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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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“Your honor, this traffic accident is the equivalent of a KKK lynching!”
The white car/SUV was almost certainly a Biden/Harris/Democrat staff car, and not a Trump supporter. In complaining about the Trump Train that accompanied the Biden/Harris bus, the Biden/Harris campaign said that there had been a collision between its staff car and a vehicle in the Trump Train. The blue truck was clearly a Trump supporter, so the white vehicle has to be the referenced Biden/Harris staff car (unless there is a separate vehicle collision that is not being discussed).
“Your honor, this fender bender is the moral equivalent of looting and burning!”
SMPD: San Marcos Police Department
“The at-fault vehicle may be the white SUV and the victim appears to be the black truck,” a statement from SMPD reads
Okay. I get it now. :-) I was right in my impressions of what I saw, just wrong in my impressions of others’ descriptions. :-)
Gee, I wonder if it has to do with all the people lying about Trump, and traffic accidents.
The fact that the photo of the damage to the SUV in the video Gary posted has been placed under copyright by Travis County Democratic Party chairwoman Katie Naranjo would indicate that either she or one of her people took the photo, because you can’t take a photo of the damage someone else shot and placed online and then copyright it for yourself.
So if it’s an original photo that leaves a couple of options. Either Naranjo or one of her people stopped on the side of the highway and bravely took a photo of a damaged SUV driven by a Trump supporter with a bunch of Trump people around them, or the SUV was driven by a Biden supporter familiar to Naranjo, and she or someone on her staff took the photo at the Austin campaign stop, since they canceled their stop in San Marcos for the deep Blue security of Travis County (Gary’s video got that part wrong, saying they cancelled their campaign stop in Austin).
Is Gary licensed to practice law in Texas? If so, he needs to fly down there immediately and read the riot act to San Marcos PD for daring to slander the veracity of Team Joe and their allegation that the Trump train people were entirely at fault in the incident.
It is not appropriate for anyone to block traffic except for health/safety/police reasons.
However, this year we have been shown that it is acceptable to do it for political reasons also – this is well documented.
So it gets the softest of denouncings from me as the rules seem to have changed.
Also ‘swarm’ is a meaningless term meant to gin up an emotional response.
I agree. I don’t like this intimidation on the road. But it seems so mild in comparison to the riots–those “peaceful protests.”
And these car rallies are to be expected given the lockdown conditions during this campaign. And where we see a lot of cars in a small space, there are bound to be problems. :-)
This year, I voted for a Democrat for President for the first time since 1972.
It feels pretty doggone lonely at Ricochet right now. I really miss “The Gold Tooth.” But I can do no other than shine the light on Trump and Trumpism.
That is delightful! I am so happy for you. This was a demonstration for Trump, not an attempt to punk the other side. I am so proud of our country and our First Amendment!
Not all Trump supporters are thugs. Certainly my sainted mother is not. But people who swarm the bus of another candidate, and who block highways are thugs.
I believe that the white car was driven by a Biden supporter.
I wasn’t there in 72 but it seems that Biden is running a similar platform to McGovern. Might be your preference.
I denounce anyone who blocks highways, be they Antifa, BLM, Bernie Bros., or Trump Train Thugs. I support all of them being prosecuted.
Again, where are your posts calling our Antifi for this?
Trolls, maybe. But not thugs, unless they actually tried to do something to the bus.
Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air posted a round up of videos of the incident, including the San Marcos police’s statement that the Biden-supporting driver created the danger behind the bus (he also posted a link to an analysis of the video by Patterico, who hates Trump as much as you do, and even he said that the Biden driver caused the problem).
Nah. In 1972, I was in college.
I belong to the Party of Reagan, not the Party of Trump.
https://ricochet.com/819801/from-the-police-blotter-traffic-scuffle/
Now, Gary, I suppose what does a retired police officer know, right?
Yes, the news has been that a Trump supporter caused the accident, so I was using that framework to highlight the inconsistency of the public narrative. I should have been clearer.
You are not in the Party of Regan, as the GOP is behind Trump, very strongly. You are voting Democrat, not Republican.
If you mean you used to be a Reagan supporter, fine. But, that was two generations ago, Gary. It is 2020.
But hey, my guess is, in 1776, you would have been going on and on about how Thomas Paine was too radical, and he just lost you, and therefore you reluctantly had to support the King, and that once the English won the war, then we could get down to the real business of Independence.
*That* it what you sound like.
The funny thing about this single photo — unlike the “accident” video, is that there is no context whatsoever. Gary, you say you recognize the road, and that looks like it takes especial knowledge, because to my eye that road could easily be in just about any state. Secondly, the whole set up looks odd to me: why would nasty Trumpers wanted to shut down an unused road? And if they wanted to, why would they reverse their cars to do it instead of just slowing down their cars to a stop?
And they don’t look like they are protesting (maybe on tthe way to a rally), but waiting around for something. Maybe the scene is just one of an accident and the other cars are waiting around for a tow truck and want to keep the group together.
But frankly, nothing of that photo makes sense to me. What were the circumstances surrounding those cars, and who took that photo?
I have not posted on this issue, however I have commented on it.
Now a question for you. Do you denounce the thuggish behavior of Trump supporters in swarming the Biden bus in Texas? Do you denounce Trump supporters for blocking traffic on the Garden State Parkway and in the NYC area?
Gary is right in one sense. Gary is voting for Biden this year. So is Reagan. so in that sense, Gary belongs to the party of Reagan. But Reagan can be excused for voting for Biden. The reason Reagan is voting for Biden is that he has no choice. He has been dead since 2004. I am not sure what Gary’s excuse is.
Gary,
I already answered this question. Go back and Read.
This just shows that you don’t really want to engage, you just want to drop bombs for the sake of dropping bombs. That speaks very much to your character, which is ironic as you are so engaged in virtue signaling. Your Sainted mother would be so proud.
#allblockersmatter
The Democrat office in Texas has agreed the white SUV is theirs. They have even copyrighted the photo.
I notice that Gary has not posted anything about the traffic event itself since the statement from the San Marcos police was posted.