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.
Baud
Take care of yourself, MomSense.
MomSense
@Baud:
I’ve got my seltzer and some gummy bears ? and I’m ready to go.
dmsilev
My RNC review: Hannibal Lecter’s dinner party was visually sumptuous!
(a reaction, I think, to her coworker Hugh Hewitt penning two consecutive ‘the RNC is a triumph’ columns)
TaMara (HFG)
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.
Jeffro
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?
Steeplejack
Starting with a montage: breathy mail voice, Aaron Copland-esque music.
Okay, let’s do this. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA tonight.
WaterGirl
Is the Hoarse Whisperer live tweeting tonight? If not, I should probably take down the link.
Steeplejack
Invocation by Rabbi Aryeh Spero, Conference of Jewish Affairs.
He’s not praying in Jesus’ name! What gives?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
I’m wondering if the embedded video is going to slow down page loads. Maybe pic or GIF better?
NotMax
Heard from Mom (who will be voting Biden regardless) that unlike yesterday she will deliberately be avoiding subjecting herself to tonight because Pence.
Darkrose
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.
Steeplejack
Wheelchair master sergeant (retired, presumably) pledges allegiance.
MomSense
I’m almost done with a baby sweater I’m calling little liberal snowflake. It’s very cute.
Mary G
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.
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.
Steeplejack
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Michele Bachmann meets evil Lynda Carter vibe.
Kay
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.
MomSense
First up, SD Governor. Founding principles under attack!
Quoting Madison on tyranny. Drink!
Steeplejack
I’m noticing the 80 background flags are very wrinkly, as someone mentioned earlier today. Supposedly wouldn’t pass protocol.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Front page only has been intermittently very pokey over the past 24 hours.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Ha!! Perfect description.
Steeplejack
Noem bland, bland, bland. No drinking yet.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Are they blurry too?
Baud
@Kay: They get to vote against Trump in November!
Suzanne
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.
Danielx
@Steeplejack:
Conference of Jewish Affairs?
That has a sound of Third Reich bureaucracy, though I am sure that is not intended.
dmsilev
@MomSense:
Isnt it traditional to wait until after the wedding to start nagging your DIL for grandkids?
Kay
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?
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I hardly ever go to the front page. I use the “next post” wing to open new tabs as I go along.
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
Yes, I guess that’s because of the ace camera work focusing on the speakers.
Leto
@MomSense: Pics!!!
Steeplejack
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!
MomSense
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 .
Mary G
Tucker goes there:
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.
HumboldtBlue
@Steeplejack:
Jesus tens to the gardening outside the synagogue.
MomSense
I missed the logger because Rachel called a fact check.
WaterGirl
@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.
Steeplejack
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN. Okay, now drink drink drink.
mrmoshpotato
Good on ya, Don! Van Jones is a fucking Russthuglican! (duh)
Kay
@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.
MomSense
@Leto:
I’ll send some to WG.
Steeplejack
@Danielx:
Inorite.
Kay
@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.
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
C-SPAN, baby, C-SPAN. No filler.
burnspbesq
@Suzanne:
‘You’re not alone.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/08/how-can-liberals-expand-their-reach/
WaterGirl
@Kay: I’m almost afraid to ask what you are referring to.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Just asking. I don’t see the inner workings.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mary G: And the little Nazi is going to be convicted of murder. Let’s not forget that.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Like I said, makes no difference to me.
MomSense
The Chinese communist regime unleashed the China virus. Blackburn is racist.
you know who can’t be canceled? Our men and women in uniform.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
I just switched to Roku Live!
Steeplejack
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.
MomSense
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!
WaterGirl
@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.
Leto
@MomSense: Awesome!
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Ha!
Sister Golden Bear
@MomSense: With a few tabs of acid, the convention might actually make sense.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: We’re Democrats, we hate traditional marriage.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
See #16 above.
Leto
9/11; DRINK!
Steeplejack
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Keith Kellogg, national security adviser to the president. Another guy who should probably not be speaking because of his official position.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense:
It’s important to have orderly lawns.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Ah. I had assumed that part was not live, that the naturalization ceremony was taped. Rule #1: they can always go lower.
Steeplejack
“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.
Sister Golden Bear
@WaterGirl: Yes
Although the poor man has only a single beer to see him through the night. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
Leto
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.
Steeplejack
Reprising the death of the
Iranian generalterrorist (can’t remember/spell name).MomSense
This cereal named security guy looks very confused.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: This convention was better in the original German.
