Trump says he plans to resume travel next week with trip to Arizona

[left-of-center2012]

President Trump on Wednesday said he plans to resume traveling next week with a trip to Arizona after spending the past month largely cloistered in the White House due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"I think I’m going to Arizona next week, and we look forward to that," he told reporters during a roundtable with business leaders.

"And I'm going to, I hope, Ohio very soon," he continued. "And we’re going to start to move around, and hopefully in the not too distant future we’ll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other."

"I hope that we’re going to be able to do some good old-fashioned 25,000-person rallies where everyone's going wild because they love our country," he said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/495350-trump-says-he-plans-to-resume-travel-next-week-with-trip-to-arizona

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Meanwhile, somewhere Charles Darwin is laughing his ass off.

[Caliman73]

15. I think we need to retire the Darwin jokes.

Darwin proposed the idea of evolution through natural selection as the idea that traits were selected for randomly based on small changes that advantaged certain members of a species and allowed them to procreate. Darwin's theory has been used to justify a great number of human activity and behaviors that Darwin himself did not approve of.

https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/charles-darwin-would-be-ashamed-of-social-darwinism

I understand the joke is that "stupid people take themselves out of the gene pool by their stupid choices" and it is ironic and amusing. The problem with this situation is that these idiotic Trump supporters do not exist in a vacuum. They live in society, with us. They go to the grocery store, they work in our offices, they are our auto mechanics, tax preparation people, our dentists, etc... They will crowd together defying health warnings, but then they will go back out into the community and use the bus, and ride elevators, or touch the handrails on the subway or pick up and put back that avocado the you put into your cart.

This is not social darwinism or Darwin's theory at all. This is a possible re activation of a pandemic that is slowly and painfully being contained through great sacrifice and pain by many people.

I don't mean this as a criticism or attack on you in any way. I really enjoy reading your posts. It is just something that I have been thinking on while reading responses that use Darwin Awards or mention Darwin when discussing the dangerous and foolish things that we do that put us into danger, and I just needed to put this out there.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. I understand completely, and also the fact that the idiots who

attend Trump's rallies and pass the bug around to each other will also pass it to the non-stupid people who don't attend and burden the health care system. The point was simply that people who do stupid things often do themselves in. I know perfectly well what Darwin really meant.

[Caliman73]

25. I am sure you do know what Darwin was about.

Totally get the reference to Darwin Award humor as well. I said down thread that if there was some way to isolate Trump supporters then I would applaud the decision to go to rallies and "let life happen".

This shit is just starting to get to me in a way I have been able to fend off before.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. The deal should be that Trump rally attendees can't leave the venue

for fourteen days. Once they're in they have to stay there. Maybe the Trump campaign could supply cots and cold sandwiches for them.

[Caliman73]

30. Yeah, except Trump doesn't even pay the regular costs of his rallies.

He has left cities with bills of 10's of thousands of dollars, stiffing them on electricity costs and security. One more thing for him to welch on is prediction of what would happen.

[Stuart G]

2. Did Trump really say this??Yes, I went to the link and this is what he said, .............

Last edited Wed Apr 29, 2020, 07:29 PM - Edit history (2)

according to the above link:


"....we’ll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other."

Grounds for impeachment in my opinion, and that statement alone is enough.

And somewhere, somehow, some Republicans will step forward on that statement..

That statement is so offensive, dangerous, and stupid that it stands by itself as grounds for impeachment &
that statement is proof that Trump wants to endanger lives at his rallies
gatherings.

If that can be proven, then it is all over for Trump..(and I do think that can be proven)...When you think you have seen it all, there is more..

...And Trump has gotten away with a whole lot, but this is too much. Deliberately saying people will sit close to each other during these dangerous times, is way beyond sane.
...........Saying this is the proof most of us need, to impeach again........
.............Trump is insane to say that........and he thinks he can get away with anything he says..

[leftieNanner]

3. Massive rallies? Great idea Donnie!

Bring all of those Trump voters into one space and cram them close together. That should reduce your electorate significantly by November.

Idiot.

[Chipper Chat]

18. And be sure to crank the AC up full blast.

And close all doors and windows. Let that virus-bloated air waft into every magat's nose. Make sure you bloviate for at least 2 hours bashing Hillary. That will stir up the virus-comtaminated air even more. Encourage chants like lock her up to get those vocal cords pushing infections onto 100% of your loyal sheep.

