifying protesters flying American flags on a public highway, new Covid-19 restrictions expected in response.
“Rather than engage in productive conversation about the drastically different visions that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have for our country, Trump supporters in Texas today instead decided to put our staff, surrogates, supporters, and others in harm’s way,” Biden campaign Texas communications director Tariq Thowfeek told news outlets, confirming several events would be canceled in the state.
“Our supporters will continue to organize their communities for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ballot, and to the Texans who disrupted our events today: We’ll see you on November 3rd,” Thowfeek said. The campaign also told other news outlets that the events were canceled out of an abundance of caution.
In some reports, Biden personnel claim a minor collision between a protester vehicle and a Biden staff vehicle, and an attempt to run the bus off the road. Police wrote no tickets, made no arrests, and no vehicles were run off the road or disabled. It’s not like they were traveling in a lawless wasteland like Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Oakland….
After billions in damage, dozens of murders, hundreds of burned-out city blocks, thousands of shuttered businesses, and millions of jobs destroyed by his astroturf rioters, Joe has finally discovered where he draws the line on free speech. Antifa is just an idea. Texans, though, Texans are obviously extremist terrorists. The man who has tacitly supported the use of frozen bottles, Molotov cocktails, and laser weapons with impunity against America’s police now draws a line.
Don’t forget to vote.
PS: CNN reports that the FBI is investigating this incident as harassment. They are already preparing for the new order.
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By Jove, I think he’s got it.
Apparently you have not taken the 4-5 minutes to watch the doggone video of the Trump Train Thugs menacing the Biden-Harris bus in Comment #46. Apparently you have heard the reaction of the woman at the one minute point as a truck drives into the white car of a Biden volunteer trying to protect the Biden bus. Apparently you have not watched DJTJ encourage the Trump Train Thugs to give the Biden people a proper Texas hello.
If I play that video that you have in front of a jury, I will win. The American people are the jury and they are seeing Trump Train Thug violence, and harassment, and they don’t like it one bit, and they will rise up against bullies.
Look at the video. Hear the mocking language of bullies and mobs. Realize that the Trump Train Thugs have been revealed to the public.
Gary’s video at 0:58 shows the side damage to the white SUV, but doesn’t note if the SUV’s driver was a Trump or a Biden supporter….
…But if you freeze the image at 0:58, you’ll note the photo of the damaged SUV has been copyrighted by Travis County Democratic Party chairwoman Katie Naranjo, which you wouldn’t think would be possible, if she was re-posting a shot of the damaged side of the SUV that had been taken by a Trump supporter. But it could be if Naranjo or one of the other Democrats took the photo when the SUV got to Austin.
That doesn’t necessarily mean the driver causing the most danger was actually a Biden supporter trying to push the Trump supporter in the blue pickup off onto the right shoulder of the road, but it points in that direction.
I speak for myself. I have seen Antifa. They are much more than an idea to me.
Bryan, I do not exist to curry favor with you. Whenever the issue has come up, I have condemned Antifa. I am not required to file posts that meet with your stamp of approval.
That having been said, now that you have watched the bulking by the a Trump Train Thugs, do you denounce that? Do you denounce the blue Trump truck steering into the white Biden volunteer car? The picture of the collision itself is in the doggone video. There is also a picture of the damage to the white car.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was enacted with Republican votes after breaking the Democratic filibuster, after Americans saw sickening violence against Blacks in the south on TV. People can see the mobs bullying the Biden bus. They can hear the DJTJ inciting violence. They know that the Trump excuses fall hallow. The American have had it with the Red-White and Blue Brownshirts.
Gary, go find the full video. The white SUV was driving one-third in the right lane and attempting to force the blue pickup onto the right shoulder of I-35 before the blue pickup came back and forced the white SUV back into the center lane. The aggression was instigated by the white SUV.
Journalism always starts from skepticism. If CBS and ABC and NBC and Fox and CNN and MSNBC and NYT and WashPost and Drudge and Breitbart all say that the Japanese surrendered on the deck of the Missouri, I take that as at best likely until I see it in the Telegraph or Die Welt or Epoch Times or the Washington Examiner or the John Batchelor Show. The former are at best second tier sources with established narrative biases and a willingness to ignore important stories. At worst, they are engaged in an active campaign to wind their audiences into a tizzy to recreate the glory that was 9/11 for the news organizations. LA Times is a strangely mixed bag, all over the place. The Richmond-Times has good days and bad days.
On the whole, I prefer news sources that share my principles. EWTN and KFUO do a way better job with the news than 90% of the field. I also listen to news from Japan, Taiwan, India, and the UK.
So no, @garyrobbins, your news sources are a couple of the worst available. It really is as bad as reading Pravda or the Worker’s Daily.
I think that this video is devastating to Trump. The American people will not support this bullying.
Yes, the news reported a Trump vehicle colliding with a livery car. It looks like the white car was the livery car. The pick-up clearly was for Trump. And the Biden campaign I think says that they were involved in an accident, so it must be that the white livery car was theirs. It looks like it was Biden’s campaign that caused the accident.
A peaceful protest mobbing a bus, and running into other vehicles on the freeway? A peaceful protest? Not “peaceful“ like BLM, but “peaceful” like Antifa.
I also have a high b.s. meter, and you have passed it by excusing the Trump Train Thug mob.
You are living in your own little world. That world is coming crashing down.
