Trump rally in Tulsa, OK on Saturday (part 2)

This crowd seems desperate to get jacked up but the energy isn’t there.

Lmfao

I'm going to laugh like a hyena if it turns out Parscale really did know that a bunch of KPop stans requested tickets just to fuck with them, and he kept pushing the lie about overflow attendees anyway.

Trump can't be happy with this turnout for his BIG return to his Nuremberg rallies.

Too bad. So sad.

An attendee sits in the upper section of the Bank of Oklahoma Center prior to Trump's campaign rally on Saturday. Win McNamee/Getty Images

In the days leading up to President Trump's Saturday rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he and his allies ginned up expectations for a massive crowd with campaign officials telling CNN that more than a million people had registered to attend, and one local official stating they expected 100,000 to show up near the arena.

But those crowds didn't appear as large as expected Saturday afternoon, leading to an abrupt change of plans by the campaign.

A campaign source told CNN that the team was abandoning plans for the President to speak to an "overflow" area outside the arena in Tulsa where only a couple dozen people were standing near the outdoor stage less than two hours before the rally.

CNN reporter on the scene just estimated the crowd at around 7,000!

He's going to go on at length about how the LIEberal media scared people off with their corona talk.

The crows shot on CNN.... body language odd... arms folded, hands clasped.. heads tilted, frowns or blank faces. None of it enthused.

He's drugged or stinko or both.

Claiming protesters outside were violent. A blatant lie.

Is this rally turning into a flop or is it just me?

I bet the acoustics in this partially empty arena are great. Trump’s words bouncing against the empty seats. Ha!

[quote] It...suddenly makes sense.

[quote] Donald Trump is such a broken man with such broken, toxic relationships with his family and completely devoid of any actual friendships, does these rallies so he can be adored by people who don’t know him.

[quote] It’s never been clearer than right now.

[quote] These are stories he should be telling around a table or in polite company. Instead, he has to get these rallies in place to bathe in the attention of people who don’t know him and how broken he is.

[quote] It’s just...so sad and so pathetic.

“The crowd wasn’t as large as expected...”. What the hell CNN! That’s like saying WWII was a kerfuffle.

Rick Wilson again LOL

Who will Trump blame for the low attendance? R6 Trump will say that there were 70,000 people there.

Another thought: This event is occuring during the Summer Solstice.

R3, the true believers aren't that clever. This asshole wanted to really believe 1M requested. He has ended up completely embarrassing himself. I doubt it was on purpose.

Trump seems to have forgotten that he is the man in charge, and is responsible for controlling the nation.

Biden isn't the President........YET !

[quote]Who will Trump blame for the low attendance?

Protesters.

The money shot

r16, He's already blamed the protesters and the media for the low attendance.

Looks like around 2500. They were spread out on the arena floor and it didn’t appear to take up half the space.

When you listen to Trump, you realize that he is just another Hitler.

Wow. This is a huge, massive PR problem.

He comes off as a total loser.

But it’s like a spoiled kid pretending to be Hitler

So much for a tight race in November.

Wow -- I just assumed that the arena would be packed. The long time since the last rally, all the media attention to it...I haven't had such a nice surprise in a good while.

Trump will claim that the top tier wasn't really empty, it was graciously reserved for those who choose to practice social distancing.

This is such and epic embarrassment for the ages.

How can "The Onion" stay in business??? They cannot satirize any of this!

I almost feel sorry for these people.

But then I remember those babies that are in cages wondering where their parents are and if they will ever see them again.

The Trump people have explained that actually many thousands more wanted to attend, but left wing protesters stopped them from getting into the arena. So you see, millions of people did want to come, but the protesters stopped them. It's all the left's fault!

Trump would love to be a dictator if it weren't for that pesky Constitution and other branches of government always getting in his way.

Make no mistake about it.

I hope the first thing that Biden does is free those children from their cramped cages.

And reunite them with their parents.

He’s losing the crowd. What the hell is he even talking about, besides how great he is?

These people took away the kids soap at the concentration camps. And all the abuse reports.

November can’t come soon enough.

Maybe he will cancel his planned Phoenix visit now.

He's been ranting about Boeing for literally 10 minutes now. This is some unstable, unhinged shit going down.

I was suddenly reminded of this picture for some reason.

He sounds like Better Middler doing an off Broadway production of a one woman show.

How Kpop fans trolled the White House!! Have you ever imagined you'd see something like that in your lifetime... LOL!

LMFAO

BITCH FLOPPED HARD!!

only about 2/3 full

hardly ANY overflow outside. They canceled pre-event overflow speeches

[quote]He’s losing the crowd.

Trump supporters don't have the attention span to make it through a Dr Seuss book.

Were there any protestors outside?

ICYMI: Thousands of teens banded together on TikTok to fool the Trump campaign by making fake reservations for the rally

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

Too bad Trump's mother didn't cancel his birth.

I'd love to see some of his supporters start walking out but I know that would never happen.

They would never disrespect their "fuhrer" that way.

[quote]Trump now delivering a soliloquy on how "leather bottom shoes" are "not good for ramps."

He should see the leather bottoms on the ramp at The Eagle.

So embarrassing that this blubbering idiot is the president of the US.

The crowd looks like what I'd expect to find at a biker bar in Flyovestan

The news said there were some BLM protesters.

I’m laughing so hard at R47. I’m so grateful this flopped and I got some extra chuckles out of it. I expected worse

I think Secret Service wore mask...the rest of the dopes are taking the chance. What a bunch of idiots.

R47 made me laugh so hard. Is that from tonight?

Remember how Spy called him a "Short Fingered Vulgarian" and he spent the next 30 years sending photos of his hands to Graydon Carter to prove his fingers were not short.

Straight line from that to the West Point story

R33, I've said it in another thread: He could not be LESS American even if he tried. He has no respect for the foundation of this nation. No respect for laws nor the constitution nor the right to p r o t e s t. He is sooooo jealous of Putin and MBS and Kim Jong Un becaus t hey get to KILL anyone they want. The man would've gotten into a business deal with the Bin Ladens ON 9/11 if he could make money and no one found out. The most unpatriotic POS you will not find.

Those idiots waving the American flag who worship him only do so because they're fucking racists and bigots. Meanwhile, you have every race, sexuality and religion serving in the US military right now and Trump nor his family would ever sacrifice a fucking thing for this country. Greedy, vile scum of the earth and they're worshiped by idiots who don't comprehend how repulsed the Trump family is by the very sight of them.

He's still shouting like a seething crazy lunatic at the remaining attendees. You can totally hearing him losing his shit behind the CNN reporters.

You know who must be thrilled-- Biden's ad team

They've got a full reel worth of footage on here

Kung Flu

A virus or a flu

Testing makes the numbers go up

The West Point story

"I shook hands"

"Very bad people out there" (but C-ville Nazis are "good people on both sides"

My sadness is sexy Dr. James Phillips was supposed to be on CNN tonight but I think they bailed on the health angle. I heart him.

[quote]Donald Trump is such a broken man with such broken, toxic relationships with his family and completely devoid of any actual friendships, does these rallies so he can be adored by people who don’t know him.

People knew what a truly needy little bitch Dump was decades ago when he planted that fake story in the Enquirer about how Marla supposedly said he was the "best sex (she) ever had!" Marla never copped to saying that, by the way.

Claire McCaskill says she expects Brad Pascale to lose his job very soon

since they over-promised on crowd size and under-delivered

Trump is going to HATE the visuals all over the mainstream media of empty seats and no overflow

People lined up for this days ago, they're all strung out, and then it wasn't even half as packed as it was supposed to be. They could have just driven there today.

He's going to lose some voters for this, I'm sure of it.

My only issue with all of this is that I can't keep up with all of the hilarious tweets, comments and memes coming out of all of this. It's an overabundance of riches.

The audience looks bored.

Here's the video of "too much testing"

This is funny enough but look at him... pilosité wasn’t kidding. He’s morbidly obese. I knew he was a big guy but this is surprised me.

Will this be the moment Republicans in the Congress rebel, if only to save their own skins?

yeah he's gonna be hammered for that less testing comment

I know he wouldn't do it now, because he's not a moron, but I'd love to see the crowd Joe Biden would pull at a counter-rally.

Somebody passed out?

This has turned into a very entertaining Saturday night.

oh no I really hope there's no violence

MSNBC reporters showing deplorables standing near BLM protesters

verbal arguments here and there. As night falls it could get crazy next 5 hours

some of the deplorables are armed

For those of us older folks - he was ALWAYS an asshole. Back in the 80s he was always in the NY papers over his horrible behavior. And everything he touched turned to shit. Not to mention all the people he stiffed for payment. I even remember Clay Aiken of all people talking about his time on The Apprentice & how NBC ran everything including who got voted off each week. He’s a phony con artist.

And yet people voted for this moron and thousands of people are dead because of his incompetence.

BLM protesters were told not to show up at the rally because the incels-of-the-month, aka the Boogaloo middle-aged "Bois" would be there waiting to start a riot.

Ven he home, you say Vairst Letty asleep. NO EXCUSES!

All the pics of police in riot gear & protestors...

JFC. He really loves listening to himself bullshit everyone. These people are bored to death and have no fucking clue what he’s talking about.

Also, notice the very same ole tired “rally actors” sitting behind him, including the 2 African Americans.

LMAO!

People really eat this shit up. George Carlin should have ran. Had he still been alive, all of these rally goers would have voted for him and he would have easily won and would have undoubtedly done a better job during official working hours, than Trump.

He’s being roasted on all social platforms at the same time.

A pitiful laughing stock.

The crowd does look bored, or perhaps confused by Dump’s incoherent rantings.

It would almost be worth watching Fox right now.

lol the crowd close-ups. Looks like a herd of bored cows.

[quote]People lined up for this days ago, they're all strung out, and then it wasn't even half as packed as it was supposed to be. They could have just driven there today.

But at least with the empty seats, they could spread out in the arena. I wouldn't want to be near those people who haven't bathed in days.

CNN holding the camera on little Jimbo Jordan now, lol

I'm guessing they chose Tulsa for this event precisely because, in addition to being a Trump-friendly demographic with a comparatively low COVID infection rate, it was unlikely that BLM protesters would schlep out there in any great numbers.

If this were a reality show, it would be canceled by midnight.

[quote]ICYMI: Thousands of teens banded together on TikTok to fool the Trump campaign by making fake reservations for the rally

So much time on their hands and trolling in their hearts; I LOVE IT!

I miss GC!

OMG look at the crowd! they look so BORED and CONFUSED.

Can we say FLOP?

Lincoln Project #shade

Went to let the dog out and came back to him rambling about he is better looking, has better hair, has nicer apartments... WTF.

Would you say this was Trump's shark jumping moment? Or would that be that press conference where he asked the doctors if disinfectants and UV rays could be taken internally to cure COVID?

He brags about the weirdest things. Like putting new TVs in Air Force One. I mean really?

I wonder if the Slovenian sex-worker even bothers to tune in.

OMG, even the crowd behind him is getting restless and rocking back and forth in their seats. This is the shitshow of all shitshows...no one could've even scripted this amount of shit. Joe and Dr. Biden are sitting back, just letting him dig his own grave.

Imagine driving cross country and camping outside for this shitfest for days...and catching Covid-19 as a result.

President Carlin.

Sigh. Why’d George have to die?

You know it's prime poosey-deedle time when he's away, R94.

SAT, JUN 20TH, 2020 BY JASON EASLEY

Trump Humiliated As Crowd At Tulsa Rally Smaller Than Expected

R60 "You know who must be thrilled-- Biden's ad team

They've got a full reel worth of footage on here"

i said exactly that to a bud just an hour ago. the GOP anti-trump operatives are going to bank those images and win it for biden, if he wins.

His Campaign Song : Kung Flu Fighting

Even these tasteful attendees are all "Okay gurl"

I guess Trump forgot about his whore stealing Michelle Obama's speech.

[quote]Imagine driving cross country and camping outside for this shitfest for days...and catching Covid-19 as a result.

AND signing a waiver agreeing not to sue Dump if the do catch COVID as a result of attending this Fyre Festival of a rally. Fuck them -- they deserve to get it!

No, R85. Please don't ever, ever forget that they originally chose Tulsa to maliciously pack the city with White Nationals on Juneteenth. The cruelty was the point.

Please don't ever let anyone forget how venal they are.

Because of the public outcry--I would assume from Tulsa officials, but maybe the GOP writ large--they moved it one day. But their original plan was for unmitigated assholery

“A level of ignorance that’s dumbfounding” says Sanjay Gupta in response to Trump’s admission that he wanted to slow down testing of coronavirus.

I have to wonder what his mood is going to be like after this. I mean, I know we'll get some tweet about biggest crowds ever, but if the entire point of doing this in first place was because his feelings were hurt....

Dollars to donuts, there will be inciting of violence and looting tonight so tomorrow's headlines aren't about the tiny baby hand crowd.

Nothing to see here, just the guy in r102' 's video yawning with his mouth wide open while not social distancing in the middle of a pandemic.

The cherry on the shitcake: ERIC TRUMP CAN'T SPELL

This is actually a pretty good turnout.

What a loser.

What a difference a day made.

Lol, R110! TULAS! We are coming up the ramp!

Another one for Biden to use is the rambling story, which sounded like he was talking about Covid, but turned out to be about oil prices "We called Russia, we called Saudi Arabia, we called Mexico.. (followed by some snide comment implying Mexicans were dumb AF)

damn, it's like watching a moron drink a glass of water and waddle down a ramp doesn't pack em in like it used to.

The headlines are starting to roll now. The Sunday morning talk shows should be entertaining

PRON

WHET

*TULAS !

* Our newest DL Classic Vocabulary Word

Bigger crowds at an Oral Roberts University basketball game.

I can't wait for the petty commentators on Joy Reid's show tomorrow. I hope she has on funny never-Trumpers people like Jennifer Rubin, Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt

I saw bigger crowds lined up for toilet paper in April.

