Photos taken minutes after cancellation of the Trump “rally” in Des Moines, which was on its way to becoming an embarrassing bust. Note the lack of severe weather, which was cited as the reason for cancellation. Rough day for Team Trump. pic.twitter.com/03RG1i7SNv
— David Kochel (@ddkochel) May 13, 2023
May 14, 2023
Embarrassing bust.
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Gee, that's almost as bad as Biden rallies!
Many people are tired of the Trump show. I sure am. Conservatives have a better choice with Vivek or Ron.
I reserve my sneers for Joe Biden.
I must say, though, a lot of Biden 'rallies/appearances' had poor turn out (Covid not withstanding) and look what happened.
I read “an embarrassing bust” as a trap set up by law enforcement to catch a fresh batch of Trump supporters.
The only upside I can think of is that whatever Trump support there is they are keeping it to themselves, a lot more disciplined than they did in 2016. Btw: The dominion lawsuit against FoxNews did not prove a clean election. Ballot stuffers had additional days and perhaps weeks to work with. The pandemic conveniently broke down chains of custody.
Meanwhile, back in reality….the rally was just postponed for weather. Will still happen with lots of Trump fans in attendance.
Trump made a colossal F up. He crapped all over DeSantis. You don't crap all over a popular and successful governor and future candidate just because your delicate old man ego cannot take it.
I really do think we need some more of these busts to get him off the stage. His own ego is fed at the rallies, and his own hurt ego is the only thing that will keep him from continuing on (I think).
A couple comments down in that Twitter thread, someone posted weather forecast made that morning:
"(Des Moines, IA) -- Scattered severe storms are possible Saturday in the Des Moines region. The main threats are large hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes according to the National Weather Service. Heavy rain is also possible, and may cause flooding."
Maybe that's why Trump campaign cancelled.
Blogger RMc said...
Gee, that's almost as bad as Biden rallies!
New campaign slogan:
Vote for Trump. He's not as bad as the other guy.
That will get the voters excited
FFS, doesn't anybody pay attention to actual facts anymore? There were tornado warnings in effect so of course cancelled. Inclement weather, what BS!
Sioux Center should have honored Des Moines' tornado watch and severe weather warnings even if it didn't apply to them. Who cares if they are over 160 miles apart? The next time there's a severe weather warning in Nashville, I'm heading to my basement in Louisville. Or is the takeaway, if it's sunny in Nashville and the sirens are going off here, I should just ignore them?
The threat of severe weather... uh, [catastrophic] [impulse] climate change. Perhaps it would have been better for people to be trapped for the sake of keeping up appearances.
My kid lives in Davenport. His apartment building garage is flooded.
There are weather issues. Iowa often has severe Spring flooding problems and not just at the Mississipi river.
Ann, the Des Moines Register posted yesterday, May 13th, that a tornado watch was in effect for 42 counties in Iowa. Polk County, where Des Moines is located, was one of the affected counties. There was at least one confirmed tornado on the ground in Knoxville, IA, less than 40 miles from Des Moines.
I don't know about you or others who may not care for President Trump, but canceling an event because of TORNADOES seems prudent. Clear skies don't mean no danger. Or do you believe the National Weather Service was giving him cover for poor turnout? IMHO that's not very likely.
If there were masses of people - the show would have rolled on.
Again - Trump made a fatal mistake when he dumped on younger viable candidates. Democrats do not do that. They show restraint and discipline. (To make matters worse for Trump - Trump's Ever-loyalists pile on same types of tired insults... "Jeb!, Globalist! Ryan! You're all McConnelltards! blah blah blah". Those insults push Trump's support downward. I guess that is the goal in the desperate flame out stage.
Not that the loyalists understand. They don't. It's Trump or bust.
Funny - with Trump it's only 'bust' as the left know how to harness Trump-hate-for-votes. (real and fake)
Desperation... on both sides gets us more mob-husk Crook Joe.
Fake news according to . . . Politico. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/13/ron-desantis-donald-trump-iowa-00096815
I saw the tornado tag and saw that yesterday was not a good day in Iowa.
