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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Republican Convention – House on Fire Floats Downstream: Day 3

Republican Convention – House on Fire Floats Downstream: Day 3

by WaterGirl|  August 26, 20208:15 pm| 391 Comments

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Day 3.  One more metaphor for the convention, video courtesy of J.R. in WV.

Here we go.

I’m saving the storm troopers for Day 4.

(If no one else adds a “companion” open thread within a few minutes, I can add one.)

edit: And Cole comes through with a post.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    August 26, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    Take care of yourself, MomSense.

  2. 2.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    @Baud:

    I’ve got my seltzer and some gummy bears ? and I’m ready to go.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    August 26, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    My RNC review: Hannibal Lecter’s dinner party was visually sumptuous!

    I am supposed to be writing about the Republican National Convention, but I’d like to submit this review instead; the content is essentially the same.

    What a grand party! A delicious five-course meal! Dr. Hannibal Lecter surged from triumph to triumph.

    With his showman’s flair, Dr. Lecter really crafted a striking contrast to the other party, where he reports that things are going very badly. He made a wonderful dish with fava beans and a nice chianti. Weird that the census in this neighborhood seems to have stopped for some reason, but I’m sure it had nothing to do with Dr. Lecter.

    It is not my job to say whether what was happening should have been happening, or if there was anything in the feast to be concerned about, so I am here to tell you that everything Hannibal Lecter served looked AMAZING. This is the kind of uplifting meal that this nation has long been waiting for, and it was a sumptuous repast in every way, a striking contrast to the other dinners I’ve sat through, full of empty chairs, where people said in ominous tones that they were losing loved ones and didn’t know when the carnage would stop.

    (a reaction, I think, to her coworker Hugh Hewitt penning two consecutive ‘the RNC is a triumph’ columns)

  4. 4.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 26, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    I’m tuning out tonight. Don’t even want to know what horrible things will be said about what’s going on in WI and sports by the GOP criminal cartel. Burn them to the ground Nov 3.

  5. 5.

    Jeffro

    August 26, 2020 at 8:31 pm

    Tucker Carlson is already out there excusing the Kenosha shooter. What’s a poor paranoid trumpov-radicalized young brownshirt to do, except shoot his fellow Americans?

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    Starting with a montage: breathy mail voice, Aaron Copland-esque music.

    Okay, let’s do this. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA tonight.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Is the Hoarse Whisperer live tweeting tonight?  If not, I should probably take down the link.

  8. 8.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Invocation by Rabbi Aryeh Spero, Conference of Jewish Affairs.

    He’s not praying in Jesus’ name! What gives?

  9. 9.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I’m wondering if the embedded video is going to slow down page loads. Maybe pic or GIF better?

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Heard from Mom (who will be voting Biden regardless) that unlike yesterday she will deliberately be avoiding subjecting herself to tonight because Pence.

  11. 11.

    Darkrose

    August 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Giants/Dodgers, Brewers/Reds, and Mariners/Padres games are all postponed, in addition to the WNBA and NBA games in protest of police brutality and systemic racism.

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Wheelchair master sergeant (retired, presumably) pledges allegiance.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    I’m almost done with a baby sweater I’m calling little liberal snowflake. It’s very cute.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    August 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    I don’t know if anyone has posted this here before, but this picture of the two parties’ roll calls side-by-side says pretty much everything.

    2020 Roll Call: Democrats vs. Republicans pic.twitter.com/as6VwgypBl
    — The Recount (@therecount) August 24, 2020

    I didn’t even read much of the recap of last night’s shitshow, just can’t do it.

    Everyone in the path of Laura, good luck.

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Michele Bachmann meets evil Lynda Carter vibe.

  16. 16.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    Michael C. Bender
    @MichaelCBender
    · 1h
    Two women at last night’s naturalization ceremony said they were never told they would be showcased at a political convention, and no one sought their consent

    Absolute scumbags. People exist only to the extent that they serve the Trumps.

    Can we have all the pundits who crooned about how wonderful this was issue an apology? The Trumps should pay them. They should be ordered to pay them for the event. They’re all deadbeats and they won’t pay so just go straight to seizing it.

  17. 17.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    First up, SD Governor.  Founding principles under attack!

    Quoting Madison on tyranny.  Drink!

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    I’m noticing the 80 background flags are very wrinkly, as someone mentioned earlier today. Supposedly wouldn’t pass protocol.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    @Steeplejack

    Front page only has been intermittently very pokey over the past 24 hours.

  20. 20.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Ha!! Perfect description.

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    Noem bland, bland, bland. No drinking yet.

  22. 22.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Are they blurry too?

  23. 23.

    Baud

    August 26, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    @Kay: They get to vote against Trump in November!

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    August 26, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    I am having a day in which I am terrified that Trump is going to win.

    god help me. I can’t take any more of this lunacy.

  25. 25.

    Danielx

    August 26, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Conference of Jewish Affairs?

    That has a sound of Third Reich bureaucracy, though I am sure that is not intended.

  26. 26.

    dmsilev

    August 26, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    @MomSense:

    I’m almost done with a baby sweater I’m calling little liberal snowflake. It’s very cute.

    Isnt it traditional to wait until after the wedding to start nagging your DIL for grandkids?

  27. 27.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    Which Trump lowlifes walked the women into that trap? It takes a lot of people to put on a reality show. Was it the Apprentice sleazes? Which Trump bottomfeeders did the actual dirty work?

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    @NotMax:

    I hardly ever go to the front page. I use the “next post” wing to open new tabs as I go along.

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    @MomSense:

    Yes, I guess that’s because of the ace camera work focusing on the speakers.

  30. 30.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    @MomSense: Pics!!!

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    Scott Dane, Associated Contract Loggers & Truckers of Minnesota.

    “I represent loggers, but I also represent a way of life.” Let’s bring back those 1.2 million logging jobs!

  32. 32.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    Radical democrats and their violent mobs are looting and causing chaos and murder in democrat run cities.

    2A religious freedom and lawn order.

    Dump fighting for the common American .

