Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

[Oak Hills]

I like how he's complaining about how the political, economic, and media elite has rigged the system in their favor when he's blatantly part of that elite.

[Oak Hills]

Is that Medea Benjamin?

[Oak Hills]

I bet he just convinced Jfern.

And then immediately unconvinced by pivoting to praising a walking stereotype of a right-wing politician.

[Oak Hills]

Why make the speech about crime? How is going hard on crime going to win over swing voters when it's at a historic low??

Have you not seen Ferguson, Baltimore, the college campuses?

As if a couple of riots are indicative of national crime statistics...

[Oak Hills]

It's like Trump has never seen those initials before in his life.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

[Oak Hills]

Donald Trump coming out for banning himself from the country.

[Oak Hills]

Where are the details to any part of this speech? There have been zero policy proposals.

I guess "build a wall" is all we're gonna get on that point.

[Oak Hills]

I'm sure the lawyers read the agreements, Donald.

[Oak Hills]

Here is something finally positive, tax reform. It only took an hour.

But even that is framed by vicious attacks on Hillary.

[Oak Hills]

Wow, this is really, really, really long. "Shorter Trump" is trending on twitter. Nate Silver made a comment about it.

When did he first start speaking?

I think it was around an hour ago.

[Oak Hills]

Thanking his family…I think he's almost done.

[Oak Hills]

It's like a piece of classic music, where the composer took great delight in playing with the audience's heads via fake endings.

Pretty much.

[Oak Hills]

AMERICA! DURO! AMERICA! ORGULLOSO! AMERICA! SEGURO! AMERICA! GRANDE!

Is that a Mussolini reference?

[Oak Hills]

CBS News says the speech was 74 minutes.