Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

[DrScholl]

MSNBC and Fox News are no longer carrying the RNC

What an accomplishment it is for the RNC. If Fox News stopped showing it then it must be really terrible.

[DrScholl]

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.

It really is funny that they are now using the same strategy that they accused Democrats have using (all attacks, no platform).

[DrScholl]

Just imagine what would have happened had a black couple pulled guns on Q-Anon or Tea Party protesters.

[DrScholl]

Just imagine what would have happened had a black couple pulled guns on Q-Anon or Tea Party protesters.

A primetime speaking slot at the DNC?

I'm going to make a very wild guess that that would not happen. The Democratic Party is no totally freaking insane like the Republican Party has become.

Just imagine what would have happened had a black couple pulled guns on Q-Anon or Tea Party protesters.

I'm sure some Qanon and Tea Party people have been robbed before somewhere along the line.

They most certainly have. By the black Republican running in safe Democratic districts acting like they can win when really all they are doing is scamming money from white conservatives and laughing behind their backs at how gullible they are. So technically you're right that they are being robbed.

[DrScholl]

Just imagine what would have happened had a black couple pulled guns on Q-Anon or Tea Party protesters.

They may get rewarded at the DNC or so...

But both sides, duh...

[DrScholl]

Says the Sikh women who converted to Methodism and calls herself Nikki Haley. Nimrata is a bad as name why did she change it.

We're up 9 points in the polls, you don't have to go after a woman for taking her husband's last name and converting religions LMAO.

Really. If a comment that distasteful had been directed towards Kamala Harris, red avs would not have tolerated it for a second. Personal attacks should all be allowed, not moderated selectively depending on the party of the person being criticized.

It wasn't an attack, but an observation about how some non-white conservatives seem to remake themselves to be more acceptable to white voters. Bobby Jindal hung up a portrait of himself that was 10 shades lighter than he really is.

[DrScholl]

To be honest I wish liberals were more patriotic. We're clearly the group more committed to the principles of America right now, so why not embrace it?

If liberals really were unpatriotic they would cheer on every destructive thing that Trump does and help him bring the country down. No one unpatriotic is going to be outraged at anything Trump has done or bother to try and vote him out.

[DrScholl]

I'm sorry, did Tim Scott just positively invoke Strom Thurmond?

Go on Tim. Do John C. Calhoun next.

South Carolina really has one hell of a history with Senators, doesn’t it?

Since the nation's founding, South Carolina has been the state that has caused the most problems for the US.  By a large margin.

South Carolina has disgraced us with John C. Calhoun, Benjamin Tillman, and Strom Thurmond, all of whom were infamous racists and white supremacists who deserve universal condemnation. Moreover, it was the state behind the Nullification Movement of the 1820s and of course, the state responsible for instigating secession from the Union. But I'd argue that Alabama and Mississippi give it a run for its money in terms of sheer racism and bigotry.

Mississippi is probably the worst. It had the most lynchings followed by Georgia and Texas. The Carolinas were lower down on the list.

[DrScholl]

I'm just waiting for when Melania comes on. It is positively exciting trying to figure out what black woman she decided to borrow a speech from.

[DrScholl]

"Text VOTE to 88022". Why is not surprising that 88 is in the number for the Trump campaign?

[DrScholl]

Why are Trump's suits so poorly tailored? There are off the rack suits that don't look this horrible.

[DrScholl]

What surplus? There is no surplus. The outright lies are unbelievable.

[DrScholl]

Hello Daniel Cameron. If all goes well for you you should get a Senate seat in 2026.

I'd rather see Matt Bevin get that seat.

[DrScholl]

It's so Republican of Daniel Cameron to invoke Breonna Taylor's name while doing nothing to charge the officers who killed her. All talk, zero action, it's the Republican way.

[DrScholl]

Melania's suit is quite militaristic.

[DrScholl]

This doesn't even sound like a speech from a First Lady or candidate's spouse. She's giving a generic message that sounds like she doesn't even know him.

[DrScholl]

Melania is probably going to vote for Joe Biden or maybe not at all.

