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You are here: Home / Past Elections / 2020 Elections / Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Official Tulsa Stunt-Rally / Coronavirus Party Starts At 7pmEDT

Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Official Tulsa Stunt-Rally / Coronavirus Party Starts At 7pmEDT

by Anne Laurie|  June 20, 20206:55 pm| 164 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Republican Stupidity, Trumpery

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Oklahoma reported 450 new cases on Thursday, a surge from the record 259 daily cases reported Wednesday.

Black Lives Matter events are on hold, but @realDonaldTrump's rally will continue as scheduled.
https://t.co/eAQ9JhnEGC

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 20, 2020

WATCH: Thousands of people gather in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma ahead of Trump's first rally since #Covid19 lockdowns began in March pic.twitter.com/9ZHsLuWtGP

— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) June 20, 2020

Forget masks, I want every attendee to wear a PROUD TULSA RALLY ATTENDEE cap for the next six weeks, as a public warning for the rest of us:

Trump rallygoer sans mask: “We had a friend who died from Covid, and his son was on a ventilator, he almost died. So we know it’s real, but then at the same time you don’t know what the facts are, you feel like maybe one side plays it one way and the other side plays it another.” pic.twitter.com/WGoKD1ihaW

— John Aravosis ?????️‍? (@aravosis) June 20, 2020

I've spent a lot of my life studying cults. I was born in one, we escaped when I was very young. We witnessed mass denial, magical thinking, abuse, violence.

And I just want to say for the record there is a cult gathering happening in Tulsa today.

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 20, 2020

I just want to say something very clearly:

Many people at the Trump rally today will die. Even more of their vulnerable family members will die. Those are the cold hard facts of this disease.

They DO NOT DESERVE to die. They have been LIED TO. This is a disaster for everyone.

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 20, 2020

https://t.co/clg3AQZGxc

— Annie Gabston-Howell- (@AnnieGabstonH) June 20, 2020

"This event flunks Trump's own guidelines… so why is he doing it? This isn't even about politics, it's about ego, it's about assembling Trump's followers to rise up with chance of praise for their leader" – @RonaldKlain w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/wGnkNWf2s2

— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 19, 2020

Only been at the Trump rally since 9, but something I’ve noticed: No anti-Biden merch. This shirt is for sale, but the anti-Dem stuff has been anti-Hillary or generically about liberals being losers. pic.twitter.com/dWASK8DLDe

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 20, 2020

Interesting question:

I've asked before, I ask again: Will journalists covering the President's #Tulsa campaign rally sign #COVID19 liability waivers?
They should refuse to do so.@maggieNYT @andersoncooper @chrislhayes @lehmannchris @maddow @AliVelshi https://t.co/68kQTJOU9K

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 19, 2020

I pray that tomorrow in Tulsa there is no violence. I pray it doesn’t lead to a further spike in illness. But make no mistake. President Trump bears responsibility for whatever happens. He is provoking and inciting a confrontation with glee.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) June 19, 2020

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  1. 1.

    JoyceH

    June 20, 2020 at 7:01 pm

    Latest news – Trump is enraged that the six staffers testing positive and the Berman firing are taking headlines from his Triumphant Rally. Meanwhile, the news is noting that the arena isn’t full and there’s no overflow crowd. “Overpromises and underdelivers” is a feature with Trump, a reporter says.

  2. 2.

    cope

    June 20, 2020 at 7:01 pm

    This is gonna be great…Caronapalooza*. However will they write this history in the future (assuming a future)?

    *h/t: the internet

  3. 3.

    Martin

    June 20, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    I need Cheryl to help me back-of-napkin figure out what size meteor would confer LD50 at the baby gate if it hit dead center. Wishing for SMOD is a bit of a fools’ errand when you get get acceptable results with much, much smaller (and therefore statistically more likely) one.

  4. 4.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    @cope: Or the Die in a Fyre Festival.

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 20, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    Just clicked on MSNBC in time to see trump hug the 80-something James Inhofe, now chatting with Langford and (I assume) Mrs Langford and greet a handful of others. Haven’t seen a mask on the tarmac

    Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson 2M
    Told that there’s a been a mass text to Tulsa ticket holders begging people to come to the arena. “There’s still room!”

