Angry parents threatening medical professionals in TN: "We will find you"

[FelineOverlord]

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[madaboutharry]

1. So many idiots in one place.

It really amazes me how they managed to live into adulthood while possessing zero critical thinking skills.

[PatSeg]

15. AND they are raising children!

That is so disturbing.

[COL Mustard]

58. I'm Past Not Caring If These Idiots Get Covid Or Not

I’m getting to a very dark place where I actively hope they will get it, and that they’ll have very serious cases of it. The only way people like that can improve our society is by leaving it. So please, refuse the vaccine, don’t wear a mask, and hurry up to meet Jesus.

[Moostache]

75. I am with you on that dark path...

I feel like these people are beyond the pale now. It pained me to find out that a long ago ex-girlfriend of mine is among those screaming at doctors and professionals and likely among that crowd, but she is an ex and not a wife for many reasons, this is sad confirmation that I was right many, many moons ago to move on and chart a better path.

It sucks that many of us are now facing the reality that people we care about have been consumed by this anti-science, anti-rationality cult of personality that is convincing them that their very freedom is at stake and that life-saving vaccines are poisons and pathological liars are truth tellers. Heartbreaking and soul sucking as it is, my empathy reserves are running on empty now...

[Raster]

77. Whomp, there it is!!!!

There is one surefire CURE for stupidity. Go ahead, don't get the vaccine and don't wear a mask.

[DemocraticPatriot]

99. Yup. COVID cures stupid, permanently!

People that stupid should not be voting. With any luck, a significant portion of them will not be doing so, after this.

[Delphinus]

103. Except

there's no guarantee that they will get Covid.

[enough]

2. Actual insanity. NT

[Escurumbele]

69. Short and simple explanation of what that is, well done.

This is what trump, yes trump, and the republicans have created in this country, total insanity. These insane people go to the doctors for check ups, when they don't feel good, when they need an operation, when their kids are sick, etc. but because masks and vaccines have been made into a republican political point, now they want to kill the doctors. Then if one of their kids dies from COVID, they cry and blame who? Not themselves because, according to republican principles they are never wrong, that is the republican way. Are they insane or is it that they don't care if their kids get sick, what is it??? besides insanity, of course.

[roamer65]

3. These people should be denied any COVID care.

[Treefrog]

4. Weird. Tennessee, but the only southern accent I heard was the cop's.

[2 Meow Momma]

14. Very few native Tennesseans live in Franklin. Lots of big companies

and money have moved there in the past 30 years. I lived there for 25 years.

[Treefrog]

35. Kind of like Florida. I never hear southern accents there except in the northernmost parts lol.

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People like to knock southerners on here, but there are very few in Florida. Mostly Midwesterner and northerners.

Didn’t realize Tennessee had been “infiltrated” too.

[Nasruddin]

49. Retirement

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> Didn’t realize Tennessee had been “infiltrated too.

Low, low taxes / cost of living.
People from DC/Baltimore (US gov service, 2 southern-minded states back then) started retiring there generations ago.

[Treefrog]

51. Interesting. It's been years since I've been to Tennessee.

But boy, those accents stood out in that video!

[peggysue2]

66. Spot on. Many retirees choose TN for the low taxes . . .

and equally low cost of living. But . . . you're trading that for the ridiculous attitudes down here exemplified by this OP and accompanying tweets.

I'm out of here at the end of the day this coming Monday. The new owners? They're migrating from California. In fact, our realtor said many of the home buyers this season are from the West Coast.

They're welcome to the Land of Snake Charmers and Ignorance.

I'm headed home to the Philly suburbs, thank you very much.

[fwvinson]

71. I live in Western Kentucky just above the Tennessee line. We have LBL, Lake Barkley, Kentucky Lake.

All the people that came to live here are from Chicago, Indianapolis, Evansville, Cincinnati, Columbus

[peggysue2]

78. Yup, most of the residents who moved to TN when we came (20+ years ago) . . .

Were from out-of-state. We were transferred here through the company my husband was working for at the time, always thought the move was temporary and fully expected to be transferred again.

