@debbie: Are you talking about the GIF up top, or the photo from last night’s thread?
11.
Steeplejack
Trump standing woodenly between Jon Ponder and Richard Beasley, former FBI agent involved in Ponder’s case. Ponder spoke at length, Beasley speaking at length. I don’t know what this is supposed to accomplish. Do Trump voters care about ex-offenders? Rhetorical question.
Okay, Beasley pivoting to “people are being mean to law enforcement.” Now we’re talking.
Trump surprise: he’s granting a full pardon to Ponder! Straight out of cheesy “reality” TV.
LOL. Closeup of Trump signing pardon with huge Sharpie. Sharpie scratching is extremely loud.
13.
Steeplejack
Rand Paul. “I did medical missionary work in Guatemala.” Fuck this guy. Donald Trump somehow helped make that happen. Allegedly.
14.
Steeplejack
“President Trump gets things done.” C’mon, man!
15.
MomSense
Trump has the chin jut tough face while he stands woodenly listening to these testimonials.
LEO are being treated so unfairly. Trump is now granting John a full pardon. Now he’s signing an EO – with his sinus rhythm signature.
16.
Steeplejack
“Association health plans”? What even are those?
17.
MomSense
Rand Paul hates red tape and the Biden crime bill because it harms POC.
Really.
18.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Given the cheap writers for this timeline, I expect to see Ponder commit some crime – or perhaps kill someone in a drunk driving accident. Cliches, cliches.
19.
MomSense
Rand Paul quotes Madison. Drink!
20.
Steeplejack
Paul: “Fight the socialist poison in our schools.” Whut?
21.
Another Scott
Thread.
It's been a month since Senate Republicans cruelly allowed Americans' enhanced unemployment benefits to expire amid a pandemic and economic crisis.
Don't be fooled by the stock market: millions of families are experiencing deep hardship. Warning signs for the economy abound. 1/
Totally for real. It was like watching a toddler color.
31.
Steeplejack
Jason Joyce, lobsterman from Swan’s Island, ME. Weird story: Obama and Biden put some fishing grounds off limits. Even though we lobstermen don’t fish there, it offended us greatly. No input from stakeholders, etc. Trump rescinded those orders. Yay! (Implied? And now we will fish the hell out of those grounds.)
32.
MomSense
Cow milking! Reformed city slicker! Drink!
City slicker? Who the fuck talks like that anymore?
Cris Peterson, dairy farmer lady from Grantsburg, WI. Her barn burned, neighbors helped her rebuild even better. Her title is CFO of Four Cubs Farm. Wonder how small and mom-and-pop that operation is. ?
Somehow Trump was intimately involved in all of this.
Thanks for watching – Last night I watched but did not listen – today I can’t bring myself to do either. I’ll watch Rachel’s summary when its over
40.
Steeplejack
Lower energy level, slower pace than last night so far.
41.
Steeplejack
Montage: businesses closing because of regulations. Trump slashed regulations, business is back! And it’s all small mom-and-pop business, let’s get that straight.
42.
Steeplejack
“The president’s job is to be CEO of our country.” Colossally bad take from some nitwit who probably isn’t even a business owner.
I will help Angel Mom (and great woman) Mary Ann Mendoza with Twitter. I know Mary Ann from the beginning, and she should never be silenced. She is a winner who has lost so much, her child. Twitter, if you’re watching, please do what you have to do, NOW! @foxandfriends
Paul: “Fight the socialist poison in our schools.” Whut?
My wingnut friend has been going on about how we have to open the schools because “socializing” is an important part of education.
When I pointed out that he has spent the 5 years I have known him ranting against “government schools” and “indoctrination” he pretends not to understand.
49.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Montage: forgotten men and women in America. Apparently white people in outtakes from pickup truck commercials.
Look for the “PHOTOSTOCK” watermarks.
50.
Winston
payroll tax cuts. This right here makes Trump voters mortal enemies of seniors on SSA.
I like tonight’s also, but last night’s cracked me up.
56.
Steeplejack
John Peterson, owner of Schuette Metals, Wausau, WI. Obama and Biden put our business in a tailspin. Apparently with banking regulations? “Tied uor lenders’ hands.”
Trump cut “draconian-type banking regulations.” I don’t see any future problems there.
57.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Montage: businesses closing because of regulations. Trump slashed regulations, business is back! And it’s all small mom-and-pop business, let’s get that straight.
Meanwhile, here in the real universe mom-and-pop businesses are going bankrupt at a record rate due to the pandemic.
58.
MomSense
Wisconsin business owner also hates red tape and regulations! Why does Biden hate capital so much?
Are they trying to get Bernie supporters to come out for Biden?
62.
Ken
@different-church-lady: @Another Scott: Apparently her twitter history is full of anti-semitic stuff, so the issue must have been the timing. Got to keep quiet for the two days before speaking at the RNC, perhaps.
63.
Steeplejack
Cissie Graham Lynch, granddaughter of Billy Graham. Looks a bit like an edgy alt-country singer in late career.
“People of faith suddenly had a strong advocate in the White House.”
The complaint states that after Cris had served on the co-op’s board of directors for three years, she lost her re-election bid and then became “a bitter enemy of the Cooperative, its Board of Directors and its management.”
Why is religious lady dressed like Hermoine from Harry Potter?
66.
MomSense
Cissie is going to tell us how our founders wanted us to exercise our religion in our schools and town centers while Obama Biden wanted to crush religion and force abortion drugs on us. They wanted boys to play girls sports.
67.
Steeplejack
“The radical left’s God is political power.”
68.
Leto
I’m able to watch about thirty seconds at a time before I want to start hurling shit at the TV. Instead I turn it back over to the Philly Union v NYC Red Bull soccer match. At least I know the paid actors here.
@Steeplejack: I bet all the people – who lost their unemployment and can’t pay their rent or buy food – feel really good about these businesses booming.
75.
Ken
@WaterGirl: Did you miss the memo? Trump is the Party, the Party is Trump.
@MomSense: Hey, Trump already did half of that for Joe already.
78.
Leto
“We lost a generation of young people… (long pause)… from the Iron Range when they had to leave to look for jobs.”
I honestly thought, with that 9 month pregnant pause, that an entire generation of cheddar heads was gone forever. Maybe they followed Farve to MN?
79.
MomSense
Oh here we go the radical environmentalists have dragged Th e Democratic Party so far left this mayor of some Minnesota town had to support the straight talking New Yorker. Biden is so week scared and sleepy that AOC is the one running things.
Seriously, are they trying to get Bernie supporters to come out for Joe?
82.
Steeplejack
Abby Johnson, “pro-life” activist who used to work at Planned Parenthood. (Background from me: Her “conversion” story has been widely questioned as suspect.)
Margaret Sanger, a racist, founded Planned Parenthood to “eradicate” minority groups. (Not a joke, WaterGirl!)
“I was assigned an abortion quota.”
ETA: This is execrable.
83.
Mike in NC
@Steeplejack: Thanks to the trade war, the Chinese are buying all their lobster from Canada.
84.
Jeffro
@lgerard: that’s because what he means is he wants kids back in school so that parents can go to work (pandemic? What pandemic??!) but while they are in school he wants them to learn hard-core capitalism
I bet her husband watches from the closet as well, she has that same dead-eye-Christian-freak-for-Jesus (pronounced Hayzoos) look going on.
88.
Urza
@WaterGirl: He accepted the nomination yesterday. Seems like that should take longer in normal years, but i’m not watching this mess so what do I know.
89.
Steeplejack
This woman is awful: straight up abortion carnography in the most unbelievably explicit, overwrought terms. This is beyond the pale.
@Ken: I did see their little “whereas” document. Appalling.
It’s “I’ll have what he’s having”, taken to the nth degree.
98.
Leto
@MomSense: Yeah, Maddow covered the lie of birth control being an abortion inducing drug. Funny that’s it’s just female birth control, and not condoms, that’s an issue.
99.
MomSense
Sandmann was just trying to defend the unborn and was persecuted for his hat.
@MomSense: He has a Richard Spencer level punchable face.
106.
Steeplejack
Sandmann is actually making more people want to punch him in the face.
107.
MomSense
The lame stream media tried to cancel him. The far left is trying to cancel people.
108.
Suzanne
@MomSense: She was fucking grotesque and it made me want to throw up. Does she know that she just described a D&C and probably made every woman who ever had to have one due to a miscarriage pretty freaked out.
Trump surprise: he’s granting a full pardon to Ponder! Straight out of cheesy “reality” TV.
“And a year’s supply of Goya beans!”
110.
Emma from FL
That kid is going to get his ass handed to him throughout his life. Hiss asshole parents should have been less publicity-driven.
This is all red meat to the base. I am betting that for every idiot feeling exhalted by this freak parade there are five that are feeling queasy to their stomach and rethinking their beliefs.
They are model citizens who get along great with their neighbors.
That is some read – got all upset because
voted out of co-op board
their milk was not up to standard
Sound like a great MAGA family
117.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: This is terrible. He’s so wooden. And it’s so obviously terribly edited. He is literally reading with no inflection. That’s gonna win votes.
Ooh Bondi trying to bash Biden for corruption? Another soulless delivery. I had to stop. I just wanted to listen to the kid. And he’s been so exploited. When they dump him after this it’s gonna be hard. Bless his heart.
118.
Amir Khalid
How many times has Hunter Biden been mentioned today?
119.
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: She won’t be the last. They still think this is a winner for them.
120.
Jeffro
So…not exactly bringing in swing voters or waffling Democrats tonight, huh??
Then who cares? Let ‘em fly those freak flags high.
Yeah, I just burst out laughing anytime these folks (or anyone else I know) start complaining about “family members of Joe Biden with no experience” being hired for something.
122.
MomSense
Pam Bondi knows what corruption looks like.
Bet she does. But we’re on to Hunter Biden and Ukraine and how he was being investigated by a prosecutor that his dad took care of. And now he’s up to his old tricks with communist Chinese bankers who gave us coronavirus.
I’m going to need some red yarn or charts or something to follow this.
123.
MomSense
Wait what? 747s full of cash?
124.
Gin & Tonic
@TS (the original): And besides, doesn’t “dairy co-op” sound a lot like, you know, socialism?
125.
Jeffro
@Steeplejack: well, there’s their nepotism, and then there’s our nepotism. Which are totally different…
126.
MomSense
How did she get her face to be about five shades lighter than her neck?
127.
Leto
@khead: Joy Reid bringing up all those points, as well as reminding everyone that she dropped the case against Trumpov U after receiving a campaign donation from Trumpov.
An illegal campaign donation that no one in the press/media thought was worth talking about.
129.
Steeplejack
Montage: women in power.
Kimberly Guilfoyle: “I don’t want the job because I’m a woman. I want the job because I’m the best person for the job.” Which is why I’m getting $15,000 a month to be Don Jr.’s girlfriend.
130.
Emma from FL
@MomSense: By using the same base. Big lights hits differently at the cheekbones than at the neck. Creates a sort of disembodied face.
131.
Another Scott
@Steeplejack: This is the same party that thought letting Pat Buchanan speak in 1992 was a good idea.
