FIVE effing TAXPAYER-FUNDED "MAGA Rallies" this week. You heard correctly. FIVE.

[Miles Archer]

Republicans are at risk of losing control of Congress in the Nov. 6 elections, which could impede Trump’s goals to clamp down on immigration, cut taxes, approve new bilateral trade deals, and invest in infrastructure.

Allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, have complicated his confirmation proceedings, disappointing conservative voters and energizing Democrats. Kavanaugh denies the accusations.

Trump travels first to Wheeling, West Virginia on Saturday, where Republicans are trying to unseat Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, one of a handful of senators seen as key swing votes that will determine Kavanaugh’s appointment.

Trump will then hold evening rallies in Johnson City, Tennessee on Monday; Southaven, Mississippi on Tuesday; Rochester, Minnesota on Thursday; and Topeka, Kansas next Saturday.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/trump-heads-five-state-rally-blitz-amid-supreme-court-chaos/

[WhiteTara]

1. It calms him and he'll forget about

the nuclear football that goes with him.

[Beartracks]

2. Why the f*k are taxpayers paying for Trump to hold his partisan "rallies"?

[Frustratedlady]

3. Those trips are supposed to be paid for by the GOP.

They tried to pin Obama on billing the tax payers, but he was paying through the Democratic fun. If he had a visit on business, the dept. figured out how much went to campaigning and how much to business.

There should be somewhere to find out if we are paying for these trips. There have been many and they are mainly Democratic-bashing rallies.

[Miles Archer]

9. I've posted a few articles on DU...

...the gist is that we are not paying 100%, but we are most certainly paying. Part of the way he "offsets" the cost is to schedule some "official" business on the same day and location as his "rally."

[Frustratedlady]

10. Yes, but they are supposed to divide those out. I'm sure Obama had to do so.

There is somewhere you can find the information but I don't have a clue where it would be.

Same with those golf trips...his kids' trips, etc. We can't survive on what his presidency has cost us in lost time and expenses. Just look at the cost of investigating, for one. The cost of immigration and that damned wall. The waste in his departments in illegal travel charges, fancy office décor, etc.

All that should be exposed before the election. I realize he isn't running, but those that are have looked away when he has pulled his shenanigans when they should have been supervising. They are as guilty as Trump.

[shanny]

4. Rumpy's feeling the pressure

and needs his blankie.

[vlyons]

5. I want to see long wide-angle pics of the venue

to see how many empty seats there are. Hope there are lots of pink pussy hats in the audience too.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. I've been bitching about this since the first one. Here's a story about how Tangerine Wanker...

didn't even want to pay for his WH transition team.

Could he be impeached for using his office and WH funds for purely political purposes?

[Achilleaze]

7. republicans squandering our hard-earned tax dollars to pamper Dirty Donny*s ego

sick waste of our tax dollars.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[maxrandb]

8. At this point

a bunch of hayseeds from Dumbfuckistan, 'Murika sitting around drinking warm PBR and bragging about how good their sisters are in bed is NOT going to be enough to save Donnie Fungus Dick

[lpbk2713]

11. They're on a roll.

They think nothing can stop them now.

[The Genealogist]

12. You know, these rallies remind me of something from a movie

Soapdish. A 1990s favorite of mine. The main character is a soap opera star. When she is feeling badly about herself, one of the writers takes her to the mall in Paramus, NJ. There, she is flocked by people who know her character from the show, and beg her for autographs. She is recharged by this attention. Really, that is what these rallies are for. Whenever Trump's ego is bruised, the send him out to these wingnut rallies. where the mindless automaton deplorables gather to fluff his ego.

[Jersey Devil]

13. A Republican rally in Mississippi and Kansas should tell us something

At this late stage in the game he's going to tomato red Mississippi?

[HipChick]

14. We should attend those rallies, like Plaid Boy...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

16. Yeah, and just look really unenthused.

Would be kind of a weird experience. If it ever comes to my area, and I can make it, maybe I'd go and do that and also take pictures of the loser Trump supporters.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

15. The people the go to the rallies should pay for it,

but I don't think they would go if they had to pay.