Waco-Tribune-Herald: "they were tired, hungry or both and wanted to get home."

[kpete]

Trump arrived shortly before 6 p.m., his plane circling the airport as attendees intently looked to the heavens. He wrapped up at 7:32 in the evening, though quite a few fans did not last that long.

About 30 minutes into the rally, the crowd began to thin, with people getting a head start on the walk back to the parking lots, designated and otherwise. Several leaving early said they accomplished what they wanted to achieve by showing up for the rally, enduring traffic and long lines. Some said after hours on the tarmac, they were tired, hungry or both and wanted to get home.

https://wacotrib.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/trump-draws-thousands-to-waco-rally-sticks-with-familiar-themes/article_1ec36070-cb6f-11ed-9dc9-5739d75d987e.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

[mucifer]

1. That's great. I was just listening to the ''Sisters in Law'' podcast and they were very

worried about the waco rally.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. See? They should've been allowed to bring their toasters! nt

[2naSalit]

14. Sure would have kept them...

Around for five more minutes!

Man, a piece of toast, might be enough nutrition to provide the energy for the walk back to the bus.

[mercuryblues]

16. More like the charge on their

government paid for Hover Round was running low.

[Blue Owl]

3. They'll get no fucking sympathy from me

Tired? Get some more fucking rest.

Hungry? Eat a goddamn snack.

Stupid? Attend a tRump rally.

[AleksS]

10. One note though:

Getting rest will make you less tired,

Eating a snack will make you less hungry,

Attending a trump rally will only make you more stupid…

[hwmnbn]

19. Nice..

I like what you did here.

[Seinan Sensei]

58. Well-played ...!!!

[dem4decades]

4. Was Trump water available for purchase?

[2naSalit]

15. Not if there wasn't...

A cashier taking payments.

You know, maybe that's the actual Kool-aid! *rump water!

[dem4decades]

17. Be should consult James Jones recipe then.

[Nevilledog]

30. Could get a grilled cheese and foot massage

Getting them to wash their hands in between costs extra

[allegorical oracle]

35. $10 grilled cheese sandwich? That alone proves he's desperate for $$ and has pegged his

rally goers as chumps. Probably the orange cheese wrapped in plastic and the cheapest bread available.

[wnylib]

50. With water. Maybe the price covered Trump water.

[MayReasonRule]

56. Mickey D's Dumpster Buns & Outdated "Cheese Food" don't 'cha know!!!!

[Beartracks]

41. I could've done without your parting comment.

(I'm once again reminded that the emoji barf is Trump-colored.)

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[allegorical oracle]

45. So sorry! Only added because that combo is a fav with every drumpster I personally know.

[Nevilledog]

47. It's not like there was running water out there.

Probably used baby wipes.

Stinky feet
*wipe*
Grilled cheese
*wipe*
Stinky feet
*wipe*
Grilled cheese

[niyad]

53. New ones for each wipe, one hopes!

[niyad]

52. my eyes!! You should have WARNED us about that shirt.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Sad to witness the power of propaganda and hate on so many humans. Hope aliens not watching!

Take us to your leaders that did not pass hate speech laws!

[Scrivener7]

6. If that is 15,000 people, I'm the queen of France. Also that one black guy must have

known he was going to be photographed a lot. Love how the article said the crowd was ethnically diverse. Effing media.

[jmbar2]

13. Agree

Nerdy of me, but I calculated as follows:

3 bleachers, holding 300 each (10 rows by 30 people/row) = 900
3 center seating sections (20 rows x 20 seats) = 1200
Bullpen standing sections in a wedge around the stage = est 600?
People standing behind the center seats Est 600?

4,000 at best?

[PortTack]

21. Read a twitter account that said 2-3k

[Scrivener7]

23. You rule!!!!

You could rule France with me!

[MayReasonRule]

26. Right On! Reason Is Nerdy By Nature -"Naughty" Is Optional...

I'm a huge fan of both!

[niyad]

27. Your total is estimated 3,300.

[jmbar2]

34. I padded generously

I didn't see any good pics of the standing crowd behind the seated area.

[jmbar2]

37. very cool crowd size visualizer

https://blog.lime.link/visualizing-crowd-sizes/

[niyad]

54. Judging by your linked visualizer, there were less than a thousand people there.

[Marius25]

22. No where close to 15,000

Even the small set of bleachers weren't full. I'd say somewhere around 1-2k.

