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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Late Night Open Thread: Clamor

Late Night Open Thread: Clamor

by Anne Laurie|  October 21, 201811:45 pm| 14 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Clown Shoes

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“Thanks for coming, here’s your sign.”

“Um…”

“You want to own libs, right?”

“Well… yeah. But—“

“I have one ‘Gullible Racists For Trump’ left if you want that instead.”

“I’ll take this.” pic.twitter.com/UEeYaNDPys

— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 20, 2018

Gail Collins, in the NYTimes, “A Whole Lot of Babbling Going On”:

… Elections are coming and the president is all over the place, holding rallies and talking about his priorities. Like immigration and taxes and reminding people that he won the 2016 election.

“Remember — we won Florida,” he told an audience. … “In Tennessee, I remember a great Congressman Duncan. … He said, sir, they’re coming from the hills, the valleys, people that haven’t voted for a long time because they didn’t want to vote for the people that were running for office. And they’ve got Trump banners and Trump hats and Trump tattoos. …”…

There are several lessons to be gained by watching four or five Trump rally speeches in rapid succession. Well, not enough that you’d actually want to do it. That’s what we’re here for…

Trump always brags about the size of the crowds. He claimed there was an overflow of 44,000 people outside a rally in Missouri, which, a local newspaper noted, would have meant a quarter of the city’s population had gone to the event. In Ohio, he said that if the rally had been for “one of the normal presidents,” the audience would be about “300 people.”

Back when we were normal, Barack Obama got crowds of up to 100,000 and people would get so excited they’d faint. At which point Obama would mildly suggest that someone bring over “a little water and some juice.” Sigh.

But to be fair, that was not during midterm campaigns. It’s tough going from city to city, day after day, trying to rally some excitement for the local congressional candidates. Trump has been super dedicated. And only a deep cynic would believe it’s just because he enjoys standing in front of a huge crowd and making the whole thing about him…

Look on the bright side: The more noise Trump makes right now, the more those low-info voters outside his Deplorable Base remember which party is responsible for his embarrassing shit-shows. We get our blue wave, the man’s probably gonna start trying to claim the credit. Nobody debases the GOP like Donald Trump! Every live rally broadcast encourages more Democratic turnout!

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  1. 1.

    Soprano2

    October 22, 2018 at 12:21 am

    I live in the MO city Trump says had 45,000 people standing outside. Even in this Trump-loving part of the country there is no freaking way there were 45,000 people outside the arena! That’s a crazy lie!

  2. 2.

    JCJ

    October 22, 2018 at 12:28 am

    Take a look at Cole’s twitter feed – the link to the bbc article on “Fat Bear Week” is great!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45749891

  3. 3.

    Jay

    October 22, 2018 at 1:02 am

    @Soprano2:

    The Springfield, MO rally had 10,000 in attendence.

    His biggest rally so far had 12,000 in attendence.

  4. 4.

    Mike J

    October 22, 2018 at 1:10 am

    @JCJ: Or take a look at my twitter feed and see me not coming in last in a race. Not as good as last race, but not the worst I’ve done. Trump would tell you we had 200,000 people standing on the shore!

    https://twitter.com/emmeyekayeee/status/1054220464698998784

  5. 5.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    October 22, 2018 at 1:21 am

    We get our blue wave, the man’s probably gonna start trying to claim the credit.

    Gods, one can see it now.
    .
    November the 12th

    “The Democrats best remember they owe me for this electorial victory” Donald Trump.

  6. 6.

    Origuy

    October 22, 2018 at 1:23 am

    I thought at first that the first tweet was about Bill Engvall’s comedy routine, Here’s Your Sign.

  7. 7.

    patrick II

    October 22, 2018 at 1:43 am

    I was canvassing today for Elaine Luria in VA 2. Small sample size, but 90% of the women I talked to were strongly for Elaine, 90% of the guys I talked to were for Scott Taylor. Of some interest to me though were some women who would not talk to me with their husband present, and one guy who shut the door in my face when the name I had on my canvassing sheet was his wife and not him. She was home, but evidently not allowed to talk to me.
    “I love him, but we don’t talk politics”, said one lady who looked over her shoulder to make sure her husband wasn’t listening.

  8. 8.

    ruemara

    October 22, 2018 at 1:54 am

    The birthday day is almost gone, so that’s nice. No writing done, so not nice. Trying not to stress on the election and keep focused. I hope that burns calories.

    @patrick II: I will never understand that. Never.

  9. 9.

    prostratedragon

    October 22, 2018 at 2:33 am

    Apropos an earlier thread, a few home truths and poignant questions (e.g., What you going to do without your ass?) on the subject of nuclear war, from the prolific pen of Sun Ra.

  10. 10.

    jc

    October 22, 2018 at 4:00 am

    Trump is a lazy weakling who plays dirty. He always takes the cheap-shot route to his slimy “wins.” It would be nice if he’d attempt to acknowledge two-thirds of the citizens of the country, but he needs to hold these god-awful “base” rallies, filled to the rafters with hate, lies and idiocy. It’s just pathetic.

  11. 11.

    zhena gogolia

    October 22, 2018 at 7:11 am

    @ruemara:

    Unfortunately, a friend of mine has recently started a relationship with a Trumpanzee. When I ask her how she can stand it, she always says, “We don’t talk politics.” In other words, he forbids her to talk politics, is my translation.

  12. 12.

    SFAW

    October 22, 2018 at 7:22 am

    “I have one ‘Gullible Racists For Trump’ left if you want that instead.”

    I believe the correct wording is “Gullible Racist Idiots For Trump.” We can even refer to them using an acronym.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    October 22, 2018 at 9:51 am

    @JCJ: My favorite part was the chart that made it look like tournament play in a sport. The contest is a really smart idea – get people to pay attention to bears in some way and they will start to care about bears and what happens to them.

    Smart and fun. I like it. Plus just the name of the contest is awesome.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    October 22, 2018 at 9:54 am

    @SFAW: I love that! GRiFT.

    His followers are so stupid that we could probably make signs with 5 words they would like that describe Trump, with the first letter of each word — bigger and in a different color — spelling out GRIFT, that would proudly display their signs and never even notice the word grift.

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