Again my general rule is to not bring up something fuckface said unless it's admissible aaaaaaand https://t.co/G50NtJcFRD
— zeddy (@Zeddary) October 9, 2022
If you’re covering the rally in Minden, NV today, hear a siren blare this evening and are curious about the setting, here’s the @AP story on the fight over the town’s sundown siren, a “living piece of historical trauma”
(& a photo from @trevbex)https://t.co/gxxLaQsXHP pic.twitter.com/hcqiJoioKU
— Sam Metz (@metzsam) October 8, 2022
We’re never going to be rid of Trump supporters, but if we can hold the line this November, we can reduce their political impact to that of similar cultists for Lyndon LaRouche or Scientology…
I’m in Minden, Nevada for a Donald Trump rally to support gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo and Adam Laxalt for senate. Over 100 in line. Doors open at 2. Local candidates speaking 1st. Trump takes stage at 7. People here from NV, California, Idaho & Michigan. @KUNRPublicRadio pic.twitter.com/jtUYsHRhW4
— Lucia Starbuck (@luciastarbuck) October 8, 2022
(Ergo, people who are not voting for Nevada candidates — if they bother voting at all.)
@VoteJimMarchant, a 2020 election denier, is running for Nevada Secretary of State. On stage, he calls for electing “MAGA SOS candidates,” in other states like Arizona. Says he wants to use paper ballots with “counterfeit measures,” and hand-count the vote. pic.twitter.com/7hgHu4xTHQ
— Lucia Starbuck (@luciastarbuck) October 9, 2022
Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald said at #DonaldTrump #SaveAmericaRally about 2020 Minden library protests that #BLM protesters “brought picket signs, we brought ARs.” He said he doesn’t believe in violence but “I’m sick of being stepped on.” pic.twitter.com/HDtEDzCwfR
— Mark Robison (@GreaterReno) October 9, 2022
And the "lock her up" chant begins.
People surely came to hear Trump talk about how "they lied" to the FISA court.
"The conclusion is no collusion. You think Biden could say that?"
"The perfect phone call"
"Impeachment hoax"
Man, a cavalcade of old grievances tonight.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 9, 2022
Other presidents took millions of documents and they are coming after him, Trump laments.
Now on to the Clintons and acid washing.
And Bush 41 put his docs in a bowling alley/Chinese restaurant.
And the FBI violated the Fourth Amendment "and many other things" with the raid.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 9, 2022
I may be wrong here, and it's possible my analysis may be flawed, but:
I don't think Trump has gotten over losing to Biden.#punditry
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 9, 2022
Trump urges everyone to vote on Election Day.
Going to be interesting to see if there is a biog dropoff in early voting this cycle.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 9, 2022
Getting to the end, he's reading the prepared stuff about "Ne-vah-duh" and now he's talking about the US as a "failing nation" with the sad music playing, "egregious" voting irregularities and "a president who is cognitively impaired."
"Fake news" is "the enemy of the people."
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 9, 2022
Local paper, the Record Courier, reports:
… “You’re going to send Joe Lombardo to the Governor’s Mansion and you’re going to send Adam Laxalt to the Senate and we’re going to end the crazy,” he told the crowd at the Minden Airport. “It’s the only way to end this madness if you want to watch the decline and fall of America and save the American Dream.”
He added that, “it’s best to vote on election day. It’s much harder for them to cheat that way.”
Trump charged that he won both in 2016 and again in 2020, saying he won by “millions of votes” in 2020 but the election was stolen from him.
According to official certified results, he lost by more than 7.5 million votes…
Trump spoke for nearly 90 minutes to about 5,000 attendees...
The Crazification Factor, live & in person…
Woman at Trump rally today says she loves Putin because he is cleaning out the American bio weapons labs in Ukraine: “I love Putin! He’s a good president, #2 of the presidents” after Trump. pic.twitter.com/jd7CuJGzUs
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 8, 2022
James E Powell
We – meaning the whole country, not us here – blew our chance to do this in 2016. We cannot afford to blow it again.
dmsilev
My Batshit-crazy to English translator is broken. Can anyone interpret this?
bbleh
Cults will be cults.
I get the “vote harder” joke, but the way we win is to get out the vote, both us and those we know.
JMG
@dmsilev: While the Bush Library was being built, documents that would eventually be put in it were in a nearby warehouse that at one time had been the site of a Chinese restaurant and bowling alley. Said documents were under the control of National Archives for all that time.
MagdaInBlack
It’s the same crap he drones on and on about at every rally. He may toss in a new grievance or 2, but its just all the same whining. Every. Damn. Time.
Elizabelle
These people are trolls, who belong under the rocks under the bridge. All of them.
japa21
If only Pfizer or Moderna could come up with a vaccine against the crazy and it lasted lifelong and was mandated to be given at birth.