  6. 6.

    Brachiator

    June 20, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    CoronaVirus Dance Party!

    Featuring that hit tune, Achy Breaky Lung

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    June 20, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    @Brachiator

    American Blandstand.

  8. 8.

    Another Scott

    June 20, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    Wonkette liveblog – https://www.wonkette.com/this-is-your-official-thread-for-mocking-trumps-tulsa-coronarally

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    June 20, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Hugs are good or so I’m told.    He needs to just go out and hug all his supporters.  The more the merrier.

  10. 10.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    I hope to god those cell-phone data folks who gave us the geographic spread of Fort Lauderdale spring breakers back in March do the same thing for this rally.

    Pin all 20,000 or so cell-phones that show up at this rally then track their geographic diaspora over the next week.

    It would be very educational on several levels.

  11. 11.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    June 20, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes – lot of empty seats in that arena.

  12. 12.

    Luciamia

    June 20, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    Pence to speak first? What a treat for them all. Tapioca at room temperature.

  13. 13.

    raven

    June 20, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    Cool, enough empty seats to make the optics terrible and enough people to make it dangerous. Fuck yea!

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    So the BLM organizers thought that black lives mattered and postponed their event.

  15. 15.

    Baud

    June 20, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    Suicide by cop president.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    June 20, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    @raven:

    Less is more.

  17. 17.

    scav

    June 20, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    I’m sure that even if we count all the voices in their heads, that crowd still won’t manage a million.

  18. 18.

    jl

    June 20, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ‘ Told that there’s a been a mass text to Tulsa ticket holders begging people to come to the arena. “There’s still room!” ‘

    Enjoy the elbow room here and now at the rally, won’t have it at the hospital.

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 20, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    half-listening to MSNBC, trump and his campaign are putting out the word that they had to cancel the overflow event because of “intimidation” by protestors. And “the media”. Alex Jones is rolling around Tulsa in some kind of armored vehicle?

  20. 20.

    hotshoe

    June 20, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    Thank the small gods for that.

    I am mean, and bitter, and wish ill upon every person deplorable enough to attend. And at the same time, I wish even more that the Dumpster-in-Chief looks out upon empty seating, and gets so furious with lack of dummies that he gives himself a stroke out of sheer pissedoffness.

    He deserves it more than anything.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    June 20, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Less than anticipated turnout evidence they listened when he warned “lowlifes” to stay away?

    //

  22. 22.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 20, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    Some genius came up the perfect soundtrack for the Trump rally.

    Also:

    Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg

    @kimguilfoyle warms up the crowd by…attacking
    @BarackObama 
    …who is…not…on the ballot. Now she’s on to attacking…
    @HillaryClinton
    . Serious question: Does she know what year it is?

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    June 20, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    @JoyceH:

    From the timing of the Berman firing, right before the Tulsa rally, it does occur to me that Barr could have been acting without an order from Trump, and it simply didn’t enter Barr’s mind that the firing could be a distraction.

  24. 24.

    raven

    June 20, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    THERE IS STILL SPACE!!!!

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: trump and his campaign are putting out the word that they had to cancel the overflow event because of “intimidation” by protestors.

    So they are girlie man cowards….  Okay.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    June 20, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Does she know what year it is?

    She knows who the non white males are.

  27. 27.

    raven

    June 20, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    I want to be a cowboy!

  28. 28.

    Gravenstone

    June 20, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    The dude in that Aravosis tweet is a special kind of willfully stupid. To know two people directly affected by covid, but to still try and play it off as some sort of partisan issue is beyond insane.

  29. 29.

    jl

    June 20, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: “Alex Jones is rolling around Tulsa in some kind of armored vehicle?”

    Isn’t that just Alex Jones, with well-padded armor?

  30. 30.

    satby

    June 20, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: the protesters who aren’t there?!?

  31. 31.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 20, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    @cope: Driftglass called it “Plagueapalooza” on yesterday’s Professional Left podcast.

  32. 32.

    Gravenstone

    June 20, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    @Immanentize: I still like the Virus Swap Meet that someone put forth here the other day,

  33. 33.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 20, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    @Immanentize: Nice!

