This is disgusting. Not only is it political intimidation of the likes I’d expect from Zimbabwe, it’s also political violence as the black truck had run into the bus to scare the innocent people inside. This is also unlawful use of a motor vehicle on quite a few levels, including careless driving and dangerous driving and potentially is criminal. If you think that endangering the safety of people you perceive as political opponents and staffers just doing their job, while simultaneously and hypocritically calling out ‘bad behaviour’ of those same political opponents…then this is a reflection of your character on so many levels.
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Of course this is wrong, four years ago I called out on principle Democrats who turned up at Trump rallies and in some cases attacked people, I questioned the media who brought them on to talk shows as if they were heros, where were the left leaning supporters lining up to condemn such acts? Trump supporters should not be at Democrat events let alone be chasing their nominee bus around.
For four years I have been pointing out how wrong it is for political violence from any side but it’s been particularly apparent against anyone who wears a red hat, where have the Democrats been to back up this principle and demand their supporters do not engage in such behavior?
Have you @Marco been calling out such behaviour over the past 4 years? If not why not? I can say the principle applies equally, Trump should demand his supporters not do this, instead he sent a tweet of the very same, for that reason it’s news, but the Trump supporters and Trump himself receive my condemnation for political intimidation. No place for this sort of thing in democracy.
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I agree. However, bad-left-behaviour is already called out very quickly here on the forum. I have not been a member for four years yet and certainly did not start off running to the International Politics forum. I don’t support Antifa’s violent actions either. I also don’t believe that these are the majority of Trump supporters and that many people who I’ve met are just perfectly normal and reasonable people.
This is what I saw now. I flagged it. You allowed me to move it from Funny Political Videos.
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Eh if they’d actually accosted them or were physically forcing them away I’d fully see your point, and if that’s the case I apologise. That being said it looked to me as if they were just taking the piss, which is where I saw the humour. I don’t see any malicious acts. I don’t see anything about anyone ramming the bus either? it looks like some unrelated car drove into one of the pick ups? I can see how the situation could be misconstrued or interpreted differently though.
And I don’t wanna get into whataboutism, but if you want to compare it to actual threats, violence and intimidation the Democrats have implicitly supported the past 5 years and call me a hypocrite over that…
Yeah, look at all that violence and intimidation in that video. It’s just too much.
If Antifa would confine themselves to just driving down the freeway, I wouldn’t have any problem with them.
Carbon footprint be damned.
One wrong move and multiple people could have died. It’s a highway with multi-tonne hunks of metal. Intimidation is intimidation.
Oh I forgot, it’s not the government. It doesn’t matter if it’s private citizens suppressing other people’s freedoms in support of a ruling party. How hypocritical.
This is what they do in Zimbabwe. Intimidate so that the opposing party cancels their events and suppresses their information.
They’re not confining themselves to just driving down the freeway. They’re performing extremely dangerous acts and weaponising their vehicles. There are human beings in that bus and white escort vehicle. Have some compassion.
It’s called heavy traffic. If it fills you with dread, then stay off the highways. Leave the driving to those who can handle it.
There are a lot of Trump supporters, and they have as much right to the road as anyone else.
And don’t ever cross an avenue in Taipei.
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You’re putting words in my mouth. They have right to use the roads, They do not have the right to collide with the vehicles in order to scare the passengers inside. They INTENTIONALLY got in the way of them. Your willful blindness to the event prevents you from seeing that what they did was illegal, disgusting and oppressive. They intentionally got in the way of the bus. They intentionally got in front to dangerously slow a bus down. They intentionally rammed the bus and the escort.
They don’t have the right to break motor vehicle and antiharassment laws. Your willingness to downplay this is unequivocally disgusting.
Don’t tell me what to do. Taiwanese drivers are far more civil than the animals in this video.
Watching Max Max play out in real life, one has to wonder how long before the US devolves into all-out civil war?
There was no reason to do this putting peoples lives at risk. Not ok regardless of who they support.
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I wouldn’t support this if it was the opposite. We are allowed to support and disagree with whoever we want and we are to be respectful to each other.
Campaign staffers are not lawmakers and have a right to do their jobs safely! I would not support this kind of suppression. I don’t support it in Hong Kong with the whiteshirts, I don’t support it here in Western Democracies!
Is there evidence the MAGA trucks actually tried to run the Biden bus off the road? In the videos I’ve seen it just looks like an escort.
Didn’t see anything illegal or dangerous in the first video. There was a little fender bender between a truck and SUV in the second one, although they admitted it wasn’t clear who was at fault. Didn’t see anything dangerous involving the Biden bus itself. The rest of those videos seems to be nothing more than rhetoric. I’ll be happy to condemn if an investigation shows that any laws were broken.
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Well. I guess we’ll see what the FBI’s conclusion is. But, as far as I know, the news has to also be careful not to point fingers cause they’ll get sued. But it’s a reasonable reply.
I’m sure the bus has cameras as well.
That’s it?
They drove, well spaced out, behind the Biden bus?
So?
Driving on the highway is not a dangerous act. Weaponizing vehicles? How so?
I find this to be far more threatening behavior:
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