Time Is Up Trump "Just leaving Sturgis bike rally -Shocking- the absence of Trump vendors..& atire."

[kpete]

Just leaving Sturgis bike rally. Shocking.. the absence of Trump vendors..and atire. Yes saw a couple shirts.. but so little compared to anywhere in 2018. Did not see 1 MAGA hat. Your time is up Trump!



Did you see the tacky 'Build the Wall" trailer that was driving around Sturgis?
He tried to get some friends who were selling Indian tacos 2 sell some of his Trump junk at their stand. Was very offended when they just started laughing at him.

Link to tweet

[UpInArms]

1. Will be a good day

When he laughed out of DC

[Perseus]

5. Better if he is laughed into jail

With all his criminal family, followed slowly by the turtle Mitch McConnell, and behind moving her hips from left to right Lindsey Graham, then Pence crying "mother".

[anarch]

51. I doubt he'll live long enough to ever spend a day in jail

But hopefully his criminal family can be held responsible for their many transgressions. Personally, my preference would be to banish the whole lot, strip their citizenship, and never let them back in the U.S. for any reason. Russia would probably take them....

[ooky]

55. Russia has no use for him or them when he is no longer president.

I think one of two things will happen when he loses the election.

1. He will refuse to leave the White House, claiming election fraud, and try to insert himself as the first U.S. dictator.

And, if he doesn't think he can pull off no. 1, he is...

2. ...already building his new home somewhere he can avoid prosecution and will fly off prior to the inauguration of the new president.

[Hortensis]

2. Wow. It'll be a really significant indicator if fairly widespread.

Actual sales.

That said, media report that both Sturgis and NH's Laconia last month were full of aging, white, loyal trumpsters. Slanted?

Wonder if this Guardian statement is accurate:

"By the time Laconia’s bike week came to an end last month, his store had sold out of its most popular shirt, which read: “Trump 2020 – because f*ck your feelings.” “Most of the bikers here hate liberals,” he said.

Did it really take all week to clean out his best-seller?

Do Sturgis and Laconia draw a bit different crowds? Guardian's description of Laconia doesn't exactly sound like a bunch of middle class men indulging a week of fantasy role playing on their $20K Harleys. My husband, a hard-core dirt rider, and I once toured many, many thousands of miles on a BMW, alone and with friends, and we never attended a rally.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/02/bikers-for-trump-support-laconia-motorcycle-week

CNN: "In Sturgis, the definition of diversity is a white guy on a foreign bike." Forgot "aging."

Thanks for passing this on.

[yonder]

22. "....alone and with friends, and we never attended a rally." Same here.

Though my motorcycle days are mostly over, in 50+ years of riding, racing, touring, etc. on any sort of British, European and Japanese bikes and in most kinds of weather, I've never attended a rally either. For me, motorcycling has always been about independence and quality time in the saddle, usually alone and with my thoughts. If something breaks, you fix it or use your own good judgement to get back on the road. It's sometimes easy, sometimes not, but it is always an experience and IMO, the essence of motorcycling.

On the other hand, my tRumpish in-laws (and their pals) make the trek to Sturgis every year for the show and to show off. You see, they've never actually ridden the thousand miles to Sturgis (or any other place). Rather, they trailer their matching $25,000 custom Harleys behind their $50,000 rig to within 40-50 miles, unload them and then ride back and forth to Sturgis over the week to "make the scene". I don't get it. Those bikes have never seen a drop of rain and they're ridden to "be seen". Posers is the word that comes to mind.

Now getting back on track, the good news is that after visiting them earlier this year, they were not so loud-mouthed about tRump and conservative points of view with minimal, snarky comments about Obama, big government and Democrats in general, too. This time around they were all a bit more subdued - running with their tail between their legs if you ask me. I did spot a MAGA hat but it was in their garage on a shelf and notably, across the floor from where they keep their spotless versions of motorcycling. I'll be talking with them soon and it will be fun to gently pull any details about declining interest in the Trump thing at Sturgis.

[Hortensis]

23. Same for us . Very interesting observations. :)

Maybe you'll post after that gentle pulling. For sure your folk are not part of the seriously anti-government, white power culture of some bikers. Wonder what they'd have to say about what they saw of that if they felt like it.