The photos don't look bad. But, honest question, was there a forecast for bad weather?
Another media lie. Trump cancelled due to a warning. Guess Trump "gave 'em the ammo" by obeying a storm warning. That Trump is so dumb.
Gosh, if only we could nominate De Santis, then the Media would leave Republicans alone. They'd never attack DeSantis. Because Trump is the problem, not the MSM and the Democrats. The MSM just wants to love republicans and get along.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
We get some pretty nasty afternoon thunderstorms here (no tornados, thankfully) in the spring. The weather forecasts often warn of them the day before. The day starts clear and the storms develop in midafternoon. Or not- sometimes they don't. Perhaps that's what happened here and rather than risk problems, it was decided to cancel the event?
Or it could be more TDS. You decide.
Amusing. Just looked at the Weather.com homepage (11am Sunday) to be greeted with the top story
"SEVERE WEATHER
TORNADOES PLAGUE PLAINS
Enormous Monster Wedge Roars Across Great Plains"
See the thing about tornados/severe thunderstorms the trick is not to be caught outside or on the road if possible.
Blogger rcocean said...
"...Gosh, if only we could nominate De Santis, then the Media would leave Republicans alone. They'd never attack DeSantis..."
What planet are living on? The press is crushing De Santis and everything he does because they a know a younger nominee with a real track record is the greatest threat to the doddering old Biden.
"Embarrassing bust" describes a lot of Trump's scandals too.
Embarrassing bust ?
I was thinking another Sam Brinton or, for that matter, Dylan Mulvaney post.
LOL!
I checked the weather yesterday when the announcement was made that the rally in Des Moines was cancelled. That part of Iowa was under a tornado watch by the National Weather Service. I even checked the radar map on Weather.com- it showed massive storms forming just to the southwest of Des Moines by early afternoon. The rally was properly cancelled. As for the photos in that twat- I don't know how long after the cancellation they were actually taken- if the rally is cancelled, people who showed up way early usually do leave at some point.
In any case, you can watch this.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker: "Trump made a colossal F up. He crapped all over DeSantis. You don't crap all over a popular and successful governor and future candidate just because your delicate old man ego cannot take it."
Confession thru projection.
DeSantis is going the way of Scott Walker (I wont compare DeSantis to Jeb because that would be grossly unfair to DeSantis).
DeSantis bought into the promises of his Team GOPe/globalist funders and advisors that assured him Trump would be taken out by the lawfare setup efforts, thus clearing the path for DeSantis to use his early Jeb!-like early support advantage to waltz to the nomination.
Essential to that plan, of course, was keeping DeSantis at arms length from team globalist while fighting the anti-woke battle because his funders wont allow DeSantis to cross certain lines: see the DeSantis Ukraine walk back.
But so far the combined Dem/LLR-dem/GOPe/deep state effort has failed to take Trump out (many shoals still lie ahead though) or reduce Trump's core support and the DeSantis team has not been capable enough to walk a fine line to keep DeSantis viable in this very touchy environment...just like they killed off Walker in 2016.
The DeSantis PAC letter released after the Townhall/Debate was pure Lincoln Pedophile Project "quality" "work"...
...and DeSantis is now receiving a mere itty bit of the coverage and vetting a republican candidate for El Presidente Grande Maximo receives....and DeSantis is not handling it very well, except for the anti-woke stuff which is DeSantis' most naturally comfortable area of engagement.
Bottom line: the jig is up. The word is out. Can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Can DeSantis still win the nomination?
Yes.
1) If his GOPe/dem/establishment/globalist/lawfare team takes Trump out DeSantis might win the primary but would lose the general by a landslide under those conditions of course, but we are talking about the primary.
2) If DeSantis goes as strong populist on economic/foreign trade as possible and hits Trump even harder from the populist right on "freedom" re:Covid lockdowns/vaccine mandates and immigration.
But we all know the DeSantis funders would never allow number 2 and the DeSantis congressional voting record is pure Paul Ryan Acolyte...and DeSantis hasnt even begun to be attacked on that yet.
