Jaw-dropping crowd in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are going to win North Carolina.

[kpete]

Just look how packed up & fired up this arena is. Incredible.

Link to tweet

[Cattledog]

1. Kamala, 11,000 in Charlotte,NC Trump, 3,000 in Tucson, AZ

[royable]

4. All Harris' 11,000 are generated by AI while somehow being bussed in and paid,

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while the biased left wing media undercounted TFG's 3 million attendees.

[marybourg]

6. You oughta put in the "sarcasm" thingy.

Your post can be read quickly as alert bait.

[dem4decades]

10. That can be a problem around here, people don't get sarcasm, or jokes for that matter., unless it's explained to them.

Kind of takes the fun out of it, in my opinion.

[AZ8theist]

15. I agree. 90% of my posts are sarcastic.

Yet a non-zero amount of people don't get it.
The post above, to me, was OBVIOUS sarcasm when the OP said "3 million".......
I grew up in the NY/NJ area so sarcasm is in my DNA, so to speak, so it's easily recognized.

[royable]

21. I'd like to think that "generated by AI while somehow being bussed in and paid" would also be seen as sarcasm. eom

[krkaufman]

26. Quite over the top

Yes, the whole thing was sufficiently over-the-top as to be obvious.

[marybourg]

28. If you had seen the RW troll post here yesterday,

you might not be so certain as to what is obvious sarcasm.

[dem4decades]

27. If my kids and I didn't get sarcasm, we wouldn't be able to communicate. And around here I've been "punished"

because I don't use the sarcasm thing, whatever and wherever that thing is.

[NoSheep]

47. I grew up in NC and sarcasm is in my DNA

[TNNurse]

34. If I do not know you, I do not think it is sarcasm.

Since I do not know you, I think you mean it.

Not a good plan.

Online sarcasm is dangerous.

[Wonder Why]

41. Yup! Mine go over a lot of heads even though my signature says it all.

[littlemissmartypants]

43. Not everyone sees siglines, fyi. ❤️

[AllaN01Bear]

53. heres my sarcastic post of the day :)

[GiqueCee]

45. Anyone who couldn't see the glaringly obvious - and funny - sarcasm in that post...

... should probably just go back to watching Sesame Street, or maybe take a course in English as a Second Language.

Some people are just a LEETLE BIT too eager to light into someone over insignificant points. It gets tedious.

[NorCalBlue]

50. True. It's why I've stopped enjoying DU like I used to.

And why I come here less and less.

In a time when the Harris/Walz campaign has ushered in fresh glee into our daily political lives, the feeling here has at times been one of condemnation for those of us who are not frequent posters but occasionally like to try.

Instead this forum has become rather cliquey.

I’m sure there will be plenty of clap-backs now, and my post will be removed by the moderator, which is unfortunate because it isn’t meant to be negative.

[1WorldHope]

61. I have also noticed a cliquishness of late that turns me a bit sour.

I don't have names memorized, I recognize quite a few of the really sweet posters, but, I have never looked up someone's account to see if they are a newbie or an old timer. I assumed it was just a few people, like it is in the world in general.
My main comment to the original poster is, why can't we believe our eyes when we see these pictures? Went do they keep saying it is so close?

[1WorldHope]

68. Regarding my last comment:

I just spoke to my daughter in Western Nebraska. Of course they hate Kamala. She said they are having fits over her. I keep forgetting about how much women are despised in America, and a brown woman as well. Hated will bring them out to vote.

[marybourg]

55. Thank you for your critique, but I saw a RW

troll post the previous day which expressed similar views. Fortunately it was removed quickly. Not everyone on DU reads carefully and we were provided with the sarcasm smiley for a reason. I’m sure it’s beneath your dignity, however dumb folks like me appreciate it.

[InstantGratification]

39. They were AI generated first

then bussed in and paid. The diabolical left with stop at nothing.......

[lastlib]

2. As energized as Dems are,,,,

MAGAts seem to be as demoralized. I like saying that. But it seems like billionaires are energized as well, and they're laying money on with a trowel. We have our work cut out for us to beat them--but beat them we WILL!

[bdamomma]

18. I wonder

about those billionaires who have enough and want more to the point of going for this POS felon and to even take democracy down. What bastards they are like Leonard Leo, and the Heritage Foundation.

[wnylib]

63. It's not the money. It's the power that money can buy.

[relayerbob]

24. Not sure I'd say energized

More like desperate

[sinkingfeeling]

3. And to think she paid them all to be there.

[central scrutinizer]

17. No, Soros paid them

[keithbvadu2]

52. This prosperous looking guy claims he has gotten rich from Soros.

This prosperous looking guy claims he has gotten rich from Soros.

And the Congressman 'believes' him.

[mahina]

57. Wow.

[Farmer-Rick]

60. So, I went to georgesorros.com

And found nothing about getting paid to show up at protests/rallies. So I signed up for emails. Maybe they will send me the secret codes in one of the emails.

I wouldn't take $1,000,000 to go to a pedo Trump rally though. There isn't enough money in the world for me to sell out our democracy.

[MaryMagdaline]

5. Awesome!

[lees1975]

7. Trump originally scheduled his event in Tucson at the 6,000 seat arena at the Tucson Community Center

and moved it to the Linda Ronstadt Music theater, capacity 2,100, when they couldn't give away enough tickets. My oldest niece works about eight blocks from there and said there was hardly any additional traffic, and no lines outside when she went by around 1:30 after lunch.

Tucson is a heavily democratic city, in a county where Democrats regularly get 58-60% of the vote.

[Cha]

12. How genius of the TSF team to grab Tucson for their hate fest.

TY for the Report from Tucson, Arizona!