Is Tulas still running for Preznident?

They found the only 3 African-Americans and put them behind him.

Advice for Brad Parscale:

R91 I know..his hair is dyed baby chick yellow...awful jut awful. Side note melanoma was renegotiating prenup when she was in New York after dump went to White House reported today msnbc

Did you catch my fabulous speech last night in Tulas, Osklahomie?

🤡DJT@DJTKeepinItReal

Has he really been talking since 8PM EST?

Looking forward to Fox News images with the audience copied and pasted to give the appearance of filled seats.

The pigeon headed whore Kayleigh is going to have to flip through her notes even more frenzied than usual to deflect and deny this mess.

Bragging 212 is a lot of miles of the wall built

THE SLATEST

Trump Had Promised a Huge Rally in Tulsa. He Spoke to a Half-Empty Arena.

By DANIEL POLITI

JUNE 20, 20209:24 PM

Is he still blathering?

He's talking about all these plans he has for America like it's 2016, but he has been POTUS for almost 4 years.

r132, when does he ever stop?

^yes and the wall he bragged of was replacing existing wall

Has he gotten to Rosie yet? Never forget, Donnie, never let anything go, never shut your big fucking yap!

I'd kill to be a fly on the wall from whatever van outside is full of unpaid interns feeding him these continuing "screaming points." That would be a DL thread in and of itself.

I can't believe he has been talking for close to two hours. That's a lot of nonsense.

No Obama or Hillary yet? Oh My - he still has a lot of ground to cover.

Fox shows Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe in the audience at Trump’s Tulsa rally. He’s not wearing a mask. Inhofe is 85 years old.

How many people in this crowd were those paid actors we saw advertising for earlier this week?

I read the fat fuck said flag burners should be sentenced to a year in prison? Of course he has no knowledge of history or laws since the Supreme Court has already ruled that’s protected under the first amendment

Rolling Stones songs again... Did he used to get Mick hot chicks in Manhattan?

The bored/confused audience are held captive now! 🥱😴 They are ready to eat, drink and cause some trouble!

He makes all kinds of promises and then plays "You Can't Always Get What You Want".

"We will be the first nation to go to Mars."

Ooh, shades of Kennedy!

Actual photo of supporters waiting to get into the rally.

[quote]"We will be the first nation to go to Mars."

Please tell me somebody yelled out, Will we build a ramp?

As I see it, he's already on Mars, while the rest of us are here, on planet Earth.

Tuned back in to see if he was still talking and caught the end. Now my local anchors said, almost solemnly, lowkey embarrassed:

"You have been watching President Trump's speech at his rally in Tulsa. We cover every presidential visit to the state and broadcast their speeches live, regardless of their... opinions. We now take you back to regular programming, we'll see you again at ten."

Now it's time for the street dance to begin !

I so wish we could fast forward to November instead of dragging this nonsense out any longer. All he does is cause more destruction and embarrass himself further day after day.

R147 Excellent.

Pence left on a plane over an hour ago.

BREAKING: President Tiny Penis Fails to Adequately Fill Mid Sized Event Space.

Now they're playing an Elton John song(?!)

Are those little kids without masks to the left behind the podium? Yikes!

The Drudge Report (no, I'm not linking, I only saw screen grabs in Twitter) is running with "MAGA Less Mega" as a headline.

It was over when he caved on the date! Wimping out won't impress the racist crowd.

I hope the National Guard are stalking those open carry assholes.

What ever happened to the dance troop that used to headline his rallies?

Oh that’s right, he tried to stiff them..

“Donald Trump’s Campaign Is Being Sued by a Group of Kids”

He could have had a White Lives Matter More rally on Friday but he chickened out.

He's a failure as a Preisident. And the only people supporting him are white Xtians who want to put LGBTQ in concentration camps, send dark-skinned back to their countries and make abortion illegal.

What's next for Trump? Start a war?

Jonathan Swan@jonathanvswan·Jun 20

I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody gets fired over this.

Link to the after party.

Trump campaign email —

"The President just stepped off the stage after his FIRST Trump MAGA Rally in over 3 months.

Despite the Democrats’ best efforts to STOP us, we held the most EPIC Rally EVER with THOUSANDS of real American Patriots."

[quote] What's next for Trump?

Cameo appearances. How much would he charge?

That pic shows less that 500 people.

What a huge, monumental flop.

[quote] Despite the Democrats’ best efforts to STOP us, we held the most EPIC Rally EVER with THOUSANDS of real American Patriots.

Even North Korean TV would've come up with something more credible.

Even the usual trump trolls are silent on my other comment sections of various news sites.

tensions beginning to rise outside the venue as deplorables exit

even the rightwingers at The Dispatch blew apart the canard that the Demos "tried to stop us". (tx to R168 for citing the GOP's line, so pathetic)

Someone's head will roll! Which Trumpie will it be?

LOL! He explained his drinking water

Reminder - the low attendance was not influenced by teenage seat buyers. There was a place for overflow - with 12 people.

There just was not the crowds they had anticipated. That's all - no cause of liberal ticket buying or protestor intimidation.

Steve Schmidt roasting Trump now if you want to laugh

he just called this the "Emtpysburg Address" bahahaha

[quote] The brain behind what might’ve been an extremely successful troll tonight in Tulsa is apparently 51-year-old former Buttigieg volunteer and TikTok user Mary Jo Laupp, of Fort Dodge, Iowa

[quote] Let's be clear:

[quote] The troll was making them think ~1M were interested in attending.

[quote] The Tik Tok Op had ZERO impact or interference on REAL TRUMP FANS being able to request and show up IF they wanted to show up. It was still first-come, first-served/in.

Is anybody else gonna be disappointed if there aren't street fights after this rally?

Look at his supporters! Could they be any uglier or dumber? White supremacy, my ass!

Look at these shots

Her tik tok had over 700,000 likes.

Trump is a huge fukin dork.

Why does he burst out yelling?

Steve Schmidt agrees "heads are going to roll" in the Trump staff following this debacle

the plane ride back to DC is going to be hell lol

R180 If there's violence it will just play into the liar Trumper campaigns explanation that the low turnout was a result of Antifa radical violence.

All those dern Antifa K-Pop fans...

WHOA! Steve Schmidt;

"The teenagers dealt a savage blow to the Trump campaign tonight"

If anyone knows the CNN chyron guy, give him a blow job for this one.

"Emtpysburg Address" - gorgeous.

Tom Petty's family is pissed

At least Cher's farewell tours are entertaining.

Trump drinking a glass of water for an enthusiastic crowd is very reminiscent of Dawn Davenport. Who wants to die for art?. Indeed.

[quote]He has black people noticeably placed right behind him near the stage so he doesn't look like a racist who only caters to white folk. LOL! You ain't foolin' nobody Trump.

I loved how a bunch of POC rushed onto the stairs behind the podium, as Pence finished his lame ass intro.

1 of them was that idiot Paris Denard.

Anyone else think Trump hired "protesters" for the rally? Convenient excuse for low turnout.

And the unenthusiastic crowd? You just know they've been paid to attend, too. What a damned farce.

Steve Schmidt@SteveSchmidtSES·Jun 20

This is what happened tonight. I’m dead serious when I say this. The teens of America have struck a savage blow against @realDonaldTrump. All across America teens ordered tickets to this event. The fools on the campaign bragged about a million tickets. lol. @ProjectLincoln

The Coalition of the Decent is attacking and winning. Trump has been stripped bare. He stands naked and exposed for all to see. He is a failure. He is going down.

Mary Jo Laupp, a 51-year-old grandmother living in Fort Dodge, Iowa, appears to have helped led the charge on TikTok late last week when she posted a video encouraging people to go to Trump's website, register to attend the event -- and then not show up. .

Not surprising, R189. He filed a cease & desist order against GWB for using it in 2000.

Trump's Last Legs Farewell Tour! Get your tickets from your niece who is a K-POP fan (and also an Antifa member)

R176 Four more sips! Four more sips!

Mock Him Up

So what's going on now? I want to see some wigs get snatched in the stadium parking lot!

Do you think he's going to go forward with his other planned rallies after this disaster? He looks like a complete loser thanks to his own ego and hubris. A half empty arena and the only people who show up are trashy, slovenly rednecks. And I can't believe anyone (besides the most insane Kool-aid drinkers) would be enthusiastic about sitting through his lame act in person now after seeing this.

R201: They sad, depressed - gotta eat and drink before acting a fool.

TikTok users are trying to troll Trump's campaign by reserving tickets for Tulsa rally they'll never use

By Donie O'Sullivan, CNN

Updated 1:05 PM ET, Tue June 16, 2020

(CNN)President Donald Trump says almost 1 million people had requested tickets to attend his upcoming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But some who have registered for the free event, which is scheduled to take place at a nearly 20,000 seat auditorium next week, say they have no plans to attend.

They're trying to troll the President's campaign instead.

Mary Jo Laupp, a 51-year-old grandmother living in Fort Dodge, Iowa, appears to have helped led the charge on TikTok late last week when she posted a video encouraging people to go to Trump's website, register to attend the event -- and then not show up. "All of those of us that want to see this 19,000 seat auditorium barely filled or completely empty go reserve tickets now and leave him standing alone there on the stage," Laupp told her then-1,000 or so followers on TikTok, normally thought of a platform for dancing teenagers and not, necessarily, political action.

Laupp, who said she worked on Pete Buttigieg's campaign in Iowa last fall, told CNN she made the initial appeal upset that the rally was originally set to take place on Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The decision to hold the first Trump campaign rally in months on the holiday, and in Tulsa -- the site of one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history --was met with widespread criticism amid nationwide protests about police brutality and racial inequality. The campaign eventually moved it one day later.

Still, the hometown newspaper has editorialized that "this is the wrong time" and "this is the wrong place," citing the challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic along with racial unrest following the killing of George Floyd.

Laupp, who works at a high school and signed up to TikTok earlier this year, told CNN the video blew up overnight. And then, alongside the choreographed dances, comedic dares and schoolyard pranks, the grandmother's prompt became a challenge of its own. Inspired users began posting videos showing they too registered for the event -- similar posts on Instagram and Twitter clocked up thousands of likes.

Her idea prompted multiple other TikTok users to post similar videos calling on their followers to do the same -- visit the website, register for the event, fail to show up.

One video, with more than a quarter of a million views, called on fans of South Korean pop music in particular to join the trolling campaign. Fans of the music, which is known as K-pop, are a force on social media -- they posted over six billion tweets last year alone. And they have a history of taking action for social justice causes.

Earlier this month K-pop fans rallied around the Black Lives Matter movement, drowning out "White Lives Matter" and other anti-black hashtags. It is not clear if K-Pop fans have registered for the Trump Tulsa rally in big numbers. Despite their intent, the objective of the effort, to leave Trump with an empty stadium on Saturday, is almost certainly going to be unsuccessful. Although the capacity of the Bank of Oklahoma Center in Tulsa is just under 20,000, the Trump campaign has, clearly, not put a limit on how many people can request tickets.

R195 He did. There was a craigslist ad. It might have been posted here on an earlier thread.

Gripping....

R206.... "fuck, I should have taken that second Oxy...."

On top of that, to register for the event people have to hand over a phone number to the Trump campaign -- feeding the campaign's vast data operation.

When registrations passed 800,000, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale described it as the "Biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x."

Erin Perrine, principal deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, told CNN, "Leftists do this all the time. They think if they sign up for tickets that will leave empty seats. Not the case at all. Always way more ticket requests than seats available at a rally. All they are doing is giving us access to their contact information."

The RSVPs are designed to give the campaign a sense of what the turnout will be and to collect information about potential supporters for use in the campaign's voter database going forward. Those who make it into the event will be the ones that arrive first. It is a first come, first served event.

Campaign officials say that the RSVPs are concentrated in the area around Tusla, but are also coming from all over the country. Campaign events, both Republican and Democrat, rarely if ever require physical tickets to gain entrance. Trump campaign events have never required a ticket to get in and this event in Tulsa will be no different.

Trump on Monday said the campaign would utilize the convention hall next to the "magnificent stadium" where the rally would be held -- adding 40,000 additional spaces to the roughly 20,000 who can fit in the BOK Center. "I think we're going to have a great time," Trump said. He said he would discuss the state of the nation, "where we're going, where we've come from."

"We expect to have -- you know, it's like a record-setting crowd. We've never had an empty seat," he said.

Vice President Mike Pence was pressed by Fox News hosts on why the campaign couldn't host the rally at an outdoor venue, given the spread of coronavirus through aerosols in enclosed spaces. He suggested that was a possibility.

"You raise a good point and what I can tell you is it's all a work in progress and we've had such an overwhelming response that we're also looking at another venue. We're also looking at outside activities and I know the campaign team will keep people informed as that goes forward," Pence said, reiterating that there will be temperature screenings, hand sanitizer, and masks provided for people attending. But as CNN has reported attendees will not be required to wear a mask. Trump has notably declined to wear a mask in public.

The grandmother who helped spark the effort, Laupp, said the Trump campaign will "find bodies to put in seats." Still, she believes the TikTok stunt is an effective way to raise awareness about why the original plan to hold the rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth was so problematic in the first place.

Laupp told CNN she had heard from people this week who had not known about the Tulsa massacre, and that "we as American citizens owe it to marginalized communities to know those parts of history."

She said she plans on continuing to use her newfound TikTok platform in the months leading up to November's election. Having voted for Gary Johnson in 2016, she describes herself as a libertarian and while she is not yet sure if she will vote for former Vice President Joe Biden in the fall, she says she knows she will not vote for President Trump.

I love you, R121.

Fox and Trump have something to distract us from this failed event now

Tonight in Seattle's autonomous zone, 1 person was shot dead and another injured. Police weren't able to reach them in time since protesters have been blocking them. The suspect is still at large

so tomorrow that's what they'll focus on to try and discredit the protests and the defund the police movement

I wonder if the Trumpanzees who slept outside the venue for several days feel stupid now. Wonder if they bathed when they got home.