[yonder]

25. No, they're not the Bandido's, Outlaws, etc. type.

If they were, I imagine they would be spending more time in the saddle for one thing. I don't know but would have to guess that the outlaw clubs do make a pretty good showing up there. Like deer, if you see one Harley, you'll see more.

[Hortensis]

27. :)

[samnsara]

3. laughing at trumpers is the best way to deal with them

[live love laugh]

24. 🤡 - Official Republican Mascot

[Initech]

4. Wow, when you've lost the biker crowd, you've lost.

They know what it means to stick together and the definition of loyalty. Trump doesn't know any of those things.

[yaesu]

6. But, but, but theres always the swiftboaters

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. I hope this is for real -

it could be a good window on the future.

[progressoid]

8. Tacky? You be the judge...

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[Takket]

31. best commercial for arson i've ever seen............

[progressoid]

9. Meanwhile...Rapid City pro-Trump store hit with graffiti

The recently opened pop-up store in Baken Park specializing in pro-Trump merchandise was found to have been vandalized Monday morning.

The Trump Shop, which opened the final week of July in anticipation of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, sits at the corner of Mountain View Road and Canyon Lake Drive. People from all over the country have gone in and out of the store to pick up their favorite Trump or GOP related item, such as buttons, shirts and hats.

Multiple exterior walls of the shop had been crudely spray-painted with symbols including the hammer and sickle associated with the flag of the now-defunct Soviet Union, a heart and an obscene statement. Rapid City Police are currently investigating, but as of this time no charges have been filed or suspects named.

“We’re here to be a positive building, a positive place,” said Ryan Flanagan from the Trump Shop. “I want people to come and really believe in America and be able to talk about our differences and we don’t have any issue with that.”
https://www.newscenter1.tv/rapid-city-pro-trump-store-hit-with-graffiti/pic/206985/

[smb]

21. Looking At The Picture...

...I count one blurred-out obscene word, one obscene word partially obscured by graffiti, and five obscene words left clearly visible.

[yonder]

28. Good eye, I missed it the first time,

[Takket]

32. he better hope drumpf never seens that. he'll sue the owner for profiting off his name!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. Does not look like a very sustainable business.

......... ..... .....

[roamer65]

54. That looks like a hammer and sickle above the F off.

If so, good job to the graffiti artist.

[lunasun]

10. Maybe they have already bought everything they want at other rallies

[customerserviceguy]

13. Probably not

a good idea to be wearing Trump merch when you meet "The Bandidos" gang at the next biker bar.

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. As an old white guy (69) I am constantly

embarrassed by my contemporaries.

[joost5]

12. See also...

Link to tweet

If Iowa Republicans go neverTrump then... Russia's going to work overtime flipping electronic ballots in swing districts.

[Progressive Jones]

30. There is a HUGE difference between Conservative, and Trumpbase. nt

[bluecollar2]

43. I don't agree

Conservatives are Trumpers...they would desperately like you to believe otherwise.

Republican, Conservative, Tea Party...they're all variations of the same sick economic, racial and social Darwinist agenda...

[Takket]

34. nice....

you know even if the other 47 states stay the same, all the 2020 Dem needs to do is convince 0.7% of voters in PA, WI and MI to vote for them instead of drumpf, and we win this thing. just 7 out of every thousand people in three states is all we need.

[joost5]

56. Conversly all Russia has to do is...

make the polling locations in those key Dem areas harder to cast a ballot, like say.... hack the grid that supplies energy to those places or disrupt the voter registration files so all Dems vote provisional... etc

[onetexan]

14. Really impressed the 2 women are going for Kamala. Re: the falling away, i saw 2 MAGA hats just this

weekend (on 2 old white guys) so i know the rabid followers of the Idiot are still out there. There is no bottom to their rage.

Wish there are more sensible conservatives like this mother-daughter duo to vote for blue candidates.