Until it didn't happen and we were trapped in place.

It's rare to hear a true southern accent in my area. Go into the mountains? It's a whole different thing.

When we head north, I won't be looking back. It will be good to get home, finally.

[hibbing]

68. Florida -

The farther north you go, the more southern you get, the old saying goes something like that.

Peace

[Treefrog]

76. Very true.

You can’t get grits with your breakfast in south Florida restaurants lol, gotta head north in the state for that! That amazed me when I was younger.

[plimsoll]

98. Southern isn't exactly an accent.

But it is definitely a state of mind. Most of the people with "southern" accents I worked with were decent, intelligent and hard working. And then there were the Southerners, people who chose to live up to and exceed all the negative stereotypes we ascribe to southerners. And yeah, seems as if many of them sounded like they originated outside the south but they identified as being southern.

It's kind of like the story with blondes. We know what causes dumb blondes: peroxide. These folks identify as southern now probably because what Kevin Phillips failed to realize about the "southern strategy" was that it would attract southerners, and I don't mean people who started out in the south.

[JoanofArgh]

74. Same with Charlotte, NC. We're the US's 2nd largest banking center and it's

filled with northeasterners. More likely to hear a New York accent here than a southern one.

[Farmer-Rick]

33. Yeah, they definitely don't sound like Tennesseans

They sound like they are from up north, DC, Maryland and PA.

I live in East TN and we would call them foreigners.

I think some...or alot? Were bussed in. Many a paid actor has been spotted at these anti-vaxxer rallies.

Weird......

[Jilly_in_VA]

80. You mean "furriners"

"Y'all ain't from around here, air ye?" I got that a lot in east Tennessee, even after 30+ years.

[Farmer-Rick]

85. Yeah, That's exactly it. N/T

[Texaswitchy]

5. Insane

The Drs. who they will need to save their kids lives after getting the virus in schools while unmasked and unvaxed.

[Jim__]

6. I'd really like to see a video of that school board meeting.

What caused that?

Based on the video that we have, those people are just insane. Is there some explanation?

[yardwork]

18. It's happening at other school board meetings. Seems to be a national plan by some entity.

Same thing happened last week in Asheville, NC.

[jmbar2]

44. Years ago when Obamacare was being proposed, this happened at all kinds of forums

Turns out they were paid Tea Party agitators.

[Pepsidog]

54. Looks like this is a similar plan. Going after Obamacare this way was very effective.

Local and national news carries these crazy bastards non-stop screaming about I can’t choose my doctor. Looks like we are going to see more of this.

[jmbar2]

57. Same thing with the Brooks Brothers riots in Bush v Gore recount.

I wish we had a better way to get out in front of these campaigns early.

[Pepsidog]

62. Good point. Dems can't fall for this again. Do Zoom meetings in their districts.

[JHB]

61. Look to the usual anti-government astroturf funders

Bound to be connections.

[DBoon]

7. "The police are on our side"

referring to the unmasked officers standing by, doing nothing to control the mob

[Wingus Dingus]

70. The cops did the bare minimum. Garbage people with a garbage police force.

[FelineOverlord]

8. Angry parents threatening medical professionals in TN: "We will find you"

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[PortTack]

52. What is he big deal? Seriously..why these ppl can't step up is beyond sanity. It's just a mask!

[Nevilledog]

9. More video

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Tweet text:
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
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Aug 11, 2021
Medical professionals are threatened and besieged by an angry mob in Franklin, TN after they testified in favor of masks at school board mtg. They needed police to get them out of the parking lot safely. These are organized, not isolated, and getting worse. From @formvscontent



Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
This isn’t going to be a second insurrection at the Capitol in DC. That isn’t the plan. The plan going forward is this. They are focused on local government agencies all over the country like school boards and county commissions. There will be lots of these - not just over covid.
6:58 AM · Aug 11, 2021

[Botany]

27. Putin was successful beyond his wildest dreams in installing Trump as an agent to cause ...

... division in America.

