Day two of the drama known as the GOP convention…..Cleveland may not ever be the same……and I am still waiting for some sort of actual issues….the theme of the day was “Make America Work Again”…..and I heard nothing that would address that issue…I did hear just about every hateful thing I could stand about Clinton….that oughta make for a sizeable paycheck (but not for the working class)…..
First it is official…Donald J. Trump is the GOP nominee…
– It’s official: The Republican Party has nominated Donald Trump for president, completing the New York billionaire’s remarkable rise from political outsider to major party nominee for the White House, the AP reports. With 89 delegates, New York state put him over the top in the delegate count Tuesday evening at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, with Trump’s four oldest children—Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Tiffany—joining the delegation on the Quicken Loans Arena floor, with Donald Jr. served as the announcing delegate. “We’re going to put New York into play this time around,” Trump Jr. noted, adding, “It’s not a campaign anymore, it’s a movement” before ending with “Congratulations, Dad—we love you!”
But let’s get to the part Americans adore…the winners and the losers of the night………
Tuesday was “Make America Work Again” day at the Republican National Convention, though there was easily as much talk about Hillary Clinton as there was about the US economy. Still, the convention seemed to run far more smoothly than on Monday—it was as if they “had brought in an entirely new team of organizers,” according to Politico—and the GOP was unified enough to deal with the matter of choosing its nominee. Among the winners in another eventful day at the Quicken Loans Arena:
- Donald Trump. New York state’s delegation put Trump over the top, making him the official GOP nominee 13 months after he launched what was seen as a long-shot bid. He “did the unthinkable on Tuesday night. And, whether you like him or hate him, he deserves a massive amount of credit for that,” writes Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post.
- Donald Trump Jr. He “brought down the house” with a speech that put him on the national stage and added a personal touch to his father’s business successes, the Hill reports. It briefly looked like there might be a repeat of the Melania plagiarism controversy, but it quickly emerged that a Francis Buckley line in the speech had been put there by Buckley himself, a friend of Trump Jr.’s who worked on the speech with him.
- Chris Christie. The New Jersey governor may still be smarting from VP rejection, but the crowd loved how he denounced Clinton from the point of view of a former federal prosecutor. They chanted “Guilty!” and “Lock her up!” as Christie made the case against Clinton.
- Avocado growers. Discussion of jobs largely fell by the wayside, but soap opera actress Kimberlin Brown, who has an avocado farm in California, managed to deliver both an in-depth discussion of jobs and a passionate call to help US growers by restricting avocado imports, Politico reports.
Among the losers:
- Party unity. Trump won the nomination, but some 721 delegates voted against him in the evening roll call, making it the most divided vote of its kind since the contested convention of 1976, the New York Times notes.
- Never Trump. The movement “succumbed to multiple causes of death” on Tuesday, with many rebels deciding they had no choice but to support the nominee, the AP reports. The Utah delegation announced that all its 40 votes were going to Ted Cruz, but they ended up going to Trump because Utah GOP rules require ballots to be cast for active candidates only.
- Paul Ryan. The House speaker has been trying to signal to party elites that he’s uncomfortable with Trump and is “still the smart conservative they’ve come to love,” but the balancing act fell apart on Tuesday, according to Dylan Matthews at Vox. “When the chips are down, when the nomination was being decided, Ryan was out there in front, pushing Trump forward,” he writes.
- Ben Carson. He “quickly went off script—and not in a good way,” writes Cillizza at the Post. His linking of Clinton to Lucifer via Saul Alinsky was a strange moment, writes Tina Nguyen at Vanity Fair, though since Carson has “accidentally” insulted Trump numerous times over the last few months, the campaign must have been relieved “that Carson’s meandering thoughts went straight to hell, and not somewhere closer to home.”
Onto day 3…..(a warning not a threat)…..
Turn The Page!
Thank you for taking one for the rest of us who are unable to watch. It really doesn’t sound like we are missing anything substantial.
You are welcome…it is entertaining to see just how batcrap crazy the GOP has become…
Thank you for taking one for the rest of us who are unable to watch. It really doesn’t sound like we are missing anything substantial.
