Thousands of Trump supporters left stranded in Omaha..some in medical distress

[HipChick]

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[The Magistrate]

1. Quite The Mack Daddy, Ma'am, This One...

I haven't a trace of sympathy for them, and expect the countryside could use a spot of rain.

[cwydro]

141. "Mack Daddy?"

Now there’s a blast from the past.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Heckuva job Trumpy

[Blue Owl]

3. They served their useful purpose

Now go vote for your abuser

[dchill]

108. Most of them will.

[BlueLucy]

4. He doesn't give a shit about people, even his own folks.

The sad part of this is that they would likely still vote for him.

[BGBD]

5. Weatherman says...

It's 33 degrees in Omaha right now....

[2naSalit]

6. This should go viral...

People don't learn until it happens to them.

[BlueLucy]

12. Sounds like people are really struggling there.

Read this thread.

https://mobile.twitter.com/omaha_scanner/status/1321274163215110144

[HipChick]

17. It is what is...

[wnylib]

58. I don't give a damn, do U?

[Skittles]

142. I actually do

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]

115. THESE people don't learn until it happens to them

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]

135. Doubt they'll "learn" anything.

Some of these folks are just too far gone. Unreachable. Can’t be helped, can’t be saved.

[brettdale]

7. HAHA

As Nelson Muntz would say. No sympathy.

If I was a CNN reporter I would wind down the window and start waving.

[HipChick]

8. Lmao!

[W_HAMILTON]

119. Jim Acosta be like...

[fishwax]

9. saddest thing is how many of them are still likely to vote for him

This sort of treatment from the administration, of course, comes as no surprise whatsoever.

[walkingman]

25. Anyone attending a Trump rally is definately voting for him - they are his base, he speaks their

language. I always think of "Deliverance" when I see excerpts of the Trump rallies.

[fishwax]

48. I dunno...I know (alas) the sort of people who would go to a trump rally but wouldn't vote at all

[Maru Kitteh]

107. So true! So do I.

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]

27. they'll probably blame Hillary

[progressoid]

82. Yep. They will find someone to blame to rationalize their vote.

Kool Aid drinkers all.

[Enterstageleft]

10. Oh, I'm sure there are

lots of rePugs that will open their doors & welcome the unwashed masses into their humble mansions.

[StarryNite]

11. Hopefully they will be smart enough to realize they were used.

Then turn their anger into something positive by voting for Biden/Harris.

[Duppers]

32. Don't get on it.

They always look to blame others.

[Mariana]

41. Not on your life will they realize they were used.

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]

128. Fat chance

They'll blame Biden for not dropping out of the race

[StarryNite]

13. I can only imagine the COVID storm that will come from this.

[central scrutinizer]

143. Buses are rolling Petri dishes

Probably better for grandma to walk 3.7 miles in freezing weather than be packed into one of those virus incubators.

[DeminPennswoods]

14. Never was this more true

“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]

136. Now THERE'S a quote for these times!

[C_U_L8R]

15. Love em and leave em

And leave em with an STD

[BComplex]

16. Here are all these people -- 30 MORE busses??? -- do you know how many 30

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]

18. No money, no bus tickets

So professional......

[Jirel]

19. WTAF?!?!

Even for that gang of assholes, that’s lapping themselves.

[brettdale]

20. I wonder how many of trump supporters

Will Blame the liberal media or BLM?

[Grokenstein]

96. They have to wait for FOXHenhouse to tell them who to pin it on.

[Sogo]

21. I hope the Omaha stations are on this.

That’s a big media market.

[Renew Deal]

23. Near Iowa

[Sogo]

37. Yep.

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, it’s about 1.1M. Their broadcast range probably covers over 2M population.

[moonscape]

124. Lincoln Project ad in 1...2... n/t

[Renew Deal]

22. They bussed them in but didn't bus them out?

[wnylib]

77. From the tweets, it looks like a limited

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]

91. OMG. What a mess.

Thanks for adding more details, wnylib. I missed the part where busses and rescue were turned back. Awful.

[wnylib]

105. Yeah, some of the OPD on a different

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]

112. Kind of like a roach motel. LOL

[BruinDadd]

24. It's wrong to give a Nelson "Ha Ha!" very very wrong.

[AZ8theist]

39. Nope.

[Orrex]

26. I would estimate that approximately 100% of those cultists will still vote for him

[ffr]

28. A prelude to what four more years will bring

Left out in the dark cold night, without a second thought.