Tiffany who? Anyone know who this is? Does Donald know this person?
141.
MomSense
More bumper stickers.
They are really pushing criminal justice reform tonight.
142.
Aleta
Thank you sir for all these things you’ve done using the word women.
Also I thought Jared managed the campaign?
143.
Ken
@Winston: Yeah, it turns out the reason that kids didn’t seem to be getting coronavirus is they were all sheltering at home. Now that they’re being exposed, they’re just as likely to get the disease as adults.
144.
Leto
@MomSense: It’s amazing (not really) that all of these women basically look the same. Like, plug and play the same. This is what Pam Bondi looked like 15 years ago, and Pam is what Tiffany will look like in 10.
Edit: she also talks out the side of her mouth. Weird.
145.
Quinerly
So is Tiffany still off limits?
Does anyone doubt her allegiance?
146.
Steeplejack
Okay, I’m going to play my sexist-comment pass card for tonight. I haven’t heard Tiffany speak before, and her makeup, voice, inflections and affect make her come across like a blow-up doll version of Ivanka. ?
147.
dmsilev
So, I’m gathering from these comments that the promised happy uplifting convention might be falling just a tad short of what was sold?
148.
Suzanne
Where would these women be without the Beachwaver?
149.
HumboldtBlue
Those fucking choppers have her lisping like a drunken sailor during Fleet Week.
She’s just spouting nonsense but I guess that’s the goal.
Next we get the Nancy Reagan wannabe Pez dispenser-head lady who has tens of thousanda of constituents without basic public service and who today annopunced some of them will just have to go it alone.
She looks like a bush baby. I’m trying not to be mean but she really does.
156.
Steeplejack
Kim Reynolds, governor of Iowa. “Iowa truly is a land of opportunity.” Unless you recently got blown off the map by the derecho. In that case, sucks to be you.
Kim Reynolds loves farms and single mothers but hates storms.
160.
Steeplejack
“What happens when a storm rips through the state?” Please tell us, Kim. I bet Donald Trump managed to help somehow.
Called it!
161.
Stacib
@Amir Khalid: It’s the only way to stay in the will.
162.
Morzer
@Steeplejack: She’s the blow-up doll version of the blow-up doll? That’s meta, even for Trumpworld.
163.
Suzanne
@Steeplejack: I was thinking that I think Tiffany is prettier than Ivanka. Ivanka looks somehow asymmetrical or disproportionate to me. Not quite as bad as Sarah Sanders, who looked like a freaking Picasso. But Ivanka’s features seem like the wrong proportion or wrong place for her face.
Hey, that floating dumpster fire is from my trash collection company!
166.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Especially sucks if you’re in one of the counties that’s not getting federal disaster aid. Someone predicted earlier today that Trump will “generously” authorize the aid tonight.
167.
Leto
“The Trumpov Administration was here in full force.”
So he was there with a paper towel cannon? That’s about the extent of Trumpov help.
168.
Steeplejack
I want to see this bitch fact-checked. Lots of government “declarations” and “Trump has our back,” no mention of funding amounts or disposition.
169.
Chetan Murthy
Man, Trumpov sure has a *type* don’t me? I saw a pic of Bondi, and thought “wait, that look like Nielsen, the ex-DHS secy goon”.
170.
Morzer
@Steeplejack: Is it really fair to ask fact-checkers to lay down their lives for the nation?
The themes of this night are all over the map. Feels like they think they need to firm up support in their base and they’re hoping to pick up support from black men over the crime bill but they also need to support cops. It’s a tight spot.
172.
Steeplejack
Montage: Mike Pence. Where is this going? I think Mother is actually scheduled to be a speaker. Could this be her walk-up music?
“Fellow Hoosier” with Lincoln?! Lincoln was burn in Kentucky, you idiot.
Regional accent or misreading the word farce on the speech machine?
179.
Ken
@MomSense: Kim Reynolds loves farms and single mothers but hates storms.
I used to be good at this game. Hmm, can’t be the letters “rms” because they all have those, not double letters – is it that she only likes words/phrases with exactly one “a” or “i”?
180.
Stacib
@Steeplejack: I live near the IN / IL state line. There is a HUGE sign claiming IN as the Land of Lincoln.
181.
Steeplejack
Jack, this “eight-year-old from Wisconsin,” is the first person I have seen tonight that I don’t want to punch in the face. Some kind of special-needs case, I didn’t catch it.
Now a kid with a “fatal illness.” Pence’s words, not mine! But he gets to try experimental treatments. If only we had something like that for COVID-19.
@Steeplejack: Hoarse Whisper had the right idea: a bandolier of little airplane booze bottles.
184.
Ken
@Steeplejack: I want to see this bitch fact-checked.
If you mean Reynolds, I posted the link to the Des Moines Register article where she already said many Iowa counties won’t be seeing a dime of disaster relief. She may have taped her piece before finding that out, or she may just be lying.
If memory serves, he did spend quite some time in Indiana.
186.
Leto
Does MOTHER know he sat that close to another woman? His face is saying, “OMG, GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE” or “I really need to poop”. Maybe it’s both?
Edit: he looks happier talking to this guy. His face is visibly happier.
187.
MomSense
Jesus fucking Indiana Christ can we please ban fifth rate composers from trying to copy Aaron Copeland? Can’t you find someone else to dishonor?
188.
cain
@Ken: If you mean Reynolds, I posted the link to the Des Moines Register article where she already said many Iowa counties won’t be seeing a dime of disaster relief. She may have taped her piece before finding that out, or she may just be lying.
Theme for the 1% Man, uses only the white keys on the piano.
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196.
Leto
@NotMax: My autocorrect can only spell his name one way.
197.
MomSense
Did he ease up on the Botox so he could do a concern furrow his brow when a PPP recipient tells him how blessed they are to live in America.
198.
stacib
@cain: I know. I think it’s hilarious that both IL and IN claim to be the “Land of Lincoln”. I’ll have to take a trip to KY to see what they say. :-)
199.
Steeplejack
Ryan Holets, police officer from Albuquerque, NM. Heartwarming story of intervening with homeless drug addicts who apparently he was not forced to shoot.
Kimberly Guilfoyle: “I don’t want the job because I’m a woman. I want the job because I’m the best person for the job.” Which is why I’m getting $15,000 a month to be Don Jr.’s girlfriend.
I just wanted to see that again.
201.
Leto
@MomSense: Oh, that was Mike Dense? I thought that was a can of creamed corn with a tie.
I started to try to watch; there was a guy from the Navajo Nation, but the sound and the picture were so far out of sync I had to stop.
We weren’t intending to watch, but we were watching Rachel’s intro when it switched over to that, so I caught most of it. His “praise Trump” address was so obviously ludicrous I looked up a couple of points, but you could do an entire fact-checking column on that one five-minute speech.
He praised Trump for “reestablishing” the White House Council for Native American Affairs. You will be unsurprised to find out that it was established by Barack Obama in 2013, and went “dormant” in January 2019, and was only reactivated in April. (And when it was reactivated, the top Native official working at the White House was made its executive director and booted out of the White House to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. During a pandemic.
Then the praise for Dear Leader giving him all the credit for delivering lots of money to Indian Country through the CARES Act…
As many people explained to political newbies on social media last night, minority speakers at the RNC aren’t there to “reach out” to minority voters. They’re there to convince white people they’re not racist for voting Republican. This was more of the same, since I doubt many Native people are going to be convinced to ignore their lying eyes and believe Trump did great things for them during the pandemic.
Nobody escapes the Trump orbit with their dignity intact.
Are they alternating the blonde with the brown-haired women speakers?
211.
Leto
My, what big teeth and eyes you have, Lt Gov Nunez.
Also I’m glad that we’ll forever have Cuba to be scared of. Surprised they’re not showing the original Red Dawn and claiming this is Joe Biden’s America.
212.
Steeplejack
Jeanette Nuñez, lieutenant governor of the (“great state of”) Florida. Michele Bachmann crazy eyes—not quite, but almost.
“I’m a Cuban immigrant. Socialism bad.” Next.
213.
Kent
The eyes on these GOP women just scare me. Cold, harsh, and empty, every one of them.
Very scary.
214.
MomSense
This bug eyed Cuban lady hates socialism. St. Ronnie quote. Drink!
All of Tiffany’s features are round: round face, round, plump cheeks, round mouth. And her 1980s Farrah Fawcett-adjacent hairdo does not help at all.
223.
MomSense
Woops her pronunciation sounded a little too Spanishey there. Wouldn’t want to alienate the Karens. They hate it when people speak Spanish.
224.
Aleta
There’s no one who can write like HST would have about this convention. It’s a loss for the country. And he’d be definitive about what drugs they are taking.
225.
dnfree
Dark road of chaos and government control, warns the lieutenant governor of Florida. She says Trump has confronted tyrants. Maybe some tyrants? Certainly not all.
226.
Quinerly
@MomSense: what would this convention been like if Bernie woulda won the nomination? ?
And, yes, she is quite bug eyed.
227.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: She was like a mermaid sent from heaven to warn us.
228.
HumboldtBlue
Here’s captain dumbass!
The guy who is his position illegally is now using brown people as props for the lumbering block of cheese.
229.
MomSense
Heil to the Chief and flag waving. A naturalization ceremony?
230.
Ken
Some years ago, someone compared the Trump administration to a whole bunch of cockroaches that formed a pyramid to turn on the kitchen light – meaning they were all doing fine at their grifts and crimes because the media wasn’t paying attention, but then got out in public.
Any candidates for that list tonight? The Wisconsin dairy farmers sound possible, what with the disputes with their neighbors and quality issues. Maybe the cop, depending on the circumstances of that baby? Other nominations?
As I recall, his line was “Where’s my favorite dictator?” Which is not quite what I understood by “confront”, but perhaps there are nuances that I don’t appreciate.
241.
Steeplejack
Is this minion DHS Chad? Is their citizenship legal if they get the oath from someone in his post illegally? ?
242.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Five candidates for naturalization. Oath administered by some minion while Trump stands by looking presidential.
He just stands there, while foreigners come in and take our jobs?
This new citizen speaks too many languages – the Karens will hate this part.
249.
Aleta
@WaterGirl: Hunter Thompson. Covered some elections and Nixon. ’68 and one other. Wrote about Bush Sr. and the CIA and Iran Contra when Bush was running for Pres.
250.
Jinchi
@Sister Golden Bear: The anti-immigrant President is making some immigrants citizens.?
I thought Illinois is the land of Lincoln. Isn’t it even on the license plates? That makes it bona fide.
252.
MomSense
The apples of your light? He just asked this woman if her kids are the apple of her light.
The balance is tipped too far to Benzos.
253.
Jinchi
@Steeplejack: So New Jersey really is the garden state?
254.
Leto
@MomSense: He can barely speak English, trying to get him to say anything other than, “BIGLY”, is a challenge. He’s probably seeing these words for the first time, so he’s sounding them out in real time.
Like last night’s video from the White House. Trump talks like a wooden horse – no idea why anyone with half a brain thinks he is a leader – of anything except his woe begotten family.
