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[Gordon Shumway]

Two Donald Trump supporters openly carrying firearms sat outside the campaign office of a Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia for nearly 12 hours on Thursday, according to CBS affiliate Newsplex in Charlottesville.

One of the protesters, Daniel Parks, told Newsplex that he held the protest to support Trump.

"I'm just trying to provide a voice for someone who might be closet supporters of Trump. Other people that are a little worried to speak out because of possible persecution," he said.

Parks and another Trump supporter who later joined him outside the campaign of the campaign office Democrat Jane Dittmar's office in Palmyra, Virginia, were openly carrying guns, Su Wolff, a volunteer for Dittmar, told Newsplex.

"He turned sideways to be sure that we would see that he has an open carry gun, which is legal, it’s fine, but it's intimidating," she said of one protester. "If he wants to support his candidate that's fine, but don't come here and stare into the office all day."

Parks told Newsplex that he was not a threat and that he was carrying a gun legally.

"We're not a threat to anybody, the only threat is ignorance, and ignorance will breed fear," he said.

Dittmar is running against State Sen. Thomas A. Garrett Jr. (R) for the 5th Congressional District seat currently held by Rep. Robert Hurt, who is not seeking re-election.

The two geniuses in question:

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This shit is a problem. We've got this moron talking about going into "certain communities" to make sure the vote isn't stolen? Fuck that orange 🐱..

Intimidate me if old..

 

[The Technomancer]

Is this actually illegal? Can it be? Intimidation to interfere with electoral process?

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Are you fucking kidding me?! This is exactly the shit people were worried about!!

 

[EatinOlives]

Fuck Donald for giving assholes like these a voice

 

[Stinkles]

"the only threat is ignorance."

That's exactly what scares people, dude.

 

[wenis]

Are you fucking kidding me?! This is exactly the shit people were worried about!!

There's only going to be more of this going forward. Voting day is going to be a complete shit show. Just you watch.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Take them to the junkyard and crush them into cubes.

 

[Kerned]

I do suspect that there will be widespread voter intimidation on Election Day.

 

[Orbis]

I'm all for peaceful protests but you don't need guns to peacefully protest. To me that moves towards intimidation.

 

[ponpo]

Install speakers and play that "we got a chopper in the trunk for donald trump" track outside every democratic office in retaliation.

 

[PsihoPerihelion]

That "Make America Great Again" hat always gets me.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Arrest these fuckers. Terrorists, that is all. /thread

 

[cooljeanius]

It's stuff like this that makes me afraid to go canvass, or do other volunteering this election. My anxiety is already pretty bad as it is; people with guns just makes it worse.

 

[rjinaz]

Trump wants this. He's telling people this will be rigged and to show up and make sure nothing is going on.

The problem is, if you think the whole thing is rigged, everybody there not voting for Trump has malicious intent. I suspect we're going to be hearing a lot of this come election day, especially if Trump doesn't let up.

 

[Garlador]

Trump wants this. He's telling people this will be rigged and to show up and make sure nothing is going on.

The problem is, if you think the whole thing is rigged, everybody there not voting for Trump has malicious intent. I suspect we're going to be hearing a lot of this come election day, especially if Trump doesn't let up.

That's the big fear. Some idiot with a gun who doesn't understand "voting for Hillary" ISN'T the same as "rigging an election" and will take steps to "solve" the problem.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Trump wants this. He's telling people this will be rigged and to show up and make sure nothing is going on.

The problem is, if you think the whole thing is rigged, everybody there not voting for Trump has malicious intent. I suspect we're going to be hearing a lot of this come election day, especially if Trump doesn't let up.

I'm hoping on voting day, voting areas have beefed up security. But with the police lately I really have no faith in that. You had a group wearing fucking Trump hats the other day in Texas.

 

[rjinaz]

That's the big fear. Some idiot with a gun who doesn't understand "voting for Hillary" ISN'T the same as "rigging an election" and will take steps to "solve" the problem.

God let's hope not.

I'm hoping on voting day, voting areas have beefed up security. But with the police lately I really have no faith in that. You had a group wearing fucking Trump hats the other day in Texas.

I think if I lived in a heavy Trump area, I would make sure not to wear any pro Hillary items. Messed up as that is, I wouldn't be taken the chance.

