A Tale of Two CONVENTIONS !
WE Have TWO national political conventions.I mean... Is it? I watched most of it, and it cycled between hilariously over the top super villian monologues, depressingly transparent lies, and drug fuelled ramblings. It was a horrifying rollercoaster of crazy. I genuinely have no interest in the sort of person this garbage works on. (1)>>The Democratic Party and Republican Party . While these conventions are basically to rally voters . Fiest off , The DNC tried to pretend that the election was in the bag in 2016 and was all forward looking past the election then , if you spent time with the DNC on those nights it seemed to me like a endless barrage of Anti-Trump speeches .Jokes aside, the convention so far has showcased an orchestra of voices from the far left to the right all singing the song that President Trump is unfit to be president. (1.2)>>However, they never put forward a positive agenda for America under the leadership of Joe Biden. How would he get the economy going again following the coronavirus shutdowns? What policies do they propose to get workers back to work and expand jobs? Will they raise taxes? Would they eliminate private insurance for every American? While there was not a solution to the nations problems from any of the speakers, REMEMBER THIS MAY APPLY TO THE REPUBLICANS . It seems to me that the US has become so divided along political lines that it has reached the level of fundamental religious faith.No matter what evidence is presented to either side, there is no way any minds are getting changed. I've seen both the left and the right calling out the other side for their 'lies' on the same issue. It seems to me that if you a right leaning person, you are going to have faith in the republican side of the argument and vice versa.In such complicated issues as you guys are dealing with, there are always tons of facts available, and those facts can be cherry picked to form perfectly cogent and logical arguments on either side. Long story short, I think there has been a massive loss of objectivity, and the emotional side of politics is being amplified to the point where there can be no rational discussion. Shifting all the blame on Trump alone for the dire situation of the country is exteme shortsightness . Trump's only fault is that he listened to vary bad advice from the start the "experts" like Fauci , they downplayed the so called pandemic CDC , and last of all this COVID madness is the fault WHO reading the script that the Chinese Communist Party handed them. The issue of race , police brutality , the nations social unrest , burning , looting cities . Again Trump is not to blame for that either. Trump was just ascape goat The third night of the party’s national convention also featured a striking repudiation of Mr. Trump by former President Barack Obama, a break with the presidential custom .of not criticizing a successor by name.Democrats have posted the speaker lineup and themes for each night: shorturl.at/kKLMP Republicans have yet to post their speakers on their convention page:https://www.2020gopconvention.com/ although Ballotpedia suggests the themes and that Trump speaks the last night: shorturl.at/fFLUW With exception of Governor Kasich, I don't find a lot surprising in the DNC lineup - with largely a mix of dignitaries political office holders or previous presidents. Still want to see who gets the more formal Tuesday keynote designation since that had been a springboard in the past . The RNC didn't have a keynote in 2016, so not sure what they do this timeHow much do you expect to watch any of the proceedings in detail? How much do you expect to rely more on the the smaller sliced soundbites that will get replayed? Do you expect any major surprises at these conventions? (I don't - and expect them to be mostly scripted). I will probably look for transcripts if provided e.g. acceptance speeches or keynotes and perhaps listen to some speeches if provided by lawfare blog.I will be particularly curious to compare/contrast Trump's acceptance speech with the one from four years ago - shorturl.at/ivUY7 since I found that one to be fairly dark. I expect the new one to also be dark, but will have to be tempered since this time Trump is the incumbent.