With 180,000 dead – and counting – “We’re full” is no longer 100% operative. (ref., WaPo link)
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266.
Leto
So regarding his posture, the reason it’s so bad is two parts: 1) he has no core muscles. You gotta have those. 2) weak hip flexors. Those two together help you stand straight. I know a lot more about that since my accident because I’m having to actively work against looking like that.
And now Gilbert Gotfried is up.
267.
Eljai
I think this is the same speech his brother gave last night. How embarrassing.
268.
MomSense
Democrats don’t want the pledge and they don’t want one nation under god.
St Ronnie quote. Drink!
269.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Yes, Illinois is the “Land of Lincoln”, though he was born in Kentucky, and before either Illinois or Indiana was made a state.
Jason Joyce, lobsterman from Swan’s Island, ME. Weird story: Obama and Biden put some fishing grounds off limits. Even though we lobstermen don’t fish there, it offended us greatly. No input from stakeholders, etc. Trump rescinded those orders. Yay! (Implied? And now we will fish the hell out of those grounds.)
The lobster thing has come up before, a few months ago, I think? Unsurprisingly, it’s a lie, too. If they didn’t lie, they wouldn’t have any accomplishments to talk about at all.
289.
Leto
It’s interesting that he’s never called him, “My dad/My father”… it’s always, “President Trumpov”.
290.
MomSense
My Rushmore and Gettysburg randomly invoked.
More St. Ronnie! Drink!
I’m pounding seltzer and eating gummy bears.
Minesweeper is also included in the same installer.
293.
Aleta
I wonder what the Trump org. billed the convention fund for Eric’s giant tie.
294.
Aleta
Choose me, Dad.
295.
MomSense
Dear Dad, it’s me Eric. I miss working with you, but I’m so proud of you. And forgotten men and women who are forgotten no more will never be forgotten.
@MomSense: Special gummy bears? Or the kind kids can eat, too?
310.
MomSense
Kentucky AG was once MItch’s legal counsel. He loves history – especially statues.
So mellow and then all of a sudden our western values are under assault! When did that happen?
Not anywhere close to well-versed enough in the law to begin to answer that.
313.
MomSense
He’s pissed at Biden for saying he ain’t black if he votes for trump. Democrats just want to destroy jobs cancel people and kill unborn babies.
Oh my god this guy is all cliches
314.
Leto
Can Pompeo be charged with violating the Hatch Act once we flush the orange turd?
315.
dnfree
@Aleta: and you don’t mean Harry S Truman, which was my first thought.
316.
Ken
I’m not understanding the planning here. Typically the speakers are in increasing importance of the office – last week Obama made a point of switching with Harris, because conventionally he would have followed her. But tonight they’ve had vice-president Pence, then Eric Trump, then the attorney general of Kentucky.
317.
Aleta
@Mike in NC: Named after their godparents, an investment magazine and a jeweley store.
Sec of State bragging about killing people. Hooooooly fuck.
325.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Mike in NC: Dump tower is literally next door to Tiffany Jewelers (lack of imagination). It’s also a well known strippers name and he objectifies women.
Dump has blubbered in the past about wanting to be Conrad Hilton’s son (W. Barron Hilton). Sad!
He has a really big job- being dad and husband. Aw shucks that false modesty is so sincere. His face is in a frozen sort of smile. This guy does not know how to be pleasant. Betcha he has a wicked temper. Does anyone know? I’m going with quick to rage.
Hes fucking maintaining that weird smile while saying terrorist beheadings.
This guy freaks me out. Expressions do not match his words. Totally frozen affect.
I can’t believe her accent is still so “is crazy moose and squirrel” after so many years in America. Isn’t she a genius or something?
345.
Leto
@WaterGirl: Basically just talking about how great is was that we killed Sulimani (the Iranian general), killed the “Islamic Caliphate”… I mean, it’s just he’s saying it so gleefully. It’s disturbing. It’s on brand.
JFC, announcing the Third Lady they’re yelling at us; WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS YELLING AT US?!?! Now it’s a infomercial.
346.
Steeplejack
She hasn’t even started yet, and I feel sorry for her already. But then I remember she was an O.G. birther and the feeling goes away.
Conceived in 1937, the machine was built by Iowa State Collegemathematics and physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff with the help of graduate student Clifford Berry. It was designed only to solve systems of linear equations and was successfully tested in 1942. However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer/reader, was not perfected, and when John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.[3] The ABC pioneered important elements of modern computing, including binary arithmetic and electronic switchingelements, [4] but its special-purpose nature and lack of a changeable, stored program distinguish it from modern computers. The computer was designated an IEEE Milestone in 1990.[5]
@WaterGirl: All the roses are white, or off white.
351.
Leto
She’s walking… smiled, stopped smiling, smiled… stopped, smiled again… it’s like someone was flicking the switch on and off. Weird.
352.
Aleta
Defeated those messy trees for all America
353.
MomSense
She’s walking down the entire colonnade- audience is struggling to maintain applause. How long is the fucking colonnade?
354.
HumboldtBlue
This is fucking disgusting.
The only fucking reason they destroyed the Rose Garden was so this three-dollar-titty-bar-dancer wouldn’t get her heels stuck in the grass.
355.
Mary G
Zero social distancing in the Rose Garden, because one must court death in order to gain the approval of the Dear Leader.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 26, 2020
356.
MomSense
She’s wearing an olive green shirt dress – straight out of Indiana Jones NAZI costume department.
She definitely needs more teleprompter practice. She’s basically just staring at it, reading it. Or they need to give her the speech more than 45 mins out.
“My deepest sympathy goes out…” said in that monotone, with those cold dead eyes.
361.
MomSense
No masks and no social distancing. Must be nice to have enough tests.
Sweet fucking Jesus beating a Jew in a Cossack pogrom, not only does our presidency look like a cheap mob knock-off it comes with this fucking Natalia sounding dipshit.
She’s walking… smiled, stopped smiling, smiled… stopped, smiled again
As Laura Benanti so hilariously lampoons in her segments on Colbert, this *is* her genius skill. A truly superlative model knows where the camera is, and instinctively turns to present the proper profile for a flattering shot …. every time.
Conceived in 1937, the machine was built by Iowa State College mathematics and physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff with the help of graduate student Clifford Berry. It was designed only to solve systems of linear equations and was successfully tested in 1942. However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer/reader, was not perfected, and when John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.[3] The ABC pioneered important elements of modern computing, including binary arithmetic and electronic switching elements, [4] but its special-purpose nature and lack of a changeable, stored program distinguish it from modern computers. The computer was designated an IEEE Milestone in 1990.[5]
@Steeplejack: It usually goes over 5 to 10 minutes, if we’re lucky.
376.
HumboldtBlue
This is really a scene from an Austin Powers movie, right? Right?
377.
Leto
@Chetan Murthy: Laura does an impeccable impression of her. As soon as the Third Lady started speaking, I started laughing, because Laura’s impression is just so spot on.
378.
Amir Khalid
At least this time she’s not plagiarising Michelle Obama’s speech.
379.
Steeplejack
Rose Garden chairs are socially distanced. No masks seen in brief crowd shot.
Oh, we’re getting into some traditional convention stuff here—interruptions for clapping every so often.
Melania not sounding so foreign. She’s getting into the Greta Garbo “I vant to be alone” zone.
380.
Aleta
The clearing of the Rose Garden has turned out to be fortuitous.
381.
Mary G
You know; it's bad when Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had more class and taste than the Trumps. #RNCConvention2020— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) August 26, 2020
“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
– Benito Mussolini
.
And another.
“We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.”
– Benito Mussolini
.
409.
Steeplejack
Melania is not disgracing herself. She’s just monotonous and boring. Let’s wrap this thing up.
I will say that I have found the C-SPAN feed to be the best. Absolutely no filler, and they do a good job of identifying the speakers with quick chyrons. Also (apparently) identifying which parts are live, like Melania’s speech.
But now, Trump’s $25,000 gift to Florida’s attorney general is stirring a blizzard of controversy. Critics claim that the contribution swayed AG Pam Bondi’s decision not to investigate scandal-plagued, now-defunct Trump University.
411.
Yutsano
Oh good Lard. She’s terrible. Like she has no training in how to use a teleprompter. No presence. No emotion. And this babble about drug addiction is almost shade.
EDIT: the fake applause lines are just gross.
412.
Steeplejack
“In my next four years as First Lady . . .” Oh, hell, no.
@MomSense: Thursday night will begin with Air Force One descending through the clouds, its shadow visible as it passes over the tiny figures marching below, accompanied by an orchestral arrangement of the Horst-Wessel-Lied as it lands in Nuremberg, PA.
My theory? They don’t watch it. They don’t want to know. They just want to feel okay voting for Republicans. I guarantee you my neighbors are not watching it, but they’ll vote for him.
434.
Aleta
They didn’t clear the rose garden for drainage and disability access. It was to get the shot.
435.
MomSense
Wolf called it a very moving speech? As in move to Canada this is fucked
Distinctly remember one snippet from an interview she gave on the capacious, precisely manicured lawn of the enormous palace-in-exile (shown in the background, with pristine beach and blue. blue ocean beyond) on Oahu.
Boom shot of the crowd waking up after the Trumps walk off. No masks, chairs semi-distanced, about three feet, not six. Looks like “every other seat” placement.
Nope. They did it to make a set for that disgrace.
440.
frosty
@Bill Arnold: Nice try by someone, but the Pam Bondi scandal did go away, just like all the others.
441.
Leto
@MomSense: And Joy Reid taking this entire shitshow to task. Specifically focusing on the naturalization ceremony because her mom was naturalized, and instead of it being about the recipients, it’s about him. And how fucking disgusting that is.
442.
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack: OK. Sure. But let me tell you something: Plantation 5 year.
@Aleta: That’s the first thing BillinGlendaleCA said when we saw the newly redone Rose Garden.
The photographer who is probably always mentally framing shots knew that immediately. I am not watching so I don’t know, but it sounds like you are in complete agreement with BillinGlendaleCA.
@MomSense: We knew that as soon as we saw the photos, but clearly to folks watching tonight it was absolutely, undeniably obvious, which takes the anger from 10 on a scale of 10, to something higher.
They are truly despicable, and it knows no bounds.
He’s fucking campaigning from the white house and he destroyed a beautiful historic garden to do it.
I know. We have to figure out how to find out humanity again.
453.
Amir Khalid
Victoria Station (local steakhouse) said that if I walk in around 12:30pm, I should be able to get a table for one and enjoy my nice once-in-every-few-years steak. Yay!
They said they plan to replant them but I call BS. You don’t transplant trees like that in the heat of July and August. They won’t do well if they survive it.
462.
MomSense
Pompeo delivered his speech from the rooftop of the King David hotel. Dear god.
@MomSense: The balls of the trees would have to be beyond HUGE to even have a chance of survival. Yeah, and July and August are not when you would do it.
They are lying like they lie about everything else.
@WaterGirl: They spent tonight telling us they’re the party of Lincoln and women and little children, who loves immigrants, cares about prisoners and floats above racism.