But yeah, Trump cancelling an outdoor event under a tornado warning shows how dumb and terrible he is!
DeSantis backers not exactly projecting confidence with that MSNBC-level hot take.
"Ann, the Des Moines Register posted yesterday, May 13th, that a tornado watch was in effect for 42 counties in Iowa. Polk County, where Des Moines is located, was one of the affected counties. There was at least one confirmed tornado on the ground in Knoxville, IA, less than 40 miles from Des Moines."
I know, and I presumed my readers knew. That's the background level of understanding required for this post to make sense. I didn't think I needed to add instruction! The tweet contains the line "Note the lack of severe weather, which was cited as the reason for cancellation." It is what it is. DeSantis did an event, despite the weather. There's a question of why, really, did Trump cancel.
See "DeSantis Impresses in Iowa, Showing Up an Absent Trump/The former president canceled a rally in Des Moines, citing a storm warning. The Florida governor made the most of his rival’s absence, as DeSantis allies taunted Mr. Trump."
Since rally workers such as sound technicians would have had to been working in preparation for the rally at the time the town was under a tornado watch/warning, I assume the rally was canceled due to weather reasons.
People act as if a rally can be just turned on or off much as a light switch. Workers would have had to be there on site working hours before the rally started. If Trump had not cancelled the rally, the same people criticizing him today would be posting screen-captures of the weather forecast, interviewing meteorologists about the dangers, and blaming him for putting people's life at risk.
Yeah. DeSantis showed up all over Iowa and was greeted with large, exuberant crowds. The Guv will be officially jumping into the fray in a couple of weeks. I do believe The Trump Show will not be renewed.
I saw desantis's "rally". 20-40 people at a restaurant. So inane to compare the two.
Obviously ignorant of what tornado weather can look like.
Boy the Trump haters really fall for every tidbit of #fakenews ladled out to them. You really think this cautionary reaction to a tornado warning proximate to actual tornado touchdowns is a better measurement of public sentiment towards Trump than the very polls he’s leading in? What strangely inapt faith Begley and Hunters Hooker have in the DNC-Propaganda Media.
Fascinating. Be sure and stand back from Ramaswamy’s rally to get the whole crowd in Dave. Can’t wait to see the excitement when Nebraska is swamped with Vivek’s supporters.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
"Trump made a colossal F up. He crapped all over DeSantis. You don't crap all over a popular and successful governor and future candidate just because your delicate old man ego cannot take it."
Obviously Trump doesn't believe in Reagan's 11th Commandment.
It is ridiculous to compare the 2 men's response to the weather report, however, because the Trump rally was outdoors, but the DeSantis even was indoors.
Oh Yea: "What planet are living on? The press is crushing De Santis and everything he does because they a know a younger nominee with a real track record is the greatest threat to the doddering old Biden."
The media is holding back on DeSantis' congressional record until they need to break it out. They are only fighting him on the woke stuff and doing their "the next guy is even more Hitler-ish" prep work.
DeSantis hasnt seen nuttin' yet. If they take Trump out as they are desperately attempting to do, with lots and lots of GOPe support, THEN you would witness the power of the democratical media fully operational death star against DeSantis.
And what ammo has DeSantis provided?
Aggressive support for TPP and TPA...just like Hillary. Think that might get some play in the industrial midwest?
DeSantis voted 7 times to raise the age of Soc Sec and Medicare to 70. Think that will get some attention? There goes grandma over the cliff!
DeSantis was an aggressive backer against the ethanol subsidies/requirements so a DeSantis probably moves Iowa back into a tossup unless he does a transparent flip flop. (This one seemed topical)
Did DeSantis discuss his previous opposition to ethanol subsidies/requirements during his "massively successful" stop in Iowa yesterday...even though HBTPFH tells us he is not yet candidate yet...with the DeSantis For President bus idling in the parking lot.
DeSantis backers: do you know what % of Iowa corn is used for ethanol production? Since none of you do I'm wagering (Begley might know, he's in NE) here it us: 60%-ish.
There are other areas of policy weakness but thats sufficient for now.
