Posted on 10/17/2020 3:05:50 PM PDT by lowbridge
A rally in support of President Donald Trump in downtown Ithaca descended into chaos on Friday afternoon, as multiple fights broke out between Trump supporters and counter-protesters who assembled to rebuke the rally.
No arrests appear to have been made during or after the event, despite a litany of physical altercations involving people from both sides. At least two people were injured during the several scuffles that broke out in the 90 minutes the two sides squared off.
The scene was tense from the beginning. A small group of Trump supporters gathered outside the Tompkins County Republicans office starting at 4 p.m., primarily led by Rocco and Max Lucente, who also helped organize the Trump march that took place earlier in October. From the start, they were met with a larger group of counterprotesters, organized by the local Democratic Socialists of America but attracting people of all stripes looking to oppose Trump, who were stationed directly across Meadow Streetreminiscent of the standoff that took place outside of City Hall during the aforementioned Trump event in Ithaca.
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Promptly thereafter, counterprotesters began to move across the street, standing next to or in front of Trump supporters. The Trump ralliers began to fracture, some moving down the block, others staying in front of the building and exchanging words with counter-protesters. By 4:40 p.m., several of the ralliers had been backed into a corner by a group of counterprotesters who had ventured across the street, easily outnumbering the Trump supporters as both sides screamed at each other.
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The State theater? I was there is the second half of the 70s. Great old style movie palace.
I noticed that word rebuke too. Sounds like such a righteous endeavor.
No doubt. You only have to walk down the street to get that!
A few years back, a conservative friend and I went to Harvard Square in Cambridge.
They had a place outside an Au Bon Pain that was frequented by chess players, and that night, there was a Poetry Slam going on, so we stopped, sat down, and watched for a few minutes.
There was a girl, dressed all in black, faintly resembling Ally Sheedy in the movie The Breakfast Club reciting a poem:
(Spoken in beatnik tones) ...and then he grabbed me and threw me down. And he F***** me. And then again. And...
We looked at each other with this shared expression of Can you believe these effing lunatics? and then, looking at the people sitting next to us watching intently, a guy, stroking his chin and listening as if it were the most profound thing he had ever heard.
As for your friend...people collect all kinds of things-I guess there are people who really like Nazi dinnerware or cutlery (Yes, I did see “American Beauty”!) but...I can see collecting those types of pamphlets and such. I’ll bet those things are a lot more interesting than white supremacist cutlery!
“Who are you quoting?”
That’s mine.
And it is heartfelt.
I loved Ithaca shotguns. Shot skeet with one; couldn’t just drop a shell in, had to load the magazine & then rack it.
Saw one in Vietnam; carried by point man on patrols.
Yeah - the subtext is that you rebuke someone who has done something wrong -- the story writers always build in an assumption that they don't come right out and say. To the media, and those who read this propaganda thinking the media is their nice honest friend, these rebukers are just good janitors cleaning the toilet, and the crap in the toilet is ... us. Since toilet crap is not something deserving of empathy, you can see how in the history of mankind there are cycles and cycles or purges and mass murders and mass imprisonments.
We DO need more immigrants ... from Soviet bloc countries ... to remind these dopey liberals what the schools no longer teach them - that the end of this path is doom and suffering for everyone - including them.
In time, they too will be 'rebuked.'
Sounds like Corrupt Joe’s “ideas” showed up to beat people up...
Is rebuking covered by the first amendment?
Didn’t know about the others, I only KNOW ABOUT
IIIIITTTTTHHHHAAAACCCCCAAAA....(shudder)
I’m glad for you too, Chode!
I drove through there once...didn’t know anything about it then, it was about 20 years ago, I think...
At a recent Biden town hall, he said that Poland and Hungary were totalitarian countries. Interesting that the media didnt pick up on this serious goof. Either ignorance or sign of dementia where long term memory overpowers short term.
Then you didn’t need to quote.
I dont have a clue as to the theater name. It was in the heart of downtown is all I remember.
Its very, very disappointing and saddening, but its also a dangerous sign of the time and the future.
Happy days back then..
It is long past time that all federal funding to education be cut.
We should not be pay for the destruction of our own culture.
Judging from what I read, you could add Austin, TX to that list.
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