Today in festive celebration of Nagasaki Day, the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in FESTIVE celebration of the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Milhous Nixon, $DonSnoreleone, the former President and current GOP aspirant visited...MONTANA.
Kidding (?) about the anniversary observances, the day was sufficient unto itself in terms of notable moments. RantWoman may or may not get every reference linked, but please consider each comment here as its own minefield in terms of US life as a democracy.
Preparing the field
CBS Morning: Jon Tester. The farmer who went to Washington
from 3 years ago. Mentions Tester's book Grounded.
Lawrence O'Donell interview Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown
NBC MT interviews Tim Sheehy about military service, his business, other issues
Not a high opinion of The Daily Beast or the MT Free Press
NBC Montana: unpaid bills from past campaign visits to MT
NBC Montana interviews GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy
much mention of military experience and failures lreated to event security.
Blatant lies blaming Biden
exhorting people to get out and vote.
Actual issues though through a Trumpling lens
Endless "immigrants streaming across our border" is a tiresome narrative that has no positive vision of what immigrants bring and no context about what dynamics drive people to come to the US.
PBS MT JUly 2024 US Senate Debate
here for reference and so RantWoman can find it again easily.
A few days before
NBC Montana interviews migratory merch vendors
Blistering Chris Hayes segment about why That Guy is campaigning in MT
Short version: in 2018 after Dr. Ronnie Jackson was demoted to captain and retired from his gig running basically a pill mill at the White House, #CadetBone Spurs wanted to make CAPT. Jackson Secretary of Veterans Affairs, a position he was probably even less qualified to hold than White House physician. Sen. Tester as head of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee quashed the nomination, and #FelonDon is on the next leg of his revenge tour.
MT is NOT a swing state but #DonTheCon and his fraudster fam are in the state panhandling, er fundraising for down-ballot Republicans. Interesting PERHAPS that a campaign built on complaining about coastal liberals is bring in East Coast fraudsters looking for handouts. Maybe they could also pay off some old bills, on account of paying bills and preferably on time is a pretty MT value.
Events the Day Of
As crowd gathers, video of someone in the far background playing "Send in the Clowns."
Trump plane diverted to Billings because of a hydraulic problem
chatter on X about poor maintenance practices and preferences about which company to buy jet fuel from.
Someone had a loaner plane available.
At the rally #DonOld played Celine Dion performing the theme from Titanic. RantWoman is unclear whether the campaign actually secured rights to use the song. More to the point, RantWoman is sort of geographically fixated about MT geological history: there may have been ice tens of thousands of years ago and an inland ocean a million or so years ago. But for a guy who doesn't believe in #ClimateChange, somehow the thematic choice seems way to prehistoric even as counter to the other party and #WeWontGoBack.
NBC Montana early afternoon before rally
Luke Beasley: Trump posts video after emergency landing
Meidas Touch: Trump falls apart in disastrous speech
A bunch of typical #TFG gaffes and not enough analysis of other themes here.
And for extra context
Reese Waters: the MAGA exodus begins
A WHOLE BUNCH of great statements about why people are voting for Harris/Walz
Christopher Titus Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz
For anyone who has the stomach
Brian Tyler Cohen clip of Celine Dion NOT authorizing use of her image at the MT rally
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