- Bitter parents of dead people, regardless of culpability, blame Democrats for their deaths (one even blamed Democrats for a death that occurred when George W Bush was President);
- Had laws been written to the liking of Republicans and thus carried out, we would have stopped terrorism and murders in the US (apparently we can simply ignore that the two worst terrorist attacks since WW-II were under Ronald Reagan and George W Bush);
- Republicans believe Hillary killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya (despite the conclusion of 7 partisan investigations that state otherwise);
- The Establishment wasn't very popular, made evident when Mitch McConnell's name drew boos and the fact that they had to do two voice votes on rules for the 2020 primary season;
- When the convention opened, the arena was 1/4 filled; at its peak, the arena was slightly more than 2/3rds full (which could only be discerned if the camera was trained away from the main floor area, and the chanting was weaker than anything heard during a basketball game at the Quicken Loans Arena;
- Donald, calling into Fox News (O'Reilly), essentially interrupted his convention to speak about himself -- that's soooo Donald.
I didn't dare watch the entire day, of course, as much of the stuff that goes on during the day is a waste of eyeballs. The primetime stuff is weakly usable to help understand the strategy of the GOP. Weak on star power (as most of them have declined to participate), the GOP have decided to attempt to use (relatively) unknown people as a means to relate average Americans as disenchanted with Democrats. Of course, that seems odd given that Republicans have controlled Congress and the White House far longer than Democrats, effecting their brand of governance and intransigence over those short periods of Democratic control.
ADD: The news is blowing up (and the social media mockery pouring in) on Melania Trump's speech because of #rickroll and #plagiarism. Ouch.
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