Weird Facts about the Democratic Convention:
Weird Facts about the Democratic Convention:
So it sort of made sense that the the 2020 DNC National Convention would be the (2)>>first virtual convention, staged not in one central location but all over the country, a party spread across the nation in a fine smear, like jam on toast. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were together, and a few important Democratic officials were in Milwaukee (where the convention was originally slated to be held). (3)>>Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia to deliver his speech. In watching "Good-Man Joe" as he began his acceptance speech, I found myself gradually shifting from holding my breath to finally relaxing, clearly seeing that he was making his case that h"I got this." So instead of giving TV viewers at home a typical convention speech without thousands of delegates cheering him on, Biden’s campaign and Democratic officials instead staged his acceptance speech like a presidential address from the White House. So the weird blend of intimacy and lag contributed to a sense, all throughout the convention, that it wasn’t quite real. The virtual DNC felt either fictional or like a dry run for the real event. By the time Biden delivered his concluding speech officially accepting the party’s nomination for president, the whole hootenanny seemed, in rather surreal fashion, as if it were taking place inside a video game cutscene. Biden’s speech was the best I’ve ever seen him give, but the eerie vacuum he delivered it in made it seem like something selected from a menu of dialogue options. 😁👉Elizabeth Warren is a speaker on a Native American panel. Tuesday’s Native American Caucus meeting had a surprising headliner: Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The honor of a powerful seated senator should be welcomed. Except, this was a controversial speaker choice. Warren’s Native American claim is negligible based on a DNA ancestry test she took and released to the public. This was after she claimed minority status to gain access to programs and opportunities throughout her career. Some Native American community members condemned her and she had to apologize to the Native American community for the harm she caused. Given this backstory, the caucus was mercilessly trolled yesterday for putting her up to speak and eventually disabled online commenting, but not before one user tweeted: “Stay tuned for the DNC Black Caucus meeting featuring Rachel Dolezal.”AOC nominated Bernie Sanders for president but shaded Joe Biden.After an impassioned plea for a far-left, union-driven agenda, AOC ended her 60-second speech with “I hereby second the nomination for Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for President of the United States of America.” She claimed it was just a procedural exercise, but she never once even mentioned Joe Biden in her speech. AOC’s shade eclipsed Joe Biden’s sun.Calamari ManDuring the roll call vote, when a delegate from each state announced the state’s votes, Rhode Island’s Democratic Party Chairman Joseph McNamara dubbed his home “the calamari comeback state.” Standing beside him to illustrate the analogy was the executive chef a local boardwalk seafood restaurant decked out in black. He held out a massive plate of tasty-looking calamari and was quickly dubbed Calamari Man as the image went viral on social media. Zoom clappingMove over applause buttons, there’s a new sound effect tool in town. After Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spoke, a full screen of people clapping popped up. California Governor Gavin Newsom made an appearance at the Democratic National Convention after all, in short remarks from the scene of the state’s devastating wildfires. The DNC Convention has many weird moments , noteble was Billie Eilish performed her new song "My Future" for the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday while also pleading with viewers to vote for Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in this year's election. I honestly may be a wee bit out of place that is the first time I heard of Eilish . Seeing her on TV , looked like stunt to appeal to the younger voters . She looked a bit radical in a conventional sense . Her green hair dye in short shows how far to the left the Democrats have gone . Trying to embrace every political angle to defeat Trump .
Weird Facts about the Republican Convention .
(1)>>The Democratic Party and Republican Party . Both Parties in our Political system have made suckers out every American . The past twenty years, the post 9/11 world, is a world of wiretapping, drone strikes, endless wars, election rigging, covert government agencies, nuclear weapons, financial corruption and deranged celebrity. we've seen the cia lie about wmds with a straight face to the american public. we've seen vast, illegal surveillance programs exposed by whistleblowers who are declared enemies of the state. we've seen the united states go to war with every country in the middle east except israel and saudi arabia (i'm sure that's just a coincidence, though). we've fitnessed wall street banks pillage the public coffers with immunity for decades. now, in the Trump era, we've seen the president basically just say f**k it and ride the wave straight into the rocks. it would take a library to detail all of the crimes of the trump administration. classic, meat-and-potatoes crimes, types of crimes that are as American as apple pie and baseball. There’s this group that’s been racially gerrymandering and suppressing minority votes for decades. In 2016 they blatantly blamed the Russians that they interfered in our election and assisted Trump in the effort.They’ve even illegally cut the census short in an attempt to cheat on future elections.They spew disinformation and outright lies with every breath they take. In fact the sanctity of a US election has never been more in question than today and if we don’t vote these vile bastards out of office this November we will not be a democracy again for generations.