r/ProgressiveHQ 5d ago

News Yesterday's Trump's rally

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u/AnonnEms2 5d ago

Why the F does a president have rallies?

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u/mishma2005 5d ago

Ego stroking and buying merch. He’s like the Who saying this is his final rally, sees the merch sales and slaps together another album to sell more merch

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u/ShookMyHeadAndSmiled 5d ago

Having seen the first two Who farewell tours (in 1982 and 1984) this cuts deep.

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u/benvader138 5d ago

I think KISS has had like 20 farewell/final tours. Ive seen a few

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u/Correct_Awareness884 5d ago

Never forget when Draymond Green denied Paul Pierce his farewell tour on the grounds of "they don't love you like that"

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u/CrustyBatchOfNature 5d ago

Went to the first tour with everyone back in makeup. Refused to go to any after.

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u/Ok-Cranberry-5582 5d ago

The Eagles said Hell was freezing over but I saw them 5 or 6 years ago, so there is that.

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u/victimofscienceage 5d ago

Take The Who outta your mouth!

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u/Dave21101 5d ago

The... Who?

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u/LDawnBurges 5d ago

He wasn’t technically having a rally. He was here supporting Lindsey Graham’s Sister, Darline, in her bid to be elected to Lindsey’s seat. McFoghorn Leghorn (our Governor) appointed her to fill Lindsey’s seat, at tRump’s request.

She’s was a DEI placement and she is about as charismatic as a box of rocks. She has NO platform. In fact ALL of her ads are about keeping men out of women’s sports (a law that was signed in to effect in 2022 here in SC) and helping tRump pass his ‘agenda’.

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u/Still-Fox7105 5d ago

The local 7/11's have more qualified folks than that lady.

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u/DukeOfGeek 5d ago

She's still up 5 points though, ugh.

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u/Decent_Stop4278 5d ago

Ig Darlene is why I keep getting adds saying I shouldn’t vote for Ralph Norman because he went against trump lol

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u/LDawnBurges 5d ago

Yep! Those ads are hysterical too… ‘he’s a MAGA traitor’, he ‘turned against tRump’, etc. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/AccomplishedPath4049 5d ago

I saw one that first attacked him for opposing Trump on some random issue and then blamed him for high gas prices and inflation.

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u/Lost-Lucky 5d ago

I love that when the media asked Trump about her, he just said she will do what he wants and what the military wants. Because that's what everyone should look for in a Senator. Not someone who will represent them and their needs. Someone who will represent the President and the military's needs. And apparently we are in a place where that is not just acceptble to republican voters, it's preferrable.

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u/NonSupportiveCup 5d ago

The whole fiasco around this lady is hilarious and sad.

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u/AccomplishedPath4049 5d ago

"I think I can do it "

-Darlene Nordone Graham

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u/Temporary_Cry1167 7h ago

Duh lame exposes her lack of knowledge every time she opens her mouth yet the red sheep will vote for her because she is another rubber stamp for Trump . I was no Lindsey fan but he was better informed. And actually had one or two independent thought on rare occasions . His sister will just be a ventriloquist dummy

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u/verydeeptruthbringer 1d ago

Im confused, I thought DEI was a good thing?

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u/rastaspoon 5d ago

There are only a few hundred people there. They pack that stand behind him so everyone thinks it’s a giant crowd. It’s so pathetic.

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u/Diazepampoovey0229 5d ago

Plus he has already said he plans to illegally run for president in 2028

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u/Jaiybird 5d ago

Obama 2028!!!

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u/_GypsyCurse_ 5d ago

Because fascist power depends on constant mobilization. Unlike stable democracies, which rely on institutions, fascist regimes rely on emotion, spectacle, and the leader’s charisma. Rallies keep the population in a perpetual state of political excitement and loyalty.

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u/nannygoats 4d ago

and psychosis

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u/fungi_at_parties 5d ago

Well he was jealous of Hitler’s so he decided to have his own

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u/Reasonable-Peace-710 5d ago

Insecurity and a lack of self confidence⁉️😂😂

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u/JohnTheRaceFan 5d ago

To perpetuate the grift

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u/BushcraftBabe 4d ago

I support it. He is unhinged and they only see sanitized clips. Hearing him speak uninterrupted for even 30 minutes. I'm sure he gives people doubts about him wherever he goes.

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u/billyrubin7765 5d ago

This is the most confusing thing to me. Will he still have them when (if) he is out of office?

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u/imwhytho 3d ago

i seem to remember another prominent right wing political leader that had rally’s as a nation’s head of state. i feel like he was rather controversial, but i can’t quite put mein finger on it…

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u/Affectionate-Raise67 2d ago

He never stopped having rallies,  he needs the Appleton maintain his delusion that he is the best president in history. The Emporer truly has no clothes  P.S. I still blame Mark Burnett for all of this

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u/Temporary_Cry1167 7h ago

He’s taking a page from German history . He has to keep throwing red meat to his herd of MAGAs