Posted on 10/28/2019 1:14:44 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
The booing of an American president at the World Series game that happened in Washington, DC Sunday night is not a negative for the rest of America, but a positive. It is especially a positive for those of us who live out here in what the east-and-west-coast elites derisively refer to as “flyover country, that great, vast middle 80% of the lower 48 states that turned into a veritable sea of red on Election Day, 2016.
You may wonder why the booing of a sitting POTUS by any crowd could ever be seen as a positive thing, but that’s because you’re likely unclear about who was doing the booing. First, let’s go back to this laughable contention about the crowds at Nationals Park put out by the Democrat activists at Politico Monday morning:
Nats Park is perhaps one of the only gathering places in town that draws Republicans and Democrats in equal measure — but his box was all red.
Now, let’s remember that in the 2016 presidential election, the District of Columbia, home to Nationals Park, favored Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 96% to 4% margin. And no, that is not a typo. NINETY-SIX PERCENT of D.C. voters cast their lot with the Pantsuit Princess.
Thus, the contention that Nationals Park somehow “draws Republicans and Democrats in equal measure” is exactly as I described it in this morning’s Campaign Update: A smelly load of abject horse manure. If nothing else, the arithmetic simply does not support the specious assertion.
But it’s even more than that. See, the seats at Nationals Park are very expensive, and thus aren’t mainly occupied by just any old D.C. residents. As is the case in any city hosting a professional sports franchise, a very large percentage of those very expensive seats are purchased by corporations and wealthy folks who have business interests in the local community.
In Washington, DC, all of those corporations and business interests employ lobbyists who determine how those very expensive tickets are doled out. Guess who they go to? They go to the people being lobbied, and to the professional peers and colleagues of the lobbyists.
Thus, the crowd that roundly booed the President of the United States of America at Sunday night’s Astros/Nationals game was largely made up of the DC professional political class; the lobbyists, the lawyers, the congressional and campaign staffers, the company executives, the advertising geeks and digital media geeks and all the myriad other professionals who make their livings making sure that the DC Swamp remains very, very swampy.
In other words, the very group of people who Candidate Donald Trump rendered utterly irrelevant throughout the 2016 campaign. Donald Trump’s presidency is a threat to that entrenched DC permanent political class – is it any wonder then that they hate him so much that they chant “Lock him up!” when appears before them at a World Series game?
Many fans of the President are angry over that insult, but they should all be rejoicing. Because that booing was as clear a confirmation we could ever hope to receive that the guy we elected in 2016 is continuing to focus on doing what he was elected to do: Drain the DC Swamp. Threatened people boo. Angry people boo.
Those of us who live out here in the great Red middle of this great nation want the folks who make up the preponderance of that Sunday night crowd to feel perpetually threatened and angry. It’s when that particular class of people stands up and cheers for a President that we should be concerned.
Sunday, the day the leader of ISIS was killed by a U.S. military operation, was a great day for America. The reaction the President received at Nationals Park only made it that much better.
That is all.
It was an awesome moment. America being boo-ed by the deep state gubmint employees who know how to win, but instead chose to lose in 3 straight games at home. Go Houston!
I was just enjoying the baseball, no team in this one.
Now I can’t wait for the Astros to finish off the Nationals.
Go Houston!
The Astros fans wouldn’t have booed Pres. DJT
Will President Trump attend one of the Houston games?
If there were any blacks there booing him that’d be racist.
Bump
I concur. Go Astros.
Open question for all freepers. Why don’t the baseball players kneel and protest the USA?
I hope he appears on the jumbotron, and declares America to be the greatest country, and Texas to be America’s greatest state, and let the best team win! That would be awesome. Of course CNN would report “most Houstonians boo-ing”, but who the F- cares. Go Astros (from a former Nats fan who is disillusioned by their lame fan base, e.g. Chrissy Wallace and Bret Baier, called out by Joe Buck. Barf.
Many of them come from someplace else and are grateful to be here.
Same here. I care for NEITHER team but now I’m motivated to care about Houston..and they’re in the same division as my team.
I dont think it affected Trump either. He knew what he was getting into and expected it.
From the beginning of his entry into politics Donald Trump has had and continues to have all the right enemies.
Yep. I remember when Reagan was president. The Swamp disliked him a lot too, but it was nowhere near the visceral level of pure hatred they have for Trump. I think Nixon was probably the only one who came even close.
I was there.
I couldn’t have been more embarrassed for my country than in that moment.
Democrats suck the fun out of and ruin everything they come into contact with.
Greek Trader from twitter was in his box or close to it. He posted a pick of Trump and Melania. I will see if I can find it again.
Before that happens I hope the President takes in a game in Houston. The contrast would be instructive.
I can't directly comment on the Trump booing as I did not have the game on at that time.
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