WaterGirl
@Sister Golden Bear: That doesn’t seem like nearly enough.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Happy thread.
dmsilev
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Fair point.
MomSense
Again with the Reagan quote that was originally against Medicare.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: I thought Rudy was on tomorrow night.
WaterGirl
@?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.
Eljai
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.
Steeplejack
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.
MomSense
Here we go. Mom of special needs child CHOSE to parent. Now she is against women making choices except when it comes to schools.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
It was taped, but apparently the women still didn’t know that it was a setup before it happened.
Steeplejack
Montage: 19th-century suffragettes! Republicans, of course, I’m guessing?
Okay, here we go: leading up to Trump’s pardon of Susan B. Anthony. ?
Leto
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE DEMS ARE THE REAL RACISTS AND HATE WOMEN?!?!?!
Emma from FL
@burnspbesq: Kevin is an optimist. You can’t negotiate with someone that wants to kill you.
MomSense
Suffrage montage. Trump pardoned Susan B Anthony in the 100th anniversary. Oh FFS
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack:
Never mind that Anthony turned down a pardon offer at the time.
Suzanne
@MomSense: Mr. Suzanne is a special educator. I believe exactly zero of what she said.
Steeplejack
Hmm, women’s suffrage enacted right after Republicans retook Congress. Uh, what election happened right before August 3, 1920?
MomSense
Here is Kayleigh MAC Ninny talking about breast cancer.
MomSense
@Suzanne:
It’s total BS
Sister Golden Bear
Pointed out by Talking Points Memo:
Leto
@WaterGirl: don’t worry fam, I got ya covered!
Steeplejack
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!”
Leto
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.
MomSense
MACNinny wants us to believe that because Vanky and Dump were nice to her they are good for all women. BS
Sister Golden Bear
@WaterGirl: Hoarse agrees with you.
Leto
MOTHER!
MomSense
?
Steeplejack
MOTHER! Karen Pence. Drink drink glug glug glug.
Suzanne
Why is Kaylee McNeenerNeener talking about the healthcare that other people get because of Obamacare?
Steeplejack
Did you know that the Pences are a military family? It’s true.
Matt McIrvin
@Steeplejack: I’m surprised they’re not “thin blue line” flags.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Jesus loves him some side boob.
//
MomSense
Holy shit Mother looks like Aunt Lydia from Handmaid’s Tale.
Leto
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.
MomSense
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?
Steeplejack
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? ?
Steeplejack
Topping up the Dogfish Head 60. Thank you, Mother, for this respite.
MomSense
Right! And if trump is so strong and good at protecting us, why are violent Democrat mobs causing chaos in our cities?
NotMax
@Steeplejack
“The Suffragettes were okay but not as good as The Dixie Cups or The Supremes.”
//
Suzanne
@NotMax:
You can’t blame the guy.
Leto
Skeletor up next. Arms straight down by her sides. Kids still trapped at the house.
Delk
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.
Steeplejack
Kellyanne Conway! Glad I replenished the strategic alcohol reserve.
MomSense
KellyAnne! Bottoms up!
Omnes Omnibus
@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.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
KellyAnne is like seriously white – her hair skin dress are all the same color. She’s like a ?
Steeplejack
Weird body language: standing at the lectern with both arms straight down at her side.
MomSense
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.
Steeplejack
WTF?! Did she just take credit (on Trump’s behalf) for some two-job low-wage worker finally getting health insurance?! GTFO.
MomSense
I expected a little more fire ? from KellyAnne but she is really low energy. SAD!
NotMax
@MomSense
The Dove of
PeaceSleaze.Leto
@Delk: We’re swapping back and forth between the shitshow and Forged in Fire.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Yup. Oh and she snuck in cherish the children. Oops
Quinerly
@Steeplejack: Stepford wife look. Or one of the female robots in the original Yul Brenner Westworld.
Creepier than she usually is.
Steeplejack
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.
Leto
@MomSense: I think she had to give up that fire to Baghdad Betty.
NotMax
@Quinerly
Strategic pantyhose failure.
:)
Sister Golden Bear
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.
Steeplejack
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?
joel hanes
@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.
Steeplejack
Self-described “football guy” Lou Holtz. Recently in the news for saying, “Damn the coronavirus, we need to play football!”
