Donald Trump goes back out on the road again tomorrow. He’s going to hold a rally in Ohio and attack his enemies. The event has already been billed as a “pity party.” But curiously, he’s talking in mysterious terms about something regarding Big Tech. “Watch what I do to Big Tech next week. People have wanted me to do it for a long time.” Ummm….he doesn’t have the power of the presidency anymore. It’s not like he can sit down and draft an executive order. What is he going to use as a cudgel against Big Tech? The Force?

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I, for one, can’t wait to see what he does to Big Tech. What, Vinnie and Rocco are going to break the algorithms’ legs, maybe? Dangle the hardware out the window? Or the execs? This should be good to watch.

But before the big announcement materializes, Trump is off to Ohio. Get your popcorn and your hotdogs here, folks, it’s the Trump Rally Roadshow. The Bulwark:

When former president Donald Trump announced he was relaunching his rally roadshow—with the first stop being in Wellington, Ohio tomorrow—the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram had this reaction in an op-ed: “Why us? . . . It’s enough to inspire both anticipation and dread.”

While Trump supporters will dismiss such expressions with their usual disdain for the media, his appearance in Ohio should, indeed, inspire some dread. It is very much a singular act, focused on targeting one GOP member of Congress.

Rep. Anthony Gonzalez was one of ten Republicans to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, and his district runs close to this part of Ohio. For that reason, Trump is going to take over the Lorain County Fairgrounds tomorrow to blast a sitting congressman who won his district in 2020 by more than 25 percent, and even ran ahead of Trump by 15,000 votes.

“No, I just don’t think Gonzalez is good. I don’t think he represents the people. I think he’s not somebody that thinks the way I do and others do,” Trump said in a recent podcast, explaining his rationale for the rally.

With a stage set up in the fairgrounds of a small town that is little more than an intersection in farm country, what should we expect?

“Of course, he’s going to talk about some of the Republicans he thinks stabbed him in the back, starting with Anthony Gonzalez in Ohio, Liz Cheney [of Wyoming], Adam Kinzinger [of Illinois], and the people who voted against him in the House during the impeachment,” predicted David B. Cohen, a political scientist at the University of Akron in a recent interview. “I think it’s mostly going to be a Donald Trump pity party.”

It will be interesting to see how the rally will be perceived. Trump’s choice to hold this rally in Wellington, a town in the middle of nowhere with a population of about 5,000, really is very strange. He could have chosen the county seat, Elyria, with a population of 54,000, or Lorain, with a population of 64,000. They’re both just half an hour away from the site he picked. It is also odd that he is holding a rally in a state whose GOP is experiencing some serious controversies. And then, to focus on blasting a popular congressman who was once a Saint Ignatius High School and Ohio State University football star—well, it’s almost as if Trump, to get personal attention, is throwing gasoline on a building that is already in flames.

That’s the Trump we know and loathe. Good luck, people of Ohio. I won’t wish incumbent Republicans any good luck, this is their monster. If he destroys them, they have nobody to blame but themselves. They created it, and it’s way too late to have buyer’s remorse now.

 

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8 COMMENTS

  1. His choice of “rally site” kind of reminds me of the usual rock/pop star trajectory. You start off playing in fairly small venues until you hit the big time, then you’re playing arenas and stadiums. Then, once your career basically hits the skids and you just feel you need to keep going (even though nobody’s really playing your stuff), you wind up in the small venues until you finally get the hint and call it quits.

    • Perhaps you’ve answered ursula’s question about why this particular venue when there were much larger communities (with venues that could hold an event) fairly close by. The larger communities and probably a bunch of smaller ones too insisted on payment up front. So maybe Trump just kept looking until he could find another sucker – someone who would accept his promise to pay AFTER things are over by giving them some bullshit line like “We want to make sure you get fully paid so take your time afterwards to tally up all the expenses for security, cleanup etc. and send us a bill.” You just know there are plenty of suckers out there (Mayors and City Council members) who will fall for that kind of shit.

      • Don’t you love it ?
        I worked for years in the telephone industry, part of my time was circulating around different State’s cow country, little phone switches in a regular 2-car garage would handle all the, “Locals”, living 10 miles out of town … their idea of a good time was pumped up sound on the old Wurlitzer coin-op system … special nights were when the stripper/dancers came into the bar and guys would stuff paper money under their belts, a decent dancer would have a deal with the owner … patrons were welcome if they kept ordering drinks for the table where the dancer would sit … a pattern I saw as I drank my Pepsi’s …

        The, “town”, was never all that large, they might have a post office, gas station, Ma&Pa grocery store with a couple tables and a counter for breakfast/coffee-lunch no supper, NOW those small towns have a convenience place, gas-candy bars-sometimes sandwiches-coffee-restrooms-small quantities of knick-knacks, everything from facial tissue to TP and paper towels … never the quiet family run little shops … most are close enough to a town with Walley World everything stores and an occasional farm/hardware store …

        The other common thing that occurs is no large venue buildings, maybe a dirt landing strip, no place for even a small jet to land/take off, single/double stall hangers, no supervision or towers, maybe a rotating beacon and wind sock …

        Trump might be planning on using the town ball diamond behind the small public school building …

        With Trump’s careful planning and lack of support and funding, a farmer with an open field, he could set up there, down wind from the farmer next door with a fresh load of manure on his field …. HAR HAR … 🙂

  4. He’ll get enough people to make him think he’s still popular and powerful. But with luck, not enough to fill the venue (remembering that he always overstates size when it makes him look better).

  5. MORE IN BLOG. ,,.but just look at that more and more apelike face! .. NO He doesn’t know he has terminal DEMENTIA of #PicksDisease…got it from Daddy… SO NO AMERICA we will not be charging TRUMP he is way too ill NOW and he can always plead the INSANITY he has been afflicted with since at least #InaugurationDay… REMEMBER how he slammed #Melania on the PODIUM?… That is a diagnostic symptom of #PicksDisease.
    READ IT UP. Just start with two WIKI pieces, #PicksDisease and then report on the GENE CAUSING IT #TAUProtein …NO It is not ALZHEIMERS..this is Hereditary..Dominant with Full penetrance..eg IF you have one copy of the GENE you will die of it. Yes, that means EACH of his children (and their children) have a 50% chance of developing it.

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