[BossLady]

Adults behaving badly. Shaking my head...

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast

No, we saw it. We just realized that the old lady instigating most of the nastiness was probably not mentally o.k., to put it mildly. We also realized that the retort from the one man being harassed was not representative of the entire community.

The video has simply gotten revived attention because the president retweeted it as if to say: "We see what is happening out there."

The old lady was interviewed at the cart parade. Her behavior can't be excused because some think she's crazy. She says it's very hard for her to live in TV.
She moved here from Connecticut where I guess it's ok to walk up to peaceful cart rallies and yell FU in people's faces.

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[John_W]

Originally Posted by tvbound

While the recent rise of Covid cases has pushed back our planned next trip to The Villages, with the hope of finding the home we want to purchase, like many other people across the country we are concerned about a lot of things that are going on these days.

I just spoke with my neighbor, they had planned to leave Wednesday (July 1st) on the Autotrain and visit her sister in NY for a week. She just told me they had to cancel the trip because Cuomo told the people of NY, no visitors. I was surprised they were going when they told me a couple of weeks ago.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

The video Potus retweeted had the lady screaming obscenities at each cart in the parade.

The media cut that part out. (reason excessive profanities) LOL watch any movies lately?

Hello, GL,

You have been dysinformed.

Please allow me to enlighten you on the fact that the entire video is out there in the media. Uncut.

OK? Ready? Here we go:

1. Go to npr.org
2. There you will see the article about the tweet.
3. Click on the article title.
4. Scroll waaaaaaay down and there you will find a link to the uncut version. It is the tweet but you do not have to be a tweeter to see it.
5. Don’t miss the shout from the guy in the cart at the beginning.

At the bottom of the video, it says the tweet has had 9.1M views. — And that number refers to the tweet, the whole tweet, and nothing but the tweet.

I assume from your post history that you do not like NPR, and no doubt consider it your nemesis — one of them anyway. But, c’mon, branch out. It’s all there on NPR. Both sides. Uncut.

You’re welcome,
Boomer

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

The old lady was interviewed at the cart parade. Her behavior can't be excused because some think she's crazy. She says it's very hard for her to live in TV.
She moved here from Connecticut where I guess it's ok to walk up to peaceful cart rallies and yell FU in people's faces.

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My guess is that her problems tend to follow her wherever she goes and that she is not a happy person anywhere. I, myself, could be very happy spending my days swimming, golfing, working out, shopping, listening to live entertainment, hanging out with friends....

I'm not sure what she finds so disagreeable about living in TV but no one is forcing her to live there.

[John_W]

I saw the complete video a week ago on Villages Talk Facebook. You watch it on youtube right now.

Trump Birthday Parade Hecklers Shouting Profanities

[Number 10 GI]

I've always heard about the proverbial "Village Idiot", well she has been found.

[gadaboutgal]

The video was out last week in its entirety on the "other" Villages online news. I watched it then and was embarrassed to see adults on both sides of politics displaying such childish, abhorrent behavior.
Then the President of the U.S. reposted it on his preferred communication form to bring it to the attention of the whole country. It took 3 hours for it to be taken down --while he was on the golf course.
Meanwhile it destroyed the reputation of The Villages and all who live here.
How long is this nonsense of tearing each other down going to continue!

[Luisa]

Typical racist, hateful, one sided news desperately looking for something to belittle us because of who we support. A group had a large “White Trash” banner along side a banner for the opponent on Bailey Trail, across from Lake Miona maybe a month ago. Many Villagers saw this. I WANT THIS ON THE NATIONAL NEWS! This is a racial slur! “White Supremacist” is also a racial slur used by the same people to demean white people for there own “power grab”.

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Hello, GL,

You have been dysinformed.

Please allow me to enlighten you on the fact that the entire video is out there in the media. Uncut.

