Great American State Fair has rocky opening with outages and sparse crowds
I need to find some wide open spaces to just take a break from people. I think I'll go to Donald's Great American State Fair in DC.
MadGreek 🧿17Can I bring my dog there? Sadly he has diarrhea and I just need to find a place where he can do his business and we don't need to pick up after him. You have no idea what I been dealing with... (Based on a true story)
VagrantGuru12He should call it the unfair.
Christian Petersen9I didn't think Trump could outdo his fascist, squeaky-tank parade for its absolute cringeworthy patheticness. But his Great American State Fair is really giving it a run for its money. Happy Birthday America!
Robyn9You can’t they’ve already shut it down bsky.app/profile/adam...
mischievous-lingo.bsky.social8If you need to find a place where there are guaranteed to be no MAGA freaks - go to the library
Jeff8Looks like the quietest place in DC. Well, except for the Kennedy Center.
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
Mike Bloom237"No one knows who they were or what they were doing"
Ruth Zakarin135I mean the whole event has the feel of diorama day in elementary school so really this makes total sense
Ozhole120There's a third grader out there who is very proud of this.
twistmeyer.bsky.social66They should have left it solid and painted a crowd in the opening part, like Wile-e-coyote.
Big Spooky ColBosch63Wait. WAIT. Are all the decorations printed on?
Tom Macfarlan43So bad it's flipped back to majestic. Yes. Built that exact arch, to scale, as a monument to the quality of the trump regime.
dan sinker135Honestly it's small beans and all that but I can never get over how little of a shit they give about a single thing they actually do. Just absolutely toilet-stain craftsmanship on everything they touch. Complete and utter contempt to do even the barest of minimum.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)42This looks like the diorama of Rome I made in junior high the morning it was due because I'd forgotten about the assignment
Liz Ryerson37this is what the right wing in the US has always been about to me since i was a kid: a gaudy blandness. an entire world made out of cardboard - from mcmansions to strip malls.
Eileen Clancy 🧿31People who build theatrical scenery, get a load of this. She shot close-ups. All seams are visible. Chunks are missing. No one smoothed out the vinyl sheeting layered on top. The fake stone is wrinkly. I'm a crap drywall installer. Even my first time as a teen, nothing I put up looked this bad.
Democracy and trains8For my math proficiency in high school I had to build a scale model of the Washington Square arch using nothing but trigonometry… it was significantly better than this.
Doctor Cucumber5Fuck's sake I made better parade float sculpture shit when I was 14.
attractive girls consume books5a middle school theater props department would be offended if you suggested they made it
gormless tomfool bea 💗💜💙4now that i've seen it i think he should be allowed to build it. i think it would be really funny to see this play out
Dr. Antje Gamble4This is both embarrassing and also indicative of where our country is at right now. Corruption at the top rots the entire thing.
Punished Cat Guy (aka Johnny Bag o’ Snails)3I’ve seen smoother skin on hairless cats
the great american state fair is more evidence that you cannot manufacture the vibes
Nigel Garbage67Oh, they manufactured vibes alright
Hellscape Navigator61ten thousand right wing bots on X cant attend a fair after all
Miranda Miller (fastest Mario)34I love that they couldn’t get people out for a free outdoor fair in the Capitol. I used to go to the county fair every year and I didn’t even like it that much. People love idle outdoor shit in the summer. The value proposition doesn’t have to be very high.
bridget16The vibes are in LA and Atlanta and Philly and Miami and all the other World Cup host cities where people from all over the world are having the time of their lives together but go off with your melted ice cream and arch that looks like it’s straight out of an episode of Trading Spaces, DJT
Curtis 🏳️🌈16If we slap a tariff on the vibes, will that bring the manufacturing back
MacAllan Guy7I grew up in a state fair town and I cannot express the vibes as “last day of a month long fair at 12:30 when the gates close at 6pm” the whole event has, it’s not quite dead enough for vendors to start packing up but they’d rather be anywhere else.
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈95Trumpists desperately want Third Reich results but are absolutely uninterested in the Third Reich pomp and bombast which conceals those results
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST62They are so desperate to be loved on their own terms, & all they can muster is a half-full Republican pep rally with soldiers who've been ordered or voluntold to attend. I would much rather have real justice than poetic justice, but it ain't nothing.
