Current Events > Please Clap: A Trump Rally Lesson in Fascism

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrWalterShapiro/status/1038261569635921925

https://bit.ly/2wRROJg

Billings West High School senior Tyler Linfesty learned Thursday morning during first period that he had been selected for VIP treatment at President Donald J. Trump's rally at MetraPark.

Linfesty had applied for tickets to the rally earlier in the week. After earning VIP treatment, he went to tell his friends.

Fellow seniors Erik Hovland and Christian Dunlap were walking to class when Linfesty "approached us in the hallway looking pretty frantic, talking about how he gets the opportunity to get a picture with the president," Hovland said.

Linfesty reached out to the Trump campaign and told them he was planning on bringing friends. He said they told him they would save three seats for them.

Not long after Trump took the podium Thursday night at MetraPark, social media cued into Linfesty's puzzled facial expressions, visible just over Trump's right shoulder.

All three West seniors were ultimately asked to vacate their seats midway through the event by people they believe are Trump campaign staffers. By the end of the rally, the 17-year-olds achieved viral fame on social media.

"I didn't really have a plan," Linfesty said. "I was just going to clap for things I agreed with and not clap for things I didn't agree with."

"I'm still pretty nervous about it because I don't want people to take one instance of me not being super enthusiastic at a Trump rally to define me as a person," Hovland said.

Though the group's lack of enthusiasm was evident at times, all three did clap at various points during Trump's speech.

"I saw this woman walking toward me on the left," he said. "She just said to me, 'I'm going to replace you.'"

He was escorted to a back room where police and Secret Service looked at his ID and then after about 10 minutes told him he could leave, Linfesty said. He said he didn't feel mistreated at all during the encounter with police and Secret Service.

"They treated me fine," he said. "They just told me not to come back."

A few minutes later another woman the trio believes is a campaign staffer replaced Hovland and Dunlap.

"She talked to me and she said like, 'OK, you can go now,'" Dunlap said. "And I was like 'What?' And then she said 'You can go join your friend.' So I grabbed my stuff and, like, shuffled out of there, and then they started smiling and waving, you know."

They were also escorted out of the arena by law enforcement and eventually shown the door.

Really showing how much Trump love free speech.
---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur1bjqQ5ceA" data-time="
---

If you're on camera you gotta clap no matter what the person says.

This is how you do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNTwYQGeWow" data-time="
---

he only hires the best supporters

TomNook20 posted...

If you're on camera you gotta clap no matter what the person says.

This is how you do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNTwYQGeWow" data-time="

We're talking about Trump and his rally. Don't deflect.
---

I think you need to learn the difference between a petty bitch move and fascism.
---

Tmaster148 posted...

We're talking about Trump and his rally. Don't deflect.

We're talking about how to behave if you're on camera at a rally. Stop trying to suppress my free speech.
---

My parents watched that rally. Apparently, trump staff kept kicking out people and replacing them if they were on camera behind trump. I told my mother that if I was at that rally, I would have brought a strap on dildo with me, affixed it to my forehead and pointed at trump with one hand while jerking off said dildo with the other while on camera just for lulz, knowing I would quickly be kicked out. She laughed.
---

TomNook20 posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

We're talking about Trump and his rally. Don't deflect.

We're talking about how to behave if you're on camera at a rally. Stop trying to suppress my free speech.

Make your own topic about Hillary.
---

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

My parents watched that rally. Apparently, trump staff kept kicking out people and replacing them if they were on camera behind trump. I told my mother that if I was at that rally, I would have brought a strap on dildo with me, affixed it to my forehead and pointed at trump with one hand while jerking off said dildo with the other while on camera just for lulz, knowing I would quickly be kicked out. She laughed.

Speaking of.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6144281/President-Trump-staffers-eject-mocking-millennial-sullen-couple-block-nose-wiping-girl-rally.html
---

Tmaster148 posted...

Make your own topic about Hillary.

Stop derailing your own topic.
---

At this rate, "fascist" is going to carry as little weight as "racist". Which word will be next?
---

This is like the least fascist thing he's done though.
---

tennisdude818 posted...

At this rate, "fascist" is going to carry as little weight as "racist". Which word will be next?

sexist, rapist and marxist, liberals are making it very easy to for the people who are actually those things to fly under the rader as they keep virtual signaling crap like this.
---

There's a lot of people here who think that detaining people for not being enthusiastic enough about the president isn't fascist.
---