  34. 34.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    @Amir Khalid: From the timing of the Berman firing, right before the Tulsa rally, it does occur to me that Barr could have been acting without an order from Trump, and it simply didn’t enter Barr’s mind that the firing could be a distraction.

    Oh, he is no doubt doing Trumps bidding.  That is the entire point of appointing Barr.  But his day-to-day actions may not actually be micromanaged by the White House.  That is true.  But that is likely because they have one left working in the White House who has any level of strategic competence (or any other sort of competence).  Barr is supposed to be doing Trump’s bidding without having to be told.

  35. 35.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    So if i were in charge of creating Trump electoral sympathy for his law and order schtick (which I am not and would not) I would create a fake assassination attempt in which Pence is the target before Trump comes on stage — see?

    Maximum theatre danger, but none for Trump.  He could never manage the full Bolsonaro.

    But my novel awaits….

  36. 36.

    jl

    June 20, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    @Gravenstone: Some people are so mean, and not-nice, they’ll die or wreck their kidneys and ruin their lungs, just to embarrass Trump. Everyone knows that. Many people have told me.

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    @satby: Why would you interpret my comment as saying that?  No, the Trumpies who didn’t show up because of fear of protesters.

  38. 38.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Well, they are just rolling over the 2016 party platform unchanged for 2020.  So yes, they don’t appear to know what year it is.

  39. 39.

    Gravenstone

    June 20, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: You go with the boogeymen you have, not the boogeymen you wish to have.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 20, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    alyssa mastromonaco @AlyssaMastro44
    hi from 100K in St. Louis for Barack Obama 10/0

    (Gym Jordan milling and mingling maskless in a maskless crowd and I am having un-christian thoughts, not for the first time since watching footage from Tulsa)

  41. 41.

    Luciamia

    June 20, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Jeepers. What happened to “dominate?”

  42. 42.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    June 20, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    I see Uday and Qusay are there.

  43. 43.

    Honus

    June 20, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    Too bad Sheila Buck wasn’t wearing camo and carrying an AR-15. Then they would have respected her rights.

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    June 20, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    If Parscale isn’t on a flight to Rio with huge sacks of unmarked bills, I’ll be amazed.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 20, 2020

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    @Luciamia: Inorite?

  46. 46.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 20, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    Eric Trump earlier ensuring his dad the crowd was yuuuugggge

    And here Eric Trump ensuring his dad’s re-election.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    June 20, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    This is gonna be a fun thread to check in on later.  I will leave you, to witnessing Trump in all his COVID … splendor.

  48. 48.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    June 20, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    Mr DAW  has the rally on the TV. All I can say is hahahahaha. Outside event cancelled because no overflow crowd to watch. Empty seats.

  49. 49.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    This would be a much better soundtrack

    Sad Tuba

  50. 50.

    Mary G

    June 20, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    A few people in the upper deck now. A very few.

    A fuller view of stadium as program begins pic.twitter.com/xGdqTpwi1L— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) June 20, 2020

    I feel like I have the little angel on one shoulder saying I’m glad BLM cancelled and Trump’s playing to a half-empty house, so not as many people will get sick and die and there won’t be violence. The little devil on my other shoulder is pissed off. They boarded up windows for a mile around and nobody is even there.

  51. 51.

    Baud

    June 20, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    My guess is that the coronavirus will be too embarrassed to be seen there.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 20, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I saw him hug someone; didn’t catch that it was Inhofe. But the utter masklessness caught my attention.

    Fuckin eejits.

  53. 53.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    @Gravenstone: That would be our resident word smith — Betty Cracker

  54. 54.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    I think the NItty Gritty Dirt Band drew a bigger crowd than this at our county fair last summer.

  55. 55.

    Haydnseek

    June 20, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s going to be like some failing game show. They’re going to start dragging random people in off the street, shoving a 5 dollar bill into their pocket, then frog marching them into the virus hot zone just because they need bodies in the seats for the campaign propaganda ads.

  56. 56.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: You win the thread today!

  57. 57.

    Barbara

    June 20, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    @Baud: Until embarrassment is fatal, the coronavirus will exhibit no shame whatsoever as it invades the rally.

  58. 58.

