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Asked to wear a mask, customer goes berserk and throws boxes of shoes at sales lady. (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Jul 2020 OP
What will she throw when Trump loses? katmondoo Jul 2020 #1
I just do not understand this rage against wearing a mask. riversedge Jul 2020 #2
If Democrats said we don't need masks.... LakeArenal Jul 2020 #3
Contrarians to the end, right or wrong. (Always wrong) czarjak Jul 2020 #17
Masks have somehow become a political statement. Buns_of_Fire Jul 2020 #6
Toxic & Weaponized Selfishness,... magicarpet Jul 2020 #19
They think they are entitled to violently assault workers when having a tantrum over masks lunasun Jul 2020 #4
This was going on long before the mask thing Sherman A1 Jul 2020 #9
No - this is a new snowflake trump cult hostility. nt AnotherMother4Peace Jul 2020 #14
No, it was going on long ago Sherman A1 Jul 2020 #15
Gotta disagree Sherman A1 - trump cult rage is a new "call arms" AnotherMother4Peace Jul 2020 #18
I disagree Sherman A1 Jul 2020 #22
I agree with you totally bedazzled Jul 2020 #21
We are simply seeing more now courtesy of cellphone video Sherman A1 Jul 2020 #24
Some degree of assault and also of battery, no? RockRaven Jul 2020 #5
Seems Like Simple Assault, At Least ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #20
She will get her comeuppance. They saw the car plate and have video. drray23 Jul 2020 #7
These people need jail time. n/t marie999 Jul 2020 #8
Is it possible there's some bonus for making videos of such tantrums? lostnfound Jul 2020 #10
MAGAts are losing, acting out. nt NCjack Jul 2020 #11
Some people are just always looking for an excuse to be angry. struggle4progress Jul 2020 #12
They feel left out. WestLosAngelesGal Jul 2020 #13
Didn't you know throwing tantrums is a constitutional right? captain queeg Jul 2020 #16
It was a good day...I only had three of these in my store on swing shift today pecosbob Jul 2020 #23

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
2. I just do not understand this rage against wearing a mask.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:14 PM
Jul 2020

It has to come down to following anything trump wants. nothing else seems to make sense.

LakeArenal

(28,820 posts)
3. If Democrats said we don't need masks....
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:17 PM
Jul 2020

They’d be demanding masks.

They are contrary as a means to an end.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,183 posts)
6. Masks have somehow become a political statement.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:19 PM
Jul 2020

Well, not really "somehow." The bloated orange made it a political statement. Some role model.

magicarpet

(14,155 posts)
19. Toxic & Weaponized Selfishness,...
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:56 PM
Jul 2020

... because you had the audacity to infringe upon my freedom to infect others with the Covid virus.

That is my Rights as a Fascist trDumpie loving AmeriKKKan.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
4. They think they are entitled to violently assault workers when having a tantrum over masks
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:18 PM
Jul 2020

I went to a small ethnic grocery store today and I was surprised they had a security guard they hired at the door now and the areas taped off where someone could try to avoid passing the guard when coming in. Dangerous sickos

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
9. This was going on long before the mask thing
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:24 PM
Jul 2020

Retail Workers take a whole lot of abuse from customers.

AnotherMother4Peace

(4,247 posts)
18. Gotta disagree Sherman A1 - trump cult rage is a new "call arms"
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:47 PM
Jul 2020

which is sadly playing out in society.

I don't disagree that there's been always been some disrespectful consumers out there. Today there is a whole new level of racist, hateful, violent cult members that are answering the call of Dear Leader.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
22. I disagree
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 02:49 AM
Jul 2020

What you are seeing is more video documenting of what has been going on for a long time. True it has gotten worse, but it had been steadily increasing since Reagan. This is more about income inequality and the divisiveness that has been sown since those days. Trump is a symptom not the cause.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
24. We are simply seeing more now courtesy of cellphone video
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:38 AM
Jul 2020

This crap has been going on since the 1980s and the Era of St. Ronnie Reagan as we headed into his new Gilded Age. It is caused by the stress of income inequality and fed by the divisive tactics of the 1% who want us all fighting amongst each other for the table scraps while they laugh all the way to their Cayman Islands Bank.

Trump as obnoxious as he is isn’t the cause, he is a symptom, but certainly one that figured out how to play the media like a fiddle to exploit the underlying divisions that already existed.

RockRaven

(14,974 posts)
5. Some degree of assault and also of battery, no?
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:19 PM
Jul 2020

Throwing stuff and hitting people in the head is not legal no matter why you are upset, right?

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
20. Seems Like Simple Assault, At Least
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 09:06 PM
Jul 2020

Seems to fit in with this LegalMatch description.
Since it hit her, might be battery or a higher level of assault.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-simple-assault.html

drray23

(7,634 posts)
7. She will get her comeuppance. They saw the car plate and have video.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:20 PM
Jul 2020

The police probably has it. She will end up booked for assault.

lostnfound

(16,184 posts)
10. Is it possible there's some bonus for making videos of such tantrums?
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:28 PM
Jul 2020

Is that a crazy paranoid thought?
Maybe.
But they do seem fond of tearing the country apart?

WestLosAngelesGal

(268 posts)
13. They feel left out.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:36 PM
Jul 2020

They want to get famous for a protest of their own.
Unfortunately, they don't have the intelligence to be able to pick a side for their battles.
They are dependent on getting their news from Fox, their entertainment from Tik-Tok, and their memes from Facebook.
They wouldn't know a capital city of any but their own states to save their lives.
They are the racists, the arrogant pukes that litter and start brush fires with cigarettes out their car windows, they are the ones who won't call Uber for a ride home when they are too drunk to drive. They are the ones who go unmasked during a pandemic, believing that Jesus will save only the Republicans. They are the ones who will murder someone for the color of their skin, but only if their friends will film it.

I cannot stand their ignorant, murderous, racist, insane lot.

captain queeg

(10,208 posts)
16. Didn't you know throwing tantrums is a constitutional right?
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:44 PM
Jul 2020

I think it’s somewhere in the part about being able to carry assault weapons in public and declaring only Christians can be citizens.

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
23. It was a good day...I only had three of these in my store on swing shift today
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 03:24 AM
Jul 2020

Some days are worse.

On our front door...No Shirt, No shoes, No Mask...No Service

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