[ April 19, 2024 ]
This sums up the state of New York City perfectly. New York City was always a magical place during the holiday season. Not any more.
Pathetic Rockefeller Plaza Christmas Tree ‘On Brand’ For 2020
By Daily Wire, November 18, 2020
Story continues below advertisementFor more than eight decades, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been emblematic of the holiday season, visited by millions of people in the heart of America’s largest city.
Two years ago, the tree keepers unveiled a new nine-foot star atop the the 72-foot-tall Christmas tree, featuring 3 million Swarovski crystals. And in 1999, the tree stood at 100 feet.
But this year, oh boy, this year.
It’s 2020, whose motto must be “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.” It is, after all, the year of the pandemic, of lockdowns, of masks and, of course, of murder hornets.
This year, tree keepers picked a giant Norway spruce in Oneonta, New York, to erect in Midtown Manhattan. The 75-foot tree arrived on Saturday with a police escort and was lifted into position by crane.
But as with everything in 2020, the tree was a huge disappointment, and while the tree won’t be decorated and lit up until next month, social media users lit it up in a slew of hilarious posts.
“Could the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree look any worse? 2020 on brand,” former NBA player Rex Chapman told his one million followers on Twitter.
As the video shows, when the workers took the protective wrapping off the tree, the branches fell into place and, well, looked terrible — sparse and oddly disheveled.
“What is this, a joke? This is the Rockefeller Christmas tree for 2020. It depicts @NYCMayor’s city as it stands today: broken, empty, drained of its life, by failed leadership and incompetence,” wrote former New York Police Department Chief Bernard Kerik.
What is this, a joke? This is the Rockefeller Christmas tree for 2020. It depicts @NYCMayor‘s city as it stands today: broken, empty, drained of its life, by failed leadership and incompetence. pic.twitter.com/1S0qyIbmE1
— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) November 18, 2020
Improv comic Emily Brandwin jumped into to compare the tree to the sad little nub beloved by Charlie Brown.
“Charlie Brown: I have the saddest Christmas Tree. Rockefeller Center: Hold my beer,” she wrote on Twitter.
The tree looked pretty good in its natural habitat, which was in a homeowner’s yard right next to their house.
“Say hello to the 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree! Hailing from Oneonta, NY, this Norway Spruce will arrive at Rockefeller Center this Saturday, November 14 to kick off the holiday season.,” the center said in a Twitter post.
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53 Comments
3 years ago
They’re gonna wrap some lights around a giant middle finger.
3 years ago
Reply to
spfoam1
I’d bet it is already half dead too!
Watch for it to quickly shed needles….
This is all being done on purpose, imo.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
If that thing catches fire between Cancelled Thanksgiving and Cancelled Christmas just blame it on “climate change”.
3 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
Let it dry up some so it’ll really whooosh and light up the night…!
3 years ago
It looks like SH*T on purpose, imo.
They are purposely making a mockery of Christmas using that tree.
Communists have no tolerance for ANY religion except STATE WORSHIP!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The voters of New York elected de Blasio, so are getting what the voted for, a piece of communist garbage.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I think you are entirely right…this could not have been done by accident.
3 years ago
Atheists are not your friends… no matter how “friendly” they appear and maybe even agree with you on some issues… don’t be fooled by these self made little gods and goddesses…. But people are so easily charmed and always want to make exceptions! LOL! Some never learn… they too are intolerant tyrants and like others some are vocal and some sit back letting others carry the water while they quietly cheer them on. The Same applies to Muslims etc… It’s human nature… deception!
This shi*** looking tree will have atheists, and Muslims chuckling and smiling!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I wouldn’t ever align myself with islam. At least atheist Communists don’t treat women as second class citizens and possessions and didn’t legalize little boy buggery or marrying little girls against their will as a means of satisfying debts.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
How much you willing to bet that fascistic “mask mandates” favored by the globalists are a direct result of the Left-Islam “red/green” alliance?
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Sarcastically speaking, there is no god and Karl Marx is his prophet!
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
None of the 20 atheists on my email group is a communist — all constitutionalists, capitalists, and individualists.. But you can’t tell Good Christians like Felix that because he’s afraid he’ll be turned away at the Purrrly Gates if he doesn’t denounce everyone who refuses to believe as he does.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Felix, I may have brought this up before in which case excuse my repeating myself, but YOU ARE A BIGOTED JERK.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’ve known some pretty decent people that followed The Religion of Atheism. They didn’t wear their religion on their sleeve and didn’t proselytize or evangelize. They simply followed that religion.
The ones that proselytize, evangelize, and spout the overused “Sky Daddy” line … Those, on the other hand, I wouldn’t do business with them
3 years ago
the photo of that tree sums up america under democrat rule.
3 years ago
First questions need to be about the political connections of the tree’s former owner and what they gained by “donating” the tree.
3 years ago
Maybe they’re clearing the way to get rid of Xmas decorations to save money for Ramadan scimitar decorations.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
It seems as if NYNY oversepent its ramadan free-food-to -moslems budget. They had to dip, pretty deeply, into their “winter festival” fund.
3 years ago
WTF? Oh, I get it. De Blasto took the money for the Rockefeller Christmas tree fund and this is all they could afford. It’s a perfect testament to the condition of the city itself. Worn, tattered, no life left. I’m sure it’s DeBlasto’s way of saying ‘Merry Christmas’ and F**K YOU, to all NY’ers. If this doesn’t anger the city, nothing ever will. ‘Cheer up, NY. You voted for this!’
