r/pics • u/rehabforcandy • 15d ago
Politics Trump’s “completely packed arena” during his speech at the midterms (OC)
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u/Hadrian23 15d ago
Still too many people.
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u/Grimkok 15d ago
Had the same thought. More full than expected.
Vote in the midterms.
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u/SistaChans 14d ago
People on reddit are convinced that trumpism is over, but I fear that it's not dying out as much as you would think.
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u/Rambro13 14d ago
Yup. Can't fix stupid
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u/Dracomortua 14d ago
Desperate, actually.
Outrage sells twice what any good news does.
If you can, remember how you felt when Obama made it in first time. Now triple that and convert it to a butt-hurt burning rage.
Edit: to be clear, here in CANADA, most of my friends felt euphoric. We realized at the time of Obama that you guys had turned a corner and would never be butt-fucking-stupid ever again. Democracy was saved. We so knew it.
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u/cat_prophecy 14d ago
Republicans are running a racket: ruin everything and then tell you they're the only ones who can fix it.
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u/HeyItsBuddah 14d ago
I agree it's not going to go away in a poof. Trumping is another form of racism/ hate that's multi facsited in the rejection of intellectualism.
If anything they will shrink and be less vocal like racists were before Trump.
The hate and ignorance will be taught to younger generations not lucky enough to not be born into families that think that way continting the cycle of ignorance and hate.
These people have been embolden to come out of the closet with their shittiness because the people holding office basically say and show its okay to be an ignorant ass MF no matter where they go.
And like racism of the not so before times, it needs to be called out, shamed, provwn wrong to force the ignorant bigots back into their troglodite caves.
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u/orion427 14d ago
Couldn't agree more. If you were taught to hate then it's never too late to be a better person. We really only have each other.
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u/HeyItsBuddah 14d ago
Exactly!! Minds can be changed! For too long we've forgotten how to help and support our fellow humans. No need to pull up ladders as you climb up.in life, reach down and pull people up with you. Agree to disagree and have understanding without hate and violence. We can break free of the ungabunga monkey genes in us lol
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u/dSCHUMI 14d ago
True. If you looked at most subreddits during the last election, you would’ve thought Kamala was winning by a landslide.
At the end of the day every subreddit is just a bubble.
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u/ThisWillBeOnTheExam 14d ago edited 14d ago
Can’t say this enough. Reddit is a bubble. Every election they think the right will be swiftly defeated. I’ve seen Reddit get it wrong since 2016. I live in a purple area and was always getting hate for saying Trump was going to win. Would be disappointing to see the same thought process play out AGAIN.
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u/TheLastShipster 14d ago
Reddit consistently overestimates its own level of intelligence and insight, almost as much as they overestimate everyone else's.
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u/Hydration__Nation 14d ago
Picture 1 is what people think is happening to the MAGA base. Picture 2 is what is actually happening: despite horrendous bullshit across the board never seen in US history, the support still remains. Even when their lives are markedly made worse in the last year they still blindly support. It's not stupid or sad, it's fucking scary people can think and rationalize their decisions in such a crooked manner
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u/JTtheLAR 14d ago
Its died out a lot and he has done irreparable damage to the entire conservative party as a whole. But that doesn't people should get complacent. Complacency is the reason we all wound up here in the first place. He still has his die hard MAGA base and he is still willing to break any and every law to hold onto power.
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u/JenkinsRobotButler 14d ago
Also, empty arenas mean nothing. This was a very popular narrative in the 2024 elections -- the empty seats in Trump rallies and the people leaving early (which was true). Still won the popular vote. Still got more votes than 2020. At one point I heard some analyst make the case that Trump's events are treated as a kind of a novelty by his supporters. The most hardcore supporters don't bother going to them because they've already seen it. They're still hardcore supporters.
So basically, we should not judge Trump's popularity by stadium attendance. The two are uncorrelated. For all the shit that Trump has done or said in the last 10 years, Trump has not lost supporters, he's only gained them. We should not give in to the false sense of security that now finally his base is abandoning him. There's no solid evidence that's happening.