(1.2)>>However, they never put forward a positive agenda for America under the leadership of Joe Biden.The thought of Biden winning is starting to raise some serious concerns. It's not so much Biden himself, but it is the entities mentioned above that are using him as a puppet to oust Trump and sign anything in front of him. This first was very evident by the fact that the DNC convention that took place was a complete sham. It was an obvious dog and pony show to go through the motions to make Biden the nominee. Biden is honestly a bit senile or has some sort of dementia, and I don't know how fit he is to run the country, so like I said, others will be running it for him (and this seemed planned all along). Then there are the VP picks. Biden has stupidly backed himself into a corner by declaring that his VP pick must have, ABOVE ALL ELSE, be a "WOMAN OF COLOR" . LET'S NOT PLAY THE RACE CARD . But Kamala is not exactly 100 % African American . She is really Part Indian and Jamacian Now, I got me some book learning under my belt. It may not be as fancy a book learning as Old Joe, but it’s enough that I feel confident in saying that Biden’s litmus year is just about the most racist, sexist thing ever. In a hundred years people are going to look back at this period of time, and it’s crazy shit like this, and regret that humanity ever regressed so far down the evolutionary ladder. This is witch burning level bullshit! (2)>>first virtual convention. The first night of the Democratic National Convention, exiled by coronavirus to the ether of teleconferencing and prerecording, was an experiment in how to sound the theme “We the People” with a “we” constructed entirely virtually.At its shakiest, it was, like much pandemic-era TV, uncanny, disjointed and unsettlingly weird. (To its credit, though, there were few of the glitches that have riddled so much bandwidth-dependent live television.) At its most engaging, it dispensed with some relics of televised conventions and found faster-paced and more intimate alternatives. (3)>>Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia to deliver his speech. In his scathing rebuke of Mr Trump, Barack Obama broke with a tradition that former US presidents do not criticise their successor by name. He said the consequences of the Trump presidency have been "our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before". Devoid of an audience and its usual rapturous applause, Obama sounded at times like a disappointed father, his sighs audible as he delivered a speech he never thought he’d give. Donald Trump was once a joke to Obama, a “carnival barker” who he famously mocked at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Trump sat and watched with a frozen smile. The humor in Trump has been gone for a while now, but for his first few years out of office, Obama held back on his successor as he kept away from the near-daily controversies and scandals emanating from the White House.
Weird Facts about the Republican Convention .
I think people are having knee-jerk reactions, but you are right. As much as I despise the Trump's, they are not to be underestimated. We saw what happened in 2016. I'm not saying Donald is some kind of evil mastermind, he's a moron. He does have a talent to fire up and keep his base though. The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday, August 24, featuring four nights of speakers, ranging from the president's most vocal supporters on Capitol Hill to members of his family to Americans who the Trump campaign says have written "the great American story."Vice President Mike Pence headlined Wednesday's program, speaking from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where U.S. troops repelled British naval forces during the War of 1812. The Trump Campaign immediately responded to the first night of the Democratic National Convention, citing the lack of -- what the campaign has called before -- a "radical left" policy from Biden.Trump 2020 national press secretary Hogan Gidley in a statement said, "Perhaps it was just an oversight, but the first night of the Democrat convention left out the fact that Joe Biden would raise taxes on more than 80 percent of Americans by at least $4 trillion. Also missing was his open borders policy, with amnesty and work permits for 11 million illegal aliens. There was no mention of Joe Biden's desire to cut police funding, kill ten million energy jobs with a green new deal, or give free healthcare to illegal aliens, but in fairness, it was only the first night."While the Trump campaign is attacking the virtual production of the DNC by calling it a "Hollywood-produced infomercial" Gidley also said that the "radical socialist leftist takeover of Joe Biden is complete." I think he's gonna run in 2024, and he really has a chance at winning the GOP nomination, since the Republican base loves him. It's hard to predict his chances because statisticians don't have great models to adjust for ratfucking absentee voting during a pandemic. It could range from backfiring due to outrage to effectively depriving the democrats of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of votes peppered across the country in liberal zip codes.This fall is going to be such an insanely intense and painful moment in US history regardless of how it turns out. Someone tell me I’m overly pessimistic but I don’t see how this isn’t the beginning of a truly dark period in American history. Even if he loses the part of the country that have been stirred up aren’t going anywhere, I don’t see unity of any sort in sight. Nobody will probably even see this comment, but I’m going to toss it out here anyways:Regardless of how rigged this election feels, you should still get out there and vote like your damn life depends on it. You have absolutely nothing to lose, but everything to gain. Trump gets power from “what’s the point if they are cheating or the election is rigged?” comments. Even if you vote for Trump, you are still exercising your right while we still have a Democracy, even though it’s currently hanging by a thread. Turning people who leave these types of comments on to voting is the only way that we have a shot at turning around this country. If Trump wins this, you will likely never even get the choice to vote again.People treat voting like it’s a chore, like jury duty. This is a right that we have as American citizens that we take for granted all to often. Believe me, I’m guilty as charged.There are people in this world that have sacrificed their lives for their people to be able to vote. Take a moment and think of the weight of that sacrifice.When I go out to vote, I follow the mindset that my one vote could be the one that changes everything. It has happened before, it can happen again.