[Wiz Imp]

13. Trump will say there were 20,000 outside who couldn't get in

[sheshe2]

14. Someone here posted a response from Linda Ronstadt.

She is pissed that the rally is being held in a building named in her honor. Tucson is her home.

[msfiddlestix]

32. Thank you for that info, helps out of staters to have an idea of the ratio, and that makes me joyous.

[mucholderthandirt]

35. I loved living in Tucson. My oldest boys were born there, on the Air Force base. Always wanted to go back, really.

[ffr]

8. That's a group of Americans that are fired up and ready to protect American Democracy

[Cha]

9. ReTweeted.. TY & Charlotte North Carolina!

[nycbos]

11. Go outside trun around three times and spit

[mahina]

56. "...tempt the wrath of whatever from high atop the thing"

🤣🤣🤣

[NBachers]

16. I just viewing on my phone ,but this is Holy Shit-worthy!

[struggle4progress]

19. Yes, we CAN win NC -- but will win only if we do the work

[wolfie001]

20. Orange orangutang's not gonna be happy about that!!!

[Island Blue]

22. If NC goes for Kamala Harris & Josh Stein

I will be the happiest person alive! Please 8 lb. 6 oz baby Jesus, make it be so!

[moose65]

25. Then I'll be the second happiest!

Stein is a good guy, and the Republicans nominated the worst possible candidate (next to Trump)!

I’m wondering also if there will be some reverse coattails in November, since the Democrats have a fantastic slate of statewide candidates: Stein, Jeff Jackson, Braxton Winston and Mo Greene, who is certainly motivating a lot of people in his race with that crazy, wacked-out Michele Morrow.

Hoping for blue state status!

[Wednesdays]

23. If we win North Carolina, then

any THREE of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin will clinch the White House for Harris. TCF would need to win FOUR of those to put us in danger.


On edit: we may even be welcoming President-elect Harris by 10 p.m. Election Night if we also win Pennsylvania and Georgia.

[GreenWave]

51. Meanwhile FLA is slowly slipping away from the Orange Menace!

[quakerboy]

67. We will. All of them.

My prediction is we will take all of those states. Barring the unforseen, the only one of those that feels even remotely iffy to me is Georgia. Theres the energy, the work is being done, we are all out here making the calls, Our candidate is out there making herself known. The other "guy" is out there exposing himself.

[Dem4life1970]

29. Wow!

[Politicub]

30. This fills me with joy and hope n/t

[captain queeg]

31. The media is lying again. TSF has the biggest crowds in the history of politics.

And he clobbered Kamala so badly there’s no use for a second debate.

[dmr]

33. She bussed & paid that huge crowd, did she?

[mucholderthandirt]

36. If people here don't get sarcasm, I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't play on the baby Internet.

No head pats and hashtags, no sarcasm warnings. Mommy isn't here. If you don't get it, I guess I'll be alerted on. A lot. Like, a whole, whole lot. Oh, well.

[onandup]

37. That must have been a helluva lot of buses

[LuckyLib]

62. One of my pet peeves as well. Freewaysigns have had to be changed from

“No busses allowed” to “No buses allowed.”

Must have been distracted drivers who were kissing.

[Deminpenn]

38. She had a packed house in Greensboro, too

CSPAN showed it. Crowd was fired up.

The CSPAN schedule had the event to be on at 7PM after the Trump Tuscon rally. But when I tuned in to recheck 20 mins before hand and she was already on. I wondered if CSPAN had cut away from Trump, who when I tuned in for a few secs, was very low energy.

[Evolve Dammit]

40. Mine was bigger. Bigger than MLK's. The biggliest of biggliests. Just put a jacket . on him and cart him off to Bellevue

Sure his staff is distracting him with re-runs and hamderders.

[llmart]

42. OMG! That is fricken amazing!

Go Charlotte! I used to live there. I am really rooting for NC to turn blue and this may be the year they do it.

[Pluvious]

44. Holy Krapola !! Where'd they find so many buses for this crowd lol

[russiamommy]

65. I was in Greensboro

Unbelievable! Crowd was fabulous and HUGE! So well organized. For anyone saying everyone was bussed in - indeed many of us were - from a hotel parking lot two miles down the road because the parking lot at the venue was too small. 😂. The joke on the busses in both directions was “Where are our checks?” 😂

Before the rally, the line was incredible. Took us ten minutes just to find the end of it. There was a young man with a sign “”End of line here!” UNC students were passing out bottles of water. Took us more than an hour to get inside. After the rally, we were in line for an hour and a half waiting for the return shuttle. Great time and no complaints. Great people to chat with, high energy. The campaign was giving out water, hot dogs and ice cream. Unfortunately I didn’t know about the hot dogs and ice cream until we had been in the line to return for about an hour. But they made for a great little snack as we were waiting for our return to the hotel on the bus.

All this to say that yes, the busses are real. But not for the reasons that the Trumpsters would have people believe. They were an appreciated convenience to make it easy and stress free to attend these rallies - even if the lines were long to get on one!

[Pluvious]

66. Great story, thanks for sharing !! (nt)

[NoSheep]

46. My friend texted me from the rally. I sobbed just thinking about it. Couldn't be there (work)

[Kid Berwyn]

48. Can do the same in Florida and Texas and a whole bunch o' states more.

Harris and Walz know how.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

49. My prediction..When North Carolina goes for Kamala, so will PA, WI, MI,, GA, and AZ, possibly FL...

Voters in those Swing states won by Joe in 2020, will be paying attention to what is happening in North Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper said.."When NC is decided for Kamala Harris, she WILL be the next POTUS."

It will be close in GA, but I am hopeful the coalition will hold.

[viva la]

54. That crazy GOP gov candidate will help the Dems, I hope.

Stein (D) up by double digits.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/2024/north-carolina/

[returnee]

64. Who are all those "nobody"s ...

…that went to her rally?