Here’s the Democratic response to it all. Unfortunately, I have problems with her as well, but the video highlights why Trump is a disturbing choice for America. November 8 will not be an easy day.
https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/videos/1191323850924142/
I do as well…I will be looking elsewhere….chuq
So even after the voting & pledging of all 40 Delegates to Cruz, the Utah delegation is only allowed to vote for “active candidates” at the convention. Cruz may not have a functioning brain, but at least he’s got a pulse.
This is a country where you can vote for a person who died after getting on the ballot. You can vote for a fucking dead person in an election and that corpse can officially win (& later be subbed out) But you can’t vote for a guy who just ran out of money, or quit because his wife is dying, etc??? What the fucking fuck??? Cruz was “active” when they pledged all 40 Delegates to him. Dude didn’t die, he just stopped actively campaigning. Does that mean you get to take away what he earned? Some fucking “pledge”. It’s like having a rule that all goals in a hockey game not scored by members of the winning team are erased and given players on the winning team’s.
It’s never been so obvious that the myriad of idiotic, inconsistent and overrule-able rules really needs to be fixed! I know it’s all a sham. But Jesus, at least take some pride in your game!!!
Alaska was pissed also…they did a floor challenge on the count of their votes….ain’t this fun?
It’s insane. We’re talking about actual people elected to vote a certain way in person…not random Clevelanders who just showed up that day and tried to vote for something not already determined months ago by their Primary results. So, why stop them from doing what they flew across the country to do? Nobody would even notice.
But some will notice the argument and see a bunch of nickle & diming control freaks trying to promote the “unity message” by quashing as much statistical dissent as possible….dissent that was statistically registered and reported on months ago.
But this is how all these political party morons “think”. They actually think 20 Delegates this way, or that way, will change what voters think about a candidate.
Right, but they made the news and that is what was all about to begin with….
Cruz people were setting the stage for 2020….
SIGH…. Sure am glad I gave up on TV…. I am also struck by the strong feeling, after listening/reading about all that BS that we really need to just stop encouraging these idiots by voting… As long as we do, they’ll keep on thinking whatever’s wrong with this system can be fixed, and, quite frankly, that’s just NOT in the picture; it’s broken beyond any repair.
If, in our two hundred plus years of history, have seen a more appropriate time to call for a new constitutional convention, this is it. I believe we voters should indicate our disgust by NOT voting, forcing them to completely start over… These idiots need to learn their continued ridiculously outmoded philosophies are not ever going to work, but, as long as we continue to take part in it, it can only get more insane….
Tom Jefferson stated this country should never go more than twenty years without a revolution of some sort; it’s been well over two hundred. It’s about damn time, I’d say….
gigoid, the dubious
Good old Tom…or as his slaves knew him Uncle Tom…never been a big fan…..but it has been a fine source of entertainment to see and hear the morons of society try to sound lucid….chuq
He, and Tom Paine, and George Mason, Ben Franklin, were all informally known as Deists, who believed in God, but not religions, since they thought all the religious teachings were corrupted as well… So, like many who were more forward thinking than their contemporaries, were often misunderstood, and reviled as being anti-religion…. I don’t think he was perfect, by any stretch. but, he was far and away the most cogent political philosopher of his time, if only due to what he learned from Mason, who wrote most of the Declaration for him… Mason was a true scholar….
But, who in today’s world knows much of any of them, besides old farts like us? Nobody reads anything other than a digital magazine now….
gigoid
DoI was a a bitch list…most of which were in Commonsense….I agree with the statement that NO one is capable of learning about these people….they were what the US is all about….and they are all but forgotten….OUCH! Brain in pain….LOL chuq
LOL! Sorry… I guess I’m getting thick… I’ve done another already, on another of your posts, but, I’ll quit for a while, give us both a break….
SIGH….
gigoid
See….brain goes into freeze frame….LOL chuq
Is there no legal body in the United States that understands the definition of: subversion?
Hasn’t Donald J. Trump epitomized it with his historic undermining of the Office of the President ever since Obama was elected the first time. And, continually through Obama’s second term as well.
Huh? Maybe it’s just me …