MomSense
I don’t know who this coach is. I think he’s having denture issues
Steeplejack
Holtz is coming across like everybody’s crazy uncle at Thanksgiving.
Leto
Lou Holtz? I thought he died at South Carolina.
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
“Hey, when you’re coming up on 250, bet you’ll have wrinkles too.”
:)
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
Drained from screaming at/with Claudia at home.
HumboldtBlue
Sweet Jesus beating a cripple with a bat, here’s Lou Fuicking Holtz sucking his dentures for Trump.
Leto
@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.
MomSense
@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.
Steeplejack
@Quinerly:
Def Stepford vibe. Original movie, not the remake.
Steeplejack
Way too much time for Holtz. Who in Trump’s camp is such a fan?
cain
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Apparently, neither does Jerry Falwell Jr.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: His coaching career did.
Sister Golden Bear
@NotMax:
“Moisturise Me!”
Ked
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.
MomSense
Can I imagine what would have happened if Trump hadn’t shown up in 2015? Hell yes. That sounds awesome.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: Or as we call it in Southern California, the other USC.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ked: Beige is a color.
MomSense
Police union president and Barney Rubble look alike.
Steeplejack
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.
Quinerly
@Steeplejack: of course… Love me some Katherine Ross!
Steeplejack
This guy is straight-up capital-F fascist.
President Trump has led the initiative on police training in deëscalation?! Get. the. fuck. out.
MomSense
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
Leto
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh I know. Finished his career there with a losing record. Fitting.
Steeplejack
Essay question topic: Should officials of state entities with life-and-death enforcement powers be issuing partisan endorsements? Discuss.
Leto
Who let the non-blonde on stage?
MomSense
Stefanik invoking brave revolutionary war heroes and hockey players.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Is there an FOP type organization that isn’t fascist?
Steeplejack
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY.
DougJ, put up a funder to get rid of this nitwit.
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: What’s going on?
HumboldtBlue
Is Stefanik in a safe district?
Steeplejack
“My claim to fame is that I am the youngest Republican woman elected to Congress in history.” Well, all righty.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense:
I’m afraid to ask “what it takes” would entail.
MomSense
They’re all saying the same fucking things. It’s like a rotisserie of slogans. So boring.
Steeplejack
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.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: Someone let a non-bleached blonde woman on stage. I thought MOTHER! was the only one.
MomSense
Hey this guy is named for a founding father! Drink!
Its Madison, btw. It’s always Madison.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: So let it be written. So let it be done.
Steeplejack
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.
MomSense
This Madison Cawthorne guy sees forgotten people.
Rusty
@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.
NotMax
@MomSense
One more time:
Spitegeist.
;)
MomSense
Ha – oh dear he does have a spread collar.
Omnes Omnibus
@Leto: Whoosh! I guess there weren’t four of them.
HumboldtBlue
Looks like tonight’s party is located in Amish country.
MomSense
@NotMax:
Perfect.
NotMax
@MomSense
“People are learning about his wife’s tasty snack cakes more and more every day.”
//
MomSense
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.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Also, I think “florid” is a color.
Okay, here’s some color: Jack Brewer, former NFL player.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: Lol
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I assume that’s rhetorical.
Just Chuck
@Omnes Omnibus: I don’t want no FOP goddammit, I’m a Dapper Dan Man!
I dunno why, that just popped in my head.
MomSense
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?
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: It is.
WaterGirl
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!
edit: also proof that she is watching the convention. not that we doubted it. :-)
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack:
MomSense
@MomSense:
hHe just said it’s a lie that Trump said very fine people on both sides about Charlottesville.
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
?
Steeplejack
This football guy was awful. Straight-up Sunday school testifying.
MisterForkbeard
@Steeplejack: I didnt go to sunday school. What does this mean?
Leto
@Just Chuck: perfection!
@WaterGirl: @MomSense: Avalune and I both love it :)
Steeplejack
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: Who ya gonna believe me or your lying ears?
Sister Golden Bear
@MomSense:
Mein Führer… I CAN WALK !
Steeplejack
Okay, this guy straight up bought his screen time with a $10 million contribution or something.
MomSense
@Leto:
Thanks! The color is much brighter and happier but I’m dealing with lighting that is RNC CONvention production quality here.
MomSense
More lawn order heroing from Rep Lee Zeldin
Steeplejack
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY. Squinty eyes mean sincerity. More heroes. And “President Trump fights for them every day.”
