2020 US Election (Part Two)

[Sommerswerd]

One of my friends showed me that meme and I did not think it was a joke - that's the kind of basket of deplorables I would expect him to have speak.

I wonder how the RNC convention will turn out? The DNC convention has been widely praised because of how effectively produced it was. The thing is that the Democrats had months to plan for it and pull it off, while the Republicans were still trying to do a split, in-person convention in two states up until recently. There's reports that Trump has been pushing the RNC hard to outdo the Democrats but I don't expect they'll be able to do that given how much he's already interfered with their planning and run out the clock.

All they have to do is copy the DNC and add more fireworks, special effects, music, and more live elements. That's the benefit of going second...you can just copy what the other side did, but go bigger.

If they can't put on a better convention than the Democrats it would be a massive fail and a show of epic incompetence.

 

[Edmund Ironside]

Top left is reported to be appearing too.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nick-sand...vJ8O6XOxm3DAb0Gl7bLXaMUGuhEZZfobOtBen2PCJG420

That doesn't surprise me. He fits perfectly into their narrative of the right being persecuted by the "mainstream media."

My response to this is similar to my response to MAGA relatives who claim mail in ballots are ripe with fraud based on a couple of reported incidents.
Isolated cases don't prove systemic failings.

 

[Farm Boy]

That's a popular line. Isn't even a baseline untruth.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Convention speakers:

Highlights
Monday, Aug. 24

• Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.)
• House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.)
• Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.)
• Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio)
• Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
• RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
• Mark and Patricia McCloskey (St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters)
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk

Tuesday, Aug. 25

• First lady Melania Trump
• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
• Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.)
• Nicholas Sandmann (Covington Catholic student who sued media outlets)
• Eric Trump
• Tiffany Trump

Wednesday, Aug. 26

• Vice President Mike Pence
• Second lady Karen Pence
• Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.)
• Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
• Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas)
• Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.)
• Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell
• White House counselor Kellyanne Conway

Thursday, Aug. 27

• President Trump
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
• Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.)
• House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)
• Ivanka Trump
• Rudy Giuliani
• Franklin Graham
• Alice Johnson (granted clemency by Trump)
• UFC President Dana White

 

[r16]

ain't that not a lot of family ? Who's the front runner to be Trump ll , lvanka ?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I see that neither Mary Trump nor his sister made the list. Neither did Steve Bannon or Michael Cohen.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Fox News refused to carry the DNC convention excluding some of the key addresses. I don't know if it's written in law but news networks have to give equal coverage between the parties for events like this.

I'm guessing they will give the RNC convention near-complete coverage despite that.

I see that neither Mary Trump nor his sister made the list. Neither did Steve Bannon or Michael Cohen.

Are you surprised? After all, he doesn't know any of those people. Never heard of them.

 

[Patine]

Fox News refused to carry the DNC convention excluding some of the key addresses. I don't know if it's written in law but news networks have to give equal coverage between the parties for events like this.

My guess is the "Freedom of the Press," is what would be invoked to legally justify such an exemption. The same Constitutional right, in it's current form and backing by decades of Federal Court, including Supreme Court, rulings, that is one of the big reasons why American media, including it's "news," media, is the utter cesspool it is, nowadays.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

According to Wikipedia, Reagan removed the FCC's fairness doctrine in the 80's. That tracks.

 

[Patine]

According to Wikipedia, Reagan removed the FCC's fairness doctrine in the 80's. That tracks.

Reagan viewed fairness of anything, at all, to be a personal offence.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Convention speakers:

Highlights
Monday, Aug. 24

• Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.)
• House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.)
• Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.)
• Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio)
• Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
• RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
• Mark and Patricia McCloskey (St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters)
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk

Tuesday, Aug. 25

• First lady Melania Trump
• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
• Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.)
• Nicholas Sandmann (Covington Catholic student who sued media outlets)
• Eric Trump
• Tiffany Trump

Wednesday, Aug. 26

• Vice President Mike Pence
• Second lady Karen Pence
• Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.)
• Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
• Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas)
• Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.)
• Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell
• White House counselor Kellyanne Conway

Thursday, Aug. 27

• President Trump
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
• Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.)
• House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)
• Ivanka Trump
• Rudy Giuliani
• Franklin Graham
• Alice Johnson (granted clemency by Trump)
• UFC President Dana White

Day 1, 2 and 3 (except for Kellyanne Conway)

Day 3 looks especially uninteresting besides Kellyanne, but I might watch just to see what she has to say... she never fails to astonish.
Day 4 looks to be the best... Although I read on CNN that Trump is planning to speak all 4 nights so there's that.

 

[Takhisis]

I’m certain you’re confusing me for someone else; I haven’t voted in over a decade.

Oh. Then I'm definitely mistaking you for somebody else, because the line ‘I voted for Trump to spite Obama (or punish or sth like that)’ was posted on CFC and not by anybody like onejayhawk or Berzerker. Sorry.

Now, who was it?

 

[Takhisis]

I see that neither Mary Trump nor his sister made the list. Neither did Steve Bannon or Michael Cohen.

Is that the sister who said he's a cruel liar and, as far as I know, didn't get any payment in money or benefits in kind as compensation for it?

 

[Kyriakos]

Why isn't Alex Jones invited?

 

[amadeus]

According to Wikipedia, Reagan removed the FCC's fairness doctrine in the 80's. That tracks.

The “Fairness Doctrine” never applied to cable television, only over-the-air radio spectrum broadcasting.

edit: superfluous punctuation removal

 

[Cloud_Strife]

Convention speakers:

Highlights
Monday, Aug. 24

• Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.)
• House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.)
• Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.)
• Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio)
• Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
• RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
• Mark and Patricia McCloskey (St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters)
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk

Tuesday, Aug. 25

• First lady Melania Trump
• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
• Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.)
• Nicholas Sandmann (Covington Catholic student who sued media outlets)
• Eric Trump
• Tiffany Trump

Wednesday, Aug. 26

• Vice President Mike Pence
• Second lady Karen Pence
• Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.)
• Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
• Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas)
• Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.)
• Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell
• White House counselor Kellyanne Conway

Thursday, Aug. 27

• President Trump
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
• Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.)
• House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)
• Ivanka Trump
• Rudy Giuliani
• Franklin Graham
• Alice Johnson (granted clemency by Trump)
• UFC President Dana White

All genuinely unpleasant human beings.

 

[Patine]

All genuinely unpleasant human beings.

Indeed they are. But we must remember there are repugnant people on "both sides."

 

[Berzerker]

why is Alice Johnson genuinely unpleasant?

 

[Patine]

why is Alice Johnson genuinely unpleasant?

I actually don't know who she is. Maybe @Cloud_Strife, who made the original post can answer that, without defaulting to an absolutist answer (though one shouldn't hold their there).

 

[Takhisis]

why is Alice Johnson genuinely unpleasant?

It sounds like an act of complete hypocrisy. She campaigns against mandatory sentencing and she supports Donald Trump who believes in segregation, trigger-happy police and the death penalty.

I actually don't know who she is. Maybe @Cloud_Strife, who made the original post can answer that, without defaulting to an absolutist answer (though one shouldn't hold their there).

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Marie_Johnson