@Quinerly: To me, she’s off limits because she’s like those countries Bush blackmailed into joining the “coalition of the willing” or as my dad used to call it, the coalition of the bribed and blackmailed. She’s like Estonia or Toga.
475.
Chetan Murthy
@Anya: If I were an Iraqi, I would make no differences between Americans and Estonians: they both came to kill my people.
As a loyal and patriotic American, she’s a Trumper now, a Trumper in full, trying to destroy our country. That she’s doing it for probably a paltry sum makes it all the more deplorable. She can DIAF with the rest of them. She should never be able to eat out in public again, without wondering what’s in her meal, without getting heckled, ,etc. She should *long* to move to Russia, for the peace and quiet. She’s a Trumper in full.
476.
Anya
@Chetan Murthy: I think they sent 40 technicians or such but I get your point.
@Anya: What’s worse is, it’s not 2016, where she could tell herself “oh, he can’t win, this is just for my share of the inheritance”. Now, it’s for all the goddamn marbles, with hundreds of thousands of lives *immediately* on the line (b/c the fucker won’t do the minimum to get this pandemic under control) and so many more in the medium-to-long term, as we decide whether we’re going to be a democracy or a fascist state. She should know this, what with her oh-so-pricey education at UPenn and Georgetown Law? I mean, what, do they not teach people about the history of democracy, of fascism, of the rule of law, all those things? b/c shit, she should know these things, to graduate with a J.D. FFS.
479.
The Lodger
@Suzanne: Think of Ivanka’s face as construction without a general contractor.
Mary G
I started to try to watch; there was a guy from the Navajo Nation, but the sound and the picture were so far out of sync I had to stop.
MomSense
And we’re off. So looks like tonight is going to be about commuting sentences.
MomSense
@Mary G:
He was talking super fast, too.
SiubhanDuinne
Is this a political convention or a revival meeting?
Steeplejack
Black criminal guy (John Ponder?) redeemed by Jesus—and Trump!
dmsilev
@MomSense: Reality-TV show host again, I guess.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
Revival/A.A.-style meeting so far.
debbie
Loved the dumpster fire photo from last night.
MomSense
Here we go – no reason for a black man to be afraid of police. Just pray harder and God will give you good LEO.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Are you talking about the GIF up top, or the photo from last night’s thread?
Steeplejack
Trump standing woodenly between Jon Ponder and Richard Beasley, former FBI agent involved in Ponder’s case. Ponder spoke at length, Beasley speaking at length. I don’t know what this is supposed to accomplish. Do Trump voters care about ex-offenders? Rhetorical question.
Okay, Beasley pivoting to “people are being mean to law enforcement.” Now we’re talking.
Trump surprise: he’s granting a full pardon to Ponder! Straight out of cheesy “reality” TV.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
LOL. Closeup of Trump signing pardon with huge Sharpie. Sharpie scratching is extremely loud.
Steeplejack
Rand Paul. “I did medical missionary work in Guatemala.” Fuck this guy. Donald Trump somehow helped make that happen. Allegedly.
Steeplejack
“President Trump gets things done.” C’mon, man!
MomSense
Trump has the chin jut tough face while he stands woodenly listening to these testimonials.
LEO are being treated so unfairly. Trump is now granting John a full pardon. Now he’s signing an EO – with his sinus rhythm signature.
Steeplejack
“Association health plans”? What even are those?
MomSense
Rand Paul hates red tape and the Biden crime bill because it harms POC.
Really.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Given the cheap writers for this timeline, I expect to see Ponder commit some crime – or perhaps kill someone in a drunk driving accident. Cliches, cliches.
MomSense
Rand Paul quotes Madison. Drink!
Steeplejack
Paul: “Fight the socialist poison in our schools.” Whut?
Another Scott
Thread.
Eyes on the prizes.
Cheers,
Scott.
MomSense
Socialists are poisoning our schools and burning our cities!
Steeplejack
Montage: forgotten men and women in America. Apparently white people in outtakes from pickup truck commercials.
Jinchi
@Steeplejack: So he’s literally using the power of his office as a campaign stunt with the bonus of it being payment for campaign services rendered.
Steeplejack
@Ken:
Multi-state crime spree. My first thought.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
Somebody on the crack planning team forgot to do a mic check.
Steeplejack
Mucho Getty-esque stock footage in that montage.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack:
Is that made up, or for real? Impossible to tell without watching.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
INORITE! Why was it so loud?
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
Totally for real. It was like watching a toddler color.
Steeplejack
Jason Joyce, lobsterman from Swan’s Island, ME. Weird story: Obama and Biden put some fishing grounds off limits. Even though we lobstermen don’t fish there, it offended us greatly. No input from stakeholders, etc. Trump rescinded those orders. Yay! (Implied? And now we will fish the hell out of those grounds.)
MomSense
Cow milking! Reformed city slicker! Drink!
City slicker? Who the fuck talks like that anymore?
different-church-lady
Ooopsie:
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Some of this hose lobstermen are dumber than a post.
WaterGirl
@Ken: What is the Ponder guy being pardoned for?
Steeplejack
Cris Peterson, dairy farmer lady from Grantsburg, WI. Her barn burned, neighbors helped her rebuild even better. Her title is CFO of Four Cubs Farm. Wonder how small and mom-and-pop that operation is. ?
Somehow Trump was intimately involved in all of this.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
That happens every convention.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Technically the convention adjourned yesterday afternoon until 2024.
TS (the original)
@MomSense:
Thanks for watching – Last night I watched but did not listen – today I can’t bring myself to do either. I’ll watch Rachel’s summary when its over
Steeplejack
Lower energy level, slower pace than last night so far.
Steeplejack
Montage: businesses closing because of regulations. Trump slashed regulations, business is back! And it’s all small mom-and-pop business, let’s get that straight.
Steeplejack
“The president’s job is to be CEO of our country.” Colossally bad take from some nitwit who probably isn’t even a business owner.
Another Scott
@different-church-lady: There’s always a tweet, part 13,123,123,123.
Cheers,
Scott.
Steeplejack
Larry Kudlow. Time to start the drinking. Rum and tonic tonight. Mount Gay Eclipse.
MomSense
Joe Biden is going to raise taxes for everyone and kill our American dreams.
Steeplejack
“Rising tide lifts all boats.” Thanks, Larry. Genius insight.
MomSense
Larry Kudlow isn’t slurring too badly. They must ave taped this early this morning.
lgerard
@Steeplejack:
My wingnut friend has been going on about how we have to open the schools because “socializing” is an important part of education.
When I pointed out that he has spent the 5 years I have known him ranting against “government schools” and “indoctrination” he pretends not to understand.
Ken
Look for the “PHOTOSTOCK” watermarks.
Winston
payroll tax cuts. This right here makes Trump voters mortal enemies of seniors on SSA.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
It was like cartoonishly loud.
MomSense
So many booms! Manufacturing housing tax cuts regulatory relief.
Biden wants to pick pockets and drain money from our wallets. How does he find the time with all that school poisoning and dream killing?
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: They are model citizens who get along great with their neighbors.
Urza
@WaterGirl: Bank Robbery
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I like tonight’s also, but last night’s cracked me up.
Steeplejack
John Peterson, owner of Schuette Metals, Wausau, WI. Obama and Biden put our business in a tailspin. Apparently with banking regulations? “Tied uor lenders’ hands.”
Trump cut “draconian-type banking regulations.” I don’t see any future problems there.
Ken
Meanwhile, here in the real universe mom-and-pop businesses are going bankrupt at a record rate due to the pandemic.
MomSense
Wisconsin business owner also hates red tape and regulations! Why does Biden hate capital so much?
MomSense
@Ken:
Unpossible! Kudlow says the pandemic is over!
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
I will tell you when I’m joking! You didn’t believe us about Kim Guilfoyle last night, and look how that turned out.
Baud
@MomSense:
Are they trying to get Bernie supporters to come out for Biden?
Ken
@different-church-lady: @Another Scott: Apparently her twitter history is full of anti-semitic stuff, so the issue must have been the timing. Got to keep quiet for the two days before speaking at the RNC, perhaps.
Steeplejack
Cissie Graham Lynch, granddaughter of Billy Graham. Looks a bit like an edgy alt-country singer in late career.
“People of faith suddenly had a strong advocate in the White House.”
Calouste
@Steeplejack:
Nice people, as to be expected:
http://www.burnettcountysentinel.com/news/dairy-lawsuit-claims-campaign-of-defamation-and-deception-by-four-cubs-farm/article_c53ba38c-6875-11ea-8bc1-1395cbf16ee5.html
Eljai
Why is religious lady dressed like Hermoine from Harry Potter?
MomSense
Cissie is going to tell us how our founders wanted us to exercise our religion in our schools and town centers while Obama Biden wanted to crush religion and force abortion drugs on us. They wanted boys to play girls sports.
Steeplejack
“The radical left’s God is political power.”
Leto
I’m able to watch about thirty seconds at a time before I want to start hurling shit at the TV. Instead I turn it back over to the Philly Union v NYC Red Bull soccer match. At least I know the paid actors here.
Winston
religious freedom: threesomes at last.
MomSense
@Eljai:
What is her tie holding together?
Oh this lady is Billie Graham’s granddaughter.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: For real? Then they really should stop airing it.
So did Trump already accept the nomination, or are they stupid enough to adjourn the convention without doing that step?
Steeplejack
Robert Vlaisavljevich, mayor of Eveleth, MI. Yeah, I’ma catch up on the comments. This guy radiates “snoozer.”
But, wait, he’s a lifelong Democrat!
debbie
@Steeplejack:
Did she thank Trump for her bailout money? //
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I bet all the people – who lost their unemployment and can’t pay their rent or buy food – feel really good about these businesses booming.
Ken
@WaterGirl: Did you miss the memo? Trump is the Party, the Party is Trump.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
I wonder if conservatives will complain about Dems appearing at the RNC.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Hey, Trump already did half of that for Joe already.
Leto
“We lost a generation of young people… (long pause)… from the Iron Range when they had to leave to look for jobs.”
I honestly thought, with that 9 month pregnant pause, that an entire generation of cheddar heads was gone forever. Maybe they followed Farve to MN?
MomSense
Oh here we go the radical environmentalists have dragged Th e Democratic Party so far left this mayor of some Minnesota town had to support the straight talking New Yorker. Biden is so week scared and sleepy that AOC is the one running things.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
He knows what he did.
Baud
@MomSense:
Seriously, are they trying to get Bernie supporters to come out for Joe?
Steeplejack
Abby Johnson, “pro-life” activist who used to work at Planned Parenthood. (Background from me: Her “conversion” story has been widely questioned as suspect.)
Margaret Sanger, a racist, founded Planned Parenthood to “eradicate” minority groups. (Not a joke, WaterGirl!)
“I was assigned an abortion quota.”
ETA: This is execrable.
Mike in NC
@Steeplejack: Thanks to the trade war, the Chinese are buying all their lobster from Canada.
Jeffro
@lgerard: that’s because what he means is he wants kids back in school so that parents can go to work (pandemic? What pandemic??!) but while they are in school he wants them to learn hard-core capitalism
see? So easy ?
WaterGirl
@debbie: I liked it, too. I just added it to tonight’s post, also.
