Trump & Pence performance theater in Indiana

I'm leaving out all the stuff he normally lies about, as this is getting really, really old, but here are excerpts from Daniel Dale's coverage of Trump's Indianapolis stump:

Pence on Trump: "The results have been -- huge." People in the crowd in unison: "Yuuuge."

Pence, rising to a near-shout, says the people in the caravan will not be allowed to enter the United States "illegally."

Trump begins again by briefly touting the jobs numbers. "How were they," he says. "How WERE they?"

Trump says this is the best economy of all time, "way ahead of schedule," and if he said this during the campaign "they would not have let us get away with it, but we would have gotten away with it anyway. We would've gotten away with it."

He thrills to getting away with things.

Trump promises he will "soon" do his currently imaginary 10% middle-class tax cut.

Trump lies of Democrats: "They want to shut down your steel mills. And that will happen." "Democrats wanted totally open borders. How do you like that sound? Come on in. COME ON IN, everybody." There is a Build That Wall chant.

Trump is calling up former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight to speak. First he is telling his standard extremely long multi-Sir story about Bobby Knight urging him to run. Trump midway through the long Bobby Knight-called-me-before-I-ran story: "And on my desk - you know I'm a hard worker, I have a lot of stuff..." Trump has added a new religious component to his "Bobby Knight called me and then I threw his number in a pile and then much later I magically found the number in the haystack" story: "And then I look up, and I say, 'Thank you, God, thank you.' That was from God."

Bobby Knight says Harry Truman was a "great president," and notes that people would say "give 'em hell, Harry," and says Trump is too and "already givin' 'em hell," and asks people to say, on the count of three, "Go get 'em, Donald," and there is a "Go get 'em, Donald" chant.

That stinks as a chant.  He missed an obvious opportunity for it to be "Give 'em hell, Donald!"

Bobby Knight says that defense wins basketball games, and Trump is a great defender, "a great defender of the United States of America." There is a U-S-A chant, and it is all very Indiana.

Yeah, but what did Trump think of that?  He's not a defender.  He's an OFFENDER.  We just heard, "Go get 'em, Donald."  Bobby Knight should stick to his day job.

Trump on the importance of the midterms: "They're not going to beat the day from two years ago, but it's going to be interesting nevertheless. Was that a great time we had two years ago?"

Trump on Kavanaugh: "No man, nobody, was ever abused like then-Judge Kavanaugh. Nobody was ever abused."

Trump on Melania: "You think it's easy to be first lady, when you're married to me? You think it's easy?"

Didn't Melania recently say she was the most abused person on the planet?

Trump repeats that Obama had a "small crowd," and that Obama lied about keeping your doctor and he could go into it, but he wants to "stay pleasant."

Trump: "...Women women women. I love women. They're the greatest. I like 'em much more than I like the men."

Trump explaining the Space Force: "Very much needed. Very much needed. That's where it's at. That's where it's all going. Defense, offense, that's where it's all going."

Not quite all.  Not what we wish would go.

Trump says Democrats want to "give power back to a corrupt, selfish ruling class that only looks out for themselves. I know them well."

Trump has concluded. A lot of lying, nothing much new.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.