Donnie to have rally in Tulsa OK on Junteenth

[Cuddles]

 

[Tony Stark]

He knows what he is doing

 

[Cuddles]

He knows what he is doing

I honestly don't even think he knows his history that well. But someone knows what they're doing

 

[Ricter]

Trying to keep his base from shrinking, but even if he succeeds it's not going to be enough. Demography is destiny.

 

[Cuddles]

Trying to keep his base from shrinking, but even if he succeeds it's not going to be enough. Demography is destiny.

giant shift on BLM from just 2 yrs ago. Companies like the NFL or NASCAR aren't virtuous, they know where population sentiment is going.

 

[Tony Stark]

I honestly don't even think he knows his history that well. But someone knows what they're doing

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/frank-rich-what-trump-will-do-to-win.html

Trump knows he has that base’s blessing to run a full-out white supremacist campaign. He isn’t wasting any time. Even as NASCAR banned the Confederate flag yesterday, he declared that he would refuse to rename American military bases named after defeated Confederate leaders. Trump also announced yesterday that he would not only hold his first pandemic rally on June 19 — Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery — but would do so in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, in 1921, rioting whites massacred as many as 300 people and incinerated all but a block of the city’s prosperous black neighborhood. This isn’t any old racial dog whistle, it’s the screech of a pack of vicious dogs like those Trump threatened to sic on Black Lives Matter demonstrators.

Of course, Trump doesn’t know Tulsa’s history, but those around him do — including Stephen Miller, who, at one point according to reports this week, was being tasked to write a Trump speech on racial relations. Miller and his cohort would also know that Ronald Reagan had set the GOP template for such a political provocation in 1980, when he opened his general election campaign by giving a speech on “states’ rights” in the same Mississippi county where three civil rights workers had been notoriously slaughtered during the Freedom Summer of 1964.

 

[Ricter]

giant shift on BLM from just 2 yrs ago. Companies like the NFL or NASCAR aren't virtuous, they know where population sentiment is going.

Yep. Nike's been there and it was a winning move.

 

[Cuddles]

Yep. Nike's been there and it was a winning move.

They were braver at it for leading on jumping on the bandwagon. Doesn't help that they're paying HS & college kids to sign on the DL though.

 

[vanzandt]

Yep. Nike's been there and it was a winning move.

Not really. NKE was near $84 when that first commercial ran. Its barely up 15% with a .95% div.

 

[Bugenhagen]

If everything is a racist dogwhistle nothing is a racist dogwhistle. Trump can't even take a shit without the left frothing at the mouth. Its incredible the levels of a absurdity the court of public opinion has risen to.

The levels of collective psychosis we are seeing are unprecedented. This will be studied for many years.

In three weeks the media has gone from "stay home for everyone" to "burn down everything because racism".

Everyone is being played by the media. Turn it off.

Nah, you are just a drama queen by proxy. Trump (Stephen Miller) has intentionally picked the combination of Tulsa and that date intentionally knowing it would cause stink and bring attention to the rally.

The only reason the Tulsa massacre is famous again is the HBO series Watchmen.

So Trump is race and media baiting, that is doing this is unfortunately newsworthy.