This “real America” isn’t Walmart or costco (really? A club store?) but the corner store, where the owner Joe knows everyone by name and gives the kid a penny candy when they stop by to check out the latest comics (and probably to buy them mom smokes) and the old men sit on the step and whittle and chew tebaccy. They don’t have more than one brand or size of any product but by gum they have Real American Values™.
Of course the reason Americans don’t think, about these places is, they’ve been gone for 40 years. The little town I grew up near (pop somewhere around 600) even has a Dollar General now. It was built on the site of the old ice cream shop where us kids would stop, if’n we had any change. They have more than one brand or size of their products.
“don’t think much about”? Why would we be thinking about any of these places? I went to a Walmart maybe a year ago. Never been to the other places (I’ve heard of them).
Most people don’t know how to spell ‘dumb’. They can act it out real well though.
I don’t know if you mean me by that comment, but I’m not the one thinking they’re typical for not going there. Plenty of other Real Americans shop at Walmart. It’s the second largest company by revenue in the world. So “we” do think about them. Sometimes, though, it isn’t good thoughts.
I can’t find any exact matches for the photo with reverse image search, except for Trump’s social media post and articles talking about Trump’s social media post. As far as I can tell, it came from him or one of his handlers. Where they got it from, I don’t think it’s possible to know.
It might be a legitimate photo from the event. Reportedly, the Jefferson Memorial was a gathering spot for the event. If you zoom in on the photo, I don’t think there are really that many people pictured in it. Maybe a few hundred? I have trouble telling, but it’s certainly not thousands of people.
450,000 people is an Indianapolis 500 sized crowd. I’ve been there, and it is a staggering number of people gathered together. 450,000 people is a larger gathering than Woodstock.
If there really were hundreds of thousands of people there, it would have been a trivial matter for someone to have gotten pictures and videos of it, which you know Trump and the MAGAs would have been posting all over the place in order to rub it in our faces.
Like all the “Evidence of fraud” from the 2020 election, they’ll talk endlessly about it, but never ever actually show it, because they just don’t have it.
Hell, if there had actually been nearly half a million people there, just getting them out would have taken longer than they admitted. It’s a logistical nightmare. But of course the Spraytanned One has no idea what the actual work would have entailed. There would have still been people exiting when they re-opened, instead of having to roust a few stragglers
Of course the legit point is that those are places Americans consider commonplace, unworthy of special mention. Even if, like me, somebody doesn’t shop at Wal*Mart, they know what it is and consider it ordinary.
I was just recently in Europe wandering goggle-eyed down narrow cobbled streets looking at 500-year old stone houses all attached to one another. Meanwhile the people living in those houses and streets think of them as totally ordinary.
If Trump had one functioning brain cell left that allowed him to truly comprehend for one single, solitary second how history is going to remember him, and how it is going to judge him, he would break instantly and would never ever stop yelling. That is where I think a significant chunk of his delusion comes from.
Re: the Walmart thing…
“Real Americans” shop where it is convenient and cheapest. That is only logical. I am a middle-aged, married man working a blue collar job in the Midwest who makes roughly $35,000 a year. I am also a card carrying member of the Democratic party and consider myself a liberal bordering on progressive politically. I am very aware of the damage that Walmart has done to the retail sector in this country. That said, yes I shop at Walmart regularly. I just spent over $200 there on Sunday to stock up on staples for myself and my wife. I have to deal with the reality in front of me, and the reality is Walmart is by far the most convenient and cost efficient place for me to stock up on necessities like food and hygiene products.
Re: Trump’s Jefferson Memorial photo…
Is it possible it’s AI generated? Is there an app or a website the photo can be fed into they can determine if it was AI generated? The fact that reverse image search cannot turn up anything except the original photo and articles commenting on it is telling. There’s also the fact that there’s no way there were 400,000 people in Washington DC on saturday. I agree with those saying that if there were, there would be tons of pictures and articles all over the Internet documenting that fact. There isn’t.
I took a Princess cruise through the Panama Canal, and when we entered the locks, everybody went up on deck. Except me. I went to the deck just above waterline with big-ass windows, and marveled at the concrete and hardware down inside. I got to look at history close up within inches, watch the water flow in, raise the ship…