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u/LordRobin------RM 14d ago
If I may nitpick, he most certainly has lost supporters. You don’t get down to a 35% approval rating unless some people who used to like you don’t anymore. Even his base has been whittled down, if the conspicuous lack of Trump signs in places that used to be full of them means anything.
But you are correct in that he has a rock-solid hardcore inner base that worship the guy and will never drop him, no matter what he does or fails to do. He has become their identity by this point.
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u/Hydration__Nation 14d ago
Dont forget all the "Democrats" (usually upper middle class professionals esp in the medical field) that secretly support and vote for him but tell all their friends what a huge piece of shit he is
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u/Junior-Ad-2207 15d ago
Didn't he bus people in from other states? and that is the best they could do
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u/BigConstruction4247 15d ago
Isn't that what they accuse the liberals of doing all the time?
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u/ender1108 15d ago
Hmm. It’s like every accusation is a confession or something like that. I don’t know.
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u/TheSaifman 15d ago edited 15d ago
I never use these stupid photos as a gotcha.
The MAGA loser supporters are too poor and scattered far. No one is driving hours and hours away during a work day to see him for an hour.
When Democrats host these kind of events, it's in cities that are already Democrat and super close in proximity.
It's why it looked like Kamala was going to win in 2024.
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u/essaysmith 15d ago
January 6 had a pretty good turnout from all across the country.
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u/archercc81 15d ago
helps that the republican state AG organization was paying to literally bus them in.
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u/Black_Moons 14d ago
Mainly on account of being bused in, paid for by people who somehow are not in jail for conspiracy to commit insurrection.
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u/backdoorintruder 15d ago
A call to arms activates something in their Neanderthal brains, a speech doesnt hit quite the same as they dont have the attention span long enough to sit through one
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u/Prize-Flamingo-336 15d ago
Also, they had to pay to go to this event. The insurrection was free to attend
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u/battlepi 15d ago
That's lizard brain. The neanderthals were probably actually smarter than homo sapiens.
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u/PinkleeTaurus 15d ago
The MAGA loser supporters are too poor and scattered far.
Yeah sure there are gobs of degenerate poors in that camp, but there are also a very significant number with the time and means to join in. I know some very middle class folks traveling to the presidents cup next week who aren't even golf fans but are going just because their deal leader will be there.
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u/marveloustoebeans 15d ago
I definitely didn’t think it looked like she was gonna win. There protests against her stretching on for miles for her position on Israel. Once I saw that and realized how many people weren’t gonna vote I knew we were cooked.
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u/TobysGrundlee 15d ago
When she first announced I feel like there was a definite bounce in her popularity and general hope that she was the woman for the job. As time went on though, and 100's of millions of dollars of Musk money started flowing to help the Reich-wing, I knew there was no shot.
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u/ManWithASquareHead 15d ago
Another third of Americans:
There's an election this year???
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u/crimsondarke 15d ago
Very true. Last time people were celebrating this when Kamala's crowd was much larger and his was losing steam. Then the election happened. This gets people to become complacent and then not even bothered to vote.
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u/eulersidentity1 15d ago
100% this. They are literally tearing up the country, speed running authoritarianism, open corruption and incompetence the likes of which no one has seen in america, spitting on the constitution... and still he gets this much of a turnout.
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u/Murasasme 14d ago
These pictures are meaningless. They used to post the same things before the elections, showing empty stadiums, theaters, and arenas, etc. He still won because a bunch of morons couldn't be bothered to go vote.
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u/adorablesexypants 14d ago
Looking at those images only scared me even more that there is a very real chance that fucking asshole will survive the mid-terms and cause more damage.
As a Canadian, I might not be happy with some of the moves my PM is currently making, but I'd rather that then becoming apart of a shithole country like America.