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    August 26, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    Tucker goes there:

    Tucker Carlson: "How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?" pic.twitter.com/6jf59YW60U— Brendan Karet ? (@bad_takes) August 27, 2020

    I’ve wanted to believe that Adam’s projections are too dark, but this is beyond the pale and will bring the fascists out of the woodwork.

  34. 34.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Jesus tens to the  gardening outside the synagogue.

  35. 35.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    I missed the logger because Rachel called a fact check.

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    @Steeplejack: One embedded video shouldn’t slow things down, but it makes no difference to me.  I just put up the image from the first night.

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN. Okay, now drink drink drink.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 26, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    Good on ya, Don! Van Jones is a fucking Russthuglican! (duh)

    Don't be fooled.#VanJonesIsARepublican @CNN should add "Republican Strategist" to his appearances.Watch. pic.twitter.com/TL0BqmHUwE— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 26, 2020

  39. 39.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    @Baud:

    I loathe these people. This is only the first revelation, Baud. It’s a 4 day Trump event. Putting aside the actual lawbreaking we all witnessed there were probably tens of disgusting flim-flams and cons like this.

    Donald Trumps media employees come from reality tv, The Enquirer and Fox News. 100% sleaze.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    @Leto:

    I’ll send some to WG.

  41. 41.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    @Danielx:

    Inorite.

  42. 42.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    @Baud:

    The sleazy Trump Family see it as them personally conferring citizenship on these people- that’s why the new citizens have to donate their ceremony to the Trumps. It’s payment in kind.

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    @MomSense:

    C-SPAN, baby, C-SPAN. No filler.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    August 26, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    @Suzanne:

    ‘You’re not alone.

    https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/08/how-can-liberals-expand-their-reach/

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    @Kay: I’m almost afraid to ask what you are referring to.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Just asking. I don’t see the inner workings.

  47. 47.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    @Mary G: And the little Nazi is going to be convicted of murder.  Let’s not forget that.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    @Steeplejack: Like I said, makes no difference to me.

  49. 49.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    The Chinese communist regime unleashed the China virus.  Blackburn is racist.

    you know who can’t be canceled?  Our men and women in uniform.

  50. 50.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I just switched to Roku Live!

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    Rep. Daniel Crenshaw, R-TX. Eye patch guy. The entire nation owes Pete Davidson of SNL an apology.

    He’s talking in front of the big guns of some warship.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    Biden Harris and their radical allies are trying to get rid of our heroes and control us.  They want to keep us locked in our houses until we are dependent on government.  Sounds just like communist China to Marsha. No wonder they like Biden!

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    @MomSense: I can put them up in this thread, to help keep us calm.  Unless we need to wait until it’s complete.

    edit: Or save them for a happy thread.  Or both.  Your choice.

  54. 54.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    @MomSense: Awesome!

  55. 55.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Ha!

  56. 56.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    @MomSense: With a few tabs of acid, the convention might actually make sense.

  57. 57.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    @dmsilev: We’re Democrats, we hate traditional marriage.

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    See #16 above.

  59. 59.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    9/11; DRINK!

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    Lt. Gen. (ret.) Keith Kellogg, national security adviser to the president. Another guy who should probably not be speaking because of his official position.

  61. 61.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    @MomSense:

    2A religious freedom and lawn order.

    It’s important to have orderly lawns.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    @Steeplejack: Ah.  I had assumed that part was not live, that the naturalization ceremony was taped.  Rule #1: they can always go lower.

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    “When President Donald Trump took office, decades of failed foreign policy had crippled us.” Okay, that’s the reality-based perspective I want to see. I’m reassured.

  64. 64.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    @WaterGirl: Yes

    Fair warning about the upcoming coverage: I am saltier than a stadium pretzel today. There will be unkind tweets.

    Although the poor man has only a single beer to see him through the night. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

  65. 65.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    Someone mentioned in a previous thread that the flags are wrinkled and that’s all I can see now. Corn Flakes is lying about the military, of course, but the wrinkled flags are getting me.

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Reprising the death of the Iranian general terrorist (can’t remember/spell name).

  67. 67.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    This cereal named security  guy looks very confused.

  68. 68.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @MomSense: This convention was better in the original German.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:  That doesn’t seem like nearly enough.

  70. 70.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Happy thread.

  71. 71.

    dmsilev

    August 26, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Fair point.

  72. 72.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    Again with the Reagan quote that was originally against Medicare.

  73. 73.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    @Leto: I thought Rudy was on tomorrow night.

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Speaking of which, if anyone has a good link to stormtroopers or soldiers walking in lock-step, I thought something like that might be good image for the finale.

  75. 75.

    Eljai

    August 26, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    To those watching the convention, thank you for the lowlights!  I hate-watched the first two nights, but I have to take a break to detox my liver and repair the holes in my aura.

  76. 76.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    Tera Myers, “school choice advocate,” Mansfield, OH. Mother of Downs syndrome child. Warming up with anti-abortion screed.

    School choice is “education freedom.” Got it.

  77. 77.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    Here we go. Mom of special needs child CHOSE to parent.  Now she is against women making choices except when it comes to schools.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    It was taped, but apparently the women still didn’t know that it was a setup before it happened.

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    Montage: 19th-century suffragettes! Republicans, of course, I’m guessing?

    Okay, here we go: leading up to Trump’s pardon of Susan B. Anthony. ?

  80. 80.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    DID YOU KNOW THAT THE DEMS ARE THE REAL RACISTS AND HATE WOMEN?!?!?!

  81. 81.

    Emma from FL

    August 26, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    @burnspbesq: Kevin is an optimist. You can’t negotiate with someone that wants to kill you.

  82. 82.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    Suffrage montage.  Trump pardoned Susan B Anthony in the 100th anniversary.  Oh FFS

  83. 83.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Okay, here we go: leading up to Trump’s pardon of Susan B. Anthony. ?

    Never mind that Anthony turned down a pardon offer at the time.

  84. 84.

    Suzanne

    August 26, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @MomSense: Mr. Suzanne is a special educator. I believe exactly zero of what she said.