Fucking "Children of the Corn" people. No too long ago the people of Franklin, TN were happy
to get vaccines for measles, polio, and T.B.. Fox News and the like are a cancer on America
and those crazy people in Franklin, TN are its tumor.

[Pepsidog]

56. Bin Laden then Putin. 9/11 changed us in so many ways but TFG and Putin have ripped us apart.

[OMGWTF]

84. Further to your comment, it's clear to me that War Criminal George W Bush allowed 9/11 to happen.

If there is ever a real investigation into what happened that day, the "Project for a New American Century" should be Exhibit A. Google it and search for the words "a new Pearl Harbor". It will blow your mind. Rethuglicans could not care less about America or American lives. They only care about money and power.

[Marcuse]

112. They needed another Tonkin Gulf Incident.

[Botany]

90. Huge sections of rural America have become a dystopian Evangelical Chrisitan white and right ..

... wing hellscape. I was just in north central VA and the yards full of Trump, Confederate, "Christian" and
American flags along with anti Biden stuff was scary. One barn had a painting of Jesus and Trump walking
arm in arm with a sun setting and a screaming American eagle in the background. Another yard had a sign
blaming the unrest in Cuba now on President Biden.

My hope is that Trump is publicly shown to be a Russian agent/con man/crook to these people but I doubt that
would matter to most of those Fox watching brain dead idiots.

[Pepsidog]

104. Jesus and Trump walking arm in arm shows a profoundly ignorant and hypocritical culture that is

confused and who can’t see the anti-Christ staring them in the face.

[Botany]

109. Trump is the least Christian man on earth.

Although to some of the mouth breathing Evangelicals
he is seen as almost "Christ like" because that lets them "own the libs."

Some these same people's parents or kin were members of the Klan and were told in their Southern Baptist church
they were doing the Lord's work.

[Irish_Dem]

120. Their profound ignorance and immorality is shocking. What a sad state of affairs.

This is the character of many Americans.

[hedda_foil]

28. As Filipkowski says above, this is organized and spreading.

Given the wealth of this community, this bunch is far from representative of the school district's parents. It's an organized and motivated group of (probably local) Trumpadorian anti-vaxers who have been stirred up by one of the countless oligarch funded groups.

[Farmer-Rick]

42. Not sure they are local

Yeah, there are a lot of "foreigners" (that's what people who speak like northerners are called) in TN. Nashville area particularly because it attracts a lot of money from the country music industry. I have relatives in Nashville and visit once a year.

But these folks in no way sound like natives to TN. Even I have a bit of a southern accent now from living here so long.These folks sound like they just walked off a set in LA.

[patphil]

10. Eventually a lot of these people will find themselves in need of medical care for variour reasons.

They'll probably be singing a different tune then.
Personally if I was a medical professional in that part of Tennessee, I'd be making plans to leave the area for a place that wasn't so full of hate.

[Lars39]

12. If I was a doctor and saw one of my patients there

making anti-mask, anti-vaccine statements I would immediately drop them as a patient.

[PatSeg]

22. I was thinking the same thing

I can't imagine staying there and treating patients after being threatened by so many.

These scenes remind me of the crazed mobs in futuristic dystopian movies, everyone mindlessly speaking with one sing-song voice. It is really horrifying.

[KentuckyWoman]

11. I continue to be baffled

At how people that stupid got to be affluent.

[Dustlawyer]

20. Most of them cheat on their taxes and cheat their way through life.

[KS Toronado]

65. Prime example is TFG

Stupid affluent person who cheats on his taxes and through life.

[Dustlawyer]

72. I was shocked years ago when signing up victims of economic loss for the BP oil spill.

Because they cheated on their taxes showing they lost money every year they could not make a claim for their actual losses. They were upset but most knew better than to make a claim and submit their taxes for scrutiny. I just could not believe how much our government was not receiving that was their due and how many people and their businesses that cheat.

[KS Toronado]

81. IRS should be looking at companies that operate in the red every year

and have them explain how they can afford to stay in business year after year.
Who in your business is throwing money at the customers?