Geminid
I knew trump had a rally yesterday, but I didn’t see any clips until I ran into one posted by former US Attorney Joyce Vance White. It was 8 seconds of trump whining over some yarn about the elder Bush handing secrets over to the Chinese, in a former bowling alley. White commented this was the kind of talk she’s heard guilty criminals make.
I thought trump sounded like Bogart’s Fred C. Dobbs, from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
And I’m sure this woman considers herself an American patriot. For the sake of argument, she’s cheerleading an enemy country destroying our “bio labs” (which of course don’t exist in the sense they think they do). Think about that. Never mind the horrific murder of thousands of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian military, including hospitals, or the documented war crimes they’ve committed.
Fuck that piece of shit. Send her over to Izium and Bucha to show her the mass graves. Show her the devastated cities
dmsilev
@JMG: That’s impressive for its combination of historical trivia and complete and utter idiocy.
Thanks, I think.
Gin & Tonic
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): She “loves” him, yet I’ll bet the farm she couldn’t name two (actual, true) facts about him.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
trump constantly bringing up all his old hits reminds me of Al Bundy and his high school football days
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): If she loves him so much, she ought to skedaddle on over to russia to fight for him.
MagdaInBlack
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Pretty much same mentality.
Baud
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
Four touchdowns in a single game is pretty impressive.
zhena gogolia
@Geminid: Have a little respect for Bogart!
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: What is her accent? It doesn’t sound Russian.
She puts the wrong stress on “Putin.” She sounds German to me!
prostratedragon
“I may be wrong here, and it’s possible my analysis may be flawed, but:
I don’t think Trump has gotten over losing to Biden.”
Now now, no need to go rushing to any conclusions here.
Steeplejack
Re Trump and documents:
Suzanne
@dmsilev: INORITE?! Their specific flavor of crazy feels like the kind of in-group lingo adopted by middle schoolers. Also roughly that intellectual.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: I don’t dare listen to those people.
Steeplejack
@dmsilev:
No translation available or necessary. You’re getting the undiluted Trump feed.
Baud
@dmsilev:
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: It’s very bizarre.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Maybe she’s saying she loves poutine.
mrmoshpotato
@japa21:
Then we’d have universal healthcare like every other developed country on this planet!
Also FUCK RONALD REAGAN!
Ivan X
Man I wish I hadn’t read this post. I feel like my brain has been poisoned all over again.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack: That’s what it sounds like. Stress should be on the first syllable. Better yet, Putler is what many people are calling him these days.
dmsilev
@Baud: Yeah, that never made much sense even back when that episode first aired.
frosty
@Steeplejack: Poutine was my first thought when I heard the pronunciation was wrong. Not German, Canadian, eh?
Citizen Alan
@japa21: I still hold out hope that eventually, science will develop a drug that cures sociopathy. The GOP would cease to exist overnight.
Citizen Alan
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): She would laugh. She’s evil. They all are.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Gin & Tonic:
I’d second that bet. Probably reads Russian agitprop and far-right crap all day
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
Exactly 💯
phdesmond
@zhena gogolia: i propose the variant Putzler.
Ohio Mom
@zhena gogolia: I am also curious about the source of her accent, not that it makes a difference in the end. She says she “grew up 40 years under Russia,” so maybe East Germany or another satellite country? At any rate, she has less excuse for being in Trump’s cult than our native born fellow citizens.
Tony G
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): On February 20, 1939 — about six years after Hitler took power in Germany — more than 20,000 people joined a pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Logically, there must have been — at least — tens of thousands of other American Nazi supporters throughout the country. The American Putin supporters in the present day are the modern equivalent. There has always been a sizable portion of the U.S. population that are just garbage people. Trump (of all people) is just the catalyst for those people.
JoyceH
I saw a snippet of news about these people who attend Trump rallies. Apparently there’s some sort of token passed out – not sure if it’s buttons or patches or decals or what, but anyway, these folks collect them, and then show them off at subsequent rallies – some people have dozens of tokens, one person had 80 of them. Eighty! Since Trump has only been doing rallies for six or seven years, that’s more than ten a year.
James E Powell
@Citizen Alan:
She would blame Joe Biden. And Hillary.
Ksmiami
/@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Sorry Maga women are cu;:s’ – these people don’t deserve to be Americans. Half the time they aren’t even human beings just Fox zombies with nary a brain cell
Dan B
@Ksmiami: Thats not nice to say!
/s. Just in case.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Baud: The Panthers could use him right about now. (Says the currently smug 49ers fan.)
Splitting Image
@zhena gogolia:
Put
inout seems to be the popular one in my neck of the woods.Tony G
@JoyceH: It’s a hobby for fascists with otherwise empty lives. Pathetic little people.
Tony G
@Splitting Image: The way that Extra-Special Military Operation is going, Putin may soon be more popular in the U.S. than he is in Russia.
mrmoshpotato
Anyone come across British announcers on today’s NFL game, or was it just American announcers?
