2024 Republican National Convention Thread

[ChloeTzang]

President Donald Trump’s speech Thursday accepting his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention made headlines for three reasons.

1. He told the deeply moving story of his experience of surviving an assassination attempt; 2. He broke the record for length for an acceptance speech, at 92 minutes; 3. He followed UFC president Dana White and wrestling Hulk Hogan.

Yet it was also simply a remarkable speech.

Here are 17 notable lines — and not all of them were spoken by Trump. One of them, in fact, was a moment of silence.

1. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.
2. As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened. “Tell us what happened, please.” And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.
3. They just, this beautiful crowd, they didn’t want to leave me. They knew I was in trouble. They didn’t want to leave me. And you can see that love written all over their faces.
4. I’m not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here. [Crowd chants “Yes, you are.”]
5. Once my clenched fist went up, and it was high into the air, you’ve all seen that, the crowd realized I was OK and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. Never heard anything like it.
6. So now, I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend Corey [Comperatore]. [SILENCE] There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for others. This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours. And this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.
7. And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what’s been happening in our country lately, at a level that nobody has ever seen before. In that spirit, the Democrat party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy. Especially since that is not true. In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country.
8. On this journey, I am deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife, Melania. And, Melania, thank you very much. You also did something really beautiful, a letter to America calling for national unity. And it really took the Republican Party by surprise, I will tell you; it was beautiful. In fact, some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the Republican platform.
9. We beat them on the impeachments. We beat them on the indictments. We beat them. But the time that you have to spend, the time that you have to spend. If they would devote that genius to helping our country, we’d have a much stronger and better country.
10. It was an honor to select [JC Vance]. Great, great student at Yale. His wife was a student at Yale; they met at Yale. These are two smart people. So J.D., you’re going to be doing this for a long time; enjoy the ride.
11. And by the way, Wisconsin, we are spending over $250 million here, creating jobs and other economic … development all over the place. So I hope you will remember this in November and give us your vote. I am trying to buy your vote. I’ll be honest about that. And I promise we will make Wisconsin great again.
12. If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the United States. Think of it. The 10 worst. Added them up, they will not have done the damage that Biden has done. Only going to use the term once. Biden. I’m not going to use the name anymore. Just one time. The damage that he’s done to this country is unthinkable. It’s unthinkable.
13. And you know who’s being hurt the most by millions of people pouring into our country? The Black population and the Hispanic population. Because they’re taking the jobs from our Black population, our Hispanic population. And they’re also taking them from unions. The unions are suffering because of it.
14. They’re coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. I, you know the press is always on because I say this. Has anyone seen “The Silence of the Lambs”? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums. They’re emptying out their insane asylums. And terrorists at numbers that we’ve never seen before. Bad things are going to happen.
15. And to the entire world, I tell you this, we want our hostages back — and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price.
16. We live in a world of miracles. None of us knows God’s plan, or where life’s adventure will take us. … But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we love.
17. You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. I am here tonight with the opposite message: Your expectations are not big enough.

 

[ChloeTzang]

With JD Vance as VP, and no doubt a 2 term President after Trump's term is up, Trump is remaking the GOP into an entirely different party. A party that puts American's and American workers first and foremost. The more I think about it, the more I think JD was an inspired pick.

Big money donors, wealthy Wall Street brokers, and old-guard neoconservatives are seething over former President Donald Trump’s choosing Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential running mate in this year’s election — similar to 2016 when the same elite crowd was furious over Trump’s candidacy. While the GOP’s working class base embraces Vance, a populist-nationalist most known for his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his childhood in the Rust Belt amid community-gutting globalization, the economic elite are taking to the pages of establishment media to voice their opposition.

“Wall Street will be begging for the return of Lina Khan (Biden’s top trust buster at the Federal Trade Commission) after two months of the Trump/Vance administration,” a Wall Street broker told the Financial Times, referencing Lina Khan who is favored by Vance because of her insistence on breaking up corporate monopolies.

While a venture capitalist, in the mid-2010s, Vance began to rethink his priors, ultimately transitioning into a populist with aggressive stances on economics, immigration, and foreign policy. While there’s a temptation to see this change as purely opportunistic, Vance has taken political risks inconsistent with mere careerism. Indeed, four months ago, Vance told a crowd that “Lina Khan is one of the few people in the Biden administration that is doing a pretty good job.” In the GOP, those are fighting words. [Emphasis added]

What’s most strikingly different about Vance is something simple. Age. He’s young. Both he and Khan are in their 30s, and both grew up seeing the disastrous set of policies of the 2000s and 2010s, not the prosperity of the 1990s. Neither has a sanguine view of big tech, a view which is largely held by those who came of age in the 1990s and still at some level understand Google as a disruptive upstart and Mark Zuckerberg as a kid. To Vance and Khan, Google and Facebook are just the establishment. [Emphasis added]

