Get ready for the boat parade on Sunday.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I'm posting this NOT so that people can get their boats ready, but so that people can get their protests ready. Okay? You don't have to alert on this as a RW talking point. Sheesh. Get a clue.

Morning Notes
ARLnow.com Today at 7:30am

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Trump Boat Parade Planned — “A boat parade is planned in support of President Trump on Sunday on the Potomac River. According to a Facebook post from an entity known as “Liberty Rally,” boaters will gather just before 1 PM in the Wilson Bridge no-wake zone and then proceed up the Potomac.” [Washingtonian]

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A Trump Boat Parade Is Planned for the Potomac on Sunday
The "Nation's Capital Trumptilla" aims to have let support for President Trump be "STRONGLY be heard in our Nation’s Capital!!!"
WRITTEN BY ANDREW BEAUJON | PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A boat parade is planned in support of President Trump on Sunday on the Potomac River. According to a Facebook post from an entity known as “Liberty Rally,” boaters will gather just before 1 PM in the Wilson Bridge no-wake zone....

Parades of boaters, sometimes known as Trumptillas, have been a fixture of this odd political year, when land rallies are difficult to organize due to the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump has cited them as a more meaningful metric than polls that show him losing to Joe Biden. One key boat parade organizer, Carlos Gavidia, was charged with threatening someone with whom he had political differences this week in Florida. A Labor Day parade in Jupiter, Florida, is expected to proceed anyway.

If you don’t have a boat, that’s no problem, the event organizer says: A kickoff/watch party will take place at Founders Park in Old Town from 1-5 and spectators are encouraged to watch from Alexandria’s Waterfront Park, Lady Bird Johnson Park, and Memorial Bridge, where the boat parade is scheduled to end. City of Alexandria spokesperson Craig Fifer tells Washingtonian the city hasn’t issued a special events permit for the Founders Park gathering but that no permit is required unless organizers plan to have alcohol, structures, or amplified sound.

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[underpants]

1. A well placed LOSERS SUCKERS sign would be a good idea

[Sedona]

2. Well placed folk on the bridges the Trumptilla has to pass beneath

is more like it.

What can you imagine might "fall" off the bridge at the right time?

[Throck]

3. Counter Protest?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Insufficient range. NT

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Reminder: it's today

Trumptilla Boat Parade Aims To Be Loud And Proud On The Potomac

Boat enthusiasts who support President Trump will be hosting a boat parade and rally Sunday afternoon on the Potomac River.

By Michael O'Connell, Patch Staff

Sep 1, 2020 12:55 pm ET | Updated Sep 1, 2020 12:57 pm ET

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Schedule:

•12:45 p.m. - Boaters will lineup at the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in the no wake zone. Boaters will be traveling north and communicating on Channel 78.
• 1 p.m. - Trumptilla Boat Parade will start with the sound of an air horn. Parade participants must follow the lead boat and two chase boats. The parade route will head north along the Potomac River to Haines Point and with a starboard heading to the Memorial Bridge. For information during the parade, tune to Channel 69.
• 1:30 p.m. - Loudest Sound of Freedom: Participants on both boat and land are encouraged to make as much noise as possible to honor law enforcement, firefighters, emergency responders, frontline health care and essential workers.
• 3 p.m. - Boat parade ends at Memorial Bridge.

The kick-off party for the parade will take place at 1 p.m., at Founders Park in Old Town Alexandria. Watchers are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs, and food and drink.

Land Rally Watch will gather at three locations along the Potomac:

• Waterfront Park, 1A Prince St., Alexandria
• Navy Merchant Marine Memorial at Lady Bird Johnson Park
• Memorial Bridge