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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThousands of Trump supporters left stranded in Omaha..some in medical distress
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The Magistrate
(95,241 posts)I haven't a trace of sympathy for them, and expect the countryside could use a spot of rain.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Now theres a blast from the past.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,703 posts)Blue Owl
(50,235 posts)Now go vote for your abuser
dchill
(38,432 posts)BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)The sad part of this is that they would likely still vote for him.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)It's 33 degrees in Omaha right now....
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)People don't learn until it happens to them.
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)Read this thread.
https://mobile.twitter.com/omaha_scanner/status/1321274163215110144
HipChick
(25,485 posts)wnylib
(21,303 posts)Skittles
(153,104 posts)because I am not a repuke
I hope they will be OK but yes it would be nice if they actually learned a lesson from it all.
Captain Zero
(6,777 posts)More than 1/2 of them will still vote for him.
Probably Obama's fault the buses to go home didn't show up.
calimary
(81,085 posts)Some of these folks are just too far gone. Unreachable. Cant be helped, cant be saved.
brettdale
(12,356 posts)As Nelson Muntz would say. No sympathy.
If I was a CNN reporter I would wind down the window and start waving.
W_HAMILTON
(7,831 posts)fishwax
(29,148 posts)This sort of treatment from the administration, of course, comes as no surprise whatsoever.
walkingman
(7,577 posts)language. I always think of "Deliverance" when I see excerpts of the Trump rallies.
fishwax
(29,148 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)For them it would be like going to a free monster truck rally. A chance to go smoke some weed, listen to some really loud music and bag on brown people.
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)progressoid
(49,929 posts)Kool Aid drinkers all.
Enterstageleft
(3,393 posts)lots of rePugs that will open their doors & welcome the unwashed masses into their humble mansions.
StarryNite
(9,434 posts)Then turn their anger into something positive by voting for Biden/Harris.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)They always look to blame others.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)They really aren't smart enough. Excuses will be made for Trump, and they'll figure out some way to blame Obama for their plight.
durablend
(7,455 posts)They'll blame Biden for not dropping out of the race
StarryNite
(9,434 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,635 posts)Probably better for grandma to walk 3.7 miles in freezing weather than be packed into one of those virus incubators.
DeminPennswoods
(15,265 posts)They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
calimary
(81,085 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)And leave em with an STD
BComplex
(8,017 posts)busses will hold? You're talking about 1,600 people out there in the freezing weather...stranded.
This is absolutely a metaphor for the last 4 years.
Mopar151
(9,974 posts)So professional......
Jirel
(2,012 posts)Even for that gang of assholes, thats lapping themselves.
brettdale
(12,356 posts)Will Blame the liberal media or BLM?
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)Sogo
(4,986 posts)Thats a big media market.
Renew Deal
(81,843 posts)Where I grew up in Western Iowa, we listened to the Omaha stations. Omaha itself is about half million population, and with Council Bluffs, IA, across the Missouri River, and other large towns around there, its about 1.1M. Their broadcast range probably covers over 2M population.
moonscape
(4,672 posts)Renew Deal
(81,843 posts)wnylib
(21,303 posts)access road was blocked by cars that kept arriving, with some people on foot even as the rally was ending, plus people who were dropped off by cars and buses that could not get through to pick them up again. All compounded by people trying to walk back to cars in large groups on the road, then collapsing from exhaustion and the cold.
So buses and even rescue vehicles can't get through to help. Enormous traffic jam composed of people on foot, parked cars, and people in cars who didn't make it to the rally on time and were turned back. Buses in parking lots nearly 4 miles away, unable to pick up the people they had dropped off.
Rescue vehicles and buses got turned back by some of the cops on the scene who were on a different channel and did not realize that the vehicles they turned back were supposed to be let through and a path cleared for them.
crickets
(25,950 posts)Thanks for adding more details, wnylib. I missed the part where busses and rescue were turned back. Awful.
wnylib
(21,303 posts)channel did not get the message of people in distress needing rescue. They were still operating on the order to turn back everyone because they were at capacity. It was in one of the tweets at the link.
StarryNite
(9,434 posts)BruinDadd
(29 posts)AZ8theist
(5,406 posts)Orrex
(63,168 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)Left out in the dark cold night, without a second thought.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)This should be on every news program. I dont care if theyre cultists. He is a fucking monster.
Cha
(296,752 posts)Captain Zero
(6,777 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,943 posts)yankeepants
(1,979 posts)Beachnutt
(7,267 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)In the dark. They can ponder on their cold walk back how the rest of America feels under this regime.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Thats terrible.
So, so terrible. I hope theyre all ok.
ffr
(22,665 posts)Click on the links. Some of them are very not okay.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)This election cant be over soon enough for me.