The Afterwords.
I think a lot of us are seeing through this and i dont know what this means for 2020 long term. Despite the clear ideological differences that have created a schism between the parties, the two conventions had a common denominator. Unlike past conventions, which were full of conflict and dispute, this time both were held in an atmosphere of internal harmony and enlistment by activists ahead of the final stretch. I will say if it gets to the point where we have like the best candidate at 15% or something with no clear winner, i dont think that old Sanders supporters will have as strong of a case to vote third party though, because it's not like we had a shot at outright winning anyway without interference. Neither of the two parties is for changing the voting system if it has the possibility of either of them losing any power. Also, in regards to this list on why the parties are different it seems to be focusing on wedge issues. The issues that I'm more concerned about are things like the expansion of the surveillance state, lack of infrastructure expansion, and voting reform (not just disclosure of funding). The political oligarchy is uninterested in meaningful change in these regards. I blame the Democrats for the GOP becoming what it has. Their blanket statements like “all conservatives are racist” did nothing to help their cause and pissed off people who weren’t racist. Slowly but surely they got fed up and started electing borderline radicals out of anger and resentment. Kind of a subliminal “you want racism, we’ll show you racism” type of thing. There’s no denying Trump is a buffoon, but he’s in power for a reason. People were fed up with the Democrats bullshit. Although both Biden and Trump identify as religious, surveys show that many Americans are skeptical of their claims. Just 35% of U.S. adults see the president as “very” or “somewhat” religious, according to a February report from Pew Research Center. Around half of Americans (55%) said the same about Biden at the time. ANYWAY Donald Trump and Joe Biden are on the ballot for president, but so too are their ideas, ideologies and proposals — and how those intersect with the hopes and fears of Americans.Top of mind these days is the topic of race, from the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on people of color, the killing of George Floyd and the demonstrations that followed, and now the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The whole country is at the boiling point in the "most important election of the decade"
The Afterwords.
I think a lot of us are seeing through this and i dont know what this means for 2020 long term. Despite the clear ideological differences that have created a schism between the parties, the two conventions had a common denominator. Unlike past conventions, which were full of conflict and dispute, this time both were held in an atmosphere of internal harmony and enlistment by activists ahead of the final stretch. I will say if it gets to the point where we have like the best candidate at 15% or something with no clear winner, i dont think that old Sanders supporters will have as strong of a case to vote third party though, because it's not like we had a shot at outright winning anyway without interference. Neither of the two parties is for changing the voting system if it has the possibility of either of them losing any power. Also, in regards to this list on why the parties are different it seems to be focusing on wedge issues. The issues that I'm more concerned about are things like the expansion of the surveillance state, lack of infrastructure expansion, and voting reform (not just disclosure of funding). The political oligarchy is uninterested in meaningful change in these regards. I blame the Democrats for the GOP becoming what it has. Their blanket statements like “all conservatives are racist” did nothing to help their cause and pissed off people who weren’t racist. Slowly but surely they got fed up and started electing borderline radicals out of anger and resentment. Kind of a subliminal “you want racism, we’ll show you racism” type of thing. There’s no denying Trump is a buffoon, but he’s in power for a reason. People were fed up with the Democrats bullshit. Although both Biden and Trump identify as religious, surveys show that many Americans are skeptical of their claims. Just 35% of U.S. adults see the president as “very” or “somewhat” religious, according to a February report from Pew Research Center. Around half of Americans (55%) said the same about Biden at the time. ANYWAY Donald Trump and Joe Biden are on the ballot for president, but so too are their ideas, ideologies and proposals — and how those intersect with the hopes and fears of Americans.Top of mind these days is the topic of race, from the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on people of color, the killing of George Floyd and the demonstrations that followed, and now the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The whole country is at the boiling point in the "most important election of the decade"
