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The RNC, night two

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A few observations –

(1) This night seems to be designed to highlight the idea of America as that old-fashioned thing, a great land of opportunity. It used to be a message given by both parties. But no more.

(2) I was very impressed with the presentation about Jon Ponder.

(3) Nicholas Sandmann – the Covington kid – spoke at the RNC and I caught his speech. He’s only eighteen now, and I find it hard to imagine going through what Sandmann has gone through at such a young age. It’s the sort of thing that either breaks you or makes you stronger. Luckily, Sandmann seems to be in the latter group. Not long after he started speaking, I suddenly had the thought: He’s going to end his speech by putting a red MAGA hat on and saying “Make America Great Again!” And sure enough, that’s what he did.

(4) Tiffany Trump has a surprisingly mellifluous voice. A lot of young women these days sound like a cross between a Valley Girl and an electric coffee grinder.

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The RNC, night two — 26 Comments

  2. Re: 4
    I was very surprised at Tiffany Trump’s voice and cadence, as well. DJT’s children have been very well brought up, whatever else one might think of their parents. I shouldn’t have been that surprised, but I was.

  4. Highest paid person at CNN —
    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-26-at-1.50.16-PM.png?w=996&ssl=1

    “DJT’s children have been very well brought up, whatever else one might think of their parents.” – Larry Elmore

    I have been impressed by the Trump Clan from the beginning, although I don’t always agree with their policy agendas, and that was one, among other, factors in my decision to vote for The Donald despite his flaws.
    Truly toxic people just don’t raise kids that ALL turn out that well.

  6. Sandmann, an extraordinary man who stands on principles of life, liberty, and opportunity.

    Trump, an extraordinary woman, a joy to her father and mother.

  8. If you really wish to see all the Republication Convention speakers …
    I compared the coverage on OAN, FOX, and CSPAN

    Fox had bobbleheads during convention, so you missed lots of speakers

    CSPAN had artificially broadened picture to fit widescreen, so people looked “fat”
    but it did not have bobbleheads.

    OAN was the superior coverage. No bobbleheads, excellent picture and sound and decent discussion AFTER the convention ended.

    If you have access to OAN, I suggest you use it for the next two nights if you wish to see the entire convention

  9. If you have access to OAN, I suggest you use it for the next two nights if you wish to see the entire convention

    For over a year I have been recommending OAN to my friends. It’s coverage is pretty broad, including a lot of international news.

  10. This excerpt was focused on the accusations that Trump is racist, but it sheds some light on how he managed to raise remarkable children.
    And why he is popular with the blue-collar world that the Democrats have decided to cast out of their party.

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/hold-herschel-walker-i-have-seen-racism-close-i-know-what-it-and-it-isnt

    “One time, I planned to take his kids to Disney World with my family. At the last minute, Donald said he’d like to join us. So there he was, in a business suit, on the ‘It’s a Small World’ ride. That was something to see. It just shows you what a caring, loving father he is,” Walker said during the convention on Monday evening.
    …
    “I watched him as the owner of a professional football team. Right after he bought the team, he set out to learn. He learned about the history of the team, the players, the coaches. Every detail. Then he used what he learned to make the team better,” he said, referring to the former New Jersey Generals football franchise.

    “I watched him in the board room. He could be in the middle of a big meeting, but if one of the kids was on the phone, he dropped everything to take the call. He taught me that family should be your top priority,” Walker continued.

    Walker said he’s seen Trump “treat janitors, security guards, and waiters the same way that he would treat a VIP.”

    “He made them feel special because he knew they were. ..”

  12. If the Democrats didn’t have double standards …
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/wedam-when-obama-postmaster-closed-facilities-during-2012-election

    Sanders saw no similar conspiracy in 2012 when President Barack Obama’s Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe proposed closing as many as 223 mail processing facilities and eliminating thousands of postal jobs.

    To be fair, Sanders and 26 of his Senate Democratic colleagues strongly opposed Donahue’s cutbacks, asking for a delay and congressional oversight. But in their letter, they didn’t once mention concerns about mail ballots or elections, instead focusing on lost jobs for unionized postal workers and inconvenience for rural customers.
    …
    Democrats never accused Obama or his postmaster of conspiring to suppress mail ballots or intentionally disenfranchise voters like they have accused Trump of doing.

    Some Republicans have noted the difference in Democrats’ tone between 2012 and 2020 to suggest gotcha politics, more than election security, may be at play.

  15. If 2016 was the “Flight 93” election (as, in fact, it was), then I’m not sure what analogy is suitable for 2020.
    The “Hostage Crisis” maybe?

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1297882004617297922.html
    “The big issue in this election is going to be which side can deliver the return to normality. … There are some wavering voters who will be tempted to succumb to the Democrat blackmail, thinking “hey, if nothing else, they can make the riots stop.” Don’t accept that line of thinking. Submitting to extremists gets you more extremism, every damn time.”

