About these awkward GOP "empathy" vids. Trump mostly asks them to talk about him, doesn't bother to learn their names, nobody wearing a mask, barely social distanced if at all, and to the poor guy Turkey jailed for 2 years Trump praises Turkey for finally letting him go. pic.twitter.com/daBK1Flyy7
— Craig Crawford (@craig_crawford) August 25, 2020
Kimberly Guilfoyle’s speech at the #RepublicanConvention seemed to make way more sense with North Korean propaganda music in the background.
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 25, 2020
So that's what we did. https://t.co/SRPHl2kOLZ pic.twitter.com/VLCyasMbge
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I tried but I just couldn’t stomach it. Did see most of Guilfoyle. We’re going through hell in CA and her smear was disgusting. Some say it is Newsom related.
Fortunately there were live sports to distract.
Mort, but it’s so funny to watch these comical frauds in action. Better than the Simpsons and Family Guy put together. That’s why I watch FOX News prime time regularly. Not just about know thy enemy, they make me laugh. Which is how they lose.
Let’s get some good writing out of you this week, then, Mr. C, if you are going to voluntarily submit yourself to this orgy of mendacity- maybe something good can come out of it🤷♂️
I did have Fox News on. I rarely watch it but figured I may as well check out the full experience. I feel that I am uncomfortably aware of the enemy and they’re funny until I remind myself that tens, maybe hundreds of millions take them seriously and vote religiously. Many on our side seem to look for excuses not to register to vote. They’ll protest and march…then not vote. Biden is counting on his popularity among the under 35 year olds. Will they turnout this time?
Here’s my concern and why I monitor right wing media: Non College White Voters. They’re Trump’s only hope and he knows it. Their turnout was fairly low in battleground states 2016 altho Trump won a big decisive majority of them. I can see his team sees a chance to pick up what they left on the table last time. They’ve built a campaign and convention to do that. That’s how and why I watch them so closely. I’m trying to understand whether they can pull it off and whether Dems should be doing something about it, what that should be. Non college whites drove Nixon but they’re about half the electorate now that they were then, but still a larger percentage in battleground states than nationally. I well remember Bill Clinton’s successful strategy for peeling away some of their votes: he obsessed on community colleges, visited several per week during his campaigns and as president showered them with money. Biden might want to think about that, especially considering his wife is a community college teacher.
Republicans have said they are targeting specific areas where they were strong but turnout can be improved. I assume Democrats are doing the same thing. Strange that the Obama campaigns were very successful at identifying these pockets and getting them out to vote. I remember Joe Scarborough being amazed on election nights at pockets in conservative areas in Florida being won by Obama. His boiler room was very good. Both parties are mining for those who often don’t feel motivated to vote.
Mort, Trumpsters are going after non college whites with precision. Dems are not, which worries me.
Why are you so sure the Dems aren’t? I think Biden recognizes he can grab some of those voters. I worried they’re taking the younger more educated for granted. He will get the majority but the turnout may be lower than they expect. Even Bernie’s vote turnout for the primaries was lower than expected. I’m logging off now. See you tomorrow.
Mort, I enjoyed the Dem convention and think they energized the base but felt more could have been done to leverage Biden’s potential appeal to non college whites. His team is smart so I have faith they’ll get to it.
Me too Mort, signing off. Enjoyed the chat.
for those who didn’t/couldn’t watch, a style recap by wapo fashion critic givhan:
colbert’s take on rnc opening night
The first night of the Republican National Convention was “a long midnight of the soul” according to our host, and featured speeches from Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Hayley, and Kimberly Guilfoyle as well as multiple appearances by President Trump. #LateShowLIVE #RNC2020 #Monologue
more RNC from late night comics, here’s trevor noah
some of NYTimes columnist thoughts on best & worse of RNC:
Some how we missed Kimchi Un Guilfoyle’s speech. Wow
I watched for awhile and then turned on a tamer horror show with Lovecraft Country.
Craig,
If you didn’t read it when it first came out, you might pick up “White Trash”. I’m rereading it now. The author’s premise is that the inability to reach non college Whites is based in a somewhat arrogant fallacy on the part of the Democrats. Obama’s team knew that and was able to reach past it. Let us hope Biden learned the lesson and isn’t cripple by the limits of outreach present with the virus.
History Buffs:
1100-year-old treasure unearthed by teenager in Israel
Can you even imagine how lucky Gavin Newsom must feel these days to have escaped that marriage?
That was one gruesome screech.
UAE Cencels Israel Meeting
Everyone probably had this on their bingo cards.
I will not bother posting about the science fiction convention.
Two issues with the DNC, not the local Dems, but the top level party brains. 1. The Dems should be the party of farmers and foundry workers. Small business and medium business. College educated or high school drop out. 2. The DNC did not feature, up front and with a major place, the Hispanic, Mexican or any other group who formed America before the white people showed up. I’m from Colorado a place which was Mexican before there was an English colony formed. There are many families who trace their ancestry back more than four hundred years. which beats what my English ancestors did.
The Democratic Party better start doing as much for everyone and not let the greedy old perverts survive.
BB…..I think that’s the plan. I look for them to be rolling it out. The parties are in chaotic flux. Realignments of various sections of the populace are happening around us.
The right is obviously going to where they have always, throughout all written history, gone. They are losing “the people “ there by. So they must, as all before them have, opt for power, greed, and fear.
Laws be damned.