    Mary G

    June 20, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    I’m no campaign veteran, but giving the assembled cameramen b-roll of construction equipment breaking down an unused stage seems like a questionable move. https://t.co/2noFyEP8Y1— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 20, 2020

  59. 59.

    Another Scott

    June 20, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    Crowd’s been moved behind the fence as the machinery comes to break down the overflow speech stage. The rally programming is on a break before Trump et al arrive. pic.twitter.com/QBdV8EHhuO

    — Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 20, 2020

    [ world’s tiniest violin plays ]

    (via nycsouthpaw)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  60. 60.

    dexwood

    June 20, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    @Gravenstone: Betty Cracker, originally, I think, but picked up by a few.

  61. 61.

    PPCLI

    June 20, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    @jl: How delicious.

    No doubt Brad Parscale is, at this very moment, desperately chasing the car with Sheila Buck to see if he can get her to return to her chair! All is forgiven!!!!

  62. 62.

    rikyrah

    June 20, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: .

    Yep ?

  63. 63.

    Another Scott

    June 20, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    @Mary G: Ack!  Too slow!!  :-)  GMTA.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  64. 64.

    Mallard Filmore

    June 20, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    @rikyrah: This is why I don’t think the Russians are so actively working with the Trump re-election team this time around.

  65. 65.

    Haydnseek

    June 20, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: “Intimidation?”  So much for the “domination” bullshit.

     

    @Omnes Omnibus:

  66. 66.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 20, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    The Trump campaign is blaming tonight’s turnout which has fallen well short of their expectations to protestors “interfering with supporters” attempting to gain access to the Trump events.

  67. 67.

    jl

    June 20, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @Mary G: Will make a good few seconds of footage in an oppo political ad, for some comic relief.

    For people who got into betting pools on what percentage of the crowd would wear a mask, looks like the person who went for zero wins it all.

  68. 68.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 20, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    This belongs here too.

    More viruses than people in there.And nobody wearing masks! It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet for COVID-19. https://t.co/IYUUmwERok— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2020

  69. 69.

    ThresherK

    June 20, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    @Kent:  Great minds! I commented that elsewhere earlier today.

  70. 70.

    Mary G

    June 20, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    The media’s just rubbing it in now.

    Tour of empty seats. #TrumpRally pic.twitter.com/UNPDHl43kG— Stephen Rodrick (@stephenrodrick) June 20, 2020

  71. 71.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @rikyrah:If Parscale isn’t on a flight to Rio with huge sacks of unmarked bills, I’ll be amazed.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 20, 2020

    Don’t worry.  Jared is tanned and rested after his victory over Covid and solving mid-east peace.  He’s all ready to take over.

  72. 72.

    jl

    June 20, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: The mass texts begging for people to come on down went to the wrong phone numbers?

  73. 73.

    Brachiator

    June 20, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Driftglass called it “Plagueapalooza” on yesterday’s Professional Left podcast.

    Burning Fever Man

  74. 74.

    JPL

    June 20, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    So Pence was suppose to speak both outside and inside.   Have both been canceled?   I think trump is suppose to speak soon.

  75. 75.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    June 20, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    @Kent:  Having worked for useless idiots like Trump the louder Trump complains about Barr to more likely Trump told Barr to fire Bergman on Friday. I mean come on, Barr should know how US DAs are replaced.

  76. 76.

    JPL

    June 20, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    Okay so Pence is speaking now.

  77. 77.

    FelonyGovt

    June 20, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    @Mary G: That’s delicious. I wonder if even the flying monkeys are getting tired of him.

  78. 78.

    satby

    June 20, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    What’s better than @jordanklepper at a Trump rally? Here’s a compilation of greatest hits: pic.twitter.com/Xkl1Sc1Qxo— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 20, 2020

  79. 79.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    I went to the Tulsa rally all my friends were there,
    We are old and not so thin and some had lost their hair.
    When I got to the Tulsa rally. In order to get get in,
    They took our but I was cool — ibuproferin.

    But it’s alright now,
    I learned on the campaign stump.
    Who cares if you please yourself,
    So long you please the Trump.

  80. 80.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    MSNBC having a very astute conversation right now about how refusing to wear a mask is the new MAGA hat

    Reason 9587 why Trump is unfit.

