They zip-tied the seats together for Trump's rally tonight, to *prevent* social distancing attempts!

[tblue37]

Link to tweet

[Cha]

1. How stupid are they after Herman's big Covid news?

[grantcart]

5. Just as stupid as they were before

We are going to need a new metric to do the math

[Cha]

9. lol.. I ask for that..

[leftieNanner]

18. I still have my old slide rule!

From when I was in college and you weren't allowed to use a calculator because not everybody could afford one.

The numbers of cases are having a logarithmic rise.

I think I remember how to do those.

[3catwoman3]

32. MY husband still has his college slide rule - Air Force Academy 1968.

Amazing that we were able to go to the moon using slide rules.

[orleans]

50. this:

Link to tweet

(facebook thumb up) "coronavirus likes this"

[Cha]

52. Yes, trump knows how to make the COVID & Putin happy.

TY, orleans

[RockRaven]

2. It's a death cult.

Not too surprising given its overlap with fundamentalist religion, which is also very death cult-y.

[wnylib]

39. Voldemort and his death-eaters

killing off muggles.

Idiots think they are following a great wizard.

They're in the wrong storyland. Their "wizard" is hiding behind a curtain, using smoke, mirrors, and a megaphone.

[PatrickforO]

48. The wizard is billionaire parasites. They have been 'behind

the curtain' for some time now, and the last thing they want is for us to notice.

[wnylib]

55. Very true.

[BigmanPigman]

3. When I saw that on CNN I almost laughed.

Who in the Hell would voluntarily go to what appears to be a Covidfest?

They should quarantine the whole group after he finished ranting.

[Rebl2]

33. That's exactly

what it is. A Covid cult festival. Think they should all be locked up and quarantined for three weeks.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

4. WTF

they can't get any dumber and then they do....

[unc70]

6. One safety pin defeats all those zip ties

Or one slightly modified hair pin. Just insert and click.

[tblue37]

8. Or a pair of scissors. nt

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[unc70]

10. More difficult getting scissors through security

The various pubs are street protestor "tools".

[Trueblue Texan]

45. really? I had no idea!

Thank you!

[jayfish]

7. Imagine 5, 10, 15 Or 20...

years ago watching what's playing out today as the plot of a movie. It would have gotten terrible reviews because of how unbelievable it was.

[Tipperary]

11. Acosta said it was supposedly in case of a mass evacuation, like fire, storm, something.

Beyond stupid, this whole thing.

[jayfish]

16. Yeah, Tying Them Together Makes Things Worse.

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You run into an immovable wall of chairs rather than them being collapsed. Stupid+.

[Beartracks]

20. How could there be a fire in the middle of a forest while shooting fireworks??

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[Totally Tunsie]

41. Depends...Has the forest been raked?

[Ms. Toad]

36. That would make it worse.

You need to be able to move anything that restrains movement out of the way. Would you rather move one shopping cart - or a whole train? Sheesh.

[haele]

12. Is it windy or something like that?

Otherwise, they're just advertising how stubbornly stupid they are.

Haele

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Or throwing the seats. NT

[The empressof all]

24. That was my thought as well

They can be easily weaponized or used as shields.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. "I went to the Trump rally, and all I got was this lousy seat." NT

[Tanuki]

30. You'd be lucky if that was all you got! Just ask Herman Cain.

[Phoenix61]

28. I was thinking the same thing. nt

[reACTIONary]

54. That's it. nt

[struggle4progress]

14. "Come for the campaign rally! Stay for the cough-in!"

[procon]

15. Those chairs have no space between them so

unless the audience is skinny preteen kids, most adults won't even fit. The audience is going to be packed in tight as sardines. There's no elbow room, no room for shoulders, hips or thighs, so everyone is going to be rubbing right up to the people beside them. There's not even enough space between chairs to drape a sweater

Trump couldn't have ordered a better job of guaranteeing that the corona virus would be spread if he had planned it on purpose.

[33taw]

17. It would make more sense to space them further apart.

The crowd would appear bigger.

[soothsayer]

19. Now tie the spectators in them!

[budkin]

21. It's simply unbelievable

I can wait to oust this MFer

[Beartracks]

22. And the Republicans who worship him, protect him, and coddle him. n/t

[moondust]

23. Nobody wearing a mask.

CNN had a live shot panning the crowd and I did not see one mask.

On a live shot of the crowd on MSNBC just now I saw about 5 masks.

[captain queeg]

25. Special seating for those pin heads who will be chanting something about tRump getting his face

On the mountain. You know he’s going to suggest it, wants to be sure there is a crowd supporting the idea. It’ll be a photo op to zero in on a packed section of the crowd holding a preprinted banner. Or something like that. I’d love if when he brings it up there’s just crickets.

[kairos12]

27. Jim Jones seating. Hit the punch bowl.

[benld74]

29. Truly believe tRump a carrier

[Renew Deal]

31. Why would anyone attend?

[lunasun]

34. Don't even think about it pawn . Your not moving. And they love this shit ?

[Locrian]

35. trump covid rally - all that's missing is the kool Aid - n/t

[wnylib]

40. No need for Kool Aid when

a virus will do the same job on them.

[warmfeet]

37. Good!

I hope they suffer appropriate consequence.

[Smackdown2019]

38. Sold out event?

Lol. Wonder if it be a sold out event like Tulsa was and sparse seating...

[wnylib]

42. If they wanted to distance themselves,

all they would need to do is skip seats between each other.

But, they're too stupid to practice distancing anyway.

[Traildogbob]

43. 🤑

Criminal shit bag sitting on hundreds of millions of campaign dollars, but is spending our, And South Dakota tax money for a pure MAGA rally. This is plain and simple and MAGA rally, nothing to do with unifying a country on its day of birth. Sickening.

[tblue37]

44. + a brazillion! nt

[Stuart G]

46. Thank You for posting this...K and R

[keithbvadu2]

47. Did they have to sign a waiver to attend?

[sarcasmo]

49. Full on Jim Jones, the Kool Aid will come out soon.

[paleotn]

51. Won't be enough yee haws there to make a difference.

[Steelrolled]

53. It's a funny take, but I really can't believe that CNN

would report this as news.

Edit: typo

[Hortensis]

56. Because case deaths are down to 5% from 6-8% nationally

after the brief shutdown period?

Expect that to rise.

Maybe as it starts becoming more real to more people, a president insidiously requiring people, many of whom no doubt thought they could establish at least some distance, to sit packed shoulder to shoulder will seem more newsworthy.

But this genuinely evil betrayal by a president of his own voters is right now.

[Steelrolled]

57. No, because the CNN article

eventually says the zip-ties are required safety code. The argument should be about having the event at all. Bringing up the zip-ties makes them look ignorant and click-baity.

Full disclosure: I do not like cable news and think it is harming our society.

[Hortensis]

58. Mea culpa, didn't get to that. Agree 100% with the last.

[Flaleftist]

59. Why not just have everyone drink from the same punch bowl with bare hands?