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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 09:03 AM Jun 2020

OOFF

Andrew Little, the Public Information Officer for the Tulsa Fire Department, confirmed to Forbes on Sunday that a tally taken by the fire marshal clocked the turnout at just under 6,200 people, far fewer attendees than the campaign expected.
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OOFF (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2020 OP
Less than 1/3 of capacity. Squinch Jun 2020 #1
Cheeto Mussolini comes up short again... Alacritous Crier Jun 2020 #2
LOL. mercuryblues Jun 2020 #3
Are the crowd size images hinting at the size of their pee pees? KS Toronado Jun 2020 #7
What!!?? Happy Hoosier Jun 2020 #8
The little mushroom helped KS Toronado Jun 2020 #10
I'm SHOCKED! Happy Hoosier Jun 2020 #11
Beautiful! mcar Jun 2020 #4
They fantasized about 20K inside and an overflow audience of at least Mike 03 Jun 2020 #5
Calamity. How can the coming failure's top this? Stay tuned. jaxexpat Jun 2020 #6
I think COVID had a lot to do with it. And Trumpsters hypocricy and lack of courage. LiberalLovinLug Jun 2020 #9

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
5. They fantasized about 20K inside and an overflow audience of at least
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 09:46 AM
Jun 2020

forty thousand (to possibly sixty thousand), so it's not hyperbole to classify this as a calamity.

jaxexpat

(6,804 posts)
6. Calamity. How can the coming failure's top this? Stay tuned.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 11:35 AM
Jun 2020

See how total lack of enthusiasm effects a national political campaign. Most people (and I mean MOST people) just want this all over with. But it will putter along.
Could end up (like Nixon before him) that there won't be enough energy left after January for retribution. That would be a terrible shame.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,165 posts)
9. I think COVID had a lot to do with it. And Trumpsters hypocricy and lack of courage.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:18 PM
Jun 2020

I think many like to talk a big game. That they don't need no stinkin' masks. That its all a hoax. But when push comes to shove, literally, they take the side of self-preservation. The old, "its fine if its happening to the Other, but when it affects me or my family...."

I predicted this low turnout, and said it would be a lack of courage, because of the COVID virus fears for large crowds. And knowing that they'd be called out if they were one of the few wearing a mask so they first were afraid of the taunts if the did protect themselves, and knew they'd have to attend without one, and thus expose themselves. I was criticized by one here for using the word "courage", like Maher was about the 911 terrorists I guess. But that's what it was I think, they were too frightened to put their money where their big mouths were, when it came down to it.

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