  81. 81.

    jl

    June 20, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Maybe Barr couldn’t get any documentation from Trump at all? Then a sane person doesn’t follow the order, since Trump will deny it in public (as apparently he did) as it suits his whim.

  82. 82.

    Amir Khalid

    June 20, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    @Kent:

    I know Barr only ever does what Trump wants. I think this was a failure by Barr (or collectively by the administration ) to coordinate their moves so as not to get in each other’s way.

  83. 83.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    June 20, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

    BREAKING: This is a photo taken 1 minute ago outside the BOK Center in Tulsa where Trump was set to give remarks to what his campaign claimed were over “1 million people,” who requested tickets. There are literally 11 people there! #TrumpsCoronavirusRally pic.twitter.com/3hwQdvl66O
    — Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) June 20, 2020

  84. 84.

    Baud

    June 20, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    Worst episode of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? ever.

  85. 85.

    Another Scott

    June 20, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    @Haydnseek:

    “Vote For Us, We Can Be Utterly Thwarted By People With ‘Coexist’ Bumper Stickers” https://t.co/IKk4kzyYD5

    — MassacresAreTrickyHat (@Popehat) June 20, 2020

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    @rikyrah: Hey, I saw it as a positive contrast to dumbass’s rally.

  87. 87.

    Luciamia

    June 20, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    Line from a old MASH episode. “They sure invited a lot of empty chairs.”

  88. 88.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    June 20, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    Building across the street says “Fuck Trump”  – (no really)  (photo)

  89. 89.

    Haydnseek

    June 20, 2020 at 7:52 pm

    @Another Scott: Well played sir.  Well played indeed.

  90. 90.

    rikyrah

    June 20, 2020 at 7:52 pm

    ????

    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.— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2020

  91. 91.

    Uncle Cosmo

    June 20, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    So the Coronapalookas are out in farce, not force, in Tulsa tonight. I guess the lackluster attendance caught ’em unprepared – if they’d thought about it a few days back, they probably could’ve leased that glorified bin-liner the Jacksonville Jags use to cover their stadium’s upper deck to make scanty crowds look less pitiful, stuffed it in however many semis & trucked it to Tulsa in time to set up…

    (FWIW I visited Tulsa on a bidniz trip late last millennium in high summer & the weather was obscene even by mid-Atlantic standards.)

  92. 92.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 20, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    @Immanentize:

    Nice

  93. 93.

    Mary G

    June 20, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    Teenagers pwned the president:

    So there is a good deal of Twitter chatter that part of why the crowd outside and inside the Tulsa Trump rally is that KPOp fans requested masses of tickets to plus up Trump’s expectations with no intention of showing up. Either way, anemic nunbers for Trump in a deep red state. https://t.co/anxmdy5Dbq— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 20, 2020

    All the data Parscale harvested is of people who’ll never give them a dime.

  94. 94.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    June 20, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    Yesterday, I saw a woman in her late sixties wearing a face mask emblazoned with the words “Trump 2020”.

    Has anyone else here seen a Trump supporter wearing a pro-Trump face mask?

  95. 95.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 20, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    How about something very nice amidst the slag heap of Tulsa quips.

    Joe Biden and Christian Cooper have a short talk.

  96. 96.

    bucachon

    June 20, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    Pence not being able to say the words Black Lives Matter makes the argument that are no racists in the USA.

    “Well, I don’t accept the fact, Brian, that there’s a segment of American society that disagrees in the preciousness and importance of every human life,” Pence replied.

  97. 97.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    @Mary G: That’s because yutes don’t do facebook

  98. 98.

    Haydnseek

    June 20, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Long time LA Laker fans will remember the great Chick Hearn line”  ” If there are ten thousand fans in attendance tonight, then most of them are dressed as seats.”

  99. 99.

    Cheryl Rofer

    June 20, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    @rikyrah: I want the media to cover this more. Maybe they will. It’s not just empty seats, but all that contact information Parscale was gloating over is worthless.

    The kids are okay and should get a LOT of credit.

    ETA: I see Mary G beat me to it.

  100. 100.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    I am so glad you didn’t say “literally” because you know, not.