[Beartracks]

42. jmbars2's crowd size visualizer shows THIS as 10,000 people.

And Trump's people -- and the MEDIA??! -- report 15,000 in attendance at Trumps' Waco pity party? Get outta here!

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[ret5hd]

7. So, is this the kind of tenacity...

the sort of stick-to-it attitude
the dedication to a cause
the esprit de corps

we can expect from ya’ll in that civil war you been begging for?

I laugh. I laugh in your faces every chance I get. I call you ignorant hicks. I spit when you speak to me.

And what do you do? Nothing. Not even once.

[FakeNoose]

25. Exactly right - MAGAts are a small minority and it's smaller every day

Once the indictments start going out for real, Chump will be dead in the water. He won't even be able to grift any more, and that's his whole reason for holding these ridiculous rallies.

[meadowlander]

29. In fairness, the ones who were paid to be there didn't have "attend the whole rally" in the contract

[MayReasonRule]

32. I Disdain Delusion - I Abhor Malevolence -I Weep For Humanity

May reason rule.

[tanyev]

8. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

and I will milk them for every penny they still have." Donald Trump

[MayReasonRule]

33. Never Give A Sucker An Even Break W.C Fields

[teamster633]

9. "his plane circling the airport as attendees intently looked to the heavens"

There was this guy with a funny mustache back in the thirties that did the same thing in his Ju-52 before his rallies...now what was his name...

[cloudbase]

11. The thought of a Whataburger has more attraction

than listening to a twice-impeached and soon to be indicted has been.

[GoCubsGo]

12. So, they went went through all that time and effort, only to find out that

they were being subjected to the same old, tiresome litany of grievances and threats that he spews at every other fucking rally? Boo hoo. It sucks to be them.

[Samrob]

18. I hope they abandon the voting lines next Nov. the same way they gave up in Waco. nt

[MissMillie]

20. Showed up to support him... didn't want to actually listen to him

And they'd be happy to foist his nonsense on the whole country.

[Scrivener7]

24. EVERYTHING they do is performative, with no substance whatsoever behind it.

They don't CARE what he says. AND they have no idea what he has done or what he stands for. It's all to own the libs.

While their own party flushes them down the drain.

Were any useful idiots ever as useful as MAGATs?

[bahboo]

28. fuck 'em...

[Tickle]

31. 15 thousand people showed

How does he do this over and over again?

[Hekate]

36. It doesn't look like nearly that number, which is why people are trying to do their own count...

What NPR did was lazy and vey disappointing: they took the Trump campaign’s prior claim to “expected” numbers and did not check further.

We (DU and the public) went through that during the first DC protest against BushCheney. The Washington Post said there were only “a few hundred” but there were DUers actually on the ground who sent their photos back here. It was an asinine claim on WaPo’s part, and they finally settled on something like “several thousand.”

It is really quite easy to do a rough estimate of crowd size if you have a camera, and a tall building or a helicopter. You get your photos and lay down a grid, rough-count the number of people in a square, and multiply that by the number of squares. That is kind of what our own skeptical DUers are doing by eyeball right now.

Trump and his minions need to be fact-checked every time they open their mouths — it’s tedious, but necessary.

[jmbar2]

39. Posted above, but cool link again...

Crowd size visualizer

https://blog.lime.link/visualizing-crowd-sizes/

[Hekate]

40. That is cool -- thanks!

[Hortensis]

43. Yes, thanks. I question 15,000. Maybe 10?

[jmbar2]

44. Another source - aerial from Tump's plane

pitiful

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

46. Thanks, Jmbar2. Wasn't he hoping to draw from four large TX cities?

PLUS elsewhere? Can't believe that wasn't dismaying, maybe enraging.

As GenThePersevering says, they'll also be the same loyalists who've gone before. But fewer?

[Wounded Bear]

49. I think those 4 "large Texas cities" in the area are probably pretty blue...

[Hortensis]

51. Good point, but surely they could easily bleed a larger crowd anyway?

[tenderfoot]

48. Looks more like 1,500

if that

[GenThePerservering]

38. They're all the same people

and it wasn't 15,000.

[niyad]

55. Were there port-a-potties??

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. Estimates are there were about 2000 traitors at Trump's #Waco gripe session last night.

Link to tweet