Witnessed Trump's speech at the Des Moines fairgrounds with thousands, perhaps 20K+ (based on a talk to a vendor that travels to all the events). It was a major event just based on the number of vendors and porta-potties (counted 40 in one of the two rows). Trump said his rallies are now bigger than ever, after the election. I know why. It's unusual for people to be engaged right after an election, but times are desperate.
Trump is as sharp as ever, and support what I heard. He talked about the election being stolen in detail (which I love all the details, which makes me a nerd I guess). He went over the AZ Maricopa County audit where they found a thousands of different classifications of possible illegal ballots, more than enough to overturn the state. He talked about most of the other contested states too. It is clear that election was stolen and laws need to be changed / enforced to make sure it doesn't happen again. He's keeping the heat on the Republicans, as he must, to make elections are secure and trustworthy. This might need to be the number one issue, simply because many people won't vote again if they don't think their vote counts. He knows that (and so do the Democrats with HR1 and sneaking stuff into the funding bills) and so this must be fought now, or we will be one-party-ruled socialist (or really communist) state.
He talked about the Afghanistan surrender and said it the worst debacle in American history (it is so infuriating and I can see it, foreign policy-wise as it could go down after we see an uptick in terrorism and major 911 events). He said we shouldn't give the Taliban billions of aid, at least, not until they return all our military equipment and our hostages. Wow, that is something you don't hear and it's very important, since when do we not care about hundreds of Americans trapped behind enemy lines? The Taliban are using them, and/or will, as leverage.
He talked about the Biden economy, energy independence (which we had and now lost under Biden), and restoring our schools and military (to replace CRT with patriotic American teachings). He addressed protecting the unborn (opposing federal funding of abortion) too. He said we have lost our first amendment, which if you consider the public square is online, he's right for many. We need to get that back!
When the volume dropped before Trump came out, I was a part of a my 1st "Let's Go Brandon" chant! I even tried to start my own "Let's Go Brandon" chant but just got a lot of laughs as I only yelled it once.
He did criticize Biden for his handling of Covid as we have more deaths under him with the vaccine than before. I didn't know that. I didn't like that he didn't specifically talk about the Biden EO and vaccine mandates for companies and government, but he did make some general statements about people should be free. We should not be dictated to by the government or big tech companies. That ending part sent us off very encouraged and hopeful that we have to fight for our rights, and we have a leader.
Sounds like he will run again in 2024 (but I guess can't announce for campaign laws). I do want him to be primared but those would be probably going for VP. So since I think he's running, I got some cheap 2020 Trump shirts and a Trump 2024 hat (I hadn't bought any gear before that).
What a sunset!
