This was the "crowd" JD Vance was able to attract today in Sparta, Michigan

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Amy Siskind 🏳️?🌈
This was the "crowd" JD Vance was able to attract today in Sparta, Michigan. He was the key for them in the Midwest 😅😂. Sad.

OMG!

[senseandsensibility]

1. I think it was Ron Filipkowski who asked

is this someone's garage?

[2naSalit]

10. Pole barn...

If it was any narrower I'd have guessed they were inside a refrigerated semi trailer! Those are only 12ft wide.

[SheltieLover]

31. Pffffft!

Good one! LOL But true.

I think beardo is trying to rival Ghouliani for the 4 seasons landscaping debacle.

[StClone]

38. Yes, they moved out the stored RVs and antique cars.

[canetoad]

63. I'm glad someone is saying

What I thought I saw but was too embarrassed to ask.

[2naSalit]

65. ...

[Joinfortmill]

2. Loser!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Looks more like a Double wide shipping container to me.

Size matters when one has the money to afford SIZE.

[MizLibby]

11. Well, This sounds nice

Welcome to Apple Valley Events
We are a new barn venue with a mission to serve the community in providing an event space for celebrations of all kinds!

Conveniently located on the corner of M37 and 12 Mile Rd in the heart of the ridge. Open our roll up garage doors and enjoy the fresh air & one of a kind sunset views in Sparta, MI.

Weekday Events
Offering a variety of rental options including 2, 4, 6 and 8 hours. Hourly pricing dependent on guest count. Tables and chairs provided.

Starting at $300

[niyad]

30. It does not look too bad from the outside, but looks somewhat in the

middle of nowhere.

[japple]

37. Do they provide the sawdust and roped off area for the bull judging events?

Asking for a friend.

[DENVERPOPS]

57. Perfect Venue for Him

A barn with the floor covered in BULLSHIT.........

[Lochloosa]

5. Four Seasons Self Storage?

[EarthFirst]

6. All eleventy of them? nt

[gab13by13]

8. Where was it held?

Inside a shipping container?

[niyad]

32. See post 11. It is a "new barn venue". They did not exactly shell out

the big bucks for this space.

[Wednesdays]

9. My church's pot luck dinner draws a bigger crowd than that

And I wonder how many of those were locals?

[Xavier Breath]

45. Maybe JD should start bringing hot dish to these things.

[Wednesdays]

47. Yup!

[TBF]

78. Everyone from small towns knows that when you want people to come you serve food -

or at least do a potluck. But he's not really from the country - he's a fake.

[Think. Again.]

12. How embarrassing.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. THAT's a big trailer!

Gotta fit, what, 200 people? OK. 120 people?

[niyad]

34. A barn, actually. see post 11.

[Kid Berwyn]

74. When in Sparta, do as the Spartans do.

Link to tweet

[ybbor]

59. Website says 300

For assembly, 200 dining.

Huuuuggge

[GreenWave]

66. Methinks they are confusing ancient Sparta vs. the Persians.

300 again?

[Kid Berwyn]

75. Weird.

Normally the place is rockin!

[bif]

14. Pretty spartan!

[Pinback]

28. Heh heh.

Didn’t expect to scroll so far before seeing this!

[royable]

16. There were tens of people there!

Not counting the kids on stage. And probably at least half of those attending were parents of the kids on stage, and they wouldn’t have been there otherwise.
So perhaps it’s safer to say that there were fives of people there to see JV Dunce

[SomedayKindaLove]

56. But that's not counting

The 20,000 turned away

[Tommy Carcetti]

17. I guess this is what the inside of Four Seasons Total Landscaping looks like. nt

[CoopersDad]

18. Not shitting you, look at the location!

It's Chad Momber's place. Well, his barn.

2124 12 Mile Road
Sparta, mi 49345

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.146451,-85.7240182,3a,60y,161.72h,85.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjX_-4bOQh39VwGh6lErtjA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D


https://maps.app.goo.gl/heHcpoEioES96ypy5

[niyad]

35. Who is chad momber?

[CoopersDad]

62. Chad is a used car salesman. Yup.

https://www.mombersales.com/

Mostly trucks.

[niyad]

72. Thank you.

[Wednesdays]

48. They're calling it a barn. I call it a large shed.

There's a health center across the street from it with at least five times the square footage!