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u/bazinga_0 15d ago
You think Trump was talking about people? No, no. He was talking about all the rats in the facility. Rats feel very comfortable being around Republicans.
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u/woodboogers 15d ago
it is dallas
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u/BrickGun 15d ago edited 15d ago
It is Texas. Dallas is one of the bastions of progressive voters in the state.
Dallas has been liberal leaning for decades, along with the other 4 largest urban centers in the state (Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso). Ft Worth (which gets sort of mingled in with Dallas as "DFW") has wavered back and forth over the years (Biden won Ft Worth), but the repubs haven't won any of the urban centers for over 20 years.
The problem is the sea of red ("Hicks in the sticks") that always outnumber the urban voters and keep my state in the fucking stone age.
Citation 1 - 2024 Presidential Election by TX County
Citation 2 - 2020 Presidential Election by TX County
Citation 3 - 2016 Presidential Election by TX County
Citation 4 - 2012 Presidential Election by TX County
Citation 5 - 2008 Presidential Election by TX CountyThe right hasn't won Dallas since W, and that was only because this was his "home state" as he claimed to be "from here" (he wasn't, he was born in Connecticut and has just cosplayed "I'm a cowboy!" his entire, entitled life)
But yes, if's fucking sad and depressing that there are still this many people willing to show up and support this bullshit.
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u/SuspendeesNutz 15d ago edited 14d ago
The right hasn't won Dallas since W, and that was only because this was his "home state" as he claimed to be "from here" (he wasn't, he was born in Connecticut and has just cosplayed "I'm a cowboy!" his entire, entitled life)
He actually bought a ranch so he had an excuse to get photo-ops wearing a cowboy hat and acting like he was a rancher. He played it up constantly, bringing out the press corps to see him demontrate his manly rancher bonafides by clearing brush from the fence line (in the middle of the day, when no real rancher would do it) and throwing out pithy comments to the press about how if Congress didn't pass his bills he was going to go back to his ranch and manage his herd.
Total phony. Sold the ranch as soon as he was out of office. But, you know, he was authentic, not like those phonies Al Gore and John Kerry.
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u/c47v3770 15d ago
that's still plenty of people, unfortunately..
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u/the-g-off 15d ago
These photos were all the rage during the run up to the election.
He still won.
This is propaganda. Designed to make those opposed to him complacent, and therefore less likely to vote.
We need to do a better job of recognizing it.
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u/corrector300 15d ago
there's a difference between calling op a trump propagandist and saying these photos may have that effect.
edit Be that as it may, anyone paying attention and looking at this photo is not as a result sitting on their asses during midterms or the next presidential election. who tf are the flippable votes is the real q.
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u/the-g-off 15d ago
Hard to call what is most likely a bot a propagandist.
Whoever programmed it, however...
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u/corrector300 14d ago
OP's account is 15 years old, but sure it could be a bot.
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u/the-g-off 14d ago
So, I found out a long time ago that there are companies and people that will buy older accounts with high karma, because they have more visibility.
Plus the fact that this account hasn't responded to anything in this chain is very telling bot behavior.
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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi 14d ago
I've found tons of bots that are over a decade old
Doesn't look like OP is one, though. They just did a little AMA about this event a couple days ago
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u/rehabforcandy 14d ago
Yeah bleep bloop I’m programmed to post funny bird pictures and also posts about half full Trump events.
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u/minnick27 14d ago
This. I’ve seen all the same talk that I saw two years ago about the blue wave and hell we were gonna be rid of Trump and his minions. I was so excited for election day. I’m not gonna lie. I actually teared up a little bit when I voted with my daughter for the first time. Waking up the next morning was like a fucking nightmare. We can’t just talk the talk, we have to walk the walk.
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u/Cthesunny 15d ago
They're probably being paid to be there
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u/Original_Medium1044 15d ago
According to google:
The RNC ran a public lottery allowing people to request free tickets and blasted out text messages offering free admission and VIP treatment17
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u/SkippyMcSkippster 15d ago
And that's the type of thinking that stopped many people from voting against him, because "there's no way people will vote for him" mentality.