Exactly. The driver of the white SUV apparently took it on their own to ‘defend’ the bus from the blue pickup getting too close behind and began edging into the right lane, attempting to either force the pickup onto the shoulder of the interstate, or to put on its brakes and back off.
So the white SUV triggered the incident. If you’re Gary you can argue the blue pickup was entirely at fault for retaliating, but the jury would disagree.
Considering how many times you have been fooled by Trump media hoaxes over the last four years that is easily the funniest thing you have written on this thread. Also the most easily disproved.
You are looking in a mirror imagining you are looking through a window.
Aren’t you exaggerating just a little bit? It looks from the video you provided that the Trump car was the one being forced off the road at speed. It looks like the Biden team was the car that broke the law, and jeopardized lives.
I could’ve bet that you’d misunderstand that comment but I knew there wouldn’t be any takers.
But the Trumpers weren’t speeding or encroaching or blaring sirens or anything. They were simply driving uninvited escort with the Biden bus. It was the Biden driver that took criminal action to drive the Trump pickup off the road at high speed. Is this okay with you?
Hey Gary:
More scenes of the Trump Train Thug ambush of the Biden bus. This from Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News.
Well, Biden has been saying he wants to ‘Bring People Together’. He just didn’t say the plan was to bring people together by having angry campaign staffers use their SUVs try to run Trump-supporting pickup drivers off the road.
You have put your finger on it, it’s about the bullying. I think my friends who have been subjected to the slanders and bullying of Critical Theory “education” programs at work and school, that have lost jobs, homes, businesses, friends, family to “mostly peaceful protesters” that go 98% unreported, to ignoring the science to require masks out of doors and the quarantine of the healthy, to the ludicrous disinformation campaign pretending that Hydroxychloroquine is a generic name for arsenic, to the ludicrous proclamation by Biden himself that if Twitter suppresses it it isn’t news, and, oh yes, the total suborning of American intelligence and law enforcement resources to perpetrating the Russiagate hoax with the intention of usurping the rightly and Constitutionally elected President of the United States. And I stop here only because time is limited.
The Trump supporters in the video have seen nothing but bullying. The pearl clutching and hating comes from the Biden supporters who hate them because they have wronged them. No American is going to stand by while your friends bully them from sea to shining sea.
Do not lecture me about bullying, you are an apologist for the worst kinds of bullies.
Play the Garryrobbins
I’m going to expand on this, mostly for myself.
If we take as given a) we are in a battle for the soul of the nation (whatever that means), b) that Antifa and the Trump Train Thugs (points for alliteration, at least) are broadly representative of either side, and c) that this incident is a microcosm of that struggle, then I would say that the following possibilities exist:
Put another way, since I’m trying to get the song out of my head:
Every hand’s a winner, and every hand’s a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.
Freeze the video at 0:34. What do you see? It’s the white SUV, straddling the lines between the right lane and the center lane, attempting to force the pickup off to the side of the road. The retaliation by the pickup that follows never happens if the white SUV stays in its lane, as every other vehicle on I-35 is doing in the video.
You can run all the news reports and talking head pieces you want Gary. The raw video shot by the woman in the vehicle (when she’s talking about having to stop and get gas) shows the road rage incident was instigated by the white SUV, and the photo of the white SUV’s damage was then copyrighted by the Travis County Democratic Party chairwoman. It points to the SUV being that of a Democratic Party operative, who took it on their own to try and muscle the blue pickup to get back from the Biden bus, and got forced back into the center lane by the pickup in a retaliatory move.
Speaking of living in your own little world, there is this. Looks bleak for Biden in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Arizona, Nevada, Florida, and North Carolina look anemic, too.
If Arizona goes for Trump, why Meep! Meep!
Yeah, that seems pretty accurate. Now for my imagining about what led up to this.
The white car was originally directly behind the bus. Other Trump vehicles came up behind the white car. The white car thought it would mess with the Trumps drivers and slowed down to separate them from the campaign bus. The blue pickup raced ahead and filled the gap behind the bus. The white car sped up and tried to take the position behind the bus from the blue pickup. Finally the white car got mad (and I’m sure felt justified in taking the law into it’s own hands — because Biden) and began forcing the blue Trump pickup off the road.
Epilogue: The woman you hear shouting at the bus, is the wife of the guy driving the blue pickup, because when the white car was forcing the pickup off the road, the bus slowed down. This makes a lot more sense than the the Biden campaign’s reports.
If the Biden people want DPS to investigate this as a traffic incident (AFAIK, the FBI can’t issue traffic violation tickets in the State of Texas, even if it’s investigating because Wendy Davis and Roland Gutierrez were on the bus), the driver of the white SUV and the blue pickup get tickets, at best.
But the Biden folks don’t really want the incident investigated — they simply want their side of the incident to be used over the final three days of the campaign unquestioningly by media outlets, and for people like Gary to then declare the situation was entirely caused by the Trump people for having the temerity to drive down the highway next to the Biden bus, and not on the white SUV that tried to force its way back in behind the bus by dangerously forcing the blue pickup onto the shoulder (where a stopped or stalled vehicle possibly could have been parked, and which the white SUV had no way of seeing, due to its positioning behind the bus).
Huh. Didn’t realize that’s where it came from.
Yeah, I agree with you. I wondered why no one was cited at first, and figured it was because — Biden. And the Biden team didn’t want to admit that their own driver caused the accident. And without papers they can spin things any way they want.