Doug Mack42this is especially true and funny considering that we're also hosting the world cup and it's been *all* vibes and the president can't even have the sense to piggyback on that
escapedexplorer.bsky.social7Corollary: but you absolutely can use ATTEMPTS to manufacture vibes as a true vibe check For example, the great american state fair's vibe is best classified as "washed af" and "potemkin village but they can't even make the facades look non-dogshit"
John D in Bawlmer 🏳️🌈2What's truly hilarious is that these MFers truly thought they COULD manufacture the vibes
remarkable that they haven't been able to fill this fake state fair thing with MAGA idiots. dead movement.
Cooper Lund55I think about this with Jan 6th a lot. How many people was it, less than ten thousand before everyone stated breaking into the Capitol?
kth28The tank parade went over this badly, and that was like a year ago
Odd Hack21Too scared of the urban crime environment
Negativepeace18they can’t afford tickets AND gas for their pavement princess monster trucks
Alatar The Blue9MAGA is a magic show accomplished by the tech Nazis On the plus side one of the Trump voters in my life told me they now would like to see him dragged out by his pubes (I’m guess high gas prices did the trick) Claims Trump has failed on every single level (whatever helps ya sleeps I guess)
radically pro-transgender hate monger9This would be the prime timing for people to go too, this week is going to be a hundred degrees (actual temp). What few people even show up are going to end up with heat stroke
L Ron Mexico130Even MAGA can feel how decayed and hollow this is. Deep down they know this is just a pedophile’s extended birthday party dressed up as a holiday. Yes, they’d pay $20 for a hot dog while listening to music that sounds like royalty free Christian rock, but only if it feels like winning. This DOES NOT
Jeff "Belt Runner 2049ers" Krisko9this is probably the biggest indicator that nobody has any damn money and everything is too expensive now. His braying hordes would do anything for him at a drop of a hat but now they just plain can't afford it.
Legally Bonnnt6how many times have they made these assholes drive to DC for garbage like this? Gas is like $3.50, not even the faithful are doing it any more
MasterCard Lola Powertrain Engineer5They can't do it because it requires them going into a city, and going to a place with limited parking.
Norm Wilner3Can't afford the gas for the trip, wonder whose fault that is
Newsweek: Trump’s claim that 45,000 people attended the Great American State Fair, is not backed by independent counts. NBC reported over a 1,000 & WaPo described a thinly covered area. Similar disputes over attendance figures have included his 2017 inauguration & rallies. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
David Stone9People who matter know it's all lies. The problem comes when the people who don't matter (MAGAs, other brain-deads) vote. I know this isn't news. I have no idea how to reach THOSE people.
Having Said That7He’s back to worrying about crowd sizes again. What a loser.!!
RealUSAPatriot6Like the lion in the Wizard of Oz he has no courage. Unlike the lion he will never be able to find it.
Kathy Mortensen 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙4Math skills are not their strong suit.
ejcon3.bsky.social3Vice President Spiro Agnew's downfall was a sudden 1973 political scandal. Investigated for bribery, extortion, and tax evasion stemming from his time in Maryland, Agnew resigned on October 10, 1973. Do you recall when politicians were not AFRAID to investigate, charge, and punish. Is that over now?
Rebecca E ❌👑3In the video I saw I counted 11 people alongside an empty field. No where near 100, let alone 45K.
Confederate flag flown at NC's Great American State Fair; removed after video emerges www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...
C Latner14Technically it wasn't "NC's Fair". The governor declined to participate at all, so there should not have even been a booth for NC. A few private businesses set up some crazy racist stuff. Not sanctioned by the governor at all, & he had it removed as soon as he found out
Fleuron9For all people who like the Confederate flag and claim it's their "heritage," few could pass a quiz on the laws and culture of Civil-War era southern states. They embrace a sentimentalized, idealized version of their region's past that never existed.
Valerie Valerate 🏳️⚧️7Nothing says American patriotism quite like a flag from the time when they fought against America
mjteacher.bsky.social6The south today is still rife with Confederate flags all over the place. We drove thru Western Virginia recently and I swear I was going to run into Robert E. Lee any minute. It’s disgusting.
Marc Hershovitz1No one should be surprised by this. The American State Fair is a Donald Trump production. One should expect to see them there.
Magysmiles1Not shocking at all in this neck of the woods
Regina Schrambling 12Only good part is that almost no one was there to see it:
Peliukko🇫🇮🇺🇦4Ongelmia Trumpistanin 250-vuotisen historian juhlamenoissa. Alkuun natsilippuun verrattava Etelävaltioiden lippu poistettiin esiltä ja kehitysmaan tavoin messut alkoivat sähkökatkoilla ja osittain tyhjillä messuosastoilla…
Adam L.3"it was unintentionally included." Sure. That's a thing that totally happens. People unintentionally include unequivocally racist symbols all the time.
calizaybak.bsky.social3Republicans are proud of slavery and want to bring it back is the message here and I think people should believe them to be on the safe side.
