I got the impression that he did not want to participate, just watch.
Probably afraid of losing even one ml of orange.
“ml”? Wat? Individual-ONE ain’t got no mls. Drams, maybe, proper quarts, no doubt, none of that wokey metrical stuff.
It’s almost like clockwork. The magaflatearthers are now back to calling Senator McCain a “songbird”, a traitor, and a murderer of 120 American sailors…
I wonder if they’re smart enough to get paid in advance? I wonder if they have any chance at all of collecting the extra $50 if they end up on screen?
IIRC that’s not the first time he’s tried to drum up fake support on craigslist. Plus, haven’t we seen cases of the same people showing up at different rallies across the country. While I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that that he has some groupies that show up on their own, I feel like we’ve had reports of them being paid to travel from event to event. Did John Oliver or Trevor Noah talk about that?
Looking for a cite about his groupies, I found a cite for a previous time he tried to hire actors on craigslist and firm he hired to do that had to report him to the FEC because, as you might guess, he wouldn’t pay them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/20/even-the-firm-that-hired-actors-to-cheer-trumps-campaign-launch-had-to-wait-to-be-paid/
What Levine found, though, was that there was another level of detail to those actors showing up. In short: The Trump campaign failed to pay the $12,000 bill from Gotham until about a month after a complaint had been filed with the FEC. The delay between the time Gotham was hired – June – and when it was paid – October – essentially means that Gotham floated credit to the campaign for those four months, potentially making it a campaign contribution.
Interestingly, while I’m not quickly finding references to him paying groupies to travel along with him (something I may just be misremembering), I am finding old Michael Cohen quotes saying they don’t pay people to show up at rallies.
Not sure about the right place for this one, but watch the video of this yahoo. He is his own SNL parody.
It’s like they have a Stable Genius factory and can crank them out all day long.
To prove that they’re anti-woke and pro-capitalism, the government should send the Trump campaign a bill for the services. After all, the campaign was too cheap/couldn’t afford an indoor venue even though high temperatures were predicted and medical services needed to be available.
Good luck with collecting, though.
Random thoughts:
Way back in post #5709; where’s the black dude? He is always there. I suspect:
“Not coming. It’s gonna be 120 on the stand at least. You organizers may think I’m dumb; un-uh, not that dumb. Y’all not paying me enough for this s&#(. And where’s my check?”
At least the fallen down got transportation, I remember some other rallies where the buses disappeared forcing the cultists to walk through rainstorms in the dark to the parking.
Nothing about these rallies indicates new supporters are being added; it’s just the usual cult/Fox News alternate reality types. It’s the same hate, fear, Deep State against us blather. I know it has to be repeated continuously to keep up the “us against them” theme - whoever “them” is.
Desperation is creeping in. “No taxes on tips.” Going after the smallest single issue audiences. I’ve got friends in Las Vegas, these folks have seen all the stories and lies - this BS line from Don the Con won’t fly far.
Good plan, now the employers can move to a “$0/hr, all tips!” compensation scheme! /s
Here’s a tip for Trump:
Little Boy : [Jimmy has just signed a baseball for a little boy, who reads] Avoid the clap, Jimmy Dugan.
Jimmy Dugan: Hey, that’s good advice!
He keeps telling this bizarre story! Stormy Daniels reportedly said that Trump is obsessed with sharks and made her watch some Shark Week content with him. 110° heat, and he’s ranting about sharks.
During his speech on Sunday, Trump described how he posed a question which “nobody’s ever asked” before about whether it would be better to be electrocuted on a boat or eaten by a shark in the ocean.
“I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater. And there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there,” Trump said.
“By the way, lot of shark attacks lately, I watched some guys justifying it today. 'Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood who she was,” Trump added. “He said 'there’s no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand a young woman’s swimming. She really got decimated and other people too, a lot of shark attacks.”
Returning back to his original point, Trump continues: "So I said, there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, do I get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking, do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?
“Because I will tell you he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘you know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming to that water. But you know what I’d do? If there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark.”
Former NBC senior executive Mike Sington said: "People are standing outside in hundred degree heat in Las Vegas to hear Trump babble on and on about sharks and batteries. He doesn’t talk about you, or what he’s going to do for you, or your future.
“It’s always about him, or meaningless nonsense. He’s a complete waste of time.”
This reminds me of Stephen King’s Firestarter. In the book, Charlie’s father has a power called the push. When he “pushes” people, sometimes it sets off a “ricochet” in their brains and they obsess about irrelevant things in a destructive feedback loop. Maybe Mr. Trump would like to go swimming in the ocean with some chum? I mean, chums.
And yet the media continue to give him airtime.
Of course you do, Donny. Just like, can we nuke hurricanes, inject bleach or shove a UV light up our ass, put alligators in a moat in front of The Wall, and so on?
“Nobody’s ever thought of that, before!”
You think? What an inane tangent.
Sometimes I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. Let him keep proving to America, time and time again, that he can hardly string together a sentence, much less an entire thought.
The MSM needs to give him more than quick soundbites. Let them hear him rant in incoherent paragraphs that make no sense. Give them the soundbite in context, so the Fox & Friends crowd can’t say it was taken out of context, or that he was joking or whatever.
Like when someone passed out from the heat, and then TURNIP drank some water instead. Or how he was bitching about not having a teleprompter working.
God, I can’t wait until he loses this election, and hopefully goes to jail for some real time.
To be fair, shark attacks are a serious problem in < checks notes > Las Vegas.