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You are here: Home / Politics / Republican Convention – Dumpster Fire and Authoritarian Marching: Day 4

Republican Convention – Dumpster Fire and Authoritarian Marching: Day 4

by WaterGirl|  August 27, 20208:15 pm| 417 Comments

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Here you go.  Republican Convention, Day 4.

Only one more day of all these vile creatures gathered in one place.

I love this floating dumpster fire so much.  Still, I hope that soon we will have no more reason to use it.

……………..

I thought some authoritarian marching might be appropriate for tonight, so I asked for links in last night’s thread. Leto was kind enough to send one with music.

 

 

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  1. 1.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Somebody’s got a cache problem, and I don’t think it’s just me. This post just appeared within the last two minutes, despite my repeated pressing of the double-secret forced-load link.

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    Montage: America is good and great. But wait: “Old ideas of socialism repackaged.” Slandering the Dems.

    Invocation by the Rev. Franklin Graham.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    @Steeplejack: I think you’re right.

  4. 4.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    Before the horror begins here’s a short clip of a four-year-old Greek girl being rescued after she floated out to sea on her inflatable unicorn.

    Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

  5. 5.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    Pledge of Allegiance by two extremely white little kids from the 1950s.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Kevin McCarthy speaking over the Getty pickup-truck ad footage.

  7. 7.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    Anybody wants to watch my friends old time band Hogeyed Man live

    https://www.facebook.com/events/2986182531504458/

  8. 8.

    Baud

    August 27, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    @Steeplejack: 
    These two?

  9. 9.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Non-RNC thread (if any) has still not appeared.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    @Baud: hahaha

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    @Baud:

    Close. More like this.

  12. 12.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    Woo Hoo, dancing Korean girls!  This is indeed a full service blog.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    @Steeplejack:  I had not set that up.  I figured I’d see if someone else put one up, so at least that’s not a hiccup.

    Cole’s anniversary thread is still active, but if nothing goes up for  a bit, I will put up an open thread.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: For a second I thought you were talking about the convention!  :-)

  15. 15.

    Mike in NC

    August 27, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    That’s the sort of parade Trump can only dream about. He’s so jealous of the Little Rocket Man who he loves.

  16. 16.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    Black Republican Ja’Ron Smith, deputy assistant to the president. For what? I’ve never heard of this guy, and he looks way too threatening to get within eyeshot of Fearless Leader. Could he be the HBCU guy?

  17. 17.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    @Steeplejack: MSNBC isn’t showing any of that and I’m ok with that.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Okay, just giving the user experience.

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’m not watching tonight.

  20. 20.

    Ken

    August 27, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    Only one more day of all these vile creatures gathered in one place.

    1500 of them, with chairs not distanced, and masking up to the individual – according to reports. So yes, I very much doubt we’ll be seeing all of them gathered in one place again.

  21. 21.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Did you the anniversary post Cole put up?

  22. 22.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    @Ken:

    Super spreader event! ?

  23. 23.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: You’re not watching, “American Carnage 2: Corona Boogaloo”?

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Yes, I saw it. Didn’t seem like a really “open” open thread, as in I have not seen any comments not related to the Coles’ anniversary celebration.

  25. 25.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    @Leto: I’ve been sober for almost 10 years, I’d like to stay that way.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ. Isn’t he the quisling who ran as a Dem and then switched parties?

  27. 27.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    @Steeplejack: Me an Water Girl had a couple.

  28. 28.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yes.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    August 27, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    I hope MomSense is ok?

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    @Steeplejack: That would have been good to know, if I had indeed scheduled a post.  So far, this has happened with posts that were scheduled.

    I’ll have to see if it happens with a non-scheduled post.

    I thought TaMara’s post about Kamala’s speech got a slow start, I wonder if that happened with her thread, also.  I’ll check the time of the first comment.

    edit:  TaMara’s post was up for 13 minutes before the first comment, and that was a comment by TaMara.  Then another comment by someone else 2 minutes after that.  Something’s going on.

  31. 31.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    This gentleman is worth two minutes of your time.

    @raven:

    I saw your comment a few threads back about college football and yeah, I really failed to express the thought I had clearly. But in my defense, I was cooking so I wasn’t paying close attention.

  32. 32.

    Baud

    August 27, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    Biden snags ‘Keep America Great’ domain in latest act of Trump trolling

  33. 33.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    @WaterGirl: I think folk were watching Kamala’s speech first, before commenting.

  34. 34.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    @Baud:

    How come no one cares about me and my liver?! She’s on seltzer and gummy bears, for chrissakes.

    Which reminds me: time to make a drink.

  35. 35.

    cmorenc

    August 27, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    dick & jane books were my first school reading books back in kindergarden back in 1954

  36. 36.

    PsiFighter37

    August 27, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    I can’t believe any of you would enjoy watching this. I have been drinking a little on the heavy side the past couple of months without watching the RNC, so I figured I could spare myself. I was never in for hate-watching stuff, but after seeing the debates in 2016, I had to stop. If the debates happen this year, I will not watch them, solely because I will hate-drink myself to a terrible hangover…and then have to wake up at 6 AM to feed the kiddo.

    Also – I see Biden announced he is planning to do in-person events in the fall. Bad idea, IMO – he should set an example and stay as virtual as possible. It is quite likely that if Trump doesn’t cheat to win, Biden will have to order a nationwide lockdown in the winter at some point.

  37. 37.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    @Baud: Dense was talking about “Make America Great Again, Again”, it almost sounded like something from the Colbert Report.

  38. 38.

    zhena gogolia

    August 27, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    Even looking at comments about this on BJ and on Cauvin’s twitter gets me too upset. I guess we’ll watch a Perry Mason tonight. And by that I mean RAYMOND BURR, in case you were wondering.

  39. 39.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: grats! Smart call :)

  40. 40.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Aw it don’t matter. No one is changing their minds.

  41. 41.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    Filler, filler, filler. Little people testifying. Good time to make that drink.

  42. 42.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    Ya’ll really should tune in, Cumberland Gap up now.

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    “I mean RAYMOND BURR.”

    Amen, sister!

  44. 44.

    prostratedragon

    August 27, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    @Baud:  Now why did I have to click? Must be losing a step.

  45. 45.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    I’m not necessarily enjoying it, but I feel it’s important (for me) to witness it. It is historic, even if horrific. I started out as a newspaper reporter almost 50 years ago, and I still have a streak of that curiosity.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Dan Scavino! They’re scraping the bottom of the barrel already. Isn’t he the golf caddie turned Twitter hype man?

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Good point.

  48. 48.

    jnfr

    August 27, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    Scenes from the South Lawn are horrifying, considering we’re in a pandemic.

    I can’t watch the thing, but I also can’t help checking in on Twitter.

  49. 49.

    Jeffro

    August 27, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    @PsiFighter37: agree – stay virtual, Uncle Joe

    (and if the current maladministration doesn’t do much of anything between now and inauguration day, the lockdown will probably start next March, after the Biden administration has had a chance to get rapid testing in place nationwide)

  50. 50.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yup.