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    Hmm, women’s suffrage enacted right after Republicans retook Congress. Uh, what election happened right before August 3, 1920?

  86. 86.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    Here is Kayleigh MAC Ninny talking about breast cancer.

  87. 87.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @Suzanne:

    It’s total BS

  88. 88.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Pointed out by Talking Points Memo:

    If you were just to watch the RNC and then stick your head in the sand, you might think that the Republican party boasts a surplus of female lawmakers based on how many have been featured. In reality, there are only nine Republican female senators and an embarrassing 13 in the House. It’s part of the reason that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) was boosted to her leadership position so quickly.

  89. 89.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @WaterGirl: don’t worry fam, I got ya covered!

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    Kayleigh McEnany. Cancer survivor or just daughter of a cancer survivor? Unclear.

    “The next day, with my mom, my husband and Jesus by my side, I underwent a preventive mastectomy.”

    Supportive phone call from Ivanka after surgery, then President Trump! “I was blown away!”

  91. 91.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    My take away from Baghdad Betty’s message is: if Trumpov thinks I’m fuckable, I’ll get his support. At least until my first crows foot.

  92. 92.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    MACNinny wants us to believe that because Vanky and Dump were nice to her they are good for all women.  BS

  93. 93.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    @WaterGirl: Hoarse agrees with you.

    I am now staring down the barrel of being terrifyingly alert for Mike Pence’s speech later.

    All is terrible. Terrible is all.

    I will cling to that one beer like it was a backup parachute during a frantic plummet to earth.

    Open before impact.
    — The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 27, 2020

  94. 94.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    MOTHER!

  95. 95.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    ?

  96. 96.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    MOTHER! Karen Pence. Drink drink glug glug glug.

  97. 97.

    Suzanne

    August 26, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Why is Kaylee McNeenerNeener talking about the healthcare that other people get because of Obamacare?

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Did you know that the Pences are a military family? It’s true.

  99. 99.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 26, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @Steeplejack: I’m surprised they’re not “thin blue line” flags.

  100. 100.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @Steeplejack

    Jesus loves him some side boob.

    //

  101. 101.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    Holy shit Mother looks like Aunt Lydia from Handmaid’s Tale.

  102. 102.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    So did anyone know, previous to this, that MOTHER! was involved with military spouses? Or the fact that she copied FLOTUSFOREVER Michelle Obama and SLOTUS Jill Biden’s 8 year initiative? Bueller? Bueller? Also the fact that I can hear her swallow… might want to turn the sensitivity on that mic down.

  103. 103.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    Did they forget to book the hall for the third night?  Is this a green screen of blurry flags?  Did she tape this in the WH bunker?

  104. 104.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    During the lull that is Mother’s speech, I am reminded that, according to all three nights’ speakers so far, the country is awash in goddamn heroes. Then how can things be so fucked up? ?

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Topping up the Dogfish Head 60. Thank you, Mother, for this respite.

  106. 106.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Right! And if trump is so strong and good at protecting us, why are violent Democrat mobs causing chaos in our cities?

  107. 107.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @Steeplejack

    “The Suffragettes were okay but not as good as The Dixie Cups or The Supremes.”

    //

  108. 108.

    Suzanne

    August 26, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @NotMax:

    Jesus loves him some side boob. 

    You can’t blame the guy.

  109. 109.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    Skeletor up next. Arms straight down by her sides. Kids still trapped at the house.

  110. 110.

    Delk

    August 26, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    Just checked in with my hubby who has watched all of Monday and Tuesday’s shit shows and he is watching American Dad. He’s had his fill. I get the impression that he’s not the only one.

  111. 111.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    Kellyanne Conway! Glad I replenished the strategic alcohol reserve.

  112. 112.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    KellyAnne!  Bottoms up!

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    @Steeplejack: We don’t need lots of heroes.  We need garbage men, CNAs, teacher’s aides, lunch ladies, and all the other unsung people who do the shitty little jobs that keep society functioning.

  114. 114.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    KellyAnne is like seriously white – her hair skin dress are all the same color. She’s like a ?

  115. 115.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Weird body language: standing at the lectern with both arms straight down at her side.

  116. 116.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    What is wrong with her arms?  They look like they may not be functional – so weird.  Straight down at her sides like an Irish step dancer.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    WTF?! Did she just take credit (on Trump’s behalf) for some two-job low-wage worker finally getting health insurance?! GTFO.

  118. 118.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    I expected a little more fire ? from KellyAnne but she is really low energy. SAD!

  119. 119.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    @MomSense

    The Dove of Peace Sleaze.

  120. 120.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    @Delk: We’re swapping back and forth between the shitshow and Forged in Fire.

  121. 121.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Yup. Oh and she snuck in cherish the children.  Oops

  122. 122.

    Quinerly

    August 26, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    @Steeplejack: Stepford wife look. Or one of the female robots in the original Yul Brenner Westworld.

    Creepier than she usually is.

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    Sister Deirdre Byrne, M.D. Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts. (Also retired Army colonel.) I don’t know if I can take this. Do I sense abortion on the horizon again?

    Entered her order in 2002, apparently in midlife.

  124. 124.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @MomSense: I think she had to give up that fire to Baghdad Betty.

  125. 125.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @Quinerly

    Strategic pantyhose failure.

    :)

  126. 126.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    Finally broke down and start live-streaming. Holy shit those flags are wrinkled! I guess jack-booted tromping over the laws, conventions and Constitution of our government will do that.

  127. 127.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    Oh, shit. Talking about refugees and oppressed people around the world. Then: “The largest [something–persecuted?] group in the world can be found right here in the United States–the unborn.”

    “Life begins at conception.” There you have it.

    “Donald Trump is the most pro-life president this nation has ever had.”

    Biden-Harris support the horrors of late-term abortions. How does “religious” woman sleep at night?

  128. 128.

    joel hanes

    August 26, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    @Emma from FL:

    Kevin is a squish who refuses to believe that Republicans are who they have been telling us that they are for twenty years.

