Trump’s Waco “rally” was nothing but a whine-a-thon for gullible goobers

Donald Trump, who attempted a coup against the United States government and remains unindicted for any of it, held a “campaign rally” in Waco, Texas on Saturday. The event coincides with the 30th anniversary of the deadly federal standoff at the compound of the arms-hoarding child-raping Waco cult dubbed the “Branch Davidians;” the odds that the Trump camp was not sending a message to the violent anti-government far-right militia crowd whose help he already solicited in his previous coup attempt are vanishingly low.

Trump’s been all but promising that his followers will engage in mass violence if American law enforcement dares lay a hand on him in response to any one of his suspected crimes, so the nods to violent militias have been coming hard and heavy in recent weeks—including a heavy push of antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted from neo-Nazi groups

As for the actual substance of Trump’s Waco event? Don’t worry, there wasn’t any. It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these but Trump hasn’t learned any new tricks, he assembled the usual gaggle of two-bit conspiracy theorists and sedition backers to goose the crowd, and if you’re wondering how the Donald Trump fan club has been doing of late, after Dear Leader mounted an attempted coup, then slithered off to Florida to surround himself with yet another layer of outlet mall lawyers to fend off yet another wave of investigations into his crimes?

Oh, they’re all in fine form, don’t you worry about that. Fine form.

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This MAGAt clearly occupies the shallow end of the gene pool

Can you imagine living next to that guy.  I bet his children not only don’t talk to him, they’ve all moved at least three states away.

Then there’s this interview.  Surely the guy being interviewed is not serious.  You can’t tell me this one isn’t a stand-up comic just pranking the interviewer. I mean, come on:

“He goes out to these restaurants and meets the people.” …..????

Other than the dining room at Mar A Lago, what restaurant has he been seen in? He’s not dropping in to diners in Iowa to meet the locals.

So it’s the same-old same-old, but this time with a heavy tinge of implied violence and a bunch of people onstage who, by definition, think that rallying a crowd to attack the U.S. Congress is a valid Republican response to getting sad news on an election day.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was there to regurgitate antisemitic tropes from whatever neo-Nazi propaganda flier she last swallowed:

Then, there’s this Mongoloid idiot who is a boil on the ass of humanity.

As for Trump himself, the man will never learn a new trick. Not ever. He is fueled by grievance and paranoia. Everyone he’s ever met is a big guy with tears in his eyes who thinks he’s Palm Beach Jesus or whatever.

Seriously, these people shouldn’t be allowed to own butter knives, let alone sharp objects or firearms.

So that was that. There was no big announcement that everyone should grab their guns and come gun down Trump’s latest enemies. There was sex trafficker Matt Gaetz, because of course there was. But mostly Trump was just the treasonous ball of shit he’s always been, a man with grade-school solutions to every problem and who only really cares about the donations that are rolling in from the goobers . . . rolling into his pocket, not into his campaign.

Among Trump’s many lies in Waco, one was his continued lie about “building a wall” — he built nothing

Among the many lies that Donald Trump told during his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, was his ongoing claim that he kept his promise to build a wall on the southern border and force Mexico to pay for it. It didn’t happen before he left office on Jan. 20, 2021.

CNN’s Daniel Dale listed off a few of the lies that Trump told his Texas audience, but the main one was that he both built the wall and somehow still needed to finish the job.

“I built hundreds of miles of wall and completed that task totally as promised,” Trump told the audience. “And then I began to add even more wall in areas where it was needed.”

If he “completed that task totally as promised,” why was it necessary to “add even more wall?”

Trump built a small piece of his so-called “wall,” which he claimed would be a concrete wall along the entire 2,000-mile border of the U.S. and Mexico. It turned out to be more like a fence. A 2020 BBC fact-check explained that George W. Bush and previous congresses had funded a lot of the structure and maintenance of it.

He got about $5 billion from Congress for the fence, and he took an additional $10 billion from the Department of Defense budget, the fact-check continued. As of the time Trump left office, there were about 40 miles of his fencing that had been built, FactCheck.org explained.

An unpublished memo from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was leaked in March 2022, The Washington Post reported. Among the details that were revealed were that the so-called “impenetrable” Trump border wall had been crossed more than 3,200 times before Trump left office. Agents confessed that there were people slicing through the steel with a saw that could be purchased at a big box store.

A New York Times photo of one stretch of fence Trump built shows it starting at some point along a hill and going along to the other side. One could simply walk around the fence.

