Imagine the mood of the rally attendees tonight

[NanceGreggs]

Many of them slept on the street for days in order to get seats in a half-full arena, where they had to sit through twenty minutes of brainless rambling about slippery ramps, followed by being told that their “pResident” wanted Covid testing slowed down so that he wouldn’t look bad, and a lecture about how the ‘radical lefties’ in the street had prevented attendees from getting inside – despite the fact that the people who did get inside know that didn’t happen.

I think there’s a lot of ”I stood on line for this shit!?! going on right now.

[Ahpook]

1. Yes, I don't get it

How do these people listen to this bullshit.

It is mind blowing

[SoonerPride]

2. You would be wrong.

They got to see their messiah. They are enthralled.

This is the greatest moment in their meager lives and one they will brag about to their friends and co-workers down at the Tastee Freeze.

[NanceGreggs]

8. They sure don't look 'enthralled' ...

... in the audience shots that have been televised all evening.

[katmondoo]

13. Several were eating popcorn while Trump was speaking. No real excitement in the audience.

[lastlib]

33. Well, Nance, you have to discount for the dull vapid stare they normally have........

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Is That All There is?

[RockRaven]

4. Unfortunately I suspect there will be a LOT less of that insight happening than

one would hope...

[Cha]

5. Lol.. all they got was a lousy lecture on

what Wimps magats are.

And, droning on WaterGait & how "handsome" mr Ugly is.

[louis-t]

6. Imagine the mood? Imagine the smell!

[NanceGreggs]

16. No kiddin'!

Read an account this morning by someone covering the line-up outside - said people were literally pissing and shitting in the street rather than risk losing their place in line, and the stench was overwhelming.

[Crowman2009]

21. Oh man, that gives an idea for a song parody!

*

[Crowman2009]

24. Drumpf is here and the time is right....

....for shittin' in the street!

See if any of you can add some more lyrics. Just make sure to use the names of horribly red areas of the country.

[Chipper Chat]

43. My shit is Alabamy bound.

Just hose it thru Arkansas and around...

[Blue Owl]

7. Just wait until they start having trouble tasting things

[Miguelito Loveless]

38. Yes, the Kool-Aid will taste bitter then

[cornball 24]

9. Lotsa cultists lookin' real miserable!

[jimlup]

10. Doubt it ... these 10000 are such sheep they won't have that particular thought

because convincing evidence shows that they don't think.

[NanceGreggs]

19. You don't have to 'think' ...

... in order to be pissed-off.

[jimlup]

23. Yes I just saw an interview on MSNBC...

A guy who drove up from Texas. He could hardly put a sentence together but he still seemed to realize he'd been had.

[flibbitygiblets]

41. Was that the magat who got pepper sprayed? That was LOL funny.

And kinda sad. If it's the guy I'm thinking of, they asked him what he hoped to hear, and he said he wanted manufacturing jobs (I believe). Then they asked, what did you get out of this, and he said "I got pepper sprayed".

I just about did a spit-take.

[jimlup]

48. Exactly that guy...

I don't know how much play it will get (I saw it rerun a few minutes later) but it was a very interesting interview.

I actually think that that particular guy was reachable. But we need to not repeat the mistakes of the past and try analytic arguments. It's all about emotions.

Nevertheless, we really don't need to worry about converting tRumpers. All we really have to do is get our voters to vote and then to have their votes accurately counted.

[flibbitygiblets]

51. It was an interesting interview. He said he'd never voted before 2016

and the reason he voted was against HRC (did I hear him say "I worked for her in the State Dept"? ...yikes...).

But more than that, it got me thinking about the non-racist, non-fundie R's, and what does motivate them. This guy's answer: Jobs. Good paying jobs was what this guy came to hear about, and all he got was a bunch of self-serving whining capped off by a dose of what it feels like to get treated less than human by the police for the crime of showing up.

Good paying jobs with benefits were in short supply in the poorer areas of the country before COVID. Trump hasn't done anything to bring back those "beautiful" coal jobs, or manufacturing (not even masks, SMH). Democrats have an opportunity here, and a problem. We need to really make America great, with jobs to rebuild our infrastructure, our electric grid, all kinds of stuff like that. Obama did some of this after the crash of '08, and it worked really well. We're going to need a lot more of that, and a vision and a plan for long term job generation. That's going to peel away a bunch of Republicans, the ones who are gettable anyway. The racists, fundies/crazies, and the tax abolitionists will never change.

[sheshe2]

11. Hey donnie?

Uuuugh fail.

[mucifer]

12. I will bet the mainstream news sources will normalize him as they always do They will

edit a few coherent soundbites for the newscast.

[NanceGreggs]

22. I've been watching the CNN coverage ...

... and there is no 'normalizing' going on. The clips they've played over and over are of the Dotard's most egregious remarks.

[Thomas Hurt]

14. Nope, this people are stupid and magical thinkers, fanatics...

everything the Pig says is the truth, if people produce facts that show he is lying...well, there is a conspiracy for everything.

