Ok….
I didn’t watch this….
I’m NOT Sorry….
It was Trumpian politics as television. And it was dismal.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host and top surrogate of President Trump, delivered a grim, forceful speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday, accusing Democrats of working to “destroy this country” and “enslave” Americans with a “liberal victim ideology.”
The speech, delivered in a near-constant shout, painted a dark picture of the United States if former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) were to win the White House in November.
“They want to destroy this country and everything we have fought for and hold dear,” Guilfoyle, who is dating Trump’s eldest son Donald Jr., said. “They want to steal your liberty, your freedom, they want to control what you see and think and believe so that they can control how you live.”
“They want to enslave you to the weak, dependent, liberal victim ideology to the point where you will not recognize this country or yourself.”….
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk gave the first address of the Republican National Convention on Monday, touting President Trump as “the bodyguard of Western civilization.”
“Speaking to you in my personal capacity tonight as a 26-year-old, I see the angst of young people as well as the challenges facing new parents,” said Kirk, the founder of the pro-Trump student group Turning Point USA.
“I am here tonight to tell you, to warn you, that this election is a decision between preserving America as we know it and eliminating everything that we love,” he continued….
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Trump spoke with front-line workers who have helped the nation during the coronavirus pandemic on Monday night, including healthcare professionals, truck drivers and small business owners.
The president thanked each person for their contributions during the past several months fighting Covid-19. Two of the attendees said they had contracted the virus and recovered with the help of medical care like antibiotics and cough syrup.
“I won’t even ask you about the hydroxychloroquine,” Trump said, referencing a drug that multiple studies have shown is not effective against the virus. “It’s a shame what they did to that one. I took it.”….
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“Democrats won’t let you go to church, but let you protest. Democrats won’t let you go to work, but let you riot. Democrats won’t let you go to school, but they’ll let you go loot,” he said, contending that Trump “has fought against each of their crazy ideas.”
[Jim] Jordan also sought to humanize the president, recalling that when the congressman’s nephew was killed suddenly several years ago, Trump reached out to offer his condolences and “took time to talk to a dad who was hurting.”
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Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, said policies implemented by Democrats in his Florida district are to blame for his child’s death.
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“America is not a racist country” –
Jack’s fellow South Carolinians, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, gave very good speeches.
But (with a couple of half-exceptions like Maximo Alvarez) almost all of the speakers I heard (often only briefly until I could stand no more) were delivering their unfounded boasts about DJT’s management and nightmares about the fractious, totalitarian Socialist dystopia that Joe Biden (managed by Antifa and the Squad) would bring to this country.
I heard Haley, Trump Jr and Scott….
Scott had a good delivery but he had it twisted like the rest….
Ya couldn’t get on without accepting Trump’s alternate reality….
In the end?
These people are only reaching for the 40% of Trump’s supporters and THAT Isn’t gonna help Trump keep his job… I’d think…
Brian Tyler Cohen
@briantylercohen
Whatever Don Jr and Kimberly Guilfoyle took together backstage, it was too much.
POLITICO
@politico
Donald Trump Jr. blasted Dems as the party of intolerance and elitism tonight during a fiery address at the RNC:
“They want to bully us into submission. If they get their way, it will no longer be the silent majority. It will be the silenced majority”
https://politi.co/32kT06Z
(I can’t believe Trump’s kid REALLY said that….)
“MAGA red hat wearing bootlickers!”
The Rabbi from the synagogue next door to the McCloskey’s–the St. Louis gun couple warning that Biden would destroy the suburbs by allowing poor people to move in–speaks about how he destroyed the congregation’s beehive because it was six inches inside his property line. Who wouldn’t want them to move into their neighborhood?
https://forward.com/news/national/453183/the-rabbi-who-is-neighbor-to-mark-and-patricia-mccloskey-speaks-out-they/
Pat Buchanan is a happy man today.
Good point Keith. This reminds Me of the 1992 RNC where Pat Buchanan basically took it over despite losing the primary to GHW Bush. Only this year the the red meat being tossed our is super irradiated Trump steaks!
When an incumbent runs on fear it shows they have nothing to offer in the next four years.
And it’s a terrible admission that no incumbent party wants to make: “after four [or eight or twelve] years of our party’s rule, we haven’t overcome these terrible evils*, but we’ll solve them in the next four years while the Opposition can only make them worse.”
* e.g. Covid-19, rioting in the streets, mass unemployment, hunger, evictions….
I know some will try to say he got things done….
But from were i sit?
He has been unable to get many major things done except make the rich richer and the big companies more money…
Shit Scott?
The guy can’t even SAY what he would do in a second term🙄
There will be SOOOooooooo many things he would be able the screw up‼️
Like — “If I could tell you what I’d do when re-elected, then maybe we could (for instance) change the 2016 platform !”
He, he, he……
Yea …..
The platform that reads…..
I’m the Man …..
You are my subjects….
Ref: V. Putin
Well, the Deep State is so huge (couple of million Federal workers) that the President has only just scratched the surface of what he could corrupt, pervert, distort and destroy.
So many military and civil servants; so little time in four short years; no wonder he feels the need for twelve.
For example, I don’t think he’s even begun (except with a Sharpie) on the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. And then there’s the Patent Office!
Second Night after action report post will be up in a little more than a hour….
Hey DSD?
What does Election Projection say?
Ok….
I’m NOT watching the GOPer’s yet…
I head Kudlow and another guy and it IS more alternate reality Bull Shit served up…
I’ll get back to them in a few….
Pompeo and Trump’s third wife ain’t gonna make my evening….
Now…
Back to us DSD…
The Blogging Caesar gives a final 334 to 204….Biden…
With Ariz, Florida, Maine, Mich, Neb CD2, Minneolas, NC?!, Pa, and Wis…..along with the regular Blue states…
Not bad James…..
NC is only out on a limb….
I do NOT see Iowa , or Georgia as Biden’s under any circumstance…
The Texas polls are just teasers….
Again….
Texas and Georgia for Biden, even by a hair (that Trump would fight) would be blow out city against Trump….
I just saw the first part of tonights event, the swearing in of the citizens, I am glad for those people, but I am literally sick to my stomach seeing this guy and his administration…
I would say we were all in shock after last election, that feeling would be ten times worse if it happens again, because then we didn’t know how bad it could be, now we know how bad it could be and it would only get worse…
They were a prop…..
Trump HATES immigrants and Immigration….