Missing busses in Omaha. Only speculation.

[pfitz59]

Did the Trump Campaign "Check bounce"? Trump and his Campaign are notorious for not paying their bills. Has this been questioned by authorities? Also, all the cops and ambulances should send the bill to Trump. Concert promoters pay insurance to cover such calamities. Did the Trump Campaign post a bond? As laughable as the situation was, it should never have happened. Its the Trump Administration in micro, a disorganized shit-show.

[Sherman A1]

1. I believe that was speculated earlier today

and seems as good a reason as any to me.

[TwilightZone]

2. I doubt there was a check to begin with.

Trump doesn't prepay anything. As far as I know, he hasn't paid anyone back for anything related to any of his rallies.

[Iliyah]

5. True . . ..

he doesn't pay his bills unless it taxpayers money.

[marie999]

12. But he said he prepaid his taxes. Does that really need a sarcasm?

[TwilightZone]

14. The premise of the OP is that the check bounced.

My point was that I doubt there was a check to begin with. Trump doesn't pay for this stuff - he sticks the host cities with it.

[blm]

3. The campaign event organizers failed for the same reason WH fails ...

All the events are being performed to please ONE narcissist’s fragile ego. The people are props.

[Blue Owl]

4. Go Grifthound

n/t

[Newest Reality]

8. ...and leave the grifting to us!

[handmade34]

6. my reading says...

bus company didn't get paid (as expected when delivering rally goers) and they were told people would be wearing masks... they weren't... so the bus company not wanting to put employees at risk called the buses back... that's what I read

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Well, not according to this Omaha Weird Herald story.

Arrow Stage Lines, an Omaha-based charter bus company, had 40 coach buses taking people from the South Economy parking lot and two nearby lots to the rally site.

Alex Busskohl, Great Plains regional director for Arrow, said those 40 buses, each of which can hold 54 passengers, began taking people to the site at 10 a.m. and didn't stop operating until everyone had made it back to their vehicles.

Busskohl said he understood that some people were upset about how long they had to wait for a ride. The area became congested because of traffic and a large amount of people walking south along Lindbergh Plaza, a two-lane road that wraps around Eppley and provides access to the part of the airport where the rally was held.


https://omaha.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/hundreds-of-people-waited-hours-in-the-cold-for-buses-after-trump-rally-in-omaha/article_9b050405-d58e-5441-8353-c16988e954ee.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

[ffr]

9. If someone abondoned their dogs like this there would be hell to pay.

But because tRump did it, no M$M talking head is going to touch the subject.

Cowards!

[Hortensis]

10. From what I read, busses were there. Roadways with

enough lanes for them to arrive in the numbers needed to efficiently remove the crowd waiting 3 miles from where their cars were parked were not.

People who've worked on campaigns said Trump and his campaign staffers all had phones and were in communication and had to have known before they flew off and left the attendees in the cold and dark. They ascribed this fuckup to the Trump camp's signature incompetence. And of course their signature depraved indifference to the wellbeing of others.

[pwb]

11. It is good to see them squirm over this.

They can't do anything right.

[cwydro]

13. I'm sorry, small point, but the plural of bus is "buses"

No one seems to know this.

[TwilightZone]

15. One of them, yes.

"The plural of bus is buses. A variant plural, busses, is also given in the dictionary, but has become so rare that it seems like an error to many people."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/plural-of-bus

[greenjar_01]

16. It's much simpler than that and hasn't been noted by anyone: a lot of people left early

The bus issue was not because the buses failed to return, but because they were stuck in the economy parking lot because of the traffic. They had a set return time (end of the rally), but so many people left early that they clogged up the road between the lot and the parking lot, and clogged up the parking lot.

[Klaralven]

17. People arrived over hours. People all wanted to leave at the same time.

So the number of buses you need for departures is greater than the number needed for arrivals. Buses not being immediately available, people streamed out onto the road, jamming buses coming to pick up people departing.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Consider the logistics.

People were probably arriving in a steady, manageable stream throughout the day. The early arrivals would have been setting up their prayer circles and Big Mac stands, and just generally hanging around until the Big Moment. A busload at a time. No big deal. Fifty million of them or so, arriving a million at a time.

Then the Savior arrives (late, probably). They all crowd into the venue, sucking up his Words of Wisdom and all the coronaviruses they could eat. Finally, the Master calls it a day, the last pairs of panties and Depends have been thrown on the stage, and it's time to hit the road to catch the midnight rerun of My Mother, the Car.

Except now, you don't have fifty million leaving a million at a time. You have fifty million, all trying to leave at the same time. And now, you've got a problem.