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Alex4Martinez

(2,193 posts)
4. Not exactly. People just didn't show up. They never said, "sorry, no more tickets"
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 11:01 AM
Jun 2020

I'm saddened that people can't grasp that the ONLY way the Kpop teen effort can be credited with low turnout would be if the campaign turned people away.

Nope, they begged people to come right up to the day of.

In texts, they offered airfare and lodging, misleading, for a donation one would be entered in a drawing.

The simple truth is that people just didn't show up.

ProfessorGAC

(65,042 posts)
8. Agreed
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 11:31 AM
Jun 2020

They didn't get pranked to the tune of over 800,000 fake requests.
But, even committed R voters because taxes, or deficits or Dow, or babies, or something aren't all on the crazy train.
They were folks who were never going.
They lied about the 900,000 requests.
They still thought they would fill the place, and they were wrong.
The pranking is a convenient excuse and we shouldn't propagate a rumor that gives PINO an excuse.
The worst thing for PINO is to be irrelevant. Last night suggests he is heading that way.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. THIS. The trumpsters didn't show up! Far, far, far better. :)
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 11:36 AM
Jun 2020

The kids did engage, though, and I hope they had fun and it's good to feel you're making a difference. Great for that.

However, now their personal information, and access to more, such as their friends, is in evil wizard Parscale's database. They'll be hearing from the Trump campaign, and even perhaps Russia, but hopefully that'll provide more opportunities to fertile minds.

maximusveritas

(2,915 posts)
12. Exactly. These kids trying to take credit are helping Trump by giving him an excuse
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 11:58 AM
Jun 2020

So now he can say it was just low turnout because of these kids playing a prank rather than the fact that there was low interest from his supporters which is what would be the most damaging to his own ego and his campaign.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. Yes. I want them to feel good, but it was a prank without substance.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:13 PM
Jun 2020

Better they turn their attention to the only thing that matters: the vote.

EVERYTHING is about the vote. The VOTE, which can enable a mind-fucked, indecent minority to turn the world's most powerful nation over to the corrupt enemies, foreign and domestic, who've gotten control of the Republican Party. Or can put us back on track to the wellbeing and prosperity we let be taken away.

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