[yellowcanine]

19. There could be 200 people there! Counting the ones on the stage.

[JCMach1]

20. That's bad... I had larger crowds at my events when I ran for Florida Legislature in 2002

[LisaM]

21. I am from Michigan and I had never heard of Sparta.

The only reason I had heard about Potterville (where Trump went) was because our high school played them sometimes.

[catbyte]

25. It's in northern Kent County about 14 miles north of Grand Rapids.

[yardwork]

39. I know that area! I have family up that way.

That's deep red country. If that's all Vance can attract in Kent County, they're in deep trouble.

[rurallib]

41. Grand Rapids is a substantial sized city (200,000) but

doesn't look like anyone made a 14 mile trip to see the next VP (sarcasm folks).

Even Spartan itself should have provided a bigger crowd - JD is Just-a-Dud

[MiHale]

27. Sparta is famous cuz my SIL used to live there...

Loved her…Covid took her away…trumper…probably knew half of them there.

[Sky Jewels]

22. Remember Lieberman's Joementum?

This is JD AdVancement.

[SpankMe]

23. I estimate fewer than 200 people in that picture

Still, that's a lot of assholes.

[catbyte]

24. WOW. The Sparta area is the Michissippi of Kent County.

I also close enough to Grand Rapids that there should've been more MAGAts than that, although the city has been trending blue. This makes me hopeful. And it's hilarious.

[liberalla]

26. I can just *feel* the excitement in that barn!

[Freethinker65]

29. It is in a pretty rural area. Still only a 30 minute drive from Grand Rapids tho.

Reaching out to small communities in Michigan that are already overwhelmingly pro Trump seems a bit of a waste of campaign money. Did Trump get a cut of the pole barn rental?

Thing is, Vance is horrible at even staged beforehand small town business/diner visits, this is pretty much expected. A bit surprised they couldn't pay some people from nearby cities or even Grand Rapids to show up to pretend support.

[Deminpenn]

33. Literally held in a garage

Literally

[niyad]

36. No, an actual barn. see post 11.

[Wednesdays]

51. A barn in name only.

I call it a large shed.

[Sneederbunk]

40. Have the Park Service do a count.

[keithbvadu2]

58. Sean Spicer could bump up that count. At least a half million.

[Devilsun]

42. Crowd Control

Better leave the crowd control to the experts! 🙄

[calimary]

43. Strategic crowd and photo placement.

That’s one trick. When you realize you’re only getting a few hundred people for your rally, just move the rally’s location accordingly. It may be a smaller event, but you can make it LOOK like a big crowd.

[0rganism]

44. Did he get top billing vs. the puppet show?

IYKYK

[Seinan Sensei]

46. Rethug venues are shrinking

From a stadium
To a pole-barn
To a jail-cell

[twodogsbarking]

49. Did they leave their white hoods in their trucks?

[Beartracks]

50. Is it true that MAGAs are like roaches - for every 1 you see, there's 100 more nearby?

OR... is it more true that conservatives in general, and MAGA in particular, are simply WAY over-represented, over-polled, and overly fawned over in this country's media and electoral politics?

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[SupportSanity]

52. They all fit in a semi?

[liberal N proud]

53. Small venue to make crowd appear larger

[Diamond_Dog]

54. They'd get more attendees if they had a cow patty bingo after his speech...

[sarge43]

64. No Trump uber allis signs. Spent all the money on the venue?

Beat me to the cow patty bingo. Well, how about a rubber chicken flinging contest?

[Diamond_Dog]

73. At the very least!

[C Moon]

55. It Sparta Michigan they'll soon wanna forget.

[keithbvadu2]

60. Did Vantz have bulletproof glass? After all, they are republicans.

[Docreed2003]

61. Pretty sure I could hold a bigger rally in my neighborhood tonight!

If I made a few calls and had friends call their friends, I'm certain we could get a crowd bigger than this together in short order.

[tinrobot]

67. Couldn't even get 300 Spartans

And he expects to win the Battle of Thermopylae?

[Qutzupalotl]

68. Sparse-a

[hatrack]

69. THIS IS SPARTA - AND NO ONE CARES!!!!!

[DFW]

70. If this keeps up

In a couple of weeks, he‘ll have trouble filling a phone booth.

[WhiteTara]

71. what a diverse crowd!

they range from 30s to 80s....all white of course.

[OAITW r.2.0]

76. But it was Standing Room Only!

[marble falls]

77. An' half them fellers thought they was at the sale barn biddin' on some feeder calves.