[nolabear]

29. Seems to still be going on. Buses stuck. Elderly in distress.

This should be on every news program. I don’t care if they’re cultists. He is a fucking monster.

[Cha]

30. Rts.. Who's in charge of THAT?!

[Captain Zero]

117. Sounds right. All the rallies they've already had and they can't get it right. Like Covid Response.

SNAFU

[Lucinda]

31. ...

[Klaralven]

33. Winning GIF from the twitter thread

Link to tweet

[AllaN01Bear]

34. he only cares about him self. does not even care for his own fam. grr.

[yankeepants]

35. Probably bussed them in with no intention of bussing them out. Saves $$$$.

[Beachnutt]

36. Super covid spreader event and then shove em all in buses unmasked

[ffr]

38. They only had 3.7 miles to walk back to their cars, in 33* temps

In the dark. They can ponder on their cold walk back how the rest of America feels under this regime.

[Cracklin Charlie]

66. Omg.

That’s terrible.

So, so terrible. I hope they’re all ok.

[ffr]

70. No, they are not all okay.

Click on the links. Some of them are very not okay.

[Cracklin Charlie]

74. Yeah, I left to look. Shameful, avoidable situation.

This election can’t be over soon enough for me.

Another day, another disaster...for four damn years.

[friendly_iconoclast]

76. Very true, and I don't have it in me to gloat over this

Weather Underground 5 mins ago gave a wind chill of 25F

[wnylib]

100. I normally would agree. But then I remember

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]

137. DEFINITELY mixed feelings. I hear ya, my friend.

DEFINITELY mixed feelings.

[NorthOf270]

98. You could argue they were never ok

Sociopaths.

[Aerator]

110. Broken thermometer

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 couldn’t check his temp because their thermometer was broke.

[smb]

140. If They Didn't Have So Many Thermometers, They Wouldn't Have So Many Frostbite Cases nt

[Hekate]

40. This is sick. Yeah, I know we tried to tell them, but for gods' sake they could die of exposure...

...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]

49. I agree. How in the world did no one bother planning a safe way in and out? nt

[Hekate]

60. I've been reading a couple of other threads, incl one to a scanner in Omaha. Seems to be 20 busses

...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]

69. I've been reading the same. Everyone knew the rally would end after dark, it's cold,

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]

80. The cops have picked up some elderly who are confused & suffering from hypothermia...

I am sure there are others lost and wandering, and I hope they are found.

[crickets]

81. Me too, Hekate. nt

[wnylib]

87. Much as I loathe Trump, it looks like

local lack of planning is largely responsible for the jam up.

How involved in the local planning was the Trump team?

[crickets]

97. Good point, and good question.

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]

126. Who was responsible for bussing them in? Trump team?

If yes, shouldn’t they have been coordinating locally?

I’ll keep reading ... the answer to this mess is somewhere, but for sure 45 will not accept responsibility.

Horrible.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

118. "crazy irresponsible, really bad lack of planning" -- trumpian, in other words

[brettdale]

42. Latest

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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]

43. Reminds me of when Romney (after having lost) cancelled the credit cards of his staffers...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/helaineolen/2012/11/08/mitt-romneys-campaign-cancels-staffers-credit-cards-in-the-middle-of-the-night/#2bad6d7016c2

[Aerator]

83. I remember that night

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]

99. and then there was the photo of him the next night, disheveled and pumping gas.

[crickets]

44. There may some deaths before the night is over.

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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.
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Another officer advising they have an elderly male down.
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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]

55. Could well be...

[crickets]

61. I truly hope not.

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]

123. Thank you for a human and empathetic response.

It seems many are lacking empathy, and it’s not just the buffoon.

[renate]

63. I actually do feel bad for the ones who are really suffering

I’m not trying to be snarky when I say that dumb people can’t help being dumb. Some deserve this, obviously, but some just aren’t bright and Trump took advantage of their being suckers.

Plus it’s not too much for even the most credulous MAGAt to assume that if they were bused in they’d be bused back out.

[roamer65]

45. If you're stupid enough to be a Dump lover, you deserve it.

Zero fucks given here.

[Timer]

121. I don't think anyone deserves to suffer due to the Trump campaign's poor planning,

whether they love him or not.

[StarlightGold]

145. Yep

I don’t 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 mother’s 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. I’m just not there yet.

[Tanuki]

46. The Snake

[ffr]

64. Half of those fodder faces behind him have the same look as I do

WTF? He's the snake!