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    I see Biden announced he is planning to do in-person events in the fall.

    Big mistake.

  52. 52.

    Baud

    August 27, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    The father of a Navy SEAL who died in battle days after President Trump took office has condemned the president in a new political ad, saying that Americans should not trust the president with their lives or those of their children.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    ? Eek! Came back in the middle of Mitch McConnell.

    He is spewing a bullet list of complete, utter bullshit.

  54. 54.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    Amy McGrath has a campaign logo that belongs in the non-existent campaign logo Hall of Fame.

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    @raven: Tune in to what?

  56. 56.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    @Steeplejack: So it’s a day ending in ‘y’.

  57. 57.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    @WaterGirl: The show I posted above, Hogeyed Man old time music!

     

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/quarantinehappyhourmusic

     

    you may have to scroll down

  58. 58.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    The senior Senatortoise from KY comes out with the stupid bit brother Democrat lies. Tax away your jobs and give you a government check, take away your hamburgers, tell you what kind of car you can drive and take your guns! Well maybe the guns part isn’t a lie, for this Democrat anyway.

  59. 59.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    Dan White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Whut?

  60. 60.

    Calouste

    August 27, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @WaterGirl: Maybe Joe is just baiting the shitgibbon in doing them. You know he really, really craves the adulation.

  61. 61.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @Steeplejack: it’s telling that he doesn’t think Republicans can compete if DC becomes a state. And that he calls the home of 700k+ citizens “the swamp”. Fucking loathe that pos.

  62. 62.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    ShamWOW!  I thought I inadvertently changed the channel to an infomercial. Who is this guy?

  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @Baud: That’s powerful.

  64. 64.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Who is this fat man, and why is he shouting?

  65. 65.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @MomSense: NOT THE HAMBERDERS!!! Yes, we’re going to tell you that you can only eat 5lbs of burger per meal. Because we hate you!!!

  66. 66.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Ultimate fighting president?  Is that like a wrestling thing?

  67. 67.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Now there’s a fucking screaming ham on my screen. Sweet Jesus beating a cripple with a leg bone, this is horrific.

  68. 68.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @MomSense: I heard last night that Biden/Harris are going to make cows and cars illegal.

    I think it was the bread bag lady.

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I think that’s what she had on the nose of her B-17 in World War II.

  70. 70.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    Dana White’s “Lessons Learned”: 1) buy your own island 2) still have your athletes get infected 3)…  4) SCREAM AT THE TV!

  71. 71.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    @Leto: In fairness, most of DC was a swamp in 1790.

  72. 72.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    @MomSense, @Amir Khalid:

    See #59.

  73. 73.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    @Leto:

    I tried to type hamberders- whew- took forever to fight the autocorrect.

    Ha!  President Trump has unique attributes – that’s for sure.

  74. 74.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    “No one is gonna outwork this guy.” HA!

  75. 75.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: That is true. So I guess we already drained the swamp? Thanks, Obama!

  76. 76.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    @Leto: I had a pound and a half burger about 6 months ago, I thought the 2 pound burger would be a bit over the top.

  77. 77.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    Quoting St Ronnie. Drink!

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    @MomSense:

    More extreme, man. “Mixed martial arts,” etc.

  79. 79.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: We told you not to take the brown acid, but did you listen, NO.

  80. 80.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    Lol, Maddow immediately says: That was all horseshit! (Horse pucky in her words)

  81. 81.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    OOh warrior spirit.  Do tell.

  82. 82.

    PsiFighter37

    August 27, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: It’s okay? The Obama 2008 logo is the all-time winner IMO.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    Sean Reyes, Utah attorney general. Hawaiian, Japanese, Filipino and something else heritage. Just so we know he’s bona fide.

    “I channel my warrior heritage by battling huma trafficking.” ‘Nuff said.

  84. 84.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    That flew over my head like I was a kid in Berlin 1948.

  85. 85.

    PsiFighter37

    August 27, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    @MomSense: I hope Mitch gulped down a nice shit sandwich before he grinned and beared it for the virtual crowd.

  86. 86.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    He summoned ivanka!

  87. 87.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @Leto: Yeah, they can’t say shit.  Maddow goes with “pucky”, LOD goes “crap”.

  88. 88.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @Steeplejack: well the times that the pure wrestling people went into the ring against the mixed martial artists, the pure wrestlers tended to leave the ring looking like they’d been sent through an industrial meat grinder. Also the UFC in the early days was pretty extreme. They’ve introduced… regulations since then to make sure the people left the ring under their own power. Wussies.

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    @raven: I’ve been listening.  It’s good.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    “My father, my warrior hero, lost his fight with cancer.” I hate this warrior culture bullshit. Warriors kill people and break things. That’s the highest we aspire to?

  91. 91.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh I know. There’s times though that her prudishness is kind of just vaudeville over the top. You get squimish over “dirty” words, got it. Moving along…

  92. 92.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 27, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    I……ummmmmm…..hmmmmmm……ooooooof!

    Brad Parscale fleeced Trump for tens of millions to build a digital “Death Star” but forgot to shell out 50 bucks for the KAG domain name. The campaign in a nutshell. https://t.co/Ob8iBgVbrQ— Joshua Holland ? (@JoshuaHol) August 28, 2020

  93. 93.

    J R in WV

    August 27, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @Leto:

    Great job syncing up the Bee Gees with the marching Korean Nazis… Well done. And they march SO Well.

    So sharp.

    I guess when you get shot our of a cannon if you fall out of step, that’s REAL motivation.

  94. 94.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Debbie Flood, president of Melron Corporation, Schofield, WI. A foundry? Another candidate for Googling to see what heinous shit her company has gotten up to.

  95. 95.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    His warrior died with Trump’s pen?

  96. 96.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: The big fella is a dear friend and the other guy is a law prof specializing in immigration law. They both teach and do this for fun. Old Time is not everyone’s cup of tea.

  97. 97.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    @Leto: It’s Standards and Practices that get squeamish, I don’t give a shit.

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    In case you weren’t joking, her logo looks like a riff on the old USAF plane insignias.

  99. 99.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    @Steeplejack: Ah but then there is GHOST DOG – THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI

  100. 100.

    Bruuuuce

    August 27, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Thank all the gods that ever were that I’ve avoided this dreck so far. But if they do the big closing number as a sing-along of “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”, I’ll check it out on YouTube.

  101. 101.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    Montage. Negligible.

    Now Ann Dorn, widow of retired St. Louis police captain Dave Dorn.

  102. 102.

    Yutsano

    August 27, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    Brian goes from zero to savage…

  103. 103.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    @J R in WV: wasn’t me, but it popped up on my YouTube feed a while back so I remember it when WaterGirl was asking about needing something for tonight.

     

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: S&P doesn’t like it, but she’s spoken many times about not using language like that. There’s been other words that she’s modified but I can’t remember off hand what they were.

  104. 104.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @raven: I don’t see one of them as the big guy.  Is your friend the one on my left, or on my right?

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    @raven:

    Yeah, good movie.

  106. 106.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    @WaterGirl: Rob has the mask, he’s about 6’4. Jason is quite a bit smaller.

