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Pic Of The Moment: Total Whiteout At Republican Iowa Caucuses (Original Post) EarlG Jan 2024 OP
Kick dalton99a Jan 2024 #1
Kick TheBlackAdder Jan 2024 #23
KNR niyad Jan 2024 #2
Me, too. A serious, immediate look at him. "I was there and all I got was this t-shirt and a jail sentence" marble falls Jan 2024 #4
Mr. Jan 6 hiding his face when camera appears Captain Zero Jan 2024 #3
Isn't there one person of color standing at the back of the room, with a gold cap? sinkingfeeling Jan 2024 #5
There has to be durablend Jan 2024 #12
Looks like a super spreader event to me. yardwork Jan 2024 #6
Doing their part Pinback Jan 2024 #39
That was my first thought too ! Pluvious Jan 2024 #43
And you know most of those folks refused to get vaccinated. yardwork Jan 2024 #45
They'll leave it in the hands of god... Pluvious Jan 2024 #61
What they are forgetting - pazzyanne Jan 2024 #75
"Capitol riot suspect wore 'I Was There' shirt when arrested" sop Jan 2024 #7
so, the guy with his head down has been doxxed? AllaN01Bear Jan 2024 #66
Kick Diamond_Dog Jan 2024 #8
Great for Repugs. Worthless for Dems. Sneederbunk Jan 2024 #9
I could be wrong but I'll bet the ones who stay home on account of the cold KS Toronado Jan 2024 #10
I was surprised that repute have cut back on the number of locations for their caucuses rurallib Jan 2024 #13
Exactly. Repugs view this year's race as little more than a coronation. peppertree Jan 2024 #22
! rurallib Jan 2024 #24
Why, thank you. peppertree Jan 2024 #26
... orangecrush Jan 2024 #11
90% Fox devotees nowforever Jan 2024 #14
Weird, the shirt says Jan 6, 2020, the Capital attack was Jan 6, 2021? nt ShazamIam Jan 2024 #15
Yeah, not much happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2020! Wednesdays Jan 2024 #16
Legal loophole? sop Jan 2024 #20
He was there but he didn't know what day it was. yardwork Jan 2024 #48
Or what YEAR it was! ShazzieB Jan 2024 #57
They knew in advance. czarjak Jan 2024 #58
lol I didn't notice that when I posted it EarlG Jan 2024 #64
White Our mamacita75 Jan 2024 #17
If they only knew that Trump and all the other plutocrats see them only as white trash peppertree Jan 2024 #19
At first I thought the OP head said "Wipeout..." until I saw the photo of the crowd. brush Jan 2024 #18
I saw some stats that said IA has a terrible record for voter turnout..approx 150k. It will be interesting to see PortTack Jan 2024 #21
Selling Caucus Hats? kentuck Jan 2024 #25
I was at a "biker bar" at Odessa Washington for a comedy show one night. This place was run by a biker, but also the brewens Jan 2024 #27
Yikes!!! ailsagirl Jan 2024 #78
Box of bloody mushrooms with hats on Warpy Jan 2024 #28
Lots of grabable Traildogbob Jan 2024 #53
Iowa has a 90.36% white population percentage. Emile Jan 2024 #29
What happened on January 6th, 2020? Emile Jan 2024 #30
I started to say - are you serious? Laf.La.Dem. Jan 2024 #60
They kicked off the planning for the insurrection? pazzyanne Jan 2024 #76
Iowa does not represent the demographics of the country LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #31
Didn't stop the media from acting like it's a horse race SouthernDem4ever Jan 2024 #35
They also look mostly senile. LiberalFighter Jan 2024 #32
Their god must be trying to tell them something SouthernDem4ever Jan 2024 #33
K&R ismnotwasm Jan 2024 #34
Not a diverse thought or viewpoint among them! Initech Jan 2024 #36
Captain Pantload's Poop Troop Blue Owl Jan 2024 #37
LOL 😅 Emile Jan 2024 #40
50 Shades Of Whey lindysalsagal Jan 2024 #38
Pretty sure that for MAGA, this is a feature, not a bug. n/t malthaussen Jan 2024 #41
Some Republican was telling us coprolite Jan 2024 #42
24 hrs of the media telling us this is real America Johonny Jan 2024 #44
Old white guys in diners! Pinback Jan 2024 #56
What a bunch of ugly people inside and outside kimbutgar Jan 2024 #46
This is NOT a representation of America. Not even close. onecaliberal Jan 2024 #47
The people attending should demand a do-over Marthe48 Jan 2024 #49
I read the book "Remembering" by Sinead O'Connor in which she worked with Dr. Phil and he said that spike jones Jan 2024 #50
They all have a look Traildogbob Jan 2024 #51
Catch him before time runs out and GOP finishes defunding the FBI. Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2024 #52
I'd say this says a 1000 words SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2024 #54
Jesus would Traildogbob Jan 2024 #55
Ku Klux Kaucus markodochartaigh Jan 2024 #59
Why? Mr.Bill Jan 2024 #62
One of our local County Supervisors boasts that he was there too on Jan 6th. progressoid Jan 2024 #63
A whiter shade of pale (apologies to Procol Harum) lonely bird Jan 2024 #65
They look so unhappy! Earth-shine Jan 2024 #67
BFD Asshole in the Stupid T. Cha Jan 2024 #68
RSO rso Jan 2024 #69
No rainbow there. Joinfortmill Jan 2024 #70
This guy was "THERE" on January 6, 2020 - but the insurrection happened in 2021 FakeNoose Jan 2024 #71
Weird Emile Jan 2024 #72
Just look at all those simpletons... ailsagirl Jan 2024 #73
Of course, if a Democratic Caucus was being held... brooklynite Jan 2024 #74
JoJoFromJerz Nailed it... CousinIT Jan 2024 #77

