I’d heard about this in DC, but it’s scary to actually see the pictures of CVS and Pret a Manger in DC cocooned in plywood. And it’s even scarier to see it in San Francisco, LA, New York City, Chicaco, and even Boston.
They’ve put an additional, “unscalable” fence around the White House. But e know how unscalable his Mexico wall constructions have been.
Interesting times very shortly ahead.
They’re running short of plywood in some places
I told you this would happen in Biden’s America.
Oh.
No.
Wait …
:rolleyes:
Seattle too. I was downtown last Friday and plywood was going up.
It’s happening in Denver too. I was talking to a major commercial landlord and they were planning to start boarding up today.
This is what happens when people can’t accept an election outcome peacefully.
Part of it is supposedly due to reasonable precautions clause in insurance policies. And that goes especially for places that filed a claim during the summer riots
Trump is finally getting his wall! Hopefully it is “non-scalable” from the inside as well…
This is what happens when a President says he won’t accept the outcome of an election unless it goes his way. That is the only reason for the fear.
Though I’ve had the sad thought that even people supposedly on the winning side may decide it’s an excuse to act up.
Very much on point. And it’s just terrible that we’ve come to the point where it is reasonable to prepare for vandalism on election night.
Fudd’s New Law of Opposition: “If 500,000 people push on an Un-scaleable Wall it will fall over”.
Looney Toons Law of Opposition: If 500,000 people push on an Un-scaleable Wall it will fall over towards the pushing force."
I haven’t been on SDMB all that long, but I have been just the tiniest bit disappointed that I hadn’t seen more Firesign references.
Meaning: cheers !
Well, she’s no fun, she fell right over.
And we owe that all to one person. One person who has spent the entire campaign stirring up the troops.
Even during the sovereignty referendums in Quebec there was nothing like this, although feelings ran very high.
America boards up: Cities across the nation prepare for widespread looting and riots
Isn’t that just the sort of thing that happens in all those “shithole countries”?
They are boarding up because they are afraid of people who overwhemingly voted for Biden.
They are not afraid of Trump voters, whatever the result.
Cite?
My post is my cite.
Where are they boarding up? Dem cities that have been under attack by people who disproportionatley vote D.
Their fear is a close Trump victory, not a Biden landslide.
Seems like a thread to post this:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/businesses-boarding-election-trump-america-195519189.html
Experts say people are right to be concerned. “What we fear is that guns, protests and elections do not mix well,” Hrair Balian, director of the Conflict Resolution Program at The Carter Center, told NPR. Balian is referring to the increasingly militant armed groups of Trump supporters who have become increasingly visible over the last few years — from showing up at the Michigan State Capitol, to riding around in pro-Trump caravans, to arriving at polls to intimidate voters. Right-wing groups have also been a huge presence at nationwide protests over racial injustice since the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer this summer.
Trump has fanned the flames of his supporters, both in sending them messages to “stand by,” but also in his refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, which has been the hallmark of American democracy since the country’s inception.
“Probably the biggest issue is the president of the United States right now, who has portrayed himself as somebody who, you know, is not necessarily interested in calming the waters,” Stephen Pomper, senior director for policy at the International Crisis Group, told NPR, adding that Trump “might actually court unrest in order to serve his political and personal goals.”
The uncertainty around whether or not there will be massive political unrest following the election is a sign of an unstable democracy, and evidence of how much Trump has degraded so many aspects of American life over the last four years. America’s democracy was never perfect — the GOP has long used voter suppression in order to maintain any semblance of power in the U.S. and the electoral college is far from fair. But under Trump, the hallmarks of tradition and engaging in the system in good faith have all gone out the window.