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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2020 21:33:39 GMT
Trump's tweet was a clip from later in the episode. Larry is driving somewhere and cuts off some big biker on a motorcycle. The guy on the motorcycle starts cussing and threatening Larry for his mild driving faux pas. They stop alongside each other at the next red light and it looks like this guy on the hog is going to kick Larry's ass. Larry reaches down, pulls out his MAGA hat, and the guy immediately calms down, telling Larry to just drive more carefully next time.
The joke here is that this scumbag on the motorcycle—a guy who would intimidate, threaten, and possibly even kick the shit out of a stranger for a harmless mistake is a Trump supporter. And because Larry is perceived as a Trump supporter, hog guy will leave him alone—further implying that motorcycle guy would have continued to escalate the situation against a non-MAGA idiot. Let's be clear, Larry is an asshole, and the guy on the motorcycle is an asshole. It's a scathing indictment of the depravity of Trump supporters and everything MAGA stands for.
But Trump fundamentally didn't understand that joke. He tweeted the clip with the caption: "TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!"
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Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2020 1:10:28 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2020 21:01:26 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2020 6:49:59 GMT
Mike Eruzione, the captain of the 1980 Miracle on Ice U.S. national hockey team, explained why they donned “Keep America Great” hats while attending a rally for President Donald Trump during its 40th anniversary weekend. And he was surprised it drew such blowback, noting if they could do it over, they would. “If we knew we were going to piss off this many people, we probably would not have put the hats on,” Eruzione, 65, told the Washington Post. “That’s the big question here. A lot of the stuff I got was, ‘You guys said it’s not political, but when you put the hats on, you made it political.’ ” Eruzione scored the winning goal against the Soviets, making him a hero along with the rest of the national team, but he’s now receiving scores of angry messages. The group, which defeated the Soviets en route to a surprise gold at their home Lake Placid Olympics, was in Las Vegas over the weekend to celebrate the anniversary of the historic game. The rally was not in their initial plans, Eruzione told the Post. But Trump’s people called and asked if they wanted to appear for a photo. Afterward, he said, Trump asked them to join him onstage. And as they went on, staffers handed over hats to wear.
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Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2020 18:19:23 GMT
Nearly 31,000 people signed up to attend Donald Trump’s recent campaign rally in North Charleston, S.C. It didn’t matter that less than half of them showed up. The Trump campaign kept every one of their names and plans to spend the next eight months urging them to help the president’s reelection efforts — knocking on doors, donating a few dollars, attending a meetup and, most importantly, voting on Election Day. In total, the campaign has identified more than 1.4 million potential voters from their events since Inauguration Day 2017, primarily the raucous Make America Great Again rallies. But most importantly, the campaign says that dataset includes thousands of people who have failed to cast a ballot in recent years, people who aren't traditional Republican voters, even people who say they are Democrats. Nearly 10 percent of those registered, for example, had not voted in at least three of the last four elections while up to a quarter are Democrats, the campaign claims. It might seem like a small slice of the overall electorate, but in a 2020 race that is likely to be decided in the margins, the Trump campaign thinks it can succeed by mobilizing a few new voters and converting small pockets of traditionally Democratic voters. “In the last campaign, we didn’t have the ability to collect the data from people showing up at the events. It was just too hard, took too much time and we had to prioritize, with limited resources, what we could do,” a senior campaign official said. “Now, we are not only able to collect the data, we’re able to have people phonebank, we’re able to train people how to volunteer. These are people who want to engage.” Democrats question how novel or effective the Trump campaign’s data strategy really is. They argue the plan simply mirrors what every campaign does and flatly dispute the high estimates of Democrats attending Trump rallies. And they insist Democrats are actually more poised to turn out new voters or flip Republicans, given Trump’s high unfavorability ratings and the fact that the majority of non-voters in 2016 at least lean Democratic.
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