OK? Ready? Here we go:

1. Go to npr.org
2. There you will see the article about the tweet.
3. Click on the article title.
4. Scroll waaaaaaay down and there you will find a link to the uncut version. It is the tweet but you do not have to be a tweeter to see it.
5. Don’t miss the shout from the guy in the cart at the beginning.

At the bottom of the video, it says the tweet has had 9.1M views. — And that number refers to the tweet, the whole tweet, and nothing but the tweet.

I assume from your post history that you do not like NPR, and no doubt consider it your nemesis — one of them anyway. But, c’mon, branch out. It’s all there on NPR. Both sides. Uncut.

You’re welcome,
Boomer

I'm aware the video can be seen in it's entirety on the internet. But virtually every media story on this mentions the "white Power" aspect, not the FUs and Nazis yelled at each cart.

Here's the video clip CNN ran, just the white power, none of the FUs

Trump 'white power' retweet: President thanks 'great people' shown in Twitter video - CNNPolitics

Bing search

Trump retweets white power from supporter

84,300,000 results, now check how many of those stories include mention or video of the obscenity hurling protesters at the parade

Jake Tapper interviewed 3 different people on the video, Scott, Azar and somebody else. He only talked about the white power part, not the FUs

The NPR article you cite has no mention of the obscenties being yelled out by the protesters:


A video shared by President Trump on Twitter Sunday includes a man who appears to be a Trump supporter saying "white power" in response to protesters. In the video, apparently taken at The Villages, a retirement community in Florida, people wearing Trump shirts and with Trump signs on their golf carts drive by protesters yelling insults at them and about the president.
In one exchange — eight seconds into the two-minute video — a white man holding a sign that says "Make America Sane Again," a reference to Trump's campaign slogan, yells: "Where's your white hood?" In response, a white man driving a golf cart with signs reading "Trump 2020" and "America First" yells back "

Yeah that's fair and balanced, it was only insults, not FU and Fing Nazis


your welcome

[Lottoguy]

It also draws attention to the demographic of the people who live here. Think about that.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by gadaboutgal

The video was out last week in its entirety on the "other" Villages online news. I watched it then and was embarrassed to see adults on both sides of politics displaying such childish, abhorrent behavior.
Then the President of the U.S. reposted it on his preferred communication form to bring it to the attention of the whole country. It took 3 hours for it to be taken down --while he was on the golf course.
Meanwhile it destroyed the reputation of The Villages and all who live here.
How long is this nonsense of tearing each other down going to continue!

Nah. People aren't stupid. Anyone watching the uncut video, which is what Trump posted, could see that there was stupidity on both sides but that the main instigator was that woman. The media is the one who routinely posts little snippets of videos out of context just to get a rise out of people - so if you are unhappy with their "editing" you should direct your complaints to the ones doing the actual editing.

I'm not going to let the media bully me away from what really seems to be a nice community and a good group of people.

[Lottoguy]

I don't understand how you can call it fake? Did the guy in golf cart not say those words? Hardly fake when you see it and hear in the first 8 seconds of the video. It was also terrible what the rest were saying in that video. I can only imagine what the next one in a couple of months is going to sound like.

[Jack58033]

Media attacks? Where did I hear that before?

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Hello, GL,

You have been dysinformed.

Please allow me to enlighten you on the fact that the entire video is out there in the media. Uncut.

OK? Ready? Here we go:

1. Go to npr.org
2. There you will see the article about the tweet.
3. Click on the article title.
4. Scroll waaaaaaay down and there you will find a link to the uncut version. It is the tweet but you do not have to be a tweeter to see it.
5. Don’t miss the shout from the guy in the cart at the beginning.

At the bottom of the video, it says the tweet has had 9.1M views. — And that number refers to the tweet, the whole tweet, and nothing but the tweet.

I assume from your post history that you do not like NPR, and no doubt consider it your nemesis — one of them anyway. But, c’mon, branch out. It’s all there on NPR. Both sides. Uncut.

You’re welcome,
Boomer

Very helpful...thank you.