# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083 "2020-06-22T03:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 289
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5780 "2020-10-31T19:17:18Z")
My brother just texted me that he is watching the Trump rally in PA, I don’t know how he can stand to do it, but he said there are about 27 people in the crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5781 "2020-10-31T20:09:52Z")
Sean Hannity will claim it was closer to 27,000. I’m enjoying watching his short circuiting as we get closer to Election Day. I’ve been forcing myself to watch part of his show every morning when I get home from work. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5782 "2020-10-31T20:55:25Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > My brother just texted me that he is watching the Trump rally in PA, I don’t know how he can stand to do it, but he said there are about 27 people in the crowd. Maybe everyone who stayed the hell home has friends or family in Omaha. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5783 "2020-10-31T20:58:08Z")
Apparently Rochester, Minnesota is standing by their 250 people only allowed at the Individual 1 rally, and I1 is whining about how they’re disenfranchising his followers. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5784 "2020-10-31T21:13:05Z")
Are we all paying for Airforce One to drag this asshole around the country? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5785 "2020-10-31T21:19:03Z")
Technically, if he’s campaigning, the campaign is supposed to pay for it, but you know damn good and well that they aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5786 "2020-10-31T21:42:22Z")
Of course. “It was a speech to America” or some other such bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5787 "2020-11-01T04:01:26Z")
Individual 1 tweeted a video of the MAGA caravan harassing the Biden bus with the caption I Love Teas > ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5788 "2020-11-01T06:04:37Z")
Twitter has suspended the account of the US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner after he put out a tweet praising Individual 1’s wall and claimed “Every mile helps us stop gang members, murderers, sexual predators, and drugs from entering our country. It’s a fact, wall’s work.” (yes, the apostrophe is his). The Secretary of Homeland Security warned Twitter that it was posing a threat to US security. > **[Twitter Suspends US Customs Commissioner, Warned By Homeland Security](https://deadline.com/2020/10/twitter-suspends-us-customs-commissioner-warned-by-homeland-security-1234607222/)** > > Twitter has suspended US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for praising the construction of a wall along the Mexican border. The social media giant flagged the post as a … ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5789 "2020-11-01T06:19:39Z")
OK peeps. Our ultra-conservative fucknutter here in Aus, a woman by the name of Pauline Hanson whose party is the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party (PHON) lost nearly 7% of her base-vote yesterday in the Qld state election. That’s HUGE in Qld which is the traditional birthplace and home to all the racist, sexist and homophobic candidates in every state and federal election. If Qld has grown sick of such shenanigans, I’m hopin’ and a’ prayin’ that the US will follow suit on Tuesday. Pretty-please?? ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5790 "2020-11-01T06:25:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Secretary of Homeland Security warned Twitter that it was posing a threat to US security. What are they going to do? Shut Twitter down? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5791 "2020-11-01T07:57:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Twitter has suspended the account of the US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner after he put out a tweet praising Individual 1’s wall and claimed “Every mile helps us stop gang members, murderers, sexual predators, and drugs from entering our country. It’s a fact, wall’s work.” (yes, the apostrophe is his). The Secretary of Homeland Security warned Twitter that it was posing a threat to US security.  From your [link](https://deadline.com/2020/10/twitter-suspends-us-customs-commissioner-warned-by-homeland-security-1234607222/): > Acting [Homeland Security](https://deadline.com/tag/homeland-security/) Secretary Chad Wolf sent a letter to Twitter protesting Morgan’s suspension, > > **“As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other Federal agencies continue to rely on Twitter to share important information with the US public, your censorship poses a threat to our security,”** Wolf wrote in a letter to Twitter boss Jack Dorsey. That’s pathetic. Lack of Twitter for DHS poses a threat to security? ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5792 "2020-11-01T08:21:34Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > OK peeps. Our ultra-conservative fucknutter here in Aus, a woman by the name of Pauline Hanson whose party is the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party (PHON) lost nearly 7% of her base-vote yesterday in the Qld state election. That’s HUGE in Qld which is the traditional birthplace and home to all the racist, sexist and homophobic candidates in every state and federal election. > > If Qld has grown sick of such shenanigans, I’m hopin’ and a’ prayin’ that the US will follow suit on Tuesday. > > Pretty-please? [Jim Chalmers says One Nation and United Australia Party losses in the Queensland election were ‘satisfying’](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-01/jim-chalmers-cheers-queensland-one-nation-and-palmer-losses/12836506) > “One of the really satisfying things from the election last night was to see the collapse in the One Nation vote,” Federal Labor’s Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers told the ABC’s AM program. > "We don’t pretend that that’s necessarily permanent, but it was very heartening to see that vote collapse. > “And while we’re at it, it was very heartening to see the almost complete humiliation of Clive Palmer, who threw millions of dollars at this campaign and barely registered in the tally at the end of the night.” For those who don’t know, One Nation is Australia’s xenophobic, nationalist, and just generally nasty parties. Pauline Hanson got her start in politics fear-mongering about Vietnamese boat people; when that turned out to be a non-issue she turned her demagoguery to Muslim immigrants. That party has been rife (surprise!) with corruption. They also approached the National Rifle Association a few years back looking for funding in exchange for promising to loosen Australian gun laws. This did not go over well. (Since then, laws have been tightened so that Australian parties can no longer get funding from outside Australia. I don’t know if there is a connection) It’s _very_ good to see them getting their ass handed to them. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5793 "2020-11-01T10:59:28Z")
In US party terms, Pauline has all the racism, xenophobia and general nastiness to anyone Not Like Us of Trumpism. But she’s not nearly as deluded as a typical trumpist. She pretty much lives in the same reality as the rest of us, except with everything spun like a top-loader to make all the not white folk look as bad as possible. Clive, on the other hand, lives entirely in his own deluded Dunning-Kruger head, which must be an exceedingly scary place. But he’s not half the fucking racist Pauline is. Stick em together in a blender (now there’s a thought!) and you’d get a Trump Wing Republican ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5794 "2020-11-01T13:22:06Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > If Qld has grown sick of such shenanigans, I’m hopin’ and a’ prayin’ that the US will follow suit on Tuesday. > > Pretty-please?? I did my part on Friday. You’re welcome. Here’s hoping the majority do likewise. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5795 "2020-11-01T13:48:33Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Our ultra-conservative fucknutter here in Aus, a woman by the name of Pauline Hanson whose party is the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party (PHON) lost nearly 7% of her base-vote yesterday in the Qld state election. Actually, her losses were much bigger than you make it sound. One Nation lost nearly 7 percentage **points**. The party went from 13.8% of the popular vote in 2017 to 7% of the popular vote in 2020. That means that One Nation lost basically half of its voters. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5796 "2020-11-01T14:18:16Z")
I’m seeing reports on Twitter that a lot of Washington DC businesses are boarding up prior to Election Day. At least one person has a friend who was told to treat it as if a hurricane were coming to town. This is scary stuff. > ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5797 "2020-11-01T14:22:55Z")
While Don Jr encourages the terrorists. Scary stuff indeed. > ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5798 "2020-11-01T15:00:04Z")
and some people are just blind. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5799 "2020-11-01T15:07:30Z")
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