 

[Ithil]

Trump wants this. He's telling people this will be rigged and to show up and make sure nothing is going on.

The problem is, if you think the whole thing is rigged, everybody there not voting for Trump has malicious intent. I suspect we're going to be hearing a lot of this come election day, especially if Trump doesn't let up.

There is an attempt to rig the election, but the person making the attempt is Trump. Straight up asking for his supporters to try voter intimidation under the hilariously transparent guise of "preventing voter fraud".

 

[The_Inquisitor]

Yeah I'm really not sure how this doesn't count as intidimiation.

 

[The Kree]

They're doing exactly what Trump told them to do.

“The only way we can lose, in my opinion—and I really mean this, Pennsylvania—is if cheating goes on…. And we have to call up law enforcement. And we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching…. The only way they can beat it in my opinion—and I mean this 100 percent—if in certain sections of the state they cheat, OK? So I hope you people can sort of not just vote on the 8th, go around and look and watch other polling places and make sure that it’s 100 percent fine, because without voter identification—which is shocking, shocking that you don’t have it.” ​

And

— He told the crowd to get a group of friends together on Election Day, vote and then go to “certain areas” and “watch” the voters there. "I hear too many bad stories, and we can't lose an election because of you know what I'm talking about,” Trump said. “So, go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen, and we don't want to lose for that reason.”​

 

[Hjod]

I understand that open carry is legal in some states but mixing politics with AR-15s are not a good fucking idea.

My biggest fear when Hillary wins is that there are alot of armed, pissed of Trump voters that think that the system is rigged and so on. Scary shit.

 

[rjinaz]

Posted in poligaf

https://t.co/Rf65AxLrh7

 

[RPGCrazied]

They're doing exactly what Trump told them to do.

“The only way we can lose, in my opinion—and I really mean this, Pennsylvania—is if cheating goes on…. And we have to call up law enforcement. And we have to have the sheriffs and the police chiefs and everybody watching…. The only way they can beat it in my opinion—and I mean this 100 percent—if in certain sections of the state they cheat, OK? So I hope you people can sort of not just vote on the 8th, go around and look and watch other polling places and make sure that it’s 100 percent fine, because without voter identification—which is shocking, shocking that you don’t have it.” ​

And

— He told the crowd to get a group of friends together on Election Day, vote and then go to “certain areas” and “watch” the voters there. "I hear too many bad stories, and we can't lose an election because of you know what I'm talking about,” Trump said. “So, go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen, and we don't want to lose for that reason.”​

Yeah, this should be illegal. He has already broken the law by evading to pay taxes. Why is he not in jail again?

 

[GameAddict411]

I saw two old douche bags in Eugene, Oregon holding hateful signs outside the dem campaign office(one of the signs is "deplorables life matters", referring to african-Americans as deplorable) . They weren't armed or anything, but this election cycle is enabling people like these to speak out.I wonder if we will get any riots when the orange POS loses this november.

 

[Mrs. Manky]

This reminds me of how black voters were intimidated in the South.

And these two goofs probably think they are defenders of freedom. smh

 

[Hjod]

Posted in poligaf

"I'm going to make them a little bit nervous". It worked on me, how can Trump be allowed to tell people go watch polling stations? And with open carry this will make for some wierd ineractions.

 

[rjinaz]

There is an attempt to rig the election, but the person making the attempt is Trump. Straight up asking for his supporters to try voter intimidation under the hilariously transparent guise of "preventing voter fraud".

Of course.

This reminds me of how black voters were intimidated in the South.

And these two goofs probably think they are defenders of freedom. smh

Free to think exactly as I do.

 

[Ambient80]

"We're not a threat to anybody, the only threat is ignorance, and ignorance will breed fear," he said.

That's rich coming from Republicans.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Posted in poligaf

This right here is sleazy and disgusting as all hell. Trump can rot in hell for encouraging this shit and his supporters can fuck off for trying to start something. Pieces of shit, every single one of them.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Just look at these clowns. How can we expect them to have our backs on election day?

 

[VariantX]

Posted in poligaf

Legally he says...

People are so deep in this shit that they've deluded themselves into thinking they were vested some authority to go and intimidate people at the polls.