    He lives in Orange County and knows many nice Republicans.  Also he is white and comfortably affluent.  Also he seems to derive satisfaction from a mild iconoclasm with respect to nearly-consensus liberal ideas.

    OTOH, he probably was and is right in claiming that the wave of violent crime in the 1960s was caused by tetraethyl lead in gasoline.

  129. 129.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    Self-described “football guy” Lou Holtz. Recently in the news for saying, “Damn the coronavirus, we need to play football!”

  130. 130.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    I don’t know who this coach is.  I think he’s having denture issues

  131. 131.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    Holtz is coming across like everybody’s crazy uncle at Thanksgiving.

  132. 132.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    Lou Holtz? I thought he died at South Carolina.

  133. 133.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear

    “Hey, when you’re coming up on 250, bet you’ll have wrinkles too.”

    :)

  134. 134.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @MomSense:

    Drained from screaming at/with Claudia at  home.

  135. 135.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    Sweet Jesus beating a cripple with a bat, here’s Lou Fuicking Holtz sucking his dentures for Trump.

  136. 136.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @MomSense: He coached at Notre Dame for a while, then went to into obscurity at the University of South Carolina, where all coaches go to career death.

  137. 137.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Enough with the fetus fetishists!  It’s so tiresome.  They don’t give a crap what happens to mom or baby after the birth.  1 in 5 moms has children at home who are hungry.  These forced birth fanatics don’t care one bit.

  138. 138.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    @Quinerly:

    Def Stepford vibe. Original movie, not the remake.

  139. 139.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    Way too much time for Holtz. Who in Trump’s camp is such a fan?

  140. 140.

    cain

    August 26, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Apparently, neither does Jerry Falwell Jr.

  141. 141.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @Leto: His coaching career did.

  142. 142.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @NotMax:

    “Moisturise Me!”

  143. 143.

    Ked

    August 26, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    And has spent at least a decade at ESPN since, descending into frothy incoherence.

    I notice that there’s a very distinct lack of color tonight.

  144. 144.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    Can I imagine what would have happened if Trump hadn’t shown up in 2015?  Hell yes.  That sounds awesome.

  145. 145.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @Leto: Or as we call it in Southern California, the other USC.

  146. 146.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @Ked: Beige is a color.

  147. 147.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    Police union president and Barney Rubble look alike.

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    Michael McHale (“but my friends call me Mick”), president, National Association of Police Organizations. Silver crewcut like I haven’t seen since second-tier 1950s cop movies.

  149. 149.

    Quinerly

    August 26, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    @Steeplejack: of course… Love me some Katherine Ross!

  150. 150.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    This guy is straight-up capital-F fascist.

    President Trump has led the initiative on police training in deëscalation?! Get. the. fuck. out.

  151. 151.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    Something is wrong with his mouth.  Violence and bloodshed because we won’t let law enforcement do what it takes.

    nonononono Profile shot is a really bad idea

  152. 152.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh I know. Finished his career there with a losing record. Fitting.

  153. 153.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    Essay question topic: Should officials of state entities with life-and-death enforcement powers be issuing partisan endorsements? Discuss.

  154. 154.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    Who let the non-blonde on stage?

  155. 155.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    Stefanik invoking brave revolutionary war heroes and hockey players.

  156. 156.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @Steeplejack: Is there an FOP type organization that isn’t fascist?

  157. 157.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY.

    DougJ, put up a funder to get rid of this nitwit.

  158. 158.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @Leto: What’s going on?

  159. 159.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    Is Stefanik in a safe district?

  160. 160.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    “My claim to fame is that I am the youngest Republican woman elected to Congress in history.” Well, all righty.

  161. 161.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    @MomSense:

     Violence and bloodshed because we won’t let law enforcement do what it takes.

    I’m afraid to ask “what it takes” would entail.

  162. 162.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    They’re all saying the same fucking things.  It’s like a rotisserie of slogans. So boring.

  163. 163.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    My pipe dream right now is that some mind-bendingly colossal Trump fuckup/scandal will occur between now and the election and all these choads who are binding themselves to him will go down in flames with him. Even unto the level of county commissioners and dogcatchers.

  164. 164.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Someone let a non-bleached blonde woman on stage. I thought MOTHER! was the only one.

  165. 165.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    Hey this guy is named for a founding father!  Drink!

    Its Madison, btw.  It’s always Madison.

  166. 166.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @Steeplejack: So let it be written.  So let it be done.

  167. 167.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    Madison Cawthorn, running for Congress in North Carolina. Google this guy; he’s the fascist-in-waiting who had Hitler’s mountain retreat on his “must see” bucket list.

    Do I even have to add: spread collar.

  168. 168.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    This Madison Cawthorne  guy sees forgotten people.

  169. 169.

    Rusty

    August 26, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    @MomSense: what a dope.  Under the school choice programs the Republicans want she would get some average x dollars for her kid to go to school, that’s it.  Educating a special needs child could be an order of magnitude more.  She would have to come with the rest if she was lucky enough to find a school to take her kid.

  170. 170.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    @MomSense

    One more time:

    Spitegeist.

    ;)

  171. 171.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    • @Steeplejack:

    Ha – oh dear he does have a spread collar.

  172. 172.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    @Leto: Whoosh!  I guess there weren’t four of them.

  173. 173.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    Looks like tonight’s party is located in Amish country.

  174. 174.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @NotMax:

    Perfect.

  175. 175.

    NotMax

    August 26, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @MomSense

    “People are learning about his wife’s tasty snack cakes more and more every day.”

    //

  176. 176.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    Wait they brought him something – oh god they brought him something so he could stand at the one nation under god for which I STAND.

  177. 177.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Also, I think “florid” is a color.

    Okay, here’s some color: Jack Brewer, former NFL player.

  178. 178.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Lol

  179. 179.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I assume that’s rhetorical.

  180. 180.

    Just Chuck

    August 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I don’t want no FOP goddammit, I’m a Dapper Dan Man!

    I dunno why, that just popped in my head.

  181. 181.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    Wait this guy shot a skinhead?  Or was he with someone who shot a skinhead? This won’t go over well with Trump’s base?

