Upon first reading this tweet, one thinks it’s a joke. The response is something like, “Ha! They may as well, jackasses.” And then you realize that it is real and it becomes “deadly” serious. How can this possibly happen in the United States? How far are we prepared to fall? This is the president leading lemmings over a cliff!!

Here is the tweet, and we’ll analyze what is happening down below:

Many of the seats at Trump’s speech tonight at Mount Rushmore are being ziptied together, guaranteeing no social distancing for scores of people attending the event. Discussing all of this and more on @CNNSitRoom this evening. Filling in for Wolf. pic.twitter.com/Rg16nPvX4p

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 3, 2020

For what purpose would one “zip-tie” seats together? Well, according to The Washington Post, it’s for fire safety reasons:

The Mount Rushmore event, with 7,500 expected to attend, was not staged to ensure social distancing, as folding chairs were zip-tied together for fire safety reasons, CNN reported ahead of Trump’s arrival. He has continued to downplay concerns of the pandemic, saying Wednesday that the virus would “just disappear.”

People are people, and deep inside, there is a preservation instinct among most of us. Upon arriving at this event, they will see chairs set out. The chairs are folding chairs that are easily moved. Thus, people being people, would likely put some space between themselves and the people around them. They might even do it subconsciously. There is an epidemic sweeping the nation, after all.

But apparently Donald Trump and whoever is in charge of this specific event doesn’t want the cameras showing people spreading out. Apparently, Donald Trump wants a “better show,” one where people are so enthusiastic to see Trump speak, and so sick of being “PC” and worrying about COVID, that they’re all hungrily sitting together, cheering on their god.

That’s basically the only real explanation, the only takeaway. Thankfully, the event is outside and the research has shown that being outdoors makes a huge difference. But tying the seats together takes away many of the advantages of being outside! They might as well be at a football game.

Trump’s vanity and need to manipulate the country’s economy (that is what he’s really trying to do, get people to simply act as if nothing is happening), is going to lead to many more cases, and thus inevitably to more deaths. Herman Cain is in a hospital bed tonight, battling COVID and it may well be traced back to the fact that Cain was in Tulsa, without a mask.

I hope the cultists find it to be a life-changing experience because that could easily be what they’re in for.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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