RNC members were just notified that the executive committee voted to earlier this evening to adopt the 2016 rules and platform for the 2020 convention that is in progress on a location, per person who saw the notification.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 10, 2020
Since they haven’t been successful at achieving those platform goals in the first 4 years of the Trump administration
— MisterZofter (@Zoftwarz) June 10, 2020
Essentially, it sounds like they're just going to skip right to the part where Trump accepts the nomination uncontested.
— Corey Kendall (@ckendall77) June 10, 2020
So, they’ve scrapped what can be scrapped — fortunately, so little has changed in the national political climate since 2016 — and are officially decamping for a new location well into Trump (and coronavirus) country. Wonder how the delegates will feel about getting abandoned in Charlotte to do the gruntwork, while the Big Swinging Dongles party in Jacksonville?
Republicans expect to move their national convention from Charlotte, N.C., to Jacksonville, Fla., a shift planned after President Trump told officials in North Carolina that he did not want to use social distancing measures aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus, according to three senior Republicans.
The decision could change, the Republicans cautioned, but as of now, officials are on track to announce the new location as early as Thursday…
Jacksonville is the most populous city in Florida, where Ron DeSantis, a Republican and an ally of Mr. Trump, is the governor. Jacksonville’s mayor, Lenny Curry, is a longtime Republican official.
Once they decided to uproot the convention, Mr. Trump’s aides and Republican officials had wanted to relocate to a state, and a city, controlled by Republicans. Jacksonville also may have enough hotel rooms to accommodate the gathering, people familiar with the discussions said, and it is a comparatively easy drive from Charlotte.
New reported cases of the coronavirus are on the rise in both North Carolina and Florida…
Guess the delegates get to use their non-refundable air tickets and hotel rooms in Charlotte, and are free to make their own way to Florida, if they can find a room and don’t mind playing Covid-19 roulette. Lucky duckies!
… The Republican National Committee notified members that its executive committee had voted unanimously to adopt the 2016 rules and platform for 2020, a reflection of concerns about whatever business is conducted in Charlotte being done by a small number of people.
The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, had been working to make changes to the platform to remove some of the language about gay rights, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, which will now remain in the platform. The platform in 2016 also weakened the party’s position on support for Ukraine against Russian aggression…
Will there be protests, regardless? Is the Pope a Catholic? Is Donald Trump a racist?
… Jacksonville is among the dozens of cities and towns where protesters have called for changes in the treatment of black people by law enforcement. On Tuesday, Mr. Curry walked with protesters who were demonstrating outside City Hall. Early Tuesday morning, city officials took down a confederate statue there.
Party conventions are often the focus of protests, and an event in Jacksonville is unlikely to be an exception.
“It’s a little too early right now to plan, but I can guarantee you’re going to see some protesting,” said Isaiah Rumlin, the president of the Jacksonville branch of the N.A.A.C.P…
No surprise, per the local news, Jackonsville leaders are just thrilled to bits!
… Duval GOP Chairman Dean Black said if the RNC comes to Jacksonville, the pandemic will be taken into consideration, but he referred us to the RNC for details on the plans.
Black said this would be the biggest event for Jacksonville since the Superbowl in 2005.
“This is an opportunity for Jacksonville to shine,” Black said.
He admits they have their work cut out for them.
Typically, it takes at least two years to plan an event of this scale, but Black said they would have less than 2.5 months to prepare.
It’s not a done deal just yet. RNC Officials sent Action News Jax a statement that said “No final decision has been made there are several cities still being visited/considered. It very well could end up being Jacksonville but at this point they are still doing site visits.”
Think harder, Jacksonville inhabitants! Maybe you could fake a Zika recurrence? A yellow fever outbreak? Yersinia pestis?
Brachiator
Maggie Haberman gets paid for “reporting” this?
It’s a glorified press release.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
The logo is obviously an elephant mating with a black widow spider which is what happened when the GOP mated with Dump.
cain
An event that take 2.5 years to plan, but will be done in 2.5 months intead – but they haven’t really decided on a venue.
Yeah, this RNC is going to be the best ever. Never mind that by this time Florida is going ot be knee deep in COVID-19 sexy times. America, fuck yeah!
cain
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
Actually that looks suspiciously like a crown. This isn’t a convention it is a coronation. I hope there is a procession, a throne and Trump walking it solemnly while scratching his balls.