MomSense
@Sister Golden Bear:
Ha!
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Plus Jared hooked him up with that good PPE.
Steeplejack
@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.
Steeplejack
Montage: More middle-aged white neckbeards who like President Trump. Who knew?
burnspbesq
@MomSense:
That’s for damn sure.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
I hope you’ll send a picture of it to WaterGirl so we can all see just how cute it is.
Curtis
@Steeplejack: I’m sorry, you misspelled “real Americans”.
Steeplejack
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-IA, apparently speaking from the set of Hee Haw. Tractor. Hay bales. But indoors with golden lighting.
MomSense
I didn’t recognize Senator bread bags.
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
Looks like at least a three-hour makeup session, but I’m no expert.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: She didn’t have her bread bags on?
Steeplejack
@Sister Golden Bear:
LOL. True.
MomSense
Obama Biden punishing waters rule?
HumboldtBlue
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Wow, Biden will get rid of cars and cows.
ETA: Rachel says that’s not true.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
She seems really washed out, too.
liberal coastal elites radical environmentalists want to eliminate animal agriculture gas powered cars and regulate puddles! Woah.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: They disrespect and use EVERYONE. It’s appalling, along with everything else they do.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: But trains have cattle cars. How do you explain that?
Steeplejack
More color: Burgess Owens, House candidate, Utah.
Okay, played in the NFL but fell on hard times. Horatio Alger story.
WaterGirl
@Sister Golden Bear: ha!
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
Going for that blond-on-blond look?
MomSense
MSNBC is on a weather break. Fuck this hurricane looks bad.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Rachel switched to hurricane coverage.
Steeplejack
Montage: “Standing guard over Baltimore Harbor,” some fort, earthworks or—oh, wait, Fort McHenry. Where is this going?
Steeplejack
“A reminder of those great patriots.” I guess heroes weren’t invented yet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: I think that’s required in the Trump cult.
MomSense
I think Jon Voight is the voice in all these patriotic videos.
HumboldtBlue
This dead-eyed bint is always annoying.
MomSense
Lara, if you were dreaming big you wouldn’t be married to Eric.
?BillinGlendaleCA
So we go from Hurrican Laura to Lara Trump.
WaterGirl
@MomSense:
Way to show your daughter that she’s #1.
MomSense
Warm caring hard working and down to earth. Exactly the qualities I think of when I think of the Trumps. Blech ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
You know, the DNC speakers used a podium with DNC/20 on it, this “convention” uses a Trump/Pence podium.
Steeplejack
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.
MomSense
Keep Rosa Parks name out of your mouth, Lara.
Steeplejack
Zzzz. Drink refill.
. . . Another nothing speaker with way too much air time.
MomSense
She knows what it’s like to work a blue collar job, guys.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Lawn order again!
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I laughed out loud. Has Rachel said that anything IS true?
jonas
Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. JFC.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Not while I’ve been watching.
MomSense
He will preserve our families? Dude has five kids with three wives and cheats with porn stars.
HumboldtBlue
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Oh, there’s a hurricane.
?BillinGlendaleCA
This “convention” moves so slow that there’s time for commercials.
Steeplejack
Sam Vigil, “husband of shooting victim Jacqueline Vigil.”
Is it bad that I have no idea which of the many shooting incidents this was?
lgerard
From the very strong Washington Examiner interview with Byron York
patrick II
@jonas:
I wondered about that. But it would have been dangerous for their chance at citizenship to turn it down.
Steeplejack
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.
MomSense
Does this guy know that without a birth certificate, Republicans want to make it tough for him to vote?
MomSense
@lgerard:
It’s always projection.
patrick II
Insult us some more Mr. Henderson. That will persuade me.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
What happened next Mr. Henderson?
Steeplejack
@lgerard:
Imax-level projection there. ? ?
MomSense
Here we go Grenell. No tie?
Sister Golden Bear
@lgerard: Personally I’d enjoy watching Velveetamort going through pre-test withdrawal from coke, speed and Adderall. Yes, I’m a bad person.
Steeplejack
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.
MomSense
The evils of globalization.
Trump charmed Merkel? GTFO
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack:
Thank you President Trump.
ETA: Wait that happened before Trump, you’re joking, right?
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: Enjoy watching? Or enjoy knowing that he is suffering? One of those is a level of kink I could never achieve.
MomSense
Is he defending being a Nationalist?
