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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:10 AM May 2020

Trump is planning to hold huge campaign rallies in states that allow it.

And I don't think the people who attend will be wearing masks and sitting 6 feet apart.

There is no amount of money and no candidate that could persuade me to attend a mass campaign event this year.

Trump thinks he is getting votes, but he's actually endangering his supporters. What an idiot.

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Trump is planning to hold huge campaign rallies in states that allow it. (Original Post) milestogo May 2020 OP
Montana will be popular this year Renew Deal May 2020 #1
Good snowybirdie May 2020 #2
SMH--go, lemmings, go! Maeve May 2020 #3
Equals trumpers getting infected duforsure May 2020 #4
There's something quite fitting about the results of these greenjar_01 May 2020 #5
He needs to feed his Andy823 May 2020 #6
All he will be doing is thinning his own herd! lark May 2020 #7
Donny: "Kool-aid is for amateurs." tanyev May 2020 #8
10 quid says dozens (hundreds?) of masks will get ripped off peoples faces Celerity May 2020 #9
I bet you're right. Media should not go to these events. tanyev May 2020 #10
Forget the media. Have Mark Burnett come in and put it on pay-per-view. Buns_of_Fire May 2020 #22
I want the rallies in huge enclosed places then. And everyone is required to wear their MAGA hats Freethinker65 May 2020 #11
Reason number 1- 1,000,000 MuseRider May 2020 #12
I've been wondering about this for quite awhile. zanana1 May 2020 #15
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. milestogo May 2020 #28
Hint for Trump: Killing off your voters is probably not the best idea, MineralMan May 2020 #13
Like someone else said here, gab13by13 May 2020 #14
Y'dont understand! He NEEDS the attention & applause!! donkeypoofed May 2020 #16
Yeah, he's going through withdrawal without his hate rallies. SammyWinstonJack May 2020 #30
It might backfire, he rents 20,000 seat arena, 500 people show up! Doh, lol Baclava May 2020 #17
GOOD HAB911 May 2020 #18
Go for it. sinkingfeeling May 2020 #19
Perfect timing/excuse for the media to stop going to these klan rallies Arazi May 2020 #20
Prepare for spikes sakabatou May 2020 #21
He'll be culling his superfans. eShirl May 2020 #23
He's banking on them being sick and dead AFTER the election. Liberal In Texas May 2020 #24
No problem with this. His supporters are suffering from low moral, they need this. They can chant Autumn May 2020 #25
Trump 2020 Campaign Tour aka "Operation WASP Creeps". nt oasis May 2020 #26
States he would get anyway treestar May 2020 #27
Swing states hopefully. Kill em before they can vote or send in absentee. Genius NightWatcher May 2020 #29
His Crazy Knows No Limits colsohlibgal May 2020 #31
I strongly suspect few of the older, more vulnerable trumpsters Hortensis May 2020 #32
We can pass out Darwin awards as swag Gothmog May 2020 #33
+100 quaker bill May 2020 #34

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
4. Equals trumpers getting infected
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:19 AM
May 2020

Spreading the virus around, and creating more damage to this countries health and to the economy. This will backfire for trump and those that go to them. All these red state Governors will look pretty stupid from prematurely opening up for trump.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
5. There's something quite fitting about the results of these
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:22 AM
May 2020

It's like a Greek tragedy or something, an odd justice.

Attend the Nazi rally, get sick from the very virus that the Nazi rally gathering both allowed to run rampant and denies.

It's a twist, to be sure.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
6. He needs to feed his
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:24 AM
May 2020

HUGE ego. He doesn't care about what could happen to those who attend, he only cares about his need to be adored by his cult. People will die.

lark

(23,138 posts)
7. All he will be doing is thinning his own herd!
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:26 AM
May 2020

Has there ever been anyone so stupid, mean, racist, fraudulent and venal in the entire world - ever?

Buns_of_Fire

(17,188 posts)
22. Forget the media. Have Mark Burnett come in and put it on pay-per-view.
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:17 AM
May 2020

MAGAt A pulls off MAGat B's mask. MAGAt B gets pissed and throws a punch at MAGAt A, who ducks, and the punch lands on MAGAt C who yells at MAGAt B, sending precious bodilly fluid particles over MAGAts A thru L, and pretty soon the whole auditorium is yelling and swinging and exchanging little virus buddies with each other in one mass hot 'n' sweaty hategasm.

