Ok, on this board we have some pretty sharp people who can write up some excellent responses. Even if I dont agree with them. And frankly most people have the decorum to not let their emotions run this crazy or push their politics this much.
So assuming you also detested Trump, and you were near this situation, is their anything you can think of which would have diffused the situation or something you would have said to her to calm her down?
Why exactly do you think it would be the responsibility of Trump haters to calm this crazy woman down and defuse the situation? If you were a Seattle fan, and in another seat was another Mariners supporter, and they found out they were sitting next to a Patriots fan, and started screaming at them, would it be your responsibility as a fellow Patriots hater to calm your brother 12th man the fuck down?
No. I would have probably joined in the applause, but most of you could have guessed that already, so I’m really just here for the sharp people’s responses.
Probably not. It sounds as though there were plenty of other people there who also didn’t like Trump, according to the remarks of the guy who got berated, and none of them seems to have thought of anything to say that would calm her down.
Mad gonna mad, and there’s generally not much other people can do about it except non-belligerently oppose it and if necessary ask the authorities to deal with it, which seems to be what successfully happened here.
Like I’ve said, I don’t diagnose mental issues over the internet or anywhere else, but from the woman’s remarks about her husband having just lost his mother, she might have been going through some loopy stuff that manifested as political rage. I know that when my mom died last November, I was having some rage issues of my own for a while, though thankfully never manifested to other sentient beings. (There is some stomped cardboard in a recycling center somewhere that could tell a tale, though. :))
I dunno that he thinks it would necessarily be the responsibility of Trump haters to do so, just that he may be wondering if we have some kind of secret code word for monitoring one another’s public actions, like the Jedi Resistance or something.
Not that we’re going to tell him what it, I mean, of course there’s no such thing.
I’d say, “Hey, we’re on a damn plane. Calm the fuck down because I don’t want wait while they haul your silly ass down the gangway. Also, Trump is human filth, and voting for him is either an act of ignorance, mindless-partisanship, or outright moral fuckatude.”
I did love the employees’ no-nonsense attitudes: “You don’t have that right”, “Excuse me ma’am, can you grab your belongs and come with me”, “We can do this one of two ways”, etc. Very professional, and awesome.
Well, for this Trump detester, depending on my mood, it may have been anything from “shut the fuck up, this isn’t the time or the place” to something a bit more “ma’am, calm down, I understand you’re upset, we all have a right to an opinion, etc.” Most likely the latter (and I certainly hope this would be my reaction), but these days I could be caught in an irritated mood. Still, I’d probably be more on the de-escalation side.
Because he was almost as crazy as the wife? The husband joined in. At 2:06 in the video, he said “the captain doesn’t know shit” (which is, in hindsight, not a winning strategy for getting concessions from the captain).
Totally agree. Honestly, I have no idea why the OP addresses this question to “Trump haters”. It doesn’t matter what the ruckus is about – I recently read a very similar story about a Trump supporter obnoxiously crowing on a plane about The Great Election victory and disturbing many other passengers. Some people are just incurably stupid, and incurably stupid people with no self-control should not be on a plane flying on a regular scheduled airline.
They don’t really believe that God stopped it from raining because He loves Trump so much? That’s just something the Democratic Underground comment section made up, right? I’m needing some reassurance here.
It’s the job of the aircrew (and the police if called onboard) to deal with unruly passengers. I have zero experience dealing with unruly passengers, so I would just leave it to the professionals and be happy that a whack job who probably goes on and on about the importance of sharing and having people in a society help each other, can’t STFU for a few hours so everyone can get to their destinations peacefully.
What would Trump supporters do about this guy who has a screw loose?
I don’t want to be stuck on an airplane with someone with so little self-control they can’t refrain from hectoring or shouting at the other passengers and staff, no matter what the subject matter. I may be sympathetic to their viewpoint or not, but an angry crazy person on my side is still an angry crazy person and not someone you want to be trapped in a metal tube speeding thousands of feet above the ground with.
On the other hand, I find crowds chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” frightening too, particularly in situations like these where it’s not germane. It speaks to a mindless mob mentality, an “in your face!” attitude of bullying triumphalism with no positive overtones whatsoever.
