Sunday, March 26, 2023

Oh my! I forgot!

I said I'd update the Waco rally post after it happened yesterday.  Apologies.  Here we go.   Apparently it was a bit of a snooze.
Former President Donald J. Trump spent much of his first major political rally of the 2024 campaign portraying his expected indictment by a New York grand jury as a result of what he claimed was a Democratic conspiracy to persecute him, arguing wildly that the United States was turning into a “banana republic.”

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Trump devoted long stretches of his speech to his own legal jeopardy rather than his vision for a second term, casting himself as a victim of “weaponization” of the justice system.

  NYT
His vision of a second term is him on a throne being fawned over. He has no vision beyond himself.
Lamenting all the investigations he has faced in the last eight years that have — to date — not resulted in charges, Mr. Trump claimed that his legal predicament “probably makes me the most innocent man in the history of our country.”
Just how does that work?
Trump tried, as he has before, to link his personal grievances to those of the crowd. “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you,” he said.
Only if you tried to overrun the Capitol.
In many ways, the event was a familiar festival of Mr. Trump’s grievances and a showcase for his enduring showmanship. His plane — “Trump Force One,” an announcer called it — buzzed the crowd of thousands with a flyover before landing.

The rally featured one new twist: the playing of “Justice for All,” a song featuring the J6 Prison Choir, which is made up of men who were imprisoned for their part in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

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The track features the men singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” while Mr. Trump recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
Donald Trump's first major rally of the year as he tries to avenge his 2020 election loss went off without a hitch in Waco on Saturday but fans didn't stick around long, reports the Waco Tribune-Herald.

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"About 30 minutes into the rally, the crowd began to thin, with people getting a head start on the walk back to the parking lots, designated and otherwise."

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"Several leaving early said they accomplished what they wanted to achieve by showing up for the rally, enduring traffic and long lines. Some said after hours on the tarmac, they were tired, hungry or both and wanted to get home," he added.

  Raw Story
That's too bad, because, apparently, it wasn't a very big crowd to begin with:


Pretty sure that's not the Special Prosecutor Jack Smith posting this, but the picture is, well, sad!


This one's hilarious...
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 03/27/2023:





Exactly.  A "cognitive" test. He can recognize a picture of a camel and he knows what day it is.  And he thinks he's smart because he "aced" it.  (Actually, I wonder if he even did that.)  And his just-as-ignorant followers cheer when he says that.

Do they have a test for malignant narcissism?

UPDATE 03/27/2023:  I don't know if this is when he's coming or going, but they think he's god.  His plane chariot is here.




To be sure, Kilmeade is not complaining that it's "absolutely awful" for moral reasons.  He's saying it's a bad political move.


UPDATE 03/28/2023:  


See photo above.  Maybe that's hours before he arrived.  LOL

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