Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

[brucejoel99]

If anybody else is curious, Iowa cast all 40 of its delegate votes for Trump, so the 1 Weld delegate - whoever they are - chose to fall in line instead of abstain.

[brucejoel99]

If anybody else is curious, Iowa cast all 40 of its delegate votes for Trump, so the 1 Weld delegate - whoever they are - chose to fall in line instead of abstain.

I think that was automatic:

https://twitter.com/FHQ/status/1297913584924741635

Welp, sad day to be that 1 Weld delegate.

[brucejoel99]

A separate reality.

[brucejoel99]

I love how the DNC had celebrities like Eva Longoria as speakers while our convention is filled with regular, everyday Americans like the McCloskeys, the Covington kid, and Alice Marie Johnson.

The McCloskeys are super rich people who live in a mansion and constantly sue people to get their own way. On what planet do you live on where they are "everyday Americans"?

Everybody can relate to protecting their property. Their wealth and mansion have nothing to do with George Floyd. Most white middle class Americans, even those who are slightly sympathetic to BLM, saw a scene that has nothing to do with a protest outside a police station or courthouse.

You'd be right if you weren't just so wrong:

So it turns out the idea that the protesters tore down the McCloskey's gate to enter their property is false. The gate belonged to the neighborhood, and there is also video confirmation that they just opened it up and walked through without breaking/entering. The gate did end up broken so, maybe someone near the back of the line vandalized it or something, but it's a little different than the way the narrative is portraying it.

Next, it turns out that the idea that the protesters trespassed on the McCloskey's property is exaggerated and potentially false. Yes, they did trespass in the neighborhood since they weren't there by invitation, but they were walking on the streets and sidewalks. The crowd was in the neighborhood to protest at the mayor's house and no one knew or cared who the McCloskeys even were. The only connection is that they happened to walk by their house. I obviously don't have access to the property deeds to ensure that no protester set foot on any McCloskey property before the confrontation, but if they did it was inadvertent and inconsequential.

Finally, the idea that it was a violent, angry mob who threatened the lives of the McCloskeys appears to be false, at least almost entirely false with vanishingly few exceptions. The crowd was by all accounts peaceful until the McCloskeys revved it up by threatening them and pointing guns. Some protesters said some ugly things in response, including at least 1 threat on the level of what the McCloskeys were throwing at the protesters. However, had the McCloskeys just stayed in their house, the protesters would have just kept on walking by and everything would have been fine for everyone, because as I pointed out, the protesters weren't there for the McCloskeys. They were walking past that house to get to the mayor's house.

I'm just not seeing anyway for the McCloskeys to be in the right on this. The protesters had nothing to do with the McCloskeys until the McCloskeys decided to have something to do with them, and it was the McCloskeys who escalated the encounter to include threats and pointing guns. The fact that the Trumpist side has to make up a fake narrative about them in order to have a competent-sounding defense speaks volumes.

[brucejoel99]

Matt Gaetz unironically called himself a Florida Man.

Ladies & gentlemen, the 2020 Republican Party.

[brucejoel99]

Ronna McDaniel: "If you watched the DNC last week, you heard how little they talked about actual issues & policies."

Ronna McDaniel's GOP: *literally not running a platform*

[brucejoel99]

Let's be real, the presentation is more professional than the DNC.

No, this is a really low-budget production. It's like somebody's homemade sh*t (probably because it is, given how much time they had to put this together).

[brucejoel99]

This montage video takes some f**king balls. Trump was still dismissing it into April & even May. But of course, it doesn't include any clips of him saying that the virus wasn't a concern & that things were gonna be back to normal really quickly. Nope. None of that.

[brucejoel99]

Let's be real, the presentation is more professional than the DNC.

No, this is a really low-budget production. It's like somebody's homemade sh*t (probably because it is, given how much time they had to put this together).

It looks good enough to me on C-SPAN. No different then Democratic Convention all in all. The only flaw I've noticed is the weird camera angles that they used on Matt Gaetz.

Oh, I was referring to the montage video re: "Promises Made, Promises Kept" that aired before the nurse from WV came on. But yeah, the live speeches are fine production-wise.

[brucejoel99]

Somebody wanna tell these postal employees that they're violating the Hatch Act by using the influence of their jobs to participate in a partisan political activity?

[brucejoel99]

Wait, did Trump just imply that he had COVID? Why did he say he took the same sh*t that the other guy was given when he did have COVID?

[brucejoel99]

Achievement Unlocked: Taking the long way around saying "I have a black friend"

He's not a racist, here's the testimony of his one Black "friend" to prove it!!

[brucejoel99]

"Democrats health care plan is for you to smoke marijuana and take drugs!"

That speech made my brain hurt lol, how in the hell do Obamacare/a public option/M4A all somehow translate into marijuana, opioids, & euthanasia?

[brucejoel99]

Y'know, 47 years of public service would imply that Biden's, y'know, actually successful at this whole public service thing.

[brucejoel99]

One wonders if they're just gonna spend all 4 nights just talking about how bad "the Democrats" are & fear-mongering about what "they" will do if elected.

It's not a winning strategy.

[brucejoel99]

MEME TIME!

[brucejoel99]

"Marxist liberal activists"

bro what lmao!?!

[brucejoel99]

That was some serious dog-whistle sh*t.

[brucejoel99]

Kimberly Guilfoyle's speech sounds ridiculous without a live audience. Someone needs to whisper in her ear to quit yelling for Christ's sake!

She should be named the winner of the next Jeanine Pirro Award.

[brucejoel99]

Gavin & her splitting up makes sense now. She's f**king cray-cray.

[brucejoel99]

Though break for Scalise, having to follow Yelly McYellerson.

[brucejoel99]

Will there be an RNC bump for Trump?

Both sides get no bump - not this time around.

Biden has literally been getting a bump already, though.

[brucejoel99]

"A party that wants to chain you to conformity & will destroy anyone they deem a heretic" is pretty f**king rich coming from a member of the Republican Party in the year 2020.

[brucejoel99]

Ronna McDaniel attacked the DNC earlier for having "famous Hollywood actress" Eva Longoria emcee one of their nights.

Tonight's RNC has now had famous Hollywood actor Jon Voight narrate 2 videos.

Irony is dead.

[brucejoel99]

Will there be an RNC bump for Trump?

Both sides get no bump - not this time around.

Biden has literally been getting a bump already, though.

Sorry... meant no "historical" post convention bump...  you may see a temporary 2-3%, but nothing more.  

Ah gotcha. Tbf, though, the favorability bump seen thus far has been 5-7%, not 2-3%.