Posted on 07/24/2021 9:27:40 AM PDT by blam
President Joe Biden was met with aggressive boos and heckling when he spoke Friday night at a campaign event in Virginia, there to support Terry McAuliffe’s bid for a second term as the state’s governor.
It appears the moment he began praising Alabama’s governor Kat Ivey, a Republican, for encouraging all residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine, his Democrat supporters grew angry, with the disruption so significant that he was forced to address the boos. But the ruckus appears also to have begun with a group of environmental activists at the event.
Joe Biden gets heckled by protesters at a rally for Terry McAuliffe pic.twitter.com/U5sRvqKpEj
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 24, 2021
He had said the moment before he got heckled: “What we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. A lot of our conservative friends have had a second thought. They’ve seen the Lord. Thank God the governor of Alabama – had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country – has now, and I’m genuinely complimenting her…” in reference to the Republican governor. And an already existing smattering of boos grew loud and overtook the crowd at that point.
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” Biden said in frustration as he sought to calm the crowd. And apparently his thinking at that point was… when in doubt, simply invoke Trump to give the crowd some quick satisfaction:
“Look, this is not a Trump rally. Let ’em holler. No one’s paying attention.”
Biden, heckled at a rally in Virginia: “Let ‘em talk… that’s okay. This is not a Trump rally. Let ‘em holler. Nobody’s paying attention to them.” pic.twitter.com/n2zeaCbY07
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 24, 2021
While he got some laughs, the heckling actually briefly continued, with some activists in the crowd reportedly also shouting “Stop Line 3!” in reference to a Canada to Minnesota oil pipeline project in the works.
The New York Post suggests it was the environmental activists mainly responsible for the heckling:
Biden was about two minutes into his remarks at an Arlington rally for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe when a group of people began yelling “Stop Line 3!” referring to a controversial oil pipeline project in northern Minnesota.
The report continues, “The rest of the crowd attempted to drown out the protesters by booing and chanting Let’s go, Joe! as the president tried to restore order.”
Reagan’s 11th commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill about another republican”
The Democrats 11th command must be “Thou shalt NEVER speak nice about a republican”
Obviously. Trump rallies attract a lot more people.
Scummy communists
“Just go, Joe!” would have been more appropriate.
Look I am an environmental activist too. My mantra leave the environment alone.
The Crowd heckles Trump at Trump Rallies?
In my best Johnny Carson, I did not know that.
So, even though the Socialist Democrats STOLE the last election, they’re STILL not happy with the results? Slow Joe isn’t speeding our demise quickly enough for their tastes!
See? You can never, EVER please a Socialist Democrat. The more you give, the more they will take.
Hurry, 2022! We need to grind every one of them that we can to DUST!
“This is not a Trump really”
Of course it isn’t.
People actually show up for Trump rallies...
You mean, there were NOT ten thousand people in attendance?
This man is a criminal joke. A dementia addled, criminally and morally corrupted venal dirtbag who should be in a nursing home.
And that cackling slut of a Vice President is just as bad.
No liberal I know, including four of my younger siblings want to even discuss this vegetable in The White House.
That’s the measure of a liberal. Talk s**t about we conservatives and what unenlightened Neanderthals we are but when it comes to them and their politics and election choices they shut the discussion down.
If it was a Trump rally, there’d have been more then 10 people there.
Nobody respects this clown. Not his own base, certainly not ours, and nobody who matters overseas either. He’s an utterly corrupt joke and everyone knows it.
Joe ran for president twice before. He was not popular with dimrat primary voters then or ever. I would imagine that there are a lot of dem voters who are pissed that they didn’t get to chose their candidate. The party made that choice. So much for primary elections.
Actually, we did in 2020 if not for their illegality.
I think that in 2022, we will be “ground to dust” by that same illegality
Every time biden opens his mouth, the resolve of a Trump voter is steeled, and a future Trump voter is conceived, born or nurtured.
Good point.
We should make our liberal kith and kin, and the few liberal acquaintances we may still have discuss why we should be on biden's side at every opportunity...
These are the liberals and they simply refuse to engage in any political discussion. To be fair they don't try and engage me either. I work in a hospital ER and there are quite a few nurses who are conservative and we talk. But there are a few liberals and were I to get into a discussion with them they could easily complain to the HR department and I'd either be reprimanded or lose my job. Interestingly one of the RN's who is conservative, a Filipino woman was in DC on January 6 and said all the Trump supporters were peaceful and the Antifa mob were causing all the trouble.
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