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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is engineering an extinction event for the GOP.
Both politically and literally. The convention will take place in Jacksonville with no social distancing or masks. For good measure, since there are not enough hotels, they are commandeering a cruise ship to house the attendees...
And you know what ? The magats will go for it. Trump has a Jim Jones hold on his cultists
COL Mustard
(5,900 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
(Various versions of this quote)
47of74
(18,470 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)Now go for the heart and soul of your Party. Covid or Trump? Who you gonna believe?
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)Oh wait....
A cruise ship? You couldnt pay me to get on a cruise ship. Literally. If someone offered me $1,000,000 to stay on a cruise ship, I would say no.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)I would live on a ship if I could
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Just all other activity out, room service or pack-in food all the way. I wouldn't hurry to disembark and wear a PAPR with every excursion through the corridors until outside, far down the plank.
I'd take that over taking any flight anywhere, sealed inside a tight airspace no matter how carefully masked all other passengers were.
Wishful thinking all. I wouldn't even consider the latter, couldn't dream of affording a luxury cabin.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I suspect that his convention will be very poorly attended.
-Laelth
jrthin
(4,836 posts)bets that they are also (mostly) idiots.
But the ones who could afford to go to the convention are not.
It will be poorly attended. He will be butthurt about it. He will blame someone. Its all too predictable.
-Laelth
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Because so many are not planning on attending.
The ones attending the convention are not the average trump cultist. They are the rich happy to exploit the cultists. But not anxious to get sick.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)His convention is going to be a bust, and I will be laughing at his arrogance and stupidity.
-Laelth
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Then one of his staff will photoshop something that looks obviously photoshopped and his base will eat it up.
keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)Some photoshop skills will take care of the attendance.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
soldierant
(6,884 posts)North Carolina, and that the Jacksonville event will be for theater. I honestly am betting on "mostly idiots" for Florida, and probably "mostly evil' for NC.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)cult members. I don't think most of the people at the Jonestown massacre were idiots, yet they either willingly participated or were coerced. They were brainwashed.
These people in Trump's cult are the die-hard faithful. They will do anything for him. Even risk their lives.
Whatever they have to do to convince themselves that supporting their Fuehrer is more important than anything else in life, they will do it. Even if it means endangering their health.
drray23
(7,633 posts)if it's well attended. Its a good bet the magats will go for the convention.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)I worry because my Granddaughter lives and works in Jacksonville. So many problems there.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)of Hydroxychloroquine and Clorox Chewables. Maybe a few Lysol chasers, just to be sure. They'll be alright.
3Hotdogs
(12,390 posts)And if you wear a mask or keep 6 ft. apart, you're a libtard.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I highly recommend the Clorox chewables.
-Laelth
hatrack
(59,587 posts)What better time than late August in Jacksonville?
IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)The dumbest ones will attend the convention to own the libs.
Political candidates and party leaders will still have to show their faces at some point, even briefly. And that would put them in close contact with COVIDiots.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its going to happen no matter what and people will die, and Trump is counting on that two week period before symptoms occur to divorce himself from any responsibility. Hell! He might be doing it deliberately to punish them for not going out during the demonstrations to kill the liberals for him.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)Or whatever dimension he has supposedly reached by now. Lol.
The end result seems to be the same, even though Trump is a bumbling idiot.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)We were supposed to be on our family cruise this week
dumpt can kiss my ass
drray23
(7,633 posts)back then in 2005 the city was too small and did not have enough hotels so they docked five ships and football fans booked rooms in them.
Trump just moved the convention there and once again all hotels are full so they want to again get cruise ships to host the attendees.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)every rally they have is another nail in the coffin...pun intended
Blue Owl
(50,407 posts)Don't think, just -- Optics!
JHB
(37,160 posts)Best scenario? He takes them both down.
drray23
(7,633 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)...or to have a strategy. He is spontaneous only
budkin
(6,703 posts)I don't care anymore.
BarbD
(1,193 posts)Pluvious
(4,312 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)in that area at least to be sure to wear masks, gloves, and have extra sanatizer to better protect themselves from the idiots who went to orange blubber's rally. Just to note there is going to be a higher risk after this rally. Don't let the trump humpers take you down with them.
Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)I would be tempted to say "SCREW IT" and walk out when all the Magats arrive in the ER demanding that I risk MY life to save their sorry asses!
If contact tracing finds a patient negligently contracted the virus at a rally, I would roll their gurney out to the parking lot and dump them out. Let their wife/sister/cousin load them into the back of the F-150, and take them home to die. Instruct them (using 4Chan I guess) to dig a grave big enough for both of them.
If these asshats want to kill themselves...FINE! Stop providing the medical interventions that kill innocent people.
seta1950
(932 posts)Im just worried where those people are going to go afterwards ☹️😳
Jirel
(2,018 posts)Win both ways - either they get on the SS Jim Jones or they all stay home and the convention is filled with the sound of crickets.
With any luck, every employee in the area will refuse to serve the plague rats.
Initech
(100,080 posts)catbyte
(34,402 posts)being out of your mind is a prerequisite for being a MAGAt so nevermind.
Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)The guy who struts around promoting this giant virus incubator is making attendees sign a waiver saying they won't sue him if they get sick!
I guess we're going to find out just how fucking stupid the Trumpistas are.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/trump-rallygoers-must-agree-not-to-sue-if-they-get-covid-19.html
secondwind
(16,903 posts)BadGimp
(4,015 posts)drray23 ... my meme has been #GOPSurrender
My slight edit:
Trump is engineering an extinction-level event for the GOP.
calimary
(81,306 posts)I got nothing but a big "GOOD RIDDANCE" to the whole miserable lot of 'em.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)0rganism
(23,957 posts)sadly, the GOP delegidiots will not take ill and die at the convention, a la Poe's Masque of Red Death
instead they will bring the virus back home with them, exposing and re-exposing their family and associates. within a couple jumps the virus will once again become statistically agnostic to the political leanings of its food supply. a few more transmission hops and it will be back to preying on the weakest and poorest among us.
there is no win here. the self-goal is at the species level, not merely one political sect.
drray23
(7,633 posts)Which means we will wear masks and socially distance. I have removed from my life interacting with anybody who is a Trumper. I don't frequent places where they congregate.
I am lucky that every single person in all sides of my family is a liberal. I know that's not the case for all families but then, that's a good opportunity to socially distance with them anyway..
womanofthehills
(8,718 posts)Easy pickings for the virus. All the Trump supporters I know are low information people who act like the virus is no longer around.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)That's how I view this.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,196 posts)that they will not sue him if they get COVID-19.