John Revolta
Hilarious.
Am ordering all the popcorn.
allium
@cain: The crown comes from an alternate design for the city flag. Charlotte is also known as “The Queen City” after its namesake Queen Charlotte (the wife of King George III).
Keith P.
This is a recipe for disaster – short-term planning of a major public event involving major members of the government…global pandemic….global protests….POTUS who deploys military to improve(!) his optics…Florida in August. Am I missing anything?
Kent
Florida man chooses Jacksonville, the crown jewel of Florida…..bwah ha ha.
Anyone here actually BEEN to Jacksonville?
It makes Orlando look cosmopolitan.
scott (the other one)
Some people are saying that anyone wearing a mask at the convention is antifa. I’m not saying it. But some people are.
Amir Khalid
@cain:
I look forward to the reporting on the 2020 Republican National Clusterfuck, and Trump proclaiming a triumph as it all comes crashing down around him.
Craigie
@Kent:
The last time I was in Orlando, I saw a man leading a camel down the sidewalk. Seemed completely reasonable to me.
meander
First, I’m surprised that the RNC’s Exec Committee didn’t condense the 2020 platform to the following points:
Second, people are going to have to get busy making GIFs of the many great Jacksonville quotes from Jason Mendoza and other in “The Good Place,” so we’ll have plenty to use during the convention.
mrmoshpotato
You brilliant bastards. I love you all! ???
Mike J
All I can think of is The Good Place.
“One time at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Jacksonville — the nice one, not the one above the gas station — I ate 50 of them in two minutes! Everyone at the hospital was so impressed.”
NotMax
It’s a distance of around 700 miles. Like the driving distance from Times Square to Atlanta, or Chicago to Trenton.
Kent
@Craigie: Well, the first time I was in Miami a guy stuck a live chicken into my car window trying to sell chickens on the street corner. That was right after the Mariel Boatlift when I was driving through Miami to the keys for a marine biology summer trimester.
Gotta love Florida at some level.
West of the Rockies
@Keith P.:
A dose of murder hornets?
Kent
This is going to go over well with the Floridians.
NotMax
@Kent
Well, Yeehaw Junction (formerly Jackass Junction) was booked solid.
;)
(Yes, it is a real place in Florida.)
sdhays
@NotMax: Yeah, I was wondering what they were comparing it to. Moscow, maybe?
MattF
Now, Republicans will have a chance for a genuine ‘I can’t breathe’ experience. Without the need for a change of skin color. R motto will be ‘We kill’.
Kelly
and NOAA predicts a busy hurricane season
mrmoshpotato
I understand the character limits on the Twitters, but this shit is grammatical garbage!
And my drunk ass had to erase a few words and then proofread. WHY DO THEY PAY YOU, MAGS? OH RIGHT…
John Revolta
@meander: KInda wordy. Let’s cut to the chase here:
1. More money for us
2. Fuck you
I think that about covers it!
sdhays
@Keith P.: You forgot: the local government officials are Republicans, so basic competence is unlikely, particularly considering that the entire reason that the RNC is shopping around for a new venue is to find a city government which cares so little about its citizens that it won’t attempt to enforce any CDC recommendations on masks or social distancing. Shitty local officials are the entire point.
Emma
Does anyone have any good ideas for educator-related slogans to put on a BLM sign? I’m going to a protest at a nearby suburb with a bunch of fellow educators, parents, students from the area, and I’m trying real hard to think of slogans that aren’t profanity-laced, but still have some kind of interest. And the students are gonna be like, elementary and middle-schoolers, so dark humor is probably off the table. I’m thinking of “Educators support BLM” for side 1, and it’s not the punchiest, hence why I need help lol. I don’t even know what to do for side 2.
Kent
Yes, this. One doesn’t even have to get anywhere near Jacksonville to completely throw the state into chaos with the evacuations, freeway reversals, and so forth. I’ve traveled enough through the south during hurricane season. You don’t even have to come within 500 miles of a hurricane to find complete chaos, total lack of hotel rooms, stores stripped bare, stations out of gas, and everything else.
cain
@allium:
But you must agree it is no accident that they used a crown. That symbolism cannot be ignored.
Kelly
@Kent: Here on the Left Coast I’m expecting the the good news this summer will be that the tsunami from the giant Cascadia earthquake has put out the record breaking forest fires.
cain
@Amir Khalid:
Imagine how many of those delegates are gonna get sick. That’s gonna suck for them. Thoughts and prayers.