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u/NarcolepticSeal 14d ago
Thank you. There is no need to manufacture bullshit to try and "own" Trump. Focus on the factual issues because this shit is a distraction. They make hyperbolic statements at this point to have people post shit like this.
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u/pipmentor 15d ago
Shame I had to scroll this far down to see this comment.
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u/fik26 14d ago
The funny thing is, the picture may belong to the behind the stage area which is presumably blocked to sit there anyway.
This may not be a full house, but still packed overall. I never understand these type of crowds for any side of politics anyway.
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u/the_silent_redditor 14d ago
Same as the World Cup.
Plenty of people posting pics of empty stands, before or after games, demonstrating how few people were actually turning up to games.
A common reply was people are finally sick of FIFAs shit and are showing this by dismal attendance to games lmao get fucked FIFA!
If you corrected by saying that, actually, every single game is packed/sold out, you’d get downvoted and called a liar.
This site is full of dogshit propaganda and lies, but it’s ok because it’s coming from the ‘good’ side.
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u/amaddox 14d ago
Op didn’t call it an empty audience, just called out that it was not a sold out arena as Trump claimed.
You don’t have to dramaticize and make up falsehoods about what was said by OP, the post never claimed to be of an empty audience.
Second picture also definitely does not show a packed house; the upper level is practically empty and half the floor isn’t even being used for seating.
Misrepresenting stuff is a bad thing, and I don’t know why you yourself chose to misrepresent what someone else said/posted in your complaint about misrepresentation.
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u/Scruffynerffherder 14d ago
I wouldn't call no one in the top tier a "packed house". But I get your point.
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u/Evadrepus 14d ago
Theres a large press section, all the area behind the stage and plenty of open chairs in the open deck in a stadium that only seats 21,000 , but it wasn't empty. It also wasn't sold out with thousands waiting outside loke he said. It was over half, lets say 15k being generous.
Still too many, but you also see more people watching a Disney on Ice.
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u/counterpointguy 14d ago
I agree the second picture is a more accurate representation, but that is not a “packed house.” It’s a large crowd, but a packed house is a full or near full stadium. The arena is about 60-70% capacity maybe.
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u/garyp714 14d ago
If someone wants a way to downplay his rally sizes they should understand that there is a small dedicated group of Trump supporters that travel to see him like he's the Grateful Dead or Phish (but smaller).
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u/lmpervious 14d ago
Where did they say it was "an empty audience"? It's ironic how you're lying about what they said while criticizing them for being dishonest.
And while I also get tired of all the misleading info on reddit where people cherry pick things to fit their narrative, the fact that OP provided the full context is what really matters. Yes showing the empty section shows their bias, but they're still being accurate by providing the full photo. We need more people with your energy on so many other posts.
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u/IloveKaitlyn 15d ago
can we please not start this again? i remember these types of pictures from BEFORE the election. Everyone got complacent. Please vote
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u/Duck_Size 15d ago
He counts little American flags as people.
Honestly it’s pretty full and you probably can’t see the upper deck when you’re on stage with the lights in your eyes.
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u/TobysGrundlee 15d ago
Supposedly the upper deck was to remain unfilled at the request of the Secret Service. Who knows how true that is though.
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u/Zarianin 15d ago
Just remember that we saw the same empty photos prior to the election and he still won the popular vote. Don't get complacent because you saw a picture online, vote.
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u/Morpheuspt 14d ago
Can we not do this again? His rallies 2 years ago were half full, and he won the election and the popular vote. Crowd size means nothing.
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u/kennymatic 15d ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it like this leading up to the last election too? Harris venues packed and his venues half empty?
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u/TheGruenTransfer 15d ago
Trump voters don't say they're voting for him when polled and they don't go to his rallies. Clan folk like to be anonymous because they're cowards.