  101. 101.

    rikyrah

    June 20, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    What do you mean "we", white woman? Seriously, "America" hasn't given up on fighting Covid-19; Cuomo's NY, Murphy's NJ, Whitmer's MI haven't given up. It's *Republicans* who have given up. https://t.co/2Z5JgO5d1H— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 20, 2020

  102. 102.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 8:00 pm

    @Immanentize: It might bring Steve in the WTF back.

  103. 103.

    randy khan

    June 20, 2020 at 8:00 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    That building would be awesome even without the signs, but they take it all the way to the top.

  104. 104.

    WaterGirl

    June 20, 2020 at 8:01 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Smart!

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: There is a reason that Oklahoma was the last place we stole from the Native Americans.

  106. 106.

    Uncle Cosmo

    June 20, 2020 at 8:03 pm

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I looked at the image of that charmingly ornamented brick building & wondered if it’ll have any unbroken windows by tomorrow morning. Kinda hoping no one in the campaign had the foresight to arrange for a couple of pallets of bricks to be strategically stationed on the arena side of the street for rally-goers’ convenience…

  107. 107.

    The Thin Black Duke

    June 20, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    I’m  thinking about that scene from Lord of the Rings where Boromir says to Faramir, “Remember today, little brother. Today, Life is good.”

  108. 108.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    People came from miles around
    all the MAGAs there,
    Pence had brought his mother,
    There was virus in the air.
    And over in the corner,
    Much to my surprise,
    Billy Barr with a Sheriff’s star,
    Dabbing tear-gassed eyes

    (Refrain)

  109. 109.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 8:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:@Uncle Cosmo: There is a reason that Oklahoma was the last place we stole from the Native Americans.

    Oklahoma Statehood:  1907

    Arizona and New Mexico Statehoods:  1912

    Alaska and Hawaii Statehoods:  1959

  110. 110.

    Mike in NC

    June 20, 2020 at 8:07 pm

    Those clips really show off white male stupidity.

  111. 111.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    @The Thin Black Duke: I can’t tell if that is celebratory or a dire warning.  You are always welcome at our house to watch all of LOTR and all the commentaries with me and the Immp.

  112. 112.

    Ken

    June 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    @Mary G: The media’s just rubbing it in now.

    Positive sign? They sense blood in the water, failure looming on the horizon, the fat lady singing, and other metaphors?

  113. 113.

    Martin

    June 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    Eric Trump calls BML protesters ‘animals’. Really working hard to win over the (checks notes) ⅔ of Americans who support BLM protests.

  114. 114.

    JMG

    June 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    Trump hates ridicule mor than anything, And that’s all he’ll get tomorrow. Should be a REAL fun ride back to Andrews on AF1.

  115. 115.

    Ksmiami

    June 20, 2020 at 8:10 pm

    @Kent: yeah the tenor doesn’t seem like it’s from the incumbent rt?

  116. 116.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 8:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Then I say we all wrongly use literally if that can be the incantation.

  117. 117.

    TaMara (HFG)

    June 20, 2020 at 8:11 pm

    Some see a stadium and say it’s half full. I see a stadium and say it’s half empty.

    — Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 21, 2020

  118. 118.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 20, 2020 at 8:11 pm

    @Kent: Not talking about statehood.  Thanks.

  119. 119.

    Brachiator

    June 20, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    UK Daily Mail headline talks about how Trump is arriving in Tulsa for his “comeback rally.”

  120. 120.

    Mary G

    June 20, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    Turned on CNN and the chyron says “Smaller than expected crowd trickles into Trump rally.” Reporter says there were no protesters whatsoever at the security checkpoints. Secret Service made him move off the premises to the sidewalk.

  121. 121.

    Matt McIrvin

    June 20, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    Lyre Festival

  122. 122.

    Uncle Cosmo

    June 20, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    OOOOOOOOOh-klahoma!

    Where the heat seeps deep into the ground,

    First the locust swarms, then thunderstorms,

    And the powerlines all tumble down…

    And when we sayyyyy – YEOW!

    We dig the KKK –

    We’re really saying We’re a sinkhole of Corona,

    Oklahoma – OY VEY!

  123. 123.

    M31

    June 20, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    Vyre Festival

  124. 124.

