{"id":175905,"date":"2020-10-28T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/28\/there-is-a-metaphor-here-and-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T22:52:00","slug":"there-is-a-metaphor-here-and-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/28\/there-is-a-metaphor-here-and-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is a Metaphor Here \u2026\u2026\u2026 and a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump held a campaign rally in Nebraska, at Omaha\u2019s Eppley Airfield, and because of a shortage of buses and traffic congestion his supporters were left on the tarmac in freezing weather for hours<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At least 5 of the MAGAts were hospitalized for exposure:<\/p>\n

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By the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha\u2019s Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing.<\/p>\n

But as long lines of MAGA-clad attendees queued up for buses to take them to distant parking lots, it quickly became clear something was wrong.<\/p>\n

The buses, the huge crowd soon learned, couldn\u2019t navigate the jammed airport roads. For hours, attendees \u2014 including many elderly Trump supporters \u2014 stood in the cold as police scrambled to help those most at risk get to warmth, and some were taken to hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

By the end of the night, 30 people needed medical attention, Omaha police spokesman Michael Pecha said, though that was over the course of the event. Seven were taken to hospitals \u201cwith a variety of medical conditions.\u201d It was not immediately clear how many of those were related to the lengthy wait.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

After Trump\u2019s speech, in which he promised that \u201cwe\u2019re making that final turn\u201d on the pandemic in a state where positivity rates exceed 20 percent, per the World-Herald, Trump flew away on Air Force One around 9 p.m. Attendees began lining up for buses to return to their cars.<\/p>\n

By nearly 10:30 p.m., though, they were still waiting.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

The crowds didn\u2019t fully clear the rally site until after 12:30 a.m. \u2014 more than 3\u00bd hours after Trump departed. A spokeswoman at one hospital network, CHI Health, told The Post that five people were treated \u201cwith minor complaints\u201d at the nearby by Creighton University Medical Center. She declined to release additional information.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cSupporters of the President were brought in, but buses weren\u2019t able to get back to transport people out. It\u2019s freezing and snowy in Omaha tonight,\u201d tweeted Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt (D)<\/a>. \u201cHe truly does not care about you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Seriously, you cannot make this sh%$ up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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