Trump Supporters Trawl Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Looking To Turn Bikers Into Voters | Talking Points Memo

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — It’s a Friday night at a crowded biker bar in South Dakota when Chris Cox, founder of Bikers for Trump, takes the stage. While many have come to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally for some combination of riding and partying, Cox’s focus is on something else: voting.


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As members of the predominantly male audience removed their hats, one bartender who was topless except for a pair of strategically placed American flag stickers performed the Star-Spangled Banner in sign language.

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Cox also tried to brush aside criticism of Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Cox called it a “plandemic, not a pandemic,” (suggesting a misguided notion that the coronavirus crisis is politically motivated and will disappear.)

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That message may resonate with some bikers, who echoed the sentiment that the coronavirus is not as serious as health experts have warned.

If you’re going to get it, you’re going to get it,” said Linda Harrison, who came from Ohio. “Deal with it.”

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“Turning bikers into voters could prove difficult.”

Especially dead ones.

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Well there’s a bunch of Trump voters who won’t be alive on election day. Or if they are they will still be on ventilators in the ICU.

To judge by the size of the ones I’ve seen.

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I’m beginning to wonder which social group is more ignorant: Great White fans or bikers who are likely Great White fans.

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I know the answer: The womenfriends of Great White fans and of bikers who are likely Great White fans.

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Don’t worry. Trump has Kushner and Barr on the case to get the dead voting Trump 2020.

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S–t got so real that ex member Jack Russell literally disavowed his former bandmates.

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The same Great White that killed a bunch of hair metal fans in Rhode Island by lighting pyrotechnics in a small low-ceiling club? That Great White? My my my.

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Probably, but they split

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I think we all died inside the day COVID closed Golden Corral.

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No matter how many times I see that picture, it still blows my hair back.

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And my lunch upward. Put your shirt back on, Venus of Willendorf.

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Eet 'tis written.

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Welp. There’s gonna be a lotta karma with COVID. Go ahead, gather in a bar and sing together, the #1 worst transmitting activity there is.

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Instant whiskey dick, but without the whiskey.

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Ya can stick it on yer boobies, but ya can’t burn it!

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Make any man wish for celibacy.