Pro-Trump Rally Expecting 10,000 Attendees Sees Only a Few Hundred Show Up

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Organizers of a Kentucky rally in support of former President Donald Trump featuring several prominent allies and conspiracy theorists expected some 10,000 people to show up this weekend. Instead, less than 300 were in attendance when local journalists attempted to cover the proceedings.

The "We the People Reunion" was held at the Muhlenberg County Agriculture & Convention Center Fairgrounds in Powderly, Kentucky, on Friday and Saturday. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, retired General Michael Flynn, attorney Lin Wood and others were among the featured speakers, according to the event and ticket page online.

Local channel WFIE 14 News sent a team to shoot video at the event on Friday but was later asked to leave, according to a report broadcast by the NBC News affiliate. The news channel reported that promoters had expected a crowd of about 10,000 people but less than 300 were in attendance from what their journalists saw. Event organizers reportedly refused to speak to WFIE about the rally.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pro-trump-rally-expecting-10000-attendees-sees-only-a-few-hundred-show-up/ar-AAOmTMT

Muhlenberg County is the place John Prine sang about in the song Paradise FWIW.

[GoodRaisin]

1. Could be TFG is starting to lose some of his shine

with magats.

[Demovictory9]

3. Hope so

[dflprincess]

12. Either that or the ones that haven't died from Covid

are all in the hospital.

[calimary]

20. Probably both.

"is it wrong that I'm smiling?"

Losing your touch, donny dear? Are you fading into the "He's So Yesterday" column? Maybe they're searching for a winner, not a weiner.

[Dakota Flint]

15. Gee, I never knew a turd could have a shine.

[GoodRaisin]

17. If you're a fly.

Everything is relative.

[Dakota Flint]

27. I suppose if you are a lower life form with a love of shit...

[carpetbagger]

29. Melena.

It's a bad sign, means you've been drinking too much and have bleeding ulcers.

[ZonkerHarris]

49. No. Trump's followers are cheap like him. "tickets for the We the People Reunion were starting....

"tickets for the We the People Reunion were starting at $125.
General admission "plus" tickets were sold for $250
and VIP tickets were going for $500."

They've been going to Trump rallies for free for 6 years and they ain't gonna pay up for the B team without Trump.
And they aren't gonna pay for Trump if he charges either.

[Corgigal]

2. Cause 25,000

went to the Lexington Comic-Con this weekend. Piss poor scheduling. Not to mention the Parade of Horses in Georgetown. Hate-fest can’t compete with these.

[Blue Owl]

4. Suck it Donny you fat fucking sack of shit

[70sEraVet]

5. I think a LOT of Repub. politicians and pillow guys have failed to realize

that many Kentuckians are VERY happy with their Democratic governor, Andy Beshear.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Bored grammar Nazi response ...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/fewer-vs-less

What to Know

Generally, fewer is used when the number of things is counted ("fewer problems" ) whereas less is used when the number is measured ("less trouble" or "less time" ). However, this is not a strict rule and there are accepted instances of less being used with countable amounts such as "250 words or less," "3 items or less," and especially with money ("less than $20" ) and distance ("less than 3 miles" ).

[Skittles]

7. I find "CAUSE" being used instead of BECAUSE *WAY* more egregious

I mean, WTF

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Literate authors use 'cause to indicate vernacular usage -- dropping the first syllable.

Without that apostrophe, it's just misuse of vocabulary.

[Skittles]

9. what is your opinion of the latest word fad, WELP

I find it absolutely ridiculous.

[ZZenith]

13. Welp, it doesn't bother me

Cause I got fewer time to worry about such things.

[Skittles]

14. heh

[PCIntern]

23. Howzabout "Woah!" rather than "Whoa"?

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Folks who use "welp" are, to me, of the most ignorant and detestable types -

it really pisses me off to see it. I can't help but assume, "Oh, you useless dumbshit. How sad that you just follow fads and can't think for yourself."

It's unfair, I know, but that's what comes to my head. And it's done so for years. I can't get over it.

Hi Skittles!!!!!

[Skittles]

30. HEY RABRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR WHASSUP???

it's just that.......you'd never SAY the word WELP so why the FUCK would you write it? MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Not much! Just pissed at the world!

Looking back 20 years and how much I hated George Dubya Bush, thinking how fucking strange it is that he's now the reasonable - and mature, coherent - voice in the GOP.

How fucked up is that reality?

From what I've read, the "Welp" came about because Jim (giant jackass useless turd dumbshit non-funny swill-fetishist embarrasment-to-Canada) Carrey used it in one of his stupid movies.

[Skittles]

37. I still despise Dubya and always will

he was never held accountable for his crimes and now he is laid back and painting and offering his opinions on that fucked up war

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. yeah, that part is sickening - he really should be in jail, or at least a pariah.

But I fear that until Kissinger pays the piper, no one is paying the piper.