[Lucky Luciano]

111. ...but cheating still requires some elements of cleverness.

They’re just selfish authoritarians I guess. Simple as that.

[IronLionZion]

94. It can be difficult for decent intelligent people to become wealthy

since for so many the path involves lying, cheating, stealing, screwing over others, not helping others, etc.

There are tons of movies showing people's rise to the top. The Founder is a good one showing how Ray Kroc screwed over the Mcdonald brothers and anyone else who came along because they were too nice and trusting to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Founder

[mopinko]

13. twitter needs to start id'ing these fools.

how many of them are actors? there was a thread here a week or so ago id'ing ppl who appeared at numerous events, or were full time agitators.
they both had no visible means of support, and an imbd profile.

we've seen this movie before. follow the money.

[jmbar2]

46. Maybe ask the group that is tracking the insurrectionists?

They seem very skilled at identifying folks in videos.

[mopinko]

97. yeah, that's what made me think about that.

i remember a townhall in the teaparty days. all the sane people were known to us. all the nuts were strangers. when we tracked them, half of them were outside the district.

[MarcA]

93. +1000 n/t

[world wide wally]

16. You have to admit: They are passionate in their stupidity

[PatSeg]

23. Yes, the worst kind of stupidity, the passionate kind

[BeckyDem]

17. wow

[Botany]

19. Putin was successful beyond his wildest dreams in installing Trump as an agent to cause ...

... division in America.

[aocommunalpunch]

21. LMAO

Don’t come crying to blue states for help

Peu importe. There are and will never be consequences for these crybabies. They will be coddled again. And again. And again.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. The state that brought you the Scopes Monkey Trial now presents "Doctors are Evil"

If they can't rely on the state to lock up these modern, science-believing heathens any more, then they just terrorize them themselves, the old-fashioned way. Find a pointy white hood, for old times' sake.

[movingviolation]

25. This is nuts.

I almost feel bad for wishing death on these idiots....almost.

[dreamland]

26. That's disturbing. Threatening a doctor.

Biting the hand that my feed you when you need it. I hope the medical personnel protect themselves and treat only vaxxed or masked patients.

[Ohio Joe]

29. Fucking Insane...

The right simply does not deal in reality anymore.

[Corgigal]

30. Such a beautiful state,

but the people. I wish we had millions of brave DUers who could be brave and move there. I would love that state to at least be purple.

[Duppers]

47. Same here.

"Won't you be my neighbor?"

[Corgigal]

102. Ha

I moved to Kentucky, outside of Lexington. I’m doing my part, we got to take these mountains..Ha!

[Duppers]

110. There's another DUer near Elizabethtown.

We own a gorgeous property right on the GSMNP border in TN but we're afraid to build on it & move back. We're labeled as liberals already and hubby is afraid all this will turn into another civil war.

[Duppers]

114. Malcolm Nance just said on the Reidout/msnbc

That many *are* planning for another Civil War!! Idiots! They think they're a majority?

[videohead5]

48. Nashville and Memphis

Are very blue cities but we have a bunch of lost idiots in the most of the state.

[IronLionZion]

92. There was a time when Dems named Gore were elected there nt

[Traildogbob]

31. ZERO

Ventilators or out of state medical pros to these states. Wallow in the disease. Anyone interested in tickets to a Vols game, Gators game, Seminoles game, Bama game, Longhorns game?????? The shit is piling up and the fans are on high speed. Funeral homes will be slammed more than hospitals. Wear your masks, doubled, get your shots and boosters, distance, stay away from any crowds, and let them all die. THEN, American can get to greatness. Health insurers, deny coverage to self inflected. If they survive, Then they will literally be in the streets, in cardboard boxes, with long term illness. Fuck em. Maybe they should save all those card board Freedom signs as room dividers in their homes of cardboard.

[skypilot]

37. ZERO ventilators or...medical pros

It might just come to that. There are only so many ventilators and burned-out medical professionals to go around and Texas and Florida already have their hands out trying to get them.

