TRUMP RALLY IN WACO BECAUSE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ALSO REAGAN REEEEEEEEEEEEE

   This is possibly the dumbest thing you'll read today.

   This is what happens when you adopt a postpostmodern political religion that adopts a free-form interpretive method that allows you to make up whatever story you want so long as the conclusion is politically correct.

   The Waco siege lasted something like 50 days. If you do something in Waco, it's not exactly hard for it to happen some time during the same time of year as the siege. And if you think the siege was the only thing that ever happened in Waco, you can convince yourself of this kind of nonsense. 

   The Trump campaign, unsurprisingly, had a perfectly reasonable explanation: Waco is central to several major metropolitan areas and has facilities capable of accommodating such a rally. 

   And Bennen's claim that it "strains credulity" that Waco was not chosen to...send some kind of message but God knows which one...utter idiocy.

   This is the kind of free-form interpretation--i.e. making shit up--that forms the intellectual core of the progressive left.

   And note: he doesn't merely float it as a wacky, possible hypothesis...he claims that it "strains credulity" to deny it. The mind, it reels.

   Then there's this:

...the Republican had plenty of choices within the Lone Star State — Texas is massive, with nearly 270,000 square miles — before settling on the city with the 24th largest population in the state.

As if the entire surface of the state were an option... First of all, what's the meaning of having the rally in a city at all? Huh? What's up with that? Why not out in the desert? 270,000 square miles, and TRUMP picks a CITY of all places!

   Waco is actually the 22nd most populous city in the state--a city of 140k people in a metro area of 240k. That is a big-ass city.

   There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for having the rally there, which the Trump camp has stated. Bennen's explanation is idiotic. It makes no sense whatsoever. Does he think Trump is trying to get that sweet, sweet cultist vote? 

   This rather reminds me of all the stupid hypotheses that cropped up like the week after 9/11. They did it on 9/11 because it was like 911 the emergency number! They picked American airlines because...uh...symbolism! Same for United!..

   The hypothesis about Reagan is even stupider. And notice that the charge, basically, is that Reagan said the things he said during that campaign...in Mississippi...in a counting vaguely near a place where something bad happened! An "unmistakable sign"!

  facepalm

  Honestly, these people have just come unhinged.

[Note that Bennen seems to basically rip this off from the Houston Chronicle...so...it's not just one dumbass saying it, either...]