MomSense
@Baud:
This is a whiplash night. Cops are good Biden crime bill bad.
oh an Cissie’s abortion drugs are really contraception.
HumboldtBlue
@Steeplejack:
I bet her husband watches from the closet as well, she has that same dead-eye-Christian-freak-for-Jesus (pronounced Hayzoos) look going on.
Urza
@WaterGirl: He accepted the nomination yesterday. Seems like that should take longer in normal years, but i’m not watching this mess so what do I know.
Steeplejack
This woman is awful: straight up abortion carnography in the most unbelievably explicit, overwrought terms. This is beyond the pale.
Winston
@Jeffro:
Nearly 9,000 Florida Children Diagnosed With Coronavirus in Two Weeks as Schools Reopen
MomSense
Oh fuck – Abby johnson is talking about how abortion smells? They tear corpses into bits. Holy hell this is gruesome.
She is all about the pro life judges.
Steeplejack
Trump is “the most pro-life president we have ever had.”
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Point taken.
debbie
@Steeplejack:
Who’da thunk whoremonger Trump would be Christianity’s savior? Let me off this crazy bus!
Steeplejack
Uh-oh, montage leading into smirking teenager Nicholas Sandmann. “et’s here this creep speak.
MomSense
Catholic shit head kid was at a pro life rally when he was unfairly persecuted for his MAGA hat.
WaterGirl
@Ken: I did see their little “whereas” document. Appalling.
It’s “I’ll have what he’s having”, taken to the nth degree.
Leto
@MomSense: Yeah, Maddow covered the lie of birth control being an abortion inducing drug. Funny that’s it’s just female birth control, and not condoms, that’s an issue.
MomSense
Sandmann was just trying to defend the unborn and was persecuted for his hat.
MomSense
@Leto:
Every sperm is sacred?
Suzanne
This kid is not very smart.
SiubhanDuinne
Who is this zombie who’s on now?
ETA: Never mind, it’s the Kovington Kristian Kid. Yuck.
WaterGirl
@Urza: thanks. It must have been in the morning or sometime during the day.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Good catch!
Leto
@MomSense: He has a Richard Spencer level punchable face.
Steeplejack
Sandmann is actually making more people want to punch him in the face.
MomSense
The lame stream media tried to cancel him. The far left is trying to cancel people.
Suzanne
@MomSense: She was fucking grotesque and it made me want to throw up. Does she know that she just described a D&C and probably made every woman who ever had to have one due to a miscarriage pretty freaked out.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
“And a year’s supply of Goya beans!”
Emma from FL
That kid is going to get his ass handed to him throughout his life. Hiss asshole parents should have been less publicity-driven.
This is all red meat to the base. I am betting that for every idiot feeling exhalted by this freak parade there are five that are feeling queasy to their stomach and rethinking their beliefs.
Suzanne
Oh FFS the hat.
Baud
@Suzanne: I doubt she would care.
Steeplejack
Pam Bondi: “I helped steal the 2000 election!” Sorry, that’s a joke, WaterGirl.
“I fought corruption, and I know what it looks like.” Because I was tits-deep in it.
Leto
@MomSense: If that’s the case:
”Magnum Man, let my sperm go!” – Moses, Exodus 4:20
Steeplejack
Okay, Bondi is hitting Hunter Biden. I cannot believe the Republicans think nepotism is a good angle for them.
TS (the original)
@Gin & Tonic:
That is some read – got all upset because
Sound like a great MAGA family
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: This is terrible. He’s so wooden. And it’s so obviously terribly edited. He is literally reading with no inflection. That’s gonna win votes.
Ooh Bondi trying to bash Biden for corruption? Another soulless delivery. I had to stop. I just wanted to listen to the kid. And he’s been so exploited. When they dump him after this it’s gonna be hard. Bless his heart.
Amir Khalid
How many times has Hunter Biden been mentioned today?
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: She won’t be the last. They still think this is a winner for them.
Jeffro
So…not exactly bringing in swing voters or waffling Democrats tonight, huh??
Then who cares? Let ‘em fly those freak flags high.
khead
@Steeplejack:
Yeah, I just burst out laughing anytime these folks (or anyone else I know) start complaining about “family members of Joe Biden with no experience” being hired for something.
MomSense
Pam Bondi knows what corruption looks like.
Bet she does. But we’re on to Hunter Biden and Ukraine and how he was being investigated by a prosecutor that his dad took care of. And now he’s up to his old tricks with communist Chinese bankers who gave us coronavirus.
I’m going to need some red yarn or charts or something to follow this.
MomSense
Wait what? 747s full of cash?
Gin & Tonic
@TS (the original): And besides, doesn’t “dairy co-op” sound a lot like, you know, socialism?
Jeffro
@Steeplejack: well, there’s their nepotism, and then there’s our nepotism. Which are totally different…
MomSense
How did she get her face to be about five shades lighter than her neck?
Leto
@khead: Joy Reid bringing up all those points, as well as reminding everyone that she dropped the case against Trumpov U after receiving a campaign donation from Trumpov.
James E Powell
@Leto:
An illegal campaign donation that no one in the press/media thought was worth talking about.
Steeplejack
Montage: women in power.
Kimberly Guilfoyle: “I don’t want the job because I’m a woman. I want the job because I’m the best person for the job.” Which is why I’m getting $15,000 a month to be Don Jr.’s girlfriend.
Emma from FL
@MomSense: By using the same base. Big lights hits differently at the cheekbones than at the neck. Creates a sort of disembodied face.
Another Scott
@Steeplejack: This is the same party that thought letting Pat Buchanan speak in 1992 was a good idea.
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
Well done. Usually Canadians who live in the PNW have trouble pulling that off.
MomSense
@Suzanne:
That was horrible.
Morzer
@MomSense:
She sees it in the mirror every day.
Steeplejack
Tiffany Trump! There’s a self-made woman. I want to hear what she has to say. Mostly why she decided to get back on the Titanic.
MomSense
This is trumps binders full of women like kellyanne and Sarah Sanders and Guilfoyle.
Tiffany! Drink!
HumboldtBlue
@MomSense:
Hahahahahaha
We’re back in the theater with all this fucking projection.
Morzer
@MomSense: Gargling Trump Bleach?
Luciamia
@Steeplejack: bring back prayer!
Leto
Tiffany who? Anyone know who this is? Does Donald know this person?
MomSense
More bumper stickers.
They are really pushing criminal justice reform tonight.
Aleta
Thank you sir for all these things you’ve done using the word women.
Also I thought Jared managed the campaign?
Ken
@Winston: Yeah, it turns out the reason that kids didn’t seem to be getting coronavirus is they were all sheltering at home. Now that they’re being exposed, they’re just as likely to get the disease as adults.
Leto
@MomSense: It’s amazing (not really) that all of these women basically look the same. Like, plug and play the same. This is what Pam Bondi looked like 15 years ago, and Pam is what Tiffany will look like in 10.
Edit: she also talks out the side of her mouth. Weird.
Quinerly
So is Tiffany still off limits?
Does anyone doubt her allegiance?
Steeplejack
Okay, I’m going to play my sexist-comment pass card for tonight. I haven’t heard Tiffany speak before, and her makeup, voice, inflections and affect make her come across like a blow-up doll version of Ivanka. ?
dmsilev
So, I’m gathering from these comments that the promised happy uplifting convention might be falling just a tad short of what was sold?
Suzanne
Where would these women be without the Beachwaver?
HumboldtBlue
Those fucking choppers have her lisping like a drunken sailor during Fleet Week.
She’s just spouting nonsense but I guess that’s the goal.
Next we get the Nancy Reagan wannabe Pez dispenser-head lady who has tens of thousanda of constituents without basic public service and who today annopunced some of them will just have to go it alone.
Leto
@Quinerly: *Checks with the refs*
FAIR GAME! PLAY BALL!
Mike in NC
@Steeplejack: Recall that one of Cohen’s jobs was to arrange for abortions for the women Fat Bastard impregnated.
MomSense
Cancel culture is ruining our schools- killing diversity of ideas.
I believe in miracles. Where you from? You sexy thing. I believe in miracles.
Her speech about miracles is really boring so I jazzed it up.
Amir Khalid
I am impressed to see that Tiff Trump knows all the platitudes, and uses them enthusiastically.
SiubhanDuinne
Iowa is the birthplace of the computer?
MomSense
@HumboldtBlue:
She looks like a bush baby. I’m trying not to be mean but she really does.
Steeplejack
Kim Reynolds, governor of Iowa. “Iowa truly is a land of opportunity.” Unless you recently got blown off the map by the derecho. In that case, sucks to be you.
NotMax
@Leto
Extra-strength Botox.
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Eljai
@MomSense: I like your version better!
MomSense
Kim Reynolds loves farms and single mothers but hates storms.
Steeplejack
“What happens when a storm rips through the state?” Please tell us, Kim. I bet Donald Trump managed to help somehow.
Called it!
Stacib
@Amir Khalid: It’s the only way to stay in the will.
Morzer
@Steeplejack: She’s the blow-up doll version of the blow-up doll? That’s meta, even for Trumpworld.
Suzanne
@Steeplejack: I was thinking that I think Tiffany is prettier than Ivanka. Ivanka looks somehow asymmetrical or disproportionate to me. Not quite as bad as Sarah Sanders, who looked like a freaking Picasso. But Ivanka’s features seem like the wrong proportion or wrong place for her face.
HumboldtBlue
@MomSense:
Yeah, she has a doll-quality look with that odd-shaped head.
Redshift
Hey, that floating dumpster fire is from my trash collection company!
Ken
@Steeplejack: Especially sucks if you’re in one of the counties that’s not getting federal disaster aid. Someone predicted earlier today that Trump will “generously” authorize the aid tonight.
Leto
“The Trumpov Administration was here in full force.”
So he was there with a paper towel cannon? That’s about the extent of Trumpov help.
Steeplejack
I want to see this bitch fact-checked. Lots of government “declarations” and “Trump has our back,” no mention of funding amounts or disposition.
Chetan Murthy
Man, Trumpov sure has a *type* don’t me? I saw a pic of Bondi, and thought “wait, that look like Nielsen, the ex-DHS secy goon”.
Morzer
@Steeplejack: Is it really fair to ask fact-checkers to lay down their lives for the nation?
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
HA!
The themes of this night are all over the map. Feels like they think they need to firm up support in their base and they’re hoping to pick up support from black men over the crime bill but they also need to support cops. It’s a tight spot.
Steeplejack
Montage: Mike Pence. Where is this going? I think Mother is actually scheduled to be a speaker. Could this be her walk-up music?
“Fellow Hoosier” with Lincoln?! Lincoln was burn in Kentucky, you idiot.
Morzer
@Chetan Murthy: Corn-fed, big-haired, bigoted blonde.
Eljai
@Steeplejack: Let’s hear what Puerto Rico has to say about quick disaster relief under this clown.
Steeplejack
Okay, I need to get another drink. Make it a double, barkeep.
MomSense
Dense with video of Lincoln and Mt Rushmore with sappy movie music.
ETA more school choice
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
They both look pretty vapid AFAIC.
