Official 2016 GOP Convention Thread - OVER

[NERO]

I've linked this twitter user many times but goddamn it they just don't get it. I understand fukk Hillary, but if you are in a swing state, nah fam nah. That lily white privilege.

If you saw this convention and didn't go ahh hell nahhh we can't have this bullshyt, I dunno what to tell you but Trump will be banging on that Nationalist drum.

They are two sides of the same coin. I am not even voting for pres. I might write in something derogatory but I will vote for issues that directly affect me. Trump and Hillary are peas in a pod. Amigos. Buddies. Partners in crime. No matter how bad she is doing he will say some crazy shyt to make her look like the reasonable option anyway so none of this matters. Enjoy the show.

 

[ineedsleep212]

They are two sides of the same coin. I am not even voting for pres. I might write in something derogatory but I will vote for issues that directly affect me. Trump and Hillary are peas in a pod. Amigos. Buddies. Partners in crime. No matter how bad she is doing he will say some crazy shyt to make her look like the reasonable option anyway so none of this matters. Enjoy the show.

To be honest, he could be working for her and she could still lose. That should tell you how much faith I have in Hillary.

 

[CHL]

Listen Justerini ,don't quote me

 

[King Kreole]

Of course I do. Just take a look at the kind of justice Trump is looking to nominate.[1] There's also his list of potential nominees that's taken straight from the Heritage Foundation.[2] He's also on record saying he will appoint justices committed to overturning the marriage equality ruling. Wrt Trump and his pretend-to-be anti-establishment and anti-free trade ways - just ask yourself this: why would a guy who makes money from foreign labor be against free trade? If he was against free trade and wanted to really bring jobs back to America - why doesn't he bring those manufacturing jobs home from Mexico? Why is his VP pick an establishment stooge that not only supports TPP but also voted for the war in Iraq and is staunchly anti-lgbtq? What are you going to say when he stacks his cabinet with establishment republicans? Trump is a fraud and a con man.

[1]
Trump: My Supreme Court Pick 'Closest to Scalia I Can Find'

[2]
Donald Trump unveils his potential Supreme Court nominees - CNNPolitics.com

You didn't mention SC nominations, you said his anti-free trade and anti-establishment positions were BS, and I showed how that's an absurd charge to level against someone running against Hillary Clinton. Those are actually the two issues that he has consistently been banging the drum on since he became a politician, and even far before that for the former.

Your assertion that because he made money in his private life off of foreign labour he must now be secretly pro-free trade is ridiculous. He wasn't a politician then, he was a businessman operating with the responsibility to maximize his profits. Profit maximization is no longer his main concern. This campaign has been the opposite of a smart business ploy for Trump. His name is now totally toxic to many, and his businesses have been boycotted. Dude spent 50 million of his own money on this campaign. If he was in this to just make more money for his businesses, he would never have gone about it this way.

His VP pick is an establishment stooge for the same reason Hillary's pick might be a token leftist. It's politics. He needs to maximize his chances to win, so he's trying to consolidate his party's voters. But just as I have no faith that Hillary Clinton would magically turn into a leftist should she pick Warren or Sanders, I don't believe Trump would do a 180 on almost every position he's taken simply because Mike fukking Pence, the Vice-President, rooted for those policies before he joined the ticket. Trump couldn't even bring himself to moderate his positions in that 60 minutes interview with Pence sitting right next to him. He broke Republican orthodoxy with that NATO statement yesterday, a full week after he picked Pence and the night before the biggest moment of his political life. Donald Trump is many things, but a doormat he is not.

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Epic moment in history

When the bae Ana gets all fired up

Jimmy dore spit on alex too

 

[King Kreole]

I'll bite since you are fundamentally wrong and dumb. Your first mistake is calling Trump a republican. He's a populist with extreme nationalism. So scratch that.

nikka check the record, i've been emphasizing this exact point for the past year. I didn't call Trump a Republican, I called him the Republican nominee.

And republicans basically mentioned everything you attribute first to Trump already.

Receipts?? Name me all these prominent Republicans who came out for LGBT rights, talked shyt on foreign policy orthodoxy and the Iraq War, talked about African-American poverty and how black kids have the exact same right to a prosperous life as white kids in such explicit terms, talked about a rigged economy and political system. That sounds like a typical republican platform to you?

Now he's the first prominent figure running on a republican ticket to endorse gay rights. But his running mate is Pence, a fool who just last year passed an act that basically allowed discrimination makes that null.

I think you're overestimating the power that a VP has, especially one with someone like Trump as President. But yeah, Mike Pence is a shytbag and I sure as hell wouldn't be in here caping for a Pence presidency.

 

[tremonthustler1]

O'hare and Midway (Chicago airports) are nice, i dont know what the fukk he is talking about...
I dont think trump knows what 3rd world airport looks like. Whens the last time hes even been to a third world country

These people have so much hate for non whites, it's crazy.

He jacked that quote from Bloomberg when he talked about how shytty LaGuardia is. Bloomberg compared it to a third world country but in Trump's mind I guess they all look like that.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

When the bae Ana gets all fired up

Ana going in on Alex had me

 

[Slystallion]

Liberal Hillary vaginas have to be shaking in thier boots! Time for a real man as president!

