Yesterday 20,000 black chairs were lined up facing the White House. Each represents 10 Americans who’ve died of covid-19. Photo by Katherine Frey of The Washington Post.

Oct 6, 2020 4:57 AM

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5 years ago | Likes 161 Dislikes 3

Trump seeing those chairs

5 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 2

Go hard or go home. Set up the other 190,000 chairs.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

1) https://imgur.com/ipb5hDk.jpg i doubt that it affects the GOP or the two grifters in the WH...

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2) BUT this ...creature...https://imgur.com/MyiQrLD.jpg probably is THRILLED

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Honestly, Trump is so far up his own ass, he probably assumes it's another event that revolves around him and his ego.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

I'm guessing this must now be like having a 9/11 event every day, for at least the last 70 days ☹

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

We're down to a 9/11 event every 2 days. #progress

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Seating for Trump's execution.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Not enough

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He got the biggest crowd ever!

5 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 2

That press conference really set the benchmark for the Trump presidency

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is haunting

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Damnnnnnn

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This is 1/10th of the people that have been killed by this moron.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

And then the police shot the chairs because they felt threatened.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Trump quotes : “ dont be afraid, dont let it affect your life, im better “ to all the people he killed

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

That is some labor intensive pettiness, I love it.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Clint Eastwood's gonna be busy for a while

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 4

Stealing. Thank you

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Fake news, you can't seat 10 Americans on 1 chair...

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Well, if you cremate them and put to them in stackable urns, you can... I see myself out.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

well that fixed not a damn thing, but got someone a lot of attention.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That is fucking terrifying, not the amount of chairs but the fact your President has it and denied its existence. Congrats America.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Now put a guillotine out the front

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Yeah it's all trump's fault reeeeee! It's not personal irresponsibility, or the govenors who's stuffed the sick into nursing homes, naw, OMB

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

210,000

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Now hit Trump over the head with every single fucking chair like a pro wrestler

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've seen displays like this in my country and they accomplish absolutely nothing

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Germany had 15k chairs in front of the Reichstag a while back, one for each person in Moria. SocDems took pics for social media >>

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

>> saying how we need to help the refugees there - only to vote against getting unaccompanied children and those who need medical help >>

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

>> out of the (burnt down) shithole. Because it was an opposition's motion, and you naturally can't vote yes on those.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Exactly. Distributing 20k books, 20k masks, 20k meals, etc. That would have been useful. We care more about the pub stunts than real impact

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Benghazi=4 Americans dead & 4more+7 Libyans injured=OUTRAGE & ENDLESS HEARINGS. 200,000+ COVID deaths=NADA. https://imgur.com/Rp1Fhns.jpg

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#BCM

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Apparently a firearm?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

News to me..

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bring Chairs, Mom?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I look at that and i think "Damn, sucks that someone wasted their time and now they have to fold and stack and move all those chairs again."

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 50

Fair enough, on some level. But it’s a representation of 200k deaths, does that not reach you on any level at all?

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

If arlington natl cemetery doesn't move you, then folding chairs will not.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I actually agree. Nothing will come of this and if a reporter asks the cheetoPOTUS he will deflect or ignore. Just a waste of time.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

Thank you.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

It’s removing any plausible deniability from his voters in future (it’s harder for them to say in future “I didn’t know he was that bad”)

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

By putting chairs out? Not really.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

I know it's kind of horrible, but I wish they could have gotten hold of 200, 000 of them and surrounded the whole white house with them.

5 years ago | Likes 636 Dislikes 8

I liked the taco truck plan better.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or a trebuchet

5 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Better get on them blueprints

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bereaved family members line up. You each get a chair. One hit per person. Make it count. Everyone else out of the splatter zone.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yeah but also more work and more contact which could undermine the message, or give republicans a sensible argument(finally).

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As if you have to do this shit to protest a shit president, maybe democracy is next...but now you need liberty, ask the French how...

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They just did this with small flags

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

214000+ now... numbers just keep going up. And this doesn't reflect those left with permanent disabling effects from covid.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don't forget the massive spike in so called unrelated illnesses.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Would there be enough space? That's a fuck-ton of chairs.

5 years ago | Likes 123 Dislikes 0

If we take all the space around the Washington monument we get 2.6million square feet. If we give each chair 8 square feet, which is >>

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

>>normal for venues. You get 325 000 chairs. This estimation didn't take into acound roads and paths so a little less. But I would say >>

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

>>that the area and Trump, could handle several more American deaths and it would not be a problem.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not exactly a flat area.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Couldn't imagine how many people that must be

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

In American.. that's 2.01 olympic swimming pools filled with dead human beings.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But how many washing machines?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It’s a fuck ton of deaths...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Back of napkin math says they would need about 10x as much space.