  107. 107.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    Reading on TPM that there were 1500 chairs originally for this shit show at the WH. Before it started they were removing some. Guests didn’t show up?

  108. 108.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    As an aside, for college football fans this is worth a read.

    Bomani Jones in Vanity Fair.

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    God, this is awful. Weepy, carnographic. Dave was murdered by “people,” “them.” Not an individual.

    No mention, of course, of black people killed by other “people.”

  110. 110.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    Ben Carson! Squinty eyes but apparently awake.

  111. 111.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 27, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    @Steeplejack: Schofield is too small to have that many assholes.  Flood and Peterson?  Damn.  OTOH I always thought D. C. Everest High School sucked.

  112. 112.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    @Steeplejack: That’s also the outline of all US military aircraft of the star/flag decal. Example from what she flew. Below the cockpit.

  113. 113.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I’m not entirely convinced Ben Carson is awake.

  114. 114.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    That’s exactly what it is, I like it and I think it’s a great logo for a former Marine fighter pilot.

  115. 115.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    Carson seems addled.  He’s giving this bizarre speech like it’s a bedtime story.  Making me ?

  116. 116.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    @Steeplejack: Wait, somebody woke Ben

    @Amir Khalid: Well, maybe not.

  117. 117.

    Jay

    August 27, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    @MomSense:

    technically, 2 of the cited “lies” arn’t lies.

    like the gun thing you mentioned,

    and after Dumph took away their jobs with Covid, the Democratic Party did make sure as long as they could, that people got Government checks, even if they still had jobs or didn’t need the money.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @Leto:

    Jesus, I get it! I was an Air Force brat for 17 years. I just threw up a quick graphic I found while watching this fiasco. Did you look at McGrath’s logo at the end of her video?

  119. 119.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    It looks retro in a hokey way to me. Also, that ad sucked.

  120. 120.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I would think that would be more for the overwhelming number of non-football fans who didn’t know any of this?

  121. 121.

    J R in WV

    August 27, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @HumboldtBlue

     

    Amy McGrath has a campaign logo that belongs in the non-existent campaign logo Hall of Fame.

    That’s pretty good, but M J Hegar running in TX may have a better one. Scroll to the bottom. She flew helicopters.

  122. 122.

    tokyokie

    August 27, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Kevin McCarthy speaking over the Getty pickup-truck ad footage.

    Is he yelling, “They’re here! They’re here!”

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association of New York City. Looks and sounds exactly as you would expect.

  124. 124.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    Tonight is even more boring than last night, if possible. Trump could be on the verge of a huge cratering.

    I’m almost tempted to turn from C-SPAN over to MSNBC to hear Rachel say “poop” and “horse hockey.”

  125. 125.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    I can’t with this guy.  Fuck the ?‍♀️

  126. 126.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    I’ve never seen things so bad so let’s keep the guy who made things this bad.

  127. 127.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    I remember Pat Lynch for one thing, and one thing only: 20 years ago, he called Bruce Springsteen some pretty vile names for writing and performing a song about the unjustified police shooting of a black man, Amadou Diallo.

  128. 128.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    @Steeplejack: Like an asshole?

  129. 129.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    @MomSense:

    Srsly.

  130. 130.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Your words!

  131. 131.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    Rudy Colludy! Glad they drug him back from the Ukraine for this.

  132. 132.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    RUDY! ?‍♂️?

  133. 133.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    @MomSense: Yeah, do they still think Obama’s President?

     

    It’s like when they were going to use the 2016 platform this year.

  134. 134.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    It’s Rudy Nosferatu.

  135. 135.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    Here we go – it’s the man with the giant chompers Ghouliani.

  136. 136.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    He sounds like a drunken Daffy Duck.

    Sufferin’ succotash!

  137. 137.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    Trojan Horse Biden.

    Uh huh.

  138. 138.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    Rudy’s here! Bringing some of the cray, but I need more from him.

  139. 139.

    Yutsano

    August 27, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    @Steeplejack:  They have only the best words!!!

    I’m not watching because I have enough angst in my life right now.

  140. 140.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 27, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    Are they really using music from “Hunger Games” as the interludes between speakers?!

  141. 141.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    I keep typing shit to mock and he just keeps on going.

  142. 142.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    This “law and order” theme tonight is not working. Rudy: “How did we get overcome with crime so fast?” Dude, your guy has been in charge for the last 3½ years! Might be a connection.

    Whoa, Rudy did say that the killing of George Floyd was universally condemned. But then Democrats rioting in Democrat cities ruined everything!

  143. 143.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    Ah I get it.  Biden is just a Trojan horse for duh duh duh THE SQUAD?????☠️?????????????☠️???????????

  144. 144.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    And not even paying for it, either.

  145. 145.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    I feel sorry for the tiny minds who believe Giuliani’s spiel.

    And every time he says “Democrat” instead of Democratic, it grates.  As it is meant to.

  146. 146.

    TS (the original)

    August 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    Went to MSNBC for a glimpse – other than using the WH as a prop have the 4 days all been in the same empty room with the flag backdrop? No wonder the ratings are down. No diversity in people, no diversity in presentation.

  147. 147.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    @raven:

    That fits here!

  148. 148.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    The lawlessness is coming to a suburb near you!

  149. 149.

    RobertB

    August 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    @Leto: I remember seen some early UFC back in the 90’s, and the winners were all Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athletes.  All of the ‘strikers’ would last as long as it took for one of the grapplers to grab him.

  150. 150.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    @MomSense:

    Rudy is sounding seriously unhinged.

  151. 151.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    So no one who is listening to Rudy lives in a Democrat city with Democrat mayors?

    They’re all out in the boonies.  And the Democrat city stuff could happen to them.

    O KKKKKK.

  152. 152.

    Mary G

    August 27, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @jnfr: That is beyond irresponsible:

    Reaction to images from South Lawn of WH, where 1500+ are gathering, no masks, distancing, or mass testing from @ashishkjha of @Harvardgh “This is deeply irresponsible. It goes against all that we know about keeping people safe. We should expect better from our national leaders.” pic.twitter.com/DRfrYs7BNK— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 28, 2020

     A whole mob of Herman Cains. Packed in like sardines, haven’t seen any masks, and no testing done. Killing yourself to own the libs. I’d say “please proceed, idiots,” but you know they’ll be out spreading it all over their communities tomorrow.

  153. 153.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @MomSense: Exactly, if Biden is elected, he’ll do everything AOC wants him to do.

  154. 154.

    Luciamia

    August 27, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    @MomSense: still waiting for them to explain how Obama had 8 years to do that and…

    Guess he never got around to it

  155. 155.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    I’m amazed how bad Rudy is tonight. He’s a bit loaded. Aren’t most of the speakers pre recorded? So many have been so bad… You would think if taped, they could do better.

  156. 156.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    They cut away before he got to end with “BOOOOO!”

    Dystopian fairy tales for Republicans.  Democrat cities are coming for yew.

  157. 157.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    @TS (the original):

    Yes, that’s the backdrop, except for speakers whose comments were taped in other locations and the interspersed montages of pickup-truck-ad B-roll featuring real Americans.