The clown show has just become so boring.

Thank God that Trump now has the stench of a loser to his base. There is no way you can spin this - it was a flat out disaster AND the people who showed up were bored. I hope the news starts covering Covid cases following the unsafe rallies.

Actually the Seattle shooting happened last night, but thanks for that valiant but hopeless effort to change the subject, Trump campaign operative at R210.

Ok - enough with the Tiktok thing. Even if they did get some seats, they were supposed to have a spillover second rally. They opened up the stadium to fill seats and stilll couldn't fill it up.

Stop with the whole teenager thing - the reality is there just weren't a lot of people who wanted to go.

Now conservatives on Twitter are saying that over 4 million viewed the rally and Biden couldn't get 1,000 to view his townhall. They are confusing those who want to watch a carwreck with a digital townhall.

This is what happened. Excellent!

Sam Stein:

Trump has all these people coming into an arena, risking a Covid infection, so that he can explain to them why he walked gingerly down a ramp

I doubt it’ll make much of a dent to most folks R210.

Tomorrow is public affairs Sunday - Faze the Nation; Fux News Sunday; Beat the Press; etc

They will be discussing Bolton, Berman, and how, once again, #BunkerBoys’s speech, crowd size and hands underwhelm.

[quote] Reminder - the low attendance was not influenced by teenage seat buyers

No but expectations about attendance were. The teen seat buyers influenced Parscale to claim 800,000 people wanted to attend the rally, which in turn influenced Deplorables to camp out for days to get good seats, LOL.

Biden just tweeted

"Speed up the testing"

Trump's going to get destroyed on the "slow down" comment

Yeah, stop it’s the teenager thing. It gives them an out.

I'm sure the employees of that arena are going to just love having to sanitize that place from top to bottom now. Is the tRump campaign going to offer to cover the costs of that mess? No.

Rallies... not so much.

Link is Politico... that data is from Faux makes it richer.

R221 - thank you. It's Steve Schmidt talking about how his kids got tickets. Fine - but it didn't stop people from showing up.

So the only thing it did was make them release some outrageous numbers. Ok - that is accurate. But it is not a reason why the place wasn't filled and no overflow.

The trolls are already busy starting other anti-BLM threads. I guess they want to deflect from this disastrous shitshow.

He admits he deliberately slowed testing and FOX doesn't even mention it.

The headline here is that nobody showed up.

It’s bad enough that the arena was half empty. It would have been epic just for that. but the boasting of record ticket requests was the cherry on top of the moron sundae.

Yep.

Suppose he held a gang bang and nobody came. . .

[quote]Now conservatives on Twitter are saying that over 4 million viewed the rally and Biden couldn't get 1,000 to view his townhall. They are confusing those who want to watch a carwreck with a digital townhall.

Seriously. Did they actually think everyone was watching like they were swooning over Trump rather than waiting to see how he'd embarrass himself THIS time?

This is the thing... This rally was supposed to be HUGE! It was supposed to have been historic--and, it would of been had it gone off as planned. Politicos flew in from all over the country for this. But, it was a waste of a plane ticket because it was a HUGE flop and they are now all associated with it!

Parscale ramping up attendance expectations like that was a really dumb move.

I think some of you guys are misunderstanding the impact of the K-pop stunt.

The kids’ reservations didn’t keep deplorables from scoring tickets. Tickets were unlimited, per McEnany.

The gag was that they got the campaign to boast over the interest in the rally and set up the overflow stage.

Didn't anyone in trumpworld think 1m tickets were excessive for an area of 300k and check to see if hotels were filling up?

In fairness, the missing attendees may have mistakenly gone to Tulas, not Tulsa. For all we know, they may be waiting yet.

What I've learned tonight: MAGAts are neither good nor real; they are evil... and imaginary!

R233 - you act like this is the first time people have done this. It is not - people have been going online and buying ghost tickets to Trump rallies for years.

Brad Parscale knows this. He knows there were a lot of fake registrations. 800,000 registrations in a city of 400,000? C'mon - they're not THAT dumb.

Trump ALWAYS overestimates the rally numbers. So, yes they were overly optimistic, but this isn't new and I don't think it had much of an impact. They would have used the same stadium and prepared an overflow.

I don't think the registrations really had THAT much to do with it.

Poor comparison re: the first come, first serve tickets, but 'Wheel of Fortune' was filming here at the Venetian in Las Vegas a few years ago. I "got tickets" (huge quotes) for myself, my mum, and her friend (mum and friend were going to fly in). Once I read the fine print that it was first come, first serve, we didn't go. People are inherently scared away by that, which is the point...you want the people inside the event who actually *want* to be there, not just because the tix are free. Obviously not many people wanted to be at the rally tonight. In fact, no one did (not even the people who made it). And yes, by the kids requesting 800K or a million tix, that not only scared people away, but the campaign knew they needed to allow the overflow space. In that way, it was the perfect hoax.

Diamonique and Burlap have a special place in hell for what they have done. These slezebags will kiss up to anybody for a dollar. They have no dignity and no shame

What will become of them after the great republicans purge of 2020?

They will be radioactive and hopefully finally called to account for all the hatred and division they have profited from. .

I told you all 99% of right wing, flag waving social media profiles were bots and fakes. Believe me now?

Ok, R237. Excellent point. Do you think you can let it go now because it’s not multiple interesting, to be honest.

Nah, R237. I really I think they are THAT dumb.

OH! There they are....

What a humiliating calamity.

Tough week.

Plump should be happy, the media finally panned to the audience.

I can't wait to watch John Oliver tomorrow night - so much material, probably enough for three shows.

So what’s going to happen at Joe Biden‘s next rally? It’s going to be ugly.

They can throw all the sticks and stones at democrats that they want but it’s over after tonight.

He is toast.

Brad Parscale Retweeted

RSBN @RSBNetwork

@realDonaldTrump rally in Tulsa on RSBN:

2.8 million Facebook views

1.4 million YouTube playbacks

That's 4.2M views and again, this doesn't include any views from simulcasts we send out.

+Millions more watched on other sources. Fire

Parscale: They watched to mock and laugh😆! Trump's true supporters were yawning in the audience🥱

The ultimate SHADE of it all

R233, I'm pretty sure we all got that part. It was the fact that Parscale couldn't wait to tweet about 800K-1M requests which makes all of this so laughable and that he will deservedly lose his job, particularly after despicably trying to save face by claiming anyone who would've attended couldn't because of "protester thugs" blocking metal detectors or whatever gibberish excuse he made for the abysmal attendance

He's such a bitch, r252. I like this side of him.

OMG, I didn't even seethe tweet @R250. Jesus Christ, does that fucking tool not know when to STFU?

God, look at the sea of ugly pouring in:

What a week.

What's hilarious about R250's Parscale tweet is that Trump will actually think he rated above primetime shows and did really well, despite the lack of crowds.

Of course what Parscale lacks to mention is the enormous amounts of joke tweets and bad coverage. Trump's on Twitter - he'll see it.

It's gonna be a very long night for them.

The official headcount for tonight's rally is 6611 people.

Maybe it just looked like 10K because a lot of those people could easily count as two.

And please retweet this from The Meidas Touch if you can...

I could see Trump firing Parscale and putting Kellyanne in charge of the campaign. But I don’t think they have any winning strategies. Trump is increasingly repugnant, defying all expectations and being a complete disaster

From Forbes:

Turnout At Trump’s Tulsa Rally Was Just Under 6,200–A Fraction Of The Venue’s 19,200 Capacity

The mighty Trump political machine brought down by these guys. Excellent!

omg less than 1/3 of what the venue can hold and they thought they'd get massive overflow

LMFAO

I hope Trump has a huge meltdown on Sunday again

Isn't this supposed to be the first of many

Crazy Grampa takes his Porch on the Road

extravaganzas?

I wonder if the attendees who camped out five days in the heat and rain have any regrets.

LA Times:

A person involved with the reelection effort called the speech a “disaster.”

“Our country is on fire, people are out of work and scared and he’s talking about ramps and water!!!!” the person wrote in a text message.

The fact that the fool didn't go on a Twitter rampage last night or this morning says volumes. I think he's either heavily medicated, or so humiliated he simply doesn't have tthe motivation to do anything. I picture him eating non-stop since the left the rally.

Shoving hamberders into his face-anus? Yeah, I can see that, [R270].

[quote]"Emtpysburg Address"

Please please let this perfection spread and embed.

CNBC's Christina Wilkie on last night's speech:

Trump on Joe Biden: "He's not radical left. I don't think he knows what he is anymore. But he was never radical left."

This one sentence undermines Trump's entire campaign strategy, which is tying Biden to AOC & the far left.

Expect to hear that line in a Biden ad this fall.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and hypothesize that Trump spent more time thinking up a story to explain his ramp and water challenges than he's ever devoted to addressing the country's coronavirus pandemic.

The air is rapidly decreasing in this balloon.

Trump can't even be called "rightwing" because he's not bright enough to hold and defend opinions. Whilst things went well, he could get away with it. But the moment crises arose, Trump goes to pieces because although he wants to be Putin, he isn't. That's not to defend Putin, just to point out that Putin really IS the strongman Trump envisions himself as. But despite what people like to spout, America isn't Russia, where strongmen are the norm, not the exception, and civil and governmental structures support the type.

But with COVID and an economic disaster, Trump has no resources to call on, and his inability to cope with crisis and failure become so glaringly obvious that except for the clinically delusional faction of his base, even his broader base is melting away.

It really is a case of the Emperor's New Clothes.

There's no "there" there. And now, it shows.

This says it all:

Brad Parscale @parscale

May 7

For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc.

In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time.

.....

Oliver Willis @owillis

9h when you call your campaign the death star and you don't bother to watch star wars all the way to the end, this is what happens...

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The New York Times @nytimes

Teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for President Trump's campaign rally as a prank to ruin the event.

Many of the arena’s 19,000 seats remained empty as Mr. Trump spoke.

TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sunk Trump Rally

nytimes.com

9:07 PM · Jun 20, 2020 SocialFlow

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....

No, it’s Phteven with a PH @weevenbsteeler

7h

so his finely tuned campaign machine is really just the death star; a bunch of teenagers with zero training can blow it up.

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Ironically, @HamillHimself is a Democrat and is actually hosting the Biden/Obama virtual fundraiser.

Mark Hamill @HamillHimself

· Jun 18

#Red46StandingBy

@JoeBiden

Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw

Jun 17

Replying to @HamillHimself

Don’t miss a Virtual Conversation about Hope & Democracy with Vice President @JoeBiden moderated by @HamillHimself. Tuesday, June 30, 2020. RSVP here:

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He didn't even mention the low pressure flush toilets that need many flushes, a staple in his usual repertoire. How disappointed his minions must be.

He’s a laughingstock right now. Apparently even Republicans are pissed off he went on and on about drinking water and running down a ramp while Rome burns.

And supposedly he threw a fit on Air Force One about how humiliated he was. Here’s the money shot:

Meanwhile, “Greatest President Ever” is trending #1 on Twitter and it’s all pictures of Obama. In some of them he’s drinking with one hand.

Bahaha, local news posted a DIRECT QUOTE, literally verbatim on Facebook, and oh my lord, it is hilarious! I felt like a kindergartner reading for the first time because the ramblings made absolutely no sense!

Local news throws shade so much better than cable. They posted the quote, and nothing else. Dumpsters are angry in the comments about the news being biased, and for bad mouthing the president, but all they did was quote him. Ah a great laugh to start my morning! Most of the comments are folks making fun of Dump, which gave me so many new memes to share.

[quote] The mighty Trump political machine

It was never mighty, it was always a political Potemkin Village run by a group of morons whose collective IQ is in double digits. I'm surprised it took 4 long years to be exposed for what it is: a carnival show where the main attraction is a mentally crumbling snake oil salesman.

People are just mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more, R281. And they’re better at trolling.

R280, which quote?

The icing on the cake will w the hundreds of people who got Covid during the rally

[quote]What I've learned tonight: MAGAts are neither good nor real; they are evil... and imaginary!

Much like BernieBros.

This is the quote, r283

[Quote] “Despite the fact that we, I, have done a phenomenal job with it. I shut down the United States to very heavily infected but all people from China in late January which is months earlier than other people would have done it, if they would have done it at all. I saved hundreds of thousands of lives. We don’t ever even get a mention. Then I closed it down to Europe early. Closed it down because I saw what was happening and, by the way, most people were saying, 'don’t do it, don’t do it!' We saved hundreds of thousands of lives and all we do is get hit on like we’re terrible. And what we’ve done with the ventilators and with the medical equipment and with testing. You know, testing is a double-edged sword. We’ve tested now 25 million people. It’s probably 20 million people more than anybody else. Germany’s done a lot. South Korea’s done a lot. They called me, they said the job you’re doing, here’s the bad part, when you test, when you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please!’ They test and they test, we had tested people who don’t know what’s going on. We got tests, we got another one over here! The young man is 10 years old, he’s got the sniffles. He’ll recover in about 15 minutes. That’s a case! Add up to it. That’s a case." -President Donald Trump

[quote]A person involved with the reelection effort called the speech a “disaster.” “Our country is on fire, people are out of work and scared and he’s talking about ramps and water!!!!” the person wrote in a text message.

To me this is important. A motivated campaign team is vital. Especially when the trail runs uphill. The grapevine must be counterproductive to morale, except for the blind faithful, who are of no strategic value because their only skill is to say yes, mein führer. Everybody else is panicking about how it to undo the damage to their LinkedIn profile.

[quote]I could see Trump firing Parscale and putting Kellyanne in charge of the campaign.

Excuse me, miss, this new face is part of an [italic]exit [/italic] strategy. I just want to focus on my salad.

