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Back from The Trumpening - the venue seats 5,000 people and they had standing-room only. A lot more than 5,000 - guessing more like 7,000 with more turned away. The first speaker did a very brief warmup but mentioned that this gathering exceeded all previous records for number of people at this venue. Here are some photos:

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Nice truck (despite being a Dodge).

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Here is the back of the line. As I was walking to the line, I saw that the grandstand was about half full. The event was scheduled for 3:00PM and I was there two hours early.

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Here I am about ninety minutes later looking back at the line and it is just as long.

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There were maybe about 150 protesters. The delightful thing was that they were mostly in favor of Bernie Sanders - only one or two of them visibly supported Hillary. 

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Like I said, standing room only. Nice peaceful crowd. The Secret Service ran the security checkpoints and these guys were smooth - zero bullshit, zero hassles. I called out to the guy on the other side of the scanner that I had an artificial hip and he motioned me aside and wanded me and fifteen seconds later, I was on my way. What was really curious was the number of folding seats, camera tripods, water bottles, etc. left by the security gate - the ticket specifically said that these items would not be allowed in the venue.

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Security was really good. These are professionals at work. And I do photoshop from time to time - a composite image...

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Oh Yeah. This guy gave a hell of a speech - very articulate and he read from some prepared notes, nary a TelePrompTer in sight. It was nice in that he had been briefed on the issues of Whatcom County. A bit of extra effort but much appreciated. He spoke earlier today in Spokane, WA so a different set of talking points/speech for there.

I left after about an hour - figured I would watch the last bit of the speech on YouTube and beat the traffic (fast forward to 8:30) heading home.

All in all, a fun outing and I feel a lot better about voting for this man to be our next President. Bernie is not going to get the nomination no matter how much people want and I would not mind a Sanders presidency - his heart is in the right place. The problem is that the fix is in with the Clintons. They are dirty beyond belief.

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