May this be the last Trump rally I ever watch, but one last time, here we go.
Trump begins his griping right from the get-go: "I told Kelly, if you lose, you lose, and that's acceptable. But when you win in a landslide and they steal it, that's unacceptable."
Trump, after heaping some fawning praise on his VP: "I hope Mike Pence comes through for us. Of course, if he doesn't come through with us, I won't like him quite as much."
He screwed up earlier and used the word "Democratic" in its correct grammatical context, so he's having an off night.
"Well you know I beat Ossoff once... now I have to beat him a second time."
No real reaction from the crowd, so then Trump brings up Stacy Abrams, and the crowd begins to preform as expected with the booing and jeers.
In the backgroud behind Trump, Ivanka, Kimberly G., and Meadows can be seen having a discussion beside Marine One. Any lip readers out there up for a challenge?
Trump awkwardly segues into a suggestion that the military bases get renamed after him. "Fort Trump?" He floats hopefully, then denies he'd ever want such a thing.
This is the greatest hits album of Trump rallies.
Communism! The Wall! Caravans! Russia hoax! Catch and release! MS 13! Obama said you can keep your doctor!
If we don't get a Sir story with the biggest burliest of men with tears in their eyes, I'll be let down.
"We're being laughed at all over the world."
But I was promised this was the one thing that would never happen under a Trump presidency.
"They'll make it a one party country, and it'll be the wrong party."
Trump is ad libbing the quiet part out loud. It's not the one party thing he has objections too.
"These nine justices will have a great time rotating" was not on my Trump rally bingo card.
"America as you know it will be over, and it'll never be back again."
"Thats WHY I'M HERE!", Trump roars, "because I told you, I don't do rallies for other people."
Trump is only ever for himself. And his base wants him that way.
"These senate seats are the last line of defense," Trump says, before reversing and angrily insisting they won't be the last line, because he'll still be the last line with his vetoing.
Trump is running through the prepared script like a bored auctioneer.
I have the wall, the wall, border patrol, you saw that, do I have a second amendment, we have a second amendment now, Amy Coney Barrett, China virus, going once, going twice, no one ever imagined that before.
Consistent trend of invocations of Warnock and Abrams being booed, but mentions of Ossoff met with silence.
Kelly Loeffler is taking my pandemic haircut to its extreme.
Kelly Loeffler was invited on stage, but was very brief, and spent most her time yelling praise for Trump. Trump, reclaiming the mic, sounds happily shocked as he announces, "Kelly, I'm glad I invited you up!"
Tonight Trump is in Dalton, Georgia, and I just keep thinking of all the absurd murders I heard about in that city while working on @g_mitchum's case. Shit gets weird there.
Wait, what did I miss? Trump is talking about how he's "a little mad at Mike Lee today, but it's ok."
Ivanka is now addressing the rally that we're pretending is for Loeffler and Perdue.
She's really bad at this. But Trump wants his most likely successor to get some stage time while he can still give it to her.
It's very obvious the base wants Don Jr., not Ivanka, but just as obvious Don Jr. has some serious personal issues he's going to need to work out before he gets prime time stage appearances.
Trump was talking wistfully about how he should've jumped up and given a victory speech on election night, before the rest of the results rolled in.
From his point of view, he honestly should've. I wonder who actually talked him out of it.
Trump is so far into the conspiracy weeds that even his right-wing-media-watching audience doesn't seem able to follow his jumps from conspiracy reference to conspiracy reference. If you're not QAnon or on Twitter, I don't know how you'd have a hope of following it.
The crowd was bored. Then Trump found a way to invoke Hilary Clinton, and the crowd excitedly breaks into a "lock her up" chant, you know, just for old time's sake.
I haven't been on Twitter enough since the election to follow whatever he's on about now.
Trump did start listing off Democratic politicians he is opposing, and then added "Democrat secretary of state, effectively... right HERE," and I laughed. @GaSecofState
Trump is complaining about how dead people don't vote for him.
Not gonna lie, Dominion was a terrible name for a voting machine company to decide to go with. Might as well have called yourself Skynet.
"Tens of thousands of votes were switched from President Trump to former Vice President Biden," Trump complains, before asking if anyone in a rally crowd in Dalton is from Macon. (Unsurprisingly, no shouts are heard in response.)
He was talking about Maricopa and Pima counties, which was confusing, until I realized he was bringing it all back to "illegals" voting.
This crowd gives less than zero shits about the details of this alleged voter fraud scheme. They cheer loudly when, once in a while, Trump brings it back to "this whole election was a fraud!", but for the litany of detailed complaints, they're silent.
Trump is now talking about American soldiers that have died in "countries that many of you have never even heard about," lmao very few politicians in America have hated their voters more than Trump does.
"We have made America strong again," Trump says, then he flexes and holds his bicep out: "Look at that arm."
Then YMCA begins to play. And thus the last rally of this Trump era ends. 💪 💪 💪
In addition to bringing Loeffler and Ivanka on stage tonight, Trump also brought up Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who first made a name for herself by writing about how Democrats are part of a globalist satanic cult that likes to rape and murder children.
All right, let's do this. I'm watching Fox tonight. For old time's sake.
Tucker is on with @JennaEllisEsq. Only caught the end of it, but the discussion is very abstract, with generic invocations of transparency and right to vote, etc. Very detached air to the whole exchange.
My Pillow commercial, drink.
"We still have a path to victory," Tucker's subdued next guest insists. He then complains about the failure of a judge to recognize the Trump campaign's "right" to view various election activities.
Holy hell, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn's grasp of statistics is alarming. A 35% reduction in mortality does NOT mean that if 100 people get covid-19 and are treated with convalescent plasma, then 35 lives will be saved.
The head of the federal agency in charge of authorizing new medical treatments doesn't understand what reduction in mortality means. How can we trust anything the FDA does, if this is the guy who decides whether the agency will bow to political pressure?
This appears to be the data @SteveFDA was citing, but unable to understand. A plasma study (with no comparison group) found the treatment reduced the 7-day death rate from 11.9% to 8.7% – which Hahn interpreted to mean that 35 in 100 lives would be saved! h/t @taylorcyoung
WeBuildTheWall raised $25 million from GoFundMe, and built 4 miles of wall at a cost of more than $50 million. And that extra $25+ million was paid for by... the contractor, Tommy Fisher, out of his own pocket.
Who is Tommy Fisher, this generous benefactor of WeBuildTheWall?
He's the guy that was awarded $1.4 billion in government contracts, after President Trump personally and "aggressively" pushed for DHS and the US Army Corps to award those contracts to him. washingtonpost.com/immigration/he…
After the US Army Corps initially rejected Tommy Fisher's bid for a wall contract, Trump summoned Pentagon officials to the White House to tell them they needed to hire Fisher's company.