Were going to burn down your store!: Trump supporters caught on camera threatening CA bookstore

[Exotica]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/going-burn-store-trump-supporters-caught-camera-threatening-california-book-shop/

A pair of Trump supporters were caught on camera this past weekend issuing unhinged threats to a left-wing bookstore in Berkeley, California. The video, which was posted on YouTube by Berkeley’s Revolution Books, shows the Trump supporters coming into the store and confronting people working there.

The video begins with a woman Trump supporter asking a store staff member if she really thinks “I’m racist because I support our president?”

“Yes, basically, yes,” the staff member replies.

A male Trump supporter, wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, called the staffer “commie scum” and told her that “we’re going to burn down your bookstore.”

The staffer informed them that she had video of them threatening to burn down the store and told them to “please leave” the premises.

“This is America, f*ck you!” the man shouted at her.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Threatening to make Fahrenheit 451 a documentary

[ExciteBike66]

2. The guy in the hat....yeah

that's who I see whenever I imagine a trump supporter....

[Exotica]

4. Isnt he!!!

Grrrrrrrrrr

[blake2012]

3. These racist pieces of shit are directly tied to Trump

We have plenty of evidence if these right wing crazies acting out. People threatening arson or other violent/dangerous crimes should have their guns taken away by court order.

[gratuitous]

5. Oh, they're going to be soooo internet famous

See them on a Fox broadcast in your town soon!

[ProfessorGAC]

6. So, Here's The Dichotomy

Those two were in a bookstore? Why?

[Hekate]

21. Haven't you figured it out yet, Prof? We are the hated "elites"...

Those of us who can read without our lips moving, those of us who read for pleasure and "useless" knowledge, those of us with higher education.

Apparently billionaires and oligarchs are no longer "the elites." Go figure.

Hekate, Midlife PhD

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Oh Sure, I Knew That

Still doesn't explain what a couple of drooling deplorables were doing in a bookstore. They not only do not read for pleasure, they can't read without phonetically sounding out every word. Even the one syllable words.

[Angry Dragon]

7. so many assholes and the shit coming out of them

[eleny]

8. A little bit more from another article

"The bookstore employees told local media that this was the 10th time the Trump supporters became aggressive at the store, but that this was the first time they had threatened violence. The employees said the police were notified of the incident but no arrests were made."
https://reverepress.com/news/trumpsters-caught-video-threatening-burn-california-bookstore/

I went looking because I hoped to learn if anyone was arrested since arson was threatened.

[Atticus]

9. Some of Mr. Redcap's actions---lunging forward, hand raised, shouting obscenities---amount to

an assault which would have, in my view, justified a physical response---all in "self defense", you understand. Of course, this brave "Patriot" chose to pick on a female who might weigh 100# soaking wet, but if he pulls that crap on some folks with whom I am acquainted, he'll find himself on his back spitting teeth!

[Exotica]

10. The very fact this fucking scum represents 10's of millions of Americans is both terrifying and

sickening.

The RW has scientifically created, via systemic control and multi-decade manipulations at multiple levels, an army of monsters.

[Atticus]

12. They would like people to think they're an "army", but they are more accurately described

as multiple rag-tag pockets of Rambo wannabes who feed off of each other's venom. Like most punks, they are usually too cowardly to go public with their hate unless they have a clear advantage in size (as in this video) or in numbers.

We---collectively---the decent folks---need to step up and, if necessary and we are capable, step IN to stand beside those targeted by these twists. If 10 or 15 or 20 passersby had just lined up around and beside this book store owner, Mr. Redcap would have likely folded like a cheap lawn chair.

[Exotica]

15. This was Berkeley, about as progressive an area as you can get

In most red states they are an army. Dog help the nation if/when there is a concerted effort to remove Trump
Mueller better bring the goods on an interstellar level.

I fear for my birth country.

[Atticus]

19. I'm in southern Illinois in a county that reliably votes over 75% Republican. My LTES

draw on-line wishes for my death and I have been physically threatened face to face and in unsigned screeds hand-delivered (not mailed) to my mailbox. I'm still here, still a flaming liberal and still in their face when they crawl out from under their rocks.

I can't speak for other red areas, but in my little nest of Trumpists, the most radical thing most if them do is vote stupid and flip me off from a passing car. I usually respond by blowing them a kiss and winking. That REALLY pisses them off!

[OldHippieChick]

11. Just a thought, but perhaps we could show this store a little

support: http://www.revolutionbooks.org/


Have several books I'd like to order.

[backtoblue]

17. Great idea! nt

[VOX]

25. Terrific thought! Thank you for posting the link...

“I can’t have too many books.” — what I say to myself (ironically) every time I move.

[el_bryanto]

13. The thing I find baffling is that they are clearly videong the whole thing

You would think that another video would show up showing what jerks these book people were - but . . . not so far. Why stage an incident like that if you aren't going to video it (and those Trump stooges are clearly staging something).

Bryant

[el_bryanto]

14. Ok there is a video - it's pretty edited.

Apparently we need to save our Judeo Christian values.

Also Sweden is on the verge of becoming a Muslim Nation.

Oy - that's messed up. I feel dirty - - link here but don't advice going there --> https://www.facebook.com/124111568394755/videos/169698743836037/

I should say i think it's edited because they picked up after the part where they threatened to burn down the store and didn't include that bit.

Bryant

[Tipperary]

16. Ugh, this is awful. Sickening.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

18. One would think that since he's so obviously on video...

I'm sure his employers (if he even fucking HAS a job) would like to know he's making arson and death threats.

Even if he's doing this off-hours, that's not the kind of person one would want employed at one's place of business.

Well, except for the NRA.

[BannonsLiver]

22. Forgive me

But I’d like to knock his rotten teeth right out of his mouth.

[VOX]

26. Use thicker handwraps, those picket-fence teeth may splinter.

Wouldn’t want you to get an infection. Or rabies.

[JI7]

23. Trump is president and these people are still miserable

[VOX]

27. Even when it has all branches of government, the right wing fights like its cornered.

Which says something significant about the toxic media/social media stew they ingest daily. They’re in defensive mode constantly, as if their end is near (we should be so fortunate).

They’re completely delusional, and worse, they’re isolated/insulated like any cult.