Another day, another disaster...for four damn years.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Weather Underground 5 mins ago gave a wind chill of 25F
wnylib
(21,303 posts)that these people support 4 more years of the man responsible for separating children from parents and traumatizing them, locking up children in cages, leaving people in squalor in camps unfit as pig styes. They want to re-elect the man responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths. They are ok with a president who calls neo Nazis "fine people."
Then I lose sympathy for people who have so little empathy themselves for the people harmed by the man they support and adore.
calimary
(81,085 posts)DEFINITELY mixed feelings.
NorthOf270
(290 posts)Sociopaths.
Aerator
(189 posts)I saw one tweet were the sheriff and the secret service were in a pissing match and another were a elderly man had possible hypothermia but couldnt check his temp because their thermometer was broke.
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smb
(3,471 posts)Hekate
(90,526 posts)...tonight. I have not a trace of laughter for this mess.
Jim Jones, where is your murderous soul tonight? Cohabiting with the murderous Trump.
Please keep us posted. Have news agencies been notified? Someone with a tv camera crew needs to be on the spot immediately.
crickets
(25,950 posts)Hekate
(90,526 posts)...stuck in a parking lot miles away. Attendees were told to park their cars 3.7 miles away from the rally, then were bussed in. It is now 33 degrees and dark, and the busses are elsewhere. Elderly people are at particular risk, a number of them picked up and sent to the hospital cops on scene first, but apparently there are a variety of radio frequency problems.
It is a clusterfck. Never mind COVID 2 weeks hence, someone may well die tonight.
crickets
(25,950 posts)and people would need to be bussed back to their cars. This is just crazy irresponsible, really bad lack of planning. As least the police seem to be doing as well as they can to work the situation. I just hope no one wandered off in the dark and got lost.
Hekate
(90,526 posts)I am sure there are others lost and wandering, and I hope they are found.
crickets
(25,950 posts)wnylib
(21,303 posts)local lack of planning is largely responsible for the jam up.
How involved in the local planning was the Trump team?
crickets
(25,950 posts)Feasibility before planning a rally in Omaha was as much on the trump team as Omaha, though. Somebody had to organize and hire those buses, and that may be where the weak point was in communications and planning.
What a sorry mess.
moonscape
(4,672 posts)If yes, shouldnt they have been coordinating locally?
Ill keep reading ... the answer to this mess is somewhere, but for sure 45 will not accept responsibility.
Horrible.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,235 posts)brettdale
(12,356 posts)Omaha Scanner
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Officers picking up people wandering in the cold unable to locate their vehicles and are taking them to various parking lots.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)Aerator
(189 posts)Romney arrived at his supposed victory party in a caravan of limos and secret service and left in a Ford with his son driving.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)crickets
(25,950 posts)Link to tweet
@omaha_scanner
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One officer advising 8 to 9 elderly people who are struggling. Seperate officer advising they have located an elderly party who is frozen cold unable to move with an altered mental status.
Omaha Scanner
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Another officer advising they have an elderly male down.
Omaha Scanner
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Busses streaming into the area now.
I know the first thought is, "they brought it on themselves," but there are elderly who may not make it out of this alive.
I do have some sympathy for them, idiots they may be. I don't know why, but I see the deplorables as a continuum, from the militia jerks who could fall off a cliff tomorrow and I wouldn't even bother to wave goodbye, to some of the older ones who may still be deluded that they are dealing with a garden variety Repub. I think they're horrendously out of touch at best, but that's no reason to die like this. Silly me, but there you go.
eta - and there's no excuse for this happening. trump and his campaign staff are completely on the hook for it.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)crickets
(25,950 posts)It's one thing to get COVID because they're too stupid and stubborn to wear a mask and socially distance. That's kinda asking for it. Nobody was asking for this. Dying of exposure for attending a campaign rally is just wrong.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)It seems many are lacking empathy, and its not just the buffoon.
renate
(13,776 posts)Im not trying to be snarky when I say that dumb people cant help being dumb. Some deserve this, obviously, but some just arent bright and Trump took advantage of their being suckers.
Plus its not too much for even the most credulous MAGAt to assume that if they were bused in theyd be bused back out.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Zero fucks given here.
Timer
(71 posts)whether they love him or not.
StarlightGold
(365 posts)I dont give a flying fuck about these people. They are working to grab away established rights for women, minorities, the LGBTQ community. They are fine with a sobbing, barefoot one year old being ripped from their mothers arms. They just love that 45 used tear gas to break up peaceful protests. They cheer that he whipped up white supremacists into such a frenzy as to almost cost a governor her life.
I hope they suffered. Big time. Sorry but I am super sensitive to people being kept down by filth like this. I know some may say that I need to keep some care and compassion for them. Im just not there yet.