[DrScholl]

Hello Daniel Cameron. If all goes well for you you should get a Senate seat in 2026.

I'd rather see Matt Bevin get that seat.

Why on earth would you want that?

For one reason I don't like how he used Breonna Taylor's name to try and score political points while not doing anything to hold the cops who killed her accountable. People like Cameron should not receive a platform to manipulate their way into the White House and further wreck this country with platitudes and a smile. Better the devil you know than the devil in disguise.

[DrScholl]

Republicans complaining about celebrities at the DNC is merely anger about the RNC only managing to pull D-List and viral celebrities. Having that crazy couple from St. Louis was the equivalent of the DNC having the "YOU ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR JOB!" lady speak.

Had the RNC been about to get Eva Longoria Republicans would have been on Twitter saying "WE AREN'T RACIST! WE GOT THE MEXICAN WOMAN FROM DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES TO HOST OUR CONVENTION! CRY HARDER, LIBERALS HAHAHAHA!"

[DrScholl]

Republicans complaining about celebrities at the DNC is merely anger about the RNC only managing to pull D-List and viral celebrities. Having that crazy couple from St. Louis was the equivalent of the DNC having the "YOU ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR JOB!" lady speak.

Had the RNC been about to get Eva Longoria Republicans would have been on Twitter saying "WE AREN'T RACIST! WE GOT THE MEXICAN WOMAN FROM DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES TO HOST OUR CONVENTION! CRY HARDER, LIBERALS HAHAHAHA!"

No we are complaining because we are sick and tired of out of touch Hollywood weirdo elitists telling
us that we are dumb uneducated people who vote against their own interests while they virtue signal
about opression from their giant mansions on the California coast and global warming while they fly
around in their private jets and look down on us

Your post formatting doesn't suggest good things about your education. Anyway, last time I checked your President was the gaudiest person to ever occupy the office with his multiple vacations billed to the taxpayer. If you feel inferior it's not because of anything anyone in Hollywood said. Inferiority comes from the inside.

[DrScholl]

Republicans complaining about celebrities at the DNC is merely anger about the RNC only managing to pull D-List and viral celebrities. Having that crazy couple from St. Louis was the equivalent of the DNC having the "YOU ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR JOB!" lady speak.

Had the RNC been about to get Eva Longoria Republicans would have been on Twitter saying "WE AREN'T RACIST! WE GOT THE MEXICAN WOMAN FROM DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES TO HOST OUR CONVENTION! CRY HARDER, LIBERALS HAHAHAHA!"

No we are complaining because we are sick and tired of out of touch Hollywood weirdo elitists telling
us that we are dumb uneducated people who vote against their own interests while they virtue signal
about opression from their giant mansions on the California coast and global warming while they fly
around in their private jets and look down on us

Your post formatting doesn't suggest good things about your education. Anyway, last time I checked your President was the gaudiest person to ever occupy the office with his multiple vacations billed to the taxpayer. If you feel inferior it's not because of anything anyone in Hollywood said. Inferiority comes from the inside.

Yeasssh thakts right mah man

I ain’t gots mach edcumankastions, I’m juz sum dumb redneck
white trash, I’m just a worthless deplorable like all the other
millions of white working class people who needs to be lectured
by costal elite celebrities with millions of dollars

SURLEY ATTACKING THE WHITE WORKING CLASS WILL ENSURE A
BIDEN LANDSLIDE

lolz.

[DrScholl]

She cannot be serious with this speech. Republicans stand for nothing that she stated that they stand for.

[DrScholl]

yall hate women

Stop playing identity politics immediately.

[DrScholl]

yall hate women

Okay Mr anti-choice

Did Kamala give women a choice when she put their kids in prison for marijuana an truancy?

That didn't happen. With that said, you all want law and order, but attack Harris for supposedly being too tough. Which is it? Do you want law and order or do you want to portray Harris as too tough on crime? It can't be both.

[DrScholl]

Did they really bring Cawthorn on? With the unwanted sexual advance scandal and the lying about his past?

In a normal political party who wouldn't have a leg to stand on after such revelations, but in the GOP anything goes.