NotMax
@Leto
Regional accent or misreading the word farce on the speech machine?
Ken
I used to be good at this game. Hmm, can’t be the letters “rms” because they all have those, not double letters – is it that she only likes words/phrases with exactly one “a” or “i”?
Stacib
@Steeplejack: I live near the IN / IL state line. There is a HUGE sign claiming IN as the Land of Lincoln.
Steeplejack
Jack, this “eight-year-old from Wisconsin,” is the first person I have seen tonight that I don’t want to punch in the face. Some kind of special-needs case, I didn’t catch it.
Now a kid with a “fatal illness.” Pence’s words, not mine! But he gets to try experimental treatments. If only we had something like that for COVID-19.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
He said NEAR Indiana NEAR. This is nuts. Now he’s on Right to Try and they got a kid to call trump a hero. Barf
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack: Hoarse Whisper had the right idea: a bandolier of little airplane booze bottles.
Ken
If you mean Reynolds, I posted the link to the Des Moines Register article where she already said many Iowa counties won’t be seeing a dime of disaster relief. She may have taped her piece before finding that out, or she may just be lying.
cain
@Stacib:
If memory serves, he did spend quite some time in Indiana.
Leto
Does MOTHER know he sat that close to another woman? His face is saying, “OMG, GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE” or “I really need to poop”. Maybe it’s both?
Edit: he looks happier talking to this guy. His face is visibly happier.
MomSense
Jesus fucking Indiana Christ can we please ban fifth rate composers from trying to copy Aaron Copeland? Can’t you find someone else to dishonor?
cain
Trump spent all that golfing. Oops.
tokyokie
@MomSense:
I’d be happy with a Cessna full of cash. Maybe that’s why I’m not a Republican.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Did you see the link downstairs for the solitaire?
Steeplejack
Pence still bloviating. Glad I didn’t miss anything.
MomSense
@tokyokie:
I’d settle for a smart car full.
Aleta
Phoned my Reps, asked them to make a law outlawing Pence’s voice on all future broadcasts forever and ever.
MomSense
Dense is so fucking boring.
NotMax
@MomSense
Theme for the 1% Man, uses only the white keys on the piano.
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Leto
@NotMax: My autocorrect can only spell his name one way.
MomSense
Did he ease up on the Botox so he could do a concern furrow his brow when a PPP recipient tells him how blessed they are to live in America.
stacib
@cain: I know. I think it’s hilarious that both IL and IN claim to be the “Land of Lincoln”. I’ll have to take a trip to KY to see what they say. :-)
Steeplejack
Ryan Holets, police officer from Albuquerque, NM. Heartwarming story of intervening with homeless drug addicts who apparently he was not forced to shoot.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack:
I just wanted to see that again.
Leto
@MomSense: Oh, that was Mike Dense? I thought that was a can of creamed corn with a tie.
MomSense
@NotMax:
HA!
ok now they are going to efficiently pick one guy to cover all the demos. White cop adopted baby of addict Crystal.
Aleta
Is this the guy who talked her into giving him her baby?
ok, yes it is. how is that legal for a policeman in power over someone to do.
Amir Khalid
@MomSense:
We must have some kind of psychic connection, you and I. I just had that very same thought about Copeland-imitating hacks.
MomSense
Last night was cocaine fueled and tonight is a snooze fest.
Ken
@Aleta: It’s not child trafficking when the cops do it?
Redshift
@Mary G:
We weren’t intending to watch, but we were watching Rachel’s intro when it switched over to that, so I caught most of it. His “praise Trump” address was so obviously ludicrous I looked up a couple of points, but you could do an entire fact-checking column on that one five-minute speech.
He praised Trump for “reestablishing” the White House Council for Native American Affairs. You will be unsurprised to find out that it was established by Barack Obama in 2013, and went “dormant” in January 2019, and was only reactivated in April. (And when it was reactivated, the top Native official working at the White House was made its executive director and booted out of the White House to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. During a pandemic.
Then the praise for Dear Leader giving him all the credit for delivering lots of money to Indian Country through the CARES Act…
As many people explained to political newbies on social media last night, minority speakers at the RNC aren’t there to “reach out” to minority voters. They’re there to convince white people they’re not racist for voting Republican. This was more of the same, since I doubt many Native people are going to be convinced to ignore their lying eyes and believe Trump did great things for them during the pandemic.
Nobody escapes the Trump orbit with their dignity intact.
MomSense
@Amir Khalid:
I’m so glad I’m not the only one!
WaterGirl
@Redshift: That’s really funny!
Aleta
Are they alternating the blonde with the brown-haired women speakers?
Leto
My, what big teeth and eyes you have, Lt Gov Nunez.
Also I’m glad that we’ll forever have Cuba to be scared of. Surprised they’re not showing the original Red Dawn and claiming this is Joe Biden’s America.
Steeplejack
Jeanette Nuñez, lieutenant governor of the (“great state of”) Florida. Michele Bachmann crazy eyes—not quite, but almost.
“I’m a Cuban immigrant. Socialism bad.” Next.
Kent
The eyes on these GOP women just scare me. Cold, harsh, and empty, every one of them.
Very scary.
MomSense
This bug eyed Cuban lady hates socialism. St. Ronnie quote. Drink!
NotMax
@Leto
Vivid demonstration of the difference between “Who’s your daddy” and “Hoosier daddy.”
//
Kent
Diversity!
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: After the high comes the crash.
Leto
@MomSense: Well when you let Jr imitate Jack Black’s character from the end of Tropic Thunder, this is what you get.
HumboldtBlue
@Kent:
Every single one.
slightly_peeved
@Steeplejack:
Was the lobsterman here just because Trump had to one-up the calamari ninja?
Jinchi
Memory! I knew we had some older commenters at BJ, but if you remember Lincoln, I salute your good genes.
Steeplejack
@Suzanne:
All of Tiffany’s features are round: round face, round, plump cheeks, round mouth. And her 1980s Farrah Fawcett-adjacent hairdo does not help at all.
MomSense
Woops her pronunciation sounded a little too Spanishey there. Wouldn’t want to alienate the Karens. They hate it when people speak Spanish.
Aleta
There’s no one who can write like HST would have about this convention. It’s a loss for the country. And he’d be definitive about what drugs they are taking.
dnfree
Dark road of chaos and government control, warns the lieutenant governor of Florida. She says Trump has confronted tyrants. Maybe some tyrants? Certainly not all.
Quinerly
@MomSense: what would this convention been like if Bernie woulda won the nomination? ?
And, yes, she is quite bug eyed.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: She was like a mermaid sent from heaven to warn us.
HumboldtBlue
Here’s captain dumbass!
The guy who is his position illegally is now using brown people as props for the lumbering block of cheese.
MomSense
Heil to the Chief and flag waving. A naturalization ceremony?
Ken
Some years ago, someone compared the Trump administration to a whole bunch of cockroaches that formed a pyramid to turn on the kitchen light – meaning they were all doing fine at their grifts and crimes because the media wasn’t paying attention, but then got out in public.
Any candidates for that list tonight? The Wisconsin dairy farmers sound possible, what with the disputes with their neighbors and quality issues. Maybe the cop, depending on the circumstances of that baby? Other nominations?
WaterGirl
@Aleta: HST?
Steeplejack
The president! But at some prerecorded event.
Five candidates for naturalization. Oath administered by some minion while Trump stands by looking presidential.
The five look like hostage-video participants. Checking for Morse code eye-blinks.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
More Cubans!
Aleta
They should be arrested for indecency, hypocrisy and crimes against humanity for doing this.
Quinerly
@Kent: no souls.
True story.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
Hunter S. Thompson, not Harry Truman, I assume.
Amir Khalid
“Socialist takeover”? What is she talking about? Biden/Harris and the Democratic party are centre-right.
HumboldtBlue
@WaterGirl:
Truman?
MomSense
Trump’s stance is really wooden tonight. It’s like his arms are screwed on wrong.
Ken
As I recall, his line was “Where’s my favorite dictator?” Which is not quite what I understood by “confront”, but perhaps there are nuances that I don’t appreciate.
Steeplejack
Is this minion DHS Chad? Is their citizenship legal if they get the oath from someone in his post illegally? ?
Ken
He just stands there, while foreigners come in and take our jobs?
NotMax
@Aleta
Truman was a connoisseur of drugs? Who knew?
:)
Amir Khalid
He’s swearing in new citizens now. “See, I can too be presidential, so there!”
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack:
The anti-immigrant President is making some immigrants citizens.? I knew it was the wrong week to stop taking acid.
MomSense
God I hate his mouth. Is he mocking this guy with the way he over pronounces his name or is there just something wrong with his mouth?
James E Powell
@dnfree:
She means Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
MomSense
This new citizen speaks too many languages – the Karens will hate this part.
Aleta
@WaterGirl: Hunter Thompson. Covered some elections and Nixon. ’68 and one other. Wrote about Bush Sr. and the CIA and Iran Contra when Bush was running for Pres.
Jinchi
Which East European country are they from?
Steeplejack
@Stacib:
I thought Illinois is the land of Lincoln. Isn’t it even on the license plates? That makes it bona fide.
MomSense
The apples of your light? He just asked this woman if her kids are the apple of her light.
The balance is tipped too far to Benzos.
Jinchi
@Steeplejack: So New Jersey really is the garden state?
Leto
@MomSense: He can barely speak English, trying to get him to say anything other than, “BIGLY”, is a challenge. He’s probably seeing these words for the first time, so he’s sounding them out in real time.
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
I’m pretty sure Pence said “fellow Hoosier.” That’s sort of unambiguous.
MomSense
Is this just his Biff Tannen nature or is he mocking these people?
Steeplejack
@Sister Golden Bear:
I’ve been buying in bulk since 2017. I keep asking the guy at the liquor store what’s bigger than a hogshead.
Quinerly
@MomSense: I find this segment the most disturbing of the 2 nights.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
I had a hard time paying attention. The guy is DULL
Steeplejack
Eric Trump. Drink drink drink.
TS (the original)
@Steeplejack:
Like last night’s video from the White House. Trump talks like a wooden horse – no idea why anyone with half a brain thinks he is a leader – of anything except his woe begotten family.
I chanced a look on MSNBC – ahhhhhhh
Steeplejack
At least no spread collar.
MomSense
And it’s Eric. Scruff is not a good look on him.
Aleta
‘Pledge your undying loyalty’ …
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
With 180,000 dead – and counting – “We’re full” is no longer 100% operative. (ref., WaPo link)
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Leto
So regarding his posture, the reason it’s so bad is two parts: 1) he has no core muscles. You gotta have those. 2) weak hip flexors. Those two together help you stand straight. I know a lot more about that since my accident because I’m having to actively work against looking like that.
And now Gilbert Gotfried is up.
Eljai
I think this is the same speech his brother gave last night. How embarrassing.
MomSense
Democrats don’t want the pledge and they don’t want one nation under god.
St Ronnie quote. Drink!
Ken
@Steeplejack: Yes, Illinois is the “Land of Lincoln”, though he was born in Kentucky, and before either Illinois or Indiana was made a state.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Thanks, I’ll get to it after I get done live-drinking the RNC. Don’t suppose you’ve got similar for old Minesweeper, which Win10 also fucked up?