The Hill @thehill MOMENTS AGO: President Trump arrives at the White House from Joint Base Andrews. He is holding a 'Make America Great Again' hat.

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Now “Marine One” is trending on twitter and people are re-tweeting images of this video. This was late at night, no Melania or Barron to greet him. Watch the video. It’s being described as “The Walk of Shame.”

Trump's next rally is Tuesday June 23 in Phoenix, unless he decides to cancel it.

It will be interesting to learn the health status of the attendees 10-20 days from now.

Grim r288

R287, Kellyanne actually is the logical person, didn’t she used to advise campaigns back in the day when she was partially sane and her husband could still look her in the eye? But maybe that’s even a bridge too far for her. She knows he’s going to lose, and it would finish the marriage, if she cares. She might.

The public persona we see might not be the real Kellyanne. The real Kellyanne is going to be looking for a job in November. Remember, her twitter handle is @KellyannePolls. Which implies she can read a poll.

AZ is a lot more blue than OK these days and we have had skyrocketing Covid-19 cases. Besides that, it will probably be 112 degrees here. Who's going to want to wait outside in that heat? If he has any sense at all, he'll cancel. That's a big "if," though.

I’m still laughing my ass off from last night.

R288, awww he looks like he’s going to cry. Makes my heart sing!

r288, his deportment suggests he thinks he looks really cool. Isn't that way of wearing a loose tie a kind of Rat Pack look?

And if all of that wasn't bad enough, now Twitler will have to deal with the angry ghost of Tom Petty! Get him, Tom.

R296, I get the reference, but if you watch the video, he just looks very downtrodden. Like, fuck it, I don’t care any more. And the rumor is he threw a fit on AF1, so maybe he took his tie off then.

Someone on twitter said he looks like a disheveled drunk at the end of a rough night. And the inevitable comparisons to Obama are there - if Obama appeared in public like this, Fox would have a field day.

The party's over

Queeg : Strawberries :: Trump: Leather Soles

r159, true, rescheduling at the last minute was a typical Trumpian act of cowardice and lack of conviction. More importantly, however, it's an indicator that as bad as things are right now, Black Americans have a certain sociopolitical strength that they've never had before, and know how to use it.

Good one r300

I really think we are at the turning point here..he looks like such a loser this event is going to have the opposite effect. The rats will start to flee, he looks so weak.

[quote]The party's over

Agree. I think he’s done. It’ll be interesting to see how is other rally’s turn out but the only supporters he has left are the dumbest of the dumb (my cousin being one of them).

There's a lot of joy on here, but also a lot of "Well that does it: Trump's campaign is dead." Just reminding you how many people said that in 2016, on how many occasions.

Even if the Deplorables get tired of being made fun of by liberals (and bored to death by Trump) and stop going to his rallies, that doesn't mean they won't get angry on his behalf and/or with all the Democrat crowing and still vote for him. It just means they might go invisible before the ballot and then jump out and surprise us.

Also remember that BLM can't work if the Deplorables are not eventually engaged. If the Democrats do win resoundingly and they all slink back to their holes they'll just keep worshipping the Confederacy, and we now know there are too many of them for that to be part of a BLM success story.

Apparently, the Black community leaders ran around covering memorials to the Black Wall Street Massacre in advance of Pence's arrival so they couldn't be used for a photo op.

Good for them.

My favorite part was his bizarre 15 minute reenactment of drinking water and going down a ramp.

Donnie:

It’s time to call it a day

Take off your makeup

R305 The thing is Democrats have been winning elections ever since he took office. Or when they’ve lost the elections have swung 20 to 30 points in their favor. Remember he begged his base begged them not to embarrass him and to vote for the Republican in the Louisiana a Kentucky governor races and the democrat won both in deep red states. Every election. The Democrats have been on a tear. No one’s taking him for granted I can assure you. Every election. The Democrats have been on a tear. No one‘s taking him for granted I can assure you.

If the teens and Kpop fans really want to troll Trump, they should get tickets and actually attend -- then while mixed among the MAGA crowd, act bored, avoid applauding or cheering, and slowly start leaving so that Trump is left talking to a sparse gathering of idiots, and wondering why his "followers" left while he was speaking. I would love to see that!

SIX HUNDRED TIMES!!!

If only I could be a fly on the wall at Nancy Pelosi's house today. I'm sure she's had some wonderful things to say about yesterday's Tulsa extravaganza.

Trump looks energized, refreshed, and in good health returning to the White House after last night's rally.

Thanks Kellyane. What's that husband of yours think about this?

His face looks swollen and he does a weird arm movement in the vid at r314

R314 - the Walk of Shame video. Ha ha.

Him carrying the MAGA hat and not wearing it really speaks volumes.

Deplorables like Drudge and Thiel and their minions are starting to dump Plump.

But we all remember they were his biggest fans.

Never forget!

Even rank and file deplorables are trying to claim they never really supported him. “We didn’t have a choice.”

“We were forced to vote for him against our will”

[quote]“We were forced to vote for him against our will”

Yes, that sounds plausible.

Even NYT Puzzles section is trolling him. Here's what the solution of the today's acrostic is:

[quote] Emperor Nero..., an avid actor and student of... theater, ... brought his own personal cheering section in the form of five thousand Roman soldiers to applaud his performances, for which the wise judges always awarded first prize.

I'm very grateful to Pres. Trump today. Grateful that his colossal rally failure yesterday has given me a new bounce in my step and zest for life today. I haven't felt this energetic in quite a while. I hope he's suffering today. I relish in the thought that he is suffering.

Walk of Shame with appropriate soundtrack - Hail to the Chief

R319 Drudge has been trashing Trump for awhile now.

So why does this cretin need an 8+ vehicle motorcade to go spend the day at his VA golf club?

R292, I cannot imagine what limited intelligent or disordered values system would lead you to argue that Kellyanne Conway deserves the benefit of the doubt.

What's wrong with you?

I wouldn't count him out too soon. Yesterday was a complete defeat, a humiliation. However, on Tuesday, he has an outdoor rally in Arizona under the umbrella "Youth for Trump". A younger crowd will energize him and he does know how to play the game. No two ways about it. Tuesday he will stage a comeback or it will be a total end game.

After such a tremendous victory owning the libs, vanquishing the barbarians at CNN and slaying the very evil, the very bad men, he’s ready to celebrate this greatest of battles and pound his glorious, pulsing, engorged man meat into the fair maiden, Slovenian Lady Melania of Whore. There will be dancing, singing, grub and climactic merriment tonight in the marital bed.

I take it he still hasn't hit twitter.

This has been a long stretch of Trump #FAILS

Bleach drinking

Bunker Boy

6-3 Gay Rights Decision

5-4 DACA decision

New wave of cases in FL, TX, OK

Bolton's book

Losing Bolton book case

West Point Ramp Stumble/Double Fisted Water Drinking

Revelation that Barron has dual US-Slovenian citizenship

And now the bust of a rally

The people you saw in the arena are his base.

They look like the denizens of a rough biker bar somewhere in rural Flyoverstan

But more than that, they follow Trump around like Deadheads, attending a dozen or more rallies.

The base is shrinking.

And failure only makes Trump more erratic.

Get your popcorn.

R327, he’s having an outdoor rally in Phoenix?? In June? Isn’t the temperature in the 100s? Oh wait, it’s a dry heat! 🤣🤣🤣🤣. He’ll be lucky if half the audience doesn’t pass out from heat stroke.

Awww, R314. One almost feels sorry.

He looks sad with his feeble little doll hands barely able to wave

He's in a death spiral.

All Biden has to do is show up at the end of August for the convention, name a VP and carry the momentum for about 8 to 10 weeks.

Biden's Jimmy Stewart vibe is the perfect antidote to Trump.

He doesn't need to say a lot, just talk about healing rather than dividing, bringing people together.

Older blue collar voters know that Joe i s one of them. and that he gets them, that he's had a lot of sorrow in his like and come out okay.

Trump will whine and rant like a spoiled toddler and he'll up the ante on the lies, just like Goebbels did as the Russians were advancing in the East and the Allies had landed in Normandy.

But people will see through that.

At least most people.

Biden will win in a landslide and the GOP is in real danger of losing the Senate

This is great

I understand that he was furious that it was made public about the 6 people on his team that came down with the virus. He is only going to need one or two more of these to finally start to realize that he May Not Win.

#WalkOfShame is trending on Twitter right now with video of Trump getting off the plane looking sad and defeated.

[quote]he’s having an outdoor rally in Phoenix?? In June? Isn’t the temperature in the 100s?

The Weather Channel forecasts a high of 112˚ the day of his rally. Toasty.

The Phoenix rally will be a disaster too.

People will keep tuning in to see what new #FAIL is befalling Trump.

Exactly like the Covid press conferences.

Biden will be coached to say something to the effect of "Really? 120K people are dead, the economy is in a shambles and you think the way to solve it is to spend your time coming up with nasty little nicknames for people who disagree with you? I'm not surprised though, You haven't accomplished a thing you promised your base. Even your hand-picked Supreme Court judges won't support you. The American people deserve better than you Donald Trump...."

Etc. and so on.

R330 Good summary. And it's way too early to take a victory lap, and the Resistance, that great Coalition of Americans from leftwing socialists to conservative Never Trumpers, must work even harder, raise more money, fight to keep elections open and prevent voter suppression. The Trump Gang will, in fact, get really dirty and corrupt, will do everything to win, break any law, tell any lie. The appeal to the dark racist core of the country will get even more evil. But one comforting truth is that most of the events on your list are the results of his and his henchmen's gaffes. The greatest problem they have is that....on, Trump.... he's out of control and will continue make a mess.

BUT ALL THIS ONLY MEANS WE NEED TO WORK HARDER TO MAKE A CHANGE IN NOVEMBER.

Never underestimate the power of a smart and politically savvy teen.

They may not be old enough to drink southern moonshine, but they are old enough to cast a vote!

Technically the thing in Arizona isn't a "rally," it's just an appearance at some event. Presumably he'll make a speech but it's not likely to go on for two hours.

[quote]If only I could be a fly on the wall at Nancy Pelosi's house today. I'm sure she's had some wonderful things to say about yesterday's Tulsa extravaganza.

"Fat. VERY fat."

Yes R340, we will need to do all that.

But as noted, the Allies have invaded Normandy and are at the Rhine, the Russians are at the Oder and those V2 rockets aren't having much effect on the Brits.

We need to do what you say to make the victory as overwhelming as possible, to throw out McTurtle and Lady Ga and all the other senators.

And, the HITS keep coming!

-George Conway@gtconway3d.2h:Here’s a nice story about the Tulsa Oilers of the East Coast Hockey League drawing 10,500 more people to the BOK Center than @realDonaldTrump did yesterday. The ECHL is a mid-level minor hockey league, the equivalent of AA baseball.

-Jason Roberts ⡾@itsJason·2hReplying to @gtconway3d and @realDonaldTrump: Either we declare Trump a failed presidency, or we declare America a failed democracy.

-Sara Spector@Miriam2626·2hReplying to@gtconway3d and@realDonaldTrump:I bet they even let in people who were rooting for the other team rather than arrest them! The players have better self esteem than Trump! #TrumpFail #LoserTrump

-Sheila @nucksjaysnraps·2hReplying to@gtconway3d and@realDonaldTrump:The best part of it is the seats are blue. All that empty space was blue.

-HTMC@HTMC·2hReplying to@gtconway3d and@realDonaldTrump: It's now 11:18. NOT A SINGLE TWEET FROM TRUMP. Finally something shut him up. He is in his bunker in a fetal position, clutching his bible whining, complaining and blaming everyone but himself for A TOTAL BUST or as he would say a COMPLETE DISASTER. #LincolnProject

-Graeme@gmangeegee·2hReplying to@gtconway3d and@realDonaldTrump: Right now Republicans are sitting in a bunker acknowledging the fact come November they are screwed!They know that the only way they’ll keep hold of power is if they can steal another election! Don’t let them, don’t let them suppress your vote! For the sake of America vote Blue!

-John Heilemann@jheil·16h:There is only one word to describe this performance of Trump’s in Tulsa: pathetic. And one conclusion to be drawn: he’s finished ... and he knows it.

-Mika Brzezinski@morningmika·3h: My question is, why didn’t they use the empty seats to help people social distance? People could have sat with open seats between them. That would’ve been safer. Were they all squished together once again for the optics of a full arena?

-Joyce Alene@JoyceWhiteVance·8h: When will people start widely referring to this as a failed presidency? It can’t be much longer.

-Claire McCaskill@clairecmc·16h: Major message tonight: I can walk and drink a glass of water.

I had a moment of feeling sorry for this asshole @r314, and then I remember who I am feeling for, and everything he's done, and think it isn't even commiserate karma yet.

Brad Parscale denies he was hoodwinked by teens:

Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work.

Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop fans – without contacting the campaign for comment – behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade.

The fact is that a week’s worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of COVID and protestors, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally.

Parscale's "explanation":

Something else to think about: while Hillary Stans can't stand Maggie Haberman, she rarely pulls front page stories out of thin air and she's been going on about how Trump's people have been saying they think he really doesn't want a second term, is purposely self-sabotaging and they don't know how to get him re-involved.

While this rally was supposed to do it, clearly it did not.

What did we think Brand and the hardcore MAGAts were going to say?

"Good one K-Pop Stans! You got us!"

Sure Jan, I mean Brad

Brad Parscale is so pathetic. Claimed Antifa and Leftists were keeping Dump supporters from entering the venue. 1000s of people apparently. Haha. He even posted some very fake pictures and a pic from before people were entering and claimed it showed a huge outdoor crowd when in fact people had their backs to the stage.

They must be really desperate that they have to come up with these ridiculous lies.

I don’t believe he doesn’t want a second term R349 — that’s just a CYA story for his staff.

R353, I can believe he’s schizophrenic about it. He hates the job, but loves the power and adoration.

