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Progressive students, residents tell Trump and his supporters to leave State College
Pennlive ^ | 27 October A.D. 2024 | onathan Bergmueller

Posted on 10/27/2024 3:52:31 AM PDT by lightman

As the temperature dropped into the 50s in central Pennsylvania Saturday, things were heating up in the final push to the November 5 election.

Thus was the case in State College as former President Donald Trump made the first of two possible stops at Penn State. His presence invited challenge from two grassroots organizations and a smattering of others on campus.

Around 50 protesters with signs featuring progressive rhetoric marched up University Drive and wrapped around the Bryce Jordan Center onto Curtin Road, loudly decrying racism, fascism and the excesses of capitalism.

“Dare to struggle, dare to win… Make racists afraid again!” the crowd chanted among other phrases such as “Make racists shut up again!” and “Run MAGA out of town!”

The march drew heckling from those in line hoping to get into the overbooked Trump rally.

“Dick Cheney loves you guys!” one bystander chanted back at the group. Others mocked the group as delusional, mentally ill or “woke”.

Donald Trump campaigns in State College, Pa. Some Trump supporters seized the media attention as their own chance at the limelight and strutted out in front of the protesters — and cameras — to dance around. One woman waved a cardboard mask of Donald Trump in front of the crowd.

After the group marched Curtin Road to the end of the line, reaching to the security checkpoint into the center, they bounded back and marched another loop or two.

The protest was mostly peaceful, with one exception: A brief altercation between several protesters and a Penn State junior who identified himself as “Honj”.

The scuffle broke out as the protesters doubled back onto Curtin Road, back toward University Drive. Honj said a protester grabbed at his MAGA flag, while one masked protester later said Honj was pushing against the posters with the flag. Several more masked protesters feigned ignorance of the event that unfolded in front of them.

“We’re working people. We never planned to engage in any kind of physical violence — we’re just here to show up and take space,” that organizer said. “But we believe in self-defense. This is America — Whomever gets attacked, they have a right to defend themselves. But we don’t initiate.”

“It’s (expletive), it’s mental illness,” Honj later told a student reporter. “It’s time to take our country back.”

After doing two loops in front of the Bryce Jordan Center, the protesters departed down Curtin Road past a few undergraduates playing pickleball outside the Wagner Building — which houses the Penn State Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, including the Air Force, Army and Navy ROTC.

The student committee organizer said places like the Wagner building turn Penn State students into the next general of “war criminals”.

“It’s blood money. We can’t be having that (on our campus),” the organizer said. “They send our poor children out to fight rich people’s wars.”

Organizers said they put the protest together in two days. They bring in new members through word of mouth and place them in new member cohort programs, giving training sessions in the groups’ principles. They teach security and defense, and how to talk about history and political theory — all with the goal of having a “disciplined and highly organized formation.”

Indeed, as reporters sought interview opportunities with members of the group, one or two masked individuals would appear nearby. If strangers the group didn’t recognize approached too quickly, a group of six members would immediately form a semi-circle around them, throwing words like “de-escalate” around to dissuade violent interference.

The Student Committee for Defense and Solidarity and People’s Defense Front were the most prominent group of protesters, but they weren’t the only group.

Other protesters from the community formed their own groups and held up their own signs throughout the afternoon. One cluster set up a station at the corner of University Drive and Curtin Road to show support for Democrat candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Another group of students formed near the entrance to the Bryce Jordan Center, where Trump supporters waiting in line and heckled back and forth with them.

Penn State Trustee Jay Paterno stopped by and unzipped a Penn State windbreaker to show a few protesters he, too, was wearing a Harris and Walz 2024 shirt.

He declined an interview, saying he was only on his daytime walk, didn’t realize what was going on and didn’t want to be involved.

Paterno unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania in 2014.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: antifa; centre; domesticenemies; domesticterrorists; education; enemycombatants; pdf; pennsylvania; peoplesdefensefront; rally; scds; statecollege; trump
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Protesters march to and from the Bryce Jordan Center shouting progressive talking points/slogans before former President Donald Trump's rally in State College, Pa., Oct. 26, 2024.

