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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:23 AM Nov 2018

Scences 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 state—one 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 faithful—including a man dressed in judge’s robes with a “KAV” name tag, and his wife, struggling to take her beer can costume off at the metal detectors—who 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 supreme—the 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 buddy”—setting a slavish tone that would be repeated by every political candidate allowed to grace the stage with the president. “Do you have any idea what’s 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

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Scences from a MAGA rally, not sure whether to laugh or cry (maybe a little of both) (Original Post) Va Lefty Nov 2018 OP
Dont know MFM008 Nov 2018 #1
He's not gaining votes, he's just working up a case of plausible deniability when he steals it again Crutchez_CuiBono Nov 2018 #2
circle of hell Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2018 #3

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
2. He's not gaining votes, he's just working up a case of plausible deniability when he steals it again
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:30 AM
Nov 2018

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

(33,430 posts)
3. circle of hell
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:31 AM
Nov 2018

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.

[...]

Multiple leading national political reporters were holed up in the Huntington airport Gino’s 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. (“He’s Hodor!” “He’s 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.
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