Posted on 08/07/2018 5:19:55 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Bikers in Sturgis salute the leader of their pack: President Trump
Posted: Aug 06, 2018 10:27 AM Updated: Aug 06, 2018 By: CNN Wire
(STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA) On Hogs and Indians, they rumble in from all points on the compass and explode the population of Sturgis, South Dakota, from less than 7,000 to nearly half a million.
For one week each summer, they create a noisy pop-up city unlike any other and as the nation closes in on midterm elections, they lay bare America's political divides.
While the modern-day biker tribe is vast and varied, containing more middle-aged couples than brawling outlaws, one can go hours -- or days -- without seeing a person of color in the crowds here at one of the world's largest biker rallies. In Sturgis, the definition of diversity is a white guy on a foreign bike.
The shooting ranges and bikini contests operate free from debate over gun control and #MeToo. And while other parts of the country agonize over his tumultuous presidency, the leader of this pack is Donald Trump.
"I like what Trump's doing but it seems like Congress and stuff is kinda' fightin' him," John Sands tells me through a full-face skull mask. The postal worker rides up from Kentucky each year, dressed in skeleton garb, posing for pictures with a bony middle finger raised for comedic effect. "I think (Congress) should have some term limits," he says. "Two, maybe four years." Not allowing incumbents to run for re-election time after time would end the phenomenon of career politicians, he adds.
This is not the first time or place where perception trumps data, but while America wrestles with stagnant wages, spiraling health costs and income inequality, many here see the giant crowds as an indicator of booming consumer confidence.
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By: CNN Wire
Is Jim Acosta there?
‘’One can go hours-or days- without seeing a person of color in the crowds’
Mainstream bias on display.......that is not anything that any of the bikers would notice. They ARE likely there.....no ‘person of color’ is banned......AND I suspect there are numerous ‘persons of color’, but the Media ignores them in order to use that inflammatory talking point.
Rolling Thunder’ rally May 29, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia
There were probably more black people there than at an antifa rally
Was pretty sure all or most were from a Rolling Thunder event, since I used them in the images search. Didn’t know the year though. Thanks.
Nope..Sarah is definitely in Sturgis
Who writes this garbage
By Gary P Jackson
Sarah Palin and Congressman Allen West met up on Sunday and Rolling Thunder. Sarah talks about meeting him here. Of course, she was one of the very first to endorse the Lt Colonel for Congress.
When asked, if they had a say, many, if not most would chose Lt Colonel West to be Sarah’s running mate, myself included!
Sturgis is on my bucket list...
And the drivel about not many riders of color being there, is to my mind, a matter of choice. If a black guys rumbled in on shiny Hogs, they’d be accepted. The Hog is their entree’. “Rather have a sister in a cathouse than a brother (of any color) on a Jap bike.”
Sister in a cathouse....
I get it!
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