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https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics ... index.html
Trump supporters at rallies continue to get stranded in chilly temperatures
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 1:16 PM ET, Mon November 2, 2020
(CNN)Following at least four of President Donald Trump's rallies in the last two weeks, transportation issues left hundreds of supporters stranded for hours.
In Nebraska, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Sunday night in Georgia, buses struggled to move crowds away from rally sites and through traffic. And after one rally, supporters were left to fend for themselves in freezing temperatures.
For months, the Trump campaign has bussed supporters from parking lots to rally sites as a way to accommodate the large crowds. The events have been held in locations such as small airports that don't normally draw rally-sized crowds and often don't have onsite parking available to support the crush of people and crowds.
The practice has created a scenario where thousands of people are left to wait for hours after the event ends for buses to shuttle them back to their cars.
And at nearly all the Trump campaign's rallies supporters have gathered shoulder-to-shoulder and masks have generally not been required, even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
A Trump rally in Rome, Georgia, on Sunday was a chaotic scene.
Buses transporting attendees between an airport tarmac, where Trump delivered remarks, and a parking lot were stuck in traffic. Many supporters, stuck in the jam and in 40-degree weather, were unhappy.
Hundreds stranded in the cold waiting for buses in chaotic post-Trump rally scene
Thousands of supporters at a Butler-Pittsburgh Airport rally were also let loose into the night on Saturday after the President wrapped his remarks there. They streamed out to the closing cheers of "YMCA" only to find no shuttles waiting to take them back to their cars and no guidance available from Trump campaign volunteers.
As supporters spilled out of the airport parking lot, where they'd waited in line to enter earlier, thousands found themselves spilling over the side of the road and into the street, blocking police cars and emergency service vehicles. Supporters were spotted as far as three miles out from the rally site in the middle of a road with no street lights after giving up on shuttles.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment on the most recent incident. But Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign's communications director, called CNN's reporting about the Pennsylvania rally's logistical issues "fake news."
"We have 47 buses taking supporters back to parking. The line is moving and there are heating tents set up," Murtaugh tweeted. "Security and staff are helping people."
However, based on the timing of Murtaugh's tweet, the Trump campaign appeared to still be loading supporters into buses an hour and a half after the President wrapped up remarks.
And just a few days earlier, after a Trump rally in Omaha, Nebraska, hundreds of people were left stranded for hours, waiting for buses that didn't arrive, unable to reach the site because of a clogged two-lane road.
Many people started walking to their cars, down dark roads along a remote stretch near the Omaha airport, parked three or four miles away. Their foot traffic blocked the roads even further. Several medics were seen by CNN giving attention to people stuck in the cold. The temperature was right at freezing, but wind chills were far lower.
The Trump campaign said at the time that they deployed "double" the number of buses for rallygoers "but local road closures and resulting congestion caused delays."
"We always strive to provide the best guest experience at our events and we care about their safety," said Trump deputy national press secretary Samantha Zager in a statement.
She also said that the Trump campaign provided tents, heaters, generators, hot cocoa and hand warmers, but the problems came after the departure location as people walked to nearby roads to wait for buses.
At a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, earlier in October, hundreds of supporters similarly were forced to make the decision to either wait for the bus or walk several miles down a busy road, without sidewalks, to their parking lots.
It's not just cold conditions driving Trump supporters to seek medical attention at rallies this fall. At another rally last week in Tampa, Florida, several supporters required medical attention due to the heat and a nearby fire truck had to cool supporters down.
CNN's Jeff Zeleny, DJ Judd, Ryan Nobles and Jim Acosta contributed to this report.
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Trump supporters at rallies continue to get stranded in chilly temperatures
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 1:16 PM ET, Mon November 2, 2020
(CNN)Following at least four of President Donald Trump's rallies in the last two weeks, transportation issues left hundreds of supporters stranded for hours.
In Nebraska, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Sunday night in Georgia, buses struggled to move crowds away from rally sites and through traffic. And after one rally, supporters were left to fend for themselves in freezing temperatures.
For months, the Trump campaign has bussed supporters from parking lots to rally sites as a way to accommodate the large crowds. The events have been held in locations such as small airports that don't normally draw rally-sized crowds and often don't have onsite parking available to support the crush of people and crowds.
The practice has created a scenario where thousands of people are left to wait for hours after the event ends for buses to shuttle them back to their cars.
And at nearly all the Trump campaign's rallies supporters have gathered shoulder-to-shoulder and masks have generally not been required, even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
A Trump rally in Rome, Georgia, on Sunday was a chaotic scene.
Buses transporting attendees between an airport tarmac, where Trump delivered remarks, and a parking lot were stuck in traffic. Many supporters, stuck in the jam and in 40-degree weather, were unhappy.
