"Every crowd has a silver lining" - P.T. Barnum (Reply #36)

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36. "Every crowd has a silver lining" - P.T. Barnum

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Trump 'glum and shell-shocked' as coronavirus pandemic cripples his re-election efforts [View all]	Soph0571	May 2020	OP
"hoping to rev up his MAGA rallies as soon as possible in an effort to rally his base."	ehrnst	May 2020	#1
I think/fear you're right...n/t	ewagner	May 2020	#41
"Why didn't those selfish people try harder to stay alive? Now they've hurt my re-election chances!"	struggle4progress	May 2020	#2
trump won't accept that	DownriverDem	May 2020	#42
We all use news aggregators and I'm not out to "get" Rawstory, but could we also recognize WAPO	hlthe2b	May 2020	#3
Why don't we take the WAPO story and make an unfalsifiable headline out of it!	Shermann	May 2020	#12
Yeah, RawStory sucks	PJMcK	May 2020	#13
I would do both...WP has a paywall sometimes the only place you can read such stories is	Demsrule86	May 2020	#70
Or the motherfucking asshole piece of shit	Nature Man	May 2020	#4
I'm waiting for the concession speech	malaise	May 2020	#5
Don't hold your breath, my friend	PJMcK	May 2020	#15
I disagree	malaise	May 2020	#26
Yup. He knows he has from Nov to Jan	AleksS	May 2020	#52
Yep!	smb	May 2020	#87
Chump certainly had the angriest acceptance speech of all time.	Totally Tunsie	May 2020	#81
As George W. said on that occasion...	Grasswire2	May 2020	#88
GW was never more correct!	Totally Tunsie	May 2020	#89
And I bet no one (other than the press) will be wearing face masks at his Nuremberg rallies.	sop	May 2020	#6
I Hope So for their Sakes!	McKim	May 2020	#31
"Every crowd has a silver lining" - P.T. Barnum	sop	May 2020	#36
Ouch!	calimary	May 2020	#50
OOOHHH! Good one!	machoneman	May 2020	#56
MAGA rally	not fooled	May 2020	#47
They will just stack the 50 or so fools that show up behind him	Squidly	May 2020	#80
Rallying his base	Chainfire	May 2020	#7
"harder on him than third grade arithmetic was."	MyOwnPeace	May 2020	#32
the antichrist will find a way	beachbumbob	May 2020	#8
I can't bring myself to sympathize	Vogon_Glory	May 2020	#9
I was thinking more of Hitler and Eva in the bunker, or Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family.	sop	May 2020	#18
Batista	Vogon_Glory	May 2020	#20
But who would have him?	RainCaster	May 2020	#55
There are nice views in the Russian Federation	Vogon_Glory	May 2020	#65
Oh my...Please don't give Chump one extra day!	Totally Tunsie	May 2020	#82
At least	not fooled	May 2020	#48
More like el douche Benito Mussolini's cin cin with "Colonel Valerio" n/t	Lock him up.	May 2020	#72
I wouldn't be opposed	lanlady	May 2020	#74
Well he has an out now	GusBob	May 2020	#10
+1 n/t	Laelth	May 2020	#17
And he's got no one to blame other than himself (but of course he won't). Extremely ...	SWBTATTReg	May 2020	#24
Not so sure he'd have lost if Covid-19 had never happened.	Jedi Guy	May 2020	#37
You are right and	GusBob	May 2020	#39
And if he'd done a credible job handling the virus	not fooled	May 2020	#53
Good points	GusBob	May 2020	#57
If he'd done a decent job of handling the virus, he'd be in good shape.	Jedi Guy	May 2020	#58
Well then,	PCIntern	May 2020	#60
I think he was trying to go there with his wild claims that the virus is a "Democratic hoax."	Jedi Guy	May 2020	#63
Yeah. That's the ticket.	PCIntern	May 2020	#66
"Glum and shellshocked."	Aristus	May 2020	#11
Looks like he only cares about WINNING. You'd think that he would	secondwind	May 2020	#14
He is an addict. Those rallies are HIS FIX.	secondwind	May 2020	#16
Then he will really throw a tantrum	duforsure	May 2020	#19
Eat shit and die, trump	Blue Owl	May 2020	#21
he won't live long enough to experience all the misery he deserves	NRaleighLiberal	May 2020	#22
That's the sad part, "he won't live long enough to experience,"	Butterflylady	May 2020	#38
if he lived 100 years more in misery it wouldn't nearly be enough	NRaleighLiberal	May 2020	#43
I truly believe that if it looks as if he is going to lose	essme	May 2020	#23
Someone should explain the concept of "cause and effect" to the Donald	DFW	May 2020	#25
Awww, poor little man baby	zeusdogmom	May 2020	#27
The only thing slower than Trump's mind is Trump's economy	bucolic_frolic	May 2020	#28
Trump is mentally ill and needs to be replaced.	Yavin4	May 2020	#29
Do the right thing	Tink41	May 2020	#30
That would require him to b a nice guy. He has no concept of what that is. nt.	Hotler	May 2020	#54
Sure, Donwald. Hold some huge rallies!	MineralMan	May 2020	#33
Hey why aren't they holding those rallies now? After all its a fake virus	cstanleytech	May 2020	#34
Rally attendance will be very low.	JohnnyRingo	May 2020	#35
Like your thinking here. Yeah, let's show those overhead drone views of just how tiny....	machoneman	May 2020	#59
Nice thought, but any drones stand a good chance of being shot down.	Totally Tunsie	May 2020	#83
Question for the assembled group	GusBob	May 2020	#40
we are already seeing the Biden attack strategy via Reade in full swing	NRaleighLiberal	May 2020	#44
Yes of course	GusBob	May 2020	#46
He was never on a glide path to reelection...	paleotn	May 2020	#45
+1000000	crickets	May 2020	#73
Very well put paleotn	lanlady	May 2020	#75
Trump, at long last, has a really good idea	Martin Eden	May 2020	#49
Hmm- Kinda would like to see another rally	packman	May 2020	#51
Yes! Maybe a really long three-day rally in a 70,000 seat packed stadium.	Alex4Martinez	May 2020	#61
People dying? "Meh, who cares."	Grokenstein	May 2020	#62
It is always all about him. May he stroke out, the f'n sociopath.	niyad	May 2020	#64
These stories are designed to give Democrats a false sense of security	ecstatic	May 2020	#67
He is not going anywhere	Reality Check 2020	May 2020	#91
I hope the stable genius starts holding rallies right away!	Yeehah	May 2020	#68
By all means, "Rev up those MAGA rallies".	SergeStorms	May 2020	#69
Donald probably could have won reelection easily	Raftergirl	May 2020	#71
"High dollar, in-person fundraiser" is a nice way of saying	NoRoadUntravelled	May 2020	#76
Maybe he can have "a Warden Norton moment"	Botany	May 2020	#77
He's playing with fire. If there was ever an almost 74-year old who was at risk, this is him.	BComplex	May 2020	#78
Yeah rallies in those areas are a great idea..Have them gather	helpisontheway	May 2020	#79
It's said that the Lord works in mysterious ways.	Totally Tunsie	May 2020	#84
it is NOT coronavirus that is crippling him	Skittles	May 2020	#85
He wants a "high-dollar, in-person fundraiser" in June does he? Please do proceed, sir. ...	Hekate	May 2020	#86
No empathy for 80,000 dead citizens. No empathy for 22,000,000 unemployed	SoonerPride	May 2020	#90

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