5 years ago | Likes 124 Dislikes 0

Nah those are spaced real far. Probs only 5x as much space, way more achievable

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If they stacked them ten high it would take up the same surface area.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Haha yes, thank you Mr Hawking. Is there 10x as much space within close proximity of the white House? Not with trump's fence I think.

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Fill the streets, every bit of available space. A massive audience for the president of people no longer with us.

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I agree with the sentiment but chairs would just get removed from roads and people teargassed for protesting. It's not helped so far.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How about lining Pennsylvania Ave up to the other house that's equally disgusting atm?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Where does one get 20000 chairs in the first place?

5 years ago | Likes 2010 Dislikes 6

Surplus from potus funeral dry run.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

From all the empty schools.

5 years ago | Likes 221 Dislikes 1

Ayo

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

From the 200 000 American citizens that won't need theirs anymore :(

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Yes

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, it's not like there's many events needing chairs right now

5 years ago | Likes 113 Dislikes 0

The soup store.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Spares from trump's Ohio rally.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

There's 4 places; there's The Chair Hut that's on 3rd. There's Chairs R'Us, that's on 3rd, too. The Big Sit...on 3rd. Chairware.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You write a grant, and order in bulk

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well I know of 200000 people that don't need a chair anymore. Maybe their apartments?!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

The lawn opposite the White House

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Event rental. Lots of cancelled weddings this year

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Chris Hansen

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Amazon

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Overstock.com

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Some people hoard tp. Some hoard chairs

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Storage bin outside trump hotel. For some reason they won't ever let the black chairs through the door

5 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 7

Chair district on third

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Maybe Soros bought them...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hyper capitalism to consume 2000 chairs just to make a point

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At the 20000 store. They sell everything in packs that size.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Don't know but sure as hell couldn't find 200k

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The chair store

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

From china

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Haha this is the real meat of this post.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Chairtrees from the chairgarden. Bountiful harvest this year.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lots of events businesses in the area. Probably lots with extra chairs atm. You want 20,000 dinner plates too?! Oh boy are there plates.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Leos Party Rental! That's where!

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Charities

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

*Chairities

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

You gotta go through the chairman of the board.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Rent them

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wish

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

They ordered them in June.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I mean those people don't need it now, do they?

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

From the chairman

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Chair factory.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The dinner tables of families who have had a COVID-19 death

5 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 3

Well, if 10% of US citizens have a black chair, then corpse looting is a possible answer.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Crazy Clown Caterers

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Outside of the white house, it says it right in the title, dude.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

It’s a Costco 2 pack.

5 years ago | Likes 1921 Dislikes 2

I like that this has more upvotes than the previous comment

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And you can gas up the chair trucks while there.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 0

Wouldn't "2 Coatco packs" be correct? If it was a 2 pack you would need 10 000, no? Just trying to learn as English is not my first language

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You are correct. A Costco 2-pack would be a pack of 2. The should've said 2 Costco packs (implying 10,000 per pack)

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Implying that a “pack” contains 10,000 chairs. They’re known for abnormally large quantities of things.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I know about Costco's large quantities, but since he said "a Costco 2 pack" wouldn't that mean one pack of 2 items?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I’m ded from laughter, tanks.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Churches back storage room.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

alibaba

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Each person that attended his inauguration brought 100,000.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Could be that the 200'000 dead americans didnt need theirs anymore

5 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 4

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well fuck

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jina.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

in front of the white house yesterday

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Trump rally?

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ikea

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ikea

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Chair Store?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it’s not like they grow on chairy trees.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Find 40,000 and take half.

5 years ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I prefer the 60k pack split three ways.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Glorious

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They breed like rabbits

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Unused chairs from Trump's inauguration?

5 years ago | Likes 1498 Dislikes 15

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5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Trying not to laugh at this is such a serious and somber post

5 years ago | Likes 134 Dislikes 0

Nah, it's fine to laugh, just remember to be angry at the cause as well.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Oh I’m angry. I crossed the line from shouty swearing anger to quiet bulgy eyed trembling anger a long time ago.

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?1

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nee naw nee naw nee naw, get outta the way... that some 4th degree burns

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Nice.

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5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Man he just left the hospital dont send him back to the burn unit

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What happened to the other 980 000?

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

Those people haven't died yet.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Yet....

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Plenty of event rental companies can rent out chairs, and are probably desperate right now and would rent for cheap.

5 years ago | Likes 136 Dislikes 0

None in my area changed prices. You made me look it up.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

ask for a cheap deal on 20,000...i'm sure they'll come to the party

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But then they won't be empty...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Okay but you can probably get better deals at the moment haggling, please note I am not making you call anybody

5 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

BUT I'M ALREADY CALLING THEM PLEASE TELL ME TO STOP

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