  158. 158.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    It’s Tom Cotton and his neck.

  159. 159.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    @Elizabelle: 

    MISTER PRESIDENT MAKE THIS COUNTRY SAFE AGAIN!!!!!

  160. 160.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Very surprised Tom Cotton didn’t catch a ‘nade in his bunk.

  161. 161.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    Sen. Tom Cotton, R-AR. “You’re probably at home, while I . . . stand alone.”

    He was in the unit that was the original “band of brothers.” Just so you know.

  162. 162.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    They do stand alone.

    Like pariahs.  He’s admitting it.

  163. 163.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    Cotton is dwarfed by the wrinkly flags behind him.

  164. 164.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    This century’s Joe McCarthy.

    Or, if he prefers, Theodore Bilbo.

  165. 165.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    Tom Cotton looks (ETA: and sounds) like Sheriff Woody from the alternate universe where Spock has a beard.

  166. 166.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    Not even Rudy was interesting.  Even with all their scare words, it’s so boring.

    Cotton.  ?????

  167. 167.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    What does Charlie Pierce call him? “Bobble-throated slapdick,” or something like that?

  168. 168.

    geg6

    August 27, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    So like normal then.

  169. 169.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    If it’s not the rioting negroes it’s the commies!

  170. 170.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Either I’m having a stroke or the flags are wicked blurry again.

  171. 171.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    @Leto:

    Really. Prime fragging candidate.

  172. 172.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    I just hit mute.  Cotton is toxic.

  173. 173.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @geg6:

    Touché.

  174. 174.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    True, but I think they made a mistake by using all the same scary words and phrases in every speech.  They lost their fire.

  175. 175.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @Elizabelle: The Capt Sobel of the 506th.

  176. 176.

    raven

    August 27, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: It sure does. I’ve had a book called “The Athletic Snowball” since 1977 and nothing has changed except there is more money.

  177. 177.

    James E Powell

    August 27, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Exactly, if Biden is elected, he’ll do everything AOC wants him to do.

    Sounds good to me!

  178. 178.

    catclub

    August 27, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    @MomSense: porque no los dos?

  179. 179.

    catclub

    August 27, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    @MomSense: I was hoping he would be unhinged nosferatu

  180. 180.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    Marsha Mueller with husband Carl, mother of murdered ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller.

    Another extremely carnographic recitation of their daughter’s horrible ordeal. This is awful to retail this for partisan political gain.

  181. 181.

    Yutsano

    August 27, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Leto:  Someone check in on Silverman…

  182. 182.

    Aleta

    August 27, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    C Span lists IT as “The Honorable Ivanka Trump” ?!?

  183. 183.

    TS (the original)

    August 27, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Mary G:

    We should expect better from our national leaders.

    Hasn’t he noticed trump has been doing horror things for 4 years. Why would anyone expect better from the current so called national leaders

  184. 184.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @Leto:  Good evening.  Assume that is someone who got fragged?

  185. 185.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    @Yutsano:  Maybe he’s doing the Lord’s work… :P

  186. 186.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    Montage: Alice Johnson pardoned by President Trump.

    That Mueller segment had to be an incredible downer even for rabid MAGAts. I don’t get it.

    And now Alice Johnson herself. “Criminal justice reform advocate.”

  187. 187.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    @Elizabelle: Yeah. Bringing a bit of raven’s era terminology to the mix. He’s just wretched.

  188. 188.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 27, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Well the “Hunger Games” Capitol anthem is on-brand.

  189. 189.

    TS (the original)

    August 27, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    Just for a second I heard someone mention “the compassion of Donald John Trump”

    begosh – where have these people been when babes were taken from their mothers at the border? That sort of compassion.

  190. 190.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    I am glad this woman is free.  I have no doubt there are lots of people in prison on sentences that are way too long.

    Alice Johnson.

  191. 191.

    Yutsano

    August 27, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    @Leto:  Good Lord man! He took the same oath we did!

    I kid. I’m just a tad worried about his blood pressure. Cotton was nothing more than a glorified secretary who happened to survive the enmity of his men in the sandbox. His claim to “glory” is nothing more than padding. Hell my Air Force officer buddy who’s in Afghanistan has seen more action than Cotton had and he’s only been there a fucking month!

  192. 192.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    Are they using a Hall or Mirrors effect on the Democrats in this video? What is this music?  It’s like the credits music in a D movie about an earthquake.

  193. 193.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    Local paper here in St Louis. Captain Dorn’s daughters are very unhappy. Their father was not a Trump supporter.

    http://www.stlamerican.com/news/national_news/david-dorn-s-daughters-oppose-father-s-widow-speaking-at-rnc/article_da760964-e7fe-11ea-81fd-8f15f591da91.html

  194. 194.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    Montage: Trump great, Democrats satanic. Even the montages are getting more unhinged.

    What I’m thinking hoping tonight is that even for people who like Trump this shit is so over the top that it might give them pause.

  195. 195.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    @TS (the original): They don’t care about them at all

  196. 196.

    Captain C

    August 27, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    @MomSense:

    True, but I think they made a mistake by using all the same scary words and phrases in every speech. They lost their fire.

    They’ve gotten lazy with their Gingrich phrase dictionary in the last quarter century.  And some of it blatantly applies to them, too.

  197. 197.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    This has to be stock footage.

  198. 198.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    Jason Johnson@DrJasonJohnson

    38m

    Just so we’re clear David Dorn was a not a Trump supporter

    Ann Dorn is a Trump supporter

    David Dorn’s children have explicitly said his wife does NOT represent his politics and is exploiting his death

  199. 199.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    Vanky!

  200. 200.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    I wonder if Elton John will sue them for using his song?

  201. 201.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    @Aleta:

    Some of us were talking about that earlier a few threads down. It is just plain wrong. She has no right to use that honorific. Same with Kellyanne.

  202. 202.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    Now we’re live—for Ivanka!

  203. 203.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    The People’s President. BARF.

  204. 204.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    Oh, this talking turnip has all the charisma of a tub of sour cream.

  205. 205.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    @Steeplejack: Oh goodie.

  206. 206.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    ??????

  207. 207.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    @Baud: Ha, jokes on you libcuck. The NEW invocation is “Keep America Greaterest Again, Again”.

    LOL, don’t you people know anything?

  208. 208.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    I hope all of these people and their families are hounded out of public life for the next 50 years.

  209. 209.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    First time I have seen the backdrop.

    It is dictator design.

  210. 210.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Leave major challenges unsolved so they could blame other people?  Cough COVID. Cough

  211. 211.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    @Subsole: That’s not what Parson Dense said last night, it’s “Make America Great Again, Again”.

  212. 212.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    “My father has strong convictions.”

    We are ALL hoping for a lot more convictions for your father, Ms. Not of the Beltway.

  213. 213.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    @Elizabelle: that’s something Michael Beschloss brought up: the wrapping up of the nation’s assets/identity with a specific political party, and how authoritarians/dictators do that.

  214. 214.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    @Elizabelle: Yeah, the best convictions and for you too Princess.