The unfinished border wall at the Coronado National Memorial. The border wall is already one of the costliest megaprojects in United States history, with an estimated eventual price tag of more than $15 billion.
The US-Mexico border is the road. Notice the “impenetrable wall” along the far side (*Mexican side) of the border. Looks like about 150 years of wall.

Now we know: Trump’s Waco TX “rally” was a big nothing

Here are the highlights from Trump’s Waco TX rally:  Trump lied, Ted Nugent lied, the audience lied, guest speakers were the usual assortment of nobodies.

UPDATE 2 –Sunday, March 26, 2:40 PM EDST

The “crowd” at Trump’s Waco rally started leaving 30 minutes into the rally.

According to the Tribune-Herald’s Mike Copeland, “Trump arrived shortly before 6 p.m., his plane circling the airport as attendees intently looked to the heavens. He wrapped up at 7:32 in the evening, though quite a few fans did not last that long.”

“About 30 minutes into the rally, the crowd began to thin, with people getting a head start on the walk back to the parking lots, designated and otherwise,” he wrote.

 

UPDATE — Sunday, March 26, 8:10 AM EDST

Trump’s campaign claimed they expected 50,000.  City of Waco was prepared for 15,000.  Police and reporters estimated the crowd at 2,000 – 3,000.  Trump is and has always been nothing but a sideshow barker — and now his “show” is old, stale, and only a few goobers are still hanging on.

Now for the details . . . if you can stand the details.

Trump was introduced by Ted “I shit in my pants to avoid the draft” Nugent.

Then an audience member claimed to have been a Marine but could not recall dates of his service, where he served, or what he did in the Corps.  Typical MAGAt.

Then Trump claimed “No one laughed at the US when I was President.”

I guess he forgot about this.

And then Trump lied about Ron DeSantis.

Trump also said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis “came to me with tears in his eyes begging him for an endorsement,” . . .

The guest speakers at the rally were all the usual bullshit artists:  Marjorie Taylor Greene; Mike Lindell; Matt Gaetz; some guy from Texas; a bible-thumping preacher; no one of any consequence.

So, as you see, Trump’s first rally of his Presidential campaign was his lies and everyone’s bullshit.

AT LAST — the legal system is rapidly closing in on Trump; he has nowhere to turn

The decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the district court’s decision that Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, has to testify under the “crime-fraud exception” to attorney-client privilege is obviously a very bad development for Trump in the Mar-a-Lago document case.  But there are three additional developments which indicate the potential full scope of damage to Trump in this case.  

1.  In addition to testifying before the grand jury, court filings indicate that Mr. Corcoran also has to produce certain handwritten notes and “transcripts of personal audio recordings”(!)  So, Trump’s attorney has transcripts of phone calls (or wearing a recording device?) with Trump or others in his orbit about the Mar-a-Lago document searches!  Oh boy . . .

2.  To the surprise of probably every legal observer, Team Trump decided not to appeal this “crime-fraud” ruling to the Supreme Court – even if only for the long and inherent delay value.  As a result, Mr. Corcoran is producing the notes and transcripts, and testifying to the grand jury, now or any day now.  That is … weird.

Rachel Maddow’s legal analyst, Lisa Rubin, has a very interesting take on this.  She thinks that the lawyer’s handwritten notes and transcripts might be so damaging that Team Trump decided not to show it to the Supreme Court.  They know that the underlying documents are so bad that they won’t only lose the appeal, but (more generally) will “lose” the Supreme Court.  Team Trump would rather keep the Supreme Court around — unsullied by having viewed this evidence —  for other interim appeals, or deal with all this evidence later when it is wrapped up with other appellate issues.  But they don’t wan’t the Supreme Court seeing these documents now.

There do not seem to be other obvious reasons  for Trump not continuing to appeal and draw all this out.  Also notable, the D.C. Circuit Court rejected Trump’s appeal on this issue in under two days.  That is an unheard of time schedule in these circumstances.  All of this strongly suggests that there might be clear cut, really incendiary stuff in there.  

3.    In addition, before the search and seizure that turned up classified documents, Trump attorney Alina Habba submitted a sworn declaration that “she searched each and every room of [Trump’s] private residence” and “personal office” located at Mar-a-Lago, including, among other things, “all desks, drawers, etc.,” and found no responsive documents.  Of course, responsive, “Top Secret” documents were found in the “drawers” of the “desk” in Trump’s “personal office” in Mar-a-Lago.  Umm, someone has a lot of explaining to do.

