MinnesotaSmith
Membership Revoked
I went. He was due to speak at 7 PM, but by 2 there were already >500 people there, going by the # of cars parked in the grass lot 1/2 mile away. I made two signs to carry in: "Scientists for Trump" and "Sentence Pelosi, Obama, the Clintons, the Bidens, & the NY/CA/MI governors now!".
It was a LONG walk, easily a mile from where I chose to park. There were plenty of older people quietly, good-naturedly struggling with the distance. Camille and Haley TRUMP (their website; loads of Christian music they've recorded there) were there in a booth everyone got to walk right past within 5' of them (more about them later). Here is their trademark song:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSsZAD_1sy8
RT 2:19.
There were some vendors of MAGA hats, flags, signs and such. One pair of guys selling hats got REALLY pushy, walking out into the stream of people and hard-selling.
Security was abundant, mixed local sheriff deputies and black SUVs (that were VERY quiet, almost noiseless; got told those run most of a mil each?!?). A number of what looked like local volunteers were handling external crowd directions. Parking was well-organized and neat. Everyone that I saw acted polite; in over 6 hours there, I didn't see even ONE argument, let alone an altercation.
They did not allow any but official-type signs inside, so I hung around outside as close as I could get to the entrance holding my signs. There were at least 2 TV station reporter chick and camera guy combos I saw; did not interact with either. People kept streaming in numbers til close to 8 PM.
There were an odd mix of songs played inside; I heard the "Titanic" theme song several times, even "YMCA".
I did not get to see the stage, but could hear it fine. A senator, FL state governor, and of course the God-Emperor Trump himself spoke. Latter was for quite a while, over 30 min. He sounded very genuine, trustable/competent/experience, only a touch tired. Said "hell" twice that I heard.
I stood there with my signs for over 5 hours, holding them so most people could see them. Probably a little under half read them. Most did not react, but plenty did; out of my guess of 2000 people passing by, I got a couple hundred thumbs up, dozens of single claps, scores of "hell yeah!"s. Over 70 clearly took a picture of my signs. Over 20 crossed the street to take close ups. At least 3 said they were going to put a pic of my signs on Facebook; one guy said he was going to make them famous (no elaboration, sadly). About 6 people (4 of whom were women ending up pressing a C+ sized boob into my arm from the side) wanted a companion to take a pic of me with them in it. (Note I had sunglasses on til dark, and a large hat the whole time for protection vs. sun early, and bugs/floodlights later.)
About 4 nurses, 5 M.D.s, 3 engineers, and 6 other assorted scientists told me they were such. About 4 people thanked me for doing this (when all I did was just stand a while in a safe place holding up two signs).
When people reacted audibly to one of my signs, I quickly started using prepared loud responses that were usually well-received. For my "Scientists" sign, I said "Smart Americans support Trump. The other kind are Democrats!" If it was the "Sentence" sign they said something about, I mostly said some variation of "It's way overdue". Men were harder-core in verbal response; I heard "I hate that bitch" or "that bitch needs to be shot" more than once. Women, especially if over 13 and under 60, reacted more physically, with usually no more than a "YES!!" or "Heck/hell yes!".
There were plenty of children, generally aged at least 10 YO, teens more common.
About a dozen people stopped and wanted to talk at length. I got asked about climate change easily 7 times, and the Corona virus about 4. By the end, I was getting close to hoarse; the generator/floodlight I moved near to light up my signs once dark hit was hardly soundless, and then there was noise from the crowd and speakers inside.
Camille and Haley... They are awesome and sweet in person. I got to chat with them and both their parents for a while. C & H graciously let me video them saying hi to my daughters by name and blowing air kisses to them. They also GAVE me two of their albums free (I offered to pay, and they refused any money). Oh, and they have 6 other siblings.
The crowd was easily 90% white. About 1/3 had MAGA paraphernalia of some sort, mostly hats, many T-shirts, with large Trump/MAGA flags that people wrapped themselves in fairly common. Interestingly, the majority of blacks present had MAGA hats, and were as or more likely to react strongly positively (body language and words) to my signs as any whites. There were a number of obvious foreigners, like Bengalis/Hindus and Chinese/Koreans, from college student ages to about 60 YO. Those were all completely unexpressive in every way; I think the rally was a kind of National Geographic experience for them.
There was one trio of apparent dindus; they were VERY quiet.
One guy aged ~70 had a professionally-made stick sign reading something like "Hear the song of Trump here". For anyone that stopped by, he'd sing a well-practiced 90 second song extolling TGE. Sincere, but Camille and Haley he was not. Was there only about 40 minutes.