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u/Groovy_Bruce_Lemon 15d ago
We all know MAGA is just astrotrufed bullshit at this point. Grifters and bots sucking each other off because it makes easy engagement and our government has already shown it will let itself be bought so of course the election was rigged. You might have voted for X, but after you cast it, there is no way to tell if it actually counted to X or was recounted to a vote for Y instead behind your back other than a "trust us guys"
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u/Alienhaslanded 14d ago
It does look reasonably filled but definitely not packed. Frankly it's disappointing how full it looks, it should be far more empty.
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u/Vince_Clortho042 15d ago
Don’t use this as too much of a bellwether for Trump/Republicans’ chances. His rallies in 2024 were continuously underattended, down to one where they literally just had a couple hundred people crammed behind him on camera and the rest of the arena was empty. Meanwhile Harris was throwing rallies that looked like rock concerts and yet here we are again. Vote like your life depends on it.
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u/Chazkuangshi 15d ago
Yes. A few in my neighborhood, my aunt, and my boyfriend's grandma are all outwardly super pro-Trump. I figure if I know a few, there's plenty of them left that will still vote MAGA.
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u/spin_kick 15d ago
I remember posts like this when Kamala was packing the houses. We all know what happened then. This shit is so annoying. People need to vote.
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u/Novirtue 15d ago
Blows my mind that there is still more than zero people in that arena, after all this.
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u/ForTheLoveOfOedon 15d ago
I mean that’s still a ton of people. Sure it’s not sold out like a Bruno Mars concert, but that’s still a lot of people. Which is really, really sad for America.
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u/Sobeman 14d ago
all this does is make people complacent.
Ignore all of this bullshit and VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS. DO NOT VOTE BY MAIL, GO IN PERSON AND VOTE.
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u/ProteusRift 14d ago
I mean. Its not completely... but that's still a lot of people. This post kinda falls flat when you take a picture of the nosebleeds then show there's still that many.
Sad to see that many tbh.
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u/MyFeetLookLikeHands 15d ago
when he refers to the arena being full or completely packed, do people there not look around and be like “hmm 🤔 “
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u/ratherenjoysbass 15d ago
I'm a football fan and have had so many cowboys fans look at me dead in the face and tell me straight up lies about that teams accomplishments, and when I fact check them they just double down. Point is that is a sport that has no real bearing on our lives so imagine that kind of person when it comes to thinking about politics that does affect our lives and has real emotional attachments.
Some people can look around and see a actual objective data and go "meh"
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u/camelsgofar 15d ago
Everyone that was supposed to be there was too busy crashing grinder to show up.
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u/GCSchmidt 14d ago
So Dolly Parton, who owned up to her fake hair and was practically an angel of generosity is dead, and this orange cretin who denies his fake hair and is the most corrupt parasite of the last century is still alive. Another solid argument for “there is no god.”
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u/RandomWeirdo 14d ago
This shit is part of why reddit was so blind to Trump winning 2024, because it is still pretty full of people. When you say "so much for packed" it makes people think it is empty, this has a lot of people.
Instead of pretending Trump has no base, focus on the harm he is doing and provide better politics.
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u/senorfresco 14d ago
Nononononono. How many empty arenas did we see in 2024 and he still won. Do not get complacent.
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u/BetterCallSal 15d ago
The question at this point is, when is Trump lying, and when is he repeating the lies told to him back, thinking they're true.
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u/the_fancy_wookie 15d ago
You all said this during the 2024 elections, showed the pictures of his empty rallies just like this and that ****er still (allegedly) won. This is just engagement bait at this point to tell us what we want to hear,. Get him out, strip his family of our stolen taxpayer money, send them all to the deepest hole in jail or gtfo.
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u/Nope_Nope_Nope_0 15d ago
I get why he would think it's full.. Those flags are more patriotic than the people who didn't show up.