[kimbutgar]

32. These idiots will find the doctors when they are in the hospital suffering from corona virus

As that doctor incubates them they realize it was the doctors they harassed at this meeting.

That said I doubt many of these people have children in schools. They are just maggots who listen to and watch the idiot media of Fox , Oann and newsmax.

[Botany]

39. We now have another right wing nut job "new source" The National Desk to go w/Fox and so on.

I just stumbled on The National Desk yesterday. As if we don't have enough right wing
propaganda outlets.

[kimbutgar]

40. My husband flipped over to that yesterday on Dish and they also have a conservative

Black news network channel also. fish does carry Oann but carries newsman and the black new network.

All we have is free speech and msnbc.

[Botany]

55. And the right wing is all in on having Spanish speaking "Rush Limbaugh types" on Hispanic radio ...

.... station too. It doesn't matter that we really are the majority but the right pushes it memes
and messages 24/7 over multiple platforms. The new "get Biden" meme that is being pushed is
that Joe's policies are causing inflation. Even NPR was pushing that meme yesterday.

Reagan's killing of the fairness doctrine 2.5 generations ago is still hurting America.

[keithbvadu2]

34. 1+

[onetexan]

36. OK thats threat to be reported to the FBI if local policd

Will do nothing. Med professionals need to report it ASAP.

[Locrian]

38. forget herd immunity - this is herd insanity - n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

41. This is criminal threatening. FBI Civil Rights Division phone # [phone]

[mountain grammy]

43. This is very disturbing.

[AverageOldGuy]

45. That last line from "Chinatown":

"Forget it, Jake. It's Tennessee."

[Pepsidog]

50. Madness. Total madness.

[TNNurse]

53. I think their children should be considered in danger

and removed from the home.

But that is just me.

[Katinfl]

59. That is F%&$#g scary!

I can’t hardly believe this is what it has come to. We are in for some bad times people.

[tishaLA]

60. Bannon pushes this school board madness

on his podcast or whatever it is. Same thing the Kochs and Mercers did with the TP--work at the local level, let it simmer up, play the long game.

[Wingus Dingus]

63. Hope they all drop dead. Seriously. I'm done with these violent threatening fuckers.

Done with their intimidation tactics. Done with their disease-ridden asses dragging the rest of us down. May Covid take them out.

[Orrex]

64. That's an explicitly terroristic threat and must be prosecuted as such

[TygrBright]

67. Teachers are likely to quit or strike. Kids will get sick and die. WHY are they doing this? n/t

[fwvinson]

73. Many of these people are going to get sick.

Some won't make it. Sad to see this ignorance so often.

[tanyev]

91. Yep. A lot of them are going to find one of those medical professionals

on the other end of the ventilator that’s about to get stuck down their throat.

[fwvinson]

79. These police are not going to do anything unless a law is broken.

Problem is, this makes the police the lawyer/judge/executioner, at that moment. These police, looks like to me, are determining what is a crime. And, they don't see these people yelling and screaming at medical pros as a crime. But, if they were POC doing the yelling and screaming?

[Ilsa]

82. These people act like we are asking them to

cut off an arm or leg.

I hope they are unable to access medical care when they get sick. I know that's a terrible thing to wish for, but these people are ugly, entitled rat-f&

[East-A-Squared]

83. If they get covid, they should wear DNR bracelets.

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[Duppers]

108. Yep. 👍

[Jon King]

86. The parents of Asian and many other smart kids must be laughing.

These dimwits are dooming their kids to a life of taking orders from the smart kids. The new economy will favor high tech.

Since their kids won't be educated enough and stuck on worrying about worthless stuff, we will simply have to allow educated immigrants to come to America to fill the good jobs.

[IronLionZion]

89. Asians and smart kids are stealing their jobs

Racism is the main tool for people who believe in the concept of American born/raised foreigners.

[Warpy]

87. I got told to leave stores if I popped in for something right after work

during the early 80s when nobody knew what AIDS was or how it spread but they all knew that doctors and nurses were carrying it into their neighborhoods. I learned very quickly to go home first, shuck off the uniform and put jeans on before I went anywhere.