[Grasswire2]

15. Four freaking days, some of them!

Can you imagine the stench??

[babylonsister]

17. Stood on line and/or slept here. If there's not, there should be.

And I didn't even watch, but am catching the re-cap. I hope troublemakers don't screw up the end of this 'rally'.

And is that 'in line'?

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. Watching video of the cult leaving the arena reminded me of basketball fans leaving their home arena

after their team put on a pitiful performance and got drubbed by their arch rival.

[NanceGreggs]

20. Watching it now ...

... and your assessment is dead on!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

26. And, they will be taking COVID-19 to church with them tomorrow.

Telling everyone in Sunday School they got to see their messiah.

KY............

[C_U_L8R]

25. Just imagine their mood in two weeks.

[gristy]

27. OMG

Yes, indeed.

[PufPuf23]

28. I certainly hope there was eye openings by the attendees in Tulsa.

Certainly some attendees may have come to a realization that their hero is a POS.

But way too many are way far gone past funny or weird but long term dangerous to the nation, World, and theor own communities and families.

[NanceGreggs]

29. I think there's been a lot ...

... of 'eye opening' of late. Trump's poll numbers are in free-fall - and that means his 'base' is eroding.

[PufPuf23]

32. I understand that a large segment of Trump's support is imploding.

Trump is willing to destroy the GOP.

So there are rational members of the GOP that see the party's potential death rattle but there are way too many useful idiots that will fall again and again for evil. Why? Because their world view is institutionalized.

The question now is just how bad will things get before Trump is gone. And unfortunately the people that are open to and vote and otherwise support something like Trump are still there. We are fortunate that Trump is such an incurious narcistic dullard.

[Miguelito Loveless]

36. Rational members of the GOP?

Not so’s you’d notice.

[not_the_one]

39. Trump is willing to destroy the GOP...

FINALLY I am able to wish him success with something...



And there are no longer any rational members of the GOP. They jumped that shark the day he was nominated.

I hope that he will completely destroy them for decades, if not forever. They no longer deserve any serious consideration as a valid political party.

The same with the fundigelicals. They are a laughing stock. A joke. May they fade into obscurity as rational and critical thinking takes hold again.

[PufPuf23]

47. Who I term the "rational" GOP are those like

The Lincoln Project.

I don't trust them at all, just positioning for the future.

[herding cats]

30. Nah, the fools who did that bought his schtick full on.

They think there were mean people who kept others from entering and that they were so lucky to avoid them.

They're extremely shallow thinkers. Sadly, you're giving them way more credit here than they deserve.

[Midnightwalk]

31. Waiting for days to get into a half empty rally

The story about the teens reserving tickets makes it even better.

The bs claim that they had one million ticket requests just make it better too. Less than 10 thousand showed up.

If they had claimed 40k tickets some 3 out of 4 went to a spoofer. The one million claim means 99 percent of the tickets went to a spoofer. If the claim was true. I love it when a lie winds up making it worse.

[BGBD]

34. Is it just me...

or does claiming that his rally was ruined by protesters make him look weak?

I thought he said the protesters would be easily dealt with.

[catbyte]

40. Yeah, I thought he threatened them; that he'd "dominate" them with overwhelming force. Hahaha.

[Miguelito Loveless]

35. They got to see there god

Their hatred for all things not them is renewed.

[Music Man]

37. Nope, they loved that shit.

A half-empty arena with an unhinged man going on and on about ramps and slowing down Covid testing is EXACTLY what they signed up for.

[Historic NY]

42. 20- minutes no 2 hrs

Trump slipping...or the drugs don't work anymore

[SunSeeker]

44. Are they tired of winning yet?

[relayerbob]

45. The real question is ....

how many of that audience were paid to be there?

[SeattleVet]

46. And after they got into the rally, there was only halfhearted cheering and chanting

They couldn't even get a hearty 'Sleepy Joe', 'Lock Her Up', or even a 'USA! USA! USA!' going for more than a few seconds. It was like the 'crowd' (such as it was) just really wasn't into it at all.

Major infighting going on over in freeperville about why it was so empty. Some are trying to push the idea that the venue was limiting attendance to 50% capacity and had blocked off the upper level, when you could clearly see that this was not the situation. Instead of the rally attendance they're boosting the online viewership, without knowing why people watched. (I admit it - I watched it, hoping to see him go even more off the rails than he did. He seemed very reserved compared to what I was expecting. Maybe the Xanax did a little better at counteracting the Adderall tonight.)

[uponit7771]

49. +1, "they're boosting the online viewership," ditto as if that can't be botted. The responses on

... mixed aisle forums coming from MAGAts is hilarious as if people can't see this crap happening real time.

[malaise]

50. Less than half filled

6,200

[greenjar_01]

52. A lot of those in attendance will deny having been there to their friends and family

It was a humiliating display. Who wants a loser jacket like that?