marble falls

(58,202 posts)
4. Me, too. A serious, immediate look at him. "I was there and all I got was this t-shirt and a jail sentence"
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 11:45 AM
Jan 2024

Captain Zero

(6,925 posts)
3. Mr. Jan 6 hiding his face when camera appears
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 11:44 AM
Jan 2024

Hope the photographer got a better one when he looked up.

Pinback

(12,191 posts)
39. Doing their part
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:38 PM
Jan 2024

to keep the virus going! I see several mutations in this one photo alone. Also, probably a lot of COVID variants in the making.

Pluvious

(4,395 posts)
43. That was my first thought too !
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:42 PM
Jan 2024

Like... Yikes
Not one mask in sight

Aren't we now at 2 million infections a day ?
A 10,000 deaths per month ?

And 8% Americans have Long COVID symptoms ?

Pluvious

(4,395 posts)
61. They'll leave it in the hands of god...
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 04:09 PM
Jan 2024

Even though the case can be made the vaccines were given to us by the grace of their god (shrug)

pazzyanne

(6,560 posts)
75. What they are forgetting -
Tue Jan 16, 2024, 11:17 AM
Jan 2024

God helps them who help themselves. No vaccinations and masks equals higher risk of catching Covid.

sop

(10,430 posts)
7. "Capitol riot suspect wore 'I Was There' shirt when arrested"
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 12:04 PM
Jan 2024

(AP) - Garret Miller didn't speak to the law enforcement officers who arrested him on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol in January, but the T-shirt he was wearing at his Dallas home that day sent a clear and possibly incriminating message...Miller's shirt had a photograph of former President Donald Trump, and it said “Take America Back” and “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/capitol-riot-suspect-wore-i-was-there-shirt-when-arrested-n1262402

KS Toronado

(17,654 posts)
10. I could be wrong but I'll bet the ones who stay home on account of the cold
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 12:16 PM
Jan 2024

will be the ones who are not crazy about Тяцмp, only MAGAts are so stupid they don't care
about their health as long as they're thinking they're helping Der Fuhrer.

rurallib

(62,539 posts)
13. I was surprised that repute have cut back on the number of locations for their caucuses
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 12:31 PM
Jan 2024

this year. I just found that out last week.

That tells me that they were not really expecting big turnouts to begin with.

Were I to go to one of their caucuses, I would have to drive on snow covered roads in -20 weather at night to hand in a slip of paper, then turn around and come back home on the snow covered roads in blowing snow.

I am thinking this will really affect turnout in eastern Iowa.

nowforever

(327 posts)
14. 90% Fox devotees
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 12:32 PM
Jan 2024

Trumps trade wars cost Iowa farmers billions and he ended up sending billions in tax payers dollars to make up the difference...government handouts for the proud Iowa farmers. Under Biden administration the farmers across the USA had one of their most profitable years ever. These people are a con-artists dream audience, they are gullible, racist, resentful and 100% clueless.

ShazzieB

(16,807 posts)
57. Or what YEAR it was!
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 02:35 PM
Jan 2024

He knows the election was in 2020, so the riot, err, excuse me, peaceful tourist visit of the Capitol must have been in 2020, right?

EarlG

(22,051 posts)
64. lol I didn't notice that when I posted it
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 04:37 PM
Jan 2024

Well I guess if he was there on Jan. 6 2020 then he DOESNT have to worry about a visit from the FBI

peppertree

(21,874 posts)
19. If they only knew that Trump and all the other plutocrats see them only as white trash
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 12:56 PM
Jan 2024

Not deserving of Social Security, Medicare - or even protections from bank runs or anything else.

brush

(54,157 posts)
18. At first I thought the OP head said "Wipeout..." until I saw the photo of the crowd.
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 12:52 PM
Jan 2024

'White out" is right. And Iowa wonders why the Democrats want a more diverse electorate to be the kickoff for the presidential primaries...not to mention that antiquated, time-consuming and undemocratic caucus system.

PortTack

(32,877 posts)
21. I saw some stats that said IA has a terrible record for voter turnout..approx 150k. It will be interesting to see
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 12:58 PM
Jan 2024

How many attend this event.

brewens

(13,757 posts)
27. I was at a "biker bar" at Odessa Washington for a comedy show one night. This place was run by a biker, but also the
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:16 PM
Jan 2024

place where a lot of yokel farmers liked to drink. It was only ever packed with bikers sometimes in the summer when a bunch were on the road for rallies.