[anarch]

52. I think there are lots of people like that

Many of them have moved over to the Democratic party years ago (see: Elizabeth Warren), as the GOP has marched steadily toward pure fascism and basically sold out to the Russian oligarchs (and other more traditional sets of rich bastards, but the influx of Russian money over the past few decades seems to have been the most notable factor as far as that goes...makes sense; they are sort of the global "nouveaux riche" of recent times, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent most-ruthless-and-brutal-take-all approach to restructuring their national economy, and so an interesting and I'm sure very profitable new resource for unscrupulous politicians to try to use to their personal advantage).

The problem is, many of these traditional/reasonable "conservatives" have not noticed the shift in the Overton window or whatever you want to call it, and could never bring themselves to vote for any Democratic party candidate, as they see the party as a bunch of hopelessly naïve bleeding heart liberals (which OK, yeah, is a lot of the constituency really...but definitely not the heart of the party anymore). As a longtime actual leftist, it irritates me that we now have what I would call a relatively actually "conservative" party (i.e., the current mainstream Democratic party) and a party of openly bigoted fascists, and those are the two choices. I realize my particular views are probably a bit more radical than even the most left-leaning Democratic politicians', and not in line with what the majority of citizens want...for now...but I hope we can shift the policy conversations back in a more progressive direction someday, now that we've seen what happens when you constantly concede ground to your absolutely fanatical and ruthless "conservative" opponents...you get something like Commandant Bonespurs and his army of brainwashed, red-hatted shit-zombies.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

15. There were vendors

Pro-Trump store opens in Rapid City

RAPID CITY, S.D. — A pop-up shop touting pro-Trump merchandise has opened in Baken Park in Rapid City for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally — and perhaps beyond.

The Trump Shop sits at the corner of Mountain View Road and Canyon Lake Drive and sells products ranging from buttons to shirts, and of course, those famous red hats.

The store opened this week and the store manager says that within the past few days it has already had thousands of visitors. People from all over the country have gone in and out of the store to pick up their favorite Trump or GOP related item.

Rapid City pro-Trump store hit with graffiti

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The recently opened pop-up store in Baken Park specializing in pro-Trump merchandise was found to have been vandalized Monday morning.

The Trump Shop, which opened the final week of July in anticipation of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, sits at the corner of Mountain View Road and Canyon Lake Drive. People from all over the country have gone in and out of the store to pick up their favorite Trump or GOP related item, such as buttons, shirts and hats.

Multiple exterior walls of the shop had been crudely spray-painted with symbols including the hammer and sickle associated with the flag of the now-defunct Soviet Union, a heart and an obscene statement. Rapid City Police are currently investigating, but as of this time no charges have been filed or suspects named.

The fact that few shirts/banners/flags/ and MAGA hats were seen is surprising.

[njhoneybadger]

16. Thx, That's good to hear

[Indykatie]

17. "Green Shirt Guy" Was On To Something - Laughing at The SOBs is the Best Response.

https://images.app.goo.gl/AzRKExfY5z3xmWUw8

[ChazInAz]

18. Funny thing.

That's the only time I've seen a MAGA hat here in Tucson. Of course, it is on a Phoenician....and we know what they're like!

[uponit7771]

19. +1, this is the text book response to get humans to look at stupid stuff; ridicule them with pithy..

...sarcasm.

It works unless the person has some factual founded reasoning the mocking doesn't address which in the case of MAGA Cultist or ISIS folk rarely does.

[brewens]

20. It's a lot smaller sample, but I was at Pendleton Bike Week in Oregon a couple weeks ago.

Not one MAGA hat there either. Of course most bikers actually are pretty proud of their bandana's and other hats, so you wouldn't see as many as you might think.

[Hoyt]

26. Must have missed vendors/bikers like this:

https://images.wsj.net/im-97088?width=1260&size=1.5

https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-two-wheels-the-trump-train-rolls-into-the-black-hills-11565385359


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https://media.graytvinc.com/images/690*388/Trump+Shop.jpg



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One riders tribute to their man:

". . . . .It comes as zero surprise that Harley riders would be full bore for the “jobs creator” President Donald Trump. The vast majority of bikers we met were either small business owners or skilled tradesmen employed by small business owners.

