i’d like to meet his tailor
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A very tragic misuse of the English vocabulary.
Did anyone mention that the logo is 5 stars on a red background?
Batshit crazy is in vogue
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We are all very flucked
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crazy right to try lady full of shit, who woulda thought.
https://twitter.com/jeremycsnyder/status/1298000142910369792?s=20
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Though several Trump advisers had promised an upbeat convention, the early stages of the gathering on Monday night were somber and even bleak, as a sequence of Trump supporters spoke from a dais in Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, a formal, a wood-paneled Washington event space with towering pillars that gave the event something of the atmosphere of a memorial service. In that setting, Charlie Kirk, a right-wing youth activist, warned of the advance of “bitter, vengeful, deceitful activists,” while Rebecca Friedrichs, a school-choice activist from California, claimed that teachers’ unions had “morphed our schools into war zones.”
The evening program began with a mixture of traditional ritual and typically Trumpian flourish and fulmination: a convening prayer by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, a video narrated by the actor Jon Voight and a few preliminary speeches by conservative activists and other Trump allies. Mr. Kirk described the president as the “bodyguard of Western civilization,” and warned that Americans needed his protection from “the vengeful mob.”
A defense of Mr. Trump’s management of the coronavirus pandemic took the form of a video that criticized the news media, Democrats and the World Health Organization, and presented a greatly distorted version of Mr. Trump’s record, casting him as a decisive leader against Democrats who minimized the threat of the disease. The video featured three clips of Democratic governors, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, praising Mr. Trump during the spring, when state executives were pleading with the federal government for help and taking exceptional pains to stay on the president’s good side.
Mr. Trump’s first appearance in the evening program came in a brief segment that showed him at the White House interacting with frontline workers, who related their experiences in the health crisis as they stood in a semicircle. Mr. Trump largely deferred to the other speakers and prompted them to make comments — “Please, go ahead,” he said repeatedly — though he interjected his own commentary at one point about the drug hydroxychloroquine, which the president had promoted aggressively as a remedy for the coronavirus despite no consensus among doctors that it was effective.
”It’s a shame, what they’ve done to that one,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “But I took it.”
Veering into even more unusual territory, the president emphasized how those who had contracted the virus could assist with research. “Your blood is very valuable, you know that,” he said.
A few speakers representing the Republican Party’s scant racial diversity were due to speak later in the evening, among them Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate, and the former United Nations ambassador, Nikki R. Haley, who is Indian-American. But much of the program appeared aimed at antagonizing the left and issuing stark warnings about civil disorder, including a planned appearance by a St. Louis couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who recently drew wide media attention — and an indictment — for brandishing firearms at Black protesters in their neighborhood.
Mr. Trump’s stew of false claims, hyperbole and invective earlier in the day dismayed some Republicans, who were hoping he and the party would use this week to stick to more scripted attacks on Mr. Biden as a tool of the left. But most Republicans recognized heading into the week that the convention would be Mr. Trump’s show and that there was little chance of redirecting his energies during a convention that from the start put on display his personal dominance of the party.
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The speakers were not expected to say much about Mr. Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis or his second-term agenda, a rough outline of which the president’s campaign issued in an emailed news release on Sunday evening. In interviews, Mr. Trump has repeatedly struggled to articulate his plans were he to be elected to serve four more years.
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More revealing was the organizers’ decision not to release a party platform. Platform documents are typically toothless, and few delegates even read them. But that Republicans would skip the process entirely illustrates the degree to which their identity is shaped more by Mr. Trump, and his critics, than by any set of policy proposals.
In this spirit, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution defending its decision not to craft a platform that hailed Mr. Trump while criticizing Democrats and the news media.
“Resolved, that the 2020 Republican National Convention calls on the media to engage in accurate and unbiased reporting, especially as it relates to the strong support of the R.N.C. for President Trump and his administration,” the resolution read.
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“If we are honest, there is less of a conservative case to be made for re-electing the president than there is a blatant appeal for more rank tribalism,” Mr. Flake said in a prepared speech on Monday, in language that lined up neatly with Mr. Trump’s opening remarks in North Carolina.
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On Monday, Mr. Trump used his speech at the original venue, where only party business was being conducted, to focus on the strength of the stock market and to hurl all manner of attacks at Democrats.
He repeated his unfounded allegations that Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden had spied on his campaign in 2016. “We caught them doing really bad things,” he said. “Let’s see what happens. They’re trying it again.”
Though shutdowns caused by the pandemic have left millions of Americans unemployed, and new rounds of relief have been held up in Washington, Mr. Trump focused on what he depicted as his economic successes.
“We just broke a record on jobs, an all-time record,” he said. “There’s never been three months when we’ve put more people to work. We’re just about ready to break the all-time stock market record.”
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While the Democrats at their convention made the U.S. death toll from the pandemic — now past 175,000 — a centerpiece of their case, and tried to lay the blame for it at Mr. Trump’s feet, the president mentioned the virus’s victims almost as an afterthought at the end of his rambling, hourlong speech.
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If Trump loses Trumpism remains
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We must secure the existence
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Dems hate America vote Trump
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Don! Bubby!
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I don’t presume to know how Trump’s mind works but I picture it as a rotisserie chicken set to spin at 600 RPM and all the meat’s flying off.
-A twitterer whose actual tweet I can’t seem to find
Well now that sounds like something somebody who hates America would say.
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