The fact that he is tweeting but Trump is not tells the whole story. I expect him to be fired soon. I am sure he has already collected millions and will just take the money and run.

R354: AND the protection.

The police counted 150 counter-protesters. They must have been superhuman to keep 13,000 people out of the stadium and 80,000 out of the overflow area (their projections).

The mockery and humiliation trollback campaign is working well. People need to keep it up to high throttle because it's obviously triggering him and demoralizing the deploratards. Plus it lifts our spirits! 🖤

It’s more complicated than that, r353. On the one hand he doesn’t want to be a “loser” and he loves the adoration of the hillbillies he’s hoodwinked into supporting him so dreads losing and not having such easy access to all that.

But more importantly he hates so much about being president — just read how he reacted when it became clear that an incredible upset had occurred and he’d won. It was like someone had just died.

He’s a narcissist and wants everyone to worship him but everyone loathes him except a bunch of unwashed trash. He can’t do anything without it being picked apart. He actually has to work occasionally. He can’t stand it.

Phoenix instituted a mandatory masks order yesterday. $250 fine for violations!

The Trump campaign will bring in a lot of extras to the rally on Tuesday to avoid the embarrassment of Tulsa.

We need to keep Parscale in his post.

Just because Trump is in freefall doesn't mean he still won't win the election. The GOP is resorting to dirty underhanded tricks like closing polling stations, purging voter rolls, providing faulty equipment to non-white districts, etc. Anything they can do to rig this thing. We all saw what happened in Georgia a couple weeks ago. And now the word coming out of Kentucky is similar. They've closed hundreds of poling stations, especially in Black districts. There's one district that only has 1 polling station for 600,000 people.

What is Michael Moore saying now?

This really is worth watching

Chris Wallace challenges Trump spokeswoman Mercedes Schlapp over Tulsa rally

I'm concerned about that too, R362. But, what can we do throughout the country to help stop this voter supression?

YourMillennialCunt has several posts in this thread that he's ashamed to sign.

From glorious R288

Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich · 4h Replying to @thehill this is like if Sad Trombone became a real boy

[quote]A younger crowd will energize him and he does know how to play the game. No two ways about it. Tuesday he will stage a comeback or it will be a total end game.

Oh, a huge comeback, for sure. We saw from their trolling of his Tulsa rally how much today's youth love Trump.

Look at those blinding lights. Coincidence to hide the empty balconies?

Look at those blinding lights. Coincidence to hide the empty balconies?

[quote]Ten feet. Minimum. Then he did that hand stand thing, and finished with a back flip.

[quote]YOU try a back flip in a girdle, diaper and lifts, high on whateverthefuk. The man is a GOD.

Would love for these items to end up on display at Trump’s Presidential Liberry.

R365, keep donating to the organization Stacey Abrams runs to stop voter suppression. R366... who cares??

The image @ R279 is (dread word) iconic. Side-eye from the young guy in the cockpit, regarding tragic humiliated oldster. In his meltdown speech Trump referenced an expensive silk necktie, and there it is, limp and unsmart. MAGA hat likewise.

Be so good if this image signifies The Turning Point, the beginning of the end, in the 2020 retrospectives. We can but hope.

R364 Yep, that was fun.

Mercedes, I know KellyAnne Conway, and you are NOT KellyAnne.

The Trumpers are starting to get a hint of abject fear in their eyes.... deers about to become roadkill.

"You're so impossibly dumb, in history books your name they'll erase! And in a race to be stupid, you set a brand new kind of pace! No wonder everyone calls you...FAILURE FACE!"

lol...

Finally something shut him up.

R338, couldn't help but think about this:

[QUOTE] What did we think Brand and the hardcore MAGAts were going to say?

I think “Brand” works quite well, actually.

[quote] What is Michael Moore saying now?

Are there any more chips? No, not the salt and vinegar ones, the onion and chive ones!

Still no tweeting from Donald? Maybe he had a stroke

I checked and he has a generic happy Father’s Day message. Something must be wrong. He is never this quiet after a rally

What do you want to bet that the campaign hires and entire army of recent Eastern European immigrants (Slovenia and the Ukraine, I'm thinking) to attend en masse these rallies and cheer their hearts out--after being well fortified with vodka

Brad Meltdown

[quote] his deportment suggests he thinks he looks really cool. Isn't that way of wearing a loose tie a kind of Rat Pack look?

The only connection to Rat Pack is Vegas and he looks like a guy who just bankrupted his casino.

Oh Brad, I have a feeling you'll be the one who's not at the next rally.

Such sweet schadenfreude seeing the low turnout.

MSNBC CNN cut away, so I watched some (not all) of the speech on Fox. I know, shoot me. But anyway, I couldn’t believe that Trump went on for more than 10 minutes about the steep ramp at West Point (the ramp was only at an 11-degree angle) and that he could drink a sip of water from a glass with two hands.

It was cringeworthy for him to bring attention to something that happened a week ago.

Even right-wingers admit that the Tiktok campaign worked to lower turnout.

[quote] The GOP is resorting to dirty underhanded tricks like closing polling stations, purging voter rolls, providing faulty equipment to non-white districts, etc.

You cited Kentucky and Georgia. Tbph, who cares? Those states aren’t voting for Biden anyway and even if they might we don’t need them.

What we really need to watch is republican governments in the swing states, especially the king swings:

Florida

Michigan

Pennsylvania

Wisconsin

Can someone less lazy than I am look them up to see which party controls those states?

We need to stop calling gen z “zoomers.” If there’s one thing they DON’T do, that’s zoom.

That Chris Wallace clip is precisely why deplorables want him gone from FOX. He's actually a journalist sometimes. They want a network that treats them like children and spends 24/7 telling them Santa Claus exists. They want to be told lies that they so badly want to be true.

#timesup 🤡🤡🤡

#timesup 🤡🤡🤡

If you all remember Graydon Carter and Spy called Trump a "short fingered vulgarian" back in the 80s

Trump has spent that past 35 years sending Carter tear sheets from magazines where his hands are visible with the hands outlined in gold sharpies in an attempt to prove that he does not actually have short fingers.

Like it literally says "See! Normal sized fingers"

Part 2 of that is how traumatized he got when Rubio brought up "tiny hands"

So if you think this is the last we've heard of the West Point ramp...

R388, it reminded me of someone I know who abuses prescription medication.

^^In Trump’s speech last night, Trump also emphasized that he was wearing “leather-bottom shoes.” First of all, the word is leather “soles.” Secondly, Trump showed us the bottom of his soles, they were all scuffed, so they weren’t new shows. The ramp was only at a very mild 11 degrees. It was not like an ice-skating rink. Trump said there was no hand railing. If needed, he could have simply held the wall of the ramp that was about waist/abdomen high. He didn’t. He simply couldn’t maneuver an 11-degree ramp.

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, has come under pressure after claiming that hundreds of thousands of people had applied for tickets to Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, only for the event to then attract underwhelming crowds.

The Tulsa Fire Department said 6,200 people attended Saturday’s rally, and vast banks of seats were empty as the president took the stage to give his first public campaign speech since the Covid-19 pandemic put large parts of America under lockdown. The BOK Center, where the rally took place, has a capacity of up to 19,000. The Trump campaign claims 12,000 people attended the rally.

CNN reported on Sunday that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are “pissed” that Parscale promised huge crowds for the event.

Parscale on Sunday blamed the low attendance on “a week’s worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of Covid and protestors, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally.”

Parscale then appeared to threaten to rescind accreditation for journalists critical of the Trump campaign. “For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting, but typical,” he said. “And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don’t do their full jobs as professionals”.

Rick Wilson, an author, former Republican consultant and Lincoln Project co-founder, was critical of Parscale’s approach. “Brad broke the first rule of American politics: under promise and over deliver,” he told the Guardian in an email. “Brad’s survival now depends on the good offices of his patrons inside the Trump camp, and [Ivanka and Jared Kushner] are already signaling their displeasure to the media.”

There is speculation that the number of applicants to Saturday’s rally was inflated by young users on social media platform TikTok applying for tickets and then deliberately not attending.

“Trump has been actively trying to disenfranchise millions of Americans in so many ways, and to me, this was the protest I was able to perform,” Erin Hoffman, an 18-year-old New Yorker, told the New York Times.

The Trump campaign said protesters had blocked entrances and metal detectors, preventing people from entering the rally. However, reporters on the ground, including the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland, said they saw no evidence of such tactics.

Public health officials had warned against holding a large indoor gathering as Covid-19 cases in Oklahoma rise. The Trump campaign did not require attendees on Saturday to wear masks, and some speculated fear of Covid-19 may have stopped some supporters from attending the rally.

R391: They are doing a lot of Zooming now with remote learning.

Oh, R384, Miss Thing is MAD!

Tina, bring him an axe!

George Clooney Drags Donald Trump While Donating $500K in Honor of Juneteenth

The Tulsa fire department estimated the crowd at 6,200.

The union for the BOK arena stage crew estimated the crowd at 6,611.

The Tulsa/BOK arena holds 19,199. So either way, the turnout was pathetic and dismal. No way was 12,000 people there as the Trump campaign says. The fire department and union stage crew were not off by double their estimates. Tik Tok teens rolled Trump and Parscale.

Suck it, Bunker Boy.

That Chris Wallace clip with that lady just shows how these Republican conservative pundits have been trying to fillabuster and just spew as many talking points as they can. They have been trained to do this and they do it every single time without fail. They talk as fast as they can. They are the very definition of human bots.

People are reserving tickets to Trump’s Tulsa rally to leave empty seats. It probably won’t work

"That is the silliest idea I’ve ever heard," said Bob Jack, chairman of the Tulsa County Republican Party.

The Trump campaign website says rally goers can request up to two tickets per phone number and that tickets are first-come, first-served. Doors will open four hours before the event.

The efforts by anti-Trump social media users to leave him with an empty arena aren’t likely to work. Even if roughly 98% of the 1 million people who registered to attend plan on skipping the event, there would still be enough people to fill the BOK Center to its 19,000-person capacity.

"Let’s say half of the people are fake tickets," Jack said. "We’re still good."

[quote] However, on Tuesday, he has an outdoor rally in Arizona under the umbrella "Youth for Trump". A younger crowd will energize him

There are no youth for Trump. This rally will be another disaster.

Bootsy G, they are closing the polling stati ons in predominantly black neighborhood s only, where presumably theyd vote for Biden.

Most people hate him, but now he's starting to bore. And that will be fatal to him and his campaign.

The TikTok teens made people believe the venue was full. However, the empty seats were due to people not wanting to be there😏The Trump campaign were giving away as many tickets as requested. No cap. If there were 20,000+ deplorables who really wanted to attend, outside of TikTok, they would’ve had tickets to fill up the venue last night. But, Nope!

My local TV stations are showing commercials of Rump endorsing McConnell. I hope my state doesn’t let me down.

I think many wisely reconsidered due to the virus.

R409, chin up. I don't know Kentucky but "maybe this time" as the song says. It looks more attainable every day.

[quote]"That is the silliest idea I’ve ever heard," said Bob Jack, chairman of the Tulsa County Republican Party.

[quote]Let’s say half of the people are fake tickets," Jack said. "We’re still good."

TikTok Teens:

They keep saying 2/3 full it wasn't even 1/3 full! Lol losers

I could only stand to listen to the first few minutes of the Chris Wallace interview so maybe this was addressed later but the woman claimed that the 'register online for tickets' was actually an ingenious way to collect data for future use

Except that data is mostly useless because it 's mostly Tik Tok teens who certainly know how to block spam. Even better if the campaign sends fundraising letters, wasting postage and screwing up their % return rate.

[quote]they are closing the polling stati ons in predominantly black neighborhood s only, where presumably theyd vote for Biden.

Are people ever going to fucking get it? The majority of voters vote DEMOCRATIC. It cannot be stated enough that in 2018, 12 MILLION *more* voters voted for Dems for the Senate than Reps and yet the Reps control it. They cannot win in a true democracy. They cannot win without cheating/rigging/gerrymandering. The Republican party is for scum. You can have issues with the Dems, but no person with a modicum of decency could vote for the GOP.

We live in a country where a minority of regressive dumbasses who pay less than shit, get to control the majority of us. When you sit there listening to that ugly, turtle hick from a god damned moocher state say that a place like NY or CA should just go bankrupt due to COVID knowing full-well NY and CA keep his state afloat, it should sicken you as a decent person that he has the gall to have that mentality.

Let's hope the campaign is polling those Tik Tok teens too. That data will be so useful...

I wish we would stop calling him Bunker Boy calling him a boy at 75 is probably flattering. Maybe a Bunker Geezer or Fearer of Ramps and Stairs.

Bunker Gramps

R415 amen!

Bumper Bitch is what I see most calling him.

Bunker-Over-The-Hill.

Might as well hit him where it hurts.

Well... Trump has sho' nuff' been quiet today. Only 1-2 tweets? I can't remember when such a low number of tweets have happened on such a given day. HE MUST BE PISSED TO PISSTIVITY!

But, here's the danger in that; He might be stewing and calculating what type of Executive Order that he will issue that will exact his revenge upon all of us...

R421: Try to shutdown TikTok? Sue K-Pop?? Wouldn’t put it pass him!

BoostyG, there are important Senate races in Georgia and Kentucky. It’s more than Trump.

It's hilarious reading the usual suspects on my other discussion boards today. They are in meltdown mode. Allcaps screaming with really childish insults and comebacks. It's like the internet version of the playground complete with tantrums, threats of "you'll be sorry" and flouncing off. Their thin veneer of reason and balance is totally gone.

r424, care to tell which discussion boards? I'm on Reddit, but I'd like to visit some other (decent quality) ones.

R25 it's just my local tv and print media websites. We've got some real looney tunes. I imagine reddit gets some real whackos.

Whatever happened to that Free republic site from a few years ago?