Hundreds stranded in the cold waiting for buses in chaotic post-Trump rally scene
Thousands of supporters at a Butler-Pittsburgh Airport rally were also let loose into the night on Saturday after the President wrapped his remarks there. They streamed out to the closing cheers of "YMCA" only to find no shuttles waiting to take them back to their cars and no guidance available from Trump campaign volunteers.
As supporters spilled out of the airport parking lot, where they'd waited in line to enter earlier, thousands found themselves spilling over the side of the road and into the street, blocking police cars and emergency service vehicles. Supporters were spotted as far as three miles out from the rally site in the middle of a road with no street lights after giving up on shuttles.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment on the most recent incident. But Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign's communications director, called CNN's reporting about the Pennsylvania rally's logistical issues "fake news."
"We have 47 buses taking supporters back to parking. The line is moving and there are heating tents set up," Murtaugh tweeted. "Security and staff are helping people."
However, based on the timing of Murtaugh's tweet, the Trump campaign appeared to still be loading supporters into buses an hour and a half after the President wrapped up remarks.
And just a few days earlier, after a Trump rally in Omaha, Nebraska, hundreds of people were left stranded for hours, waiting for buses that didn't arrive, unable to reach the site because of a clogged two-lane road.
Many people started walking to their cars, down dark roads along a remote stretch near the Omaha airport, parked three or four miles away. Their foot traffic blocked the roads even further. Several medics were seen by CNN giving attention to people stuck in the cold. The temperature was right at freezing, but wind chills were far lower.
The Trump campaign said at the time that they deployed "double" the number of buses for rallygoers "but local road closures and resulting congestion caused delays."
"We always strive to provide the best guest experience at our events and we care about their safety," said Trump deputy national press secretary Samantha Zager in a statement.
She also said that the Trump campaign provided tents, heaters, generators, hot cocoa and hand warmers, but the problems came after the departure location as people walked to nearby roads to wait for buses.
At a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, earlier in October, hundreds of supporters similarly were forced to make the decision to either wait for the bus or walk several miles down a busy road, without sidewalks, to their parking lots.
It's not just cold conditions driving Trump supporters to seek medical attention at rallies this fall. At another rally last week in Tampa, Florida, several supporters required medical attention due to the heat and a nearby fire truck had to cool supporters down.
CNN's Jeff Zeleny, DJ Judd, Ryan Nobles and Jim Acosta contributed to this report.
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Puts a whole new meaning to 'Couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery', don't it? Run the country???
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I very much doubt that Trump or any of his staff were actually involved in arranging the transportation or other facilities. This would be the job of the local party people who should know the weather report and the transportation requirements. Perhaps they were blind-sided by the number of attendees, apparently 29,000 people attended to see Trump in Nebraska. Joe only has a couple of dozen to deal with.
The Sun Sentinel reported that there were about 60 people at his event at Southwest Focal Point Community Center, which included reporters and staff.
Both in Florida .About 60 cars attended Biden’s drive-in rally later October 13 in Miramar at Memorial Regional Park, the Sun Sentinel reported.
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So that means that Trump wins the award for Top Superspreader?
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Well, in the video I saw the events were in the open, Trump was about thirty feet from the nearest member of the crowd (probably arranged by the SS) so there might be people in the crowd spreading but I doubt the crowd got any bugs from him. Joe's events were indoors with rather an oldish crowd so I would say that may possibly be a worse venue.
I like the way they hide the fact that nobody shows up to Joe's events by claiming social distancing.
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I like the way they hide the fact that nobody shows up to Joe's events by claiming social distancing.
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God help America. A democracy that is in the process of collapsing... and so rapidly too, encouraged by the worst of men, the weak, the avaricious and the self deluded...boing wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:02 pmWell, in the video I saw the events were in the open, Trump was about thirty feet from the nearest member of the crowd (probably arranged by the SS) so there might be people in the crowd spreading but I doubt the crowd got any bugs from him. Joe's events were indoors with rather an oldish crowd so I would say that may possibly be a worse venue.
I like the way they hide the fact that nobody shows up to Joe's events by claiming social distancing.
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And, of course, the terminally stupid!
The Second Coming
by W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Thousands in Utah attended Halloween rave to protest coronavirus rules, sheriff says
They should have invited Trump!
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Thousands in Utah attended Halloween rave to protest coronavirus rules, sheriff says
Utah County officials say "three to ten thousand" attended a rave-like event that was advertised as a "protest" against pandemic restrictions.
Nov. 2, 2020, 1:51 PM MST
By Tim Fitzsimons
Utah officials say thousands attended a rave-like Halloween event that was advertised as a "protest" against coronavirus restrictions.
Utah County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sgt. Spencer Cannon told NBC affiliate KSL that the number of people who attended the Saturday night party ranged "anywhere from three to ten thousand people"
The event took place at an area known as "The Knolls," located on the barren western shore of Utah Lake, opposite the city of Provo.
