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ProfessorGAC

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25. Meaning They Still Screwed It Up

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #11)

Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:45 PM

Jun 2020

Even assuming you're dead on, it's illogical to announce attendance expectations of 780,000 to 980,000 above capacity and think that won't dissuade some potential attendees.
The prank would have meant nothing if Parscale & PINO would kept their big mouths shut.
It wasn't kids on tiktok. It was their own fault!

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***NOTE***: K-Pop story has a couple of big holes in it; No set ticket limit and the empty overflow [View all] uponit7771 Jun 2020 OP

I was wondering where his African American was captain queeg Jun 2020 #1

The online ticket distribution was mostly to harvest email addresses, The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #2

Ah, so there's this too... There wasn't a set amount of ticketing uponit7771 Jun 2020 #3

+1,000,000 (give or take some kpop supporters) Nevilledog Jun 2020 #5

Exactly! nt Raine Jun 2020 #10

My take is they couldn't get 19k to show up. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #4

And Brad Parscale was righteously punked. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #6

Here's the thing. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #9

But he's already pissed off at Parscale. fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #20

But most of that was speculation and unnamed sources. Easier to deny. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #22

+1, and in the reddest state in union. The polling companies have some answering to do, kGOP ... uponit7771 Jun 2020 #7

But a damn effective spoof that made the Idiot's campaigne staff look like fools bragging about it. onetexan Jun 2020 #26

It really is glorious how stupid the kids made them look. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #27

I agree, give credit where credit is due ... even Trump supporters were Raine Jun 2020 #8

While it didn't deprive anyone access/tickets, it could have lowered turnout anyway RockRaven Jun 2020 #11

Not republicans, they mostly don't think CV19 is a big deal. This doesn't bode well for the economy uponit7771 Jun 2020 #12

Meaning They Still Screwed It Up ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #25

My take? roamer65 Jun 2020 #13

+1, right !? There's something wrong with the polling if Trump can't pull more than 10,000 people in uponit7771 Jun 2020 #14

Simply, the magats stayed home. C_U_L8R Jun 2020 #15

The K-Pop story is that they made the Trump campaign look like utter fools. Mariana Jun 2020 #16

Exactly. And I am loving every minute of it! fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #21

What K Pop did was raise their expectations of a huge turnout. But the lack of a turnout JI7 Jun 2020 #17

Philip Bump: it's worth noting that TikTok has rumored ties to the Chinese government. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2020 #18

Here's the bottom line malaise Jun 2020 #19

You're looking at it wrong... lame54 Jun 2020 #23

That makes it even worse... Happy Hoosier Jun 2020 #24