Posted on 07/02/2023 8:11:24 PM PDT by Perseverando
Damage in the aftermath of yesterday’s storm
Shortly after President Trump finished yesterday’s stump speech, a freak storm wrecked the small town of Pickens, South Carolina.
Trees were uprooted, and roofs were blown away. One day later, the power has yet to be fully restored while nearly all 3,126 residents have a hand in cleaning up.
But considering the way a crowd of 50,000 welcomed Sen. Lindsey Graham to the stage yesterday, the latest forecasting suggests bad weather has only just begun for the political establishment in the Palmetto State.
“It was an odd, wild storm that only touched two counties,” explains Film Director and friend Andrew Mullinax in a Sunday afternoon phone call, “Here in Pickens County and Greenville County — where Trump’s plane landed and took off.”
Mullinax says the freak storm blew in just about an hour after Trump took off — leading his more conspiratorial mind to wonder if it was because someone modified the weather.
“It tore the whole town up,” Mullinax says while laughing at my suggestion the storm resulted from a MAGA rain dance, “There are trees down everywhere. For just a 10-minute storm, it was monstrous.”
I called the outgoing Chair of the Pickens Republican Party, Tim Bruce, and asked for his perspective on the inclement weather event.
“The storm we had afterward?” Bruce asks in playful response, “Or the storm we had before?”
The storm before is at the forefront of conversation in Republican Pickens — the result of a massive Trump rally that nearly booed Senator Lindsey Graham into the next state.
“It was funny,” Bruce explains, “I was watching what looked like 80-year-old ladies who were standing out there in the heat, and they were just giving him down the country, booing him.”
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As long as SC has open primaries, linda has a job for life. And she knows it.
The legislature has been making vague, meek moves towards closing the primaries. But as long as the primaries are open, linda will, unfortunately, be around.
Not to worry hannity and jesse will dry up his tears on the next interview
Yep. Open Primaries keep Linda and those like him in office.
When is SC going to close their Primaries?
HILLARIOUS!!!
Linda can’t afford to DISS PEDO JOE because PEDO JOE will REVEAL Linda’s SECRETS!
Open primaries enable the uniparty
It’s the same here in NH.
“..Open primaries..”
any chance the legislature would change it back to straight party primaries????
“any chance the legislature would change it back to straight party primaries????”
Can’t speak for SC politics, but, in general, why would a bunch of RINOs running a state legislature change the rules to empower conservatives? The only way to change this crap is from the bottom-up, with MAGAs winning precincts then legislative seats.
Graham knows the base hated him and he knows the rats will save him in the primary.
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