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298240288293445632.html
    “This awful year has made it painfully clear that the Democrat agenda is completely and *comprehensively* incompatible with the American principle of inalienable rights.”

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1296859262585626624.html
    “The general public attitude toward Trump – some love him, some hate his guts, some approve of his policies, some disapprove – is much healthier than the phony aura of reverence and “unification” the media builds around Democrats. … Our public servants are supposed to be just that: SERVANTS. They don’t settle our arguments and force some phony manufactured “consensus” on us. They don’t get to decide whose inalienable rights should be alienated. Free people don’t need a national Mommy or Daddy.
    And you can’t get around how bitterly divisive the Democrat agenda is, how even NOW they refuse to denounce political violence for the “right” causes. They’re not looking for “unity,” they’re hoping for a conquest. There’s nothing in life they don’t want to politicize.”

  18. PowerLine has two stories that show America is coming shockingly close to reprising the French and Russian Revolutions, rather than continuing the promises of our own.*

    It’s not exactly the same as storming the Bastille, but …
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/black-lives-matter-thugs-attack-journalist.php

    A demonstration in downtown Minneapolis in response to police shooting a Black man in the back in Kenosha, Wis., turned destructive and led to 11 people being arrested late Monday and early Tuesday outside the Hennepin County jail.

    The arrests came after some of the roughly 100 demonstrators broke windows at the jail and threatened to breach its security, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

    The first step is to silence dissent…
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/it-can-happen-here-in-fact-it-is-happening-here.php

    The authoritarian left isn’t content just to block speech it disagrees with. It also wants to force people into making leftist utterances and gestures.

    Today, at various restaurants in Washington, D.C, BLM protesters demanded that diners eating outdoors raise their fists in support. Most diners did — this is Washington — but a few did not. Those who did not were berated.

    The mob chanted “white silence is violence” at them. The statement is stupid and obviously false. If the BLM mob wants, nonetheless, to chant it, that’s fine. But not in the faces of people who are simply trying to eat dinner.

    I agree with Bari Weiss, who was recently “cancelled” by the New York Times because her writings didn’t track leftist orthodoxy. She described the BLM mob’s behavior as “vile and un-American.”

    One of the victims of the mob said she has been protesting for weeks against the police (or whatever), but that “it did not feel right” to be coerced into raising her fist. Unfortunately, she reportedly was the only person at the restaurant where she was eating to have such quintessentially American qualms or, in any case, to act on them.

    * Yes, I know: colonists in the nascent States also bullied and coerced and silenced Loyalists, and destroyed their property, and killed some of them.
    That was bad.
    But the Constitution effectively repudiated those acts — implicitly recognizing that actions taken in the heat of rebellion (cue Franklin’s maxim) were not sustainable in a civilized country.
    The French and the Russian, on the other hand, celebrated and even codified their actions.

  19. Sandmann, Tiffany, and the ex-Planned Parenthood woman were excellent.

    I also enjoyed Pam Bondi taking it to the Biden grifters.

    Melania quite genuinely modest and beautiful.

  20. Might just be me but being forced to raise your fist when confronted by a mob might get some terrified folks to raise their hands but I think their response in the voters box won’t be to raise their fist…just me but I think they have WAY overplayed their hand. LANDSLIDE for PDJT…

  21. Roofer dude on August 26, 2020 at 7:42 am said:
    Might just be me but being forced to raise your fist when confronted by a mob might get some terrified folks to raise their hands but I think their response in the voters box won’t be to raise their fist…

    There is no such thing as a voter’s box anymore, and government employees who are also dedicated Democrats will have access to your ballot, name, and address. Your vote will be destroyed, and your name will be put on a list that President Harris will act on after the election.

  22. Neo: A lot of young women these days sound like a cross between a Valley Girl and an electric coffee grinder.

    A Valley Girl in an electric coffee grinder.

    I can’t blame the voice actress, who’s not at fault for being a 21st-century 20-something, but for a game set in 1912, this sort of thing repeatedly yanked me right out of its world.

  23. I think the Ponder part, with the friendship that developed with the FBI agent who arrested him was also a powerful signal of how race relations should be.

  24. I’m nonplussed that, esp. when Sandmann was speaking, Fox didn’t show the famous photo of him standing near Phillips in DC.
    For those (possibly few) viewers who didn’t know/ recall the story, it would’ve been helpful to be reminded of the huge human magnitude of *how* the MSM/ Hollywood showed their hand.

    Indeed, it would’ve been helpful for his speech to have been preceded by a short vid, showing such gems as Morrisey’s tweet, about feeding Nick into a woodchipper.

  25. trump finally took my advice to get his clan loyalists in admin. Trump jr, jared, etc

  26. “If you have access to OAN, I suggest you use it for the next two nights if you wish to see the entire convention”

    “For over a year I have been recommending OAN to my friends”

    Great recommendation.
    RSBN is worth a look, too. They were covering Trump rallies before it was cool.

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