Oh, and someone gave me a written invitation to come be part of a MAGA mural painting tomorrow. I intend to attend.
It was a LONG walk, easily a mile from where I chose to park. There were plenty of older people quietly, good-naturedly struggling with the distance. Camille and Haley TRUMP (their website; loads of Christian music they've recorded there) were there in a booth everyone got to walk right past within 5' of them (more about them later). Here is their trademark song:
RT 2:19.
There were some vendors of MAGA hats, flags, signs and such. One pair of guys selling hats got REALLY pushy, walking out into the stream of people and hard-selling.
Security was abundant, mixed local sheriff deputies and black SUVs (that were VERY quiet, almost noiseless; got told those run most of a mil each?!?). A number of what looked like local volunteers were handling external crowd directions. Parking was well-organized and neat. Everyone that I saw acted polite; in over 6 hours there, I didn't see even ONE argument, let alone an altercation.
They did not allow any but official-type signs inside, so I hung around outside as close as I could get to the entrance holding my signs. There were at least 2 TV station reporter chick and camera guy combos I saw; did not interact with either. People kept streaming in numbers til close to 8 PM.
There were an odd mix of songs played inside; I heard the "Titanic" theme song several times, even "YMCA".
I did not get to see the stage, but could hear it fine. A senator, FL state governor, and of course the God-Emperor Trump himself spoke. Latter was for quite a while, over 30 min. He sounded very genuine, trustable/competent/experience, only a touch tired. Said "hell" twice that I heard.
I stood there with my signs for over 5 hours, holding them so most people could see them. Probably a little under half read them. Most did not react, but plenty did; out of my guess of 2000 people passing by, I got a couple hundred thumbs up, dozens of single claps, scores of "hell yeah!"s. Over 70 clearly took a picture of my signs. Over 20 crossed the street to take close ups. At least 3 said they were going to put a pic of my signs on Facebook; one guy said he was going to make them famous (no elaboration, sadly). About 6 people (4 of whom were women ending up pressing a C+ sized boob into my arm from the side) wanted a companion to take a pic of me with them in it. (Note I had sunglasses on til dark, and a large hat the whole time for protection vs. sun early, and bugs/floodlights later.)
About 4 nurses, 5 M.D.s, 3 engineers, and 6 other assorted scientists told me they were such. About 4 people thanked me for doing this (when all I did was just stand a while in a safe place holding up two signs).
When people reacted audibly to one of my signs, I quickly started using prepared loud responses that were usually well-received. For my "Scientists" sign, I said "Smart Americans support Trump. The other kind are Democrats!" If it was the "Sentence" sign they said something about, I mostly said some variation of "It's way overdue". Men were harder-core in verbal response; I heard "I hate that bitch" or "that bitch needs to be shot" more than once. Women, especially if over 13 and under 60, reacted more physically, with usually no more than a "YES!!" or "Heck/hell yes!".
There were plenty of children, generally aged at least 10 YO, teens more common.
About a dozen people stopped and wanted to talk at length. I got asked about climate change easily 7 times, and the Corona virus about 4. By the end, I was getting close to hoarse; the generator/floodlight I moved near to light up my signs once dark hit was hardly soundless, and then there was noise from the crowd and speakers inside.
Camille and Haley... They are awesome and sweet in person. I got to chat with them and both their parents for a while. C & H graciously let me video them saying hi to my daughters by name and blowing air kisses to them. They also GAVE me two of their albums free (I offered to pay, and they refused any money). Oh, and they have 6 other siblings.
The crowd was easily 90% white. About 1/3 had MAGA paraphernalia of some sort, mostly hats, many T-shirts, with large Trump/MAGA flags that people wrapped themselves in fairly common. Interestingly, the majority of blacks present had MAGA hats, and were as or more likely to react strongly positively (body language and words) to my signs as any whites. There were a number of obvious foreigners, like Bengalis/Hindus and Chinese/Koreans, from college student ages to about 60 YO. Those were all completely unexpressive in every way; I think the rally was a kind of National Geographic experience for them.
There was one trio of apparent dindus; they were VERY quiet.
One guy aged ~70 had a professionally-made stick sign reading something like "Hear the song of Trump here". For anyone that stopped by, he'd sing a well-practiced 90 second song extolling TGE. Sincere, but Camille and Haley he was not. Was there only about 40 minutes.
Oh, and someone gave me a written invitation to come be part of a MAGA mural painting tomorrow. I intend to attend.
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