Sununu, who’s up this year in a state Hillary carried & where Ds have both Senate seats, is skipping Trump’s rally this weekend in NH and next month’s national convention
Virus alibi is both legit and convenient https://t.co/SJUOdAvqNu
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) July 8, 2020
Live free or die gasping! Local officials don’t exactly sound thrilled to pieces over this event — I have to assume none of them were contacted before the Trump campaign announced it. Per the local Seacoast Online:
Attendees for Saturday’s appearance by President Donald Trump should be prepared for inclement weather and screenings for contraband, before passing through a privately owned hangar, onto a private tarmac, said Paul Brean, executive director of the Pease Development Authority.
Saturday’s event is billed as a “Make America Great Again” outdoor rally for Trump’s reelection campaign. Brean said gates open at 4 p.m. and the rally will be held on the south side of the airport in the corporate general aviation area, with access from Durham Street.
“It’s always exciting to showcase Portsmouth International Airport at Pease,” he said.
The PDA director said parking logistics are in the planning stage and he does not yet have information about how many people are expected to attend. Brean said the private tarmac is the general aviation area and leased from the PDA by a fixed based operator with private planes. He described the tarmac as “quite a vast area” and said the rally will “not be too disruptive to our tenants.”
Brean said the passenger airport terminal will be closed Saturday. Air traffic will be ceased through a “ground hold” when Trump arrives through the air space, he said. The event is scheduled from 4 to 8 p.m. and it’s believed Air Force One will arrive midpoint, he said…
So, the Squatter-in-Chief will jet up after his Saturday golf game, and haul arse in good time for his nightly dose of Fox ‘News’. Everyone in a tourist-dependent town will have their whole weekend disrupted — probably been lots of cancellations and closures already — but what’s that to him?
There is, of course, a Black Lives Matter protest scheduled ‘in advance’ of the rally.
Latest weather predictions call for 90-degree temps with 70 percent humidity, and a high chance of thunderstorms. Not the best day to spend in a hangar with a few hundreds or thousands of your fellow death cultists, I’d say. And, of course, per Boston Online…
The mayor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is holding firm against calls for a mask mandate for President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday night at a local airport in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This is a card that when we play it, we have to carry it out,” Mayor Rick Becksted said Monday, according to the Union Leader. “I think it’s important that if we do that, we do it for the right reasons.”
Some local officials say that Trump’s rally Saturday is reason enough…
According to Seacoast Online, the idea of some sort of requirement has been floated by City Councilor Deaglan McEachern, Assistant Mayor Jim Splaine, and Police Commissioner Stefany Shaheen.
“NH is one of only 3 states with declining cases of COVID-19 and we want to keep it that way,” Shaheen tweeted Monday, saying that she would be “fighting” for a mask requirement…
The RSVP page for Trump’s rally includes a waiver certifying that attendees “understand and expressly acknowledge that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present.”…
Has it been established yet whether such a waiver was even minimally binding?
Maybe the next new logo for the Trump campaign should be a white elephant. It’d please their Dear Leader, for sure!
Luciamia
Why? Is New Hampshire somehow in play?
cain
Yeah, this is not going to end well for that town. If a flare up shows up, Sununu is going to get blamed. I hope he realizes that. If it goes out of control – they will blame him and only him. He will lose that election because he couldn’t be bothered to stand up to Trump.
HumboldtBlue
Don’t wear a mask, her husband is a hero.
Alison Rose
One could take that to mean he doesn’t think protecting the health of Trumpies to be “the right reason.” If one wanted to be mean. Which one often does these days.
NotMax
Is every other person in NH named Shaheen?
;)
Aside: Dan Rather’s pronunciation of Sununu has long been arrestingly euphonious. The combination of the remnants of his native twang with a broadcaster’s practiced precision brings a certain je ne sais quoi.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
That’s brutal. You have such a way with words, AL lol
NotMax
Last report I saw (several weeks ago, more or less) indicated 58% of Jacksonville residents opposed having the convention there.
Can’t help but surmise that number has inched upward since.
