The Greatest MAGA Rally Of All Time

Discussion in 'Politics' started by vanzandt, Jun 20, 2020.

  1. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Ah yes, because the democrats are shining stewards of fiscal and monetary responsibility. Remind me again who was it that gave us Bernanke, and who was it that re-appointed him? How about Yellen?
     
    #111     Sep 14, 2020
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  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles

     
    #112     Sep 20, 2020
  3. Trump promises America we will never see him again if Biden wins

    “If I lose to him, I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Trump said

    “I will never speak to you again, you’ll never see me,” he vowed.

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    #113     Sep 20, 2020
  4. Nine_Ender

    Nine_Ender

    The data doesn't lie; when Republicans are in power they overspend and drive up the federal debt. Trump driving up the federal deficit when the economy was strong pre-Covid was the worst example of this in our lifetimes. But not surprising given he's run numerous businesses into the ground by borrowing huge amounts of money and spending lavishly on an image of obscene wealth.

    You can't ignore very real events like the subprime crisis that require government spending that's textbook economics. What was the crisis Trump had in 2016 that required running a huge deficit ? Too many people working coming out of Obama's second term ? Google/FB etc not making enough money ? A war to fund ? Not seeing it.
     
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    #114     Sep 20, 2020
  5. easymon1

    easymon1

  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    In surprise to no one:
    https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...ing-mistake-tiktok-prank-woodward-book-2021-9
    Trump fumed that it was the 'biggest fucking mistake' to hold a campaign rally after a TikTok prank resulted in thousands of empty seats: book

    • Trump said last year it was the huge mistake to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a new book says.
    • He initially said more than 1 million people had requested tickets and tens of thousands would come.
    • Fewer than 6,500 showed, which led Trump to yell at and demote his campaign manager, the book says.
    President Donald Trump was furious after TikTok users played a prank that helped lead to thousands of empty seats at a campaign rally in Oklahoma last year and said holding the rally was the "biggest fucking mistake," a new book says.

    About half the stadium was empty, and Trump "erupted" at his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, afterward,
    according to "Peril," written by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, an early copy of which was obtained by Insider.

    "Biggest fucking mistake," the president is quoted as saying at an Oval Office meeting after the June 2020 rally in Tulsa. "I shouldn't have ever done that fucking, fucking rally."

    He also called Parscale a "fucking moron," the book says. Trump fired Parscale as his campaign manager less than a month later.

    A few days before the Tulsa rally, Trump said nearly 1 million people had requested tickets. He also told Woodward the day before the rally that "over 1.2 million have signed up" and that he was expecting tens of thousands to show up. "But think of that," he told Woodward. "Nobody ever had rallies like that."

    In the end, turnout was far smaller at the rally. It drew 6,200 people at a stadium that has a 19,000-seat capacity. Trump was faced with rows of empty seats, and the president had to nix plans to speak outside the venue, where the campaign initially anticipated hosting throngs of supporters who couldn't get into the stadium because it was expected to be packed.

    After the rally, a wave of K-pop fans and other social-media users claimed responsibility for the lack of showing, saying they reserved thousands of tickets for the event with no plans to attend.

    A 51-year-old Iowa woman appeared to have played a significant role in the spoof gaining steam, as she posted a video explaining how to register for the rally that racked up more than 725,000 likes.

    Trump attracted heavy scrutiny for holding the event in the first place, given that COVID-19 cases in the city were on the rise and public-health experts were urging Americans not to gather in large crowds and to follow social-distancing recommendations. Medical professionals also said the rally could become a superspreader event.

    Cases spiked in and around Tulsa after the rally, which led the city-county health department director to conclude the arena crowd and protests outside "likely contributed" to the outbreak. The former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who spoke at the Trump rally, died of COVID-19 less than two weeks after the event.

    The rally also fell on Juneteenth in 2020, drawing intense backlash from the Black community in Tulsa and Black Lives Matter supporters nationwide, who pointed out that the rally also took place near the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre on Black Wall Street.
     
    #116     Sep 16, 2021