  182. 182.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    @Steeplejack: It is.

  183. 183.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    wow, had a work call for 30 minutes and we went from 74 to 178!  in any case, proof of life for MomSense and Little Liberal Snowflake!

    Republican Convention – House on Fire Floats Downstream: Day 3 1

    edit: also proof that she is watching the convention.  not that we doubted it.  :-)

  184. 184.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Since you can’t make this up, our next speaker is a man currently under indictment for insider trading.Jack Brewer. Former NFL player.Welp, what better time to start pandering for a pardon than before your trial?— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 27, 2020

  185. 185.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    @MomSense:

    hHe just said it’s a lie that Trump said very fine people on both sides about Charlottesville.

  186. 186.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    @MomSense:

    ?

  187. 187.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    This football guy was awful. Straight-up Sunday school testifying.

  188. 188.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 26, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    @Steeplejack: I didnt go to sunday school. What does this mean?

  189. 189.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @Just Chuck: perfection!

     

    @WaterGirl: @MomSense: Avalune and I both love it :)

  190. 190.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    Chen Guangcheng, attorney, civil rights activist and Bond movie supervillain stand-in. He’s wearing dark, dark sunglasses. I will be only mildly embarrassed if he starts talking about how the Democrats or the Chinese Communist Party struck him blind.

  191. 191.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @MomSense: Who ya gonna believe me or your lying ears?

  192. 192.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    @MomSense:

    Mein Führer… I CAN WALK !

  193. 193.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    Okay, this guy straight up bought his screen time with a $10 million contribution or something.

  194. 194.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    @Leto:

    Thanks!  The color is much brighter and happier but I’m dealing with lighting that is  RNC CONvention production quality here.

  195. 195.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    More lawn order heroing from Rep Lee Zeldin

  196. 196.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY. Squinty eyes mean sincerity. More heroes. And “President Trump fights for them every day.”

  197. 197.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    Ha!

  198. 198.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Plus Jared hooked him up with that good PPE.

  199. 199.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Sin, redemption, “I did bad things but now I’m saved,” couched in lurid rhetoric. Think Southern gospel tent revival meeting if Sunday school doesn’t get it for you.

  200. 200.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    Montage: More middle-aged white neckbeards who like President Trump. Who knew?

  201. 201.

    burnspbesq

    August 26, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    @MomSense:

    Holy shit Mother looks like Aunt Lydia from Handmaid’s Tale.

    That’s for damn sure.

  202. 202.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 26, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    @MomSense:

    I hope you’ll send a picture of it to WaterGirl so we can all see just how cute it is.

  203. 203.

    Curtis

    August 26, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    @Steeplejack: I’m sorry, you misspelled “real Americans”.

  204. 204.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    Sen. Joni Ernst, R-IA, apparently speaking from the set of Hee Haw. Tractor. Hay bales. But indoors with golden lighting.

  205. 205.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    I didn’t recognize Senator bread bags.

  206. 206.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    @MomSense:

    Looks like at least a three-hour makeup session, but I’m no expert.

  207. 207.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    @MomSense: She didn’t have her bread bags on?

  208. 208.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    LOL. True.

  209. 209.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    Obama Biden punishing waters rule?

  210. 210.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    Ernst has all the charisma and jazz of a bowl of cold mashed potatoes.

    Unsalted, un-buttered cold mashed potatoes.

    Monitoring live feed from Louisiana and the news is not good.

  211. 211.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    Wow, Biden will get rid of cars and cows.

    ETA: Rachel says that’s not true.

  212. 212.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    She seems really washed out, too.

    liberal coastal elites radical environmentalists want to eliminate animal agriculture gas powered cars and regulate puddles!  Woah.

  213. 213.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @Steeplejack: They disrespect and use EVERYONE.  It’s appalling, along with everything else they do.

  214. 214.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: But trains have cattle cars.  How do you explain that?

  215. 215.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    More color: Burgess Owens, House candidate, Utah.

    Okay, played in the NFL but fell on hard times. Horatio Alger story.

  216. 216.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: ha!

  217. 217.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    @MomSense:

    Going for that blond-on-blond look?

  218. 218.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    MSNBC is on a weather break.  Fuck this hurricane looks bad.

  219. 219.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    Rachel switched to hurricane coverage.

  220. 220.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    Montage: “Standing guard over Baltimore Harbor,” some fort, earthworks or—oh, wait, Fort McHenry. Where is this going?

  221. 221.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    “A reminder of those great patriots.” I guess heroes weren’t invented yet.

  222. 222.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    @Steeplejack: I think that’s required in the Trump cult.

  223. 223.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    I think Jon Voight is the voice in all these patriotic videos.

  224. 224.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    This dead-eyed bint is always annoying.

  225. 225.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    Lara, if you were dreaming big you wouldn’t be married to Eric.

  226. 226.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    So we go from Hurrican Laura to Lara Trump.

  227. 227.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    @MomSense:

    I love my children so much that I’m leaving my job, and so is my husband, oh, but not right away because I have this important convention.  Really honey, you be my most important thing… in just a couple of weeks.

    Way to show your daughter that she’s #1.

  228. 228.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Warm caring hard working and down to earth.  Exactly the qualities I think of when I think of the Trumps.  Blech ?

  229. 229.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    You know, the DNC speakers used a podium with DNC/20 on it, this “convention” uses a Trump/Pence podium.

  230. 230.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Lara Trump, “Trump campaign senior adviser.”

    “Tonight I come to you simply as an American.”

    God, all these women look so alike—her, McEnany, Conway, Tiffany, Ivanka. It’s really apparent now that they’re getting close-up screen time.

    Okay, I don’t think [*checks notes*] Eric’s wife is the right person to be delivering the point about powerful, competent women takin’ care of business.

  231. 231.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    Keep Rosa Parks name out of your mouth, Lara.

  232. 232.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    Zzzz. Drink refill.

    . . . Another nothing speaker with way too much air time.

  233. 233.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    She knows what it’s like to work a blue collar job, guys.

