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walkingman

(8,347 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 11:09 AM Oct 29

Flyers signed by 'Trump Klan' member attached to campaign signs in San Marcos

Source: KVUE News - Austin, Tx

SAN MARCOS, Texas — The San Marcos Police Department (SMPD) said it has received two reports of intimidating flyers attached to campaign signs in the city.

The flyers threaten that the reader has been identified and is now in the "National Database of miscreant Harris supporters," either by "social interactions with your neighbors who are on our investigations team, or by yard signs, or vehicle bumper stickers."

The flyers go on to say that "once the magnificent Donald Trump assumes the Presidency again," the reader will be audited by the IRS, going back to their first tax return, and "at a minimum --- 4 years of painful misery and attorney's fees."

The flyers are signed, "Sincerely, The Grand Dragon of Trump Klan #124; San Marcos, TX."

SMPD said it is actively investigating the reports it has received and working to identify the people responsible.

SMPD said the notes were found on Friday on residential yards a half-mile apart.

It's a Class A misdemeanor, and if you are got and convicted you can face up to a year in jail or a $4,000 fine.

Read more: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/san-marcos-trump-klan-letter/269-c724f8dd-7f18-4d5f-b232-a52dec60fe86



Keep in mind, this is the same police department that refused to respond last year in which dozens of Trump supporters surrounded and harassed a Joe Biden campaign bus driving down a Central Texas highway.

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Flyers signed by 'Trump Klan' member attached to campaign signs in San Marcos (Original Post) walkingman Oct 29 OP
Not even pretending to hide it anymore Novara Oct 29 #1
Texas Trumpers are a particularly nasty variety Sucha NastyWoman Oct 29 #5
Sounds like the kkk has become just TK liberal N proud Oct 29 #2
As I've stated elsewhere moniss Oct 29 #3
My thought immediately was "Thanks all of you Trump supporters for .... walkingman Oct 29 #4
'Trump Klan' is actually a more fitting description than 'MAGA'. 70sEraVet Oct 29 #6
What. The... GB_RN Oct 29 #7
The real question is, what is NOT wrong with these people? jmowreader Oct 29 #8
True. GB_RN Oct 29 #9
San Marcos (Hays County) flipped from all red to all blue in 5 years.. HagathaCrispy Oct 29 #10
The KKK never completely disappeared in Hays County, TX where San Marcos is the county seat. summer_in_TX Oct 29 #11

Novara

(6,115 posts)
1. Not even pretending to hide it anymore
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 11:20 AM
Oct 29

I'm thinking public shunning needs to come back in fashion. When they catch these morons, put them in a stockade on the public square so we can throw rotten fruit at them. There's no other way to shame them. They don't know what shame is.

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,897 posts)
5. Texas Trumpers are a particularly nasty variety
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 12:20 PM
Oct 29

Probably the biggest reason they vote for Trump is that they want retribution against liberals/Democrats

liberal N proud

(60,948 posts)
2. Sounds like the kkk has become just TK
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 11:21 AM
Oct 29

Fear and intimidation is a favored tool by such groups

Should be treated as hate groups!

moniss

(5,752 posts)
3. As I've stated elsewhere
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 11:24 AM
Oct 29

these laws need to be seriously upgraded and made to felonies rather than misdemeanors. Also a mandatory 5 year minimum with no early release would soon make people think twice.

walkingman

(8,347 posts)
4. My thought immediately was "Thanks all of you Trump supporters for ....
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 11:38 AM
Oct 29

bringing back the hatred, bigotry, racism, and evil to our world" (sarcasm). Having lived though this shit in the 60's here we are again by the same type of people....maybe even their offspring?"

So is this the kind of world you want for your children?

We are not worthy. ☮

 

HagathaCrispy

(154 posts)
10. San Marcos (Hays County) flipped from all red to all blue in 5 years..
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:17 PM
Oct 29

San Marcos is a huge college town, one County removed from our Capital of Austin. Rapidly growing, we went from all Republican to all Democratic in literally just two election cycles. Probably why the Shenanigans keep happening here in Hays County.

summer_in_TX

(3,215 posts)
11. The KKK never completely disappeared in Hays County, TX where San Marcos is the county seat.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:13 PM
Oct 29

I live in a nearby town.

Besides the shameful effort to run the Biden-Harris bus off of the road that occurred here in 2020, we have some known militia extremists living here. There was an attack by the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas on a mixed race family swimming in a spot just over the county line over the summer. They were there to celebrate a birthday. At least five ABT members instigated the incident, and two of the family members were submerged for some period of time.
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/neo-nazi-gang-attack-martindale-texas-mixed-race-family-aryan-brotherhood-dons-fish-camp/

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