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NOTES AND COMMENTS:(1)>>The Democratic Party and Republican Party . Both Parties in our Political system have made suckers out every American . The past twenty years, the post 9/11 world, is a world of wiretapping, drone strikes, endless wars, election rigging, covert government agencies, nuclear weapons, financial corruption and deranged celebrity. we've seen the cia lie about wmds with a straight face to the american public. we've seen vast, illegal surveillance programs exposed by whistleblowers who are declared enemies of the state. we've seen the united states go to war with every country in the middle east except israel and saudi arabia (i'm sure that's just a coincidence, though). we've fitnessed wall street banks pillage the public coffers with immunity for decades. now, in the Trump era, we've seen the president basically just say f**k it and ride the wave straight into the rocks. it would take a library to detail all of the crimes of the trump administration. classic, meat-and-potatoes crimes, types of crimes that are as American as apple pie and baseball. There’s this group that’s been racially gerrymandering and suppressing minority votes for decades. In 2016 they blatantly blamed the Russians that they interfered in our election and assisted Trump in the effort.They’ve even illegally cut the census short in an attempt to cheat on future elections.They spew disinformation and outright lies with every breath they take. In fact the sanctity of a US election has never been more in question than today and if we don’t vote these vile bastards out of office this November we will not be a democracy again for generations.(1.2)>>However, they never put forward a positive agenda for America under the leadership of Joe Biden.The thought of Biden winning is starting to raise some serious concerns. It's not so much Biden himself, but it is the entities mentioned above that are using him as a puppet to oust Trump and sign anything in front of him. This first was very evident by the fact that the DNC convention that took place was a complete sham. It was an obvious dog and pony show to go through the motions to make Biden the nominee. Biden is honestly a bit senile or has some sort of dementia, and I don't know how fit he is to run the country, so like I said, others will be running it for him (and this seemed planned all along). Then there are the VP picks. Biden has stupidly backed himself into a corner by declaring that his VP pick must have, ABOVE ALL ELSE, be a "WOMAN OF COLOR" . LET'S NOT PLAY THE RACE CARD . But Kamala is not exactly 100 % African American . She is really Part Indian and Jamacian Now, I got me some book learning under my belt. It may not be as fancy a book learning as Old Joe, but it’s enough that I feel confident in saying that Biden’s litmus year is just about the most racist, sexist thing ever. In a hundred years people are going to look back at this period of time, and it’s crazy shit like this, and regret that humanity ever regressed so far down the evolutionary ladder. This is witch burning level bullshit! (2)>>first virtual convention. The first night of the Democratic National Convention, exiled by coronavirus to the ether of teleconferencing and prerecording, was an experiment in how to sound the theme “We the People” with a “we” constructed entirely virtually.At its shakiest, it was, like much pandemic-era TV, uncanny, disjointed and unsettlingly weird. (To its credit, though, there were few of the glitches that have riddled so much bandwidth-dependent live television.) At its most engaging, it dispensed with some relics of televised conventions and found faster-paced and more intimate alternatives. (3)>>Barack Obama traveled to Philadelphia to deliver his speech. In his scathing rebuke of Mr Trump, Barack Obama broke with a tradition that former US presidents do not criticise their successor by name. He said the consequences of the Trump presidency have been "our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before". Devoid of an audience and its usual rapturous applause, Obama sounded at times like a disappointed father, his sighs audible as he delivered a speech he never thought he’d give. Donald Trump was once a joke to Obama, a “carnival barker” who he famously mocked at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Trump sat and watched with a frozen smile. The humor in Trump has been gone for a while now, but for his first few years out of office, Obama held back on his successor as he kept away from the near-daily controversies and scandals emanating from the White House.
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