  234. 234.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    Lawn order again!

  235. 235.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Wow, Biden will get rid of cars and cows.

    ETA: Rachel says that’s not true.

    I laughed out loud.  Has Rachel said that anything IS true?

  236. 236.

    jonas

    August 26, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    @Kay:  Two women at last night’s naturalization ceremony said they were never told they would be showcased at a political convention, and no one sought their consent

    Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. JFC.

  237. 237.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    @WaterGirl: Not while I’ve been watching.

  238. 238.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    He will preserve our families?  Dude has five kids with three wives and cheats with porn stars.

  239. 239.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    This mayonnaise festival needs a spark, some revving engines maybe …

    Oh shit, that’s right along with the disaster is our country parts of my state are on fire and I’m watching the Gulf Coast get fucked yet again while the rallies at Nuremberg seem to be in the ether.

    High key fuck 2020.

  240. 240.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Oh, there’s a hurricane.

  241. 241.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    This “convention” moves so slow that there’s time for commercials.

  242. 242.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Sam Vigil, “husband of shooting victim Jacqueline Vigil.”

    Is it bad that I have no idea which of the many shooting incidents this was?

  243. 243.

    lgerard

    August 26, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    From the very strong Washington Examiner interview with Byron York

    President Trump says he will call for drug tests for both former Vice President Joe Biden and himself before the first candidates’ debate on Sept. 29. In an Oval Office interview Wednesday, the president expressed suspicion at what he said was a sudden, marked improvement in Biden’s debate performance during the Democratic primary season and suggested that he believes the improvement was the result of drugs. The president offered no evidence to support his speculation.

  244. 244.

    patrick II

    August 26, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    @jonas:

    I wondered about that. But it would have been dangerous for their chance at citizenship to turn it down.

  245. 245.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    More color: Clarence Henderson, “1960 Greensboro sit-in particant.”

    I don’t see how he manages to give Trump credit for the civil rights movement. Waiting to see.

    . . . Ah. It was the Republican Party that passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Okay, then. QED.

  246. 246.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Does this guy know that without a birth certificate, Republicans want to make it tough for him to vote?

  247. 247.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    @lgerard:

    It’s always projection.

  248. 248.

    patrick II

    August 26, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    Insult us some more Mr. Henderson. That will persuade me.

  249. 249.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    What happened next Mr. Henderson?

  250. 250.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @lgerard:

    Imax-level projection there. ? ?

  251. 251.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    Here we go Grenell. No tie?

  252. 252.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @lgerard: Personally I’d enjoy watching Velveetamort going through pre-test withdrawal from coke, speed and Adderall. Yes, I’m a bad person.

  253. 253.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence. Solid résumé there.

    Globalism bad. “That’s what happened when Washington stopped being the capital of the United States and became the capital of the world.” Another reality-based perspective that I want to see near the seat of power.

  254. 254.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    The evils of globalization.
    Trump charmed Merkel?  GTFO

  255. 255.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    . . . Ah. It was the Republican Party that passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Okay, then. QED.

    Thank you President Trump.

    ETA: Wait that happened before Trump, you’re joking, right?

  256. 256.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Enjoy watching?  Or enjoy knowing that he is suffering?  One of those is a level of kink I could never achieve.

  257. 257.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    Is he defending being a Nationalist?

  258. 258.

    Chetan Murthy

    August 26, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @patrick II:

    But it would have been dangerous for their chance at citizenship to turn it down.

    Now they can let him know what they think: at the ballot box.

  259. 259.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Joe Biden was elected to the Senate in 1972, this is true.

  260. 260.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    The “Obama and Biden spied on the Trump campaign” lie. Goddamn.

  261. 261.

    L85NJGT

    August 26, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Obama hitting Trump and OBL on the same night – Donnie is never living that down.

  262. 262.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Now disinformation from former DNI.  No Obama Biden did not spy on Trump campaign.

  263. 263.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    @MomSense:

    Hey, he just said it: “Donald Trump’s policy is ‘America first.'”

    “That’s the Trump doctrine.”

  264. 264.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Wow.

  265. 265.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Montage: flags, bucolic scenes. Back to Fort McHenry. More Getty outtakes from “like a rock” pickup commercials.

  266. 266.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Did Rachel bail?

  267. 267.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    ???????????????? and cheesy music.

  268. 268.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Oh, jeez: buildup to Mike Pence.

  269. 269.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    Oh god.  Mike Dense montage.  Quoting Reagan. Drink!

  270. 270.

    Another Scott

    August 26, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    “Donald Trump will never abandon you” – Donald Trump’s 3rd wife

    — Travis Allen ?? (@TravisAllen02) August 26, 2020

    It’s all just mouth noises.

    (via Popehat)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  271. 271.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yes and yes. I’m more of a dom than a sadist, but in Velveetamort’s case I’m more than willing to make an exception. Something about taking my rights away does that.

  272. 272.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    He had a frickin corn field in his back yard and found Jesus and mother in that corn field!  Then they had kids.  Children of the corn?

  273. 273.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    Nicolle Wallace is doing a fact check with Ben Rhodes.

  274. 274.

    Yutsano

    August 26, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    @Leto: I am sad that no one will appreciate this joke. Besides me.

  275. 275.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    @MomSense: Rachel may have needed a drink after that speech.

    Oh she’s back.

  276. 276.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    God, this is dragging. It’s only 10:30! How long, Lord, how long?

  277. 277.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    That montage built up Pence to be Captain America. I hope he appears in costume.

    Ooh, live segment from Baltimore. I guess this is the Fort McHenry connection.

    No masks, doesn’t look like much distancing in the audience.

  278. 278.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    Ah, it’s Dense Time!

  279. 279.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @Steeplejack: Don’t worry, Dense will lull to sleep within a few minutes.

  280. 280.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    Chant from the audience: “Four more years!”

  281. 281.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    Oh, they opened Ft. McHenry just for Dense.

  282. 282.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    There must be women in the crowd cuz mother has to chaperone.

