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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/trump-train-attack-biden-bus-january-6No paywall
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The bane of raw intelligence and history is that you can always look back and find the signs, but you cant necessarily look ahead and see where theyre pointing. Many questions remain about the intelligence failures that enabled an insurrectionist mob to lay siege virtually unimpeded to the US Capitol. But heres one sign thats been flashing in my head since 6 January 2021.
Four days before the 2020 election, a Trump Train of motorists swarmed a Biden-Harris campaign bus on Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. Kamala Harris would have been on the bus but for a last-minute schedule change, according to Wendy Davis, then a Texas congressional candidate and the campaign surrogate onboard. The videotaped vehicular harassment tailgating, sudden braking, passing the bus within inches got nationwide coverage, courtesy of participants back-slapping on social media and Donald Trumps high-five in return.
Though no one was hurt, it took little imagination to see how a 20-ton container of flammable fuel moving in heavy traffic could have turned into a highway bomb. But to the Trump Train, one of its founders, Steve Ceh, told me, the razzing of the Democrats was simply fun like a rival football game.
No local arrests were reported, but the FBI in San Antonio confirmed it was investigating. Presumably (albeit against Trumps tweeted wishes) it was still investigating two months later when the explosion came: a massive incarnation of the Trump Train rioting against President-elect Biden in Washington. It was then that I started getting flashbacks to another historic act of domestic terrorism, one also presaged by a difficult bus ride and lately back in the news.
Sixty years ago, on 15 September 1963, when Ku Klux Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and killed four Black girls attending Sunday school, the shock to the country exceeded the moral language to express it. Both President John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr cast political blame on Alabamas Segregation forever! governor, George Wallace. At the time he seemed a pariah, the only vicious racist King singled out in his I Have a Dream speech 18 days earlier, at the March on Washington. In fact, Wallace was the spearhead of a proto-Maga minority that more than half a century later captured the White House for Trump. And now political violence is so normal that we have a former southern governor, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas (whose daughter, Trumps former spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is the current governor), effectively endorsing civil war should the prosecution of Trump over a violent coup attempt derail his return to power.
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rogue emissary
(3,194 posts)There were a lot of incidents pointing to something disastrous occuring on Jan 6th.
In the DC area their was a news report in Nov/Dec of a catch of guns being found in boarding Va county to DC as well.
Nevilledog
(52,693 posts)I want it to be MTG though.
rogue emissary
(3,194 posts)reymega life
(675 posts)Kid Berwyn
(17,173 posts)Trumps eldest son called on supporters get out there, have some fun
by Gino Spocchia
The Independent, Oct. 31, 2020
A Biden campaign event was cancelled in Texas on Friday after reportedly coming under threat from armed Trump supporters, days after the presidents eldest son called on his fathers supporters to get out there, have some fun.
Don Jr posted a video earlier this week ahead of Democratic VP candidate, Kamala Harris, holding an event in Texas and urged his fathers supporters to show up.
He said: Itd be great if you guys would all get together, head down to McAllen and give Kamala Harris a nice Trump Train welcome."
Get out there, have some fun, enjoy it, Mr Trump continued.
Dont forget to vote and bring all of your friends. Lets show them how strong Texas still is as Trump country. Get out there, guys.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/donald-trump-jr-biden-bus-texas-kamala-harris-campaign-b1482882.html
tanyev
(44,010 posts)Some of the people playing that stupid game could have been seriously hurt or killed. I guess what they were really hoping for is that the bus would lose control and roll off the highway. Then high fives all around. Assholes.
Kid Berwyn
(17,173 posts)Highway speeds. Bus-sized masses. Monsters in monster trucks. Evil intent.
Only reason is for the high fives all around.
FelineOverlord
(3,709 posts)JHB
(37,284 posts)Republican political actors disrupt electoral proceedings in order to throw the process into chaos and have the election be decided by the ruling of a Republican-partisan USSC.
Sound familiar?
Kid Berwyn
(17,173 posts)...with three picks by Putin's Choice.
Good to read you, JHB!