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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey zip-tied the seats together for Trump's rally tonight, to *prevent* social distancing attempts!
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Cha
(297,757 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)We are going to need a new metric to do the math
Cha
(297,757 posts)leftieNanner
(15,171 posts)From when I was in college and you weren't allowed to use a calculator because not everybody could afford one.
The numbers of cases are having a logarithmic rise.
I think I remember how to do those.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)Amazing that we were able to go to the moon using slide rules.
Cha
(297,757 posts)TY, orleans
RockRaven
(15,016 posts)Not too surprising given its overlap with fundamentalist religion, which is also very death cult-y.
wnylib
(21,630 posts)killing off muggles.
Idiots think they are following a great wizard.
They're in the wrong storyland. Their "wizard" is hiding behind a curtain, using smoke, mirrors, and a megaphone.
PatrickforO
(14,593 posts)the curtain' for some time now, and the last thing they want is for us to notice.
wnylib
(21,630 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,636 posts)Who in the Hell would voluntarily go to what appears to be a Covidfest?
They should quarantine the whole group after he finished ranting.
Rebl2
(13,570 posts)what it is. A Covid cult festival. Think they should all be locked up and quarantined for three weeks.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,678 posts)they can't get any dumber and then they do....
unc70
(6,121 posts)Or one slightly modified hair pin. Just insert and click.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 3, 2020, 08:44 PM - Edit history (1)
unc70
(6,121 posts)The various pubs are street protestor "tools".
Trueblue Texan
(2,445 posts)Thank you!
jayfish
(10,039 posts)years ago watching what's playing out today as the plot of a movie. It would have gotten terrible reviews because of how unbelievable it was.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Beyond stupid, this whole thing.
jayfish
(10,039 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:21 AM - Edit history (1)
You run into an immovable wall of chairs rather than them being collapsed. Stupid+.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)======
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,107 posts)You need to be able to move anything that restrains movement out of the way. Would you rather move one shopping cart - or a whole train? Sheesh.
haele
(12,682 posts)Otherwise, they're just advertising how stubbornly stupid they are.
Haele
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,647 posts)The empressof all
(29,098 posts)They can be easily weaponized or used as shields.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,647 posts)Tanuki
(14,922 posts)Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)reACTIONary
(5,788 posts)struggle4progress
(118,359 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)unless the audience is skinny preteen kids, most adults won't even fit. The audience is going to be packed in tight as sardines. There's no elbow room, no room for shoulders, hips or thighs, so everyone is going to be rubbing right up to the people beside them. There's not even enough space between chairs to drape a sweater
Trump couldn't have ordered a better job of guaranteeing that the corona virus would be spread if he had planned it on purpose.
33taw
(2,448 posts)The crowd would appear bigger.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)budkin
(6,721 posts)I can wait to oust this MFer
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)moondust
(20,013 posts)CNN had a live shot panning the crowd and I did not see one mask.
On a live shot of the crowd on MSNBC just now I saw about 5 masks.
captain queeg
(10,267 posts)On the mountain. You know hes going to suggest it, wants to be sure there is a crowd supporting the idea. Itll be a photo op to zero in on a packed section of the crowd holding a preprinted banner. Or something like that. Id love if when he brings it up theres just crickets.
kairos12
(12,877 posts)benld74
(9,910 posts)Renew Deal
(81,879 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)wnylib
(21,630 posts)a virus will do the same job on them.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I hope they suffer appropriate consequence.
Smackdown2019
(1,191 posts)Lol. Wonder if it be a sold out event like Tulsa was and sparse seating...
wnylib
(21,630 posts)all they would need to do is skip seats between each other.
But, they're too stupid to practice distancing anyway.
Criminal shit bag sitting on hundreds of millions of campaign dollars, but is spending our, And South Dakota tax money for a pure MAGA rally. This is plain and simple and MAGA rally, nothing to do with unifying a country on its day of birth. Sickening.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Stuart G
(38,449 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,942 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)paleotn
(17,989 posts)Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)would report this as news.
Edit: typo
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)after the brief shutdown period?
Expect that to rise.
Maybe as it starts becoming more real to more people, a president insidiously requiring people, many of whom no doubt thought they could establish at least some distance, to sit packed shoulder to shoulder will seem more newsworthy.
But this genuinely evil betrayal by a president of his own voters is right now.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)eventually says the zip-ties are required safety code. The argument should be about having the event at all. Bringing up the zip-ties makes them look ignorant and click-baity.
Full disclosure: I do not like cable news and think it is harming our society.