Here's a much better explanation of the effect the Tik Tok teens had on Trump's data collection. In short, the campaign spent a lot of money organizing the Tulsa rally, to get those golden names and emails for future fundraising and now they have to either dump the data or spend a lot of hours trying to fine tune it and weed out the fake names and Google Voice numbers. Bwahaha.

The TikTok Teens won for a reason in addition to R427’s explanation: people now believe they screwed up tRump’s little party. Whether they did or not is rather irrelevant at this point. The narrative is that the purportedly might MAGA folks were undone by a bunch of teens and KPop fans with iPhones. They look foolish.

But, let’s say for the sake of argument that teens had no effect on attendance. Well, that’s even worse for tRump. That means that TikTok aside, no one wanted to hear him drone on about drinking water, ramps, and leather soles.

He’s done. Toto has pulled aside the curtain, and this fat, foolish fraud has been exposed for the barking carnival clown he has always been.

I love these people

I'm also expecting busloads of evangelicals to start appearing to fill whatever venue his rallies are held at. The same way they do at the polls. These people will stoop to anything, any dirty trick. They are all like children who must have their way, regardless of the reality.

[quote] to get those golden names and emails for future fundraising and now they have to either dump the data or spend a lot of hours trying to fine tune it and weed out the fake names and Google Voice numbers. Bwahaha.

Considering under 7K of the one million were "real" (and even within that number, there are questions), they shouldn't even bother wasting their time. Take a weed wacker to the whole thing and start anew.

The thing that struck me is how bored, offended and/or puzzled the audience looked. There wasn't the mass presence to ignite party atmosphere and so they were actually stuck listening to him drone on about being able to drink water from a glass all by himself.

I'm not expecting these people to start singing "Amazing Grace" and donating to the NAACP, but I am willing to bet that at least some of them drove home deeply disappointed - and when Trump hosts another rally will stay home to watch Tig Ol' Bitties XII on the VCR (midway through there's a cameo from Ma!).

Oh brother. As if Jared or Ivanka could do any better. People stayed away because of Covid-19. It’s great if teenagers signed up for tickets, but even without that, there wasn’t great interest in attending a crowded event where you could catch Covid-19 and die.

I was thinking about that, R432. As I was watching along here, someone posted an Air Force One departure time that was much sooner than he actually left. Granted, I think he arrived late, but I wonder if the original plan wasn't for them to rile up the overflow crowd, then sweep into the stadium for a rousing pep rally, and then turn 30,000-50,000 hyped up MAGAs out into the streets to create their own merriment.

The problem is that there was only one speech, and a pitiful turnout at that. With not even 200 protestors. So, he droned on and on and made it a pity party so they got their "money's worth" since they weren't able to go on a destructive wilding as planned.

[quote]The fact is that a week’s worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of COVID and protestors, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally.

Well then, Brad... now the MAGAts are wiser for this and we'll see people hanging off the rafters by the hundreds of thousands at the next rally to own the libs. Right, Brad? Now that everyone knows the truth, we should expect an actual million MAGAts at the next one, because they'll know about all of the trolling. Right...Brad?

I especially like him acting like Covid hasn't been known about for months and THEY decided to put on a show with thousands of people during a pandemic. Sports events and concerts are postponed...but yeah, let's blame liberals for you being an idiot by putting on a show for your fragile asshole boss who needs constant validation. Guess what, shithead: Even some deplorables aren't stupid enough to go into an enclosed space with thousands of people during a global pandemic. That one's on you, dumbass.

r433: But, but Dear Leader said it was OK to attend sans masks. All that’s is hype! You mean they don’t believe him?🤔

Yep. They didn’t buy it. Only 6k bored and infected souls

There's another aspect to this. The people who showed up were die-hard, foolhardy (if not stupid) and his most cult-like. In other words, scumbags.

The optics for this are not good. When they panned crowds at a Dubya convention, the audience looked like the full sweep of social classes, not just the ones throwing up blood in the parking lot outside the strip club. There's no way for Trump's camp to show these people to his Mar-a-Lago cronies and pretend they're a fan club worth being proud about. And Mr. & Mrs. Silent Majority, who probably do bathe and attend church and mow the front lawn and have paying jobs of some sort are not going to wish to be associated with the biker gang they told their little girls to stay clear away from, do you hear me Mary-Sue and Ellen-Louise? Stay away from those varmints with tattoos! Cheap white trash!

All the images I've seen of the crowd inside the arena it looked like some sort of hayseed convention. A hillbilly brouhaha.

[quote] A hillbilly brouhaha.

I mean, it was Oklahoma, after all.

[quote]And Mr. & Mrs. Silent Majority, who probably do bathe and attend church and mow the front lawn and have paying jobs of some sort are not going to wish to be associated with the biker gang they told their little girls to stay clear away from, do you hear me Mary-Sue and Ellen-Louise? Stay away from those varmints with tattoos! Cheap white trash!

It reminds me of Mississippi Burning when the group of Klansmen meet in a church not knowing who called the meeting and they're all confused as to who called it (FBI had set them up). The leader essentially says he'd never call a meeting of that group ie., the trashy members with whom he'd never be associated with in any private setting.

R364 was very entertaining. "You can't deny reality, Mercedes!"

And so the blame game begins...

Trump 'furious' about 'underwhelming' crowd at Tulsa rally

"This was a major failure," one outside adviser said.

June 21, 2020, 1:38 PM CDT

By Monica Alba, Kristen Welker and Carol E. Lee

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is "furious" at the "underwhelming" crowd at his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday evening, a major disappointment for what had been expected to be a raucous return to the campaign trail after three months off because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple people close to the White House.

The president was fuming at his top political aides Saturday even before the rally began after his campaign revealed that six members of the advance team on the ground in Tulsa had tested positive for COVID-19, including Secret Service personnel, a person familiar with the discussions said.

Trump asked those around him why the information was exposed and expressed annoyance that the coverage ahead of his mega-rally was dominated by the revelation.

While the Trump re-election effort boasted that it would fill BOK Center, which seats more than 19,000 people, only 6,200 supporters ultimately occupied the general admission sections, the Tulsa fire marshal told NBC News.

The campaign was so confident about a high turnout that it set up an overflow area, which it had expected to attract thousands. But the plan was scrapped at the last minute when only dozens gathered at the time the vice president and the president were set to address the crowd inside.

"It's politics 101: You under-promise and overdeliver," a Trump ally said, conceding the missteps the Trump 2020 team took in the lead-up to the event by saying nearly 1 million people had responded to requests for admission.

Much of the blame is falling on campaign manager Brad Parscale, who in the days leading up the event aggressively touted the number of registrations, but those close to him stress that his job is safe, for now.

Last month, after dismal polling revealed that the president is trailing the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, in key battleground states that Trump won in 2016, Parscale was reprimanded and a deputy was brought in to help steer the ship.

There are growing concerns among Trump campaign officials that neither the president nor the 2020 team have a coherent message for why he should serve a second term. Saturday evening's meandering, nearly two-hour rally speech is the latest evidence of a lack of a targeted strategy to attack Biden with less than five months to go until the general election.

Many issues could have contributed to the poor attendance in Tulsa: a fear of contracting the virus, concern over potential protests and torrential thunderstorms in 95-degree heat. But outside advisers see the visuals of empty seats overshadowing Trump's remarks as a significant problem for a president and a campaign that are obsessed with optics.

"This was a major failure," one outside adviser said.

Twitler hasn't tweeted at all- a generic Father's Day message that was probably loaded up a few days ago, but that's it

re: Tik Tok Teens -- what they did was make Brad think that there would be an overflow crowd and set up an outdoor viewing spot for it, which he then had to humiliatingly take down.

Plus all the bragging about how they'd have tens of thousands of people showing up, when the actual number was a little over 6K

OT: Parscale is such a weird name. Should it be Pascale? Just odd.

Phoenix is going to be even worse..112 degrees...hopefully he will stroke out

For R447

Not an Italian name, Norman

The tik tok thing is a distraction from the fact that nobody showed up.

R446 When did Tik Tok become so political, I thought it was all silly teenagers doing stupid things.

The weather report for Tucson is “smoke,” so I looked around. Wildfire season is starting down there and there’s a wildfire north of Phoenix. So, 112 degrees and smoke for his campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona.

Can hardly wait for the next Trump event. See you in Phoenix!

Humiliatingly low turnout

Tiny doll hands

Little mushroom penis

And your makeup’s running off your face, you fat turd.

Jennifer Rubin:

Trump hates being embarrassed or looking weak. Last night he looked humiliated and worse, like a desperate loser.

Often when there are rallies like this motorcycle clubs show up to provide "security." As far as I know none did last night. I wonder why.

CNN:

Sick staff and empty seats: How President Trump's triumphant return to the campaign trail went from bad to worse

Even Fox News is trashing it.

Shade: There are growing concerns among Trump campaign officials that neither the president nor the 2020 team have a coherent message for why he should serve a second term. Saturday evening's meandering, nearly two-hour rally speech is the latest evidence of a lack of a targeted strategy to attack Biden with less than five months to go until the general election.

He should do a rally every weekend!

From FOX

Rally3'MAGA' FINGER-POINTING

Trump camp rejects claims of rally-ticket sabotage online, says this is what's to blame

Trump campaign rejects claims that TikTok, K-Pop fans sabotaged rally: 'Don't know what they're talking about' (Well.... Problem #1)

After top Democrats gloated that teenage activists had sabotaged turnout at President Trump’s Tulsa, Okla., rally on Saturday, the Trump campaign fired back within hours, saying that media organizations are complicit in spreading false narratives about the event -- and that protesters and the coronavirus were the real culprits.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., specifically asserted that teenagers allegedly reserved scores of tickets for the Tulsa event online – then failed to show up, thus preventing others from being able to attend. "Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote to Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, referring to a popular Chinese video-sharing social media application.

A spokesperson for the Tulsa Fire Department told Fox News on Sunday that fire marshal records show just under 6,200 scanned tickets were logged for the rally at the BOK Center. The figure doesn't include Trump team staff members or private suites, which were fully booked. The president and his campaign had touted 1 million ticket requests; the arena's capacity is 19,000.

Parscale, on Sunday, countered by explaining the campaign's process for screening out false ticket requests, which was implemented after activists made similar efforts to derail previous rallies.

“Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work," Parscale said. "Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop [Korean pop music] fans -- without contacting the campaign for comment -- behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade."

Parscale continued: "Registering for a rally means you’ve RSVPed with a cellphone number and we constantly weed out bogus numbers, as we did with tens of thousands at the Tulsa rally, in calculating our possible attendee pool. These phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking. What makes this lame attempt at hacking our events even more foolish is the fact that every rally is general admission -- entry is on a first-come-first-served basis and prior registration is not required."

The real reason for the unusually depressed turnout was apparent, the campaign said.

"The fact is that a week’s worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of COVID and protesters, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally," Parscale said. "MSNBC was among outlets reporting that protesters even blocked entrances to the rally at times. For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting, but typical. And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don’t do their full jobs as professionals.”

Some commentators noted that, if Ocasio-Cortez's claims about TikTok were true, they would represent unprecedented foreign-based election interference that Democrats would ordinarily claim to oppose. TikTok is owned by the Beijing-based technology company ByteDance.

"One of the tactics used by Russia to meddle was the use of social media to manipulate public perception," wrote Tim Pool. "This is a Chinese app facilitating the largest most impactful election meddling we have seen yet, assuming its true How much of Trump's campaign was flooded with bunk data?"

Despite media reports, including a heavily opinionated piece at The New York Times, there is no clear evidence that social media users affected the rally.

"The article doesn’t even provide any evidence, it just says a bunch of teenagers said they ruined the rally and the reporter/editors at the Times took their word for it," said The Washington Examiner's Joe Gabriel Simonson, referring to the Times' front-page piece on the rally. "Diminishing standards."

The Times article, co-written by anti-Trump author Maggie Haberman, goes on to bizarrely state that it is "false" for Trump blame "left-wing radicals” for "rioting in cities across the country."

Readily available video evidence shows left-wing activists tearing down statues in several cities and even demolishing police stations and establishing a deteriorating autonomous zone in Seattle.

The Times' piece, which resembles an editorial at several points, further incorrectly states that Trump was attacking "attempts to remove Confederate monuments" through legal and political means that enjoy some bipartisan support.

Meanwhile, more neutral observers offered their own assessments of the rally.

"The campaign made a strategic mistake holding a rally in a venue this big in a state with a smaller population when you have to overcome attendance issues due to a pandemic," observed journalist Yashar Ali. "He should have held this rally in a state where he had a bigger pool of supporters to pull from." Ali also faulted the Trump campaign for saying attendance would be massive.

"Think about it," he wrote. "If you intend to go to a rally for a candidate of your choice but you keep hearing that 800,000 people have reserved tickets (forget that many were fake reservations - that news didn't reach most people), would you still want to go? 800,000 for 19,000 capacity?"

Indeed, some Trump supporters told Fox News that news reports of expected high turnout had discouraged them from attending.

"I tried all week to get tickets to the Trump Rally and could’t get the campaign to respond to my applications. I lived within minutes of Tulsa," Jackie York of Okemah, Okla., told Fox News via email. "When they started showing evening news clips showing people camping outside for rally, I decided not to fight the 'hundreds of thousands' of people I assumed would be fighting to go in. We had no tickets. My pastor also wanted to go, but couldn’t get tickets online. We are sad today to have missed [the] opportunity."

Another Trump supporter told Fox News that she and others could not enter the rally due to issues with temperature-checkers leaving prematurely, although Fox News has not verified that claim.

Tim Murtaugh, a Trump 2020 campaign spokesman, reiterated Parscale's claim of protester interference, noting that large groups had gathered outside the arena and created a threatening atmosphere.

TV images showed much of the upper tier of Tulsa's BOK Center remained empty during the rally, with other space visible in the lower seating areas as well.

Ocasio-Cortez claimed that teens “flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID."

“Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud,” Ocasio-Cortez added.

In a separate message, Ocasio-Cortez thanked “KPop allies,” a term referring to fans of Korean pop music.

“KPop allies, we see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice too,” the congresswoman wrote.

An Iowa woman posted a video on TikTok last week, encouraging people to participate in the alleged scam, CNN reported.

“All of those of us that want to see this 19,000 seat auditorium barely filled or completely empty go reserve tickets now and leave him standing alone there on the stage,” the woman, identified as Mary Jo Laupp, told her TikTok followers.

Thousands of other TikTok users posted similar messages as the plan spread online, The New York Times reported.

Out of one million projected attendees, only 0.62% showed up.

“It spread mostly through Alt TikTok -- we kept it on the quiet side where people do pranks and a lot of activism,” YouTuber Elijah Daniel, 26, told the Times. “K-pop Twitter and Alt TikTok have a good alliance where they spread information amongst each other very quickly. They all know the algorithms and how they can boost videos to get where they want.”

Many of those participating in the alleged scam deleted their posts after 24 to 48 hours in a bid to limit word of the plan from spreading on mainstream social media, a New York Times report said.

“These kids are smart and they thought of everything,” Daniel told the paper.

KPop activists were previously linked to campaigns to raise money for Black Lives Matter, fight racist hashtags on Twitter and disrupt the eyewitness app of the Dallas Police Department, Vulture.com reported.

Fox News' Casey Stegall and Dom Calicchio contributed to this report.

Earthquake strikes northern Oklahoma after Tulsa Trump rally.

Mother Nature trying to shake out all the trash that showed up in Tulsa.

STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT!!!!

HE HAS TWEETED;

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump·1h

The Democrat House wants to pass a Bill this week that will destroy our police. Republican Congressmen & Congresswomen will hopefully fight hard to defeat it. We must protect and cherish our police, they keep us safe!

[quote]not just the ones throwing up blood in the parking lot outside the strip club

How vivid.

The earthquake at the end of the rally was like the cherry on top of the sundae.

K-pop fans, TikTok users are taking credit for Trump’s low turnout in Tulsa

Thousands reportedly registered for tickets, with no plans of showing up. Trump campaign says that claim is unfounded.

K-pop fans and TikTok users may have had something to do with Trump’s underwhelming turnout at his Tulsa rally on Saturday, the New York Times reports.

Late last month, K-pop fans took credit for temporarily crashing the Dallas Police Department’s iWatch Dallas app in support of Black Lives Matter protesters. Now, teamed up with TikTok users, fans of Korean pop music groups such as boy band BTS, who tweet billions of times a year, are saying they pulled a similar prank on Trump by registering for hundreds of thousands of free tickets to Trump’s rally on Saturday, with no plans of showing up.

A huge turnout was expected, with outdoor events planned for a crowd too large for BOK Center, which holds 19,000. But images from the rally show that the venue was far below capacity and the Tulsa Fire Department says the fire marshal counted just 6,200 attendees.

All of the outdoor events were canceled and a spokesman from the Trump campaign claimed that protesters stopped many from entering the rally. But reporters at the rally said that few protesters were present.

According to the New York Times, the prank began after the Trump campaign sent a tweet on June 11 asking supporters to register for free tickets using their phones. K-pop fans began sharing the information with their followers, encouraging them to register and then not show.

On Sunday, Politico reported that President Trump’s reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale, denied the report of a ticket hack by teens on social media. “Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” Parscale said in a statement.

[quote]I think many wisely reconsidered due to the virus.

Because Trumptards are known for their wisdom of their decisions.

[quote]Because Trumptards are known for their wisdom of their decisions.

Only the most stupid ones actually showed up.

[quote]Republican Congressmen & Congresswomen will hopefully fight hard to defeat it.

Republicans don’t control the House. So they can fight hard all they want, they aren’t gonna defeat shit.

So what was the final Rump Tally?

6,200

Is this Trump’s new strategy to go for law and order. That didn’t work for Nixon. Watch The 13th on Netflix. Very educational and well done

[quote]Republicans don’t control the House. So they can fight hard all they want, they aren’t gonna defeat shit.

Speaking of that... I saw my first Republican ad on YouTube done in an effort to save the Senate. It was for Steve Daines and it was filled with Republican powerhouses speaking on his behalf. Niki Haley, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and a few more that I can't remember now.

the Pettysburg Address

[quote]R475 Is this Trump’s new strategy to go for law and order? That didn’t work for Nixon. Watch [bold]The 13th [/bold]on Netflix. Very educational and well done.

Yes - extremely informative documentary about how the 13th Amendment explicitly states slavery is still in effect for the incarcerated, which lead to laws such as it being a felony to walk along railroad tracks, to not have a home or job, etc.

Guess who was then arrested by the thousands, by whites? Black men.

Guess who was forced to rebuild the scorched and leveled South, as slave labor? Black men.

It goes on and on....

Chilling film. Thank you for mentioning it!

[quote] and it was filled with Republican powerhouses speaking on his behalf. Niki Haley, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and a few more that I can't remember now.

McConnell, Rubio, Cruz, Graham. That these very fine people are today's Republican powerhouses tells you all you need to know about the corruption at the core of that party.

This is another documentary, more specifically about how the loophole in the 13th Amendment was exploited right after the Civil War, to create black slave labor in prisons.

Death of a Salesman

[quote]he does a weird arm movement in the vid at [R314]

That's his half-assed version of a salute

^[quote]And they conceded that myriad polls showing Mr. Trump’s eroded standing were not fake, and that he might be on course to lose to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in November.

Well... this makes the weekend!

[quote]But unlike most situations in which Mr. Trump’s advisers have tried to keep certain information from him — such as the fact that Mr. Biden outraised him in the month of May — or put a rosy sheen on it, the president saw for himself the empty seats in Oklahoma.

What an enjoyable article, R482!

[quote]Outside advisers to the president said his team was fielding calls from nervous donors and Republican lawmakers, who were asking whether the poorly attended rally indicated problems that were too big too fix with just over four months until Election Day.

OH!

[quote]It also was not clear if there would be a personnel switch because of the disastrous optics, but some officials recalled what happened in 2017, after an event in Arizona that did not go as Mr. Trump had hoped. George Gigicos, one of the original campaign hands and his rally organizer, was fired by the president.

So, if Trump fires Parscal would that mean the return of Steve Bannon? Who else would take the job?

[quote]-Mika Brzezinski@morningmika·3h: My question is, why didn’t they use the empty seats to help people social distance? People could have sat with open seats between them. That would’ve been safer. Were they all squished together once again for the optics of a full arena?

I'm impressed that Mika actually came up with an intelligent observation.

Deplorables in a nutshell:

As someone upthread posted, he looked terrible coming off the helicopter. I don’t ever think I’ve seen him with his tie off—ever, nor carrying instead of wearing the MAGA hat. He looked whipped.

[quote]his team was fielding calls from nervous donors and Republican lawmakers

I got so concerned that I had to make a nervous call!

[quote]So, if Trump fires Parscal would that mean the return of Steve Bannon? Who else would take the job?

SmellyAnne.

Al Franken shade ...

6,200 people at Trump rally in Tulsa. Acts that had bigger crowds at the same venue in 2019:

- Sha Na Na

- The Pips (w/o Gladys Knight)

- Loverboy

- John Tesh

- The West Virginia Touring Company of La Traviata

Speaking about SmellyAnne, here's a little tidbit from a recent article from The New Yorker:

[quote] When Trump took an early lead in 2015, most of the political and financial world ignored him. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management, attended a salon that summer at the Connecticut home of Larry Kudlow, the business commentator who now leads Trump’s National Economic Council. “It was a lot of very deep-pocketed Republicans from Greenwich and New York,” Sonnenfeld told me. “Not one person had a pleasant thing to say about Trump.” [bold] Sonnenfeld urged them to take Trump’s chances seriously, but a fellow-guest, who worked for a super pac supporting Ted Cruz in the primaries, disagreed. “She said, ‘I’m a lifelong expert on the psychographics of women’s voter behavior, and I can tell you that Donald Trump will never get two per cent of Republican women voters,’ ” Sonnenfeld told me. “She got wild applause. That was Kellyanne Conway.” (Conway, now a senior adviser to Trump, called this a “specious, self-serving claim,” adding, “I don’t know ‘Professor’ So-and-So.”)[/bold]

R490, John Tesh? Trump couldn't outsell the Road Kill Chili Cook Off.

John Tesh was trending earlier today because of Franken.

[quote]I saw my first Republican ad on YouTube done in an effort to save the Senate. It was for Steve Daines

R476, yes, the Republicans are now having to spend money in Montana since Sen. Steve Daines is in a close race with Governor Steve Bullock.

Cook Political Report moved the Montana Senate race to Toss Up a few days ago:

I was reading that Hickenlooper had a setback in his campaign.

I relished the sight of Trump getting out of his helicopter, sullen and beaten down. I hope to see that expression on his face again when he gives his concession speech in the late hours of November 10.

Trump has changed his Twitter banner picture from him speaking at packed rally in 2018 to him posing with the crew of AF1. I guess he didn't want people reminded of the days where more than 6k people showed up to his rallies.

Claims that Kellyanne Conway's pussy stinks, are specious.

R498 Her Wa-geen-na is spacious?

That bitchy article is so good. White House staffers are distancing themselves from the campaign even though Jared is the “boss.” It’s a good sign they recognize he may lose because people won’t tolerate a scam win. He will be defeated in a landslide because without crowds he is nothing.

PS, I think Mother Nature released Covid specifically to get rid of Trump. She is no dummy.

[quote]PETER MAER@petermaer · 12hThis was the image captured by an ⁦@AP⁩ photographer as a rather disheveled looking Donald John Trump returned from his “fun night” in #Tulsa .

Steve Schmidt@SteveSchmidtSES

THE AGONY OF DEFEAT. Corpulent, disheveled, weak, broken and defeated, Trump returns to the White House. He thrilled a 6200 person crowd of cult members who cheered his slow shuffle down the West Point ramp and his dexterity at water sipping.

Make him go away!

keep in mind everyone that Trump only weighs 243lbs. Maybe, it's the suit?

Steve Schmidt is stealing from D.L. come out Steve! We know you are a hot daddy in your decorated home

[quote] I hope to see that expression on his face again when he gives his concession speech in the late hours of November 10.

I hope you mean November 3, R496, because that’s when the election is.

Thanks R507. I thought it was on the second Tuesday, but November 3 is even better.

R506, Steve does look rather gayesque in his Twitter photo.

Better link

I caught a brief glance of Mike "Pillow Man" Lindell in the crowd on Saturday night. He wasn't wearing a mask.

I got a copy from here:

I bet the WV opera drew queens from at least 5 states! I bet it was great.

Let's face it, this has been the best week of the his presidency. I'm giddy over the fact that his minions are proving to be such cowards, as many predicted, and that a large majority of Americans have seen the truth play out on live TV, the poll numbers back it up everywhere. He can't argue with his own data. The lies, conspiracies and childish names have gotten BORING, his attacks on journalists are PATHETIC and WEAK! He's a LOW ENERGY, LOSER and now he knows that everyone HATES him. He's become his own worst nightmare. Did you see the look in his eyes during Don Jr.s analingus speech? Even Trump realized how pathetic it looked to have your son say Bin Laden loves Joe Biden. It was GLORIOUS. Now with the niece's book and the HBO Roy Cohn story, which most people don't know anything about, it's going to be a great summer.

I guess the Repugs know that they have to help him sabotage the election, create chaos on voting day, disallow as many democratic voters as possible and hope that the 200 federal judges they installed do their bidding. I wish RGB would move to a safe house until November or the deal will be complete.

Trump will never give a concession speech. And he'll refuse to vacate the White House. The Secret Service will have to recruit a special squad of White Coat Warriors to cart him away in an XXXL straight jacket.

Rudy will be waiting for him at Bellevue.

So, what is the state of the Phoenix rally? That's a Charlie Kirk (Turning Point USA) event billed as "Students For Trump."

Students For Trump@TrumpStudents·7h

2 Days Left until this once in a lifetime opportunity for Young Americans to hear directly from the leader of the free world, President @realDonaldTrump!⠀Register Now! TrumpStudents.org/Convention

yeah Phoenix is spiking in coronavirus cases way higher than OK.

It's gonna be a real disaster regardless of how many people show up

Trump 'furious' about 'underwhelming' crowd at Tulsa rally

"This was a major failure," one outside adviser said.

r467 doesn't sound like him. And changing Twitter-page pictures doesn't either. I think he's curled up in a fetal position in bed, surrounded by McDonalds wrappers and KFC tubs.

[quote]MAGA hat

Made in JI-nah

[quote]What is Michael Moore saying now?

No.One.Cares.

Did he drone on about us, or is he not mad at us anymore?

I know this weekend some of you were at your elderly parents' houses--what's happening on Fox TV?

[quote]I couldn’t believe that Trump went on for more than 10 minutes about the steep ramp at West Point (the ramp was only at an 11-degree angle) and that he could drink a sip of water from a glass with two hands.

14 minutes.

FOURTEEN!

[quote]Trump has changed his Twitter banner picture from him speaking at packed rally in 2018 to him posing with the crew of AF1. I guess he didn't want people reminded of the days where more than 6k people showed up to his rallies.

Disgusts me to no end that we have a president who has time for such nonsense as changing his twitter picture. Fucking gross.

Is Donald speaking for 2 hours in Arizona? Go for 3 or 4

OK, I'll say something really shallow: Steve Schmidt has transformed himself into a DILF. I would.

It's funny watching NeverTrumpers get even angrier with the GOP/Trump than Dems are with them. They're really bitchy cunts ain't they!

The Lincoln Project is really out for blood.

[quote]I hope to see that expression on his face again when he gives his concession speech in the late hours of November 10.

