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Here's a video of at least part of the incident: https://twitter.com/truthserum4all/status/1322393595962363905 https://twitter.com/truthserum4all/status/1322393

Here's a video of at least part of the incident: https://twitter.com/truthserum4all/status/1322393595962363905 https://twitter.com/truthserum4all/status/132239359596236390... At the start of the video, the bus is in the second from rightmost lane and looks like it's starting to merge into the rightmost lane, which will put it directly in front of the black truck. There's a white crossover SUV that is directly behind the bus and will no longer be directly behind the bus once the bus finishes merging. The camera turns away unfortunately, then pans back to show that the bus has merged and the white SUV crossover which was behind the bus before the lane change is now trying to merge directly into the black truck, in order to stay behind the bus. The black truck then pushes the white SUV crossover back into its own lane. Obviously what the white SUV crossover did was illegal. I think the most charitable interpretation of its behavior is that the driver didn't see the black truck. The black truck driver could have rapidly decelerated to allow the white SUV crossover to merge in front of it, but I don't think it's fair to characterize pushing back on someone trying to force you off the road as "attacking." A more accurate description might be "defending." I probably would have done the same, since I don't like bullies and don't like to endanger the innocent people behind me by rapidly decelerating due to distracted/angry driver next to me. This isn't the best video, but if you pause it and determine which lane each vehicle is in, it seems fairly straightforward. Do you have a different interpretation of this video, or perhaps a better video? EDIT: clarified wording about "attacking" vs "defending"

mmastrac 6y ago
Jesus, this is even worse than I had seen in the past. These Trump vehicles are clearly harassing and surrounding the bus and that black truck is trying to get into the chase position. This is something you shouldn't see in a first-world country. You can very clearly see the Trump truck swerving left into the car. That driver needs to be under arrest. Other reports indicated that the Trump caravan was trying to drive the Biden bus off the road [1] The driver apparently bragged about it on Facebook as well ("that was me slamming that f_cker") [2] Regardless of who is at fault, a collection of Trump supporters were harassing the bus of their opponent TRAVELING ON A ROAD, using their vehicles. [1] https://twitter.com/ericcervini/status/1322336226792321025 https://twitter.com/ericcervini/status/1322336226792321025 [2] https://twitter.com/bookbaybe/status/1322883111626178560/photo/1 https://twitter.com/bookbaybe/status/1322883111626178560/pho...
- noworriesnate 6y ago
  I can see how you would interpret it that way if you don't pay attention to lane crossings. But the white SUV crossover is merging into the truck and the truck has nowhere to go...so it pushed back. What would you have done? Decelerated rapidly? Physical contact was made no matter what the black truck driver did. As for the driver bragging about it, so what? He did slam into the vehicle trying to push him off the road. All the Trump vehicles were stopped in the video you linked. I think we should focus on the actual video of the incident, it helps keep us honest.
  - mmastrac 6y ago
    I wouldn't have been tailgating a political opponent, that's for sure. Slowing down would have been a smart move. Leaving an appropriate length behind that bus would have been a smart move. What I see in a video are a bunch of Trump supporters attempting to intimidate a political opponent. If that doesn't terrify you, you might be too far gone.
  - mlthoughts2018 6y ago
    Your pains to defend outrageously fascist behavior by the drivers supporting Trump is terrifying to me. I even agree with you that the white car crossed into the right lane, but the idea that this discussion is about whether that car crossed the lane or not is psychotic. Zoom out just a minute. Before you have any cars crossing any lanes, you’ve got a caravan of cars for one political candidate aggressively flanking and boxing in a bus for the other candidate and trying to intimidate any drivers associated with that campaign. That is so deeply, deeply wrong and horrific. There is utterly no excuse for it. How can you not see that by acting as if there is any semblance of a legitimate discussion to be had about the microscopic details of the white car changing lanes that could in any way mitigate the horrific election interference that the black car and others are perpetrating, you are yourself literally (not hyperbole) tacitly supporting fascist repression of fair electoral processes. Your comments here are disturbing to a literally violent degree.

mmastrac 6y ago

Jesus, this is even worse than I had seen in the past. These Trump vehicles are clearly harassing and surrounding the bus and that black truck is trying to get into the chase position. This is something you shouldn't see in a first-world country. You can very clearly see the Trump truck swerving left into the car. That driver needs to be under arrest. Other reports indicated that the Trump caravan was trying to drive the Biden bus off the road [1] The driver apparently bragged about it on Facebook as well ("that was me slamming that f_cker") [2] Regardless of who is at fault, a collection of Trump supporters were harassing the bus of their opponent TRAVELING ON A ROAD, using their vehicles. [1] https://twitter.com/ericcervini/status/1322336226792321025 https://twitter.com/ericcervini/status/1322336226792321025 [2] https://twitter.com/bookbaybe/status/1322883111626178560/photo/1 https://twitter.com/bookbaybe/status/1322883111626178560/pho...

noworriesnate 6y ago
I can see how you would interpret it that way if you don't pay attention to lane crossings. But the white SUV crossover is merging into the truck and the truck has nowhere to go...so it pushed back. What would you have done? Decelerated rapidly? Physical contact was made no matter what the black truck driver did. As for the driver bragging about it, so what? He did slam into the vehicle trying to push him off the road. All the Trump vehicles were stopped in the video you linked. I think we should focus on the actual video of the incident, it helps keep us honest.
- mmastrac 6y ago
  I wouldn't have been tailgating a political opponent, that's for sure. Slowing down would have been a smart move. Leaving an appropriate length behind that bus would have been a smart move. What I see in a video are a bunch of Trump supporters attempting to intimidate a political opponent. If that doesn't terrify you, you might be too far gone.
- mlthoughts2018 6y ago
  Your pains to defend outrageously fascist behavior by the drivers supporting Trump is terrifying to me. I even agree with you that the white car crossed into the right lane, but the idea that this discussion is about whether that car crossed the lane or not is psychotic. Zoom out just a minute. Before you have any cars crossing any lanes, you’ve got a caravan of cars for one political candidate aggressively flanking and boxing in a bus for the other candidate and trying to intimidate any drivers associated with that campaign. That is so deeply, deeply wrong and horrific. There is utterly no excuse for it. How can you not see that by acting as if there is any semblance of a legitimate discussion to be had about the microscopic details of the white car changing lanes that could in any way mitigate the horrific election interference that the black car and others are perpetrating, you are yourself literally (not hyperbole) tacitly supporting fascist repression of fair electoral processes. Your comments here are disturbing to a literally violent degree.