This dude that went on first was really raunchy and would have been great onstage at a biker rally, but the crowd there was like what you see in this pic, minus the Trump gear! It may as well have been a Grange Hall! LOL

It was painful watching a comic bomb that bad! He was throwing everything at them and a lady yelled, "clean it up!" Poor bastard! LOL

Warpy

(111,602 posts)
28. Box of bloody mushrooms with hats on
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:18 PM
Jan 2024

Mostly male, a sprinkling of females grinning like idiots because the menfolk (who wear hats indoors) allowed them in.

Yep, stereotypes confirmed.

Laf.La.Dem.

(2,949 posts)
60. I started to say - are you serious?
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 04:02 PM
Jan 2024

We all know what happened on Jan 6th 2021 but I do not know what happened on January 6th 2020.

LetMyPeopleVote

(146,501 posts)
31. Iowa does not represent the demographics of the country
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:28 PM
Jan 2024

I am glad that the Democratic Party got rid of the Iowa caucuses

coprolite

(199 posts)
42. Some Republican was telling us
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:41 PM
Jan 2024

a few weeks ago that Republican women were beautiful people and the democrats ugly......this crowd doesn't reflect the beauty.

Pinback

(12,191 posts)
56. Old white guys in diners!
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 02:19 PM
Jan 2024

That’s the real America.

NY Times had a pic on the front page today of two old white guys sitting at a diner table. Taking the (fading) pulse of the Republican voter.

kimbutgar

(21,357 posts)
46. What a bunch of ugly people inside and outside
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:56 PM
Jan 2024

I hope Covid wrecks havoc on this group in the upcoming weeks!

onecaliberal

(33,147 posts)
47. This is NOT a representation of America. Not even close.
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 01:57 PM
Jan 2024

Idgaf what those brainless fucking Karen’s want.

Marthe48

(17,246 posts)
49. The people attending should demand a do-over
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 02:03 PM
Jan 2024

Cream rises to the top. So does scum. Unfortunately, in Iowa, they got the scum.

spike jones

(1,702 posts)
50. I read the book "Remembering" by Sinead O'Connor in which she worked with Dr. Phil and he said that
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 02:07 PM
Jan 2024

“…he was recently at a meeting attended by Steve Bannon. And that the Trump people had actually discussed at that meeting the idea of MAGA being MAWA. Make America White Again. He acted all disgusted when telling me.”

Traildogbob

(8,958 posts)
55. Jesus would
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 02:18 PM
Jan 2024

Run from that bunch to hang with Lepers. Much less contagious than this Petri dish of idiots.

progressoid

(50,076 posts)
63. One of our local County Supervisors boasts that he was there too on Jan 6th.
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 04:23 PM
Jan 2024

It didn't hurt his election one bit. He got more votes than any other candidate.

lonely bird

(1,717 posts)
65. A whiter shade of pale (apologies to Procol Harum)
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 04:41 PM
Jan 2024

As an old white guy I am offended by that collection of asshats.

FakeNoose

(33,121 posts)
71. This guy was "THERE" on January 6, 2020 - but the insurrection happened in 2021
Mon Jan 15, 2024, 09:33 PM
Jan 2024


He must be the world's biggest idiot.

brooklynite

(95,350 posts)
74. Of course, if a Democratic Caucus was being held...
Tue Jan 16, 2024, 09:52 AM
Jan 2024

"The crowd is all white" is a pretty weak subject for a pointless meme.

CousinIT

(9,327 posts)
77. JoJoFromJerz Nailed it...
Tue Jan 16, 2024, 01:24 PM
Jan 2024
Donald Trump is a twice impeached one term, coup plotting, insurrection inciting, business defrauding, serial defaming, sexual abusing, fake university scamming, Epstein hobnobbing, sex with his daughter fantasizing, charity stealing former president who left office with one of the worst economic legacies in our country’s history.

He’s a diapered dotard with a 15-step combover who paints himself orange & wears lifts in his shoes. He’s not smart, he’s not funny, he’s not kind or clever.

He’s a narcissistic, nepotistic sociopath who never stopped being that spoiled rich boy who threw rocks at babies.

And unless you were rich enough to make bazillions from his tax cut, he didn’t do a damn thing for you.

He didn’t deliver on ANY of his promises, not his dumb wall, not “infrastructure week” or healthcare, not opioids or coal. He didn’t make America “great”. He didn’t “drain the swamp.” He mean-tweeted & golfed during the pandemic he bungled, he disparaged our veterans & he turned OUR house into a political prop.

His “plan” for the future includes his own retribution. It includes deportations. It means targeting Muslims. It includes turning our military into his private police force.

His “plan” includes him becoming a dictator. Which means the end of our democracy.

And 56,000 Iowans went out in the frigid cold last night to put his name into a popcorn bucket.

To return him to the office he tried to steal.

Not because of any policies they can think of or point to.

Not because of his integrity, honesty, reliability, authenticity, virtue, decency, or honor.

And not because of his legislative record.

Because he hates who they hate.

And that’s all they think they need.



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