Yep, it’s gonna be a clusterfuck but he’ll still be talking about his 2016 victory as they lead him away into a fan.
mrmoshpotato
Woo hoo! The Rethuglican party continues to be a goddamn fucking pile of shit for longer than I’ve been alive!
Hooray! Consistency!
Martin
@Craigie: Go hang out in Morningside Heights in early October for a real treat. See a lot more than just camels walking around the upper west side.
cain
@NotMax:
That’s further than going from Portland to San Francisco – that’s pretty much an all day drive – about 10 or 11 hours. Yeah, they are gonna love that. Probably be getting sick on the way back. (of which they will have to leave early and miss out on the closing ceremonies.. oops)
West of the Rockies
@West of the Rockies:
Not to be confused with mayhem weasels or assault bunnies.
oclib
I did Navy boot camp in Orlando, Fl from July thru Sept in `70. Born and raised in Oregon. They gave me a choice of San Diego, Great Lakes or Orlando. I’m like, never been to Florida, let’s give it a shot….sigh….live and learn….
cain
@Kent:
The 2nd term is going to be an epic trash the place and give the finger to everyone. By the time he is done in 4 years, he would have destroyed pretty much everything and set everything back decades and hopefully he will go to jail after that.. or he will figure out how to run for a 3rd term. Unfortunately, there will be a new first lady for the 3rd term as by then Trump would have found a new playmate – possibly Kayleigh, although she’s not blond enough.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
“You’re pulling my leg, right? You want a golden escalator how high?”
//
Lyrebird
@Emma:
“Black Students Matter”?
“Black Educators Matter”?
“Let my students breathe”?
cain
@Kelly: That would be some real tough shit if there happens to be a hurricane during that time – they would have to shut down everything – so sad.
mrmoshpotato
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: No, David. The GOP wanted this shouted racism and fascism for decades, but no one had the racist, fascistic abandon until now.
Kelly
So incubation time of a couple weeks and mid September the core of the Republican party are gonna be down with the Rona just as the campaign need to kick into high gear. Oh, that’s a shame.
NickM
@NotMax: It’s actually about half that distance – I get 383 miles or about a 6 hour drive.
Not defending the GOP, mind you – having two conventions is twice as bad as having one in this pandemic.
HalfAssedHomesteader
You had me at “Florida in August”!
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid:
We envy your distance across our country and the world’s biggest ocean. :)
Emma
@Lyrebird: Oooh, I really like “Let my students breathe,” thanks! I thought about the first two earlier today, but I decided against being specific on which black lives we’re talking about here, since it’s not just the “respectable” ones that matter. I’ll keep thinking, but thanks again, definitely going to do the third one on one of the sides!
mrmoshpotato
@Mike J:
Jason! Yes! It was a great show.
NotMax
@oclib
Obligatory?
:)
mrmoshpotato
@Kent:
If Jacksonville is anywhere close to Jason’s description on The Good Place…
philpm
Have they decided how Adelson and Putin are splitting the cost of all the empty hotel rooms and convention center?
Mai naem mobile
I think Roy Cooper will win a second term based on him rejecting the RNC convention. The Orange Moron is going to want a mask free MAGGOT rally which will leave a string of COVID cases behind him. The local labor servicing these idiots and the rally attendees.
oclib
@NotMax:
yeah…new adventure….what awaits me…..
mrmoshpotato
@Emma:
Black Kids Matter
Omnes Omnibus
@cain: What 2d term?
Kent
Hope Hicks is the new young Melania. That’s why she got called back from Fox.
oclib
@oclib:
I should say, that Orlando wasn’t even a glimmer in Disney’s eye back then….
mrmoshpotato
@oclib: Ouch. San Diego, and Chicago is an hour train ride from Great Lakes Naval Station.
Amir Khalid
I have a brilliant idea. Every day the Fox News host, whoever they are, should just look into the camera and just say, ” It’s 9:30 in the morning, Mr President. Maybe you should turn off the TV and get to work.”
James E Powell
@Emma:
I have this problem not just with slogans, but across the board. Tweets, blog comments, voice mail messages, casual remarks to Trump supporters in line with me at Costco . . .
SiubhanDuinne
@Kelly:
Rona Romney McDaniel?