It seems as though this Special Prosecutor has quite the case on his hands.

So — in the past two weeks, SIX JUDGES have ruled that their is probable cause to believe that Trump committed a crime.  And maybe more than “a” crime.

Remember when Trump’s adoring crowds chanted “LOCK HER UP!” ?  Remember that?  WHO IS GETTING LOCKED UP NOW!!!

Donald Trump In Jail 2024 Shirt

 

Trump’s Waco TX rally is shaping up to be a disaster, a flop

Trump purposefully scheduled the rally on the anniversary of the destruction of the “Branch Davidian” compound by the FBI and US marshals, hoping to draw similarities between the Branch Davidians and his MAGAt followers.

It’s not working out well.

Trump is struggling to get GOP figures to appear as a guest speakers at the Waco rally amid suggestions the New York grand jury are gearing up to vote on whether to indict the former president in the coming days.

The names of other speakers in Waco have still not been confirmed by Trump’s team, but several Texas Republicans have confirmed they will not be attending.

Aides for Rep. Troy Nehls, who has endorsed Trump for 2024, told Insider he cannot attend the rally as he has an engagement in Washington D.C. that day.

Rep. Pete Sessions, a Waco native, also has prior engagements on March 25, with Rep. Michael McCaul, and state GOP chairman Matt Rinaldi also saying they are unable to attend.

Waco Mayor Dillon Meek, will be another absentee as he is attending a centennial banquet for the 10th Court of Appeals on Saturday. He expressed concern that the event will once again highlight the Branch Davidian tragedy that the local community has spent decades striving to move on from.

That’s FIVE important local and state Republicans who have turned down Trump.

Meanwhile, check out the cities where Trump held rallies in 2020 and cities to which he still owes money for security, facilities, and the like.  Note that the is not returning to these cities.

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“None of the 30 Texas Republicans Insider contacted about the event said they were going,” Insider reveals.

“Most of the 30 GOP members contacted about Donald Trump’s inaugural visit to the site of a 30-year-old standoff between cult leader David Koresh and federal authorities did not respond to requests for comment about whether they intended to rally with the scandal-plagued candidate and perhaps say a few kind words,” Insider reports.

He’s done it . . . Trump is insane, lost his mind; batshit, certifiably insane

Trump is a caged animal who is backed in the corner .  He looks that way and he’s acting that way.  He is unhinged and it is frightening.

As proof, look at how he went through these evil, insane, wild,  disgusting anti-Semitic racial tropes.  He called NYC DA Bragg that “Soros-backed animal,” you might as well say “dirty Jew Black animal,” you might as well say those words because that is what he’s saying.

And the fact that other Republicans, including [Florida Gov. Ron} DeSantis, the number one challenger, does the same thing, does the Soros thing, the same “Jew-backing” this Black man — and one used the word “master” — I think that was [Rep. Elise] Stefanik  — that’s the stunning talk.”

We know Trump is insane. We know he has lost his mind, we know he’s just continually, continually shriveling away.

 

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FINALLY — someone says it: Ban the bible because it contains a lot of pornography

A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge.

The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/

By Courtney Tanner | March 22, 2023, 2:55 p.m. | Updated: March 23, 2023, 11:48 a.m.

Frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries, a Utah parent says there’s one that hasn’t been challenged yet, but that they believe should be, for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”

So they’ve submitted a request for their school district in Davis County to now review the Bible for any inappropriate content.

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request, listing topics they found concerning in the religious text. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”

The code cited is the Utah law passed in 2022 to ban any books containing “pornographic or indecent” content from Utah schools, both in libraries and in the classroom. It came after outcry from conservative parents groups, who have been pushing to have titles removed.

FL Governor DeStupid attacks Disney; Disney retaliates by sponsoring two LQBTQ events

Florida’s fascist white nationalist governor just got his soft white well-fed belly poked by the Disney Corporation after a long-standing feud between the two over the dignity and rights of LGBT people.

The happiest place on earth just announced a large LGBT conference at its park in Orlando. 

The booked summit is an apparent pushback to Desantis by the company that will occur not only in September 2023 but also in September 2024. Good luck telling American families to hate Disney in a craven attempt for votes when every kid is transfixed by the animated films they enjoy.

Disney hosts conventions all the time and hosts Gay Pride and Gay Day events at its international parks. They have been around the block a few times.

To paraphrase Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, Don’t fuck with us, fella.