***NOTE***: K-Pop story has a couple of big holes in it; No set ticket limit and the empty overflow

[uponit7771]

***NOTE***: K-Pop story has a couple of big holes in it; No set ticket limit and the empty overflow

EDIT: I looks like there was no set ticket limit so whom ever was spoofing tickets could've spoofed 2 trillion of them if they wanted to the people who wanted to be there would've shown up en masse to fill the arena if the demand was there.

NO... Do ... LET the polling companies off the hook !!

Make polling companies explain how in the hell could Red Don not fill 20,000 seats in the reddest state in the union.

Also, if it was about a static amount of tickets the overflow would've at least had 1,000 people there it had NO ONE but the take down crew.

No, this was horrible for trump seeing Oklahoma is more reliable red than Alabama yes, there are tons of black republicans in OK.

Look Obama can get 20,000 people to show up in north eastern Mississippi with 2 days notice to watch him switch shoes.

When a person is popular they will pull crowds and diverse ones too.

This was Red Don's "Open UP" rally, it has LITTLE to do with K-pop emptying the stadium they couldn't logistically do it seeing there wasn't a set amount of ticketing and the overflow was empty.

Trump had a really bad night in a really red state

Your take?

tia

[captain queeg]

1. I was wondering where his African American was

You know if a single one showed up he’d be sitting right behind trump.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The online ticket distribution was mostly to harvest email addresses,

and the number given out that way hypothetically could have been infinite because it was always a first-come-first-in arrangement. The people who wanted to be there were there and the online ticketing didn't make any difference. The actual demand was for a bit less than 6,200.

[uponit7771]

3. Ah, so there's this too... There wasn't a set amount of ticketing

[Nevilledog]

5. +1,000,000 (give or take some kpop supporters)

[Raine]

10. Exactly! nt

[Nevilledog]

4. My take is they couldn't get 19k to show up.

There was no limit on requests for tickets.

The only effect of the spoofing was to make them look like idiots bragging that a MILLION people wanted to come to the rally.

THEY COULDN'T GET 19k ACTUAL TRUMP SUPPORTERS TO SHOW UP

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. And Brad Parscale was righteously punked.

Wonder how much longer he'll have a job?

[Nevilledog]

9. Here's the thing.

If he fires Pascale he's admitting it was a giant clusterfuck.
If he keeps Pascale they can blame the disaster on the spoofing, or invisible ninja protesters.

Fucking up so badly might, in a twisted way, be job security.

[fleur-de-lisa]

20. But he's already pissed off at Parscale.

He was shouting at him a few weeks ago because he didn’t like their internal poll numbers and he was totally pissed off about the article that detailed how much money Parscale made from the campaign since 2016. It listed several multi-million dollar homes and Ferrari’s. Dump was pissed not just because Parscale was making so much money but also because of the publicity from the article. Dump has to have the spotlight. Ask Scaramucci.

[Nevilledog]

22. But most of that was speculation and unnamed sources. Easier to deny.

This colossal fuck up was broadcast live and the incessant bragging about ticket requests was spread out to everyone in his sphere.

I hope he doesn't fire Pascale. We might end up dealing with Rove.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, and in the reddest state in union. The polling companies have some answering to do, kGOP ...

... heads need to look at what happened and try and think long and hard about supporting Trump going forward

[onetexan]

26. But a damn effective spoof that made the Idiot's campaigne staff look like fools bragging about it.

Hands down whatever the kids did it worked. They managed to punk the Idiot & his enablers.

[Nevilledog]

27. It really is glorious how stupid the kids made them look.

[Raine]

8. I agree, give credit where credit is due ... even Trump supporters were

not so dumb they were willing to risk Corona Virus and protesters to hear him ramble on for an hour and forty minutes!

[RockRaven]

11. While it didn't deprive anyone access/tickets, it could have lowered turnout anyway

Parscale claimed 800K ticket requests, and Trump later inflated that to 1M. Even accounting for Trumpian BS-ing in those numbers, the idea of a crowd of 100K+ could have caused a bunch of people to stay away.

[uponit7771]

12. Not republicans, they mostly don't think CV19 is a big deal. This doesn't bode well for the economy

... either.

There are a couple of large implications when it comes to this rally, its a canary in the coal mine.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Meaning They Still Screwed It Up

Even assuming you're dead on, it's illogical to announce attendance expectations of 780,000 to 980,000 above capacity and think that won't dissuade some potential attendees.
The prank would have meant nothing if Parscale & PINO would kept their big mouths shut.
It wasn't kids on tiktok. It was their own fault!

[roamer65]

13. My take?

We are gonna flip states like TX.

[uponit7771]

14. +1, right !? There's something wrong with the polling if Trump can't pull more than 10,000 people in

... the reddest state in the union to a free event ON A SATURDAY !!

Look at the implications for the economy !?

[C_U_L8R]

15. Simply, the magats stayed home.

They don't care enough for trump to get out of the house... and those that believe there is a virus certainly won't risk their health for him. The rest are just lazy and not that into him.

[Mariana]

16. The K-Pop story is that they made the Trump campaign look like utter fools.

There's nothing wrong with that.

[fleur-de-lisa]

21. Exactly. And I am loving every minute of it!

[JI7]

17. What K Pop did was raise their expectations of a huge turnout. But the lack of a turnout

was because MAGASHITS just didn't come out in large numbers for their own reasons.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. Philip Bump: it's worth noting that TikTok has rumored ties to the Chinese government.

I doubt turnout was a function of this troll but if it led to Trump foolishly hyping expectations it’s worth noting that TikTok has rumored ties to the Chinese government.

Reporting teens to submitting his campaign isn’t the help Trump wanted from them.

Link to tweet

[malaise]

19. Here's the bottom line

When you tell your base that Covid-19 is a hoax then tell them if they catch it at his rally, neither the Con nor his goons are liable, even your deplorables will have second thoughts.

What a fucking flop!

[lame54]

23. You're looking at it wrong...

True they did not affect the actual turnout

They did fuel the constant pre-rally bragging which they believed to be true

That build up falling flat is the real failure

[Happy Hoosier]

24. That makes it even worse...

No one wanted to come!