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Monday’s Forum
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So – those enthusiastic supporters you see at Trump’s rallies:
They pre-screen at the door who they let in, only Trump supporters.
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blockquote>HOYLE: No, a few minutes later, the Secret Service came up and said they wanted to talk to me, and I said, about what? And they didn’t identify themselves as Secret Service, and I’m the type of guy—I don’t know who you are. Go away from me, dude. I got stuff to do here. So anyway, they said, can we talk to you for a minute? I said yeah, you’re talking. Go right ahead. And the guy said, we want to talk over here. I said, well I don’t want to go over there. And then the guy said, well, we do. I said, who’s we? And they were all—you know, I’m not a small person. That video probably doesn’t relay it, but I’m probably about 6’2”, 210 pounds. And I said, well, I don’t want to go anywhere with you. Then the guy said he’s with Secret Service, and I said, oh, is this about the concession stand? and he said, what’d you do at the concession stand? I said nothing, but it was closed super early and I’m starving. And uh, he didn’t like that. And then they walked me out.
And then the gentleman [at the front door] who tried to weed me out on the way in the door by asking me some questions—I talked him out of keeping me out of the event just by talking in circles about heavy metal and about my shirt—well, that guy was walking in as I was walking out after I was ejected, and I said, “Hey man, you didn’t vet me too well,” and I kept walking. So they may not have him do their security in the future.
KABAS: What was he asking you?
HOYLE: He said, well, are you a Trump supporter? I said, I’m a supporter of the Constitution. I love this country. Where are you going with this line of questioning? Who are you? He didn’t have a uniform. He was a private security guy, just a meathead. He goes, well, my job was to vet people with these things. I said, what about Death [the band]? What do you know about death metal? And that’s when I just talked him in circles, and he said, oh, I don’t really know about that group. And I gave him my schpiel on the roots of Florida death metal. I told him that Chuck Schuldiner, God rest his soul, was a god in the heavy metal world.
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For the fractionally small percentage of national voters who pay attention to this stuff, Haley Stevens gave a masterclass on how to destroy yourself in an interview on CNN last night. I mean, this wasn’t just an own goal, this was setting herself up in front of her own net with a bagful of balls and then just kicking them in one after another, and her goalie wasn’t even on the field. About halfway through I started wondering how exactly this came about. It’s like she came onto he Anderson Cooper show with a detailed plan on how she was going to combat his “fake news” and she just started swinging wildly as soon as he asked his opening question. I think that’s what might have happened – she had a battle plan playing over and over in her head where the bloody fanged Cooper was trying to tear her down and she was going to get him off balance and flailing. She never listened or thought about a single one of his questions (heck, it was a 15 minute interview and I think 10 minutes of it was the same question) and instead responded to the made up exchange she had running full speed in her head.
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