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Early Morning Open Thread: Hundreds of Trump Supporters!!! Across the Country!!!

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Almost too pathetic to inspire schadenfreude. Almost.

…[T]he modest crowds that showed up for the noontime rallies from New Jersey to Georgia to Colorado offered a reminder of what liberal groups learned eight years ago in the face of Tea Party anger at President Barack Obama: Stoking grass-roots energy is often easier for the outraged resistance than for the party pulling the levers in Washington.
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“I’m getting a lot of comments from the leftists about, ‘Your crowd’s not going to be as big as our crowd,’” said Betty Blanco, a retired teacher from La Junta, Colo., on the state’s conservative eastern plains, who organized a rally on the steps of the gold-domed State Capitol. “I didn’t know it was a contest.”

About 150 Trump supporters turned out for Monday’s rally in Denver, held just across the street from a park that had swelled with tens of thousands of protesters as part of the Women’s March on Jan. 21…

It’s one thing to plan for a big excursion to an arena show by your favorite teevee celebrity; it’s a much less enticing task to waste a lunch hour in the company of a handful of fellow fanatics, out in the weather, with at best a stringer from the local news assigned to see if a fistfight breaks out in case there’s no more photogenic car crashes or fires before prime time.

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  1. 1.

    Tokyokie

    “Everyone likes to worship these celebrities as if they’re some sort of deities,” Feiner said.

    “We just want to show that just because a celebrity thinks a certain way and because they might express their views on a large platform that does not reflect the views of all of America,” Hemingway added. “That reflects the views of that individual person. I feel like celebrities are trying to kind of speak for us and we want to speak for us. That’s why we’re out here.”

    Says the nitwit who voted for the candidate who gained fame as a reality-TV star.

  3. 3.

    MARCION

    Ok, hear me out: Jon Stewart for President in 2020.

    Yeah yeah not a politician, doesn’t know how government works etc. That glass ceiling has been blasted through by His Orangeness already. Stewart at least knows how government is supposed to work via his job so there’s some transferable skills.

    If Trump is the Republican Carter, Stewart could really by that vaunted Democratic Reagan: media savvy due to media background (needed to beat Trump at his own game), outsider status (obvious) and also to a large degree a sock puppet for the various Party factions (I think Jon is wise enough to know he needs to delegate to people with real political experience.)

    If he can put together a platform with some substance to go with the slogans, why not? We could do worse. We ARE doing worse.

  8. 8.

    Vince

    That last one can’t be real, it’s a joke, right? Because otherwise, the cognitive dissonance in that statement is going to give me an aneurysm.

  9. 9.

    MARCION

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yeah it’s ridiculous but so is Trump. Who else is already well placed to be a unifying figure for Dems? Unlike Jerry Brown Stewart’s what, 50 something? Who’s going to stop some snake like Cuomo or empty suit like O’Malley from grabbing the nom? The bench is weak. If it’s not Mystery Candidate X who no one’s ever heard of yet then it’s got to be someone else who’s already out there. And I can’t think of anyone who’d be better at beating Trump at his own media game.

    The nom would be his if he wants it. Not sure he does though. At least not at this point. Who knows what terribly interesting places the country could go in the next 4 years?

  11. 11.

    MARCION

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Clooney would have the Trump Syndrome of not knowing WTF is going on which is harder to develop if you’ve spent the last 15 ish years as a political commentator

  15. 15.

    Tokyokie

    If the Democrats want to nominate a Jewish comedian, then I’d prefer Al Franken. And I doubt he’s particularly keen on running.

  17. 17.

    MARCION

    Hell I wonder if Colbert could pull off the trick of making RW voters think he’s conservative. How long would it take them to figure it out? Perhaps the Ironic Presidency is the logical next step after the Reality Show Presidency

  18. 18.

    oldster

    “I’m getting a lot of comments from the leftists about, ‘Your crowd’s not going to be as big as our crowd,’” said Betty Blanco,….“I didn’t know it was a contest.””

    The contest is called “majoritarian democracy”.

    This is what it looks like when you don’t have the racist Electoral College making up for your lack of numbers.

  19. 19.

    Butch

    I’ve gotten so tired of the Expeditions into the Heartland to find Real Americans who Voted For Trump stories that have been so prominent in all the media. Even PBS has gotten into the act. Maybe this will help put a stop to them.

  21. 21.

    john fremont

    150 attended at the Capitol in Denver yesterday. What a change from last year when the Colo Springs fire marshall was blasted by the Trump campaign for turning people away. Yuge crowds! Unbelievable crowds!

  22. 22.

    Nora

    The Times is wasting valuable real estate with a story saying that Trump fans like Trump. Yes, and the sun did in fact rise in the east this morning.

  23. 23.

    sdhays

    “I’m getting a lot of comments from the leftists about, ‘Your crowd’s not going to be as big as our crowd,’” said Betty Blanco, a retired teacher from La Junta, Colo., on the state’s conservative eastern plains, who organized a rally on the steps of the gold-domed State Capitol. “I didn’t know it was a contest.”

    Sure you didn’t.

  25. 25.

    Keith P.

    “I didn’t know it was a contest.”

    Well, it is, and as it turns out, your dick *is* smaller.

  28. 28.

    J R in WV

    @Tokyokie:

    Nitwit is such an old fashioned term, but I still love it. How many still know what a nit is? Well, I guess folks with kids in school probably do. A tiny thing. Comparable to the brain of a Dolt45 supporter. Dolt is another great old term for stupid.

    We are so lucky, English has so many synonyms at hand, and we’re allowed to plug in a foreign word any time we want to, much to Dolt45’s chagrin.

  29. 29.

    J R in WV

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Al Frankin, author, a famous story teller, and a great Senator. That’s my take on nominating a famous sho-biz celebrity. Not Jon Stewart, he can’t even spel John right.

  30. 30.

    SFAW

    @El Caganer:

    Fuck it, I’d go with Larry David – he does Bernie Sanders better than Bernie does.

    Yeah, but he’d lose the (RIGGED!) primary to Kate McKinnon.

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