72 points

Just say he’s lying already.

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impossible. that looks like way more than his inauguration and we know how huge a crowd that was.

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64 points

Remember when Trump demanded MAGA supporters protest out of the courthouse and barely a half a dozen showed up?

His physical support is waning. But there’s still assholes who vote Republican so don’t slip up with his numbers.

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As someone from the south who lives in one of the cities where he held a klan rally—oops, campaign stop, I can assure you that there are several places where his fan club is very much alive and kicking.

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17 points

You don’t have to be in the south to notice that. New Hampshire, Vermont, plenty of northern states are infested

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4 points

Right. It’s several places. My town is one example.

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9 points

It’s sort of interesting to realize that even though it’s still only May, I haven’t seen much of any campaign signs out. That may change, but I vaguely recall a plethora of yard signs, even in May 2020.

Heck, even the one sign I did see put up - One for RFK that went up in February - was taken down about a month ago.
I sort of feel that everyone is a bit wishy-washy this cycle.

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7 points

The only signs I’m seeing are at the houses that have had them up since 2016.

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6 points

Oh, down here in several parts the signs haven’t come down since 2016.

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4 points

The brain worm club?

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5 points

That’s RFKJ. This is the shitbrain club.

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I automatically think your talking about RFK “voters” now.

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2 points

Brain worms and adult diapers club.

Maybe they were onto something with that horse dewormer. Won’t do jack shit for COVID, but might for their brain worms.

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1 point

I feel like that’s putting it nicely.

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For reference, this is what 72,000 people looks like:

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Thank 50000+ is a huge logistical challenge. Things go wrong fast if you aren’t set up to handle that.

Think how many bathrooms are needed?

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15 points

TBF his supporters are pro diaper now because, apparently, real men wear diapers.

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Maybe there were a lot of multiple personalities in the crowd to bring the numbers up too.

Or dementia induced lack of object permanence.

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31 points

The criminal number-inflater inflated a number? I’m shocked.

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I looked at that picture that they had up for that “100,000” headcount. All I know is that there’s a lot of people on Trump’s team and in Wildwood, NJ who are extremely bad at estimating headcount. That picture of the crowd at it’s largest is (being absolutely generous here) is roughly 20,000 tops. 100,000 people is a massive amount of people, like it is a lot of people. There are zero ways there’s 100,000 in that picture. When you hit 100,000 people, you know it, because it’s an ungodly amount of people.

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