Chetan Murthy
@patrick II:
Now they can let him know what they think: at the ballot box.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Joe Biden was elected to the Senate in 1972, this is true.
Steeplejack
The “Obama and Biden spied on the Trump campaign” lie. Goddamn.
L85NJGT
Obama hitting Trump and OBL on the same night – Donnie is never living that down.
MomSense
Now disinformation from former DNI. No Obama Biden did not spy on Trump campaign.
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
Hey, he just said it: “Donald Trump’s policy is ‘America first.'”
“That’s the Trump doctrine.”
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Wow.
Steeplejack
Montage: flags, bucolic scenes. Back to Fort McHenry. More Getty outtakes from “like a rock” pickup commercials.
MomSense
Did Rachel bail?
MomSense
???????????????? and cheesy music.
Steeplejack
Oh, jeez: buildup to Mike Pence.
MomSense
Oh god. Mike Dense montage. Quoting Reagan. Drink!
Another Scott
It’s all just mouth noises.
(via Popehat)
Cheers,
Scott.
Sister Golden Bear
@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.
MomSense
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?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Nicolle Wallace is doing a fact check with Ben Rhodes.
Yutsano
@Leto: I am sad that no one will appreciate this joke. Besides me.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: Rachel may have needed a drink after that speech.
Oh she’s back.
Steeplejack
God, this is dragging. It’s only 10:30! How long, Lord, how long?
Steeplejack
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Ah, it’s Dense Time!
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack: Don’t worry, Dense will lull to sleep within a few minutes.
Steeplejack
Chant from the audience: “Four more years!”
?BillinGlendaleCA
Oh, they opened Ft. McHenry just for Dense.
HumboldtBlue
There must be women in the crowd cuz mother has to chaperone.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
I got it. But we have to keep moving to keep up.
Calouste
@Omnes Omnibus: What do you think the F in FOP stands for?
Steeplejack
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Dense is speaking you can catch up.
MomSense
Hope you have better luck than the people of Puerto Rico people in the path of Laura.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott:
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:
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Dense reminds me of a boring and unfunny Frank Drebin.
laura
@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.
Steeplejack
Standing ovation for something. I missed it because I’m getting that Charlie Brown “adults talking” noise with Pence.
patrick II
@WaterGirl:
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
True.
WaterGirl
@laura: Or Trump wants to know what drugs Biden is taking because Trump would like to sound intelligent and knowledgeable, also. :-)
Steeplejack
Pence introducing and rhapsodizing about his mom. He loves her. Who’da thunk it?
Steeplejack
Pence is a truly awful speaker. End of story.
Scuffletuffle
When do we get the shit houses on fire? That’s something I can get all in on…
MomSense
@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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: He’s horrible.
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack: He’s got all the charm of an ice cold speculum.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sister Golden Bear: Fair enough.
Steeplejack
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?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Sure, Trump has kept his word to the American people, just like he did with his first, second and third wives.
MomSense
He’s sooooooo yawn inducing.
Space Force! Drink!
Steeplejack
Space Force! Reminds me that Seth MacFarlane could play Pence in a movie.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: They spent more money, each year we spend more money.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Reformed the VA, no you didn’t you lying weasel.
Danielx
Pence does have magnificent political hair. As residents of his native state know, it’s the smartest part of him.
laura
@WaterGirl: flawless logic, I concur?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Oh, wow, and standing ovation!
Steeplejack
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Joe Biden loves terrorists!
?BillinGlendaleCA
“We supported the right to life”, well unless you don’t want to die of a preventable virus.
MomSense
Bragging about jerb creation in the first three years. All past tense achievements. And then the coronavirus from China ??
?BillinGlendaleCA
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.
MomSense
The greatest national mobilization since WWII. You fucking liar.
HumboldtBlue
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s good.
Sister Golden Bear
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Life begins at conception and ends at birth.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Wow, that’s world class bullshit.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Sister Golden Bear: That’s what Barney Frank used to say.
Steeplejack
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.
MomSense
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?
?BillinGlendaleCA
We’ll have a vaccine by the end of the year!
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
But they enacted policies that saved 50 million jobs! Would love to see that one fact-checked.
Eljai
@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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense:
Cause he’s a terrorist loving communist.
Suzanne
People aren’t distanced in that crowd, and his like 8,000-year-old mom is there. WTF.