It doesnt matter if any reader here agrees or disagrees with some or all of these DeSantis on the record policies and votes. I agree with some of them. The point is DeSantis hasnt faced 24/7/365 across the board hoaxed up attacks on ALL of them. Not even close.
They will crush DeSantis amongst the rural/blue collar voters that the GOP needs long term and the more DeSantis pushes the anti-woke button to make up for the economic/trade record the more he will lose the votes of the only swing voters Team GOPe leadership cares about as they continue to stare in the rear-view mirror instead of forward: the democrat-adjacent, strongly pro-abortion pro-trans white educated suburban woman.
Well, thats the kind of thinking you get when its Ryan and Rove and Ken Griffin et al in your corner.
A mistake was made alright.
DeSantis bought into Team GOPe proposed shenanigans and visions of sugar plums after they dazzled him with hundreds of millions in donations and promises of a clear pathway to sucker those dumb deplorables while serving the establishments needs all the way to the nomination.
I can't fault DeSantis the man for buying into that. Try and picture yourself with these Titans of power and influence promising you the oval office. What would you do?
But DeSantis the savvy politician, and he is one, should have remembered clearly the events of 2016 and DeSantis should have been smart enough to see how astonishingly out of touch the GOPe is with the base that the GOPe despises...and that base will no longer buy the "promises" of that leadership.
Ever again.
For those of us who live in tornado country we take this shit seriously. For those of us who have lived through one or two we take that shit very seriously.
There's an Aaron Rupar level of dishonesty in the original tweet. Is that the way you DeSantis guys want to play it?
Althouse: "I know, and I presumed my readers knew. That's the background level of understanding required for this post to make sense. I didn't think I needed to add instruction!"
Team DeSantis is just beginning to feel the heat of declining poll numbers far below what was expected by DeSantis funders and advisors at this point and DeSantis has shown some of that personal clunkiness, not too much since he's no Jeb, that gives funders a little bit of pause.
Thats why the language and "logic" of the DeSantis supporters is basically equivalent to MSNBC stuff.
Its the vibe of a campaign that is already off the rails without a clear path for getting back on track and a national campaign staff that is desperate to take us back to 2004.
Shaun: "Embarrassing bust" describes a lot of Trump's scandals too"
Heh.
Too early for a thread winner?
Actually I think “the question” is why did Desantis risk disaster by not canceling the rally. It is fortunate no Iowans were harmed by Ron’s risky move but attendees were at much greater risk than Desantis’s team that waited in a safe place until it was time to hold the rally. Not the worst example of executive decision making but a peek into Desantis’ tendencies. I generally like Ron and am happy it worked out but that was a foolish move and my impression is he did it to contrast himself with Trump. I hope he didn’t go so far as to plant this lame “bust” story with friendly mediaswine.
I live in Iowa. Trump's rally was NOT cancelled due to the weather. It was cancelled because hardly anyone showed up.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/05/today-felt-like-the-real-start-of-the-primaries-and-trump-needs-to-worry-that-he-peaked-too-early/
lonejustice weighs in with another Chuck-style lie.
People in Iowa know about tornado warnings. They stayed home rather than risk a thunder storm or worse.
lonejustice: "I live in Iowa. Trump's rally was NOT cancelled due to the weather. It was cancelled because hardly anyone showed up."
LOL
Well well well. Look who LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck brought out of the LLR-democratical bullpen to lob up another transparent lie!
Too funny.
Self-declared multi-decade Legal Beagle and now supposed Iowa resident lonejustice (you can almist hear "LLR Chuck" when you whisper it!) wants us to believe those silly Trump supporters/farmers really just decided not to show up because they had no idea about what the weather might be!
Farmers!
LLR-democratical Chuck needs to upgrade his bench players like lonejustice.
Rabel: "There's an Aaron Rupar level of dishonesty in the original tweet. Is that the way you DeSantis guys want to play it?"
Quick correction Rabel, Team LLR-democratical isnt supporting DeSantis. They are supporting the democraticals.
Sometimes the LLR-democraticals will pretend to support some republican to gain a liitle street cred, but ts akways about advancing a dem narrative.