[NBachers]

106. There's always a bigger one, waiting for his chance.

[greenjar_01]

47. We had the Fyre Festival, now we have the Iyce Festival

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]

50. George Soros always makes sure I have a ride home.

Pays in cash and provides box lunches or pizza for all my stops...

Trumpistas need to organize. We've got a contract...

SMH

[pecosbob]

51. Soros had Antifa steal their buses for immigrant convoys

[bluecollar2]

52. Could be

I chipped in for gas money...took it as a payroll deduction out of my per diem...

[cstanleytech]

53. So he threw them away like a used rubber?

[liberaltrucker]

54. T&P

[Baclava]

56. He calls them, The Expendables

[yaesu]

57. good, now I can go to bed with happy thoughts of suffering tRump humpers. nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

59. None of the Omaha news outlets I Googled reporting yet. Temp there now 31 degrees.

Looks like they have shut down news for now. Only articles about Trumps Hitler-Covid rally.

[brewens]

62. Who pays for the rescue operation? How much worse could you make the COVID risk?

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]

65. Meidas Touch is all over it. This could get interesting.

[smirkymonkey]

67. Oh well, Be Best!

What the hell did they expect from him?

[Hulk]

68. Breaks my heart...

That may be the least of their problems once they start coming down with tRump's virus.

[ffr]

75. Zzzzing!

Or they could huddle together for warmth until transportation picked them up.

[AmericanCanuck]

71. womp womp

[Blaukraut]

72. Sorry. Can't muster up any sympathy.

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]

73. I can't gloat over this- the latest weather from Eppley gives a wind chill of 25F

People are going to be very sick, and some may die.

[ffr]

94. Sounds like it's been mostly resolved. Just a few crowds of people in parking lots left.

tRump has a message for his followers.

Link to tweet

[BruinDadd]

78. I actually thought you were half joking but this is happening. For real.

[sarcasmo]

79. Trump 2020: Chaotic Cluster. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Maru Kitteh]

84. I SINCERELY hope my stupidass BIL is there, suffering. He's in his 60's

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]

89. You know,

There are two groups about whom you can make derisive comments and no one will ever contradict you: NAZIS and in-laws.

[Crunchy Frog]

85. I really don't care do u?

[Blue Owl]

86. If only Malarkia cared

[progressoid]

88. It is what it is.

[58Sunliner]

90. Where did the buses go? That is sick.

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]

92. Buses? Isn't that socialism, though?

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]

93. I can't find this being covered anywhere

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]

95. The Alito Court will finish them off soon enough.

[Aerator]

101. 6 more hrs and they will know what it feels like to vote in a Democratic precinct.

[flibbitygiblets]

102. my favorite comment: "Their bootstraps should see them home"

[crickets]

103. Event site has been cleared.

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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.

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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]

104. And those useful idiots will still vote for him.

Hate and ignorance is a winning hand for trump.

[kb3ojg]

109. As Corey Lewandowski once said.......

*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]

113. I hope the ones who get taken to the hospital

don’t think Trump is going to be picking up the bill.

[mwb970]

114. trump treats his worshipers with the deepest possible contempt.

Right to their faces! And they LOVE him for it. They cheer and cheer.

[Captain Zero]

125. After Covids, He has said he is glad he doesn't have contact with them. They're disgusting.

Loving the abuser is a real thing.

[Violet_Crumble]

116. This reminds me of #Dumbkirk

My sympathy is at about the same level as for that. There's something about dumb Trump supporters....

[Demovictory9]

120. "sleepy Joe" wouldn't have abandoned them

[moonscape]

127. No, because at his rallies you're

not separated from your vehicle!

[Chicago1980]

122. That's just sad...

But it's hard to feel sorry.

Cheap bastard gave these people a one way ticket to hell.....

[Totally Tunsie]

129. Meanwhile, Chump was nice and cozy in OUR plane.

Wonder if he left his heavy-duty gloves behind to warm a supporter's hands. NAHHHH.

[GoneOffShore]

130. Obviously mistakes were made. But if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

131. So, who are these stranded cult members blaming for their plight?

Hillary, Barack, or Joe?

[malaise]

132. He ca kiss Nebraska goodbye

ByeDon!

[Sunsky]

133. What is it going to take

For "his supporters" to see that he doesn't give a damn about them? To him, they are all just useful idiots.

[HipChick]

134. It's a cult..

[KayF]

138. GOP should change their name to the Donner Party

Link to tweet

[calimary]

139. What a mess.

[Totally Tunsie]

144. How can this be? Nebraska is a Repug-run state.

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?