MomSense
Fly over states MAGA banners and flags.
Oh my.
Leto
@Aleta: I caught that too, immediately yelled, “FUCK OFF!” That’s not the oath I took. That’s some Fuhrer pledge shit there.
Amir Khalid
This commingling of presidential duties and campaigning doesn’t feel quite on the up-and-up.
Quinerly
@Steeplejack: both sons have beards now. I read somewhere that Trump hated beards.
Just an observation.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Ah, thank you.
MomSense
America became the envy of the world! He’s getting a little heated up now, but still low energy. Sad!
WaterGirl
@MomSense: So Trump is there in person tonight, just now speaking?
MomSense
List of things!
Aleta
They told Eric, “Keep your hands tight on the podium. Don’t wave your hands don’t lift your arms, no V’s no heils.”
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
Nope. Pre taped from the White House.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Strangely enough, a butt.
;)
Quinerly
@Amir Khalid: I said above… The swearing in ceremony has really disturbed me. I guess it could have been worse… It could have been in the Oval Office.
WaterGirl
@James E Powell:
That was good for a laugh out loud. Literally.
Sister Golden Bear
@NotMax: If Chad Wolf is not the legitimate acting DHS secretary, do these citizenship rights disappear? Not snarking.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: I’m sure he meant apple of your eye. He really is in bad shape.
Ken
@Sister Golden Bear: Shhh! That’s the surprise for the fourth night of the convention.
Steeplejack
I would be in favor of giving Eric a little cocaine to goose up his delivery.
Redshift
@Steeplejack:
The lobster thing has come up before, a few months ago, I think? Unsurprisingly, it’s a lie, too. If they didn’t lie, they wouldn’t have any accomplishments to talk about at all.
Leto
It’s interesting that he’s never called him, “My dad/My father”… it’s always, “President Trumpov”.
MomSense
My Rushmore and Gettysburg randomly invoked.
More St. Ronnie! Drink!
I’m pounding seltzer and eating gummy bears.
Chris Johnson
Literally or metaphorically?
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Minesweeper is also included in the same installer.
Aleta
I wonder what the Trump org. billed the convention fund for Eric’s giant tie.
Aleta
Choose me, Dad.
MomSense
Dear Dad, it’s me Eric. I miss working with you, but I’m so proud of you. And forgotten men and women who are forgotten no more will never be forgotten.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I had never heard that term until last night, an dI had no idea what that even was.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Hunter S. Thompson.
MomSense
@Aleta:
HA!
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: If I were them, I would find a federal judge pronto.
Sister Golden Bear
@Ken: I forgot it that takes time to assemble the cages.
Steeplejack
Montage: Women saying stuff, I can’t get the theme.
Clueless black woman: “To say we’re oppressed in America—how?”
Leto
@Chris Johnson: Metaphorically; he looks similar, sounds similar. But his material is about 60 years out of style.
@MomSense: LOL; ty for that :)
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid:
That was born to be a rotating tag.
Leto
@Aleta: Always the bankruptee, never the bankruptor.
HumboldtBlue
Rachel called him Eric Prince, twice.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Huh. I thought he was against taping. I can’t keep up!
Mike in NC
What kind of freak names his kids Barron and Tiffany?
Steeplejack
Daniel Cameron, Kentucky attorney general. Maybe he can settle the Lincoln question.
Yes! He says he was born just a few miles from Lincoln—in Kentucky, bitches!
Mr. Cameron is that rare thing, a black Republican.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Special gummy bears? Or the kind kids can eat, too?
MomSense
Kentucky AG was once MItch’s legal counsel. He loves history – especially statues.
So mellow and then all of a sudden our western values are under assault! When did that happen?
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
Plain old sugar ones.
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
Not anywhere close to well-versed enough in the law to begin to answer that.
MomSense
He’s pissed at Biden for saying he ain’t black if he votes for trump. Democrats just want to destroy jobs cancel people and kill unborn babies.
Oh my god this guy is all cliches
Leto
Can Pompeo be charged with violating the Hatch Act once we flush the orange turd?
dnfree
@Aleta: and you don’t mean Harry S Truman, which was my first thought.
Ken
I’m not understanding the planning here. Typically the speakers are in increasing importance of the office – last week Obama made a point of switching with Harris, because conventionally he would have followed her. But tonight they’ve had vice-president Pence, then Eric Trump, then the attorney general of Kentucky.
Aleta
@Mike in NC: Named after their godparents, an investment magazine and a jeweley store.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Oh, well. :-) Probably for the best. Can’t have you looking like half the folks from last night.
Steeplejack
@Leto:
Also shoe lifts tilting him forward.
Steeplejack
Mike Pompeo! Speaking from “beautiful Jerusalem.”
This is out of bounds for a sitting secretary of state to speak at a political convention. Shame!
NotMax
@Mike in NC
Eric missed being named Cartier by that much.
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lgerard
@Mike in NC:
Trump wanted to give Ivanka the name Tiffany, but Ivanna put her foot down and named her after herself, foiling that marketing effort.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
EVERYTHING IS PRERECORDED!
Leto
Sec of State bragging about killing people. Hooooooly fuck.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Mike in NC: Dump tower is literally next door to Tiffany Jewelers (lack of imagination). It’s also a well known strippers name and he objectifies women.
Dump has blubbered in the past about wanting to be Conrad Hilton’s son (W. Barron Hilton). Sad!
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Okay, then.
Isn’t this thing over yet?
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Cool, thanks.
MomSense
Mike Pompeo from Jerusalem.
He has a really big job- being dad and husband. Aw shucks that false modesty is so sincere. His face is in a frozen sort of smile. This guy does not know how to be pleasant. Betcha he has a wicked temper. Does anyone know? I’m going with quick to rage.
Hes fucking maintaining that weird smile while saying terrorist beheadings.
This guy freaks me out. Expressions do not match his words. Totally frozen affect.
WaterGirl
@Leto: Can you elaborate?
Aleta
@NotMax: Probably named after the Swedish kings so DT could claim title.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
{{{GONG!}}}
MomSense
Melanie in the rose garden with the kkk shrubs. It’s a thing.
Amir Khalid
@MomSense:
Haribo don’t actually make “special” Gummibears, do they?
I find it remarkable how … generic they sound, the life stories of these convention speakers. How perfunctory they are in telling their own stories.
Steeplejack
MOTHER! With Pence. Could this be live? Rose Garden, outside. I think it is.
And here comes the man himself! President Donald J. Trump.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: I see that MomSense has.
:: shudder ::
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Trump has used “John Barron” as one of his pseudonyms when talking to reporters.
Steeplejack
Oh, God, it’s the setup for Melania. Trump taking a seat in the first row of the audience.
Aleta
Mask free
orand diezhena gogolia
@MomSense:
I guess you forgot that time he started screaming at the reporter who dared to ask him a question on a topic he didn’t want to talk about?
Ken
From the Holy City, yet.
MomSense
He was supposed to escort her but they cut it. He walked out alone instead
L85NJGT
@Jinchi:
You’d prefer “The Truck Farm State”?
WaterGirl
@MomSense: KKK shrubs? Dare I ask?
Steeplejack
I can’t believe her accent is still so “is crazy moose and squirrel” after so many years in America. Isn’t she a genius or something?
Leto
@WaterGirl: Basically just talking about how great is was that we killed Sulimani (the Iranian general), killed the “Islamic Caliphate”… I mean, it’s just he’s saying it so gleefully. It’s disturbing. It’s on brand.
JFC, announcing the Third Lady they’re yelling at us; WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS YELLING AT US?!?! Now it’s a infomercial.
Steeplejack
She hasn’t even started yet, and I feel sorry for her already. But then I remember she was an O.G. birther and the feeling goes away.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
I did forget. He’s scary. Do not like.
Ken
@Steeplejack: IIRC she was admitted to the US under a “genius visa” program of some sort. There are questions as to whether she qualified.
gene108
@SiubhanDuinne:
Kinda sort of in the USA:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff–Berry_computer
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: All the roses are white, or off white.
Leto
She’s walking… smiled, stopped smiling, smiled… stopped, smiled again… it’s like someone was flicking the switch on and off. Weird.
Aleta
Defeated those messy trees for all America
MomSense
She’s walking down the entire colonnade- audience is struggling to maintain applause. How long is the fucking colonnade?
HumboldtBlue
This is fucking disgusting.
The only fucking reason they destroyed the Rose Garden was so this three-dollar-titty-bar-dancer wouldn’t get her heels stuck in the grass.
Mary G
MomSense
She’s wearing an olive green shirt dress – straight out of Indiana Jones NAZI costume department.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Spread collar.
Another Scott
@MomSense: He’s a bully.
He tried to bully Mary-Louise Kelly and it didn’t go well.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/25/799562818/after-contentious-interview-pompeo-publicly-accuses-npr-journalist-of-lying-to-h
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Ugh. Of course they are.
Leto
She definitely needs more teleprompter practice. She’s basically just staring at it, reading it. Or they need to give her the speech more than 45 mins out.
“My deepest sympathy goes out…” said in that monotone, with those cold dead eyes.
MomSense
No masks and no social distancing. Must be nice to have enough tests.
WaterGirl
@Leto: She does that all the time. It’s because she’s not actually smiling – she’s just moving her facial muscles.
MomSense
She is praying for those who are eels.
NotMax
@Ken
Crusader Babbitt.
HumboldtBlue
@MomSense:
That’s straight East Germany 1980.
Sweet fucking Jesus beating a Jew in a Cossack pogrom, not only does our presidency look like a cheap mob knock-off it comes with this fucking Natalia sounding dipshit.
Chetan Murthy
@Leto:
As Laura Benanti so hilariously lampoons in her segments on Colbert, this *is* her genius skill. A truly superlative model knows where the camera is, and instinctively turns to present the proper profile for a flattering shot …. every time.
Aleta
putting the sad into the surreal
MomSense
They need to upgrade the animatronic software.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Do all the spread collars come with a creepy Ken doll head?
gene108
@SiubhanDuinne:
Kind of:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff–Berry_computer
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
It ends at 11:00. Every night.
Quinerly
@MomSense: crisp shoulder pads.
MomSense
@HumboldtBlue:
That’s it!
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Terrorists.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: It usually goes over 5 to 10 minutes, if we’re lucky.
HumboldtBlue
This is really a scene from an Austin Powers movie, right? Right?
Leto
@Chetan Murthy: Laura does an impeccable impression of her. As soon as the Third Lady started speaking, I started laughing, because Laura’s impression is just so spot on.
Amir Khalid
At least this time she’s not plagiarising Michelle Obama’s speech.
Steeplejack
Rose Garden chairs are socially distanced. No masks seen in brief crowd shot.
Oh, we’re getting into some traditional convention stuff here—interruptions for clapping every so often.
Melania not sounding so foreign. She’s getting into the Greta Garbo “I vant to be alone” zone.
Aleta
The clearing of the Rose Garden has turned out to be fortuitous.
