Posted on 09/05/2023 7:52:12 AM PDT by rktman
The Burning Man festival, which attracts 70-80,000 people annually, is over, but not before stranding scores of attendees due to torrential rains that made it impossible to leave the venue. The situation even caught the attention of the Biden White House. Organizers assured the outside world that all was well and appreciated everyone’s concern (via NBC News):
Crazy weather and the inability of those to leave or enter the venue are not uncommon. If it’s not rain, then it’s a dust storm. The COVID pandemic also canceled the event twice. And then, there were these far-left climate protesters who blocked the roads leading to Burning Man, which Nevada Rangers wrecked. They plowed through their makeshift barricades, exiting their trucks, guns drawn to arrest the green warriors. So, yeah, there’s no shortage of entertainment.
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The “organizers” understand that there are a lot of people who love to wallow in the mud. The muddier, the better.
This has been all over the news for 3 days now, who cares?
Looked it up on Wiki and some say it’s a celebration of “counter culture” others call it an excuse to party.
I’d say the best and brightest of the Democrat party youth in that area attends that.
I never knew much about Burning Man. While some say it is a festival of liberal counter culture druggie types, a few people here on Free Republic said it’s actually a peaceful family friendly event.
Neo-hippies suck.
CC
From what I saw of it (videos), I agree.
If there’s any such thing as a sincere “counter culture” protestor type, it’s sure as hell not the well-off people who spend the money at Burning Man. These are all fake counterculturalists and posers.
Maybe the goofs and nuts that tried to block the expensive vehicles trying to come in are the real thing.
Good job busting them up, Rangers.
And good job by the Lord raining these turkeys out.
Modern day Woodstock? I was only 15 in 1969 but I do remember my dad complaining about the nasty hippies non-stop. LOL
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I was 4.
I was sitting on the living room floor watching it on TV.
My Dad (sitting on the couch) -
"THOSE KIDS ARE CRAZY!!!" He kept saying...
That's my memory of Woodstock. LOL.
I read that Burning Man is a free love, drug fueled orgy. The eco hippie stuff is just a cover story.
Yeah....not my cupa.
😁 Mine was the same. I think Walter Cronkite was on the 6:00 news each night. We weren’t allowed to bother Dad while the news was on, but I could hear him from my bedroom. We didn’t come between Dad and Walter unless we wanted swatted.
I think its “all of that” and more.
Too many people in one place for me. That crap always makes me nervous. It only takes a little push to turn a drunk herd into a stampede.
Heartbreaking.
This reminds me of the last Phish concert in the Northeast Kingdom of VT.
My parents lived down the street and the masses of mud soaked knuckleheads wandered by their house on the way in and out.
The good part about camping on a lakebed is that it’s flat. The bad part is why it’s flat.
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