9mo ago

‘So humiliating’: Trump’s big rally boast painfully falls apart in real time

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'So Humiliating': Trump's Big Rally Boast Painfully Falls Apart In Real Time

Donald Trump’s latest boast about his crowd size fell apart in a hurry as he was fact-checked in real-time while he was still speaking.

“We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it’s so great,” the former president said in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. “We never have an empty seat, never have, look at it.”

Just one problem: While the sections closest to the stage were packed with MAGA faithful, there were plenty of empty seats toward the back of the venue ― and observers began sharing images of them on social media almost immediately.

An Associated Press photo also shows some of the empty seats…

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Can we all agree to quit linking to twitter? Fuck Musk
- YES PLEASE.
- I like the libredirect plugin which redirects to Nitter at least.
- We also need to start calling it the name it actually is, X
  
  No, x is dumb and I refuse to call it that.
  
  As someone who's been transitioning for over a decade, I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone that it's perfectly ok- if not encouraged to deadname Twitter for as long as Elongated Muskrat continues to deadname his child. And then some.
  
  Do you mean X, formerly Twitter? I had trouble hearing you with Elon's dick in your mouth.
  
  I'll never call it X.
  It's twitter. Perhaps xitter if you must. On mastodon it's universally referred to as "the other place" which is acceptable.
  
  It is twitter.
  Elon can say "these are no longer cars, they're now called Gloobpeepoops" but that doesn't make it so. He is not the king of words.
  
  Hmmmmmm..... No 🙂
  Once they stop using Twitter.com perhaps I'll reevaluate my stance
  
  Naaah. That’s what he wants. I bet it pains him where people call it Twitter.
  
  why its fucking twitter
  
  If you got captured in a sex slave operation and I bought you from a trafficker, would you call yourself your name, or the one I give you after I bought you?
Trump's followers are not sophisticated, politically savvy people. They're attracted to Trump because he's a bully. He (was) everything that they wish they were because at their heart they just want to laugh at others misfortune and he gives them that.
But think back to highschool. What happens when someone finally pulls down the pants of the bully; humiliates him in a crowd of people? That's right. His followers, that group of laughing Hyenas that follow him around, start to ditch.
Policy doesn't change a trump voter. Ethics doesn't change a trump voter. The only thing that changes a trump voter is showing them that their following a loser and a sucker.
- I think this is kind of reductive.
  I mean it's a nice narrative and sounds like what we want to hear but is it really true? Trump has had his metaphoric pants pulled down a bunch of times but he has more influence than ever.
  I don't think there's any simple 3 sentence explanation. Trump is a symptom of a complex array of interconnected problems.
  
  it's highly oversimplified and using really shitty language.
  The correct way to phrase this would be "trump and his sycophants mirror the language styles of the nazis and their fascist rhetoric, their behavior is akin to that of a fascist."
- What happens when someone finally pulls down the pants of the bully; humiliates him in a crowd of people? That’s right. His followers, that group of laughing Hyenas that follow him around, start to ditch.
  You're describing '80s movies here. In reality, the bullies mostly just go off to college and get great jobs in finance. Or become cops in LA - which is what my personal high school bully did.
  
  Yeah I know. But I was trying to use a reasonably universal metaphor.
- This is a perfect description of him and his followers. Seriously. I’d award this shit if I could.
  
  Where's Lemmy silver /s
- What happens when someone finally pulls down the pants of the bully
  You get your face rearranged and the school protects the bully.
Still depressing how many still are there...
- You can't fix stupid.
  
  You can fix it.
  Just takes time, critical thinking, good education and a little murder.
- Yeah, in a fair world that'd be his entire base flown in from everywhere
- It's clearly because the events are "beautiful." Who speaks like that?
- I was going to say, that's hardly a small crowd. This article is BS.
I get two tickets to ALL his indoor events. 😁🤣
- If you get a valid link to acquire tix for his MSG Nazi Redux, it would be a shame if it were shared.
  
  https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events
  You have to give them a phone number that can receive authorization codes. But I’ve been doing this for over a month and I have NOT received any spam texts or emails from other groups.
The fact that your video proof was on "x" shows the need for these people to leave twitter.
Can’t see anything on twitter. Anyone got a working link?
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This is stupid... I hate Trump, but if you've ever been to a rally like this you know that no one sits behind the cameras... You know, because they usually want to actually see the stage
- TIL that all of the arena is behind cameras, which is why there are empty sections around the entire arena.
  
  Go rewatch the video, the rest of the stadium is pretty full, all the way to the nose-bleeds. I enjoy seeing his shrinking crowd sizes, and his fans walking out while he's talking, but this article doesn't have much meat on its sandwich.
  
  I don't think you watched the videos

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