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u/Nilmerdrigor 15d ago
While Trump and the Republicans aren't looking too hot for the midterms I remember similar photos popping up during the presidential election. Don't get complacent and vote.
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u/Purgii 14d ago
Is that the speech where he's pointing to the top of the auditorium and saying something like.. 'The fake news will say there's nobody on the top level' and points?
What do people that are there think when he's obviously lying right to their faces?
I guess I'm thinking too rationally.
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u/rehabforcandy 14d ago
This was actually a weird moment for me, as he was saying it I was in a press pen at the side of the arena. As he was saying the fake news will say it’s not full a lady behind me yelled “Fake Media!!” at me. I wasn’t there with an outlet so I can say whatever the hell i wanted. I turned around and said, “did you say something to me? You want to repeat that?” She sort of mumbled “well you are” and I pointed up to the empty seats like “they’re all empty the whole floor, who’s being fake right now?”
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u/gmasterson 14d ago
This looks well attended. It’s not a sold out concert, and it certainly doesn’t “meet expectations” as an event.
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u/FormalComfortable497 14d ago
People flooded reddit with the same kind of pictures before he won the last election. Does no one remember that?
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u/DigbyChickenZone 14d ago
Honestly, knowing the amount of nutjobs still follow him - I would not be surprised if it being half-full is due to something like heightened security or some kind of background-check requirement for those who were allowed to attend.
I am not delusional about how many people like Trump, even though I hate him to the core of my being. The only numbers I care about are those that come from the voters. Polls are BS, Trump trying to rig elections are worse.
But I don't think a half-filled arena is indicative of much. The midterms need a blue wave.
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u/graffiksguru 14d ago
Don't let this trick you. He had these pics before he was elected. Get out and vote blue. Fuck him forever
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u/judgedeath2 15d ago
are there pics of the entire arena while he was speaking? this could be a very disingenuous picture of a small section behind the stage or before his appearance.
edit: missed there were multiple pictures. yeah, ok so they didn't sell out the nosebleeds. still a very well-attended event. stop with this nonsense, its sad and very desperate.
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u/bfhurricane 15d ago
I mean, are there any pics taken from when Trump was on stage?
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u/brokencreedman 15d ago
To be fair, isn't that RFK Jr in that second picture on stage talking? It looks like RFK Jr on the Jumbotron.
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u/raistan77 15d ago
He was begging people not to get up and use the bathroom to avoid empty seats. All shots of the speech were heavily cropped to right behind him to make it appear as if there was a packed stadium
BWT, his rallies at the end of his last campaign were ALSO EMPTY and yet he still won.
Go vote, get your friends and family to vote, empty seats don't mean much on election day
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u/-NotEnoughMinerals 14d ago
Yeah, it's not sold out, but that's a reasonably full house. Certainly fuller than I usually see at most of Trump's silly little Grindr breaking events. The fact that there is that many seats taken at this stage is the noteworthy part here, not the 'hurr durr look the top seats are empty so look how unpacked the arena is!!'
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u/brogan_the_bro 14d ago
The top floor wasn’t probably sold to public so the secret service can have acces and oversight of the arena. Not hard to understand
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u/That_Jicama2024 15d ago
Yet, somehow it will still be neck and neck when elections come around. If mango mussolini was right about one thing, it's that the voting is rigged.
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u/Hairy-Maximum2994 15d ago
strange after everything he has done, it was gas and groceries that made people dislike him. We are fucked up people.
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u/Thatsnotgonewell 15d ago edited 14d ago
You know things are bad when more people come out to this building 42 times a year to support Jamie Benn than this clownshow of a political party can get to turn up one time.
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u/benmrii 15d ago
To be fair, the majority of his actual living, breathing supporters are no more competent than the inanimate flags seated instead.
It's a nice metaphor, really, speaks to how shallow it is to be MAGA. "I don't actually know the definition of patriotism or have the capacity to understand its complexity, so I just wear the flag and my dear leader's face on my clothes and yell about and at people he tells me are wrong."
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