Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging America's Highways

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: The Daily Beast, via Yahoo! News

Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging America's Highways

The Daily Beast
Patricia Kelly Yeo, The Daily Beast November 1, 2020

n a show of support of questionable political value, pro-Trump demonstrators clogged freeways Sunday across the country, from New Jersey and New York to Texas, Arizona, and Washington state. "WHOOO! We shut it down baby! We shut it down!" says one pro-Trump videographer as he pans the camera nearly 360 degrees, showing viewers the group of cars that had brought traffic to a complete standstill along the northbound Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.

"You suck, you suck, everyone on the right lane sucks," nearby driver Maddy Pryor says in another video capturing the incident, which Pryor posted to Twitter. Another user named @kabryant17 claimed the stoppage caused emergency personnel to take a delayed route to the hospital, as the pro-Trump demonstration blocked an entire freeway exit.

In neighboring New York, Trump supporter Abigail Marone captured a line of cars and trucks with pro-Trump and at least one pro-law enforcement Thin Blue Line flag on the route between Seaford and Montauk in Long Island. Using the hashtag #TrumpTrain, users also captured Trump supporters driving along New York State Route 25 and claimed to see a similar lineup on Route 106 in Hicksville.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-supporters-spend-weekend-clogging-201629986.html

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Cultists Block Traffic On Highways And Bridges Across Country In Last Minute Bid To Woo Undecided Voters
November 1, 2020

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/11/cultists-block-traffic-on-highways-and-bridges-across-country-in-last-minute-bid-to-woo-undecided-voters/

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Post in the New Jersey forum:

Trump vehicle convoy shuts down the Garden State Parkway.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10662767

[FelineOverlord]

1. Yup. Here they are on the Garden State Parkway

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[BigmanPigman]

42. This shows how desperate they are an it pisses people off.

Not a winning plan. This will only piss off people and make them more determined to stop this shitshow. This isn't funny, cute, admirable. It is stupid BS from stupid people who most likely are deplorable most of the time.

[Sierra89]

2. Law Enforcement

Should block all freeway exits and keep their asses on the freeway. Let them run their vehicles until they run out of gas/cannot get home. Cite them for blocking traffic and emergency vehicles. Then tow them all and charge for storage fees.

[Alt-Orange]

3. So this explains it

Why I saw this Nazi parade go through the small town I live near yesterday.

Idiots.

[progree]

4. I'm so confused. I thought it was only "leftist radical extremists" who blocked freeways, according

to RWers, and then went on and on about ambulances and fire trucks being delayed, essential services people late for work etc. etc.

[TheRealNorth]

12. exactly

I think its a bad tactic when BLM does it, and I don't think this helps the Trumpanzees either.

[progree]

20. I can see some rationale for BLM protesting obvious gross injustice, though I agree

I don't think it helps them blocking freeways, but others would argue differently, the Edmund Pettus Bridge and all that.

I see no possible benefit though for in effect holding a campaign rally on the freeway like the Trumpers are doing. I'd say the same if it was a Biden/Harris campaign rally on the freeway.

[reACTIONary]

41. I would say the same if it were...

Biden/Harris, but.... It's inconceivable.

[progree]

50. Yes, I can't imagine it either /nt

[JonLP24]

52. Usually police kettle left wing protestors into those situations

These Trump supporters didn't need any help from the police to pull this off.

[orangecrush]

5. No arrests?

[hamsterjill]

9. Right???!!!

I mean, come on! Interfering with emergency vehicles is a crime even if nothing else is.

[orangecrush]

11. Seriously.

Completely illegal.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. 'Trump Train' takes over Beltway traffic around nation's capital

Hat tip, Fairfax Underground

'Trump Train' takes over Beltway traffic around nation's capital

By David Matthews | Published 1 hour ago | Traffic | FOX 5 DC

CAPITAL BELTWAY - A "Trump train" of the president's supporters is taking up the middle lane of the Capital Beltway on Sunday afternoon.

And many fellow motorists aren't happy.

A viewer sent FOX 5 footage of the Trump supporter caravan. You can see a parade of cars driving slowly in single file in the middle lane of the three-lane highway:

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The parade around the nation's capital follows another high-profile one Saturday in Texas, where Democrats say the Biden/Harris campaign had to cancel events because of cars with Trump flags surrounding a campaign bus for hours.