  215. 215.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I shouldn’t have laughed

    But I did

  216. 216.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    They come to him with a tear in their eye.

    BARF BARF BARF

  217. 217.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    “Tear in their eye.”

    Was that on your drinking bingo card?  No “sir” yet, though.

  218. 218.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    It’s all so angry so fucking blatantly false and deliberately provocative.

  219. 219.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:10 pm

    Boy, the audience really is crammed in like sardines. I did see a couple of people with masks on. Probably will be purged tomorrow.

  220. 220.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    Remember, the 3rd lady said they have lots of plans for the White House for the next 4 years.  The Rose Garden is just the beginning.

  221. 221.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    It’s fantasy land.  No one has the guts.  Except Donald Trump.

    Because courage is the first word that comes to mind with him.

  222. 222.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    August 27, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    I listened to that gross daughter for 30 seconds.  Click.

  223. 223.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    @Leto:   Yeah, heard Beschloss mention that, and finally got a good look (switched to C-Span).  Wow.

  224. 224.

    Doug R

    August 27, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    @Steeplejack: 

    I think that’s what she had on the nose of her B-17 in World War II F/A-18 in the Gulf War.

    FIFY

  225. 225.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    @Steeplejack: Hey, I’m just glad to hear SOMEONE in the Republican party is doing battle with CBP.

  226. 226.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Just fucking lies, lies, lies… okay plastic surgery Barbie, move the fuck along.

  227. 227.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Because courage is the first word that comes to mind with him.

    If only he didn’t have those debilitating bone spurs.

  228. 228.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Wait, Trump courageously closed down the economy? How did I miss that?

  229. 229.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    @Leto: So…essentially babby’s first hockey match, is what I’m hearing?

  230. 230.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    @Doug R:

    Jesus fucking Christ, do you not get a joke?!

  231. 231.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    I assume Donald will pat her/feel her up/touch her in some inappropriate way when he walks lumbers on stage.

  232. 232.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I think the word you’re looking for is shuffles.

  233. 233.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    @Elizabelle: Yeah, the dictator chic they have going on is just fucking disgusting. Makes me think of the post from earlier where the Politico puke was saying, “outside of the beltway, who cares?” Plenty of us do. The majority of us don’t want our nation turned into some knockoff North Korea. JFC all of these people.

  234. 234.

    Mary G

    August 27, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    I decided I should try to watch, and I can’t with this grifting liar, but I am listening. The applause for her seems rather perfunctory?

  235. 235.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Ivanka is awful. I do not have enough liquor. There is not enough liquor in the world.

  236. 236.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Barbie Gaslighter.

    I hope people hiss at her in restaurants in her not so distant future.

  237. 237.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Damn they really lacked those people in. Did they test them or are they sacrificing them for this spectacle?

  238. 238.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    @Mary G:

    It’s not any more perfunctory than any speech where the audience knows they’re supposed to come in every few sentences for a punch line.

    ETA: The “Applause!” sign is lighting up on almost every sentence now. Will this never end?

  239. 239.

    Winston

    August 27, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Rona swap meet right there.

  240. 240.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 27, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Would love to see Ivanka in an orange prison jumpsuit. Siri has more empathy than this asshole.

  241. 241.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Also, it’s bullshit

    Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Confederate America and the Spartan Ephorate all idolized the warrior elite. How’d that go for them?

    Turns out warrior cultures breed bad administrators, worse public servants, poor businessmen and, in a crowning irony, pretty goddamn shitty soldiers, when all is said and done.

  242. 242.

    Patricia Kayden

    August 27, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    "John Dillinger will break with tradition by demanding this bank turn its money over at gunpoint! Our super genius Chris Cillizza will explain why this is a shrewd strategy." https://t.co/THNjHS8FLE— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 28, 2020

  243. 243.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    Well then, a boatload of felony indictments ought to prove to Trump that he has arrived.

  244. 244.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    @MomSense: I’ve heard there was no testing.

  245. 245.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    @Steeplejack: I’m not sharing my Milwaukee’s “Beast” Ice.

  246. 246.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    This is all fantasy about her father.

  247. 247.

    prostratedragon

    August 27, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    @TS (the original):  Kind of like a casino, to encourage the losing track of time.

  248. 248.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    wow.

  249. 249.

    West of the Cascades

    August 27, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @Subsole: Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Confederate America and the Spartan Ephorate all idolized the warrior elite. How’d that go for them?

    Well, then very well, then poorly.

  250. 250.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 27, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    It’s as certain to happen as the sun rising tomorrow.

  251. 251.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    The right thing to do.

    Yeah.  That is always Trump’s North Star.  Tell it, Gaslighter Barbie.

  252. 252.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Peace in the Middle East? Wut? How is this shitshow still going? Can we get the 4th lady off the stage now?

  253. 253.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Oh you fucking dimwit. We don’t attack your fucking father because he’s “unconventional.”  Jesus Christ.

  254. 254.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    @MomSense: They said there wasn’t for Dense’s speech at Fort McHenry either.

  255. 255.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    @Quinerly:

    I had a rum and tonic. Now I’m breaking out the Hendrick’s for a stiff martini. Desperate times.

  256. 256.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    She’s as much the narcissist as he is. Very strange speech. She really thinks she can be Pres in the future.

  257. 257.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    No.  People attack him for being corrupt.  “Unconventional” is the FTF NYTimes euphemism.

    Learn up, Barbie.

  258. 258.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @MomSense: Nope, no testing and mask wearing was optional. Can only hope we’re seeing a non-Passover event.

  259. 259.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    He’s a Warrior!

  260. 260.

    divF

    August 27, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Unshaven, in a bathrobe, Vinny “The Chin” Gigante style.

  261. 261.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    Malispew Barbie.

  262. 262.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @Steeplejack: I hit the Boodles the first night. Easing up tonight.

  263. 263.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    I knew they’d be on a balcony!

    Straight outta Parador.  Or whatever that fictional country.

  264. 264.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    “America needs four more years of a warrior in the White House.” ?

  265. 265.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    LEE FUCKING GREENWOOD! BURN THAT FUCKING SONG! Descending down the stairs, grasping Melania like his feeble life depends on it, other hand on the rail… I will fucking hate them forever. All of them. Also I promise that I’m going to shit on his grave, wherever it is.

  266. 266.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    I got an email from The Huntington, the title says “It’s official, 2020 stinks.”

    (One of their corpse flowers is about to bloom.)

  267. 267.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Quinerly:

    Exactly.

    The worst fucking music.  Melanie made a face at Vanky. They hate each other.

  268. 268.

    Jeffro

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Steeplejack: too lenient

  269. 269.

    SFAW

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s Rudy Nosferatu.

    Max Schrecklich?

  270. 270.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Leto:

    I just saw that!

  271. 271.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    I don’t know if I will watch this.

  272. 272.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Steeplejack

    Got an IV drip bag handy to pour it into?

    ;)

  273. 273.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Yeah, Moon over Parador. Or every third episode of Mission: Impossible.

  274. 274.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @Quinerly: You mean Queen.

  275. 275.