Seen a few legacy media vids of Great American State Fair that do report on the almost surreal incompetence of it all but in doing so pan over booths promoting apocalyptic Christian nationalism without comment. Not because they’re for it! Because most reporters don’t get it.
Angel Brownawell17I saw them yesterday and walked by so fast.
Professional Internet Beggar16Treating it as colorful background scenery instead of asking why it's there is exactly how extremism gets normalized.
Cuchulu5This year I have agreed to work Friday-Saturday-Sunday, right thru the 4th holiday. I will celebrate 250 years if, we in fact have kept our republic upon the demise of this regime.
Michael R Lambert1That angel? on the mini arch. L
Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies4A big part of what got us to this point is the mainstream press/media completely ignoring all the shit that was going on in the religious right.
Lisa Kadonaga2A significant point here. Even if the whole spectacle is laughable, it's not a funny situation.
Every piece of straight news reporting on the fucking fair sounds like a slam, I can't get enough
Hemry, Local Bartender140"It really do just suck shit" lol lmao
John19Like, why not? Surely "fair food vendors" was an achievable goal for this?
anthrosciguy.bsky.social7I've been at the mall during the late 50s, the 60s, a lot in the mid 70s, and again in the mid 80s. I've never seen it as uncrowded as in the pictures of the fair. Used to be any weekday summer evening had a half dozen softball games going, along with just people hanging out.
han-shan.bsky.social5I grew up in SW ME. The N. Waterford (pop. 31) World's Fair is miles ahead of this travesty. They have Women Axe Loggers, a pie eating contest and pie competitions, oxen, horse and tractor pulls, 4H, and a bell atop a pole that you could ding with a big hammer. Eat shit, Tubby.
sunbirdie.bsky.social3Still trying to figure out exactly what IS at the fair?
Crows Hate ICE Too2How the fuck do you make a county fair without funnel cake
Rubberband Girl8The annual Catholic Church fundraiser carnival in my town had better food, more rides, and a hell of a lot more people.
𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕱𝖊𝖓2They dont even have funnel cakes.
Schneebs2I mean this on the surface is very very funny until you remember how much money was raised for this or over two years and even more appropriated by Congress and clearly that has all been stolen and nobody is going to say anything about it.
"cosmic enemy" "nicole"2man even a dinky small town fireworks show can hire a funnel cake truck, wtf
Kristin2Just vats of beef tallow?
This is what every picture of the Great American State Fair looks like
Joseph Fink, we're going to win26That looks so much cooler than any photo of it I've seen
Ed Burmila10It looks like this, but if they asked one of their kids to 3D print this in plain white
Brian Manker1That’s Niagara Falls on the Canadian side, the it?
jjsully00.bsky.social1Nah, there’s a few people in this picture.
Looking at pictures of the Trump State Fair and thinking that whenever soulless twats declare that there will be a wonderful attraction, they forget that wonderful attractions require long, passionate work by creative people. You don’t put out some stalls and hope stuff people like piles up on them
Joel Morris27The Millennium Dome. Various Olympic closing ceremonies. The Wonka Experience. Try organising a kids’ party and find out how hard it is to fill a room with decorations. Anyone who’s made stuff knows how hard theatrical effects are to pull off. Making stuff people want to see is HARD.
thethinblackduke.bsky.social3Other than hatred, these creatures are empty vessels, joyless.
Auntee Phở 🫘3That's the way everything works for trump and fellow billionaires. They announce it's going to happen and someone makes it happen. However, trump got rid of the people who know how to plan things and who know the logistics of such a thing. He always thought that just announcing it makes it happen.
I didn't think Trump could outdo his fascist, squeaky-tank parade for its absolute cringeworthy patheticness. But his Great American State Fair is really giving it a run for its money. Happy Birthday America!
bazzlecat.bsky.social67Just tried to get tickets for the Obama Library and sold out until November. Just saying. Must be eating away at trump's brain.
Caryl B.2Perfect! Trump is a disgrace and an embarrassment to this Country. If only the Republicans would admit what a mistake they made and continue making. Trump doesn't give a crap about anyone but himself. Republicans have shown themselves to be feckless sycophants who truly don't care about their voters