Calouste
@Kent: Hurricanes are pretty massive mofos, Hurricane force winds 100 miles out from the center are not rare. And then of course predicting their path is hard.
mrmoshpotato
@cain: It will be “Pour the gas and toss a match.”
We already have 40 FUCKING YEARS of Supreme Court Injustice Neil Goresuch and blackout drunk college rapist Brett Kavanaugh.
And 1/4 of the Federal judges being prepubescent right wing nutjobs for the next 50 YEARS!
Emma
@James E Powell: haha, I’ve taken the route of “I can’t swear at work, so I’m going to swear extra when I’m home.” Good thing I plan never to have kids.
trollhattan
@Kent:
“Clear” chickens were one of the less-successful Scientology recruitment schemes.
oclib
@mrmoshpotato:
been to both and as an 18yo naïve Oregonian, my best decisions were ahead of me at the time…. :)
cain
@Omnes Omnibus:
Speculative dark humor, sir :-)
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: What work?
Dump thought the presidency was being praised for his tremendousness.
NotMax
@NickM
Emma
@mrmoshpotato: what I said to Lyrebird, thought about that earlier today, but decided not to specify any category of black lives. Might be being too nit-picky, but I figure it’s better to be overly careful with words than not careful enough…
cain
She’s gonna run the presidency by proxy – by that time – Hicks will running the country while feeding a cold oatmeal to Trump while he still blabbers about his 2016 election win.
Trump will also start calling her ‘mother’.
NotMax
@Emma
Go with a classic?
“And liberty and justice for all”
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: Corona Romney McDaniel
cain
@Amir Khalid:
Speaking of tv and maybe ads, I had this idea that we would run biden/project lincoln ads on hannity, ingraham and tucker – just shitting on Trump – I understand at least Laura Ingraham is running at a loss. I bet they are desperate and the ad buys would be desperate.. it would be the kind of ratfucking Wilson could get behind.
cain
@mrmoshpotato:
There was some discussion some years ago about how congress could just add more SCOTUS justices and tilt it more liberal. Didn’t Truman do that? Or was that FDR?
mrmoshpotato
@oclib: Hehe, understood.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
383 miles, city center to city center.
SectionH
WTAF? Why haven’t ppl already made a HUGE stink about the fucking CROWN behind the elephant? FFS…
Sigh, I guess that’s supposed to be a Basketball? Oh then the stars…
How awfully can they pander?
Call it subliminal? I’m a graphic designer* and that Is a crown.
*even though I can usually spell.
Emma
@NotMax: heh, I hate the Pledge of Allegiance with a burning passion, but there may be a way to do a BLM twist on the phrase… hmmm. Thanks! Sloganeering is hard, and I have a headache from sitting too long in the sun hours ago, urgh.
mrmoshpotato
@Emma: Good idea. Not sure how to imply children. Sorry.
mrmoshpotato
@cain: I don’t remember when the Supreme Court was expanded.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@Emma: Black Minds Matter
Ruckus
@Kent:
First time I was in Miami I had to go the the bank on Saturday morning to pick up about $35,000. in cash for an event because the new president of the organization had set down his briefcase with that amount in it and walked away from it on Friday night and someone came along and picked it up. Do you have any idea how it feels to walk around a strange city with $35,000 in cash in your pocket? I’ve had to do it twice. It’s not exactly a calming experience.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Last change was, if memory serves, late in the 1860s, setting it to 9 after a short time when it was 10.
mrmoshpotato
@The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion: Oh! That is good!
Emma
@mrmoshpotato: No worries! It’s more that I don’t want to unwittingly
perpetrateperpetuate (goddamn headache) the dichotomy of little angels worth protecting vs. scary black men who’ve “proven” that they’re not worth caring about.@The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion: ooo, that’s an interesting one, very nice.
Steeplejack
<a href=”#comment-7736451″>@NickM</a>:
Yeah, “700 miles” is out of whack.
smike
@Emma:
Look!
Think!
Learn!
BLM!
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Ah, I see I inadvertently typed Charlottesville rather than Charlotte.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before my time. Were you still wearing long pants in those days? ?? (i laughed while writing this.)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
iT’S JuSt iNcReAsEd tEsTiNg gUyS! sToP BeInG SuCh dOoMeRs! CaN’T LiVe iN FeAr!