  283. 283.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    @Yutsano:

    I got it. But we have to keep moving to keep up.

  284. 284.

    Calouste

    August 26, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: What do you think the F in FOP stands for?

  285. 285.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    Looks like they tried to do “every other chair” spacing, but a lot of people have pulled their chairs closer so they can “sit together.” Cool.

  286. 286.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    @Steeplejack: Dense is speaking you can catch up.

  287. 287.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    Hope you have better luck than the people of Puerto Rico people in the path of Laura.

  288. 288.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Another Scott:

    “Donald Trump will never abandon you” – Donald Trump’s 3rd wife

    That is laugh-out-loud funny.

    A couple decades ago, I was distraught and sobbing because my now -ex had left me.  We were sitting on my couch, and I was looking at the balloon that was still up from Valentine’s day, which said:

    My Love Always

    And my friend said:  “My love always, or until August 21, whichever comes first.”

    That was the moment I started to move on.  That comment about Trump and the 3rd wife reminds me so much of that line.

  289. 289.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    Dense reminds me of a boring and unfunny Frank Drebin.

  290. 290.

    laura

    August 26, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @lgerard: that particular bullshit is trump setting up his out. There’s not going to be a debate because he’ll have his ass handed to him and it will be tough to shake the loser stank and so he’s building a ridiculous escape hatch. There will be no debate. And then Pence will weasel out of debating Kamala Harris because he’ll have his ass handed to him and it will be tough to shake the loser stank.

  291. 291.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    Standing ovation for something. I missed it because I’m getting that Charlie Brown “adults talking” noise with Pence.

  292. 292.

    patrick II

    August 26, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

  293. 293.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    True.

  294. 294.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    @laura: Or Trump wants to know what drugs Biden is taking because Trump would like to sound intelligent and knowledgeable, also. :-)

  295. 295.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    Pence introducing and rhapsodizing about his mom. He loves her. Who’da thunk it?

  296. 296.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    Pence is a truly awful speaker. End of story.

  297. 297.

    Scuffletuffle

    August 26, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    When do we get the shit houses on fire? That’s something I can get all in on…

  298. 298.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I loved how he said he has watched him when the cameras are off – and then he paused and moved on to something else.

  299. 299.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    @Steeplejack: He’s horrible.

  300. 300.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    @Steeplejack: He’s got all the charm of an ice cold speculum.

  301. 301.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 26, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Fair enough.

  302. 302.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    Does anybody ever push back on this repeated claim that Trump-Pence inherited a “hollowed-out” military? Where the fuck was all the money going, then?

  303. 303.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    Sure, Trump has kept his word to the American people, just like he did with his first, second and third wives.

  304. 304.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    He’s sooooooo yawn inducing.

    Space Force! Drink!

  305. 305.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Space Force! Reminds me that Seth MacFarlane could play Pence in a movie.

  306. 306.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    @Steeplejack: They spent more money, each year we spend more money.

  307. 307.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Reformed the VA, no you didn’t you lying weasel.

  308. 308.

    Danielx

    August 26, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Pence does have magnificent political hair. As residents of his native state know, it’s the smartest part of him.

  309. 309.

    laura

    August 26, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @WaterGirl: flawless logic, I concur?

  310. 310.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Oh, wow, and standing ovation!

  311. 311.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    Pence pretty definitive that ISIS has been permanently, no-backsies crushed and eliminated. That couldn’t possibly come back to haunt them, could it?

    Oh, wait. Any attack that happens after November 3 will be Biden’s fault.

  312. 312.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    Joe Biden loves terrorists!

  313. 313.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    “We  supported the right to life”, well unless you don’t want to die of a preventable virus.

  314. 314.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    Bragging about jerb creation in the first three years.  All past tense achievements.  And then the coronavirus from China ??

  315. 315.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    Note that he talks about the economy expanding the first 3 years.  Hey Dense, what’s happened in the last 6 months?

    ETA: Oh the virus came from CHINA.

  316. 316.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    The greatest national mobilization since WWII.  You fucking liar.

  317. 317.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    That’s good.

  318. 318.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Life begins at conception and ends at birth.

  319. 319.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    Wow, that’s world class bullshit.

  320. 320.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: That’s what Barney Frank used to say.

  321. 321.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    The thing that is so disheartening is that this level of lying is so far beyond ordinary political hyperbole and exaggeration.

    “We are on track to have the world’s first safe, effective coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year!” Mark it, libtards.

  322. 322.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    no one who required a ventilator was ever denied a ventilator.  Not true.  Why do they keep talking about COVID in the past tense?

    I believe in miracles.  Where you from you sexy thing.  I believe in miracles.

     

    Why does Biden hate miracles?

  323. 323.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    We’ll have a vaccine by the end of the year!

  324. 324.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    @MomSense:

    But they enacted policies that saved 50 million jobs! Would love to see that one fact-checked.

  325. 325.

    Eljai

    August 26, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    @Steeplejack: They really are the QAnon and tire rims party now.  There’s no way to have common ground with them because they live in an alternate reality.

  326. 326.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    @MomSense:

    Why does Biden hate miracles?

    Cause he’s a terrorist loving communist.

  327. 327.

    Suzanne

    August 26, 2020 at 10:54 pm

    People aren’t distanced in that crowd, and his like 8,000-year-old mom is there. WTF.

  328. 328.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:54 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    @Steeplejack:

    Dense is a world class liar.  Maybe he skipped the 9th commandment

  329. 329.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    Mother will be returning to her classroom next week! Is it wrong that I am hoping what I am hoping?

  330. 330.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yes, you’re a bad man.  //

  331. 331.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    I’m down to my last half-glass of Dogfish Head 60. Timing/pacing seems to have worked out.

    Wrap it up, Mike!

  332. 332.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    So Obama presided over the slowest recovery since the Depression and Trump presided over the greatest economy ever?  Really?

  333. 333.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Mea culpa. If only I were a Republican I would be automatically forgiven.

  334. 334.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    L A W N O R D E R

  335. 335.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    @Steeplejack: It’s already a super-spreading event tonight. No classroom needed.

