The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Finally, Accountability for Jan. 6 Is Pounding on Trump's Door

Pride Always Comes Before the Fall

www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

The case began when he targeted a BBC Panorama documentary called “Trump: A Second Chance.”

The film edited excerpts from his January 6, 2021 speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., stitching together clips out of sequence. Trump claimed the edit falsely implied he had directly incited the violence that followed.

The BBC admitted the edit was “an error of judgment” and issued a public apology. But it refused to back down. Its lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the entire case, then launched an aggressive discovery campaign that could put January 6 itself on trial.

Trump didn’t just file a lawsuit. He handed the BBC a loaded gun.

 

[Free]

It doesn't look like attendance records will come close to a regular state fair.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Trump must be furious right now.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It doesn't look like attendance records will come close to a regular state fair.

Not that I'm particularly familiar with state fairs, for obvious reasons, but it seems to me that people are likely to want to attend local Independence Day celebrations with their family, friends and neighbours, rather than make a special trip to DC, particular since the Freedom 250 events are so politicised, and will similarly prefer to attend their own local state or county fairs whenever they are held.

 

[Free]

it seems to me that people are likely to want to attend local Independence Day celebrations with their family, friends and neighbours, rather than make a special trip to DC, particular since the Freedom 250 events are so policised, and will similarly prefer to attend their own local state or county fairs whenever they are held.

Hence why the whole idea of having an event like this was stupid from the beginning.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court

SOMETIMES the court does the right thing.

 

[Free]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court

Paywalled. (Though there's not much to the story atm on CNN's site.)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court

View article without paywall

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[Noodles]

Not that I'm particularly familiar with state fairs, for obvious reasons, but it seems to me that people are likely to want to attend local Independence Day celebrations with their family, friends and neighbours, rather than make a special trip to DC, particular since the Freedom 250 events are so policised, and will similarly prefer to attend their own local state or county fairs whenever they are held.

Yeah, most of the time I can't even be assed to travel to the Illinois State Fair 45 mimutes away in Springfield, and I am pretty sure we have one of the better state fairs, and I like going there just to see the silly farm animals and to visit the Conservation World booths.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Ohio and Texas both have a competition going over who will have the higher attendance. It is a pretty big deal here. But a lot of it is 4H and farm competitions, so attendance is driven by not just rides and exhibitions (there are a lot more rides at a typical State Fair than they have on the Mall), but also by state ag contests and musical acts. The State Fair circuit is usually past-their-prime acts, but still has a better selection than the abandoned concerts in DC. Ohio has Styx, Allison Kraus, Weird AL, Gin Blossoms, and Blues Travelers this year (among others). So it's closer, has more local interest, and a lot more for different audiences to see and do.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Small detail -- county and state fairs happen in the fall, mainly for reasons any farm kid understands, but also so attendees don't unnecessarily inconvenience anyone by dying of heatstroke.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

In Ohio it's June and July. Looks like Oregon has them on July. Heatstroke builds character.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Most of what I know of state fairs comes from my friend in Massachusetts, but since she tends to return from their state fair muttering about her theory that overindulgence in deep-fried foods affects both intelligence and DNA, and how this explains a lot about the western parts of the Commonwealth, I'm not sure she's a completely unbiased informant.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Most of what I know of state fairs comes from my friend in Massachusetts, but since she tends to return from their state fair muttering about her theory that overindulgence in deep-fried foods affects both intelligence and DNA, and how this explains a lot about the western parts of the Commonwealth, I'm not sure she's a completely unbiased informant.

Ohio claims to have invented deep fried butter. Other states dispute this. I am not sure how this reflects on American fairs.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Ohio claims to have invented deep fried butter. Other states dispute this. I am not sure how this reflects on American fairs.

Imagine not only admitting you invented such an abomination but FIGHTING over it.

 

[Free]

Small detail -- county and state fairs happen in the fall, mainly for reasons any farm kid understands, but also so attendees don't unnecessarily inconvenience anyone by dying of heatstroke.

Spoilsports.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[detrius]

Not that I'm particularly familiar with state fairs, for obvious reasons, but it seems to me that people are likely to want to attend local Independence Day celebrations with their family, friends and neighbours, rather than make a special trip to DC, particular since the Freedom 250 events are so politicised, and will similarly prefer to attend their own local state or county fairs whenever they are held.

Last month in the grand boulevard that was originally constructed to host the parades of East Germany's May Day parades:


It's an annual festival.

Over 1 million visitors in 2026.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Last month in the grand boulevard that was originally constructed to host the parades of East Germany's May Day parades:


It's an annual festival.

Over 1 million visitors in 2026.

Yes, and the three day Notting Hill Carnival in London regularly attracts between one and two million visitors every year, but it's not the same as state fairs, since it's not competing with local carnivals all over the rest of the country.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

lol the attendance is so dire. Here's a video of Oz giving a talk on the main stage and the camera helpfully turns around to show the "crowd".