Vermin Supreme brought two ponies along. Mock him now, but in 2024 he'll be the great centrist hopepic.twitter.com/j58G4Tm1Mj
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Getting in requires snaking past piles of garbage and abandoned lawn chairs left by those who camped overnight to see the eventpic.twitter.com/nmvBMqMKsK
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Axl Rose is playing on the P.A., asking the tough questions. Where do we go now, indeed? Now an incongruous R.E.M. with "losing my religion"pic.twitter.com/GmqzcLek9n
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Anti vaxxers were outside protesting in the mournful little free speech penpic.twitter.com/igAp6Q0Wd4
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The entire Trump line had to file past Pete Buttigieg headquarters, which seems like cosmic justice for both sidespic.twitter.com/zHW4QuhCpz
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Donald Trump Jr. is now working the crowd by the stage, pursued by fans taking photos. The hated media is on its island of solitude directly opposite the podium. It's a rivalry about as real as pro wrestlingpic.twitter.com/LVoqs9mckR
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Brown Sugar has always been a cringey song, but hearing it in a stadium at a Trump rally takes it to another level
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Lots of PROMISES KEPT and "Women For Trump" signs being handed out to people. Maybe you see irredeemables; I see a stadium full of winnable votes!pic.twitter.com/deIRvm9fWq
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Someone tell Neil Young that Trump plays "Keep On Rocking In The Free World" at his rallies
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Opening speaker now telling audience socialist democrats want to take away health care, that they are the party of stagnant jobs and stagnant wages. Attacks the "Green New Steal"
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Claims there will be 450 miles of border wall built by the end of the year. Crowd gets raucous chanting "build the wall". But it is too late, my American friends. We are already among you, watching, waiting
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Crowd now booing "Nancy Pelosi and the Socialist Squad" who, to be fair, never lived up to the promise of their early singles.
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Donald Trump junior walks out, tossing MAGA hats into the crowd. Stadium chants "forty-six"! He starts by asking "who's voting Bernie?" to jeers and laughterpic.twitter.com/9ruNVzbjI5
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Junior is tearing in to Hunter Biden, complaining about his hard life as a Republican scion. Someone from the crowd passes him a Where's Hunter shirt. Now making Biden senility jokes
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Now we're moving to Elizabeth Warren. Crowd can't wait. This event is pretty packed, by the way. Only empty seats are the ones directly blocked by media island. Thousands of people
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The media is "the marketing wing of the other side" and ignores facts, says Don Jr., talking about mainstream media the way we talk about Fox
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For the second time, the crowd chants "lock her up!" at a mention of Nancy Pelosi. I thought I misheard the first time
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Pence is introduced, a much weaker speaker than Don Jr. He has no idea how to egg on this crowd, which is here to have fun. He's all church and rotary club energypic.twitter.com/jn8G8e3UnX
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Pence reminds the crowd that "the President stands without apology for the sanctity of hunan life" which is hard to swallow but definitely a pillar of Trump's support
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Pence boasts about what are legitimately stellar employment numbers since Trump took office. Also claims rising blue collar wages, to great applause. But drain the swamp gets biggest cheers
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Gotta say I'm digging all the booing for socialism at this event. Sorry not sorry
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Pence is definitely the Yoko track on a Lennon album. He can't even hold this audience, the largest and most sympathetic he'll see in his career
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Now Sweet Child of Mine blasts and a pit crew runs out to reconfigure the podium, adding teleprompter and presidential seal
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Trump walks out, taking his time, to "god bless the USA". He looks a little–dare I say it?–low energy
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Trump opens bragging about crowd size, claiming (probably correctly) he has more than the democratic candidates put together. He lies about never having empty seats in front of a crowd that can see it's not true
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More chants of LOCK HER UP when Trump talks about hearing angry mumbling behind him during the State of the Union
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Trump's goal is not to win re-election, he says. He sees it as a given. He wants to take back the House of Representatives. Gives shout out to "warrior Senator" Lindsey Graham
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Huge cheers to Google financed representatives Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, reprising his bizarre comedy routine about Scalise getting shot
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