  336. 336.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Shorter Dense, “you Black folk sit down and shut up”.

  337. 337.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    @patrick II: I nominated that as a rotating tag.

  338. 338.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    Whoa, close-up of the two black guys in the audience. (Back row, of course.)

  339. 339.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    True.

  340. 340.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I think it’s:

    Boy, you better sit down and shut up.

  341. 341.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Doublespeak is double plus good.

  342. 342.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    “Last week the Democrats didn’t talk much about their agenda.” What the fuck, Mike?! Srsly. Where were you?

  343. 343.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    We will always stand with our heroes on the thin blue line.

  344. 344.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Leader of a party with no platform says what?

  345. 345.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 11:03 pm

    He is putting me to ?

  346. 346.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:03 pm

    Can they make up thier mind, do they love Bernie or hate him.

  347. 347.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    Goddamn, I thought Pence was winding it up, but he’s ramping up again. Like missing the landing and doing a loop around the airport for another approach.

  348. 348.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    It’s 11:05 – is it over yet?

    edit: answered by Steep as I was asking the question.

  349. 349.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Few more minutes. They’ve all been “running over” to almost exactly 11:10. Go figure.

  350. 350.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:06 pm

    300 miles of border wall.

    Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse for the Radical Left.

    Lawn Order!

  351. 351.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:06 pm

    @MomSense:

    “Whatever Trump says, that’s all you need to know!”

  352. 352.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    OK, he’s right we’re at a crossroads; but not the way he means it.

  353. 353.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    philip lewis
    @Phil_Lewis_
    ·4h
    Kenny Smith, Inside the NBA host, just walked off the set: “As a black man, as a former player, I think it’s best for me to support the players and just not be here tonight.”

    This happening during the coward’s lie-fest is really something. Imagine if Republicans in Congress were that brave. Donald would be back in whatever hole he crawled out of.

  354. 354.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:08 pm

    Okay, Fort McHenry in 1814. Please, this has to be the wrap-up.

  355. 355.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    @Steeplejack: Don’t know he’s talking about fog.

  356. 356.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    @Steeplejack: Not uncoincidentally, on my channel guide, MSNBC lists the time as 6 to 8:10 (Pacific).

  357. 357.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    Flag etiquette question: I thought the flag wasn’t supposed to be flown at night? Like, uh, the one right above Pence’s head.

  358. 358.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:10 pm

    Giant Jumbotron picture of the flag. We get it!

  359. 359.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    @Steeplejack: It’s supposed to be floodlit.

  360. 360.

    geg6

    August 26, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I believe it must have a light on it if it’s at night.

  361. 361.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    We will Make America Great Again, Again.  Wow, that was lame.

  362. 362.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    Christ, more? Trump and Melania making an appearance! Reality-show surprise!

  363. 363.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    Oh, Trump’s there, surprise!

  364. 364.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    Trump’s looking more orange than usual.

  365. 365.

    Ked

    August 26, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    CNN showing the most lifeless, mournful national anthem I’ve ever heard. Wow, this’ll really win those youths.

  366. 366.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    Trace Adkins to do the national anthem. A cappella and badly. Shoot me now.

  367. 367.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 26, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    @Kay:

    I have three separate text threads that were on that as well, NBAPA is serious.

  368. 368.

    MomSense

    August 26, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    That was atrocious.  My ears are bleeding

  369. 369.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA, @geg6:

    Got it!

    My Boy Scout flag duty days were before the invention of floodlights—or electricity, to be honest.

  370. 370.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    Joy’s factchecking Dense.

  371. 371.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    A friend asked me, about an hour ago, to help them in the video game we play. I see I made the correct choice :P

  372. 372.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    @Steeplejack: We used a bonfire for light.

  373. 373.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Wow, heavy crowd mingling. Super spreader event! ?

  374. 374.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Okay, I could have used one more beer after Trump’s sudden appearance, but I’ll survive.

  375. 375.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Joy reiterated that Fort McHenry is closed, they opened it ONLY for Dense’s speech.

    Joy also said they’re creating their own reality.

  376. 376.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    @Steeplejack: He didn’t speak, though, right?

    edit: not a single word, not even “thanks everybody”, I imagine.

  377. 377.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Nicolle points out the lack of a platform.

  378. 378.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:19 pm

    BriWi time, click.

  379. 379.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 11:19 pm

    @Steeplejack: Well that’s one way to suppress their vote…

  380. 380.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    @Steeplejack: Rachel expressed concern over that, particularly with the number of elderly veterans in the audience.

  381. 381.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Didn’t speak. Now he’s doing thumbs-up selfie-type shots up and down the crowd for the designated photographers.

  382. 382.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 26, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    @Leto: Except it’s their voters.

  383. 383.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    The Pences have disappeared. Trump, clinging to Melania, is milking the crowd for a few more cheers.

    Finally it seems to be over. Close-up of appropriately lighted flag above crowd.

  384. 384.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    @Steeplejack: Predictable.  ugh.

  385. 385.

    Leto

    August 26, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: *checks with the refs* All good!

  386. 386.

    Luciamia

    August 26, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    @Steeplejack: like the old sign off montage when networks went off the air at midnight.

  387. 387.

    Steeplejack

    August 26, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    @Luciamia:

    Heh, we got this every night.

  388. 388.

    sdhays

    August 26, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    @WaterGirl: Or he’s freaked out that everyone saw his namesake son high as a kite on Monday and he’s deflecting. Why has it taken all this time for him to come up with drugs as the reason the Biden at the DNC was different from the one his pumpkin head? Because Donald Trump and cocaine was trending.

  389. 389.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 12:06 am

    @sdhays: It’s always projection!

  390. 390.

    Calouste

    August 27, 2020 at 12:47 am

    I’m thinking, all these sycophants are going on about how much the shitgibbon has done against abortion, the most ever etc etc. So what has he actually done? There’s appointing the rapist to the “supreme” court, but Reagan did the same.

  391. 391.

    Warblewarble

    August 27, 2020 at 6:55 am

    Devil still waiting at the crossroads.

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