    Martin

    June 20, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    @Kent: I think he’s referring to the end of the last indian territory, which got merged with the OK territory and left the indigenous people with reservations within the state, and much less sovereignty as a result.

  125. 125.

    Mary G

    June 20, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    If trump wanted to fill the arena he could have pitched it as a Black Lives Matter protest since people actually showed up to those.— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) June 20, 2020

  126. 126.

    Another Scott

    June 20, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: A friend and I made a half-continent circuit around the summer of ’80 or so in a 1966 Oldsmobile F-85 with no AC.  We cut across a corner of OK heading south, on a newly repaved asphalt highway.  In the hottest part of the day.

    Zowie, it was hot.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  127. 127.

    Mary G

    June 20, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Who among us hasn’t been ghosted by over 700,000 people?— Kashana (@kashanacauley) June 21, 2020

  128. 128.

    JPL

    June 20, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    I was planning on listening to a few minutes, but it  appears that both MSNBC and CNN cut away.   Oh well.

  129. 129.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    Trump gave all the racist,
    Thought that’s why they came,
    But a half filled hall and sinking polls,
    It didn’t feel the same.
    I said “hello” to Maggie H.
    She belongs to him.
    But when I looked at Anderson C.?
    Time to hit the gym.

    (Refrain)

  130. 130.

    Achrachno

    June 20, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: One about a week ago I think.  F… Trump is more common, but I’m in So. Cal.

  131. 131.

    Baud

    June 20, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    They should have used those cardboard people they have at Korean baseball games?

  132. 132.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    June 20, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    @JMG:

    I look forward to his bowels being in an uproar.  From now until Election Day, I want this bargain basement Jabba the Hutt as miserable as possible every single day.

  133. 133.

    Steeplejack

    June 20, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    Neither MSNBC nor CNN is carrying Trump live. MSNBC showed a few minutes of Trump’s intro and then went back to the panel discussion. Fox News is showing Trump live.

  134. 134.

    debbie

    June 20, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    The Guardian is live blogging the rally, and wow, more empty than filled seats! Even better, in the top photo, there’s a lone man in a suit wearing a mask.

  135. 135.

    Another Scott

    June 20, 2020 at 8:21 pm

    @JPL: The BBC News channel was running it live.

    I cut away to watch a Family Feud rerun.  It’s an improvement.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  136. 136.

    Ken

    June 20, 2020 at 8:21 pm

    @Baud: They should have used those cardboard people they have at Korean baseball games?

    I suggested this in another comment thread. It would work fine for fooling Trump, since he’s too vain to wear the glasses he needs.

  137. 137.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    June 20, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    @Baud: In Dump’s case, blow up sex dolls

  138. 138.

    Ken

    June 20, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    @Steeplejack: Fox News is showing Trump live.

    Right up until someone starts giggling uncontrollably.

  139. 139.

    HumboldtBlue

    June 20, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    Jordan Keppler takes on an extraordinary face-palming hilariously cringe-inducing tour of Trump supporters.

  140. 140.

    Ken

    June 20, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    @Mary G: So when Parscale gets fired, how long do you think it will take them to realize that he was handling all the convention logistics?

  141. 141.

    debbie

    June 20, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    46s ago
    01:24
    Trump asks the crowd if they have ever noticed that Joe Biden ever gets the names of states wrong and that makes him lose credibility. The following link is posted with no further comment:

    Trump congratulates wrong state for Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl win
    Read more

  142. 142.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Just nit-picking.  Congress erased Oklahoma Indian territory in 1907 when they granted statehood and erased the reservations in the eastern half of the state.  In New Mexico they were still busy extinguishing native land claims as late as 1924 with the Pueblo Lands Act.  In Alaska they weren’t done officially taking native lands until 1971 with the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

  143. 143.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    Someone opened up a closet door,
    And out stepped Jim Jordan
    Without a coat and very short,
    I’m glad that I’m not him.
    If you gotta do a Tulsa rally,
    I wish you a lotta luck,
    I’m now ventilatored
    I guess I’m really fucked

    (Refrain)
    (Repeat)

  144. 144.

    The Thin Black Duke

    June 20, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    @Immanentize: Deal!

  145. 145.

