Flash in the Pan

On Friday's show, I talked about another fine Minnesota Republican who seems to be losing it in the Age of Trump, Leilani Holmstadt.  Holmstadt, the GOP candidate for SD54, sounded like a complete idiot when she went after the League of Women Voters on her Facebook page, insisting they're actually some stealth Liberal group, and allowed a litany of misogynistic and disgusting comments to be made about the women of the LWV underneath her post, comments she must agree with because she left them up on her Facebook page.  BlueStem Prairie had the original story, and a follow up where Holmstadt gets taken to the woodshed by the LWV.  Here are the two links for the stories:

http://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2016/10/find-a-rendering-plant-mngop-senate-hopefuls-facebook-pals-take-low-road-on-lwv.html

http://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2016/10/league-of-women-voters-minnesota-responds-to-leilani-holmstadts-facebook-flame-attack.html

Leilani has fallen under my radar this election cycle, because I've been dealing with Republicans who don't live in their district, who post racist memes on their social media, who don't pay their child support, who've declared bankruptcy, who've had sex scandals, who've taken to making jokes about bestiality, who are trying to hide from the Trump fiasco, who are proudly embracing Trump, or are Jason Lewis.  Since the first story on Holmstadt had to deal with her Facebook page, I decided to take a lookie.


I found this first:

Oh my GOD!  She would actually leave her daughters in a room with Donald Trump?!?  I get it, Republicans love to vilify their enemy to the Nth degree, but when you're backing Mr. Sexual Assault, trying to turn his disturbing and unforgivable behavior from a negative to a positive is WAY off base.  You've already, strangely, taken his side against women, but now you seem ready to offer your daughters to him as tribute.  WOW!

But politics aside, sometimes life gives you sweet, sweet lemonade.  I came across this message on Leilani Holmstadt's Facebook page:

Okay...I'm not sure about the etiquette of flash mobs, but one thing I don't think I've ever seen is them organized, visibly, via a public Facebook page.  The whole point of a flash mob is to catch everyone off guard, but Holmstadt wouldn't be the first politico to try to misappropriate a popular, youthful, social media fueled, cultural activity in a pathetic attempt to look cool.  

So, how did it go?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's a total of 7, SEVEN people!!!  Leilani must not know what the term 'mob' means either, as this is far more an 'unruly milling about.'  For goodness sake, eight people liked the flash mob invite post.  What happened to the last guy?

Anyone with a small fraction of common sense would've known to not post this picture, as all it would be is an invite to ridicule and mock.  Mission Accomplished!  Not to downplay her anti-woman stance and her blind stupidity in regards to her daughters and Trump, but this is by far the dumbest thing I saw on her Facebook page.  

I think the next time he offers up a "flash mob," I think we should organize a far larger one, maybe with 15 or 16 people, to drown out all of Leilani's flash mob sadness.