[Skittles]

42. Obama not only said we all needed to "move forward"

he kicked that can down the road

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Yeah. I hope to God no one kicks the can down the road on Trump -

it's time we stop this bullshit of "Oh, we can't put the country through prolonged criminal cases against former presidents" blah blah blah.

We absolutely have to. We skipped Nixon, and it's been downhill since then - it's like we keep kicking alcoholics and physical abusers out of the house, but the family never talks about them being alcoholics or abusers, and once they're gone, never acknowledges what they did. "hush hush - if you talk about it, it'll just make things worse."

Bullshit.

Put the fuckers on trial or something - whatever it takes to tell the world we take our laws seriously, and we're not going to sweep things under the rug any more.

[Skittles]

46. you know it, Rabrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

if that fucker isn't held accountable, there IS NO RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA

[ShazzieB]

47. I think it's funny!

Have even used it on one or two occasions.

[efhmc]

16. So is fewer the correct term at a checkout line, as in fewer than 15 items?

BTW, I like grammar.

[eppur_se_muova]

19. Yes! I was in a Publix store when I noticed their sign said "fewer" ...

I pointed this out to my Dad, who said he had already "congratulated" them on that.

There's a scene in the animated series Archer reamtime in which a hooker corrects a Treasury agent by saying "you mean fewer than". I've got to get an mpeg clip of that someday.

(As you'll notice in the OP, it's not a rigid rule.)

[keithbvadu2]

25. from some long ago blog; We need a grammar Eisenhower.

from some long ago blog; We need a grammar Eisenhower.

[ChazInAz]

34. I liked Ike.

He had his own peculiar way with words, referred to as "Ikeisms", that were nowhere near as tortured as Casey Stengall's approach to English.
None of which I can recall at the moment.

[Turbineguy]

10. Sounds like we're on the cusp

of a severe shortage of idiots.

Nah, they're just down with Covid-19. They'll show up when they feel better. Unless they're dead, of course.

[hatrack]

11. And fittingly enough, it's ten miles from there to Gishton, ten to the coal pits of Paradise . . .

And fifteen to White Plains.

Talk about the middle of freaking nowhere.

[yellowdogintexas]

32. No Kidding! There are SO many ways to get lost down there!!

Depending on where you are, it is a you can't get there from here kind of place.

If you make a wrong turn and end up on a county road you are essentially toast.

At least while you are there you can visit the birthplace of the Everly Brothers and the home of the pig who lived in a house (ala Arnold in Green Acres)

I had to go through Powderly to get to college from my hometown - it was a wide spot in the road with a high school. I think it has grown and merged with Greenville since then.

KY roads were drawn using the pig paths and deer trails, except for the state or federal highways. Those county roads are killer. If you turn off at the wrong place you are toast. I don't recommend trying to find Paradise, since the world's largest shovel mowed it down. It is really in the boonies!

If you meet a combine on some of those roads you will have to pull over to the shoulder to let it pass.

LOL they probably stopped to tell the farmer his barn is on fire. It isn't - it's darkfire tobacco time and it's supposed to be smoking.

[rpannier]

18. I'd have thought Flynn could have packed in a few thousand crazed lunatics

But...happily... I am wrong

[yellowdogintexas]

43. What I want to know is where they found a place that would hold 10,000 people ?

There isn't much need for large gathering places...the entire county only has 30,400 residents. Powderly population 745,

It appears urban sprawl from Greenville is creeping north and surrounded Powderly though.

It did say fairgrounds, so if it was supposed to be open air I guess that would work.

It makes me laugh every time I think about a TFG rally in freaking Powderly!!!

[Jetheels]

21. Maybe a shipment of horse paste arrived at the local feed store?

[mountain grammy]

22. This warms my heart.

[Zambero]

24. Beating a dead horse with a lumpy pillow

[DBoon]

26. Trump's 15 minutes are done

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. LOL That is one way to avoid being a super spreader

[lagomorph777]

33. Pillow Man can't draw a crowd?

Could it have any connection to his failed unveiling of "proof" of the Big Lie?

[yellowdogintexas]

44. Probably because the farmers are in the tobacco harvest

Right now is the second round of dark fire curing so new crop is going in and the cured crop is coming down. Very busy time.

Not only that, the corn is ready to harvest.

I think they are more interested in getting their crops to market.

[traitorsgalore]

35. But the greek guy "Harry Paratestes" said he'd be there, LOL

That's a joke from Jimmy Kimmel's show.

[scarytomcat]

38. Who the hell would want to see Pillow Mike & Lying Lin & Traitor Flynn?

Without dump who cares? Obviously nobody

[leftyladyfrommo]

39. I think they are getting too weird even for the

Weirdos.

[leftyladyfrommo]

41. I think they are getting too weird even for the

Weirdos.

[ZonkerHarris]

48. tag the ones that show up and release them back into the wild so we can track them