"The progressive liberal crowd of income redistribution exponents would have been laughed out of Sturgis and entirely unwelcome. The Sturgis biker crowd was hardworking independent, loyal Americans who paid their own way. It’s not at all surprising that they are 100% behind a president whose primary election promise was delivering jobs and a regulatory and legal climate hospitable for small business owners and their loyal employees.

"Candidate Trump has delivered as promised. And President Trump can expect a massive outpouring of energy and support from this huge and powerful army of Americans."

https://www.richardcyoung.com/politics/election-2020/sturgis-south-dakota-harley-riders-trump-rally/

[Thekaspervote]

29. Great!! Thx for posting

[Progressive Jones]

33. I was in the Sturgis area just before the rally started.

We were on a family trip from Chicago to Yellowstone.
The bike rally was about to begin, so the build up was in full swing.
I had told my wife about going to the rally in 1992 and 1993. She didn't know me then.
While we were in the area, I showed her around, so she could see what all the hoopla is about.
We saw ZERO signs of Trumpism.

In fact, the only MAGA hat we saw on the entire trip was worn by an old gent at a gas station in Billings, MT.
I wish I'd taken a picture of this guy! About 75-80 years old ( he looked very fit, actually), a clean, crisp MAGA hat, red white and blue Bermuda shorts, a red polo shirt, red socks up to just below the knees, and a pair of red running shoes.
And, he was riding a red bicycle. He was quite a sight!

[Blue_true]

36. What is an Indian taco? Never encountered such a thing. nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

37. It's made with yummy yummy fry bread instead of a flour tortilla.

[Blue_true]

39. But filled the same way? nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

41. It can be.

I once had an Indian Taco at a pow wow that had buffalo meat in it. But, it's usually the same fare - rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, cheese, meat (chicken, beef or in this case, buffalo).

But it's the FRY BREAD that makes it delicious.

[Kali]

38. series?!!!

do you know what fry bread is? Indian Taco - beans (and sometimes meat) lettuce tomatoes cheese on fry bread.

[Blue_true]

40. Maybe Seminole tribal people do it here.

The bread looks like what we call "cornpone " (fried flat cornbread) here in the south.

[Kali]

42. that image looks like sopaipillas to me

fry bread is white flour based and should be 6 to 8 inches across - good plain, as a taco, or with honey.

aka Navajo Tacos, but most tribes make them. history of them is complex and a little dark, but they are a great occasional treat.

[Blue_true]

44. White corn flour?

Wheat was introduced to American Indians by Europeans, so bread made from wheat could not have been an American Indian staple. American Indians did make corn flour, acorn flour, bean flour to make bread with though.

[Kali]

45. Yes wheat.

It was a "forced" staple. Now an unhealthy comfort food. Contributing (with sugar) to serious health problems.

[Blue_true]

47. True.

From what I was able to gather, Indian bread was eaten either unsweetened, or sweetened with honey when honey was available.

It would truly be amazing to time travel back as an unseen observer and observe Indian culture and food practices before any Europeans arrived on the continent.

[Owl]

57. The Indian tacos at Sturgis is the best thing about Sturgis.

[hardluck]

46. I saw plenty of it for sale

In both Rapid City and Custer when I drove through there a week ago. Didn’t see anyone wearing it though.

[Mc Mike]

48. I've been around Sturgis, about 5 times during their big rallies.

Never rode in for events. Stayed at several of the outlying towns. Harley was king, they'd accept some BMWs, then there were some older discontinued bikes, real rare.

Now dum dum launched a war on Harley. That's why I was wondering if bikers for dRump were going to ride North Korean built harley knock offs into Sturgis. NKMW 1200s. See if some fun loving crowd doesn't show appreciation.

[captain queeg]

49. Very good news indeed.

[Fyrefox]

50. Fire cleanses

Wouldn't it be glorious to see a bonfire fueled by MAGA hats?!

[The Bopper]

53. It's spreading

I was at the Illinois State fair over the weekend. I seen 2 different Trump junk booths outside the fair area and neither had a buyer at them. Fun fact inside they had a Democratic tent and a republican tent. I watched dozens walk through the D and just a couple through the R.