Wow, Jared was going to do something smart for once. Opposing gay marriage in 2020, that’s good look for the GOP
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@cain:
That’s exactly what it is. And these same fuckheads in 2016 whined about Clinton being “coronated”
@allium
Still not a good look, given the who they’re nominating
Emma
@smike: oh my gosh, you guys are the best, I like your suggestion a lot too! I might have to buy another poster board to include all the suggestions and make my student hold it…
Ruckus
Actually that doesn’t look like a crown, it looks like 2 cops bending over someone. I don’t see raised batons so they must be shooting the guy on the ground.
Even more actually it looks like a 4 yr old on drugs did that with an etch a sketch.
Rina99
Ugh, I live in Jacksonville. If the RNC clusterfuck actually happens here, my niece and I will be attending our first protest.
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Yeah, man! We’re all gonna die some day! So chill the fuck out! And vote for Dump, broskovich! NO COLLISION!
ETA – and NO COLLUSION!
NotMax
Are there five stars because you-know-what has five children?
Steeplejack
@Emma:
Perhaps “Teachers support BLM” for Side 1? “Educators” sounds kind of jargon-y. Maybe overkill for a simple protest sign.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Would you believe knickerbockers?
;)
mrmoshpotato
@Rina99: Do you need protest sign suggestions?
(Sorry, do you need to be flooded with protest sign suggestions?)
Emma
@Steeplejack: yeah, I know what you mean, but since I’m actually a paraeducator and not a certificated teacher, it seemed a little weird to lump us all together as “teachers” lol. (Even though, yes, we’re all teachers in the general sense…)
Aleta
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: The New York basketball team? Not pants, not shorts. Those are stilts!
Martin
@Ruckus: The key to it is telling yourself that you’re the only one who knows you have that much on you. If you start looking like a dude carrying a bundle, that’s when you’re in trouble.
Martin
@Emma: No Justice, No Teach.
CaseyL
@mrmoshpotato: “Black Kids Matter” – I like that one!
Something strange happening in Seattle: Monday, protestors occupied a 6-block section of the Capitol Hill neighborhood (so named back when Seattle was hoping to become the state capital). The occupation capped a battle of the streets that ended with the cops shutting down their precinct station and leaving. The area has been named “Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).”
SFAICT, CHAZ has become a sort of commune/farmer’s market/street fair. There’s food distribution, medical stations, free movies, and I don’t know where people are sleeping or going to the bathroom, but they seem to have that covered. I haven’t been there – getting to Capital Hill is a PITA, and there was no parking to be had even before the kids closed down a huge chunk of the place.
If it lasts through the weekend I might try to visit on Sunday.
Trump has threatened to send in the army. RWers are throwing a hissy fit about “Antifa terrorists taking over Seattle!”. Mayor Durkan is doing the right thing, I think, by leaving it alone. Some of the folks in CHAZ say they’re staying until their demands are met; some say they’re staying, period.
I don’t watch TV anymore, so I’m missing whatever coverage CHAZ is getting. Very much a throwback to the late 60s-early 70s, when activists occupied government buildings, college buildings, and Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island.
It’s a fascinating happening (in the 1960s sense of the word) and I wonder how it will turn out.
Here’s what’s happening there today.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Don’t be silly; those are for dunking, not for wearing.
:)
Aleta
@Emma:
Learn to fight all racism
Or:
It’s time we learn how to end racism. Educators support Black Lives Matter.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Emma:
At the simplest level, and that’s where protest signs are, schools have teachers. End of story. It’s not like you’re gonna be carded by the education police about your sign. Oops, sorry, I mean gassed and clubbed by the education police.
Rina99
@mrmoshpotato: LOL, sure. My niece has been wanting to travel to DC to protest in front of the White House. I’m tempted, but am still being hyper-vigilant about coronavirus. If Trump shows up here, I’ll likely take my chances with a mask.
Aleta
@CaseyL: My partner’s daughter came into being because of the occupation of a university president’s office to protest the Kent State shootings. Her father came through the window and her mother (already inside the blockaded office) said “He looks interesting.”
Emma
Thanks so much for all the suggestions, everyone, definitely have enough now to make at least 2 posters, yay! Off to bed now, good night!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Hahaha, I don’t know recent times. But 80’s and 90’s, dunking on by Da Bulls? Yes.
mrmoshpotato
@Rina99: In all seriousness, wearing a mask is not to protect yourself, it’s to protect others. With the statistical lowness of testing, it’s good to make sure you don’t unknowingly spread the virus.
