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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScences from a MAGA rally, not sure whether to laugh or cry (maybe a little of both)
"Friday, Trump came to Huntington, West Virginia, right up against the Ohio border, but still in his favorite stateone that went for him overwhelmingly in 2016, and the place where he can proclaim his love for coal most loudly, to the most applause. The crowds here are full of men in dirty boots who used to be miners and women in worn hoodies who hold down two jobs. It is a crowd of high school football players and the people who cheer for them. Trump would hate them in person, and they love him."
"...the event opened its doors to the thousands of faithfulincluding a man dressed in judges robes with a KAV name tag, and his wife, struggling to take her beer can costume off at the metal detectorswho had ridden the school buses shuttling them from town out to the airport for the rally. It was held in an empty hangar, the back quarter of which was a raised platform for the press so that they could be easily jeered at."
"...a local pastor, who said (to God), We declare that you are supremethe utmost authority. Republicans and Islamists have much more in common than they ever acknowledge."
"...West Virginia Governor Jim Justice ascended the stage,...Justice, a coal billionaire who switched to the Republican party in 2017 as a matter of political expediency, called Donald Trump my best buddysetting a slavish tone that would be repeated by every political candidate allowed to grace the stage with the president. Do you have any idea whats at risk? Justice asked the crowd. Are you ready to shove your whole life on the table and let it go down the drain? He is the sitting governor of one of the poorest and least healthy states in America."
https://splinternews.com/donald-trump-would-never-lie-to-you-you-are-his-favori-1830192391
MFM008
(19,821 posts)My tvs off politics this weekend.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Plus he loves the attention bc he thinks it makes his wife jealous and his friends wonder what they missed after they finally told him to take a hike.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)More snippets from the article:
The national press corps follows Trump around like flies chasing a rotten candy apple. Campaign trail journalism is afforded professional prestige yet is absolute, soul-crushing hell in action.
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Multiple leading national political reporters were holed up in the Huntington airport Ginos Pizzeria and Pub at lunch time, picking desultorily at melted cheese and waiting for the press gate to open. Two reporters joked about which Game of Thrones character Trump would be. (Hes Hodor! Hes Joffrey, obviously!) Another reporter phoned her hotel in Pensacola, FL, where they would all be tomorrow, to try to get switched from the Hilton to the Marriott. Overhead, competing ads for area Congressional candidates ran over and over on mute between local news weather reports. This is the circle of hell that the good job in journalism gets you.