Dang, I’ll be out of town July 24 when trump arrives in Phoenix for a “Rally To Protect Our Elections.” I guess the first vote count, followed by two recounts completed by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, followed by the Cyber Ninja’s four-month recount, which continues, followed by the just-announced Arizona Senate recount (still with me?) wasn’t good enough. Now we need a rally “to protect our election [lies]”—fixed it for him. Perhaps trump, who reportedly is “riveted” by the endless and illegal weirdness in Phoenix, will conduct his own recount.
The Republican-led ballot review has riveted the former president, who at one point wanted to get a firsthand view of the process inside Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Trump should still visit the audit, even though all of the machines and operations were moved to another building last week because the Coliseum has another event booked and Cyber Ninjas is still not finished, missing another deadline. The nearby building they relocated to does not have A/C, only swamp coolers, which seems appropriate for trump.
Swamp coolers work fine to a point, but when the temp is more than 100 and the humidity’s over 25 percent, not so much. As I write it’s 111/25. What does pancake makeup do in that environment? Or hair starch?
Trump’s visit is sponsored by Turning Points Action, the Phoenix affiliate of Turning Points USA, which hosted trump in June 2020 during the height of the pandemic’s death march at a church that claimed it had a magic air machine that filtered out Covid. It didn’t and received a cease and desist order from the Arizona Attorney General.
After signing a waiver saying they’d hold trump and the church harmless, 3,000 mostly young people packed the facility, the vast majority maskless. Who knows how many students, family members, or coworkers died because trump’s ego demanded a stage when, except for his rallies, no other large indoor events were allowed anywhere. He also wanted a full house because he had just been embarrassed by the sparse turnout in Tulsa.
One death that followed soon after was the co-founder of Turning Points USA, Bill Montgomery, who died a month later of Covid. The right-wing group soon deleted tweets and website images that mocked mask wearing.
Even so, we won’t see many masks on July 24 in a state where fewer than 44 percent are fully vaccinated, and trump’s audience likely won’t even meet that low bar. The crowd won’t hear anything about Covid, which has killed more than 18,000 Arizonans, but they’ll get their fill of stolen election conspiracies, the heroes at the Arizona Senate and Cyber Ninjas, the lying media, and the absolute necessity of taking the audit circus on the road to other states. Then some of the cult members will really stick it to the libs, go home, get sick, and die. This guy is a monster.