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It’s Official! Let The Fun Begin!

Finally and mercifully the RNC convention came to an end…..this Majesty ended this thing with a speech of acceptance….OMG!~ the length…..92 agonizing minutes in total.

At first it was and acceptable speech and even thought there was truth in the desire for unity….and that was what I get for thinking things would change after the ear piercing.

Before we got the honor of his majesty we had to site through the boring speeches by the slithering throngs of Trumpites…..Hulk Hogan, the octogenarian wrestler, entertained the crowd of low intelligent morons by ripping his classic shirt off…I should go on….but why the speeches were a bunch of canned crap about the border and Biden and Dems and….well use your imagination.

Let’s move on to his majesty’s acceptance speech…..like I said a rambling mess of accusations with no proof of statement.

Here we go….hang on to your ‘nads.

Donald Trump accepted his party’s presidential nomination for the third time on Thursday and gave a speech written in the days after the attempt on his life. His was the longest televised presidential acceptance speech ever, at one hour and 33 minutes, ending at 11:05pm CT. The previous record belonged to Trump; he set it in 2016 with a 75-minute speech. With his ear still bandaged, Trump was joined on stage by the firefighter’s uniform that belonged to Corey Comperatore, who was killed at the Saturday rally. Trump touched on topics ranging from COVID and his classified-documents case to inflation and the border and went off-script repeatedly. Standout lines:

  • “Four months from now we will have an incredible victory and we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country. … I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.”
  • already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened, tell us what happened, please, and therefore, I’ll tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.”
  • “I heard a whizzing sound and felt something hit me really really hard on my right ear. … I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack. … Bullets were continuing to fly and brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage … and pounced on top of me so I would be protected. I felt very safe because I had God on my side. The amazing thing is that prior to the shot if I had not moved my head at that very last instant … I would not be here tonight.”
  • “Nobody [in the crowd] ran and by not stampeding many lives were saved. They knew I was in very serious trouble and thought actually most did that I was dead. They knew it was a shot to the head and they saw the blood. … The ears are the bloodiest part, they bleed more than any other part of the body, the doctors told me. … This beautiful crowd they didn’t want to leave me and you can see that love written all over their faces. … Bullets were flying over us yet I felt serene.”
  • “I will end our illegal immigration crisis by closing our border and building our wall. … We have to stop the invasion into our country that is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year. I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created,” specifying Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza.
  • “If you took the 10 worst presidents of the United States and added it up they would not have done the damage that Biden has done.”
  • “I will bring back the American dream. You don’t even hear about the American dream anymore. With great humility I am asking you to be excited about our future, be excited.”
  • Trump said he was the first president in modern times to start no new wars. “There was peace in Europe and the Middle East. Under President Bush, Russia invaded Georgia. Under President Obama, Russia took Crimea. Under the current administration, Russia is after all of Ukraine. Under President Trump, Russia took nothing. We defeated 100% of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, something that was going to take five years, and I did it in two months. I stopped the missile launches from North Korea.”
  • “With our victory in November, our years of war and chaos would be over. … I could stop wars with just a telephone call.”
  • “America is on the cusp of a new Golden Age, but we must have the courage to seize it … we have to produce massive amounts of energy if we’re going to produce the new … AI needs tremendous, literally twice the energy that’s available now in our country, can you imagine?”
  • “Just a few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended. And yet here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise, and a total renewal of a thing we love very much, it’s called America. We live in a world of miracles. None of us knows God’s plan, or where life’s adventure will take us.”
  • “But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we love.”
  • “For too long our nation settled for too little … You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. I am here tonight with the opposite message. Your expectations are not big enough. It is time to start expecting and demanding the best leadership in the world. Leadership that is bold … as long as our energies are spent fighting each other our destiny will remain out of reach and that’s not acceptable.”

What can I say?

Nothing has changed his rhetoric is the same as his 2 previous nominations….the call of unity flew down the political toilet.

I am still searching for the stats on his claim of hundreds of thousands killed by illegal immigrants…..so far nothing to confirm that POS.

He got as much mileage out of the assassination attempt as he could….he milked it for the all it was worth.

Finally I heard lots words but nothing I could point to as policy….promises that mean literally nothing but crowd fodder.

That was 92 minutes of pure crap but a junkie like me listened to it all and then had to visit the porcelain library….

Now I await the Dems moment in the sun….what will it be…Joe or his replacement?