Lets see if Trump re-schedules his big Iowa Rally. I'm anxiously waiting.
Poor Drago - he writes as if he belongs to the progressives-for-Trump fan club. DeSantis is pure evil... and and and he has a record.. and and and... McConnelltards!
Trump and his humpers are jealous that the money isn't flowing to Billionaire butt-hurt bruised ego coronation Trump. Boom - that money is now as dirty as the leftwing a-holes say it is. Funny how Trump hump messaging mirrors leftist messaging. LOL
From your link - lone justice: 11:52
"I know, I know, we’ve been told for months by team Trump and supporters that it’s already over, Meatball ”Pudding-Lover” DeSanctimonious shouldn’t even run and if he does he will destroy his 2028 chances.
"If you spend any time on Twitter or Truth Social, that’s the incessant 24/7 messaging. Scaring Ron DeSantis away from running has been the strategy of the Trump campaign, starting with Trump attacking DeSantis (and launching the ‘DeSanctimonious’ name calling) two days before the midterms (unforgivable timing IMO). And then Trump launching his presidential campaign despite pleas that he not overshadow the Georgia runoff. He launched anyway and Herschel Walker became an afterthought and lost."
Ouch. Reality bites.
Yes Mike Wolf - I'm sure DeSantis is behind the fact that Trump cancelled his rally.
Evil plot!
All things can be blamed on DeSantis. All things.
Lots of blue sky in the photos. A vicious plot by DeSantis, no less.
btw-
Wanting to sure up SS and medicare isn't bad faith. It will need to happen.
Fact:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voted for a budget resolution in 2013 that proposed raising the age to qualify for both Medicare and Social Security.
Budget resolutions are symbolic statements of a policy preference; even if they pass, they do not become law.
In early March, DeSantis told Fox News that he would not "mess with" entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
oh no! DeSantis went from reality to... well... reality. No one dare fix anything. Just keep spending like Trump did when he was in office.
Remember that? ack - But Trump was forced! forced!
Headline at Breitbart:
"Trump’s Iowa Rally Cancelled Due to Tornado Warnings"
And yet "poling" tells us he's the frontrunner. And it will until the Republican Convention proves that wrong. Until then, it's all about the clicks. This isn't your father's media.
"That's the background level of understanding required for this post to make sense."
What? There's required reading/homework in order to take the test?
"I didn't think I needed to add instruction!"
And now the test doesn't come with instructions?
You live in Michigan, Chuck. You couldn't find Iowa on a map.
Here is video of a storm chaser in Iowa yesterday, and as the video starts, he is heading to a supercell over Des Moines, Iowa. You can see for yourself the radar track in the lower left corner of the video. Here's another storm chaser video from yesterday. Another one.
You don't mess with an Enormous Monster Wedge, unless you've got a shit ton of Bleu Cheese dressing.
Trump has hopitality industry background and knows.
From Lonejustice's link:
"Because Donald Trump announced so early, on November 15, 2022, that he was running for President in 2024, it feels like the Republican primaries have been going on forever. By comparison, Trump’s famous escalator ride at Trump Tower to announce his 2016 campaign took place on June 16, seven months later in that cycle than in this cycle.
I know, I know, we’ve been told for months by team Trump and supporters that it’s already over, Meatball ”Pudding-Lover” DeSanctimonious shouldn’t even run and if he does he will destroy his 2028 chances."
The PAC responsible for that ad has switched to criticizing RDS on Medicare and S.S. voting history.
NMObjectivist said...
Headline at Breitbart:
"Trump’s Iowa Rally Cancelled Due to Tornado Warnings"
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That's bullshit. It was simply a temporary tornado watch. I think we've had at least 2o "tornado watches" so far this spring where I live in Iowa. Sometimes they only last for 30 minutes. Nobody cancels anything during a "watch." All the schools remain open, nobody leaves work, no warning sirens blare. You are just supposed to pay attention to the weather. That's all.
Here are the storm reports from yesterday. I'd say cancelling an outdoor event in central IA yesterday was a prudent move.