    Bill Arnold

    August 27, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    He is spewing a bullet list of complete, utter bullshit.

    My MM lie count looking at the transcript is 22+
    https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/mitch-mcconnell-2020-rnc-speech-transcript
    Vile man.

  276. 276.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Turned it off. I refuse to give that cretin my attention. Will read what you have to say, though.

  277. 277.

    Martin

    August 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Speaking of Republicans, has anyone else been curious why so many people are dying from drinking hand sanitizer? I found an answer.

    The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued a warning to consumers about hand sanitizers that are flavored and packaged in food and drink containers, which increases the risk of people accidentally drinking them, particularly children.

    According to the warning, the agency has found hand sanitizers with flavorings such as chocolate and raspberry, and in packaging including beer cans, water bottles, juice bottles, vodka bottles, and children’s snack pouches—some of which were marketed with cartoons aimed at children.

    The FDA’s behavior here seems to be to stand at a distance and yell warnings rather than, you know, find these manufacturers and, well, throw them in prison. Wouldn’t want to overregulate the market for children’s snack pouches filled with various chocolate flavored poisons.

  278. 278.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Hmm what’s with all the blue is the color scheme, Trump decided to pretend he is a Democrat?

  279. 279.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Who wrote this crap God Bless The USA song?

  280. 280.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    @Quinerly:

    I should  get an award for getting through this with only lemon lime seltzer.

  281. 281.

    Jeffro

    August 27, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    @Elizabelle: “Barbie Gaslighter” – LOVE it

  282. 282.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    What? The thousands of dead are not dead?

  283. 283.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    @MomSense: He sounds drugged. More sing songy than usual. The stairs wore him out.

  284. 284.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    @Steeplejack: So, aptly named, then?

  285. 285.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    @Steeplejack:   I laughed at Moon Over Parador.  Saw it in the theatre.

    It is not fun to live it.  Not laughing.

  286. 286.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    Brother Robert looking down from heaven.

    BARFITY BARF BARF

  287. 287.

    prostratedragon

    August 27, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    @Aleta:

    Alas, it is not incorrect.

  288. 288.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    @Jeffro:   Thank you.

    I think it’s Gaslighter Barbie though.  Like Airline Pilot Barbie.  Movie Star Barbie.

    9 to 16 years, concurrent Barbie.

  289. 289.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Did you see the face Lara made when Vanky stood up.  They all hate each other. So phony

  290. 290.

    Jay

    August 27, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Drinking Faxe Royal Strong for this shitshow. Tolerable beer, on the upside, 8%. We tried mojito’s last night for the shit show and damn near had to call 9/11.

  291. 291.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    @Steeplejack

    “¡Perón! ¡Perón! ¡Perón! Oops, did we say that out loud?”

    //

  292. 292.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    A guy named Lee Greenwood. I wish I didn’t know that.

  293. 293.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    @MomSense: and Gummy Bears?

    I did Modelo last night. Lots of limes.

  294. 294.

    Luciamia

    August 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    @Elizabelle: Fantasy? Lord of the Rings was more reality based.

  295. 295.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    @Amir Khalid:  Lee Greenwood. Written during the first Gulf War. By the time I joined in 1997, it was on it’s way out but I had to play it a number of times for people returning from various things in 1999. Most of the service people of my gen absolutely loathe that song because it’s just fucking horrendous. My first act as God Emperor would be to seize all physical/digital copies and to banish them to the nearest black hole. As well as Greenwood himself because he’s a Trumper too.

  296. 296.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    @TS (the original):  The human embodiment of the color beige…

  297. 297.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    “I profoundly accept this nomination for president of the United States.” Whut?

  298. 298.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    I just hate his ?

  299. 299.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    9 to 16 years, concurrent Barbie.

    Lolol… I do love Gaslighter Barbie.

  300. 300.

    tokyokie

    August 27, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    If only he didn’t have those debilitating bone spurs.

    Which, apparently, he didn’t really have.

  301. 301.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    Rudy’s speech was better. ?

  302. 302.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    @MomSense: Motherfucker our kids have been getting butchered by NRA-armed psychos for a decade. The carnage done BEEN here, asshole…

  303. 303.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    C-Span visual on.  No audio.

    Those look like hamster paws gripping the podium.

  304. 304.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I’m having a rough go myself. This is incredibly bad.

  305. 305.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    “Looking forward to being renewed for another season by patriotic voters.”

    //

  306. 306.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @Subsole:

    They don’t care.  It’s all so fucked up

  307. 307.

    Mary G

    August 27, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    The crowd still seems very unenthusiastic.

    ETA: And I see what you guys meant about the wrinkly flags. They are very puckered.

  308. 308.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 27, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    This speech will go down in history as the Mt. Everest of bullshit.

  309. 309.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @Steeplejack: Didn’t he do that on Monday?

  310. 310.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @NotMax:

    Man, I need one.

  311. 311.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    He no speak the English.

  312. 312.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @Steeplejack:  Did he seriously rip off that song from Scorpion King???

  313. 313.

    Bill Arnold

    August 27, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    DJT name checked fucking Andrew Jackson.

  314. 314.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    What is with the chin jut and his voice?  It’s so high and droning.

  315. 315.

    Cacti

    August 27, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    He “profoundly” accepted the nomination.

    Only the best words. lol

  316. 316.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    @Steeplejack:   It’s better without audio.

    Although.  Thinking of putting on “Mr. Crowley” as an alternate soundtrack.

    The wind was ruffling his hair.  Like a mechanical, impotent Tab Hunter.

  317. 317.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    His pancake makeup is particularly pancakey. Very orange, very cake. Also he’s slurring his words.

  318. 318.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Malarkey.

  319. 319.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    @MomSense:

    Did you run out of gummy bears?

  320. 320.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Wake me up when he announces he’s appointing Scott Baio ambassador to Russia.

  321. 321.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    @Elizabelle: Better. Skunked. Tried to bully a conscientious subordinate, who called his bluff.

  322. 322.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    I really think this is going to turn off a lot of voters. It’s just too weird. The WH being used this way. This speech, his family… All of it. But I thought when he mocked the disabled reporter during the campaign it would be over.

  323. 323.

    Sally

    August 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    @Leto: Ha! Blond North Korea.

  324. 324.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    @Mary G:   We should have a betting pool on how many ‘rona cases date to this magical night.

    Although.  Like we will ever hear.

  325. 325.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    Wilbur Ross looking like he doesn’t know where he is atm.

  326. 326.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 27, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    @Leto:

    My dad hates it when I cuss but that fucking song drives me to cuss like a motherfucker on family text threads. He’s 88 so he don’t scare me no more.

  327. 327.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    @Mary G:

    They can’t even wave – they’re so crammed in together. I hope Trump starts humping  them.

  328. 328.

    TS (the original)

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Subsole: Maybe that’s why trump is looking more orange this evening. To add some color to the scene? What does it hide?

  329. 329.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    “Democrat National Convention.” “Democrat Party.” I hate this middle-school bullshit. Why not just make a few fart noises with your armpit, Donald?

  330. 330.

