Heh. Trump may need to hire actors to fill up the arena for his RNC speech. No one is going.

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/gop-expects-awful-turnout-at-trumps-rnc-speech-everybody-just-assumes-no-one-is-going/

On Monday, The New York Times reported that as key Republican lawmakers continue to bail on President Donald Trump’s nomination acceptance speech in Jacksonville, Florida, many GOP officials are bracing for low turnout.

“As new cases surge in Florida, including 15,300 reported on Sunday, more Republicans are taking a wait-and-see approach to the event, or deciding to skip it all together,” reported Reid Epstein, Nicholas Fandos and Patricia Mazzei. “The G.O.P., which moved the convention to Jacksonville from Charlotte, N.C., after balking at health precautions there, now finds itself locked into a state with a far bigger virus problem, and planning an event whose attendance is waning as the pandemic escalates.”

[Wounded Bear]

1. Nobody likes you, Mr Trump...nt

[Pluvious]

15. Or, few remain willing to risk dying to fed your ego, mr. Dump. n/t

[CatWoman]

2. K; R

[aquamarina]

3. Hell

I don’t think even paid actors would risk their health for Typhoid Trump.

[lagomorph777]

16. Stormy did

[soothsayer]

4. I enjoy these stories

I bet he’s fuming!

[Dem2theMax]

8. You too?

These are like soothing bedtime stories that you read before you fall off into a night of peaceful slumber.

[sprinkleeninow]

13. "...soothing bedtime stories.." 🤣

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Unbelievable! An instance of a story where the virus comes across as the hero.....

I kid. I kid...... somewhat.

[lagomorph777]

17. War of the Worlds

Ironically, it was specifically a coronavirus.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. Oooh. I remember my old man had a VHS of the '53 version. I watched it about

100 times. Didn't even realize the type of virus the story used.

[lagomorph777]

19. I may have mis-remembered; thought it was the common cold.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. It may very well be. I never read the book. And the last time I

watched it was in the mid 80s when I was around 10 - 12.

[subterranean]

6. They couldn't pay me enough to attend that event.

[Demovictory9]

7. Lol

[smb]

9. Paid Actors? Hope They Insisted On Cash Up Front! nt

[regnaD kciN]

10. If they aren't going to show up...

...Trump will just replace it with a televised "acceptance speech." From the Oval Office. With full presidential pomp and ceremony.

And, of course, blame DeSantis and/or the mayor of Jacksonville for preventing him from delivering it in person before a crowd of millions.

[Blue Owl]

11. Crisis actors, I believe they call them

n/t

[JDC]

12. I'm starting to think that this virus is an awefully convenient excuse

For backing out. These folks never, ever do the right thing. I'd guess this is an abandonment more than a safety precaution.

[flibbitygiblets]

14. Republicans: "I really do want to go to your speech thingy, but my damn Covid's actin' up again"

"it always flares up when it's hot/cold/rains/doesn't rain/partly sunny with a chance of pissed off Democrats voting in record numbers."

[Poiuyt]

21. There's a simple solution to their problem:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. Dude in bottom left corner is totally me.

And I suggest all of us.

[vanamonde]

22. Perhaps the makers of inflatable sex dolls could help out.

They could even re-hire their COVID laid off workers and turn a tidy profit.