If a tornado touched down at a Trump rally many would see it as an act of Providence. If a tornado touched down at a Biden rally, to the extent that anyone noticed it, it would be considered a consequence of global warming. DeSantis has a great deal of experience with bad weather, far more than the other candidates. If you want someone with expertise on bad weather, elect DeSantis.....The Republican Party needs to be more inclusive. Trump might pick up a few more Black votes, but there are lots of people who will come out to vote against him. Maybe apathy will get DeSantis over the top. People don't hate him the way they do Trump. They won't come out to vote for Biden, and they won't come out to vote against DeSantis. Lazy voters have saved our country more than once.
Hunter Biden's tax payer Funded Hooker: "btw-
Wanting to sure up SS and medicare isn't bad faith. It will need to happen."
Its amazing how dense you are.
I explicitly wrote that many of us on all sides might agree or disagree with some or all of the policy positions DeSantis has taken.
The POINT is those positions will impact how different voting groups will react to that and how DeSantis will handle that in both a primary and general election campaign.
In a general, should he make it there, DeSantis will have to address that.
HBTPFH reacts to conversations about DeSantis' congressional record like a vampire to holy water.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker: "Lets see if Trump re-schedules his big Iowa Rally. I'm anxiously waiting.
Poor Drago - he writes as if he belongs to the progressives-for-Trump fan club. DeSantis is pure evil... and and and he has a record.. and and and... McConnelltards!
Trump and his humpers are jealous that the money isn't flowing to Billionaire butt-hurt bruised ego coronation Trump. Boom - that money is now as dirty as the leftwing a-holes say it is. Funny how Trump hump messaging mirrors leftist messaging. LOL"
This post literally represents the full extent of HBTPFH's analytical "capabilities".
Cue Porky Pig: "That's all folks!"
It’s still early in the process and I’ve not yet picked my horse.
However, had there been any tornado activity within 100 miles of (or 24 hours prior to) the Trump event, the press would have been dumping on Trump for being tone deaf to local hardship.
Any decision his team made was bound to be criticized.
Hmmmm, LLR-democratical and Violent Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck popping in with his sidekick/mini-me lonejustice to lie about the National Weather Service Tornado Warning.
Gee, I did not see that coming...(wink wink)
What would the headlines read if he hadn't cancelled the event and a tornado hit?
Shorter, truer meaning if all this: Oh please oh please oh please
All the stupid assholes bitching about cancelling on outdoor rally have no idea how spring storms can come up quickly and turn dangerous.
Those babies live in NYC and DC.
I will not vote for Trump but his supporters deserve to be safe.
(Now if they were Biden supporters I might feel differently!)
Free Manure While You Wait!: "And yet "poling" tells us he's the frontrunner. And it will until the Republican Convention proves that wrong. Until then, it's all about the clicks. This isn't your father's media."
Interesting. The "it will change at the convention" ploy was precisely the strategy and taking point of the Cruz campaign in 2016 when the GOPe launched their final plan to peel away Trump delegates.
It didnt work of course and Ted gave the keynote speech that ended any national hopes he might have entertained when he basically told the world to vote for someone other than Trump.
Yes Mike Wolf - I'm sure DeSantis is behind the fact that Trump cancelled his rally.
The universal trait of rabid Trump haters is their willingness to lie to prove how bad Trump and Trump supporting conservatives are. She could have quoted me accurately and provided the source for the dishonest tweet but instead she changed my words to create a straw argument. I’ll quote myself accurately and let the readers decide: “I hope he didn’t go so far as to plant this lame “bust” story with friendly mediaswine.” Of course “he” is a reference to Desantis. For the record I attribute the cancellation to common sense not Desantis. But his comms teams are sharp people with wicked sense of humor. I can see them “encouraging” the Tweet about the fake low turnout tweet.
