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Thomas McGraw's avatar

Trump held this ‘Affordability’ rally in a casino…..

-FULL STOP-

Just sit with THAT for a moment: a casino.

Where most people go and LOSE money….

Rick already said that, but repetition is good-it bears repeating.

Last night’s event has got to be on the level of the iconically idiotic ‘Four Seasons’ news conference back in 2020, complete with the smeary runny baby-shit brown face-paint.

Please, everyone’s who’s surprised at this ‘outcome’ turn off your phones for a week.

Now, if you don’t see THAT happening please take a moment and consider this:

“Auf den Führer hinarbeiten….”

If you don’t know German, look it up on Google.

Then check history and contemplate the incalculable cost that it exacted on humanity.

This little beauty was a game changer, for sure.

So, if something about the daily doubling down, lying and escalating ‘crazy’ has an eerie tinge of familiarity-in the context of those four words-that reads like a drunken bore with really bad breath backing you into a corner and getting in your personal space at an office Christmas party you’re desperate to find a way out of early, ask yourself:

‘Is this what ‘We the People’ REALLY want?’

Wakey wakey, America.

Super hero movie time is over. There is no magic ring or spell. Someday, an operatic stage manager will mount a production of Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’ that is based on this Reichstag fire.

The parallels are like the options in that old MasterCard as riff: ENDLESS.

Time to turn up the lights, stop guzzling cheap koolaid and candy & come on out into the light of day.

And, to repeat was Rick Wilson said here, this was ONLY the FIRST of these rallies….

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Observersus's avatar

It seems like puppeteering malpractice to allow the broken puppet out of the theatre and onto a public stage during sundowner hours.

Let him rip.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Wetly into the nearest appropriate receptacle ;)

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Eric Hansen's avatar

When I read the phrase, "the venues are smaller," I thought of the 1st Spinal Tap movie, near the end of their tour, when the marquee said "Puppet Show and Spinal Tap." Let's hope the venues get that small for L'enfant orange.

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Lynn Helloise's avatar

Thanks to you both for sitting through that shit show, as opposed to shithole as in country. I find it particularly ironic that he thinks that citizens of Scandinavia with their universal healthcare, maternity support for the first year, work force child care and free higher education would be chomping at the bit to come to our shithole country. Does Trump understand those blond, blue eyed white people are happy socialists?

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Well, except don't call a Scandinavian a "Socialist" or you'll get a cold bucket of lutefisk hurled at your head. Seriously. These guys live too close to the FSU to get any romantic notions in their practical-minded, problem solving heads about "Socialism."

The Nordic countries are _social democracies,_ all with the kind of vibrant, diversified market economies that feed the public till to pay for those egalitarian programs.

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Katherine's avatar

OMG, Rick.

As usual, you nailed it.

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Andrea Brecker's avatar

What a sorry crowd of cheering fans. Was showing a membership card with the KKK required? They sure found his racial commentary amusing. No bottom too low.

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Molly's avatar

Thank you for watching this so I don't have to. How do you keep your sanity?

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Mombeka's avatar

Meanwhile the Democrats posted a couple of big wins in FLORIDA (the mayor of Miami, “La Gringa”) and in a GEORGIA Special Election.

Mwa-hahaha 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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Elaine Gordon's avatar

Rick, you’re killin’ me! 🤣 You are an EXQUISITE writer! Nobody does it better. It is GOLD. AND IT IS TRUE. Why will they never see . . .

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Sherrie's avatar

Loved your summation of his event. I could not bring myself to watch. His putrid stench makes my eyes water. Just looking at him is enough to make a normal person stomach turn.

I do want to make one point. I listen to people in my neck of the woods and hear nothing but praise for Mr. Putrid. They love his racism. It validates their own. I live in a affluent area, and they are not being hurt by the economy. They have no pity or sadness for people who are struggling. Unless it is their kids. They say everything they hear that is not pro-trump, is fake news.

Do you believe that they are truly the minority? I really hope so.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Well, polling puts Dumpty approval at about 36% overall; the AP NORC poll found only about two-thirds of Republicans, 68%, said they approve of Trump’s government management, down from 81% in March. Independents’ approval dropped from 38% to 25%.

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Martha's avatar

I’m with you, Rick: please send him to swing states in 2026. Please, please, PLEASE!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Some would prefer he swing, period.

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Aly_Ayl_'s avatar

ISWYDT

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Martha's avatar

😆😆😆😆

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Ed Haskell's avatar

He reaches new lows every day. The complete lack of dignity alone makes him a laughing stock on be world stage. I hope he continues either these Nuremberg Rallies on a weekly basis.

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Sarah Pirnie's avatar

On my, Rick, you do have a way with words. My favorite paragraph started with "What you actually saw was" and so on. I think "lemur wig may be the best of all. I wonder what he sees when he looks in the mirror...probably the pouty (and potty-mouth) mouth of his youth when he and Epstein were exchanging disgusting comments about young women. He didn't know anything about the economy then...after all daddy dear gave him $4 million when he was 7...or was it $7 million when he was 4? In any case he's never been in a grocery store in his life!

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David Glaser's avatar

Rick, I have a motto about Donald Trump too. Just like yours: Everything Trump touches dies. Mine is: Today is the best that Donald will be for rest of his life.

Let that one sink in.

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Kelly's avatar
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If he thinks the word "affordability" is made up, wait until he and his goons meet the word "accountability." They don't think it will happen, but it will.

He ranted while looking like a psychotic honey-glazed ham.

BUT, Mt. Airy was the perfect venue. There used to be commercials in the 80s for the "beautiful Mt. Airy Lodge" on PIX all the damn time and that place looked like somewhere you could pick up an STD just by taking a deep breath.

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Elaine Gordon's avatar

“Psychotic honey baked ham”🤣

I LOVE THAT! It’s “Rick Wilson worthy”’!

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Barbara Greer's avatar

Psychotic honey-glazed ham--Thank you so much.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

That delectable choice of venue is going to haunt the entire GOP for a year ;)

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