Politics Pro Trump protester knocked out at PDX

My fear is that these angry anti-Trump people are going to keep getting worked up into a fervor, and pushing the Trump supporters and shitting on people who they perceive to be pro-Trump, and the "white trash NASCAR loving rednecks" are going to come back with guns. I know there are a lot of anti-government types who are just itching for a reason to fight. All it's going to take is one militia group getting fed up and organizing a coordinated attack on an anti-Trump rally. There could be hundreds of casualties, if not thousands depending on how many people show up with guns. This is how wars begin.

The Boston Massacre.

 

Technically only 25.5 percent of the voting population voted for Trump.

 

That means nothing in context to what was actually stated. And yes that means around 90 million people didn't vote. So claiming 2/3rds Americans don't support Trump is incorrect and unprovable.

More precisely and provable would be to take numbers from the people who actually voted. But even then you'd need to repoll everyone to make the claim that he did.

 

This all sucks.....idiots are in abundance...Tpup should never have to be targeted for a red hat...reminds me of when my ship docked in San Diego coming back from war....hippies protested us as we got off the boat...many having not been home for a long time...signs about baby killers, etc....having short hair back then was target enough......the war was wrong but sometimes the costumes don't really disguise the fact that assholes can attach themselves to any crowd and probably will. Let's hope things calm down.......my biggest fear is that we're going to have Marshall Law and lots of uniforms in the streets...stop and frisk was a campaign promise too.

 

I think voting in a democratic election proves "support". 25.5 percent supported Trump. Unless you want to use alternative facts.

 

I think I'm just going to stay home for the next 4 years

 

Actually my original point (which admittedly wasn't particularly clear) is that the majority of Americans either did not vote for Trump or they did not vote at all. So basically, Trump is pushing policy for a minority of voters. I don't think that is arguable. Of course the same could be said for pretty much any president who didn't win by a landslide.

 

I understand that. But you're building a straw man argument. We were initially never talking about just the voting population. So you can snark all ya want about alternative facts bro but the initial claim by UCD was 2/3rd of Americans.

After making it more clear, you could say that about any candidate that gets voted in.

Trump got 25.5 and Hillary was probably like 25.9 while the other 50 neglected to let their voice be heard.

I disagree with the claim that he's pushing policy for the minority because nobody knows how the other 50% of the population feels exactly.

 

I'm compensating for having to learn to walk 3x. Once as an infant and twice more later in life from serious injuries. If I lean one way or the other it's because of nerve damage.....just happy to be able to type.

 

@SlyPokerDog
did you catch the news at 6 today?
it showed these pro-trump supporters before they went to the airport.

 

IDK how to search it, but apparently they went to a couple churches looking for a confrontation. Before they went to the airport.
News said it was a couple catholic churches they went to, megaphoning at brown people.
News interviewed pastors of two churches.

Don't like the violence, but as I've been around parents tell their younger children who want to wrestle with their older brother/sisters.
"If you go and wrestle with them, and get hurt. Don't come crying to us because they hurt you."

 

Heavens, no! That would extremely foolish.