US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

They were handing out masks, so maybe they figured, hey, free mask.

Remember, everything this asshole does only gets 35% support, so it makes sense that that would extend to venue capacity. The real red flag is that this was open ticketing, people *travelled* to the event, and they put out a last call for more people. Anyone that wanted to go could go. But one reason or another people did not go, and all of those reasons are bad for Asshole.

btw, that picture of dejected sweaty Trump would make a great velvet painting.

Republican support from Trump only just recently dipped into the high 80s. These people are the enemy. Their entire worldview needs to be comprehensively crushed. Generations of descendants need to feel so ashamed that they would never admit their ancestors’ support even in court. I mean, I can start to understand the Ghengis Khan mentality of burning the town, riding off a ways, then coming back the next day to see who’s crawled out and taking care of them too.

The testing thing is going to be in every advert until he says something worse.

"I'm hearing protesters created COVID in a Jamba Juice"

can't prove they didn't!

-Criswell

saw pictures from the rally with more ppl in attendance wearing masks than u would've thought

pics please!

in all the pics i saw (in media outlets or just people posting pics on twitter) i was playing a side game of "count the masks", usually not being able to count more than a handful even when there were hundreds of people in the frame

I saw one mask and frankly that's more than I would have expected

and they also wore it on their face and not up their butt which was also unexpected

it was a great day

btw those gravel teens trying to reserve fake tickets had absolutely zero effect, i have it on good authority:

Wow. @TeamTrump just blasted out this statement from @parscale denying that any TikTok teens/K-Pop stans had an effect on the campaign's actions. pic.twitter.com/sBzDuh0B5J

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 21, 2020

he's right in most regards re: their impact, but this means the other explanations are that his followers are weenies that got scared of a few protesters or they stayed home, scared of COVID

The self-flushing toilet keeps on flushing:

@Parscale forgot to put the "I am over 18" checkbox on the Tulsa signup screen so now he has the personal information of a million or so minors. So the Trump campaign is likely in violation of COPPA.... pic.twitter.com/zaFnPhhSfE

— Biden_Brigade (@biden_brigade) June 21, 2020

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heh, yeah! he's also, i think, saying that when they previously said they had 1 million ticket requests, that was _after_ taking into account the fake requests. after all, he did say they "constantly weed out the bogus numbers, as we did with tens of thousands at the Tulsa rally, in calculating our possible attendee pool"

if that's the case, then the scary liberal mob managed to reduce attendance from 1 million god-fearing patriots down to a touch over 6000

Imagine being the guy who waited in line for five days realizing he could literally have waltzed in ten minutes before showtime and got a spot 40 feet from Trump.

— Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) June 20, 2020

They already trotted out the "he was joking" defense re: testing slowdown

The World's Unfunniest Man Strikes Again!

obvious point, but the problem with the constant "he was joking" defense is that it's trotted out when he was clearly joking, and it's trotted out when he clearly wasn't joking.

Every time Trump confesses to horrible crimes and the next day wriggles out by claiming it was a joke, it's time for Sartre's famous quote about Nazis. https://t.co/O0IbTK4LUD pic.twitter.com/4u7orI2A2x

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) June 21, 2020

XP ^^Also known as "The Zappa Defense".

lol, now you're just trolling me

funny how Trump always used to use the "fake news never shows the crowds" line. well they're showing the crowd now

which means now he is the most unfairly treated person

...what? i was joking! what?!

btw, another obvious point but the "what? i was joking! what?!" is a signature bully move

🐦[Imagine being the guy who waited in line for five days realizing he could literally have waltzed in ten minutes before showtime and got a spot 40 feet from Trump.
— Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) June 20, 2020🕸]🐦

My takeaway is that the hardest of the hardcore Trump supporters are people who don't have anyplace important to be, or anyone who might need them, for a half a week at a time.

eh, i shy away from that takeaway because there are quite a few protesters out right now, protesting for important things, that are unemployed and have plenty of spare time as well

but haha yeah, that one guy who showed up 5 days early reaaaaaally has nowhere special to be

This is art. pic.twitter.com/ZPJxHu20TV

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 21, 2020

Wonder how long it will be before Trump and Fox start talking about K-Pop Fans like they do Antifa

Trump and Biden really ramping up the campaign

lol the biden entrance guitar music

ahhhahhaa the best part

in their attempts to inspire enthusiasm for Biden, I find the 'Lincoln Project" YAAAS QUEEN-level stoopid

yeah i experienced a lot of secondhand embarrassment watching that

wait that was supposed to be serious!? i thought the whole thing was a vic berge-style goof

I will say, the Democrats (who do not plan ahead) should ... start planning, because these Lincoln Project Never Trumpers really know how to troll, and they're whipping these things up and out super fast.

My takeaway is that the hardest of the hardcore Trump supporters are people who don't have anyplace important to be, or anyone who might need them, for a half a week at a time.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, June 21, 2020 5:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well they actively take pleasure from their own "suffering" and self-sacrifice, whether it's real or imagined/exaggerated. So either their business suffered but it's worth it to Defend Our Freedoms, or they risked their families but it's In Service of the Greater Good, or an orgy of self-harm of standing in line in all weather, as if loyalty is an endurance test. Their pseudo-suffering is the point.

Believe me, I went from evangelicalism to marching band to highland dance--the throughline is the depth of willingness to suffer.

I do believe you. In a group of so many millions, there will be those who don't fit that profile, but there are plenty who do.

Dr Morbius, can you say more about "YAAAS QUEEN" being stupid?

I'm genuinely interested.

it builds character

xxxp

Okay I want to talk about the TikTok/K-pop stan let’s-troll-Trump operation and specifically about the data gathering aspect of it.

— Claire Ryan (@aetherlev) June 21, 2020

A long thread, but worth reading.

you guys I'm p sure that ad's a goof

which isn't mutually exclusive to being "effective"

The Lincoln project stuff is truly terrible but I’m not the target market. Go with god.

I don't think that's a lincoln project thing though...? Not sure but I think they just retweeted it

Yeah they just rt’d it

Almost everything Nadler's done for the past 1.5 year has been a waste of time, except the 15 minutes it took him to knot that tie... https://t.co/0cgVyIAe9B

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 21, 2020

oh i didn't realise they were a resistance memes account, i thought they were led by donkeys but for americans.