Tanuki
(14,913 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)WTF? He's the snake!
NBachers
(17,080 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor Fyre
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction Iyce
Is also great, and would suffice.
(with apologies to Robert Frost)
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Pays in cash and provides box lunches or pizza for all my stops...
Trumpistas need to organize. We've got a contract...
SMH
pecosbob
(7,533 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)I chipped in for gas money...took it as a payroll deduction out of my per diem...
cstanleytech
(26,220 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Looks like they have shut down news for now. Only articles about Trumps Hitler-Covid rally.
brewens
(13,536 posts)Bad enough a crowd all driving in one or a few to a car, then bunching up at the rally. No, lets bus a crowd in, spread what we can on the buses, then more at the rally. Better yet, if we left them stranded in the cold, that's give the virus an even bigger boost! Just have a few buses eventually shuttle them all back. Just one trip with a bunch of busses would kind of be a waste of virus.
nolabear
(41,930 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What the hell did they expect from him?
Hulk
(6,699 posts)That may be the least of their problems once they start coming down with tRump's virus.
Or they could huddle together for warmth until transportation picked them up.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)Blaukraut
(5,692 posts)These same people scream "Lock her up". Laugh when Trump mocks the disabled. Cheer when he calls Kamala Harris a monster. Stand cheek to jowl, maskless. Knowingly subjecting themselves to a possible COVID infection, and when asked about it "if it's my time to go, let the lord take me".
If they freeze to death, so be it. That'll be a few thousand less going to vote next Tuesday.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)People are going to be very sick, and some may die.
ffr
(22,665 posts)BruinDadd
(29 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)has had at least one heart attack that we know of and he's grossly obese. If he doesn't freeze, I hope he sucked up every last SARS-CoV-2 virus on that tarmac.
He lives just outside of Council Bluffs, the armpit of the great plains.
PCIntern
(25,467 posts)There are two groups about whom you can make derisive comments and no one will ever contradict you: NAZIS and in-laws.
Crunchy Frog
(26,574 posts)Blue Owl
(50,235 posts)progressoid
(49,929 posts)58Sunliner
(4,372 posts)Now they know just how much he thinks of them. I wasn't going to gloat, but I hope they haven't voted yet.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)If you give these people a ride or shelter, they'll just become dependent on you.
Let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
God Emperor Don-Don got what he wanted from them, that's all that matters.
/SARCASM
BainsBane
(53,010 posts)not on CNN, not in the Omaha press, not in a search of Google News.
That video that's supposed to show them stranded shows music playing at a rally; that's it.
NorthOf270
(290 posts)Aerator
(189 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)crickets
(25,950 posts)Link to tweet
@omaha_scanner
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@omaha_scanner
Event site has been cleared. Majority of parking lots have been cleared. Little to no pedestrian traffic. Most officers are returning to service and going home.
Omaha Scanner
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#MedicalBranch of #TACAirIC demobilizing and reports they will give an official confirmed count of the number of patient contacts and patient transports to airport authorities and command tomorrow. The previous numbers given remain unconfirmed numbers from scanner traffic.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Hate and ignorance is a winning hand for trump.
kb3ojg
(15 posts)*WOMP, WOMP!*
I have exactly as much "sympathy" for that particular gaggle of proto-fascists/dupes as I did for "Baked Alaska" when he got pepper-sprayed at the Charlottesville rally. (Didn't attend - just watched footage of the idiotic fiasco afterward.)
These people are the literal embodiment of the phrase "useful idiot", and their God-Emperor has treated them appropriately: they're nothing but props for his asinine super-spreader events, and are unworthy of even crocodile tears.
Demobrat
(8,957 posts)dont think Trump is going to be picking up the bill.
mwb970
(11,339 posts)Right to their faces! And they LOVE him for it. They cheer and cheer.
Captain Zero
(6,777 posts)Loving the abuser is a real thing.
Violet_Crumble
(35,955 posts)My sympathy is at about the same level as for that. There's something about dumb Trump supporters....
Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)moonscape
(4,672 posts)not separated from your vehicle!
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)But it's hard to feel sorry.
Cheap bastard gave these people a one way ticket to hell.....
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Wonder if he left his heavy-duty gloves behind to warm a supporter's hands. NAHHHH.
GoneOffShore
(17,336 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Hillary, Barack, or Joe?
malaise
(268,646 posts)ByeDon!
Sunsky
(1,737 posts)For "his supporters" to see that he doesn't give a damn about them? To him, they are all just useful idiots.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)KayF
(1,345 posts)calimary
(81,085 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)According to Chump, only the Democratic states are a mess, not his precious Rs. How van he explain this?
Oh wait...has he even addressed this blooper via Twitter? Has there been a word from him?