Dayton mayor receives round-the-clock security

[struggle4progress]

ByTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAYTON, Ohio — Aug 17, 2019, 3:20 PM ET

The mayor of Dayton where nine people were slain in a mass shooting says a round-the-clock security detail was assigned to her because of hate-filled messages she received following verbal sparring with President Donald Trump after his visit to a Dayton hospital earlier this month.

The Dayton Daily News reports Trump after his Aug. 7 visit called a news conference Mayor Nan Whaley held with Ohio's Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown "a fraud." Whaley responded in an interview with CNN that Trump is a "bully and a coward."

The newspaper reports it reviewed dozens of messages regarding Whaley that contained abusive language and expletive-laced insults.

The messages prompted city officials to assign Whaley the police security detai ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ohio-mayor-receives-threats-comments-trump-65034476

[cwydro]

1. Wtf Ohio?

So many stories coming out of there.

I was very impressed with her; I hope she stays safe.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Some people around here worship their Orange God.

Those people are definitely not the majority, but they're the most vocal.

All of them that I've met attend the Church of Fox News every day too.

[RussBLib]

3. Its like cancer

And Trump knows full well what he's doing. Angers me that a piece of filth like Trump can rise to the presidency

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. I can still recall in my younger years when I first heard Rush Limbaugh...

... broadcast in the Dayton area.

I was working in a factory for $3.35 an hour (I think) among several other white men making the same amount. It was a place where employees sometimes passed out in the "oven" that was used to help dry paint that had just been applied to large metal computer frames. It was also a place where the owner told everyone in a group meeting that, if we wanted to keep working there, his company needed to be their priority and their families second. (This was after several employees complained about working 12-hour shifts without a day off for about a month, saying they didn't have enough time for their families.)

So there was a LOT of anger among the employees there, understandably.

One of them starting playing Limbaugh on the radio during lunch breaks. To my shock, lots of my coworkers immediately LOVED him!

I later realized that they identified with the ANGER emanating from Limbaugh. The policies that he endorsed, which would make their lives worse? That apparently was too complicated for them to follow. The anger coming through, however, was easy for them to understand.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. More...

I shouldn't have made all of those coworkers out to be stupid. Many of them were just young and desperate for a job (like me).

Unlike many of them, however, I didn't hold onto propaganda (brain washing) that I'd heard for as far back as I could remember. Examples are "Capitalism is the greatest economic system ever created", and "The USA is the greatest country that was ever created."

Many of those white coworkers held onto those kinds of ideas no matter what cognitive dissonance might come from it. Minorities around here don't seem to have those delusions to the same degree. Coincidentally, they generally also didn't put up with working at that company for very long. They knew exploitation when they saw it, whereas the whites looked for a scapegoat. The idea that some sociopath business owner would choose to exploit them, loyal and hard-working Americans, wasn't as easy for them to accept.

[former9thward]

17. "I didn't hold onto propaganda (brain washing)"

"Capitalism is the greatest economic system ever created", and "The USA is the greatest country that was ever created." Just curious. What is the greatest economic system eve created? What is the greatest country that was ever created? Since you do not buy into that propaganda...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. I have limited experience, and I don't consider "greatest" to be static, but...

... I would value the country that results in the greatest overall happiness among its populace. That's certainly not the USA, at least at this time.

If some people value "productivity" more than anything else, then perhaps our economic and political system would be deemed the greatest in the world to them.

Here's some ratings around the world:
https://medium.com/@andrewmerle/the-greatest-country-in-the-world-68233cc062c4

[diva77]

13. This is such an important point. Makes absolute sense that the employees identified

with the Limburger anger, bypassing the message.

This would be a great OP!!


K&R for exposure

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Thanks.

It's not too novel an idea, of course. Others have come along and made similar observations.

Here's an article about that emotional connection written in 2011:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rush-limbaugh-and-the-mob_b_279696

I also think many of them are very stubborn to hold onto broad ideas they were taught long ago, even when there's contradictions to those ideas regularly slapping them in their faces.

[triron]

9. Well, he didn't exactly do it; Putty installed him.

[FarPoint]

4. You are absolutely.....

Spot On Correct.....Dayton/ Clayton area here..

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. We live very close!

I don't want to reveal on the internet exactly where I live, but it's another northern suburb of Dayton.

[FarPoint]

7. Great.....

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Back at ya!

[bearssoapbox]

16. See my reply to Buckeye Democrat.

Good to have friendlies so close.

[bearssoapbox]

15. I live several miles up 49N from 40

Hello..

Almost neighbor!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. Hello!

[FarPoint]

20. Ahhhhh

the new Tornado alley.....

just joking.....

[bearssoapbox]

21. They didn't miss us by much.

Went to the South and just north.

Back in "92" one wiped out almost the South end of my hometown. Missed my aunt's house by about a quarter mile and my parents house by 3 city blocks.

That was the worst but they have been getting more and more numerous over the years.

My brother lives about 4 miles south of us and a couple months ago a we both saw a funnel cloud pass overhead between where we live.

Thank goodness it didn't touch down.

It does seem that tornadoes are moving more to the north and east I the U.S. over the past few years but I'm sure global warming has nothing to do with it.

[gratuitous]

10. Quit saying we're violent nuts!

"Or I swear I'll go crazy and kill you!"

[ancianita]

11. The terrorist whisperer is going to reap what he sows. There are many states, now, he won't be

welcomed in, for all this hateful tweeting.