    Bill Arnold

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    “This is the most important election in the history of our country.”
    etc.
    I think we all agree on that.

  331. 331.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Subsole:  Ah. I do not know “skunked.” But it sounds like something that should happen to Tom Cotton.

    Will look up Leto’s reference later.  Hunting for Ozzy Osbourne at the moment.

  332. 332.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Leto: he’s not doing that sniffing/snorting thing, though.

    It’s a strange speech.

  333. 333.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    Even at prayer breakfasts, I don’t think I’ve ever heard him give a speech with so much overt religiosity.

  334. 334.

    Spanky

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Lol!

     

    I am soooo glad I’m not watching this, but starting to feel like I need a drink by proxy.

  335. 335.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @MomSense: Only if their hawt or a flag.

  336. 336.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    No, but I cant handle that much sugar.

  337. 337.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    The wind is blowing and I’m hoping his hair takes flight.

  338. 338.

    Bill Arnold

    August 27, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    “Democrat Party”

  339. 339.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    Poor Barron is there too.

    Maybe he is conjugating French.

  340. 340.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    The stuff he brags about is such fucking small ball.

  341. 341.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 27, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    At this point, we have to think Melanie is doing this on purpose, right? She renegotiated the pre-nup, I suspect the cash has already been transferred to Luxembourg or Malta, she’s ready for whatever happens, election loss, indictment or he goes Elvis on the crapper

    Dana Goldberg@DGComedy· 10m
    This was so weird. #RNC2020

    Somebody else on twitter said Grifterella’s speech reflected a desire to counter rumors about how much they all hate each other. I’m not watching, so… I choose to believe it.

  342. 342.

    Spanky

    August 27, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    @MomSense: The audience?

  343. 343.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: They lie about everything.

  344. 344.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    I tell you, Mr. Crowley is the soundtrack for this joker.

    That wonderful long organ introduction, and looking at all the zombies in the audience.  Looking up at der Trump.

  345. 345.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    August 27, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    @Elizabelle: my mother always felt sorry for the cow.
    From Wikipedia:

    ”Judge Edwin R. Holmes asked Bilbo to submit documents pertinent to the case [Governor Lee Russell’s paternity case—1KFL]. Bilbo refused and was caught hiding in a barn to avoid a subpoena. Subsequently, he was sentenced to 30 days in prison for contempt of court, and served 10 days behind bars. He also lost his run to return to the governorship in 1923.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_G._Bilbo?wprov=sfti1

    Unfortunately they still make them like that.

  346. 346.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Parson Dense did not fully capture the gloriosty of our president’s presidential majesticalness.

    He is forgiven this transgression, as he was clearly at least attempting to work towards the fuhrer.

  347. 347.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I thought they said the people in the front rows were tested, but not very far back.

  348. 348.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    @MomSense

    Called it.

    ;)

  349. 349.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:   Him thinks he is losing the evangelicals, hmmm?

  350. 350.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I tend to break out in uncontrolled cussing when it comes on so I’m right there with ya.

    @Quinerly: It is. Everything about this is just horrible.

  351. 351.

    Brachiator

    August 27, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I knew they’d be on a balcony!

    Don’t cry for me, Mar a Lago…

  352. 352.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Anyone see mention of protestors outside the fence? Or has a mutli-block area been cordoned off?

  353. 353.

    Amir Khalid

    August 27, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    It’s annoying, but did the Republicans ever really get the Democratic party’s goat with it?

  354. 354.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    @WaterGirl: For Dense’s speech the MSNBC folk(don’t remember if it was Joy or Rachel or Nicolle)  said no one was tested in the audience.

  355. 355.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @MomSense:

    They can’t even wave – they’re so crammed in together. I hope Trump starts humping them.

    I legit can’t tell if you’re talking about the flags on stage or the people in the audience.

  356. 356.

    TS (the original)

    August 27, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Has anyone speaking at the RNC for the past 4 nights smiled? Everything I’ve seen is serious faces frowning and yelling – not about what has happened in the past 8 months – but rather the horror that will happen if trump is not elected.

    I like that Joe & Kamala had some uplifting speeches. I remember that pie speech that President Obama gave over and over – I remember the story of “fired up ready to go” – both told with smiles and optimism. The last 4 years have been the opposite of anything good – politically.

  357. 357.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    It’s so weird to look at a “president” who took on Pokey’s coloring.  By choice.  Gumby weeps.

  358. 358.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @Leto: he won’t debate. He can’t. Not mentally and physically able.

  359. 359.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 27, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @Bill Arnold:

    This is the most important election in the history of our country.

    That’s the only true statement uttered by this pathological liar.

  360. 360.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    When you lose Falwell Jr….

  361. 361.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    Just occurred to me that Daniel Dale must be stroking out tonight. Thoughts and prayers.

  362. 362.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 27, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Well, it was good enough for Mussolini.

  363. 363.

    trnc

    August 27, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @catclub: 

    I was hoping he would be unhinged nosferatu

    He will always be Half Ass Nosferatu to me.

  364. 364.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    There was a moment with Lara, too. When Vanky stood  up when her dad thanked her, Lara looked like she hate her.

  365. 365.

    prostratedragon

    August 27, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @Steeplejack:
    Sorry, was trying for a link to a comment on an earlier thread, which was,

    Grating as it is, does not seem to be improper:

    White House staff entry, Robert Hickey’s On-Line Guide to Forms of Address

    Mr. Hickey is or maybe was Deputy Director of the Protocol School.

  366. 366.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @Elizabelle

    “It’s those damn liberal light bulbs that make me look orange.”

    “Gee, they don’t do that to any other person on the effin’ planet.”

  367. 367.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @Elizabelle: My thought exactly!

  368. 368.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 27, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    @NotMax: you ask, I link, with video…

    Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24 34m
    the “fuck Trump” and “hands up don’t shoot” chants starting up again at one of the protest sites here near the entrance area to the WH south lawn where Trump’s doing his thing tonight

    also, people dancing happily

  369. 369.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    All those white people hostages are standing and applauding.  What did he say??

  370. 370.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 27, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    <whispers in Doctor Who> Don’t you think he looks tired?

    And what’s with the weird posture? (Left hand holding the podium in a death grip while the right shoulder reaches for the sky.)

  371. 371.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I could easily be remembering wrong.  These 4 nights of horror are blending together.

    The only thing I know for sure is that MomSense is eating gummy bears (not the adult variety) and is not drinking alcohol.  The rest ifs a blur of horror.

    edit: And I’m not even watching, just following on BJ.

  372. 372.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    @NotMax:

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  373. 373.

    gene108

    August 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    Why is Trump clinging to the podium for dear life?

    Second, I wish a strong gust of wind blows through and totally ruins his hair do.

  374. 374.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I had the same problem – had to go back up to be sure.

  375. 375.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @MomSense:

    There was a moment with Lara, too. When Vanky stood  up when her dad thanked her, Lara looked like she hate her.

