From the Lincoln Project’s latest video, about the Tulsa rally:
Your rally in Tulsa was a flop. You’ve probably heard this before, but it was smaller than we expected — and it sure wasn’t as big as you promised.
Oh, how coarse! Oh, how accurate!
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/opinions/tiktok-kpop-trump-rally-activism-hong/index.html
These allegations about Trump’s rally have an undercurrent of the type of denial that happens at an empire’s end – in this case, the American inability to accept that a US political event could be that easily eclipsed by another country’s pop culture.
Someone with the handle @CultureWarlord made a claim I’ve heard many times in anti-fan e-mails addressed to me, “There is no such thing as ‘KPop allies.’ All these KPop accounts are Chinese phone farms. Big expose coming.”
Why will a certain type of person refuse to believe that people outside Korea, especially Americans, like K-pop that much? This resistance may be rooted in the same mentality that causes many Americans to resist the metric system, soccer and wearing masks during global pandemics. They see such phenomena as foreign and possibly emasculating invasions.
The most knee-slapping bit of this whole incident was that it had some pretty powerful people quaking in their boots over a force even scarier than foreign hackers, and from a demographic that can’t even vote yet: the mighty Gen Z, who were the driving force behind the action. Oh how we underestimated them.
In the last decade or so, after broadband became cheap and ubiquitous, the Cassandras of the world were terrified what would become of the first generation in history to be raised with easy access to all the information in the world. Many parents worried in the back of their minds that their children might become early porn addicts or have a shaky moral compass dictated either by apathy or aggression fueled by violent multi-user videogames. Imagine the grown-ups’ collective surprise that Gen-Zers found an unprecedented, terrifying way (to the President and his supporters, at least) to wield influence? Though some referred to the teens’ activism in more derisive terms as a “prank,” Twitter was still a-Twitter with chuffed parents boasting that their teen had trolled the leader of the free world.
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In one of the many stories about 45* and his actual relationship with Tweedle Eric and Tweedle Jr, they related a story about 45* surprising Jr. at college. Apparently, Jr. was passed out on the floor and was wearing college “look at me I’m so cool” clothes.
45* grabbed him up, PUNCHED him in the face and told him that trump*'s ALWAYS wear suits and to go change NOW.
Seeing him walking down the gangplank (oops, 'scuse me, the Marine One stairs) with his tie undone and his suit jacket off, was a sight to be hold. I even giggled like a little girl when I saw him!
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And there’s this.
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(Too lazy to modify that to a chef’s kiss.)
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I had just settled on “Combover Caligula.”
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Melodica Jurassic Park will never not make me laugh.
The high school band utterly failing to play Thus Sprach Zarathustra still edges it out for awkward hilarity though.
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God I can’t wait until I can go back to being on the opposite end of the political spectrum as Bill Kristol.
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And I would say that’s an insult to the bag-of-sand-community.
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That may win accolades, although do not wish harm on others.
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Welcome to BoingBoing! Strong first post!
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The asterix is a nice touch.
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These things garner a ton of unpaid media coverage across multiple networks. I’m certain that the cost of producing the event is far less than a national ad buy.
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“Gee, that’s the tallest horse I ever did see! How’d you get up there?”
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That’d steeply cut the number of supporters next time. Trump will insist that all anti-scalp measures are taken away because it causes people to not like him.
At least that’s a hopeful prediction.
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Dead campaign manager walking:
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“There’s a bus leaving in 20 minutes, you’d better be under it!”
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You are snarky right… wish harm on others.
Slumlord Millionaire
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