Bad times today
It seems that Trump vigilantes were out in force in Texas.
Multiple videos posted to social media on Saturday morning apparently show Trump supporters in trucks and cars harassing a Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign bus in Texas, causing the campaign to cancel a planned event in Central Texas.
Harassing as in surrounding it on the freeway, tailgating it, and sideswiping a smaller vehicle.
A Biden campaign spokesperson told Forbes that the Trump supporters “attempted to slow the bus down and run it off the road.” And one local Democratic Party leader, Katie Naranjo, tweeted photos and said Trump supporters “followed the Biden bus throughout central Texas” and “ran into a person’s car, yelling curse words and threats.”
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Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchía wrote on Twitter that the Trump caravan was encouraged by Eric Trump on Facebook and claimed that some of those involved were armed.
The police refused to intervene.
Trump, of course, is pleased:
https://boingboing.net/2020/10/31/trump-glorifies-texas-attack-maga-drivers-tried-to-push-biden-harris-bus-off-road.html
Captain Bonespurs aka Trump appears to be dog-whistling the US into nothing short of serious and widespread civil disturbance Now is the time for those concerned that forces under Trump’s command and control might not protect them when push comes to shove to start organising their own local self-defence units on whatever basis. Things could turn very quickly nasty if Trump loses and refuses to leave office.
I’m not sure why the FBI isn’t right now doxxing and calling each one of those domestic terrorists in for an interview.
Because let’s be frank, this is domestic terrorism.
Absolutely unacceptable that this would happen and that Trump would celebrate it. I can’t believe this isn’t getting more publicity.
The boing boing article used a screenshot of Trump’s tweet celebrating this, maybe thinking he’d delete it, but it’s still live:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1322700188624932869
He’s proud of this.
Ya I just did a post with the new stuff.
Skeletor, I agree. They need to cover it better. I told my husband about it last night, and he looked for it on Reuter’s this morning, but was not able to find it in his news feed. I notice CNN did have something (from the later post), and will refer him there. He is horrified that he hears of these things first from me on B&W, and not from the mainstream press he frequents. Not that he has anything against B&W.