    Tbogg’s on to something with “Dollar Store Ivanka” and I’m sure Ivanka reminds her at every opportunity that the Kushners have real money. Reminds me that in Mary Trump’s book, she says that trump said, in front of the extended and assemble trump family, including Lara, “a year ago, I didn’t know who the fuck she was”. Lara and Eric had been married several years by that point.

  376. 376.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    New thread up top…. ⬆

  377. 377.

    Avalune

    August 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Yes that posture. Like half smug bullshit half I can’t stand up on my own. I keep yelling at the tv STAND UP!

  378. 378.

    TS (the original)

    August 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    And what’s with all the white shirts in the audience? Was it a condition of entry that white shirts must be worn?

  379. 379.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    This is absolutely obscene. Chants of “Four More Years” in front of the White House. Obscene.

  380. 380.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    August 27, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Daniel Gale, Glenn Kessler, and the staffers at Politifact and Factcheck.org all deserve a big fat raise after this week.

  381. 381.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 27, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    @Leto: At least the contact tracing will be easier.

  382. 382.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    @WaterGirl: Wait, there’s an adult type of gummy bear?

  383. 383.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear

    Signs of Parkinson’s.

  384. 384.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:51 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I don’t think so, but at this point it gets my goat because it’s so old, so tired and so bush-league. And they all do it automatically now. I don’t think they could go back unless they got an electric shock for every “Democrat Party.” And it would take a while. (I’m willing to find out.)

  385. 385.

    prostratedragon

    August 27, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    @MomSense:  I thought that was why they were so wrinkled in the first place.

  386. 386.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    @West of the Cascades: Except it didn’t ever go very well. The Confederacy was never more than  barely functioning. Most of the Axis powers were rationing before the war even started. They never fixed their economies. They just did the old Roman trick where you plug the holes with slavery and rampant looting. It was never well. It was just ‘less shit than the actual Depression’.

    As you note, eventually the ‘less shit’ phase stopped working, too.

    Usually right after they managed to ROYALLY piss off someone too big and mean for them to enslave/steal from. By trying to enslave/steal from them.

    At which point the all-conquering warriors discovered that logistics – much like bullets – don’t give a fuck about your warrior spirit.

  387. 387.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes!  The kind that is legal in some states!

  388. 388.

    Quinerly

    August 27, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    There has been so much pandering this week… he  is the greatest thing for the Black community since Abe. It’s like he’s trying to poach the Kanye vote… I’m wondering if he is turning off his racist base.

    (and why does Kushner remind me of that song, “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” from Cabaret?)

  389. 389.

    Spanky

    August 27, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    All those white people hostages are standing and applauding.  What did he say??

    “In conclusion …”

  390. 390.

    Yutsano

    August 27, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    @Jay: A little ditty for you.

  391. 391.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    @Spanky: Heh, reminds me of Bill Clinton in 1988.

  392. 392.

    Sally

    August 27, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    @TS (the original): I don’t believe the trump family do “smiling”. And I don’t think it’s the Botox or the surgery. I think they are just so damned miserable. When they are together, they are just scheming, conniving for the next grift, the next take down of each other, they wouldn’t think of smiling. The odd grimace for and at the cameras, maybe, but you can see how much it hurts those underused facial muscles. Not like previous presidents with their families, coming and going around the White House, laughing, smiling, looking happy, relaxed.

  393. 393.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    @prostratedragon:

    Seems ambiguous.

    There is no official list published of who is and who is not “the Honorable” in the Administration. (And let me tell you I have looked.) Precedence-wise the Chief of Staff is on the level of the Cabinet. Not far below in precedence are the [various assistants to the president]. I don’t believe these are addressed as “the Honorable” but wish I had confirmation.)

  394. 394.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    @Elizabelle

    Flunky off camera flipped the switch to activate the electrically charged joy buzzers embedded in the chairs.

  395. 395.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: “Who did you come into contact with?”

    ”I have a letter from my lawyer… I have rights…”

    Gripped Melania’s hand, gripped the rail, gripping the podium, staring directly at the teleprompter to read…

  396. 396.

    Mary G

    August 27, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    @MomSense: Vanky and the robot took in like $82 million last year, while Lara only has the piddly $15,000 a month Parscale funnels to her.

  397. 397.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    @Leto: No bullshit, he may actually end up being the first American President who has to be buried in secret. Because otherwise folks are gonna just desecrate his corpse.

  398. 398.

    NotMax

    August 27, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    History left a message on the voice mail. “We’re gonna need a bigger dustbin.”

  399. 399.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    @Sally: Wait til you see the top tweet on TaMara’s new thread.  Ivanka with a fake smile at someone, that person passes and her face changes instantly.

    It’s so good that I may never stop watching it.

  400. 400.

    Subsole

    August 27, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    @MomSense: Well then, they DO have something in common with your average American!

     

     

    We hate them, too.

  401. 401.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    @Steeplejack: Here you go:

    United States Protocol: The Guide to Official Diplomatic Etiquette

  402. 402.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    “This will affect your 401k, all of the stocks that you have.”

    Periodic reminder that the top 1% own 50% of stocks, the top 10% own 92%.

  403. 403.

    Leto

    August 27, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    @WaterGirl: Her face is so robotic. Just like last night during her speech.

  404. 404.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Was “under God” really removed from the Pledge of Allegiance during the Democrat convention? I assumed this story was bullshit, but I never saw an article about it.

  405. 405.

    Yutsano

    August 27, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    @Leto: I’m watching but not close enough to listen. He just tried to to a normal stand but you could tell his right side doesn’t want to support him. There is definitely something physiologically wrong with him. He can’t hold himself in a normal standing position. Now he is but he’s relying on his upper body strength. His right side isn’t supporting him.

  406. 406.

    Bill Arnold

    August 27, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    DJT: “Nobody will be safe in Biden’s America”.

  407. 407.

    WaterGirl

    August 27, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    @Steeplejack: No, it was not removed.  Not on the night I listened to the little boy say it.

  408. 408.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    @Leto:

    Thank you for that blazingly unspecific link.

  409. 409.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Well, they had four chances to screw it up!

  410. 410.

    Ohio Mom

    August 27, 2020 at 11:19 pm

    Somewhere on the internet (saw it with my own two eyes) is a video showing all four nights of the Pledge at the DNC, and all contain “under God.”

  411. 411.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 27, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    @Quinerly: It’s like he’s trying to poach the Kanye vote

    Trump ratfucking his own ratfuck makes way to much sense.

  412. 412.

    Martin

    August 27, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Someone not taking advantage of California’s many benefits.

  413. 413.

    Jinchi

    August 27, 2020 at 11:22 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Somewhere on the internet (saw it with my own two eyes) is a video showing all four nights of the Pledge at the DNC, and all contain “under God.”

    It’s amazing what they can do with special effects these days.

  414. 414.

    Jay

    August 27, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    @Yutsano:

    thanks,

  415. 415.

    Steeplejack

    August 27, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    I guess the discussion has moved (three floors) upstairs.

  416. 416.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    @Martin: I’m a serious introvert, pot made it worse.

  417. 417.

    Ol'Froth

    August 28, 2020 at 9:28 am

    Heh, that floating dumpster incident happened not far from where I live.

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