Other Wall Street types who spoke to the Financial Times said they are effectively panicking over the prospect of an economic nationalist agenda led by Vance in a future Trump administration:

“We are very concerned about JD Vance playing an outsized role in a Trump administration,” said one big bank lobbyist. “Trump populism and Vance populism are not the same.” [Emphasis added]
“He represents a populist mindset, and he is clearly smart and considered the future of the party,” said another financial services lobbyist, who described Vance as an “intellectual powerhouse.” [Emphasis added]
“He represents something in the country that the coastal elites and big business have taken too long to recognise,” the lobbyist added, in an apparent reference to Vance’s ability to channel the anger and disenfranchisement of the working classes. [Emphasis added]

Vance is most at odds with Wall Street brokers and big business groups like the Chamber of Commerce on issues of immigration and trade. Unlike the Republican Party’s old guard, Vance backs a tight labor market with reduced immigration levels where the economy is tilted in favor of American employees over employers. Likewise, on trade, Vance has assailed the Uniparty's job-killing free trade consensus that has reigned in Washington, DC over the last three decades — making multinational corporations richer than ever by allowing them to outsource working and middle class jobs to the lowest-wage countries in the world. “CEOs are shocked” by Vance becoming Trump’s running mate, even as his name had been floated for months as a top contender.

Senator Vance has really been at the forefront of providing a critique of what’s wrong with globalization, what’s wrong with financialization, what’s wrong with just chasing cheap labor and rising stock prices. Just the fact of choosing Vance suggests that Trump doesn’t feel beholden to, or even loyal to Wall Street at this point. [Emphasis added]

The GOP’s wealthiest donors, who have often disapproved of Trump’s America First agenda, lobbied behind the scenes against Vance in the hopes of a more establishment-friendly pick like Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). From Politico:

Vance’s opposition from the donor community, however, presented a challenge in the under-the-radar race for the vice presidential slot. Other contenders, like Burgum, Rubio, and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, had deep relationships with mainstream donors who were eager to undercut Vance. Republican megadonor Ken Griffin’s team conveyed to Trump that they didn’t want the Ohio senator. Murdoch, the former News Corp. chief executive, was also weighing in with Trump and making it clear he supported other prospects, including Burgum. The Murdoch family-owned New York Post and Wall Street Journal published separate editorials endorsing Burgum for the position. [Emphasis added]

Following Vance’s fiercely populist speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) this week, in which he declared “We are done catering to Wall Street,” photos of billionaire Rupert Murdoch and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a darling of the donor class, showed them sitting with somber faces in one of the arena’s suites. Other neoconservatives, with deep financial ties to military contractors that rely on hawkish foreign policy to line their pockets, said to Politico they are “scared to death” of Vance as vice president because he opposes unlimited spending in Ukraine and foreign interventionism.

So everything that Trump began to achieve in his first term, expect in spades in his second term, and with a VP like JD rather than the useless old RINO, Pence, and a few new GOP faces in the House and Senate who will mostly be MAGA Republicans, with Johnson as Speaker, and with Mitch gone, we can expect the GOP to really get things done.

Screw the globalists, screw free trade, screw outsourcing American jobs, screw big business. THIS is the right direction and THIS is what America needs.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

With JD Vance as VP, and no doubt a 2 term President after Trump's term is up, Trump is remaking the GOP into an entirely different party. A party that puts American's and American workers first and foremost. The more I think about it, the more I think JD was an inspired pick.

Big money donors, wealthy Wall Street brokers, and old-guard neoconservatives are seething over former President Donald Trump’s choosing Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential running mate in this year’s election — similar to 2016 when the same elite crowd was furious over Trump’s candidacy. While the GOP’s working class base embraces Vance, a populist-nationalist most known for his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his childhood in the Rust Belt amid community-gutting globalization, the economic elite are taking to the pages of establishment media to voice their opposition.

“Wall Street will be begging for the return of Lina Khan (Biden’s top trust buster at the Federal Trade Commission) after two months of the Trump/Vance administration,” a Wall Street broker told the Financial Times, referencing Lina Khan who is favored by Vance because of her insistence on breaking up corporate monopolies.





Other Wall Street types who spoke to the Financial Times said they are effectively panicking over the prospect of an economic nationalist agenda led by Vance in a future Trump administration:



Vance is most at odds with Wall Street brokers and big business groups like the Chamber of Commerce on issues of immigration and trade. Unlike the Republican Party’s old guard, Vance backs a tight labor market with reduced immigration levels where the economy is tilted in favor of American employees over employers. Likewise, on trade, Vance has assailed the Uniparty's job-killing free trade consensus that has reigned in Washington, DC over the last three decades — making multinational corporations richer than ever by allowing them to outsource working and middle class jobs to the lowest-wage countries in the world. “CEOs are shocked” by Vance becoming Trump’s running mate, even as his name had been floated for months as a top contender.