None of the people who like Trump who I know hate any other candidate or politician although disgust with Joe is sky high. But it seems once people I respect go anti-Trump the arguments devolve and the hate for Trump overrides their common sense. Sounds like they’re all standing by the “Trump can’t draw a crowd” idea. Here’s an LOL down payment for all the future pointing and laughing the rest of us will be doing. LOL LOLO LOL LOL LOL
Leland stop fighting this emotional thunderstorm with facts. The Common Sense has left the building and says stick your factual underpinnings where the wind don’t blow. “I saw BLUE SKY in a goddamned photo you Trump culties!”
THE. SKY. WAS. BLUE.
It was.
First thing people in a cult do is claim the sky’s a different color.
On June 7, 1984 we were living in the country, approximately 15 miles from Barneveld, Wis. Hubby was driving home from second shift and when he drove past at approximately 12:50 p.m. the sign for Barneveld was still there. He stopped on the other side of Barneveld because it suddenly was "pouring buckets" and the windshield wipers were useless. He also said that he couldn't hear the rain pounding on the roof of the car. I was at home, pacing because I wasn't sure if I should wake up my toddlers and take them to the basement. The lightning was continuous. (It makes me nervous to this day.) Hubby met a ton of emergency vehicles just past Ridgeway. The next morning we found out Barneveld was basically wiped out. When you live through something like that, you don't ever want to take a chance you'll experience that again. Just ask the old timers in Barneveld. It's probably the same for the people in Iowa.
Wasn't the DeSantis event inside?
Wasn't the trump event outside?
Think that might make a difference?
John Henry
It
was
BLUE
What an amazingly well timed post for Mother's day! Weather is an all purpose excuse, and there is nothing climate change cannot accomplish!
My MIL died last month, at age 93, from long term vascular dementia. My wife, upon notice of MIL's downturn into coma, flew from TX to CO and got there before her mom died. My SIL had gone out of town for the week and did not get back before her mom passed. SIL blamed a western CO snowstorm for keeping her from driving back to town in time to be present for her mom's death. Reasonable, yes?
SIL raged like a maniac and cursed like a sailor at my wife (a counted 12 FUs) upon seeing her at a luncheon memorial service given by the assisted living home, on the basis that my wife called only 14 hours before their mom died, and weather prevented her 7 hour drive back for a whole day. SIL lives 30 minutes from the assisted living center, and my wife didn't know she wasn't in town that week. Reasonable, no?
Family is the gift that gives and gives and gives, and then gives some more, without the need for thanks! And bad weather is the excuse that needs no further explanation!
Blogger lonejustice said..."I live in Iowa. Trump's rally was NOT cancelled due to the weather. It was cancelled because hardly anyone showed up. "
Blogger Leland said..."Here is video of a storm chaser in Iowa yesterday, and as the video starts, he is heading to a supercell over Des Moines, Iowa. You can see for yourself the radar track in the lower left corner of the video. Here's another storm chaser video from yesterday. Another
one."
LOL.
Who you going to believe, lonejustice or your own lying eyes?
What does the canceling show. In real political terms not the spin.
1. Trump is the front runner. He can afford, politically, to cancel rally's (irrespective of the "cause" - attendance or weather).
2. DeSantis is behind. He needs voter interaction. He can't afford to cancel rally's
3. Trump is not nimble. He can't shift his campaign apparatus on a dime anymore like he could in 2016. This is a weakness.
4. DeSantis appears to be nimble. I read that he added an event after Trump canceled.
Does canceling one rally really impact the race? No. But it may show tht Trump is saddled with infrastructure that would allow another candidate to be inside his decision loop. This is not traditionally Trump's style. He's the outsider usually.
Take a moment to imagine a Biden rally if attendees weren't having their diplomas held hostage.
LLR-democratical Chuck Mini-Me, lonejustice: "That's bullshit. It was simply a temporary tornado watch."
LOL
Can you believe this is really these idiots fallback talking point?
Incredible.
Brian: "3. Trump is not nimble. He can't shift his campaign apparatus on a dime anymore like he could in 2016. This is a weakness.
4. DeSantis appears to be nimble. I read that he added an event after Trump canceled."
I think you might need to show your work on these 2 items.
Embarrasing Bust? I thought there was going to be a tragic exposure of an Iowa teenagers wardrobe failure. Hunter? are you there?