Chetan Murthy
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): BTW, I thought of something else about the SPLC, that …. well, it left a bad taste in my mouth. I gave a decent chunk of change in 2014/15/16. Since then, I’ve been sending all my donations to political campaigns. But they continue to send me …. what? at least a letter every couple of weeks, maybe even more often. They sent me a copy of Morris Dees’ autobiography. I mean, just a -ton- of bulk mail. It’s a little offputting, and makes me think that they’re trying too hard to convince me to donate to them again. Other organizations (like Planned Parenthood) don’t do that, for which I’m thankful (and I gave them even more than I gave to the SPLC, and over a longer period of time).
I feel somewhat like “geez guys, I didn’t give you money so you could spend it on incessant bulk mail to the same damn addresses for years on end.”
mrmoshpotato
I’d forgotten about this aspect of this chickenshit bitchwaffle’s Nuremberg word salad shoutfests.
Fucking chickenshit bitchwaffle.
Kelly
Yet another way for the “you’re not the boss of me” folks to scorn the good of their communities. What it says on the tin.
https://www.etsy.com/market/mesh_mask
mrmoshpotato
Wait. He hasn’t succeeded in a year’s-worth of golfing, and 2.5 years of being a whiny, orange, Soviet shitpile mobster conman?
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato: Or just Chickenshitler.
For downstairs, was searching for a picture of a truck that got “itself” wedged under the L platform at Randolph and Wabash one late afternoon several years ago (the driver surely had nothing to do with it). Did not find the right story, but did find this handy compendium of clearances throughout the city of Chicago. It’s published by the blog of RentConfident apartment research service.
FelonyGovt
Is it too much to hope for more K-Pop fan shenanigans?
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Live free, but then die – of an entirely preventable pandemic.
The Moar You Know
I don’t care how backwards any of the inhabitants are, no state deserves a
KlanTrump rallly.mrmoshpotato
@prostratedragon: I’m not too keen on the comparison. Thankfully, Putin’s bitches* don’t have the discipline.
* The entire GOP are Putin’s bitches, and I’m surprised there wasn’t more destruction in 2017-18.
mrmoshpotato
@prostratedragon:
Is there a lane there under the tracks that’s too narrow?
mrmoshpotato
@The Moar You Know: True. In fact, no celestial body deserves a Dump rally.
mrmoshpotato
This community doesn’t need the reminder, but knowing the withdrawal date is nice.
NotMax
Portsmouth Dim-phony-a.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Oh, I dunno. Any convenient black hole seems an appropriate candidate.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Touché, good sir! Touché!
joel hanes
@prostratedragon:
Have you seen the videos of trucks peeling the roof off the box on that one particularly-low but well-marked bridge ?
Felanius Kootea
@Chetan Murthy: I still give money to the SPLC. Is there something new I should know? They’re spending $30 million to register Southern voters of color for the 2020 election. I’m hoping that Margaret Huang (new SPLC President, formerly exec director at Amnesty International) helps move the organization in the right direction after the problems with Dees et al.
satby
Wow, did everyone get raptured?
Shalimar
@Felanius Kootea: Their prime proficiency in the past has been fund-raising, which has left them with a ton of money. They do good work, but could do a lot more good with better use of their resources. New leadership is promising in that regard.
Dan B
@HumboldtBlue: I told her…
What did I tell her hon?
Needs moar! Moar!
JPL
@satby: Good Morning. I just checked the weather forecast for Portsmouth and it appears that it’s going to rain on his parade.. I bet he bails.
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato:
If memory serves, there’s some kind of underhang beneath the platform that might have been some additional shoring up or stabilizing. Wonder whether the clearance sign was updated? As someone mentioned, it could also have been asphalt buildup from numerous street repairs.
prostratedragon
@joel hanes: Saw one with wonderful sound as well. Since the mic didn’t pick up the driver I’m sure our entertainment quotient was cheated.
prostratedragon
@prostratedragon:
(My edit was lost.)
Good lord, does no one read?!! People who work/live around there must have many wonderful betting pools, drinking games, etc.
And furthermore, the video compilers did save the best for last.
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato: Well, the whole point is that it’s subbargain basement, scaled down so even an incompetent wimp can do it.
Morzer
Mr.
Asshole’s
Gasping
Agony
Just One More Canuck
@joel hanes: There’s a bridge in Victoria (BC) known locally as the can opener for just that reason
Mike in NC
Portsmouth has an old, abandoned naval prison that could easily accommodate the entire Trump Administration for a weekend, or eternity for that matter.