Jackie
A significant number of dtrump rally attenders are equivalent to Deadheads: they go rally to rally – but can only vote once: in whatever state they’re registered to vote in. Plus a lot of these attendees don’t vote. At all.
mrmoshpotato
@Jackie:
I’ve thought that too, but didn’t want to insult Deadheads. :)
Matt McIrvin
SHIT SOMEONE STILL HAS A FUCKING SUNDOWN SIREN
I guess it’s not 100% surprising that in the town in question, the non-whites they were oppressing were Native Americans.
I still remember a conversation my dad had with me when I was little about confronting his own internal racism. He described talking to a white Southerner when he was young, back in the 1950s or so, and asking him how they could do all those things to Black people, and the guy fired back at him that in his own Nebraska town they had exactly the same kind of segregationist restrictions on Natives, right down to the whites-only restrooms. And Dad said he had never even thought about that before that moment. That they’d thought of these human beings as subhuman and it was just a background assumption of life.
The extent to which Jim Crow was replicated in the 20th century for Native Americans seems like it’s still under-discussed today. (Though this in particular is more a Northern-segregationist thing.)
Ksmiami
@Dan B: lol… I hope we can cure stupid
James E Powell
@Jackie:
What is galling is that the press continues to portray them as decent, God-loving, RealAmericans® with legitimate grievances and who are definitely not racists.
Jeffro
“hand-counted paper ballots with ‘counterfeit measures’ “…seriously, fuck these people.
Why, it’s almost like these fine folks simply cannot BELIEVE that their excellent worldviews and support for the corrupt orange clown aren’t being coming through at the ballot box!!
(Narrator: that’s EXACTLY what it is)
(the orange Jesus made them feel like The Exalted Ones for a little while, back in the deepest recesses of their little lizard brains, and they’d do ANYTHING go get that back)
Matt McIrvin
@Jackie:
Imagining a “hold my beer” here.
MisterDancer
To swipe from Game of Thrones, The North Does Not, In Fact, Remember. And that’s core to a lot of issues around how America, as a whole, ignores it’s Racial issues across a wide and painful spectrum.
Matt McIrvin
…”to honor first responders”, Jesus. Does anyone actually buy that? I’m still mad about that.
mrmoshpotato
@Matt McIrvin: Is that something from the Soviet shitpile’s fascist blathering?
Matt McIrvin
@mrmoshpotato: From the town with the sundown siren. They claim the reason they still set off the “brown people get out of town” siren every evening is “to honor first responders”.
eclare
@Ksmiami: As Ron White says, you can’t fix stupid.
Jackie
@eclare: As they’re asking a buddy to hold their beer.
mrmoshpotato
@Matt McIrvin: That’s deplorable.
Jackie
@James E Powell: Not ALL press. A lot, to be sure, but for the most part, msnbc doesn’t, nor all of cnn.
Jackie
@mrmoshpotato: I apologize to Deadheads.
Mike in NC
The Trump groupies who flock to all of his hate rallies are known as “Front Row Joes”. Sad!
Geoduck
I’m assuming this is the same rally where this pathetic bit of weirdness occurred..
Craig
@JoyceH: these people are Deadheads. Way higher than Deadheads ever were, and high on hatred and racism.
Brachiator
@Baud:
That was a noble adventure. This is more… Shaka, when the walls fell.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Friend and I used to sometimes employ “Temba, his middle finger extended.”
;)
Another Scott
Meanwhile, …
Thread.
(via nycsouthpaw)
Cheers,
Scott.
SFAW
@Baud:
“Baud … his
pantseyes wide open”UncleEbeneezer
@Matt McIrvin: Heather McGhee’s Sum of Us podcast on Spotify has an episode all about this Sundown Siren in Minden, NV. The state of Nevada passed a ban on this sort of thing so the city changed it to be a siren to honor First Responders like last year and now all the White People are like “It’s not even about racism” as a justification for keeping it. Sadly one of the Tribal elders (Washone, I think) even went along with that bullshit.
Danielx
@JoyceH:
Deadheads are, generally speaking, a lot easier to get along with.
NotMax
@UncleEbeneezer
Without any reservations about it.
//
zzyzx
As a Deadhead (and someone who goes on Phish tour), this Deadhead comparison is bullshit. The whole point is that the Dead never played the same show twice. Going on Trump tour is like seeing Harry Styles play the same songs every night.
Paul in KY
@Tony G: You nailed em, Tony!
schrodingers_cat
OT BJP is slowly laying the ground for genocide in India and the world simply yawns. Never again has become again and again.
A sitting BJP MP is asking Hindus to boycott Muslim businesses in Delhi in a public meeting.
Paul in KY
@UncleEbeneezer: If that’s the case, it shouldn’t go off at ‘sundown’. Pick some other random time of day.