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Do you think Idiot will dare have another rally? (Original Post) MoonRiver Jun 2020 OP
He'll hire press gangs to drag people in off the streets, The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #1
At least mannequins can't catch covidd19! MoonRiver Jun 2020 #6
Something tells me Ohiogal Jun 2020 #2
I hope he doesn't, but he's schedule to hold one in Phoenix Mike 03 Jun 2020 #3
All one needs to do is Wellstone ruled Jun 2020 #10
Phoenix will be cancelled due to a spike in COVID cases in that city. Laelth Jun 2020 #4
Hope you're correct about the Phoenix cancellation! Mike 03 Jun 2020 #7
I wouldn't put it past him to have it anyway. GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #11
The COVID case spike will just be the excuse. Laelth Jun 2020 #15
Yes. But, I'm not convinced he is going to take advantage of it. GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #21
It's only a 3,000 person venue. Laelth Jun 2020 #22
Absolutely, he can. GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #23
If Phoenix cancels it, I wonder if their campaign will contest it like they did the Tulsa venue. TheBlackAdder Jun 2020 #30
You may be right. Laelth Jun 2020 #32
Can we say CONVENTION? getagrip_already Jun 2020 #5
High school bands? CanonRay Jun 2020 #19
trump-land doesn't care about their kids.... just the message... getagrip_already Jun 2020 #20
One bad trip doesn't cure a junkie gratuitous Jun 2020 #8
nothing going to stop him from doing so and why should we care? beachbumbob Jun 2020 #9
Exactly. We need to ignore that fool and his foolish, maskless MAGATS. Blue_true Jun 2020 #25
Here's The Phoenix Details sfstaxprep Jun 2020 #12
Definitely. The man is delusional. As are his followers. Solly Mack Jun 2020 #13
I swear he's already got at least one more lined up, Moon, even though I'm too too lazy to look Leghorn21 Jun 2020 #14
Well, we'll soon see if, on top of his many other psychological issues, MoonRiver Jun 2020 #27
Yep, he needs the opportunity to explain why Tulsa sucked Under The Radar Jun 2020 #16
The central reality is that in a thoroughly Red state, they couldn't fill a modest venue. Girard442 Jun 2020 #17
He needs the adoration. Turbineguy Jun 2020 #18
Yes. He needs the crowd adulation. nt Blue_true Jun 2020 #24
I think he'll have another rally or two Vogon_Glory Jun 2020 #26
Yes. He always doubles down. budkin Jun 2020 #28
Now that he has taken over Voice of America -- taxpayer funded global media and he has his election diva77 Jun 2020 #29
It took several press conferences in lieu of rallies before he gave up. Ms. Toad Jun 2020 #31
Maybe not, but I hope he does. roamer65 Jun 2020 #33

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,829 posts)
1. He'll hire press gangs to drag people in off the streets,
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:10 PM
Jun 2020

give them MAGA hats and make them sit there. Or else they'll buy thousands of department store mannequins and blow-up sex dolls to fill the seats.

Ohiogal

(32,047 posts)
2. Something tells me
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:10 PM
Jun 2020

Yes, he will have another one, just to prove that the one in Tulsa was “rigged” or “sabotaged” somehow, even if they have to hire paid actors to fill an arena somewhere.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. All one needs to do is
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:16 PM
Jun 2020

check the Stadium Schedule. Believe Anshutz Entertainment runs that one. BTW,Trump has only used Venues run by Anshutz. In kind Campaign Donations.

Same for the BOK in Tulsa.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
4. Phoenix will be cancelled due to a spike in COVID cases in that city.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:11 PM
Jun 2020

After that, who knows? They may have to revert to paying people to attend future rallies. Tulsa was a disaster they will not want to repeat.

-Laelth

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
11. I wouldn't put it past him to have it anyway.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:20 PM
Jun 2020

Trump, being a sociopath, only cares about Trump. And, their governor has his head so far up Trump's ass, he's cuddling with Lindsey Graham. If Trump wants his rally Ducey's going to give it to him. He IS lucky he has the COVID excuse to back out of it, however. I am just not fully convinced that his ego will allow him to take advantage of it. On top of being a sociopath and a narcissist, he's just plain stupid.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
15. The COVID case spike will just be the excuse.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:23 PM
Jun 2020

The real reason for the cancellation will be to avoid another embarrassment like Tulsa (or, so I predict).



-Laelth

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
21. Yes. But, I'm not convinced he is going to take advantage of it.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:53 PM
Jun 2020

I can't help but think that his ego is going to get the best of him, and that he's going to find a way to prove that, in Tulsa, he was just a victim of big, mean Brad Parscale, and of sabotage by horrible liberal anarchist teenagers on tik tok. A rally in Phoenix gives him that opportunity, and he has already proved with the Tulsa rally that he doesn't give a shit about the attendees getting COVID.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
22. It's only a 3,000 person venue.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:11 PM
Jun 2020

He might hold the rally, regardless, but the event is supposed to be for students. Can he get 3,000 students to come to a mega church in Phoenix?



-Laelth

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
23. Absolutely, he can.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:43 PM
Jun 2020

He might not get 'em all from the Phoenix area, but I'm willing to bet there are a bunch of students who are willing to drive in from other parts of Arizona, and from neighboring states to see Dear Leader. And, if he couldn't, he could easily fill in the seats with. non-students.

TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts)
30. If Phoenix cancels it, I wonder if their campaign will contest it like they did the Tulsa venue.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 04:45 PM
Jun 2020

Last edited Sun Jun 21, 2020, 05:28 PM - Edit history (1)

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They might want it cancelled in private, but claim censorship publicly.

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Laelth

(32,017 posts)
32. You may be right.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 04:51 PM
Jun 2020

But because the Phoenix Mega-Church only holds 3,000 people, Trump may think he can fill it and proceed with the rally as planned. I doubt that either the Mayor of Phoenix or the Governor of Arizona would stand in the way of the rally going forward at this point. We’ll see.

-Laelth

getagrip_already

(14,825 posts)
5. Can we say CONVENTION?
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:11 PM
Jun 2020

I knew we could.....

They have YUGE plans for a physical convention. A week of rallies, speaches, and entertainment. They apparently have some big name high school bands lined up.

It will the biggest, the bestiest, rally since hitler did nuremburg in '39. Or maybe they just got the year wrong?

getagrip_already

(14,825 posts)
20. trump-land doesn't care about their kids.... just the message...
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:52 PM
Jun 2020

Schools throughout the south are set to reopen in the fall with no precautions. Florida specifically.

So yeah, parents would let their kids go I fear. And probably escort them as well.

I was actually joking though. At his inaugural events they used free bands like high schools and colleges extensively because they were too cheap to pay real bands. A lot of real also just said no thanks.

So they ended up with a lot of free music nobody really cared about. And siphoned off the 100 million dollars into their own pockets.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. One bad trip doesn't cure a junkie
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:12 PM
Jun 2020

Trump's addicted to his rallies every bit as much as a alcoholic is to alcohol. The ferocious hangovers, the blank spaces of what-all happened last night, and all the rest don't mean a thing when the time comes for more drinking. The empty venues, the online mockery, and the horrible optics mean nothing when Trump needs another rally hit.

The campaign team has to be dreading the next dictum from on high that he wants to go to Michigan or West Virginia or Arizona for another rally.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
25. Exactly. We need to ignore that fool and his foolish, maskless MAGATS.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 02:39 PM
Jun 2020

Let them have their COVID enhancement rallies. Joe needs to pay attention to science and data to set his future course. At the end, the contrast will be stark and in our favor.

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
14. I swear he's already got at least one more lined up, Moon, even though I'm too too lazy to look
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:23 PM
Jun 2020

it up!!

But you’ve got me thinking here, HEY NOW, one of bunkerboi’s greatest pleasures has rudely been snatched from his bitty hands, eh?? He can no longer look forward to the thrill of his minions loving on him when he now knows there’s a good chance he’ll be standing in the arena somewhat...alone

The top trending topics on twitter have been “Everybody’s Laughing At You”, “Empty Seats”, “Trump Rally Fail”, “tiktokteens”, “Coronapalooza”, “Fred’s Failure”, “K-pop”, “Tulsa Flop”, “Brad”,

Etc etc

The thing about tweets trending is that, you know, the only thing LOSER45 actually READS is tweets...so he has to stew in his own rancid juices hour after hour and yeah, I have no problem with that!!

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
27. Well, we'll soon see if, on top of his many other psychological issues,
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 04:33 PM
Jun 2020

he also has a little masochism in his rotten brain.

Under The Radar

(3,404 posts)
16. Yep, he needs the opportunity to explain why Tulsa sucked
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:26 PM
Jun 2020

...just as this one was for his baby steps and sippy at the West Point ceremony...and the ‘crooked press’ won’t report it.

Girard442

(6,083 posts)
17. The central reality is that in a thoroughly Red state, they couldn't fill a modest venue.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jun 2020

That's not going to be easily fixed, not nohow.

The TikTok phenomenon is a thing now, so crowd size projections will now be useless.

Vogon_Glory

(9,127 posts)
26. I think he'll have another rally or two
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 04:06 PM
Jun 2020

I personally think that Orange Julius ought to try an open-air venue in a safely-red northern- tier state.

Of course if he rallies in Northern Idaho there’s a chance that George Soros-funded brown bears allied with ANTIFA might try to disrupt the gathering.


diva77

(7,652 posts)
29. Now that he has taken over Voice of America -- taxpayer funded global media and he has his election
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 04:40 PM
Jun 2020

fraud dream team assembled - Rove & Manafort, he doesn't need to do any rallying.

https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/voice-of-america-to-become-voice-of-trump/

Voice of America to become Voice of Trump

Trump appoints right-winger to Congress-funded broadcaster whose views may not resonate with related outlets' 117 million audience in Asia
by David Hutt June 18, 2020

Two senior executives at the US Congress-funded Voice of America resigned this week after a controversial ally of US President Donald Trump was confirmed as the new chief executive of the agency that oversees the media outlet, as well as Radio Free Asia and Voice of Europe.

In another instance of Trump appointing a political loyalist for a nonpolitical job, the conservative activist and filmmaker Michael Pack was confirmed last week as the new head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an agency independent of the US government responsible for taxpayer-funded news outlets.

This came after a partisan-split vote in the US Senate, almost three years after his name was first put forward by Trump.

Pack is reportedly also a close ally of Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign strategist and White House adviser, with whom he has made two documentaries. He was also the previous head of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank with close connections to the Trump movement.
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Ms. Toad

(34,086 posts)
31. It took several press conferences in lieu of rallies before he gave up.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 04:45 PM
Jun 2020

It may take him several more rallies before he gives up and waits for his coronation in August.

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