Stay tuned

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“lego ergo scribo”

Vance Off And Running

So far the RNC convention has been a collection of Trumpites babbling their way through their allotted time and then came the highlight of the night….the VP candidate speech…..OMG! Such bullshit spread with a pinch of chest thumping.

YAWN!  Ah–choo….sorry I am allergic to bullshit!

He rambled and I thought I would have to rip my ears off to get him to shut up….he had lots to say and none of it was anything a thinking person would agree with on any level.

Introducing himself to the nation after being tapped as Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance used his Wednesday night address to the Republican National Convention to share the story of his hardscrabble upbringing and make the case that his party best understands the challenges facing struggling Americans. In his first prime-time address since Trump made his pick, the 39-year-old Ohio senator cast himself as fighter for a forgotten working class, making a direct appeal to the Rust Belt voters who helped drive Trump’s surprise 2016 victory and voicing their anger and frustration. Standout lines from the AP:

  • The first millennial on a major-party ticket, Vance spent much of his speech talking up Trump and going after Biden, using his relative youth to draw a contrast with the 81-year-old president. “Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington as long as I’ve been alive. For half a century he’s been a champion of every single policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer.”
  • “Never in my wildest imagination could I have believed that I’d be standing here tonight,” Vance said. He shared his story of growing up poor in Kentucky and Ohio, his mother addicted to drugs and his father absent. He later joined the Marines, graduated from Yale Law School, and went on to the highest levels of US politics—an embodiment of an American dream he said is in now in short supply.
  • The Hill reports the personal details he shared included references to “Mamaw,” the grandmother who helped raise him, and his mother, who has been sober for the last decade and was greeted with cheers of “JD’s mom!” as she was seated.
  • The Wall Street Journal reports he ended his speech by sharing the story of proposing to his wife, the daughter of South Asian immigrants. “We were in law school, and I said, ‘Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky.'”
  • He spoke more about his Appalachian background, and said, “In small towns like mine in Ohio, or next door in Pennsylvania, or in Michigan, in states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and children were sent to war. To the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and every corner of our nation, I promise you this: I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.”

He paints a great picture as the poor kid from down the street….manure all was manure!

Let me look at a couple of his positions that need addressing…..why?  Because they are fucking insane.  First housing crisis….his cure is to deport 20 million people.

Now, he even cites Trump’s campaign promise to deport between 15 and 20 million people as a way to address the nation’s housing affordability crisis.

In a tweet responding to the allegation that conservatives have few plans to address rising housing costs, Vance argued that cracking down on immigration would go a long way.

read more….

https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-deport-20-million-immigrants-reduce-home-prices-rents-2024-7

You think that is crazy how about his voting rights position?

This Yutz believes that childfree people should not have the same voting rights as people with children…..that’s right with this d/bag your voting rights would be in jeopardy if you have decided not to have children.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/jd-vance-childless-left-voting-power-parents

Nothing about this man stands out other than he is a massive POS.

But wait!  The Big Cheese speaks tonight (oh the joy of the Big Cheese)

If you vote for this ticket then you should have a lobotomy for the good of the nation.

For god’s sake the future of this country is at stake please reconsider your support for this person and his running mate….old ‘whats his name’.

Learn the candidate’s positions….they will not change after the election.

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“lego ergo scribo”

A Rambling Babbling Sort Of Night

As a political junkie I have been watching the RNC convention not out of interest but rather out of concern….and my concern is well founded.

The one thing after 3 days is a lot of chest thumping from low IQ pronates with nothing substantial other than platitudes and all that gets drooling applause and chants from the adoring crowd.

But I have noticed that the party has tweaked its positions somewhat…..

The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week is not just a celebration or a crowning of the party’s presidential ticket. It’s a realignment. Republican positions are no longer standard conservative down the line; the party is turning toward economic populism, for instance, Politico reports. And longstanding relationships with business and unions are changing. The remodeling is driven partly by societal and demographic changes and an attempt at building a broader coalition. The result is a party that its leaders from the 1970s wouldn’t recognize, Stuart Rothenberg writes in an opinion piece in Roll Call. “I think what we’re witnessing now is a full on frontal assault on conservatism,” said Marc Short, who was chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan puts the change another way, saying: “I think President Trump has made our party what it always should have been, which is a populist party rooted in conservative principles.” Examples of the sometimes-awkward shift include:

  • Abortion: Organizations working against abortion access objected to the more cryptic plank in the party’s platform, which mostly reiterates Donald Trump’s most recent stance of letting states decide the issue. Those organizations, and delegates, dropped their opposition to the revised wording. “This platform is a platform that is responsive and supportive of where America is actually at,” said one delegate.
  • Unions: The convention heard from a Teamster for the first time ever. Union President Sean O’Brien’s speech was a shock to the GOP system, ripping Right to Work laws and corporations as “the biggest recipients of welfare in this country.” He referred to the Chamber of Commerce as “unions for big business.” Party leaders are reaching out to unions, though polls show little support for that in the party at large, per a Washington Post analysis. “I was starting to squirm a little bit on some of that stuff, but I also know how you blend that, and that’s what makes up my support,” said Indiana Sen. Mike Braun. “And that doesn’t mean you take the most outrageous stuff that he might have said, but you don’t dismiss some of the rest of it, and you find a new coalition.”
  • Ukraine: The speakers Wednesday night “went a step further,” Short said, giving the example of those who essentially said “NATO was at fault for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.” That follows the lead of Vance, who once said, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” There’s no mention of Ukraine in the platform, though polls show Republicans have no objection to the amount of aid provided by the US.
  • Marriage: There’s no mention in the platform anymore about marriage being between one man and one woman, either. It does express support for “a culture that values the sanctity of marriage” and “the foundational role of families.” That appears to be a loss for one segment of the party.

So far my biggest WTF? was the Teamsters boss speech…..not something you would expect to hear at a GOP function.

So far all in all it is a collection of rambling and babbling nonsense.

Sorry anyone that votes for these clowns has a crack problem or they are just plain stupid.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

A Psycho Nurse

I watched the GOP convention and I remember a nurse that spoke and defended Trump’s response to the pandemic……I thought then that she was either lying or she was some sort of dangerous spokesperson……well news has come out that she is the later….

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A Williamson woman who made headlines after she traveled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has been charged after court records said she shot another woman.

Amy Jolene Thorn, 39, of Williamson is charged with malicious or unlawful assault, according to a criminal complaint from Mingo County Magistrate Court.

The complaint said Thorn shot another woman on Thursday, Oct. 8, near the 800 block of Vinson Street in Williamson.

Police Chief Grady Dotson said Thorn shot the woman in the abdomen and claims the shooting was self-defense.

Police confirmed that Thorn, who also goes by the name Amy Ford, is a nurse who traveled to New York to help COVID patients. Thorn also was invited to attend the Republican National Convention.

Dotson said the victim is doing well and has non-life-threatening injuries.

Thorn is out on bond.

(wchstv.com)

I guess she truly a Trump supporter…..she resorts to violence when ever possible.

Will this make the national news?

If she were a Biden supporter it would be a two day news cycle.

I must admit that 2020 has been a helluva year…..one for the books…..as they say……

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Those Political Party Conventions

The US has made political history by holding their party conventions virtually.

That brings me to a thought I had……

Conventions–A necessity or a complete waste of time?

But first we need to look at why they had their beginnings and how they have changed over the years…..

George Washington didn’t have a nominating convention. As the commander of the colonial forces in the American Revolution, he was an easy candidate to select from among the eligible pool of any white man 35 and older, and he won his first two elections without any real competition. After that, there was no clear path for narrowing the pool, so political parties developed their own ways of choosing candidates.

Parties began holding conventions in the early 19th century and presidential primaries in the early 20th century. The convention remained the main way of selecting candidates until 1972, when new rules gave the primaries more power to determine the nominee. Since then, conventions have become a way to celebrate a predetermined candidate, rather than a means of choosing one.

https://www.history.com/news/political-conventions-change

Then we ask…why do we need these conventions?

The standard answer is that the conventions allow the parties — and their nominees — to define themselves on the national stage. In addition, conventions supposedly produce a “bounce” of popularity that catapults the better-performing candidate into the White House.

But in this era of non-stop news saturation, haven’t the candidates already had ample opportunity define themselves? It’s hard to see why they deserve four extra days of round-the-clock TV coverage, or why taxpayers should be shelling out $136 million to fund two big marathons of cocktail mixers, buffet lines, and canned speeches.

And the bounce-to-the presidency idea is mostly a myth. John McCain got a bigger post-convention bounce in 2008 than Barack Obama, but Obama trounced McCain in November. Barry Goldwater got a bigger bounce in 1964 than Lyndon Johnson, who went on to win the White House by the widest margin in U.S. history.

