Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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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:

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  1. 1.

    JoyceH

    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

    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

    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.

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    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!”

  10. 10.

    Kent

    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.

  13. 13.

    raven

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

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

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

  17. 17.

    scav

    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

    @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

    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

    @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.

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    @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.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @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.

  28. 28.

    Gravenstone

    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.

  34. 34.

    Kent

    @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

    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

    @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

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

  43. 43.

    Honus

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

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

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

  50. 50.

    Mary G

    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.

  54. 54.

    Kent

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

  55. 55.

    Haydnseek

    @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.

  57. 57.

    Barbara

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

  59. 59.

    Another Scott

    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.

  61. 61.

    PPCLI

    @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!!!!

  64. 64.

    Mallard Filmore

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

  67. 67.

    jl

    @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.

  71. 71.

    Kent

    @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.

  74. 74.

    JPL

    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

    @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.

  79. 79.

    Immanentize

    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

    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.

  82. 82.

    Amir Khalid

    @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

    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

  88. 88.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

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

  91. 91.

    Uncle Cosmo

    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.)

  93. 93.

    Mary G

    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

    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?

  96. 96.

    bucachon

    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.

  98. 98.

    Haydnseek

    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

    @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.

  106. 106.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @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

    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

    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

    @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

  112. 112.

    Ken

    @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

    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

    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.

  119. 119.

    Brachiator

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

  120. 120.

    Mary G

    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.

  122. 122.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @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!

  124. 124.

    Martin

    @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

    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

    @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.

  128. 128.

    JPL

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

  129. 129.

    Immanentize

    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)

  132. 132.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @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

    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.

  135. 135.

    Another Scott

    @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

    @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.

  140. 140.

    Ken

    @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

    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

    @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

    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)

  145. 145.

    Kent

    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.

  147. 147.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    @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.

  152. 152.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @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

    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

    @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

    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

    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.

  160. 160.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @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

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

     

    Perfect

  162. 162.

    The Pale Scot

    @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

    @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

    @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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