Mary G
tokyokie
@dnfree:
He only confronted them about the possibility of a Trump tower in their capital.
Sister Golden Bear
The military outfit is a classy touch. //
MomSense
Holy hell this is awful. How is this real life?
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: That’s 3-1/2 hours!
Aleta
And who could ever forget the story of all the little children my husband has locked up.
Jeffro
@MomSense: Pompeo, Cotton, Hawley, Haley, Pence, and Don Jr…quite a field you’ve got there for 2024, QP!
Sister Golden Bear
@MomSense: I think you need the special gummies STAT.
WaterGirl
@Aleta:
?
Another Scott
Cheers,
Scott.
Leto
BE BEST! DRINK!
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Yes. Like I said last night, Jared, Stephen Miller and I forget the third one.
MomSense
@Sister Golden Bear:
On a scale of 1 to Mussolini, how fascist does this event look?
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Baud: Bernie supporters aren’t watching.
Leto
“Helping children…” the fucking gall of this woman…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: 2 1/2, it just seems longer.
Emma from FL
@MomSense: Rally scene in Triumph of the Will. Every damned minute of it.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
It’s 2½ hours: 8:30 to 11:00. Lots of montage filler and prerecorded speeches. Not hard to do. Hard to watch, yes. Drink drink drink.
MomSense
ok now she’s talking about her trip to Africa where she did dress exactly like the blond NAZI from Indiana Jones
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: They’re helping some children into cages.
Quinerly
@MomSense: jarring.
Entire night very disturbing.
I prefer the coke fueled Mon night. Suddenly DJTJ’s girlfriend isn’t so scary anymore.
Tonight has been horrifying.
MomSense
They keep going to donald in the split screen and he looks like he’s falling asleep in the toilet.
Sister Golden Bear
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Can we arrange for them all to undergo the treatment scene in “A Clockwork Orange”?
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Me too. This is over the top fascist staging.
Aleta
I’m so proud of my husband. Agree to be alone with him? Never again.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: Has he shit himself again?
Aleta
@MomSense: The lighting feels fascist
NotMax
@MomSense
“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
– Benito Mussolini
.
And another.
“We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.”
– Benito Mussolini
.
Steeplejack
Melania is not disgracing herself. She’s just monotonous and boring. Let’s wrap this thing up.
I will say that I have found the C-SPAN feed to be the best. Absolutely no filler, and they do a good job of identifying the speakers with quick chyrons. Also (apparently) identifying which parts are live, like Melania’s speech.
Bill Arnold
@MomSense:
Why Trump’s Pam Bondi Scandal Isn’t Going Away (Shawn Tully, September 12, 2016)
Yutsano
Oh good Lard. She’s terrible. Like she has no training in how to use a teleprompter. No presence. No emotion. And this babble about drug addiction is almost shade.
EDIT: the fake applause lines are just gross.
Steeplejack
“In my next four years as First Lady . . .” Oh, hell, no.
Aleta
Imelda Marcos was a beauty queen
Tulip
Jesus… will she ever stfu? Lying bitch.
Amir Khalid
@MomSense:
Funny how everything Melania wears looks like it’s from the discount racks at H&M.
MomSense
oh god she wants to do more to restore the people’s house.
Leave it the fuck alone.
ok a special message to the mudders.
Aleta
Oh god. Leave the place alone. Just leave it.
HumboldtBlue
Is this Quadrophenia?
Quinerly
@MomSense: I love to joke around, but I am more disturbed than usual tonight.
Asking an honest and serious question… Are average people finding this as disturbing as we are? (I don’t know any average people?)
Sister Golden Bear
@MomSense: Thursday night will begin with Air Force One descending through the clouds, its shadow visible as it passes over the tiny figures marching below, accompanied by an orchestral arrangement of the Horst-Wessel-Lied as it lands in Nuremberg, PA.
MomSense
@Amir Khalid:
There is a reason runway models don’t get new kidneys
Leto
Her speech is like 2020 in that it just won’t fucking end. PLAY THE MUSIC ALREADY!
Amir Khalid
I just clicked away from the PBS live feed on YouTube. I can’t take any more of this rubbish.
MomSense
Total honesty? Donald? GTFO
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Quinerly: Most average people are probably not watching and spending their time trying to figure out how to pay the rent next week.
Quinerly
How many fucking times has she said, “my husband”?
HumboldtBlue
@Quinerly:
The people I think you are thinking of are not watching. They will get Facebook and FOX News clips to feast on and that feeds the base.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
I hope so. This is nightmare fuel
Yutsano
Oh thank Jeebus it’s over.
WTF KIND OF KISS WAS THAT???
Leto
Her cheek is oranger after the hug.
Calouste
@MomSense: It’s not Right to Try. It’s Right to Try And Have Someone Else Pay For It. You know, socialism.
tokyokie
@Emma from FL:
Except with crappier production design and lousy cinematography. Leni Reifenstahl would be aghast at how slipshod this production is.
zhena gogolia
@Quinerly:
My theory? They don’t watch it. They don’t want to know. They just want to feel okay voting for Republicans. I guarantee you my neighbors are not watching it, but they’ll vote for him.
Aleta
They didn’t clear the rose garden for drainage and disability access. It was to get the shot.
MomSense
Wolf called it a very moving speech? As in move to Canada this is fucked
NotMax
@Aleta
Distinctly remember one snippet from an interview she gave on the capacious, precisely manicured lawn of the enormous palace-in-exile (shown in the background, with pristine beach and blue. blue ocean beyond) on Oahu.
“Look around. This is Hell.”
HumboldtBlue
@Leto:
And he’s sweating like a pig as he always is.
Steeplejack
Boom shot of the crowd waking up after the Trumps walk off. No masks, chairs semi-distanced, about three feet, not six. Looks like “every other seat” placement.
Okay, over to the Crew on MSNBC.
MomSense
@Aleta:
Nope. They did it to make a set for that disgrace.
frosty
@Bill Arnold: Nice try by someone, but the Pam Bondi scandal did go away, just like all the others.
Leto
@MomSense: And Joy Reid taking this entire shitshow to task. Specifically focusing on the naturalization ceremony because her mom was naturalized, and instead of it being about the recipients, it’s about him. And how fucking disgusting that is.
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack: OK. Sure. But let me tell you something: Plantation 5 year.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Sister Golden Bear: LOL. I support that completely!
WaterGirl
@Aleta: That’s the first thing BillinGlendaleCA said when we saw the newly redone Rose Garden.
The photographer who is probably always mentally framing shots knew that immediately. I am not watching so I don’t know, but it sounds like you are in complete agreement with BillinGlendaleCA.
NotMax
@MomSense
The free trial period on the rose bushes probably ends this weekend.
“Hurry up and finish loading them. The nursery closes at 6.”
MomSense
@Leto:
Thank goodness because I’m a little freaked out.
Steeplejack
@different-church-lady:
Will check it out. I also like Barbancourt three-star, but Mount Gay is my usual.
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
They took out all those crab apple trees just to get that fucking walk on the colonnade. I’m so furious right now.
zhena gogolia
@MomSense:
I hate them so much it is eating away at my soul. And I didn’t even watch it.
MomSense
Can we just go back to one flag in the corner like in the old days before we had to make such a big show of loving the flag?
WaterGirl
@MomSense: We knew that as soon as we saw the photos, but clearly to folks watching tonight it was absolutely, undeniably obvious, which takes the anger from 10 on a scale of 10, to something higher.
They are truly despicable, and it knows no bounds.
He’s fucking campaigning from the white house and he destroyed a beautiful historic garden to do it.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
I know. We have to figure out how to find out humanity again.
Amir Khalid
Victoria Station (local steakhouse) said that if I walk in around 12:30pm, I should be able to get a table for one and enjoy my nice once-in-every-few-years steak. Yay!
zhena gogolia
@MomSense:
My husband is so sure Biden is going to become president. I wish I could channel that.
NotMax
@MomSense
And put a Chinese cut-rate flag factory out of business?
//
MomSense
@Amir Khalid:
That’s wonderful! Enjoy!
zhena gogolia
@Amir Khalid:
What cut did you decide on?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Pretty much, that’s why they got rid of the trees, they interfere with a clean shot.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: Yup.
MomSense
@NotMax:
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MomSense
@WaterGirl:
They said they plan to replant them but I call BS. You don’t transplant trees like that in the heat of July and August. They won’t do well if they survive it.
MomSense
Pompeo delivered his speech from the rooftop of the King David hotel. Dear god.
NotMax
@MomSense
The areas with the suddenly appearing big golden planters at his hotel are air conditioned.
//
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Enjoy! Let us know how it turns out. What side dishes, etc.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Fuckers.
Aleta
@MomSense: And to level the area for even rows of chairs.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: The balls of the trees would have to be beyond HUGE to even have a chance of survival. Yeah, and July and August are not when you would do it.
They are lying like they lie about everything else.
WaterGirl
@Aleta: I hate these people.
Aleta
@WaterGirl: They spent tonight telling us they’re the party of Lincoln and women and little children, who loves immigrants, cares about prisoners and floats above racism.
Sister Golden Bear
After seeing tonight’s speakers, I didn’t realize there are still that many Quaaludes left in existence.
Sally
@khead: This sounds like it really should be Ivanka’s speech //
Amir Khalid
@zhena gogolia:
T-bone, if they have it.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Promise there will be no ketchup involved.
;)
Anya
@Quinerly: To me, she’s off limits because she’s like those countries Bush blackmailed into joining the “coalition of the willing” or as my dad used to call it, the coalition of the bribed and blackmailed. She’s like Estonia or Toga.
Chetan Murthy
@Anya: If I were an Iraqi, I would make no differences between Americans and Estonians: they both came to kill my people.
As a loyal and patriotic American, she’s a Trumper now, a Trumper in full, trying to destroy our country. That she’s doing it for probably a paltry sum makes it all the more deplorable. She can DIAF with the rest of them. She should never be able to eat out in public again, without wondering what’s in her meal, without getting heckled, ,etc. She should *long* to move to Russia, for the peace and quiet. She’s a Trumper in full.
Anya
@Chetan Murthy: I think they sent 40 technicians or such but I get your point.
Ian
@Jinchi:
Did you expect anything less?
Chetan Murthy
@Anya: What’s worse is, it’s not 2016, where she could tell herself “oh, he can’t win, this is just for my share of the inheritance”. Now, it’s for all the goddamn marbles, with hundreds of thousands of lives *immediately* on the line (b/c the fucker won’t do the minimum to get this pandemic under control) and so many more in the medium-to-long term, as we decide whether we’re going to be a democracy or a fascist state. She should know this, what with her oh-so-pricey education at UPenn and Georgetown Law? I mean, what, do they not teach people about the history of democracy, of fascism, of the rule of law, all those things? b/c shit, she should know these things, to graduate with a J.D. FFS.
The Lodger
@Suzanne: Think of Ivanka’s face as construction without a general contractor.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
No ketchup was involved, the T-bone was medium-rare and well worth it.
My experience with Grab trying to get a car home was quite another matter, though.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Glad it was good. [Checks time.] You deserve an afternoon siesta. Any take-home bits for Bianca?