 

[Saganator]

Armed people at polling stations, Trump, making America great again.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Just look at these clowns. How can we expect them to have our backs on election day?

What a gaggle of bumblefucks and sleaze bags.

 

[Hjod]

Just look at these clowns. How can we expect them to have our backs on election day?

Wait, they are siding with an political party while wearing uniform? Yeah, that's a paddling were I'm from. They would be fired so fast.

 

[Mat-triX]

Trump supporters on election day: "I couldn't vote 'cause I was too busy preventing others from voting"

 

[Snowybreak]

Sometimes I hear this and wonder if I should post outside of polling places with a gun, maybe put the fear of democracy into some white bigots. If that happens where I live, I'm gonna fucking rout them out of town, this is shit that I will not put up with.

Things like this make me wish the Black Panthers were still around in their old capacity.

 

[ColdDeckEd]

I would love to propose a social experiment where 2 POCs try the same thing, but they'd be shot dead within 10 minutes.

 

[Khoryos]

I think the real take away from this should be that America is so welcoming even undead Russian monks like Rasputin on the left there can get a gun.

 

[Dai101]

Arrest these fuckers. Terrorists, that is all. /thread

Not brown enough to be called that.

 

[sturgboski]

So that is how Trump wins? Getting his base of terrible human beings to intimidate others. Man, they do really wish we lived in a time when only white men had all the power, not just most of the power.

Cant anything be done? I mean, isnt Trump basically yelling fire in a crowded movie theater at this point? You have so many of his supporters saying there will be a violent revolution if Hillary wins. Normally, I wouldnt bat an eye as something to that affect is stated every four years, but this time it feels different.

 

[Venture]

It's fucked up how easy it is for white people to just casually stroll around with guns without fear compared to how somebody with a darker skin tone would be treated.

 

[kess]

Someone will probably get killed on election day, and the NBA will defend the right of people to take guns into the polling place.

#MAGA

 

[vicearseV]

Posted in poligaf

Looks like America is having its share of Fascism: that sounds like Italian "squadracce" in the thirties. Violent groups of civilians who voluntarily exercised intimidation and psychological/physical pressure on others, pushing them to behave according to the party's rules. It's scary, because phenomena of this kind cannot be put to rest by an election. They originated from sheer ideology, and formed spontaneously before being encouraged by Mussolini and his party.

 

[rjinaz]

Looks like America is having its share of Fascism: that sounds like Italian "squadracce" in the thirties. Violent groups of civilians who voluntarily exercised intimidation and psychological/physical pressure on others, pushing them to behave according to the party's rules. It's scary, because phenomena of this kind cannot be put to rest by an election. They originated from sheer ideology, and formed spontaneously before being encouraged by Mussolini and his party.

Oh we are.

Thankfully more than half of this country sees this for what it is and will vote to stop it.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Oh we are.

Thankfully more than half of this country sees this for what it is and will vote to stop it.

Thankfully. He is losing like every state he needs to win. But he still has brought out this ugly side of America, which I don't think is going to go away even when he loses. We should be talking about that. He has damaged the US already.

 

[gdt]

What happens if these people start showing up on Election Day? "Protesting" voting locations in PA, Florida and Ohio? Would this be illegal?

 

[gutter_trash]

terrorists

they are the same as the Taliban, hateful men with guns

 

[Laevateinn]

Posted in poligaf

"People who can't speak American." That's so idiotic if this were any year I'd swear it was from a parody.

 

[Raguel]

Thankfully. He is losing like every state he needs to win. But he still has brought out this ugly side of America, which I don't think is going to go away even when he loses. We should be talking about that. He has damaged the US already.

He hasn't damaged the U.S. The ugliness has always been there. Ask any minority. Ask any black child who questions his mom as to why he is hated because of his skin color. Ask any immigrants in a predominantly white neighborhood. Ask any muslim living in fear of being shot just because they are praying. Drumpf just gave the vile deplorables a louder voice and brought the ugliness to the forefront. The racism and hate was always there. All Drumpf did was give them a reason.

 

[Psychoward]

Man they really don't get the irony in what they're doing huh

They're supposed to be protecting people who may be voting for Trump but don't want to admit it for fear of being persecuted? all they're doing is scaring people who aren't voting trump, but maybe they secretly know that