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[central scrutinizer]

7. Got one thing correct

“Everybody on the right ... sucks” (okay, I made a slight edit, sue me)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Texas events canceled after 'Trump train' surrounds Biden campaign bus on interstate

Texas events canceled after 'Trump train' surrounds Biden campaign bus on interstate

Link to tweet

[alwaysinasnit]

10. And they b*tched, moaned, and complained about BLM activists blocking freeways. What the hell???

[TheRealNorth]

13. they are pretty much going full SS/ Brownshirt now

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

43. Yup n/t

[vercetti2021]

14. Small dick army at it again

Look over here! I'm under 5!

[Laelth]

15. Now, that's useful. n/t

-Laelth

[roamer65]

16. These ilk are like a big dump that plugs your toilet.

Just as annoying and bad smelling.

[beastie boy]

17. Saw about half a dozen of them on Belt Parkway between Brooklyn and Queens

If that's what they call an organized effort at blocking traffic, it was pathetic! They weren't even trying. I was wondering what all six of them were doing driving at the same time in the same direction, but other than that their presence was totally inconsequential.

[Thekaspervote]

18. It only hardens the resolve of reasonable ppl to vote the pos out!

They are not doing themselves any good!

[SWBTATTReg]

32. ditto!!

[keithbvadu2]

19. Keeping undecideds from getting home is going to make them want to vote Trump?

Keeping undecideds from getting home is going to make them want to vote Trump?

I don't see the logic.

[spike jones]

21. In case anyone has not noticed, the cops are not on our side. n/t

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

44. Right!? n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

22. Caravan of cars supporting Trump clogs Beltway's outer loop Sunday

Caravan of cars supporting Trump clogs Beltway’s outer loop Sunday

Thomas Robertson

November 1, 2020, 5:16 PM

Miles-long stretches of cars waving flags and donning decorations for President Donald Trump caused delays all around the Capital Beltway’s outer loop Sunday afternoon.

The WTOP Traffic Center reported just after 1 p.m. issued caution to all drivers on the Beltway for the caravan, which was traveling below speed in the middle lanes of the Outer Loop.

The Trump 2020 Capital Beltway Caravan started at noon Sunday and was scheduled to end around 2 p.m. The WTOP Traffic Center said delays caused by the event wrapped up before 3 p.m.
on the event’s Facebook page.
Nearly 1,000 people signed up to attend the caravan on the event’s Facebook page. Another 1,900 expressed interest in attending the event.

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Miles-long stretches of cars waving flags and donning decorations for President Donald Trump caused delays all around the Capital Beltway’s outer loop Sunday afternoon. (Courtesy @DCMom2020 via Twitter)

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[patphil]

23. Keep it up and they may get a chance to clog the courts and the jails.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. MAGAt Beard Bellies

Hopefully the last gasp of this cult

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

26. The President should send troops to those places to restore order, right?

I mean, precedent has been set after all............

[bucolic_frolic]

27. They were great people

in both lanes!

[Mr.Bill]

28. Yeah, because there's nothing better than blocking traffic

to win people over to your side.

Idiots.

[Turbineguy]

29. Yes,

thanks for letting us know what trump's second term will look like.

[scarletwoman]

30. "Last Minute Bid To Woo Undecided Voters" - no, that's not what they're doing.

It's a show of force meant to intimidate and discourage the opposition: "See how many of us there are? See how powerful we are? You can't win against us."

It's a declaration of war.

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

45. It's fun ...

sort of, to laugh at them and say they are shooting off their own feet. Your thinking on this could be very shrewd. I really wanna think it’s just a bunch of assholes “raising” their asshole game In desperation...but want I want doesn’t make it true.

[scarletwoman]

49. I've never laughed at them. I think they're very dangerous.

They are the new Brown Shirts and they firmly believe that they're going to be on top.