Rump wants ratings? THAT would get ratings!

Freethinker65

(10,029 posts)
11. I want the rallies in huge enclosed places then. And everyone is required to wear their MAGA hats
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:45 AM
May 2020

Required to wear their MAGA hats until the election so we know who to avoid (strictly for health and safety's sake).

MuseRider

(34,112 posts)
12. Reason number 1- 1,000,000
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:46 AM
May 2020

why we must remain masked and distanced. Let them go. Most of us, if we are smart and do what we need to do, will get passed this next round. Stay stocked up, away from people if you can and safely if you must and we may outlive enough of them to really show them what a real trouncing looks like.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
28. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:36 AM
May 2020

I believe Albert Einstein said it, and he was a genius.

MineralMan

(146,324 posts)
13. Hint for Trump: Killing off your voters is probably not the best idea,
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:48 AM
May 2020

but please proceed, Mr. President. You know best.

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
16. Y'dont understand! He NEEDS the attention & applause!!
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:07 AM
May 2020

He's dying a slow death not being adulated and approved of. This is why his twitter rants are up. He needs the release of a rally to get out his pent up frustrations. Too bad he doesn't just have sex instead, but whatever.....

Look at it this way, if all those RWNJ'S get sick after attending a rally, it'll be like culling the herd of its excess stupid.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
30. Yeah, he's going through withdrawal without his hate rallies.
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:51 AM
May 2020
What those morons don't get is that tRump wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
20. Perfect timing/excuse for the media to stop going to these klan rallies
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:12 AM
May 2020

There's no way they can protect themselves. Time to stop sending anyone to cover them

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
25. No problem with this. His supporters are suffering from low moral, they need this. They can chant
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:33 AM
May 2020

lock her or him up all they want.

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/12/2006874117?fbclid=IwAR1PkPq-_EVxtkUqD6pnM7xYvN4xF34XN5qWeleCQiag_UVgI5YKK4M3qmk


Speech droplets generated by asymptomatic carriers of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are increasingly considered to be a likely mode of disease transmission. Highly sensitive laser light scattering observations have revealed that loud speech can emit thousands of oral fluid droplets per second. In a closed, stagnant air environment, they disappear from the window of view with time constants in the range of 8 to 14 min, which corresponds to droplet nuclei of ca. 4 ?m diameter, or 12- to 21-?m droplets prior to dehydration. These observations confirm that there is a substantial probability that normal speaking causes airborne virus transmission in confined environments.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
27. States he would get anyway
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:34 AM
May 2020

are the ones most likely to allow it. Let he and his dumb followers risk getting sick.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
29. Swing states hopefully. Kill em before they can vote or send in absentee. Genius
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:41 AM
May 2020

Meanwhile Biden is holding virtual events where he won't kill his voters.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
31. His Crazy Knows No Limits
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:52 AM
May 2020

He is going to further thin his own wing nut herd.

The mind does boggle at what he and his crazed devotees will do in the two months + he will still be in office.......crazy and demented will be on full display.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
32. I strongly suspect few of the older, more vulnerable trumpsters
Sat May 16, 2020, 11:13 AM
May 2020

will turn out. The ones whose only worthwhile civic contribution in 30 years would be conspicuously dying of political extremism, and doing it before they can vote again, will mostly say no to risking themselves.

Here in FL, a lot of retirees started self isolating at least a couple weeks before the first state, California, called for it. They didn't believe the loud Trump, Repub, and RW media noise that it was just Democratic fake news. And the trumpsters among those won't be throwing away their masks and resuming their group luncheons out of political loyalty.

And of course GA just opened up like it was throwing the doors open at an insane asylum. But in spite of media depictions, most are still self isolating, only loosening slightly, no doubt including strong majorities of older, vulnerable trumpsters.

That still leaves plenty of whackjobs to fill the smaller venues TrumpCo hires anyway, and we'll see what comes of that. Wonder how many masks we'll see? The media will report deaths of younger people and identified community spread.

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