Cannon told NBC News that authorities discovered the unauthorized mass gathering when attendees requested medical assistance after a woman was knocked unconscious while crowd surfing. Cannon added that there were also two car accidents as attendees drove away. Police shut down the party at around 10:00 p.m. on Halloween night.
For weeks, party organizers Utah Tonight and the Tribe Utah had advertised a Halloween "protest" party at an undisclosed location to be announced on Halloween.
Covid-19 cases, deaths rising at rapid rate across U.S. ahead of Election Day
Earlier this month, The Tribe Utah said on Instagram that Utah Tonight would "keep the faces of everyone at the Protest on Halloween confidential so you have nothing to worry about! Remember, the Protest on Halloween is not our event. "
Tribe Utah did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but argued on social media against coronavirus restrictions, saying "gatherings are essential for public health." Utah Tonight has similarly argued online against the public health provisions, saying they were "subjectively applied."
A spokesperson for Utah Governor Gary Herbert said in statement that Covid-19 is mainly spread through social gatherings, and that the virus "is all too real and terrifying for the medical professionals working overtime in our packed ICUs."
"We must decide, and show by our actions, that the lives of everyone around us matter more to us than parties. If we do not, we will have a difficult time beating COVID-19 as a society," the statement said.
Utah is in the grips of a severe coronavirus outbreak, with Utah County and most others in the state experiencing a "very high rate" of coronavirus cases, according to the state health department's numbers.
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They should have invited Trump!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/th ... s-n1245777
Thousands in Utah attended Halloween rave to protest coronavirus rules, sheriff says
Utah County officials say "three to ten thousand" attended a rave-like event that was advertised as a "protest" against pandemic restrictions.
Nov. 2, 2020, 1:51 PM MST
By Tim Fitzsimons
Utah officials say thousands attended a rave-like Halloween event that was advertised as a "protest" against coronavirus restrictions.
Utah County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sgt. Spencer Cannon told NBC affiliate KSL that the number of people who attended the Saturday night party ranged "anywhere from three to ten thousand people"
The event took place at an area known as "The Knolls," located on the barren western shore of Utah Lake, opposite the city of Provo.
Cannon told NBC News that authorities discovered the unauthorized mass gathering when attendees requested medical assistance after a woman was knocked unconscious while crowd surfing. Cannon added that there were also two car accidents as attendees drove away. Police shut down the party at around 10:00 p.m. on Halloween night.
For weeks, party organizers Utah Tonight and the Tribe Utah had advertised a Halloween "protest" party at an undisclosed location to be announced on Halloween.
Covid-19 cases, deaths rising at rapid rate across U.S. ahead of Election Day
Earlier this month, The Tribe Utah said on Instagram that Utah Tonight would "keep the faces of everyone at the Protest on Halloween confidential so you have nothing to worry about! Remember, the Protest on Halloween is not our event. "
Tribe Utah did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but argued on social media against coronavirus restrictions, saying "gatherings are essential for public health." Utah Tonight has similarly argued online against the public health provisions, saying they were "subjectively applied."
A spokesperson for Utah Governor Gary Herbert said in statement that Covid-19 is mainly spread through social gatherings, and that the virus "is all too real and terrifying for the medical professionals working overtime in our packed ICUs."
"We must decide, and show by our actions, that the lives of everyone around us matter more to us than parties. If we do not, we will have a difficult time beating COVID-19 as a society," the statement said.
Utah is in the grips of a severe coronavirus outbreak, with Utah County and most others in the state experiencing a "very high rate" of coronavirus cases, according to the state health department's numbers.
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Judging from MSM allegations there are quite a few weapons with adequate stocks of ammo’ being readied for the ‘celebrations’ by both the Far-Right nutters and the BLM faction(s) so the ‘victory’ firework displays will be impressive.
Oops, I’ve strayed into the wrong thread, I shudha posted this in the ‘Chaos in USA’ thread but heyho, who’s perfect?
Oops, I’ve strayed into the wrong thread, I shudha posted this in the ‘Chaos in USA’ thread but heyho, who’s perfect?
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When all else fails, read the instructions.
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It is a sad reflection on the current USofA that these two would appear to be the best they can muster.
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BOAC, Woody
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the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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Donald should have engaged Christopher:-
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Anyone care to nominate any practising politician, anywhere on Earth, as being worth voting for?
As far as I can see, today it is usually the case of voting against the worst candidate, rather than for the best one.
As far as I can see, today it is usually the case of voting against the worst candidate, rather than for the best one.
Cynicism improves with age
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On which basis there can surely only be one arsehole?UP wrote:They are two cheeks of the same arse.
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And we all know who the arsehole is!
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It must be time for the joke about the dog with two arseholes?