The only good part was not being molested on crowded subways.

People always get weird as hell during an epidemic, especially one they haven't faced before. Medical people always catch hell from the (temporarily) healthy who are terrified of being exposed to what we deal with every single day.

[Aristus]

88. Reminds me of a patient I visited with recently.

He refused to put on a mask before entering the clinic. I told him he wouldn't be seen without one. He went ballistic. "I'M GONNA TALK WITH YOUR MANAGER! THERE WILL BE ACTIONS! THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!"

No consequences so far.

And if there have been, I haven't noticed them...

[sarchasm]

100. I have had the same experience ...

… most, not all, but most are just blowhards, all talk. It’s like their god tells them it’s ok to be assholes if they’re being an assholes to those deemed heretics to ANY of their beliefs. Same in the Pro Life arena, just assholes screaming at clinic patients. Due to the many biblical references, and actual bibles present at that meeting, you can be sure their religion fuels their virulence.

But their violent threats were recorded, their faces clear, and that’s why nothing will likely come of it. I hope every one of those assholes are identified, and those medical professionals keep a record of those making threats. There must be consequences for that kind of behavior.

[MarcA]

95. Thought these types were against "socialism".

Why are they sending their children to public schools instead of voucher approved alternatives? Spoiled, privileged types. ID them and follow the money.

[Martin Eden]

96. They are like ignorant petulant children, but dangerous.

We are ALL tired of this pandemic, wearing masks, having to curtail social gatherings.

Some of us are actually responsible adults making an effort to protect our families and the lives of complete strangers.

But these COVIDIOTS are actively endangering others and making it necessary to keep the mask mandates in place.

This isn't freedom or patriotism; it's a death cult.

[moondust]

101. Whatever happened to the celebrations

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of health care workers putting in overtime to save people's lives in the early days of the pandemic?

"Public health" may need more legal protections. That might have been done already but I don't think anybody anticipated this kind of menacing mass insanity in the 21st Century.

ETA: What happens to somebody who deliberately gets in the way of firemen fighting a fire? Or police trying to make an arrest?

The term public nuisance covers a wide variety of minor crimes that threaten the health, morals, safety, comfort, convenience, or welfare of a community. Violators may be punished by a criminal sentence, a fine, or both.
~
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/public+nuisance

[sarchasm]

105. WCS school board votes to require masks at elementary schools; will revisit issue in September

Aug 10, 2021 updated 49 min ago

a compromise to be sure, but will saner heads prevail?

link…

With amendments layered on amendments, eruptions after eruptions and discussions stretched through the night, members of the Williamson County Board of Education voted 7-3 Tuesday night to approve staff recommendations that would mandate the wearing of masks in all elementary schools in the Williamson County Schools district.

The rise of the COVID-19 Delta variant has caused educational institutions across the country to reevaluate mask policies for students, particularly those who are under 12 and are currently unable to be vaccinated. For example, Metro Nashville Public Schools will have mask mandates for all levels in place for now.

At the moment, the county does not have a policy for its middle and high schools, but the elementary level now has a masking requirement in place thanks to the vote by the WCS school board through Sept. 21.

cont…

[mainer]

106. They've been identified.

The guy in the black shirt doesn't even have kids.
The guy in the denim over pink shirts is a "Christian" musician.

http://tnholler.com/2021/08/wilco-man-who-threatened-doc-was-party-to-tn-stands-lawsuits/

[leftyladyfrommo]

107. The medical people should just leave.

Let them deal with it themselves.

[live love laugh]

118. 💯

[Nexus2]

115. Its as if the lunatics take over a new wing of the asylum every day [nt]

[DiverDave]

116. Please tell me that.

And follow through. You might not make it home. You might be looking for a hospital bed.
Cowards will do nothing. The cops reactions however are very troubling.

[kcr]

119. Not a day goes by

Where I'm not thankful I escaped that hellhole state.