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

53. I'm sorry....

I didn’t mean to imply that you were laughing. A better way to get across what I was thinking would’ve been to say that I was ridiculing them as idiots in my mind, and taking a lot of the comments in the thread as expressing the same sentiment. I take your post very seriously. I have posted a couple of times recently that I think we are seeing Brown Shirts in action right now. To be blunt, l’ll say that trump, McConnell, Barr, Et Al. have declared war multiple times. They unleashed the Brown Shirts before yesterday. The greater danger lies with them. The Brown Shirts will only go as far as they let them.

[DonaldsRump]

31. I've passed a few of these kinds of Trump rallies on the sidewalk

We just shout to them that "You're doing this because you don't have enough money for ads!" and "Wear your mask!"

They don't like that.

[TeamPooka]

33. Ig one of them posted on Facebook that they are all going to drive off a cliff for Trump, they would

do it.
In order, in line.

[kimmylavin]

34. They were in California, too

I was driving home from my in-laws' today, on the 405.
Their line ran for a few miles, all in the right lane.

There don't seem to be enough Trumpers in Los Angeles to shut down a freeway.
But I did give as many of them the finger as I could...

[MissMillie]

35. making life miserable for others... Trump & his supporters in a nutshell (n/t)

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[AZ8theist]

36. It's times like this I wish I could call in an air strike.....

[mwb970]

37. What fresh hell is this?

[hatrack]

38. Saw a couple of these asscarrots on the road today . . . not "clogging" anything

One buffoon was tooling along US 50 east of Kansas City, doing about 45 with his flashers on, with flags and a big-ass placard in the truck bed.

Then a couple in a nearby town, driving aimlessly about.

Seriously, a beautiful fall afternoon, and two - two - Trumpy Trucks pointlessly burning gas. You could rake leaves, or play with your kids, or watch football, or shoot pool or go build something in your basement . . . but no, gotta go praise Duh Grate Leedur with yer truck.

Whatever.

[jmowreader]

39. Let's see if I have this right...

Donald Trump is the most hated president since Richard Nixon, so to convince people to vote for him his supporters decide to go to heavily Democratic areas and block the freeway...which will not only piss off the natives, but will make them LESS likely to vote for Trump.

How the fuck does this make any sense whatsoever?

[warmfeet]

40. Good luck with that strategy.

What a bunch of brainless moron tRump supporters. Redundant, sorry.

Everyone enjoys waiting in traffic. The stupidity is incredible.

[Evergreen Emerald]

46. Clogs like that need plungers.

Just sayin.

[Nitram]

47. They actually think Trump will win if they act like frat house boys after a football game.

[patphil]

48. That's going to garner Trump a lot of votes...not!

Bully boy, brown shirt politics never work. All they do is piss people off.

This has been a hard year for everyone, and people aren't going to be denied at this point, even if Trump supporters are acting out like the Trumpsters they are.

Note: Trumpster rhymes with Dumpster.

Dumpster politics are going to be taken out with the trash on Wednesday.

We will overcome!

[cstanleytech]

51. All of those blocking said exits on purpose should face either manslaughter or 2nd degree murder

charges if their actions are likely to have caused someone to die that was being taken to the ER.

[Bayard]

54. Who's bright idea was this?

And what do they hope to accomplish?

I think its going to backfire on them, if they're trying to stop people from voting. Looks more like a bunch of drunk assholes just causing trouble for the hell of it--trump's traveling circus.

I think there are minimum speeds to be maintained on most interstates/freeways across the country. Are cops just twiddling their thumbs?

[SunSeeker]

57. Good question!

We know Don Jr. Invited a Trump Train to "go have fun with" a Biden Bus in Austin. The Trump supporters ended up raming intp a Biden Staffers' car and almost ran the Bident Bus off the road

[SunSeeker]

55. Why do they think acting like unhinged assholes will "woo undecided voters"??

[LeftInTX]

56. Intimidate and prevent voters from voting.

[SunSeeker]

58. That's certainly what happened in CA today.

.https://ktla.com/news/local-news/caravan-of-trump-supporters-disrupted-some-voters-in-temecula-riverside-county-sheriffs-department/

[ripcord]

59. Really hypocritical in here

I am a former truck driver and have said before that blocking the highways was wrong and unproductive and was told it was an effective technique, seems that only counts for liberal and not conservatives how progressive.