The GOP’s wealthiest donors, who have often disapproved of Trump’s America First agenda, lobbied behind the scenes against Vance in the hopes of a more establishment-friendly pick like Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). From Politico:



Following Vance’s fiercely populist speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) this week, in which he declared “We are done catering to Wall Street,” photos of billionaire Rupert Murdoch and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a darling of the donor class, showed them sitting with somber faces in one of the arena’s suites. Other neoconservatives, with deep financial ties to military contractors that rely on hawkish foreign policy to line their pockets, said to Politico they are “scared to death” of Vance as vice president because he opposes unlimited spending in Ukraine and foreign interventionism.

So everything that Trump began to achieve in his first term, expect in spades in his second term, and with a VP like JD rather than the useless old RINO, Pence, and a few new GOP faces in the House and Senate who will mostly be MAGA Republicans, with Johnson as Speaker, and with Mitch gone, we can expect the GOP to really get things done.

Screw the globalists, screw free trade, screw outsourcing American jobs, screw big business. THIS is the right direction and THIS is what America needs.


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JD Vance is in the pocket of Peter Thiel.

 

[Lazaran]

JD Vance is in the pocket of Peter Thiel.

Chloe “Chicongo” Tzang probably has no clue who Peter Thiel is, despite the fact that Peter Thiel was a key player in the insurrection and tried to cause a second financial meltdown by suddenly withdrawing millions from SVB, causing a panic in the financial sector. (Peter Thiel should be in prison, imho.)



Fortunately, President Biden was at the helm and helped avert a second meltdown.

 

[Bray123]

https://imgur.com/7AkcUlE

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1814088529124688169

this shit is craaaaaaazy...

 

[ChloeTzang]

Chloe “Chicongo” Tzang probably has no clue who Peter Thiel is, despite the fact that Peter Thiel was a key player in the insurrection and tried to cause a second financial meltdown by suddenly withdrawing millions from SVB, causing a panic in the financial sector. (Peter Thiel should be in prison, imho.)

Rather like Soros.... yes, I know who Thiel is

 

[Bray123]

Soros contributes to a party.

Thiel purchases politicians like Harlan Crow purchases Justices.

 

[Bray123]

President Donald Trump’s speech Thursday accepting his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention made headlines for three reasons.

1. He told the deeply moving story of his experience of surviving an assassination attempt; 2. He broke the record for length for an acceptance speech, at 92 minutes; 3. He followed UFC president Dana White and wrestling Hulk Hogan.

Yet it was also simply a remarkable speech.

Here are 17 notable lines — and not all of them were spoken by Trump. One of them, in fact, was a moment of silence.

1. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.
2. As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened. “Tell us what happened, please.” And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.
3. They just, this beautiful crowd, they didn’t want to leave me. They knew I was in trouble. They didn’t want to leave me. And you can see that love written all over their faces.
4. I’m not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here. [Crowd chants “Yes, you are.”]
5. Once my clenched fist went up, and it was high into the air, you’ve all seen that, the crowd realized I was OK and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. Never heard anything like it.
6. So now, I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend Corey [Comperatore]. [SILENCE] There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for others. This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours. And this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.
7. And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what’s been happening in our country lately, at a level that nobody has ever seen before. In that spirit, the Democrat party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy. Especially since that is not true. In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country.
8. On this journey, I am deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife, Melania. And, Melania, thank you very much. You also did something really beautiful, a letter to America calling for national unity. And it really took the Republican Party by surprise, I will tell you; it was beautiful. In fact, some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the Republican platform.
9. We beat them on the impeachments. We beat them on the indictments. We beat them. But the time that you have to spend, the time that you have to spend. If they would devote that genius to helping our country, we’d have a much stronger and better country.
10. It was an honor to select [JC Vance]. Great, great student at Yale. His wife was a student at Yale; they met at Yale. These are two smart people. So J.D., you’re going to be doing this for a long time; enjoy the ride.
11. And by the way, Wisconsin, we are spending over $250 million here, creating jobs and other economic … development all over the place. So I hope you will remember this in November and give us your vote. I am trying to buy your vote. I’ll be honest about that. And I promise we will make Wisconsin great again.
12. If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the United States. Think of it. The 10 worst. Added them up, they will not have done the damage that Biden has done. Only going to use the term once. Biden. I’m not going to use the name anymore. Just one time. The damage that he’s done to this country is unthinkable. It’s unthinkable.
13. And you know who’s being hurt the most by millions of people pouring into our country? The Black population and the Hispanic population. Because they’re taking the jobs from our Black population, our Hispanic population. And they’re also taking them from unions. The unions are suffering because of it.
14. They’re coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. I, you know the press is always on because I say this. Has anyone seen “The Silence of the Lambs”? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums. They’re emptying out their insane asylums. And terrorists at numbers that we’ve never seen before. Bad things are going to happen.
15. And to the entire world, I tell you this, we want our hostages back — and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price.
16. We live in a world of miracles. None of us knows God’s plan, or where life’s adventure will take us. … But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we love.
17. You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. I am here tonight with the opposite message: Your expectations are not big enough.