Why do we need political conventions?

I have been watching American politics for 60 years and still to this day see no necessity for these damn conventions.  To me it is a waste of time and money especially in the last 25 years or so….

In case you are not aware of the devolution of the conventions I can help…..

1976 Republicans: The last convention at which there was any doubt whatsoever of the identity of a major-party nominee.

1972 Democrats: George McGovern delivers his acceptance speech at 2:48 a.m. ET, which led to greatly tightened schedules and scripted proceedings in both parties.

1968: The last year before rules passed requiring primaries to choose most or all delegates. Also the last conventions featuring “spontaneous” demonstrations on behalf of candidates whose names were formally put into nomination.

1956 Democrats: Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson let delegates name his running mate without making a recommendation. On the second ballot, Estes Kefauver edged John F. Kennedy (Albert Gore Sr., finished third on the first ballot).

1952 Democrats: Last multi-ballot presidential nomination contest; Stevenson drafted on the third ballot.

1940 Republicans: Stage-managed galleries stampede convention with chants of “We Want Willkie!”

1924 Democrats: Dark horse John W. Davis nominated on the 103nd ballot.

1920 Republicans: The original “smoke-filled room” chose Warren Harding, who was subsequently nominated on the tenth ballot.

1896 Democrats: Keynote speaker William Jennings Bryan electrifies the convention with his “Cross of Gold” speech and is himself nominated on the fifth ballot.

1880 Republicans: New York’s Roscoe Conkling delivers arguably the most famous nomination address ever, for Ulysses S. Grant, beginning:

The time has come to move past these fossils of our political system….the 21st century has arrived and we need politics to arrive as well……

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/who-needs-political-party-conventions.html

The media is no better…..they trot out the fossils from the past old farts that have NO idea about the future and establishment lackeys that are only concerned with the status quo….and those know no racial bounds.

The conventions are the beginning of a political circus every four years….they serve NO purpose!  The average person learns nothing from the conventions for most have their minds already made up before the convention begins.

They are about as worthless as the US Senate these days.

I would like your thoughts on this topic….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

2020 GOP Convention–Day 4

Three down and one final day for the RNC and the GOP give a scenario for a united and secure nation….(spoiler alert:  they failed)

Tonight Trump will officially accept the nomination of the GOP as the candidate for president in 2020…..but not before the array of ass kissers……

Let me close down the posts on this convention…..broadcast news is sparse for the Hurricane has sucked all the oxygen out of news reports other than the storm.

And the night went like this…..

President Trump closed out the Republican National Convention Thursday night by formally accepting the Republican nomination for president, which he did from the White House—the AP calls this the first political convention ever to be held there, and CNN notes Trump’s was one of the longest acceptance speeches ever given. The end of the evening also included fireworks on the National Mall (some of them spelling out “Trump” and “2020”) and a performance by opera singer Christopher Macchio from the Blue Room balcony. Among Trump’s acceptance speech pledges was to put the first woman on the moon, a promise he made after touting his administration’s commitment to space exploration. More from his speech and the rest of the convention’s final night:

  • Trump’s speech lasted more than 70 minutes, NBC News reports. As expected, it also included digs on Joe Biden (he called him a “Trojan horse for socialism,” among other things), calls for law and order (he said “mob rule” must never be allowed), and a rosy outlook on the coronavirus pandemic and coming vaccine.
  • Others aligned with law enforcement also spoke during the night, and echoed Trump’s calls for law and order and the end of violent protests.
  • The AP reports hundreds of protesters gathered near the White House for a “noise demonstration and dance party,” hoping to drown out Trump’s speech, but there was no indication Trump heard them.
  • Trump was introduced by daughter Ivanka, who worked to humanize the president in her speech. “I recognize that my dad’s communication style is not to everyone’s taste. And I know his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered,” she said. But “I’ve been with my father and I’ve seen the pain in his eyes when he receives updates on the lives that have been stolen by this plague.”
  • Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, suggested that Black Lives Matter, along with antifa, is pushing Biden to “execute their pro-criminal, anti-police policies” and had “hijacked the protests into vicious, brutal riots.” The AP fact-checks this (there’s no evidence of Giuliani’s claim), as well as several other claims made during the night, here.
  • Alice Johnson, the grandmother whose drug sentence was commuted by Trump said his criminal justice reforms are “just getting started” and that his First Step Act “brought joy, hope and freedom to thousands of well-deserving people.”
  • Housing Secretary Ben Carson, the highest-ranking Black member of the Trump administration, offered his sympathies to the family of Jacob Blake, who was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
  • UFC head Dana White said Trump is the man to get the economy back on track after it was ravaged by the pandemic; he specifically mentioned the president’s commitment to bringing back sports safely.
  • Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said, per the Hill, that Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
  • One line from Mitch McConnell: The Democrats “want to tell you what kind of car you can drive. What sources of information are credible. And even how many hamburgers you can eat.” That’s a reference to the mistaken belief that proponents of the Green New Deal would limit beef consumption.