You can't be serious with this comment. Not only will you get NO concession speech from that pile of shit, the fat fuck won't even admit losing. He'll have his cockroaches screaming about the election being rigged.

A guy on twitter was estimating that the real number of attendees must be much lower.

He said there must have been paid actors (because of the local ads asking for actors to attend), staffers, plainclothes security, Secret Service, etc. The number of security personnel hired was for a much larger crowd, so it could be much larger than expected. Plus the construction workers that put up and knocked down the stages, staff that handled the lights, microphones, concession stand workers, etc. The fire department estimated by the number of people that went through the turnstile, although I read some huffy tweet somewhere of some staffer claiming (Trump) staff wasn’t counted. But that’s not everyone of course. Union workers, subcontractors etc.

If you figure they thought they would need much more security than they actually did need, it could be a really large number. He estimated the actual audience as less than half of the number reported.

Which makes sense if you figure they thought they were going to sell drinks to 20,000 people plus outdoor overflow. The vendors must be really disappointed. And may have overspent in this terrible economy to supply the “crowd.”

From the sound of it, security probably outnumbered attendees. I would've gone if I was assigned my own hunky SS agent to watch me!

Yes - Republicans/conservatives are vicious with their attacks against Trump! Biden can chill and let them do the work. So much meaner and personal than anything Biden/Dems would do. #LincolnProject

R528 sadly they make better ads than Democrats do

I wish Democrats would go on the attack with more vitriol.

Why should they?

R530 a union put the number of people in the building at 6611 while number of attendees that entered was just under 6200. I think the difference between the two numbers are the people who were working at the arena, security, etc.

no matter how you calculate it, it was under a third of capacity.

Just look at the hillbilly trash that he attracts. They all look like they stink to high heaven.

What's even more hilarious is that the video at R537 was posted by Trump SUPPORTERS ("The Deplorable Choir") who actually thought it made them look good.

It's like a Juggalo convention with, somehow, shittier music.

“White Lives Matter” is trending on twitter, and K-Pop stans are bombing it with pictures of BTS, white horses, white dogs, anime of BTS, etc. They drowned out whoever started it.

I just hope the Tiktok crowd decides to do something old school like vote.

As the arenas get smaller and smaller, and the excuses get more and more ludicrous, Trump will be the Madonna of Presidents.

[quote] Fourteen municipal governments — from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Wildwood, New Jersey — want Trump’s campaign committee to clear a combined $1.82 million worth of public safety-related debt connected to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign rallies, according to interviews with local officials and municipal records obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

[quote] If the Trump campaign decided to pay the $1.82 million in police and public safety bills it’s received, it’d have no trouble doing so: Trump’s own campaign committee, combined with Republican National Committee entities, this week announced they had begun the month with more than $240 million in reserve.

[quote] I hope to see that expression on his face again when he gives his concession speech in the late hours of November 10.

I'm sure you kid. There will be no concession speech from Trump. He will claim until the day he dies that the election was a total fraud and his reelection was stolen from him & he will not lower himself to concede to a fraudulently elected POTUS.

I do hope the national archives has a very up to date inventory of every object inside the White House. Otherwise when that den of thieves and their minions leave there will be no telling how much they'll steal, especially whatever staff is left in the left wing. Nancy Reagan stole many couture gowns that had been given to her by designers and when she was told she would have to pay for them she couldn't believe it. Republicans can't be trusted. They're genetically predisposed to thievery.

[quote] whatever staff is left in the (West) wing

Ah, sorry, but Bill Clinton made that mistake in 1993 by leaving Linda Tripp and a few others who had convinced the transition team that they needed to stay in the WH. For Tripp, that was Hillary’s bud Bernie Nussbaum who was White House Counsel. That was a disastrous decision with reverberating consequences.

No, Biden’s transition people will clean house rather thoroughly. And the real staff, who have been there for decades, will make sure to lock down the silver.

Film has just been released of some of the rally attendees when they were in school.

I am getting nervous. I feel like people are getting cocky. We still have to make sure we get people to show up to vote!! This is not over and trump will not go down without a fight.

[quote] This is not over and trump will not go down without a fight.

This professor is raging a fierce tweet storm this morning. I highly recommend you read it. The point is, it is not just Twitler who is invested. Yes, we know about Dump's ego. And, yes, we know the GOP is corrupt. But what he is arguing is that the whole system of AWGs "winning" is predicated on the LOWEST, worst example of such being elevated to the highest position.

[quote] Make no mistake. Trump would not have been president had he not followed in the wake of Barack Obama, the first African American to hold the office. Unconsciously, racists found the most buffoonish, incompetent man possible to prove their worst could be president as well.

[quote]Trump will be the Madonna of Presidents.

We're so through the looking-glass, I can actually see Trump being filmed singing into a hairbrush.

Many of them are too young to vote, R541.

The rally organizers made some small attempt to make it seem diverse. Diamond & Silk took the stage at one point. Who was the black fellow who led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance?

R550 And a significant number are non-citizens outside the US?

We are ahead. Trump is sinking.

And we need to do SO MUCH MORE to make the change in November. This election is very, very far from over and the Trump Gang has a ton of nefarious tricks up their dirty sleeves.

They places a bunch of PoCs near the Senate and House dignitaries...and by dignitaries I mean asswipes.

R548, a lot of us have been saying it for years what he has expressed...and for a long time, we got ridiculous responses from enablers who tried to deny it.

The Republican party had several, far more qualified candidates running (all still repulsive, but at least capable and with an understanding of governance). They gravitated to a despicable, ignorant, corrupt, lecherous, stupid, vile pos handed everything in life (incl. his place at Wharton) and allowed to fail upward, *solely* because he was a racist and bigot - that was the moment he became the front-runner. He proposed no real policies beyond hate and scapegoating and that party of racist trash ate it up. And not just Trump. Look at Palin. Look at Roy Moore who would've won had black voters not come out to defeat him. Millions of white voters are basically saying: It doesn't matter how disgusting or embarrassingly inept you are, as long you try to maintain our supremacy. We don't care how gross or stupid you are. This should make you question anyone who goes off about "affirmative action" when this is the type of garbage they elevate to higher office. And let's not forget Dubya. Gets into Yale with a C average. Gets into HBS with undoubtedly mediocre grades. Look at Kushner whose own HS was shocked he got into Harvard along with his brother. We have a history of elevating white, unqualified men (and women like Palin) to positions they never deserved.

The fact alone that they try to paint Trump as a "real American" unlike Obama, should be enough to tell you what racist fucks they are because here's the thing: They both have a foreign born parent (and Trump's mother had a questionable immigration status like his wife), but the difference? Obama's American side has been here LONGER. Obama is the one whose family actually had to live paycheck-to-paycheck.. Obama is the one who actually had to earn what he has in life. Obama is the one who actually tried to govern based on A m e r i c a n principles while we now have a wannabe dictator who wouldn't know the constitution even if James Madison smacked him across the face with a copy.

The LBJ quote is all you need to know about this country and much of the white population: ““If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

[quote]And we need to do SO MUCH MORE to make the change in November. This election is very, very far from over and the Trump Gang has a ton of nefarious tricks up their dirty sleeves.

I think John Bolton and that book is going to do damage

Andrea Mitchell@mitchellreports·1h

On Bolton, @SusanPage: "John Bolton told me one extraordinary thing which is if he would've been a senator thinks he would have voted to convict Donald Trump and remove him from office because of the Ukraine affair." #AMRstaff

Pathetic spin from Kayleigh McEnany

I just had a text exchange with a former friend and Dump supporter to check in on her, asked if she was still on the Dump train. Here she texting from the bizarro world:

I love my country. I believe everyone is equal. I believe in the rule of law. I don’t believe in racism or hate, which is why I can’t support a party rooted in racism

R557, I love people who don't believe in racism and hate and then support Trump. Kinda like saying you don't believe in eating meat with a mouth full of cheeseburger.

[quote]I love my country. I believe everyone is equal. I believe in the rule of law. I don’t believe in racism or hate, which is why I can’t support a party rooted in racism

I could read this two ways. R557. But, I'm leaning more towards her (or, him) using that popular talking point; "Well, it was the Democrats the founded the KKK." Now... we all know (at least we should know) the history of this whatever. Anyway, I've reached the point now that I trust no one who voted for Trump or that's still a Republican. They're just racists as far as I'm concerned.

R559, if they're at least rich, we could say their vote is based in greed, but if they're making five figures or on any kind of fed. assistance, they have no business being Republican and they are absolutely racists. They can't deny it when they're voting to give tax cuts to Jeff Bezos. And even the GOP itself KNOWS that's how you get their votes. Their own party knows their voters are fucking racists and they play to it.

And here I stupidly said he'd wait until he lost to claim rigging...

Trump’s disastrous Tulsa rally immortalized in tweets and memes

Found on Tulsa Craigslist

Basic point needs to be hammered home again and again: if he was confident he will win, he wouldn't be tweeting paranoid fantasies like R561's link.

Deep down, he knows he's a fucking loser, baby.

Absolutely, R564. He did the same up against Hillary because he really did think he'd lose, but wanted to save face by using the excuse that the election was fixed. Again, he thinks he will lose, so he's already setting up an excuse. He's such gutter filth. I don't understand how anyone could worship someone with such a fragile, pathetic ego.

He couldn't be more of a paper tiger.

R563, you need to take ads like that with a grain of salt. The same thing was done in 2016 to HRC and it was just republican tricks.

I agree with R566. I don't think an ad would outright say they need actors for a "Trump rally." They wouldn't be so specific so as to embarrass the campaign.

The person I truly feel sorry for is the poor wretch who had to tell Trump that there would be no overflow speech due to lack of interest.

Unless that person is Parscale, then screw him.

R559 I'm sure she is referring to ancient history but we all know who the racists support and it ain't the dems.

The terrified staffers finally came up with some bullshit to placate president pazuzu. They say his tally was the most watched rally of his ever when you total online and television viewers. Which true enough, but how many viewers were tuning in to laugh?

[quote]They say his tally was the most watched rally of his ever when you total online and television viewers. Which true enough, but how many viewers were tuning in to laugh?

Who verified this number? Or, does it matter? It just means that millions saw the buffoon make a buffoon of himself.

R559, I don’t necessarily think she’s referring to ancient history, but probably the fact that Dems support “racists” like Black Lives Matter, because, you know, all lives matter. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

I’ve NEVER watched a rally before this one, and the reason I tuned in was because I’d seen online that it was turning into an epic disaster. I watched on MSNBC, because I didn’t want to actually see his speech, I just wanted to hear about the mess of a rally.

Tomorrow will be incredibly crucial.

R568, I'm not sure anyone had to tell him. He wanted AF1 to do a low flyby over the crowds at BOK to awe them. He saw first hand that there were no crowds.

Why, r574?

Who knows R572 when I read her text I just ghosted. There is no point wasting time on her...she is too far gone.

Is the rally in Phoenix tomorrow? That will truly be the CV rally of the decade.

It goes even beyond that, R572. The Conservativesphere, led by the likes of Candace Owens is pushing a narrative that Democrats are actively and intentionally making Black America weak and dependent.

Whereas one party (GOP) wants everyone to work hard and have fair opportunities, the other party panders and divides the country by race for their objective of buying up the various demographics with special interest pork so they can coalesce power.

R578, between coronavirus and heat stroke, I'm thiinking the Trump administration really wants their own base to die.

Cause of the rally tomorrow I think r574.

I’m not really holding my breath. It wouldn’t surprise me if turn out was good. He has a solid base; we know that. OK was great because it was fucking hilarious not necessarily because it means support has completely dropped.

To me the picture of him getting off the helicopter with tie undone, disheveled and maga hat in hand was actually what a toddler looks like after a tantrum. Clothes askew, all worn out from screaming and flailing, toy in hand - - that's what a 2 year old looks like heading for a nap after a tantrum. The flight home must have been hell, wonder what kind of snacks they offered or shiny objects they dangled to calm him down.

Sorry I meant r576.

R576, a rally in Phoenix. I don't doubt that nuts from all over the country will truck in to prove his popularity.

[quote]Is the rally in Phoenix tomorrow?

Well, they are no longer calling it a rally

Sam Seder said on his show today that he asked his teenaged daughter if she'd known about the Tik Tok plot involving fake Tulsa ticket requests and she said yeah, but what they're working on now is saving Barron.

I have high hopes for this generation.

Is tomorrow even a rally or is he just making a guest appearance as an overweight senior?

Maybe the crowd heard they wouldn't be seeing Lindsey at this event? Imagine their disappointment.

From Phoenix. He's speaking at a student rally in a church that hold 3,000.

Thanks. Sounds like it will be packed with millions

Fine Trump $250.00 if he doesn't wear a mask.

[quote]Is tomorrow even a rally or is he just making a guest appearance as an overweight senior?

Don't you mean morbidly obese?

YAY!!!! I mean... breaking news;

2 more Trump people have tested positive for COVID

This news just reported seconds ago by Brian Williams on MSNBC,

So! 4 Trump people so far

He just tweeted "PRESIDENTiAL HARRASSMENT" (all caps his)

Sort of what you'd expect from an angry 7th grader

Who the fuck is harassing this cunt?

I've said it before - he's the tiniest little bitch who ever tiny little bitched.

Critique of Diamond & Silk

They were there.

R595: Because everybody is trolling his Tulsa rally😩😭

Shall we continue over here?

Kayleigh Barbie said today that Kung Flu is okay to say because the virus comes from China, which CNN has reported. This is the equivalent of I know you are but what am I? Pathetic

[quote]There's been some concern that neither the president nor the 2020 team have a coherent message for why he should serve a second term.

The message has been pretty clear: Trump can drink a glass of water using only one hand and Trump can go down a ramp without falling over: what other requirements could you possibly expect from a head of State?

I love you, R600

[quote]r548 This professor ....

He's not just some professor - he wrote the universally lauded memoir [italic]The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making.[/italic]

Brilliant book.