GOP National Convention - July 15-18, 2024

Feature, not a bug.

 

It was not low energy. You are watching the clips the MSM chose to show.

Honestly, I enjoyed the rest of the convention much more than his speech. The speech was OK. IMO it will not move the needle either way for a lot of people. It was typical Trump.

The part where he explained how he gets things done with these dictators who push back was very insightful. He knows how to play hardball with dictators by making threats. He denied aid to some of these countries to arm wrestle them into compliance. He threatened military action against dictators, and dictators 100% believed him and backed down when he made those threats.

 

I said as much while the speech was going on:

The speech was fine and nothing he said was in and of itself too off-putting, but it was an extremely well produced, disciplined, and high energy convention as a whole and, particularly by contrast to the rest of the convention, a wandering nearly two hour long tour through everything Donald Trump wanted to talk about that started after 10 PM definitely got boring in the middle.

 

Honestly, if the next 4 years of Trump end up being “boring”, like middle of the speech, that would be a big win in my books.

 

Serious questions since his brain is mush at this point, but he thinks Hannibal Lecter is a real person right?

Where is our illustrious MSM not hammering him for thinking Scott Walker is still the Governor of Wisconsin?

 

it was quite disconcerting to turn back to the boring RNC and hear a building full of MAGA screaming with rage……..“FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!”

 

Thought? Donald Trump?

 

It's crazy people want to vote for a demented clown who brings criminals, racists and other scumbags up to speak at his nominating convention but not his former cabinet members or Vice President or virtually anyone outside his grifter circle.

The GOP is dead. Short live the Trump party.

 

That was MAGA's response to Dear Leader's call for "unity".

 

Why didn't we come up with THIS idea : drink every time you see a felon on the floor of the Republican National Committee nomination? Shots if they are speaking. Keg stand if they're the nominee.

 

Since the literal start of the quote last night was “has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs?”, I’d say pretty clearly not.

 

Followed by "the late, great Hannibal Lecter." Not Anthony Hopkins, but Lecter.

Be wrong less often.

 

Anthony Hopkins is still alive too.

If anything, the better argument would be that he might not know what the word “late” means in that context given that Hopkins is still alive and Lecter didn’t die in the movie.

And I tend to think that most people, if quoting a movie character, would say the character’s name rather than the actor. If I wanted to reminisce with you about the dialogue in Toy Story, I wouldn’t say “As Tom Hanks once said, ‘there’s a snake in my boots!’”

 

Hmm, so the problem is "late" not "great." Okay.

 

The candidate was a TV game show host so his guest stars fit right in with his vision for America

 

According to multiple fact checkers, the felon averaged roughly one blatant lie every 4 min.