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
@Steeplejack:
Dense is a world class liar. Maybe he skipped the 9th commandment
Steeplejack
Mother will be returning to her classroom next week! Is it wrong that I am hoping what I am hoping?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Yes, you’re a bad man. //
Steeplejack
I’m down to my last half-glass of Dogfish Head 60. Timing/pacing seems to have worked out.
Wrap it up, Mike!
?BillinGlendaleCA
So Obama presided over the slowest recovery since the Depression and Trump presided over the greatest economy ever? Really?
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Mea culpa. If only I were a Republican I would be automatically forgiven.
MomSense
L A W N O R D E R
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack: It’s already a super-spreading event tonight. No classroom needed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Shorter Dense, “you Black folk sit down and shut up”.
WaterGirl
@patrick II: I nominated that as a rotating tag.
Steeplejack
Whoa, close-up of the two black guys in the audience. (Back row, of course.)
Steeplejack
@Sister Golden Bear:
True.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I think it’s:
Sister Golden Bear
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Doublespeak is double plus good.
Steeplejack
“Last week the Democrats didn’t talk much about their agenda.” What the fuck, Mike?! Srsly. Where were you?
MomSense
We will always stand with our heroes on the thin blue line.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Leader of a party with no platform says what?
MomSense
He is putting me to ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Can they make up thier mind, do they love Bernie or hate him.
Steeplejack
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.
WaterGirl
It’s 11:05 – is it over yet?
edit: answered by Steep as I was asking the question.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Few more minutes. They’ve all been “running over” to almost exactly 11:10. Go figure.
?BillinGlendaleCA
300 miles of border wall.
Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse for the Radical Left.
Lawn Order!
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
“Whatever Trump says, that’s all you need to know!”
?BillinGlendaleCA
OK, he’s right we’re at a crossroads; but not the way he means it.
Kay
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.
Steeplejack
Okay, Fort McHenry in 1814. Please, this has to be the wrap-up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Don’t know he’s talking about fog.
Sister Golden Bear
@Steeplejack: Not uncoincidentally, on my channel guide, MSNBC lists the time as 6 to 8:10 (Pacific).
Steeplejack
Flag etiquette question: I thought the flag wasn’t supposed to be flown at night? Like, uh, the one right above Pence’s head.
Steeplejack
Giant Jumbotron picture of the flag. We get it!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: It’s supposed to be floodlit.
geg6
@Steeplejack:
I believe it must have a light on it if it’s at night.
?BillinGlendaleCA
We will Make America Great Again, Again. Wow, that was lame.
Steeplejack
Christ, more? Trump and Melania making an appearance! Reality-show surprise!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Oh, Trump’s there, surprise!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Trump’s looking more orange than usual.
Ked
CNN showing the most lifeless, mournful national anthem I’ve ever heard. Wow, this’ll really win those youths.
Steeplejack
Trace Adkins to do the national anthem. A cappella and badly. Shoot me now.
HumboldtBlue
@Kay:
I have three separate text threads that were on that as well, NBAPA is serious.
MomSense
That was atrocious. My ears are bleeding
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA, @geg6:
Got it!
My Boy Scout flag duty days were before the invention of floodlights—or electricity, to be honest.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Joy’s factchecking Dense.
Leto
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
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: We used a bonfire for light.
Steeplejack
Wow, heavy crowd mingling. Super spreader event! ?
Steeplejack
Okay, I could have used one more beer after Trump’s sudden appearance, but I’ll survive.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Joy reiterated that Fort McHenry is closed, they opened it ONLY for Dense’s speech.
Joy also said they’re creating their own reality.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: He didn’t speak, though, right?
edit: not a single word, not even “thanks everybody”, I imagine.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Nicolle points out the lack of a platform.
?BillinGlendaleCA
BriWi time, click.
Leto
@Steeplejack: Well that’s one way to suppress their vote…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Rachel expressed concern over that, particularly with the number of elderly veterans in the audience.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Didn’t speak. Now he’s doing thumbs-up selfie-type shots up and down the crowd for the designated photographers.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: Except it’s their voters.
Steeplejack
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.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Predictable. ugh.
Leto
@?BillinGlendaleCA: *checks with the refs* All good!
Luciamia
@Steeplejack: like the old sign off montage when networks went off the air at midnight.
Steeplejack
@Luciamia:
Heh, we got this every night.
sdhays
@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.
WaterGirl
@sdhays: It’s always projection!
Calouste
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.
Warblewarble
Devil still waiting at the crossroads.