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You missed the most memorable point. It was the first ever convention acceptance speech by either party given by a convicted felon.

That is what history will record.

 

[ll74]

President Donald Trump’s speech Thursday accepting his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention made headlines for three reasons.

1. He told the deeply moving story of his experience of surviving an assassination attempt; 2. He broke the record for length for an acceptance speech, at 92 minutes; 3. He followed UFC president Dana White and wrestling Hulk Hogan.

Yet it was also simply a remarkable speech.

Here are 17 notable lines — and not all of them were spoken by Trump. One of them, in fact, was a moment of silence.

1. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.
2. As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened. “Tell us what happened, please.” And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.
3. They just, this beautiful crowd, they didn’t want to leave me. They knew I was in trouble. They didn’t want to leave me. And you can see that love written all over their faces.
4. I’m not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here. [Crowd chants “Yes, you are.”]
5. Once my clenched fist went up, and it was high into the air, you’ve all seen that, the crowd realized I was OK and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. Never heard anything like it.
6. So now, I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend Corey [Comperatore]. [SILENCE] There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for others. This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours. And this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.
7. And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what’s been happening in our country lately, at a level that nobody has ever seen before. In that spirit, the Democrat party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy. Especially since that is not true. In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country.
8. On this journey, I am deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife, Melania. And, Melania, thank you very much. You also did something really beautiful, a letter to America calling for national unity. And it really took the Republican Party by surprise, I will tell you; it was beautiful. In fact, some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the Republican platform.
9. We beat them on the impeachments. We beat them on the indictments. We beat them. But the time that you have to spend, the time that you have to spend. If they would devote that genius to helping our country, we’d have a much stronger and better country.
10. It was an honor to select [JC Vance]. Great, great student at Yale. His wife was a student at Yale; they met at Yale. These are two smart people. So J.D., you’re going to be doing this for a long time; enjoy the ride.
11. And by the way, Wisconsin, we are spending over $250 million here, creating jobs and other economic … development all over the place. So I hope you will remember this in November and give us your vote. I am trying to buy your vote. I’ll be honest about that. And I promise we will make Wisconsin great again.
12. If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the United States. Think of it. The 10 worst. Added them up, they will not have done the damage that Biden has done. Only going to use the term once. Biden. I’m not going to use the name anymore. Just one time. The damage that he’s done to this country is unthinkable. It’s unthinkable.
13. And you know who’s being hurt the most by millions of people pouring into our country? The Black population and the Hispanic population. Because they’re taking the jobs from our Black population, our Hispanic population. And they’re also taking them from unions. The unions are suffering because of it.
14. They’re coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. I, you know the press is always on because I say this. Has anyone seen “The Silence of the Lambs”? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums. They’re emptying out their insane asylums. And terrorists at numbers that we’ve never seen before. Bad things are going to happen.
15. And to the entire world, I tell you this, we want our hostages back — and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price.
16. We live in a world of miracles. None of us knows God’s plan, or where life’s adventure will take us. … But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on Earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and for the country that we love.
17. You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. I am here tonight with the opposite message: Your expectations are not big enough.

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It was too long, off message and did not appeal to undecided voters at all

 

[ChloeTzang]

Whoopi Goldberg Smears Trump’s Teenage Granddaughter as a Prop Used to ‘Humanize’ Him​

Kai Trump's heartwarming speech at the RNC sent The View host of into the stratosphere. rotflmao.

 

[ll74]

Whoopi Goldberg Smears Trump’s Teenage Granddaughter as a Prop Used to ‘Humanize’ Him​

Kai Trump's heartwarming speech at the RNC sent The View host of into the stratosphere. rotflmao.

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And?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1814769989846774260

 

[Bn2f]

It was Kimberly Guilfoyle

https://twitter.com/x/status/1814121526154641684

 

[Bn2f]

How white was the RNC in Milwaukee? Only 3% of the delegates reported they were Black​

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-rnc-milwaukee-only-3-150907320.html

 

[dkovic77]

How white was the RNC in Milwaukee? Only 3% of the delegates reported they were Black​

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-rnc-milwaukee-only-3-150907320.html

And a whole lot were on Grindr.

Very diverse crowd, just depends on your perspective.

There were 5’3 folks… 5’4…