Blue. The sky was blue.
Video prior to cancellation.
"It was simply a temporary tornado watch."
As opposed to a permanent one?
Asking for a friend...
"That's bullshit. It was simply a temporary tornado watch."
Every tornado watch I'ver ever encountered in my 67 years has been temporary.
"Video prior to cancellation."
It looks like that here sometimes in the spring. And then- an hour later, there's thunder and lightning and hail that prompts alerts that break into radio broadcasts telling people to stay inside and away from windows.
I would suppose adding tornados into the mix might be something people could possibly be concerned about.
lonejustice said;
That's bullshit. It was simply a temporary tornado watch.
Temporary defines all tornado watches. If this guy actually lived here, he would know there is rarely just a single tornado watch. The come in a series as the storm (usually) moves from South East to North West, and new area are added to the watch and other areas have theirs expire. It is not unusual for the same town to catch 2 or three watches in the same storm system.
Sunshine is common for tornadoes. All long term Iowans have several Tornado personal stories.
My 1st was in the 60's, 2.5 miles South of our farm, killed an older couple that were 2cnd cousins to us. A great sunny warm balmy Palm Sunday, early afternoon. This was before warning/watch technology.
Trump STRONK! STRONK LIKE BOOOL! TRUMP STRONK LIKE BOOOOL!!!
It's simply amazing how absolutely anything associated with Donald Trump can turn supposedly grown adults purple, and cause them to spew absolutely bonkers things - either Pro or Con. I've never seen anything like it, in politics, and only read about it in connection with Huey Long.
Did the Twitter keyboard expert manage to discuss this event outcome with anybody that had planned to attend, just curious. There were plenty of pictures of an empty fairground, which could just have easily been taken a day before the event. Or was it such an incipient disaster that the reporter is on record saying that nobody planned to attend, therefore it was cancelled? Or, is there a weather-delay re-schedule in the works? Such basic information, unaddressed. Conclusion: 'Unserious'
Sure, Jan!
"You live in Michigan, Chuck. You couldn't find Iowa on a map."
Chuck couldn't find his own ass with both hands and a map.
Yes, actually, Trump is strong like a bull. He has lived his life making deals in the hardest town in the world and came out on top most of the time. He has won bigly. He shames his critics as impotent weaklings.
Lone injustus claims to live in Iowa, I lived in West Burlington for many years and have kids still there. I will make note when lone justice claims to live somewhere else. People in Iowa don’t like to be fucked with.
Awful quiet around here now Leland. Perhaps your fact cyclone did in fact pierce the very thick resistance to reality.
Thanks Mike. The data was a bit easy to find. I've been following the storm chasers quite a bit this year, and while I knew Friday was busier for them in Nebraska (congratulations to Reed Timmer intercepting a tornado there), Saturday was still busy enough for at least a half dozen to be in Iowa (and some more in Oklahoma).
It is interesting how much people want to believe and make others believe Trump is lying that they will go out of their way to fabricate nonsense that is so easily factchecked. They got away with this on Twitter in the past, because they could ban those that would factcheck them. That's never been the case at Althouse, so why come here and lie?
Yancy made me snort coffee. Bad Yancy.
We wait for Trump to re-schedule. It will be bigly.
ah - poor Trump Humper Drago. Desperate to smear anyone not Trumpie... the old fat ego dick stepping inarticulate loser.
Flip-side Inga - Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker: "ah - poor Trump Humper Drago. Desperate to smear anyone not Trumpie... the old fat ego dick stepping inarticulate loser."
Point out the "worst" "smear".
Dont worry, we wont be holding our breath.
Mike (MJB Wolf): "Awful quiet around here now Leland. Perhaps your fact cyclone did in fact pierce the very thick resistance to reality.
Well, Hunter Biden's Taxpayer Funded Hooker is still popping in. Not to challenge Leland's facts of course, since HBTPFH only deals in weird emotion driven outbursts and not facts.
Hey Hooker is the sky still blue in your world? Any after-action report on Iowa? Bueller? Bueller?
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