For me the most memorable moment or should I say “line”……

“I stand before you tonight honored by your support, proud of the extraordinary progress we have made together over the last four incredible years and brimming with confidence for the bright future we will build for America over the next four years,” he said. Think of Trump’s speech as the sequel to his 2016 acceptance speech, in which he memorably declared, “I alone can fix it.”

Trump did nothing but move his mouth…..his rambling talk went on for over an hour……and hour that none of us can ever get back…..but beyond that he talked and yet said nothing to give the voter confidence that the country can be saved from itself.

Where were the deficit hawks?  Fiscal conservs were NO where to be heard.

According to CNN’s Chirs Cillizza…..

Now, there’s an element of this sort of gush-fest in every political convention. The goal of these four-day affairs is to shape an image of the president (or presidential nominee) that is appealing to the broadest swath of people. Voters, as history has repeatedly proven, tend to pick a president based in large part on how that person makes them feel. Are they proud of that president? Does he seem like the sort of person who understands their hopes, fears and desires? All that sort of stuff.

But never before — at least in the modern history of politics — have we seen a party that is so dedicated to blindly following a president, and abandoning many of the bedrock principles upon which it once stood. There was nary a word on Monday night about the ballooning federal deficit. The social conservative wing of the party was also practically nonexistent.

Mercifully the GOP Convention is over……and now the real circus begins in earnest.

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2020 GOP Convention–Day 3

***News Flash–Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana….only good thing is that it made land in a sparsely populated area….this limited the deadly surge from doing much harm***

There have been two nights down and two more to go…..so far I have seen NOTHING that would give me hope that Trump will be a better president if given a second term.

Two days of ass kissing and lies…and two more waiting in the wings….and the Old Professor is watching and writing…..

Night #3 is in the can and what was the third night like from the sidelines?

President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara spoke Wednesday at the third night of the Republican National Convention, attributing this quote to Abraham Lincoln: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” The problem, as the Week explains, is Lincoln never said that; it’s been debunked multiple times, with one historian calling it a “corruption” of an actual Lincoln quote about “the perpetuation of our political institutions.” Another misstatement came from Sister Dede Byrne, a member of the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who said, per CNN, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are “the most anti-life presidential ticket ever, even supporting the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide.” But infanticide is the killing of a baby after its birth, which is illegal and not the same as abortion. More from the evening, which was capped by Mike Pence formally accepting the vice presidential nomination:

  • Kellyanne Conway did in fact speak, despite the recent announcement she’ll be leaving her role at the White House at the end of the month. She, as well as what Politico calls a “host” of other females, worked to “humanize” the president and highlight his treatment of women. “For decades, he has elevated women to senior positions in business and in government. He confides in and consults us, respects our opinions, and insists that we are on equal footing with the men.”
  • South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem also spoke about Lincoln, saying, “He was alarmed by the increasing disregard for the rule of law throughout the country. He was concerned for the people who had seen their property destroyed, their families attacked, and their lives threatened or even taken away. These good people were becoming tired of, and disgusted with, a government that offered them no protection. Sound familiar?” She also said Republicans treat people “as Martin Luther King, Jr. wished—according to the content of their character, not the color of their skin.”
  • In reference to the response to the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Marsha Blackburn said, “If the Democrats had their way, they would keep you locked in your house until you become dependent on the government for everything. That sounds a lot like Communist China to me—maybe that’s why Joe Biden is so soft on them.”
  • Speaking of China, Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who has long spoken out against Beijing, said, “The US must use its values of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law, to gather a coalition of other democracies to stop China’s aggression. President Trump has led on this, and we need the other countries to join him in this fight. A fight for our future.”
  • White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told the story of how “blown away” she was by Trump’s phone call before she got a double mastectomy . “Choosing to have a preventative mastectomy was the hardest decision I ever had to make,” she said. “But supporting President Trump, who will protect my daughter and our children’s future, was the easiest.”
  • Lou Holtz, former head football coach for Notre Dame, called Biden “Catholic in name only” as he denounced the Democratic candidate’s support for abortion rights.
  • Rep. Elise Stefanik referenced Trump’s impeachment trial: “This attack was not just on the President, it was an attack on you—your voice and your vote.”
  • At the last minute, an appearance by the CEO of Goya Foods was canceled due to what organizers called “a logistical problem.” Some boycotted the food company after its CEO expressed support for Trump.
  • Fox 10 Phoenix says that, when compared to the first two nights of the convention, Wednesday’s program was “low energy, with no major headline speaker beside the vice president and few boldface names. And it lacked some of the production elements that had made previous nights memorable, including slickly produced videos and surprise announcements, such as an unexpected presidential pardon and a citizenship ceremony.”
  • Before her husband spoke, second lady Karen Pence offered a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, per the AP. The amendment granted many women (overwhelmingly, white women) the right to vote.
  • In his own speech, Pence promised he and Trump would “make America great again, again.” He also promised a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming months: “Last week, Joe Biden said that no miracle is coming,” he said. “Well, what Joe doesn’t seem to understand is that America is a nation of miracles. And I’m proud to report that we’re on track to have the world’s first safe, effective coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year.”
  • He echoed Trump’s calls for law and order, and decried Biden for saying there is “systemic racism” and an “implicit bias” against people of color in America. “The American people know we don’t have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with African American neighbors to improve the quality of life in our cities and towns,” he said. “The hard truth is … you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America. Let me be clear: The violence must stop—whether in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha.” He added: “Law and order are on the ballot. … The choice in this election is whether America remains America.” Trump joined him on stage to close out the night, then mingled with the crowd at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry without wearing masks, per CNN.
  • Trump is, of course, due to formally accept the Republican presidential nomination Thursday during the convention’s final night, though Conway acknowledged to reporters that Hurricane Laura’s impact on the Gulf Coast could force a postponement. Campaign organizers say no changes are currently planned.

Pence gave a speech that is given at every GOP Convention……it was boring and a snooze……not the controversy of the second night but a night that could have been mailed in…..the dog whistle issue of Law and Order…..do not address the unrest just need for more cops to keep doing the same things over and over…..I will say that for those with the IQ of a garden slug it is a winning issue.

I have heard nothing in 3 nights that speaks to an inclusive party…they talk only to their slobbering supporters,…the rest of us be damned!

Laura approaches the coast and that is the biggest story of the night…..not much new was ever talked about during the course of the  night…..

I personally still have not heard anything that I think would be good for the country or that would give me a reason to support the GOP

Three down and one more (mercifully) left to go……and the big night when Trump speaks to his adoring supporters.

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2020 GOP Convention–Day Two

First night was predictably dull…..with chest thumping and exaggerations and the spreading of FEAR and a bleak description of the future……no serious conservatives just lots of Trump sycophants kissing ass…..but will Night Two be anything different? (NO seriously…..that is a real question)….

As promised here is the action for Night Two…..

Before night two of the Republican National Convention had even begun, there was controversy: Mary Ann Mendoza, who had been scheduled to speak on President Trump’s efforts to stop illegal immigration, was pulled from the schedule after retweeting a Twitter thread that included anti-Semitic and conspiratorial messages. As the AP reports, Mendoza’s son was killed in 2014 in a head-on crash with an illegal immigrant who was driving under the influence. “Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” Mendoza wrote atop the series of tweets that included what Politico calls “nearly every anti-Semitic trope of the last century to portray a Jewish cabal set on taking over American government.” She later deleted the post and tweeted that she had “retweeted a very long thread earlier without reading every post within the thread.” She apologized and said the Twitter thread “does not reflect my feelings or personal thoughts whatsoever.” More from the night:

  • Another Tuesday night speaker, anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, made headlines due to her own past statements. Johnson has advocated for “household voting,” in which wives defer to their husbands on all political decisions. She also said earlier this year that it would be “smart” for police officers to racially profile her biracial son, whom she and her husband adopted at birth, Vice reports: “Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons,” she said in a YouTube video following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. “Right now, Jude is an adorable, perpetually tan-looking little brown boy. But one day, he’s going to grow up and he’s going to be a tall, probably sort of large, intimidating-looking-maybe brown man.” Johnson is white, and said her biological children would grow up to look like “white nerdy men.”
  • Per CNN, much of the two hours went by with no mention of the coronavirus pandemic—until the night’s final speaker, first lady Melania Trump. “My deepest sympathy goes to everyone who has lost a loved one and my prayers are with those who are ill and suffering,” she said during the rare speech. “I want you to know you are not alone. My husband’s administration will not stop fighting until there is an effective treatment or vaccine for everyone.” She also said that while “we are not proud of parts of our history,” she encourages Americans “to focus on our future, while still learning from our past. We must remember that today, we are all one community, comprised of many races, religions, and ethnicities.”
  • Speaking of the lack of COVID-19 mentions, NBC News notes top economic adviser Larry Kudlow actually spoke about the crisis in the past tense: “It was awful. Health and economic impacts were tragic.”
  • The president himself made two “surprise” appearances, one to issue a pardon (more on that here) and the other to preside over a naturalization ceremony for new US citizens. “You followed the rules, you obeyed the laws, you learned our history, embraced our values, and proved yourselves to be men and women of the highest integrity,” he said at the White House ceremony, per Fox News.
  • Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made what CNN calls an “unprecedented” appearance from Jerusalem to highlight Trump’s foreign policy achievements; Democrats were decrying the move. “Here’s the weirdest aspect of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech,” EJ Dionne tweeted. “He broke all sorts of precedents, politicized the State Department, and ran into a storm of legitimate criticism for a short and unmemorable speech that may not have moved even 10 votes.”
  • Trump’s son Eric and daughter Tiffany also spoke, and a video highlighting how Trump has empowered women featured his other daughter, Ivanka; Melania; his daughter-in-law, Lara; and his other son’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle. (Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. spoke Wednesday; Ivanka will introduce her father before his acceptance speech Thursday.)
  • Nicholas Sandmann, the teenage star of the infamous Covington Catholic viral video, spoke out against cancel culture. Vox has an explainer on him here; for more on his appearance, see Yahoo News.

The night was a bit more professional than the first.  FOTUS made a speech that the president should be making…..it was a good speech for the most part.

All in all the night went off as much as the first….kissing ass and making up crap….

Night Three to come….will we have a repeat of Night One or Two?

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2020 GOP Convention–Day One

It is that time again…..this time it is the wonderful GOP Convention…and yes it will also be a virtual convention…..and another political circus for the pundits to enjoy.

How much fear can be spewed?   How much hate can be regurgitated?

The Republican National Convention got underway Monday, a four-night affair that will culminate with President Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night. Trump, though, is breaking with tradition and is expected to speak on all four nights. In fact, he made surprise remarks early during Monday’s proceedings after being formally nominated. (An AP fact check concludes that he “made a dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud” as well as health care.) At the end of the night, the AP declared Trump “omnipresent”; in addition to appearing during the night’s events, he of course also tweeted about them. Other big speakers included Donald Trump Jr.; Nikki Haley; Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black GOP senator; and Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple from St. Louis who were initially charged after waving guns at Black Lives Matters protesters, per the Washington Post. Highlights:

  • Dire warnings: Per Politico, a major theme of the night was the warning of “chaos” if Joe Biden wins in November. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who kicked things off, called Trump the “bodyguard of Western civilization” who was “elected to protect our families from the vengeful mob that seeks to destroy our way of life, our neighborhoods, schools, churches and values.” A Cuban-American businessman compared Biden to Fidel Castro. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said, “We must fight to save America now or we may lose her forever,” saying a Biden presidency would be a “horror film” involving citizens’ firearms being taken away, prisons being emptied, and the MS-13 gang running rampant.
  • Emphatic speeches from Trump Jr. and his girlfriend: Trump’s eldest son called Biden the “Loch Ness monster of the swamp”; Fox News has more on his address here. His girlfriend, and Trump’s campaign finance chair, Kimberly Guilfoyle, also gave a passionate speech; both of them kept with the theme of dark warnings should Biden win. KTLA says they painted California, in particular, as a “dangerous, dystopian wasteland.” Many news outlets have made note of the particularly passionate delivery Guilfoyle used; the Hill says she delivered her speech at a “near-constant shout.”
  • Black Americans speak up for Trump: Former NFL player Herschel Walker, who has known Trump for nearly four decades, said, “Growing up in the Deep South, I’ve seen racism up close, I know what it is, and it isn’t Donald Trump.” As for Scott, he gave the last big speech of the night, per CNN. He mentioned George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and cited Biden’s history as a senator to claim he would not defend minority communities. “Joe Biden said if a Black man didn’t vote for him, he wasn’t truly Black. Joe Biden said Black people are a monolithic community. Joe Biden said poor kids can be just as smart as white kids. And while his words are one thing, his actions take it to a whole new level.” Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones said, per the AP, that he is a “lifelong Democrat” who is for Trump. “The Democratic Party does not want Black people to leave the mental plantation they’ve had us on for decades,” he said.
  • Strong words from Haley: Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, said, per Politico: “My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. We faced discrimination and hardship, but my parents never gave into grievance and hate. It’s now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country.”
  • Health care workers speak up for Trump: A nurse and a surgeon both touted Trump’s coronavirus response. “Let me be clear, as a health care professional, I can tell you without hesitation Donald Trump’s quick action and leadership saved thousands of lives during COVID-19,” nurse Amy Johnson Ford said. Trump was also seen during the night thanking front-line workers including healthcare professionals, truck drivers, and small business owners.
  • Parent of Parkland victim blames the left: Andrew Pollack, whose teen daughter was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, said, “Gun control laws didn’t fail my daughter, people did. Far-left Democrats in our school district made this shooting possible.” He said of Trump, “I truly believe the safety of our kids depends on whether this man is re-elected.”
  • St. Louis couple speaks out: Among Mark McCloskey’s comments: “Not a single person in the out-of-control mob that you saw at our house was charged with a crime. But you know who was? We were. They actually charged us with felonies for daring to defend our home.”
  • Biden’s camp responds: “If you tuned into the Republican convention tonight looking for some indication from President Trump that he has a strategy to contain the coronavirus, you’re still waiting,” said Biden’s deputy campaign manager, per Fox News. “What you heard tonight was a parade of dark and divisive fear-mongering designed to distract from the fact that Donald Trump does not have an affirmative case to make to the American people about why he should be re-elected.”

MS-13?  When was the last tine you heard that term?  My guess is around 2016.

What was that Guilfoyle woman shouting about?  Oh Yeah….most Trump’s supporters are over 65…does she think they are all deaf?

Do speakers get paid?  If not then why would some of them actually show up?

So far I have not been disappointed in what I thought would be part of this convention…..FEAR rule the night.

All this from a party that did not think the party needed a platform of policies to run on….other than to kiss Trump’s ass.

There you have the first night of the GOP Convention…..night two may even more ridiculous.

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2020 RNC Convention begins tonight……and seems to be a family affair…..not to worry Trump has decided that he will give his acceptance speech on the grounds of the White House……..

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Republicans will aim to recast the story of Donald Trump’s presidency when they hold their national convention beginning Monday, featuring speakers drawn from everyday life as well as cable news and the White House while drawing a stark contrast with Joe Biden. Trump is looking to shift his campaign from being a referendum on a presidency ravaged by a pandemic and economic collapse and toward a choice between vastly different visions of America’s future. Reshaping the national conversation around the race has taken on greater urgency for Trump, who trails in public and private surveys as the devastation of the coronavirus. The four-day event’s theme is “Honoring the Great American Story,” the AP reports. The convention will showcase well-known supporters, including Trump family members, but also those whom the GOP say are members of the “silent majority” aided by the president’s policies.

The lineup will primarily feature figures on the conservative media circuit intended to energize Trump supporters. Planners insist they will present a more “positive” convention than the Democrats’ roasting of Trump. Yet the president appears intent on stoking cultural divides, particularly around racial injustice and policing. Speakers will include Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Jim Jordan of Ohio, staunch defenders of Trump; Nicholas Sandmann, who as a high school student gained attention for his interaction with a Native American man during Washington demonstrations; White House counselor Kellyanne Conway; Clarence Henderson, a civil rights figure from the 1960s addressing the “true meaning of peaceful protest”; Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney; Sen. Mitch McConnell; and UFC President Dana White. More than 1,000 guests are anticipated on the South Lawn when Trump delivers his acceptance speech Thursday night. The RNC has sought approval to launch fireworks after the speech.

The line-up appears to be those supporters that will kiss his, Trump, ass…but that is just my thoughts.

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