Saturday, September 22, 2018

Trump rally in Springfield, Mo

The purpose is to support Josh Hawley who is a good speaker himself, one of the very few who can follow Trump with the same ease and not sound stilted and who fills out a shirt like he knows the inside of a gym.

The other purpose is build enthusiasm for midterms. Trump keeps mentioning at these rallies that historic records show the incumbent looses the midterms in all examples except three, without saying this precisely, I think Trump is expecting to add another win to his long list of brags. I'm expecting to hear later,  "They told us we can't win the midterms, but we swept. You swept. You made that happen." Trump does tell his audience that enthusiasm passes after the great upset win, that by complacency voters do not follow through, but this time it's essential to keep the momentum, or else you'll get high taxes, debilitating regulation, no support for military and police and particularly ICE and zero border protection and more crime. He tells them directly, "This midterm you'll be voting for me."

This rally is more enthusiastic than the rally the day before in Utah and much more enthusiastic than the rally in Montana that commenters describe as a bit weird.

Most news networks including FOX Business have stopped covering these rallies. Too much win to stand. From my point of view they're most worthwhile news of all. Much more interesting than the resistance and distractions thrown up intended as news substitutions, filling the minds of the people still watching news with no value delivered with narrative with more omission than content, pushing out everything else of real intellectual value so that all that's left is ridicule and gripping, who then bring all that with them to my birthday party, reliably so, year after year for decades, but especially so right now such that the Democrat caucus begins immediately even before the steaks are put on. Idle conversation reveals that without any exceptions, politically speaking, all of my friends malevolently informed dopes. And that's a shame, because outside of politics they're all lovely exceptional people.

"A decade ago you told me your father reads the newspaper every day but still doesn't know what's going on in the word." He said that tilting his head and rolling his eyes.

"Yeah."

"Well, guess what."


3 comments:

edutcher said...

As I noted here before, somebody posited the theory that those midterm losses occurred because Preezy didn't keep his promises, or at least most of them.

As Trump has exceeded expectations pretty much, we'll get a chance to see if that theory is correct.

AllenS said...

I don't want to hear any excuses about deciding not to vote during the mid-term.

Trooper York said...

President Trump is going to outwork the Democrats just as he outworked Felonia Von Pantsuit.

He knows that people are more likely to give you their vote if you come out and ask for it.