That Last Rally in Alabama - The Stadium

[yallerdawg]

First, a mystery.




A beautiful old cedar disappeared from city park!




Oh, wait, there it is! Compliments of the citizens of Mobile. No charge.




Packing them in.




It starts! OMG, packed house and buses lined up bringing more (M$M version).




But do they really fill a stadium, or does it just "look" like it?




"Those cameras never move!"




What he sees.

[spanone]

1. my local news reported that trump held his rally in a 40,000 seat stadium

never revealing how many people attended.

he's a media creation and they intend to prop him up at all costs.

[bettyellen]

2. Are they a Sinclair group affiliate by any chance? Boycott Sinclair!

[spanone]

4. they are owned by the Meredith Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Corporation

[GoCubsGo]

12. In Mobile, Alabama, nonetheless.

Close to Louisiana and the Florida panhandle. Republicans galore there. There can't be THAT many Democrats to reserve that many tickets to leave that many empty seats.

[rgbecker]

3. Whoa! That's it for Mobile, AL???

Thanks for this Yallerdawg. Hope you can get the local press on the grinch who stole the Christmas Tree! Looks like not too many of the press made the rally.

[PearliePoo2]

5. I weep that a beautiful, majestic cedar was killed for this lying, demontic fucker.

A truly criminal act to saw it down for someone SO not worthy.

[barbtries]

7. i would imagine

that it would be an actual crime. wonder who did it.

[yallerdawg]

13. More on the tree.

City provides tree for Trump's Mobile rally, but did it come from public park?

One woman said she emailed Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson about it. "Our city parks aren't Christmas tree farms," she wrote. "An old growth tree from a city park for backdrop? Insane."

[barbtries]

24. thanks. i read the story.

it's emblematic of how the next 4 years will be. slash and burn. kill an old stately oak to aggrandize the leader of the cult. it fits, it really does.

[Ilsa]

8. But it is so typical for these nature-haters. nt

[GoCubsGo]

14. And, people who have no respect for public property.

I suspect that Mother Nature is going to come back and kick the asses of all of those involved here. That area is prone to hurricanes and tornadoes. Lots of alligators, huge snapping turtles, and big-ass rattlesnakes, too.

[BeyondGeography]

26. And from a public park, too

Fucking idiots.

[NightWatcher]

6. Orwell would be proud

[spanone]

9. did the media or anyone ever give a true account of how many attended?

our media used to do that kind of thing...you know, fact check

[Red Mountain]

15. I realize it's almost the holidays.....

but really? Our President elect is holding poorly attended rallies instead of addressing his numerous issues with regard to conflict of interest? Maybe even answering random questions from the press regarding current events?

He's a fucking coward.

I'm afraid our press isn't much better.

[annabanana]

29. Not a peep. These pictures SHOULD have been broadcast.

fuckin' Potemkin rallies . . .

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Spotting the PoC there is like a "Where's Waldo?" challenge. n/t

[Hortensis]

25. Any who showed up would have been not just

dedicated but brave. My eye was grabbed by this photo of shameless (and extremely tacky) slave-state nostalgia by the "Azalea Trail Maids" greeting Trump at the airport. They don't know it yet, but these women are busted: they'll never be able to tell their children and grandchildren they were too principled to vote for Trump.

[DemoTex]

11. The 2016 New Nuremburg Rally and Mullett Toss

(Photo by DemoTex)

[Skittles]

23. LOL

[justhanginon]

28. Hey Cletus! Sorry I couldn't make it to the bigly Trumparama rally last night with y'all but

I had a little incydent coming home from the Kozy Korner Kafe yesterday afternoon. I heard there were a hunnert thousand people there. Dang truck! Shoulda been there.

[C Moon]

16. More evidence that Trump wants to be President for nothing more than attention...

and money.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. Tony Schwartz described him well.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

There was not a single call that Trump deemed too private for Schwartz to hear. “He loved the attention,” Schwartz recalls. “If he could have had three hundred thousand people listening in, he would have been even happier.”

Schwartz kept a journal in which he expressed his amazement at Trump’s personality, writing that Trump seemed driven entirely by a need for public attention.

Schwartz told me that Trump’s need for attention is “completely compulsive,” and that his bid for the Presidency is part of a continuum. “He’s managed to keep increasing the dose for forty years,” Schwartz said. After he’d spent decades as a tabloid titan, “the only thing left was running for President. If he could run for emperor of the world, he would.”

He saw Trump as driven not by a pure love of dealmaking but by an insatiable hunger for “money, praise, and celebrity.” Often, after spending the day with Trump, and watching him pile one hugely expensive project atop the next, like a circus performer spinning plates, Schwartz would go home and tell his wife, “He’s a living black hole!”

[C Moon]

18. "If he could run for emperor of the world, he would."

Wow.
I love: "He's a living black hole."

The problem is, that he is now playing DIRECTLY into people's lives. Things aren't going to be much on the positive side from here on out. It's going to get worse—and there is nothing he can do about it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. I read "Art of the Deal" back in 1988

It made Trump look like an okay guy. It wasn't till a few years later when Trump declared bankruptcy on his Atlantic City casinos when I started to notice that he wasn't quite the entrepreneur he claimed to be. I mean it's hard to lose money when the game is rigged in your favor.

I'm from the Seattle area where we have several self made high tech billionaires. It became more and more obvious that Trump was nothing but a poser.

It's too bad many others still haven't caught on to what a self promoting con job Trump is.

[Initech]

20. With Bernie it would have been standing room only.

Just sayin'.

[yallerdawg]

21. Not in Alabama.

Just sayin'.

[Initech]

22. Not gonna argue there.

But it's sad that even now people are already tired of Trump's schtick. And it's not even January yet. We need some Sad Hulk Music for this one.

[KewlKat]

27. someone send this to Lawrence, Joy, Chris.....maybe they can get this tree thief some

attention. This is how the next 4 yrs will go. It's all about show. God help us!