CaseyL
@Aleta: That is what the movie biz calls “a cute meet.” Great story!
Sister Golden Bear
@cain:
People say she’s a dumb blonde, but they don’t know she dyes her hair.
Bruuuuce
@meander: Here are all of the Jacksonville jokes from The Good Place. Meme away!
Luciamia
And just in time for hurricane season.
.(I hope the person who designed that logo asked to be paid upfront).
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@cain: You think they choose Charlotte because it’s symbol is a crown? That’s putting too much emphasis on the symbol.
Charlotte is a big banking hub and throws good convention. The crown comes along with the good times; it’s everywhere on materials associated with the city. The only symbol more common would be the Panthers logo.
Mohagan
@Aleta: This is clearly racist, but judging by my local store, sometimes Wal-Mart just has its head up its ass. They locked up the Tums for a while because something else on the shelf was deemed in need of extra protection, and while I am a Tums junkie, even I wouldn’t bother finding a store employee to buy a bottle. Easier to go to another store, and they aren’t that expensive. Several months later the Tums were available on a regular open shelf. Guess they finally noticed they weren’t selling. But I couldn’t believe the employee who originally set them up behind a locked area didn’t instead go to a supervisor and point out that was nuts. However, I’ve never worked at a Wal-Mart, and maybe pointing out the obvious is a firing offense.
J R in WV
I did USN boot camp in March at Great Lakes. AFter boot camp, did months in A school and every weekend we could afford a round trip ticket on the train to downtown, we were outa there.
Music of all sorts, the occasional post concert riot with cop cars flipped and burned, crash pads with hippies.
Saw Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, many blues bands, this was back when great acid was really everywhere, clean and cheap.
Then after school I was sent to an old sub tender with a diesel squadron, the last diesel boats in the USN, at Key West. Bummer! Annual trips to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, so the best liberty in the whole Navy. The work was hard, the bosses were red neck pricks from Alabama, I was antiwar and treated poorly on that account, but off duty things were great.
There were guys playing Key West bars for drinks and tips who became famous. Jimmy Buffet, Jerry Jeff Walker, we went to parties where they played. I helped some guys rebuild a trashed bar across the street, I drank in there for free if I couldn’t afford a drink. Lou’s it was called. Treasure Salvors were stilll looking for their mother load, which they found a year or two after I left for home.
Except for being anti war and hated for it, it was a great time, Learned to dive on the reefs, saw the Hennessy races from out on the course. Was a great way to start a grownup llfe.
I hate Orlando and JAX, Miami wasn’t to bad back then, I think it would suck now!
Aleta
That crown behind the elephant. They must hope it will say to evangelicals: ‘We’re the party of G is King.’ But in symbol-speak it looks like ‘We put Party first, then g’ or ‘We’re into gd but we practice elephant idolatry.’
Jay Noble
@Mohagan:
I seem to remember the Tums thing was kids were crushing them up and snorting them.
There go two miscreants
@NotMax:
“I blame autocorrect!”
Just One More Canuck
@Keith P.: hurricanes?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@cain:
I’m picturing Trump being carried in on a litter, reclining in an ermine robe and eating from a golden tray of Big Macs.
Ken
“On contacting the RNC, they said the pandemic would be taken into consideration, and referred us to the Duval GOP for details on the plans.”
SW
Feedlot Lamar Colorado. It has everything. Plus a giant dung hill and an odor befitting all the delegates.
Constance Reader
“Black said this would be the biggest event for Jacksonville since the Superbowl in 2005.”
I invite everyone to read Charles Pierce’s article in Esquire yesterday, about how he was at that Super Bowl, and the city couldn’t handle that crowd either. They had to house people in cruise ships on the bay, probably not a good option this time.
Ruckus
@Martin:
Absolutely. I looked like a working guy. It was just that the teller counted it all out, out loud, and set it where every one in the bank could see it, outside his window, right in front of me. No one who worked in the bank blinked an eye or hesitated for a moment. Large sums of cash money seemed to be rather normal to them. The second time was on the opposite coast and was my money from a machine auction I’d held. I was the only person that knew I had that much money but the few people around didn’t care the amount only that they might find some on your body.
grandpa john
@NotMax: Charlotte NC, Charlottesville is in Virginia
grandpa john
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: The crown is not new it is Charlottes symbol because Charlotte is and has been for many years been called the Queen City