I could, of course, be wrong.
GOP Platform, 2020:
”LAWS ARE FOR SUCKERS!”
(We don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges.”)
When “the people” got a load of the full Monty during Hoover, they GOT it and we got FDR. The current administration is the full Monty.
…read the transcript of Nikki Haley’s speech- full of lies and misinformation. She’ll be an appropriate successor to dipshit.
Also, i’m assuming the gun-brandishing Missouri couple gave their little speech (obviously written by someone else, still sucked) in exchange for the free make-over they got.
good, quick read:
COVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act
https://time.com/5883081/covid-19-transmitted-aerosols/
cnbc re LP’s new ads:
cnbc about the above:
Cohen is set to appear in multiple ads for the progressive super PAC, which is focusing on key swing states as it works to help elect Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
The ads will air digitally starting Monday night and will appear on television starting Wednesday – in time for the final two nights of the GOP convention.
??? contrast the kimberly last night to the kimberly in that 16 minute 2004 interview. wha’ happened? the body snatchers of sci fi back amongst us maybe?
wapo:
Kimchi was always a bitch that’s why they are divorced. No change there
Sounds like we made the right decision for ourselves by not watching. Now tonight… game 2 of the Bruins vs Lightening.
Go Bruins!
Why do some of the COVID masks look like a bra cup with a big rubber band on the ends?
Wow, that Kenosha cop pulls that trigger very casually. These extra-judicial killings and maimings are 4th Amendment violations.
Pepper spray is remarkably effective (see its effects in footage of Portland protests), but some(?) of these cops love those pistols.
(Edit- “Due Process” is 5th Amendment, not 4th. Duh😞)
“ Why do some of the COVID masks…”
They’re more comfortable
Just checked my mask. It IS a bra. No wonder I get those weird looks.
sturge, better a bra than a thong mask.
from uk standard story back in february:
Guilfoyle was screaming! And, she was married to Gavin Newsom??? How could he? They didn’t last like Maitlin & Carville.
Well, it was a hideous night of gaslighting. Many of my friends just didn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t even watch it.
ANOTHER black man shot in the BACK. It keeps happening. It’s wrong. Ya just can’t go around shooting people!!!
I’ve been reading more and more about how the repupe party is now the Trump Cult. How, why did they let this happen? Why can’t, don’t they do anything about it? There’s ALL of them and then there’s just him. There’s something behind this.
Next, I’ll read Hoax. I hear it talks about how FAUX “News” is afraid that the trumpster will get his very own Trump TV and compete with them. Also, apparently, the talking heads there say he’s crazy and that there’s something wrong with him behind the scenes, out of his ear shot. So why then do they keep feeding him all the conspiracy theories? Seems that all of them are complicit in causing the virus spread, undermining democracy & the rule of law while saying he’s a nut case. It’s purposeful. But why? WTH’s wrong with all of them?? Maybe Hoax will answer that question.
BB
The hostess for the whole first night of the Democratic Convention was Eva Longoria who very proudly refers to herself as a Texican. Her family has been in the new world for over 400 years and her part of Texas for 300 as in “we didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us”. The roll call of the states featured several indigenous, working class, and immigrants of all types. I’m sure there will be even more outreach as the campaign progresses
Was surprised how little they mentioned Harris last night. All the fire aimed at Biden. No real attacks on Kamala.
Melania getting ready for tonight
couldn’t resist this cartoon…
ps… bought several his pillows a few yrs ago… they stink… they wound up in the dump…
First night Republican Convention viewership: 15.8 million, per Nielsen early data. That compares to 18.7 million for first night of Democratic convention last week.
Both are down about 4.5 million from 2016.
8pm ET New Thread for tonight’s GOP show
Gonegtions: whenever the protests die down, there’s another murder in the streets.
They must be saving Harris because she’s part of the narrative of Biden turning everything over to the radical left
Haha. The goobers are passing this pic around entirely overlooking the fact that the man standing behind him is Charlie Manson.
Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business @forbes https://t.co/Ll4CVzJ9eH
American Airlines just sent a letter to 19,000 employees to let them know they’re gone on Oct 1st. Those numbers are added to the 23,000 who took early retirement/buyout or who were already furloughed. Nobody will be able to afford to fly when this is over. Fewer flights. That also hurts all of the airline-adjacent businesses. Y’all let me know if they mention unemployment tonight.
Hurricane evacuation might further lower viewership of the Republican’s klan rally.
Wow, I just heard news clips of the fear mongering and lying that went on last night. I will be skipping night two, too, because the Republican/Russian/klan members are just too, too disgusting.
They have NOTHING to offer. NOTHING. The tRUMPs and all who associate with them are LOSERS.
Jamie – outreach and more outreach. Dems need to make sure to reinforce our base.
When will this nation of idiots finally figure out it can’t open schools?
In Texas, it’s when kids/staff get sick and Gov. Abbott can legally close a school. Gotta let the horse outta the barn before you close the door down here.
Bink – elections matter, from dog catcher to school board to county to state, transportation, and everything. When Dems are running the show, intelligence takes place. When greedy old perverts are in place ten thousand to one hundred thousand school children are expendable to send parents back to work in offices and factories.
Let us not wallow in the valley of covid despair? My stars and garters…….
Hoax is wonderful. Very interesting. Read by the author. I guess the answer to why Faux keeps feeding mentally ill trumpity lies is Fear and Greed, of course.