Mr. President, I have been to a great state fair. This is no great state fair.
It is, as well as during the Spring Fair in April. They also have a van which pops up at shopping centers around the area.
As for the name, it changed from “The Western Washington Fair” to “The Puyallup Fair” in 2006, then to “The Washington State Fair” in 2013. Though as @Atamasama said, it’s never been anything but “The Puyallup” (at least in my memory).
As best I can recall, we called it “the Pyyallup Fair” when I was a kid, although we knew it was really “the Western Washington State Fair”. Then, sometime in the mid-'70s, their ad campaign for the fair had an insanely catchy song “Do the Puyallup”, and that took over as the name.
Is this a mirrored William Henry Harrison in the making?
Harrison supposedly caught pneumonia during his overly long inauguration speech in the cold & wet, then died from it.
Don’t forget the cherries…
After attending Fourth of July orations for most of the day, Taylor walked along the Potomac River before returning to the White House. Hot and tired, he drank iced water and consumed large quantities of cherries and other fruits. The President suffered severe stomach pains for the next five days. Diagnosed as suffering from “cholera morbus” by his physicians, Taylor ate slivers of ice for relief until his body began rejecting fluids.
I’m working on a Country and Western song about this “fair”, and the Trump admin in general.
A Cow Named Melania
There’s a fair way down in DC, Which Trump wants you to see
That highlights what he wants the country to be
It’s got empty tents, sky-high rents, and a cow named Melania
It’s got infrastructure failing, farmers wailing, and a cow named Melania
It’s got an algae-covered pool, Hegseth the drunken fool, and a cow named Melania
It’s got trade complaints about Canada, a plan to take over Panama, and a cow named Melania
It’s got sky-high inflation, a Greenland invasion, and a cow named Melania
It’s got beachheads on Venezuela’s shores, another Iranian war, and a cow named Melania.
Looks like I was not far off…
I just posted this in the ‘trump is dying’ thread:
A House Democratic subcommittee released a report on Freedom 250 and the celebration. It will go nowhere because that’s where we are today, but it’s a brutal and disgusting report. (ninja’d by solost!)
Donald Trump staged a hostile takeover of the US’s 250th anniversary celebration to enrich political allies, harvest voter data and promote Christian nationalist ideology.
The interim report alleges that Freedom 250 surreptitiously diverted resources intended for America250 for its own benefit, leaving America250 scrambling for funds.
Sources interviewed by Democrats on the committee said fundraisers including O’Rourke misled prospective America250 donors by providing them with Freedom 250’s banking and routing numbers instead. The report finds this could constitute wire fraud and charitable solicitation fraud under federal and District of Columbia law.
Event registration is powered by Campaign Nucleus, a firm founded by Brad Parscale, a veteran of Trump election campaigns. Campaign Nucleus openly boasts about using artificial intelligence to analyse personal data and target “persuadable” voters. Unsuspecting visitors, such as attendees of a free Fifa World Cup Fan Zone on the National Mall, unwittingly fed their personal information directly into this Republican campaign apparatus.
I may have nominally ninja’d you, but your post summary of it is much better than the two simple links I posted; thanks.
This needs to not be swept under the rug. It’s an encapsulation of all that is evil and wrong about the trump administration. They took what was to have been a non-partisan celebration that had been 10 years in the planning, and hijacked it to create yet another opportunity for grifting America to line trump’s pockets, include their bullshit culture war propaganda and partisanship, push more of trump’s vanity projects like the 4th Reich arch, in the process making something pathetic, cheap-looking and awful.
The hubris, greed and narcissistic delusion involved in making something so terrible for America’s 250th birthday and still thinking people would flock to see it is a perfect metaphor for all of trumpism.
No shit. Wire fraud is being alleged here. Even if (I shouldn’t say “if”, we know it will be the case) Trump himself won’t be at any kind of legal risk, there are all sorts of folks involved with this, and they can and should face prosecution.
(Cue Jon Lovitz voice for the next word…) “Acting!” Attorney General and personal lawyer to Trump Todd Blanche will be all over that, surely.
Yeah, this raises the question of “who is going to prosecute” as it will surely be a federal matter, and Trump would probably just have the DOJ find other priorities (like harassing more of his enemies with nonsense investigations).
Republicans have brought this country corruption at a level that is difficult to comprehend.
I hope you’ll post a link so we can hear it when you’re done.
Depending on the melody and manner of singing, I think the scansion needs some tweaks, but that’s definitely doable, this is still a Work In Progress, right?
The “and a cow named Melania” is sublime. The melody practically writes itself - I can hear it already!
Maybe you could re-name the cow Moolania? Keeping with the bovine theme and all.
Alas, I have no actual musical skills, so I’ll need some to do the score and actually perform it. I’m just working on the lyrics. I need more bridges between the “cow” lines to avoid it being too repetitive.
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But that’s the thing - there’s an actual cow on display, and the participant named her “Melania”. It works because you just could never come up with something that perfect by accident.
That is too fucking funny 
trump said that even though the temperature was going to be over 100, he was going to give a 2 hour speech just to prove he could. I hope they don’t talk him out of it.
And that the cooler blower set up under the stage works as well as all the other gear has been working this far?
One can only hope so