1 posted on 10/27/2024 3:52:31 AM PDT by lightman
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

They live among us.
They breed.
They VOTE.

2 posted on 10/27/2024 3:53:41 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman
The protest was mostly peaceful, with one exception:

Do you hear yourself?

3 posted on 10/27/2024 3:58:14 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: lightman

Useless idiots that are the definition of racist and fascist.


4 posted on 10/27/2024 3:58:26 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

And a number of Branch Covidians.


5 posted on 10/27/2024 4:00:16 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Remember preppy students in the 50s?


6 posted on 10/27/2024 4:04:52 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: lightman
They send our poor children out to fight rich people’s wars.

oh the irony or the blindness or the stupidity

7 posted on 10/27/2024 4:06:22 AM PDT by xp38
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To: maddog55

Antifa tactics. Those domestic terrorists are behind this. Sooner or later they are going to have to be dealt with decisively.


8 posted on 10/27/2024 4:07:36 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: lightman

Around 50 protesters

All of 50, huh...

By all means, lets listen to the idiots...
/s


9 posted on 10/27/2024 4:08:30 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Adder

Typical “press” report - spotlight the 50 weirdos and ignore the thousands who turned out for Trump.


10 posted on 10/27/2024 4:10:08 AM PDT by laconic ( )
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To: lightman

Those are NOT students
just the Usual under and Unemployed Losers found in any college town .

So the DNC reporter needs to be replaced by AI .


11 posted on 10/27/2024 4:11:13 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: lightman
"...We never planned to engage in any kind of physical violence..."

...which is why we're covering our faces & wearing masks...

12 posted on 10/27/2024 4:17:37 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: SharpenedEdge

I agree. Antifa has to be dealt with severely. Wearing masks, dressed in black, and carrying backpacks should put a target on their back. Arrest and detain for the most minor of code violations from the very start of their BS.

Unfortunately, they are protected by local Politians who hire and support them. That’s another thing, go after those that fund and support this BS.


13 posted on 10/27/2024 4:25:44 AM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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To: lightman
Scott Pressler posted a picture of the inside rally.

Looked like ten thousand Penn State students fired up for Trump.

So they report on the fifty malcontents. Typical.

14 posted on 10/27/2024 4:26:22 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: lightman

They look like a bunch of foreigners. In a few months, they will be expelled from Penn State and deported.

It figures that Jay “Fredo” Paterno is a Rat. The guy could never find a job anywhere without his mother’s assistance. /spit


15 posted on 10/27/2024 4:29:52 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: lightman

Spoiled kids .. raised by parents who had everything. There is no telling these kids anything.. they “know it all”. Unless they somehow find themselves, they have no idea they are wrong, misled, lied to. I pity them, along with hoping they get a message from above, which would change them forever.
It’s a shame to see the best years of youth, spent on waste and nothing. It has to be miserable.. thinking they are the only ones who knows anything.
My son, had a vision before he died, he experienced heaven and saw loved ones who were there. He came back for a year.. a changed man. Truth .. absolute truth, fills in all the gaps and holes of what we thought we knew.


16 posted on 10/27/2024 4:32:37 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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Around 50 protesters with signs featuring progressive rhetoric marched up University Drive and wrapped around the Bryce Jordan Center

"around" 50 protestors couldn't block the front door of the Bryce Jorden Center, a building located on a parcel the size of a city block.

17 posted on 10/27/2024 4:32:50 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: lightman

“But we don’t initiate.”“

Said the mask wearing guy.


18 posted on 10/27/2024 4:38:22 AM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: xp38

Imagine how the parents must feel that they spend that kind of money to PSU to have their kids indoctrinated instead of learning how to think critically. Imagine their surprise when their little Maoists come home for thanksgiving and the $h!t they spew. DJT is the only president in recent years who didn’t promote war and actively sought to end our foreign engagements.


19 posted on 10/27/2024 4:45:05 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
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To: HIDEK6

could you imagine if the story was the same except it was a Harris Walz visit? The MSM would be all over it and declaring it more evidence of the MAGA violence, a continuation of J6 and more evidence of the facist MAGA movement.


20 posted on 10/27/2024 4:47:39 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
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