2024 Republican National Convention Thread

For some reason, my hand slipped over the off button on my remote control, trembled a bit, and then pressed it. When it's over, please let me know that he really, convincingly asked for unity.
 
For some reason, my hand slipped over the off button on my remote control, trembled a bit, and then pressed it. When it's over, please let me know that he really, convincingly asked for unity.

Took about 90 seconds for the unity message to go out the window.

This will help the Left. 🙂
 
Donald Trump needed to knock it out of the park tonight to save his sinking campaign. He failed. It’s over.

I hope to god a lot of Independent voters are watching that cringey fuck.

I’ve been skipping back and forth between channels just waiting for the sickening droning on to end so Colbert can give me the summary in a digestible manner.

Even the tiny snippets I’ve caught as I surfed by have sounded soulless and insincere.

Pathetic

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Comperatore's last name was misspelled on his fire jacket. It was missing the "a". CBS News learned from the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company that this had been done intentionally, as there was only enough space on the coat for a certain number of letters.
 
The media has always favored Trump over Biden because Trump was like a court jester. His silly antics drove clicks. What outlandish thing has he done today? Declared war on Mexico? Devalued the dollar?

But in his speech tonight he committed a fatal error—he was boring. He rambled on and on for what seemed like hours. If you watch the reactions of his audience they were totally passive. No excitement or enthusiasm. Some people were falling asleep. If a candidate can’t get a few cheers or chuckles out of his loyal followers, he won’t be able to drive people who are more lukewarm about him to the polls in November.

And Trump’s VP pick has negative charisma. The big-money tech people may like JD Vance, but he’s no Sarah Palin when it comes to generating Republican enthusiasm.

Biden’s problem has always been that competence is dull. No one cares if a candidate can speak intelligently about foreign policy for an hour. That’s a snooze.

All Trump had to do tonight was demonstrate he could still put on a good show, but he bombed and put his audience to sleep. A tired, low-energy Trump who meanders through familiar talking points is not electable in the modern media environment. He blew it.
 
The media has always favored Trump over Biden because Trump was like a court jester. His silly antics drove clicks. What outlandish thing has he done today? Declared war on Mexico? Devalued the dollar?

But in his speech tonight he committed a fatal error—he was boring. He rambled on and on for what seemed like hours. If you watch the reactions of his audience they were totally passive. No excitement or enthusiasm. Some people were falling asleep. If a candidate can’t get a few cheers or chuckles out of his loyal followers, he won’t be able to drive people who are more lukewarm about him to the polls in November.

And Trump’s VP pick has negative charisma. The big-money tech people may like JD Vance, but he’s no Sarah Palin when it comes to generating Republican enthusiasm.

Biden’s problem has always been that competence is dull. No one cares if a candidate can speak intelligently about foreign policy for an hour. That’s a snooze.

All Trump had to do tonight was demonstrate he could still put on a good show, but he bombed and put his audience to sleep. A tired, low-energy Trump who meanders through familiar talking points is not electable in the modern media environment. He blew it.

I’ve seen enough bits and pieces from the fact checkers alone to know that it was horrible. Can you imagine an Independent / undecided voter watching that speech???

And Trump again said the immigrants are taking Black people’s jobs and Hispanic people’s jobs - which is not only racist, but also a lie.

Trump also lied 20 times in the speech.

A disaster of a performance on top of maaaaaany other disastrous performances - including the first debate. Let’s see if the "republicans" and the media call for Trump to step aside.

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Fact checking The Donald’s bigly speech:

Crime, immigration and tax cuts - Trump's speech fact-checked

CLAIM: “Our crime rate is going up, while crime statistics all over the world are going down"

VERDICT: Violent crime in the US fell last year.

CLAIM: "We've had the worst inflation we've ever had under this person [Biden]"

VERDICT: Inflation is currently around 3%. That's nowhere near the worst in history. The record was 23.7% in 1920.

CLAIM: "If somebody wants to buy a gas-powered car or a hybrid they are going to be able to do it, and we’re going to make that change on day one." The implication here is that currently Americans cannot buy these cars or will not be able to.

VERDICT: There is no ban on vehicles which run on gas (petrol) in the US and Mr Biden has not set out a plan to introduce one in the future.

CLAIM: “The jobs that are created [under Biden] - 107% of those jobs are taken by illegal aliens”

VERDICT: Mr Trump is saying here that undocumented migrants are taking jobs from Americans. We can't find any evidence for this figure of 107%.

US job stats show millions of US-born and foreign-born workers have gained jobs under President Biden.

CLAIM: “The biggest tax cuts ever"

VERDICT: As President, Donald Trump did bring in big tax cuts but they weren’t the largest in history, according to experts.
Although, Mr Trump didn't introduce the largest tax cut overall he did pass the largest corporate tax cut in US history.

The 2017 law reduced this tax rate from 35% to 21%.

So many lies. So much delusional nonsense! Trump in a nutshell.
 
"There is no ban on vehicles which run on gas (petrol) in the US"


Kookifornia has something on the books for a future date ... 2035 maybe? Not sure.
 
"There is no ban on vehicles which run on gas (petrol) in the US"


Kookifornia has something on the books for a future date ... 2035 maybe? Not sure.

Fact check: There is no federal ban of gas powered vehicles, now or planned.
 
Fact checking The Donald’s bigly speech:

Crime, immigration and tax cuts - Trump's speech fact-checked











So many lies. So much delusional nonsense! Trump in a nutshell.
I mean, taking just one of them, the 3% and 23% are close… they both have a three in them.

The poorly educated MAGA folks would believe that evidence since… well… numbers.
“That two in the front means something? My teacher didn’t say anything about that…school was so great for me…such a great couple of months kindergarten was!”
“Is that the same two as in two Corinthians? Isn’t that the whole ball game?”
 
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