3 years ago
Reply to
sodacrackers2
Exactly. Considering the dem0rats have been caught committing voter fraud on a scale not seen outside banana republics or camel urine repugnants who would think they would be above fixing any old damn election for any office across the USA?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I don’t know. The voter fraud that got the drug addict, bisexual Kennedy elected was a pretty good one. Actually, it might have been better than 2020.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Teddy Kennedy? The lifetime senator whose record for getting “elected” might only be exceeded by the corrupt old Dem0rat crone/hag out of Californication?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
No, I was referring to joanie kennedy. Teddi was simply a lying, drunk rapist. Joanie was a drug addict bisexual. Cook County, Illinois and Byrd’s KKK West Virginia were/are well known FACTS.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
JFK a bisexual? He was in the USN, he was caught by an IJN light cruiser, drifting in the slot with his running lights lit and no watch posted — perhaps a good game of grab a$$ was going on belowdecks and they needed all hands. MacArthur wanted him court-martialed for this because JFK was the commander of PT-109.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Bobby Kennedy was the only nearly honest one — it’s too bad Sirhan-Sirhan, the Paleswine pig, killed him. Then again, he most certainly would’ve prevented Nixon from becoming POTUS.
3 years ago
Reply to
sodacrackers2
If al of you are done disparaging my old stomping grounds, let me assure you that all you have to do is ask for volunteers to vote on the side lines to raise their hands for a dollar.
Here’s the truth. Back (’50s) earlier than that my mother (don’t laugh) was one of the election judges at Vitos Barber Shop, and boy she could tell you about that stuff right out in the open. that’s for sure.
3 years ago
Most appropriate for the times we live in. They should decorate it with BLM and Biden objects.
3 years ago
Reply to
SocialDistanceJusticeWarrior
Nothing involving loops. Someone screams “NOOSE!!” and another riot breaks out.
3 years ago
And all that sequestered CO2 will soon be reintroduced into the atmosphere …
Did you know trees consume CO2, and release O2?
When you kill a tree, it no longer consumes CO2 …
And the planet will die … in 12 years … [AOC, AL GORE, GRETA THUNBERG, JOE BIDEN]
…
BTW – every time that AOC, Al Gore, Greta, Joe, Kamala exhale … CO2 kills the planet sooner …
(NOTE – – THEIR SCIENCE, not MINE… Their truth, their facts, their unwavering beliefs ..)
3 years ago
That can stand as the new symbol of what Fascist de Blasio and the rest of the DeMarxocRat rulers have done to the city I once loved. I remember standing right under one of those beautiful huge trees in the 70s as it lit up and thousands of New Yorkers cheered. Now New Yorkers who voted in their own destroyers have the perfect Cancelled-for-the-RESET bush that’s uglier than Bill’s old lady.
3 years ago
Billazio needs to be committed and detoxed and held in a straight jacket and fed mashed beets through a tube.
3 years ago
This tree gives mew life and meaning to the term “poetic justice.”
3 years ago
All part of the Democrat war on Christmas that they deny they are doing. Whatever Democrats say they are not doing is precisely what they are doing. President Trump said it is OK again to say Merry Christmas and Democrats give the middle finger to Christmas.
3 years ago
That’s not a Christmas tree, it’s just a tree. Your doing such a fantastic fine job Pamela, your fantastic.
3 years ago
Joke, my ass. This is deliberate. Another way to destroy what is dear to Americans
and demoralize us.
My mother’s people are from Manhattan going back generations. I’ve lived on
Long Island all of my life. We’ve been in to see the tree a million times. Never
once in my long life has this ever happened before.
3 years ago
Just when you think it cant get anymore insane… Boom… If they leave this tree up during the Holidays I will now know that the Big Apple, which I will always love, as I lived there early 1980s, is well and truly gone baby gone… until you all kick that tall waste of space Mayor right into the Hudson River, followed by his wife and kids.
Maybe they will have a huge ramadamadingdong Festival On The Rock next time around, paid for by the NYC Tax Payers…
3 years ago
Biggest Charlie Brown tree eva.
3 years ago
Alice Bailey 10 points plan. Died 1949
http://battlecryforchrist.blogspot.com/2013/12/alice-baileys-10-point-plan.html
Illuminist Alice Bailey’s 10-Pt Plan To Destroy Christianity
https://247sports.com/college/ole-miss/Board/103602/Contents/Illuminist-Alice-Baileys-10-Pt-Plan-To-Destroy-Christianity-71953508/
3 years ago
Just a thought: Would the mayor and some of the other leadership make good ornaments on this tree?
3 years ago
A visual commentary on the state of the country and NYC.
3 years ago
I LOVE THAT TREE. IT IS THE NICEST TREE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT NYC IS ‘THE PLACE TO BE!’ WHY ANY FILTHY COMMUNIST WOULD EVEN CONSIDER MOVING AWAY FROM UTOPIA ON THE HUDSON IS MADNESS, AS THIS TREE PROVES YET AGAIN.
NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, DO NOT MOVE FROM NYC AND INFEST OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. OUR TREES ARE LAME, OUR FOOD IS BAD.
Our marksmanship, otoh, is pretty good…
3 years ago
The 2019 Christmas Tree chosen for Rockefeller Plaza!
The 2020 tree chosen is an intentional mockery!
3 years ago
We had a property loaded with white pines this size. The big old ones are often already rotted out when they are felled or a storm takes them out.
3 years ago
Reminds me of the democRAT party.
3 years ago
DEMOCRATS = COMMUNISTS = MUSLIMS.
It speaks for itself.
3 years ago
Pathetic. The homeowners that donated this probably just needed the tree cut down before it blew over in a storm onto their roof. The Christmas tree money went into a corrupt official’s pocket.
3 years ago
That tree does not need to be decorated, it needs to be resurrected.