    Kent

    June 20, 2020 at 8:32 pm

    Trump speaking now.  Seems like his combover is especially bad today.

    Neither CNN nor MSNBC are actually showing the rally.  They have have talking heads.   They had a lot of shots and comment about the half-empty arena before he started, but once he got on stage they cut away.  Heh.

  146. 146.

    WaterGirl

    June 20, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    @Immanentize: Those are all most excellent!

  147. 147.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    June 20, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    @Mary G: Reporter says there were no protesters whatsoever at the security checkpoints.

    Such is the infinite power of our protesters that we were able to decimate the attendance of Trump’s rally with a mere none of us. FEAR US, we brought cookies.

    @rikyrah:”America” hasn’t given up on fighting Covid-19; Cuomo’s NY, Murphy’s NJ, Whitmer’s MI haven’t given up. It’s *Republicans* who have given up.

    Most Republicans never started.

  148. 148.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 20, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Stop making me think of Eric Dump’s disgusting face.

  149. 149.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    @The Thin Black Duke: We just upgraded to a Blueray set of LOTR.  (No HD TV yet)

    We will do this when we can meet.

  150. 150.

    Immanentize

    June 20, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    @WaterGirl: I wish I played guitar!

  151. 151.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    June 20, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    @Kent:

     Seems like his combover is especially bad today.

    Free Trump’s hair!

  152. 152.

    Uncle Cosmo

    June 20, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    @Another Scott: Zowie, indeedy. The one night I spent there was so caloriferous (low temp ~85F) I seriously considered stuffing the bedspread into the half-inch crack at the bottom of the door hoping it would ease the load on the obviously-laboring motel A/C enough to keep it from conking out.

  153. 153.

    RandomMonster

    June 20, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    Trump spending a stupid amount of time explaining Rampgate. It’s one of the dumbest, most tedious things I’ve ever seen.

  154. 154.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    June 20, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    @Achrachno:

    F… Trump

    That’s more like it!

    I was just struck by the irony of one of his dumb supporters wearing a mask when all he’s done since the pandemic hit us is ridicule the practice of wearing a mask.

    I can’t wait till Election night when the final results are in and this bloated buffoon has to deliver a concession speech.

  155. 155.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 20, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    Holy shit!  Watching Hal Sparks comment on Dump’s Plagueapalooza Nuremberg Whinefest, and Dump claims he couldn’t lift the water glass because he’d been saluting too much earlier.  HAHAHAHAHA!!!  Assclown!

    ETA – tired arm from lifting his baby hand I suppose.

  156. 156.

    rk

    June 20, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    I’m watching a Trump speech for the first time. He’s just boring. Chinese flu, Kung Flu, Bad Hombre (Sp?) raping a white woman, and a long, long, long tedious explanation of the stupid ramp walk. Imagine risking life and limb for this crap.

  157. 157.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 20, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @Brachiator: Well done.

  158. 158.

    Ladyraxterinok

    June 20, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @Mary G:

    Boarded up a Quik Trip 4 miles from BOK, 10 blocks from my apartment. Looks like super super cautious! Wheew

    !

  159. 159.

    rk

    June 20, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    He’s calling the virus COVAD.

  160. 160.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    June 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @rk:

    Trump is an incurable buffoon and I look forward to his defeat that will free us from this doucheocracy.

  161. 161.

    The Pale Scot

    June 20, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    On one of those twitter sidebars someone described a group of Trump supporters as a klandemic.

     

    Perfect

  162. 162.

    The Pale Scot

    June 20, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    @Haydnseek:

    They’re going to start dragging random people in off the street,

    That’s what CGI is for. I’m sure they’ll steal some clip from Gladiator and clumsily insert it in ‘ronarally footage

  163. 163.

    Ladyraxterinok

    June 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Kent:

    The 1st law the OK legislature passed set up

    Jim Crow regulations. So it was ‘cool’ that OK GOP

    campaign in 90s used slogan ‘we want to restore

    traditional OK values’!!

  164. 164.

    Ascap_scab

    June 20, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    @Luciamia:  Had to watch Fox after to get their take. “Pence needs to be replaced with Ivanka as the new VP”, -Tyrus.

    Not exactly a glowing review.

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