[Caliman73]

4. Goddamned idiot!

He is such a completely selfish asshole. He's going to start having rallies again to stroke his fragile ego and people are going to get sick and spread the virus to the rest of us.

I don't really care if people who go to Trump rallies get sick and suffer consequences for their stupid choices, but viruses do not discriminate and those stupid asses will end up in the grocery store next to you and I, and threaten our health.

[hlthe2b]

7. and infect Health Care Workers desperately trying to save their worthless, selfish lives.

[Caliman73]

21. Yeah. It strains credulity and emotion.

I find myself unable to even describe the feelings I have about this careless and dangerous idiot leading his stupid followers, and the rest of the country, off a cliff.

If there was a bubble that could be placed around them, I would say, "DEFINITELY, GO FOR IT. GOOD LUCK" but the problem is that I have cousins and other relatives who support him and while I have not seen them in months, if the country is basically forced back into "normalcy", there will be interactions with family and friends and office mates, etc... who support Trump or who have family that will go to these rallies and as you said, care providers who will inevitably have to treat them when they get sick. We will all suffer.

[riversedge]

5. Trump To Hold Rallies Soon With No Social Distancing

I seriously have to wonder why the Republicans have him on the ticket. damn



Posted on Wed, Apr 29th, 2020 by Jason Easley


Trump To Hold Rallies Soon With No Social Distancing


https://www.politicususa.com/2020/04/29/trump-to-hold-rallies-soon-with-no-social-distancing.html


Trump said that he plans to resume holding political rallies soon, and he will not be enforcing social distancing rules for his events.

Trump said, “I think I’m going to Arizona next week, and we look forward to that, and I’m going to, I hope to Ohio very soon, and we’re going to start to move around and hopefully in the not too distant future we’ll have some massive rallies, and people will be sitting next to each other I can’t imagine a rally where you would have every fourth seat full, every six seats are empty for everyone. That wouldn’t look too good.”

Video of Trump:
..........................

The decision on rallies isn’t up to Donald Trump. It will be up to governors of the states, who will be setting the rules on large public gatherings. There are red states like West Virginia, Alabama, Idaho, and Florida that would not mind Trump spreading the coronavirus in their state.

Health experts have warned that mass public gatherings will be one of the last things to come back online, but Trump wants his rallies, and he is willing to endanger public health to boost his self-esteem.

[crickets]

6. Welp, we all knew this was coming.

He can't live without his rallies, where he can say anything and get a cheer. I pity the idiots who show up because some of them are going to die for it.

[HarlanPepper]

12. Oh well.

[sheshe2]

8. Please shake lots and lots of hands!!

🤗 too!!!!

[Hekate]

9. That selfish, selfish *hole

[jberryhill]

20. Shush

Zip it

[Tech]

10. Where was the last rally that had 25,000 people at it?

[mr_lebowski]

13. So, the Vulgar Talking Yam is coming HERE? Oy Vey ...

[vsrazdem]

14. Ok, please do come to AZ. Your large crowds will only mean less Repub voters in November.

[msongs]

16. one can hope he will wade deep into the crowd and mingle for an hour or so nt

[jberryhill]

19. Yes!

[tazkcmo]

22. Nice to get good news

I hope he's surrounded by his umasked, shouting and cheering gaggle of MAGAts, all breathing heavily.

Yes. Very good news.

[Luz]

23. He's addicted to his rallies. He's about to pop for his fix.

He doesn't care who he hurts, he NEEDS them.

[sdfernando]

24. I'm hoping you'll get COVID-19 and suffer horribly before you die...

and we look forward to that....and I'm hoping too that the 25,000-person rallie where everyone is going wild is because it was just announced on the news that you are dead!

[niyad]

26. May they all infect and kill each other. I demand that every rally goer, every person near him,

has to sign a waiver saying he/she/it will neither seek nor accept medical care for the virus, or, indeed, ANY health problem.

[niyad]

28. I wonder how many USMA cadets will sicken, possibly die. And how much contagion will they

spread as they go to their assignments.

[Girard442]

31. About a thousand cadets will graduate from West Point.

Barring some miracle, it seems like a sure bet that some of those graduates will die of COVID-19 contracted because they appeared as ordered by Trump.

On edit: I'm going to say that Trump gets a sick satisfaction to see that he can order West Pointers to pointlessly risk their lives and they will do it.

[niyad]

29. Is he still a murderer if these covidiots go along willingly (even if stupidly)?