 

[Robbie3000]

Jon Stewart Returns Behind The Desk On ‘The Late Show’ To Passionately Skewer Trump And Fox News


I miss him.


Trevor Noah is cool and all but John is so invested in this shyt. Samantha Bee is the only one that gives off the classic John Stewart vibe.

That was a treat.

 

[The G.O.D II]

nikka check the record, i've been emphasizing this exact point for the past year. I didn't call Trump a Republican, I called him the Republican nominee.

Receipts?? Name me all these prominent Republicans who came out for LGBT rights, talked shyt on foreign policy orthodoxy and the Iraq War, talked about African-American poverty and how black kids have the exact same right to a prosperous life as white kids in such explicit terms, talked about a rigged economy and political system. That sounds like a typical republican platform to you?


I think you're overestimating the power that a VP has, especially one with someone like Trump as President. But yeah, Mike Pence is a shytbag and I sure as hell wouldn't be in here caping for a Pence presidency.

Have you been watching this week? Everyone from Guiliani to some random hack cac southern governor has tried to evoke those issues some way or another this week. And others have done it before with the what about black on black crime, democratic policies have failed inner city blacks since the new deal, etc. This convention is filled with moderate republicans, populist, and straight weirdos. And I'm not overestimating anything. Trump has no true interest in governing and it's obvious. Reports already state he offered Kaisch carte blance to frame domestic/foreign policy. And Pence's positions are opposite of everything Trump spouses tonight.

 

[DerrtySouthpaw]

Liberal Hillary vaginas have to be shaking in thier boots! Time for a real man as president!

too bad you fakkits elected trump

 

[King Kreole]

Have you been watching this week? Everyone from Guiliani to some random hack cac southern governor has tried to evoke those issues some way or another this week. And others have done it before with the what about black on black crime, democratic policies have failed inner city blacks since the new deal, etc. This convention is filled with moderate republicans, populist, and straight weirdos. And I'm not overestimating anything. Trump has no true interest in governing and it's obvious. Reports already state he offered Kaisch carte blance to frame domestic/foreign policy. And Pence's positions are opposite of everything Trump spouses tonight.

This is Trump's convention, so yeah, Guiliani talking about the degradation of urban communities, and Thiel talking about being openly gay, and Lynne Patton speaking about how black lives have historically not mattered in America, and Ivanka talking about pay equity for women are all products of Trump's work in breaking down Republican orthodoxy. You think if Cruz or Jeb were nominated we'd see those speeches? What we just witnessed was not normal, it was not business as usual. Never before in modern history have Republicans so explicitly acknowledged these marginalized communities. Their platform is usually based on white, christian, men and how the government is coming to take their guns. This was easily the most ideologically diverse RNC I have ever heard. Trump just have the longest convention speech in modern political history, and we heard one mention of the Evangelical Christianity that has been the backbone of the Republican Party since Reagan.

Let's not be afraid to acknowledge that new ground broken here.

And yeah, I heard those Kasich rumours but they were never confirmed. It seems like pretty typical political rumourmongering though.

And yeah, Pence is against almost everything Trump just stood, but if you think Donald Trump will willingly cede power to his subordinate, you haven't been watching this election cycle closely. The VP pick is almost always made to clean up an area where the candidate has electoral trouble with, and for Trump that is shytheaded establishment Republicans.

 

[Batter Up]

So much for the Never Trump "movement"

 

[Robbie3000]

This is Trump's convention, so yeah, Guiliani talking about the degradation of urban communities, and Thiel talking about being openly gay, and Lynne Patton speaking about how black lives have historically not mattered in America, and Ivanka talking about pay equity for women are all products of Trump's work in breaking down Republican orthodoxy. You think if Cruz or Jeb were nominated we'd see those speeches? What we just witnessed was not normal, it was not business as usual. Never before in modern history have Republicans so explicitly acknowledged these marginalized communities. Their platform is usually based on white, christian, men and how the government is coming to take their guns. This was easily the most ideologically diverse RNC I have ever heard. Trump just have the longest convention speech in modern political history, and we heard one mention of the Evangelical Christianity that has been the backbone of the Republican Party since Reagan.

Let's not be afraid to acknowledge that new ground broken here.

And yeah, I heard those Kasich rumours but they were never confirmed. It seems like pretty typical political rumourmongering though.

And yeah, Pence is against almost everything Trump just stood, but if you think Donald Trump will willingly cede power to his subordinate, you haven't been watching this election cycle closely. The VP pick is almost always made to clean up an area where the candidate has electoral trouble with, and for Trump that is shytheaded establishment Republicans.

Don't fall for the rhetoric. Have you looked at the actual platform with regards to gays for instance?

Trump's campaign is being driven almost entirely by religious bigotry, xenophobia, nationalism and racism...with a little bit isolationism and populism sprinkled in.

Trump's supporters don't care for policy at all. It's one reason they support a person who contradicts long held conservative views in the case of war and interventionism for example. Don't forget these is the same lot that supported going into Iraq and have been supporters of trickle down economics since the 1980s.

The only thing these people care about is having someone who talks like they do in their homes and is unapologetic about it.

I can't believe you are falling for the okey doke dog and pony show.