# Businesses boarding up in major cities

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-boarding-up-in-major-cities/924588>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 2, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-boarding-up-in-major-cities/924588 "2020-11-02T20:40:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-boarding-up-in-major-cities/924588/21 "2020-11-03T23:56:46Z")

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People are worried about Proud Boys, Boogaloo Bois, 3 Percenters inciting violence:

> **[A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and...](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/)**
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> An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-boarding-up-in-major-cities/924588/22 "2020-11-04T00:14:54Z")

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> [@Philliam](#):
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> Fudd’s New Law of Opposition: “If 500,000 people push on an Un-scaleable Wall it will fall over”

Trump’s Law of Opposition: [If a gentle summer breeze pushes on a newly-built section of his beautiful Border Wall, it will fall over](https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/watch-trumps-mighty-border-wall-falls).

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/businesses-boarding-up-in-major-cities/924588/23 "2020-11-07T18:48:16Z")

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Salem, Oregon, warning of vandalism. RV with wingnut slogan spotted in the vicinity.

> **[Hundreds of protesters gather at two events in Salem Saturday](https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2020/11/06/salem-oregon-crime-vandalism-property-damage-business/6195859002/)**
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> Hundreds of protesters gathered at the state Capitol in Salem Saturday, while other groups rallied at Pringle Hall.

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