{"id":900,"date":"2020-08-17T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=900"},"modified":"2020-08-17T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T01:22:20","slug":"trump-pence-gop-convention-to-be-one-man-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Trump\/Pence\/GOP &#8211; Convention to be One-Man Spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Trump\/<span style=\"color: #b2b2b2;\">Pence<\/span>\/<span style=\"color: #eeeeee;\">GOP<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Convention to be One-Man Spectacle<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>August 16<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The GOP convention was already going to be the biggest shit show since the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Some of you remember that: one major candidate was assassinated going in, and the survivor was tied to the most unpopular policy the failed incumbent president had\u2014an endless war in Vietnam. And of course there were huge riots. Everyone remembers the riots, but the Dems that year had dread and despair going in before the riots even started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The GOP convention this year had already descended into farce. Originally scheduled to take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, the state government insisted that social distancing rules needed to be in place for the gathering. Trump, madly insisting that the party show no sign of the pandemic he so badly mismanaged, rescheduled the convention for Jacksonville, Florida, where the whorish little governor of the state, Ron DeSantis, was willing to do anything Trump ordered. They were even planning to put the conventioneers on board a cruise ship, a scheme that would have had the same jolly results as releasing norovirus in a nursing home. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To the surprise of absolutely nobody other than the mad cultists of the GOP, the pandemic erupted in Florida, turning the state into a third world shit-hole, and in Donald\u2019s eyes, a bunch of losers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So they turned <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">back <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to Charlotte, and accepted a greatly reduced convention <\/span>Friday, August 21 &#8212; Monday, August 24,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> in which most of the participants were \u201cthere\u201d online. It was the same as what the Democrats were planning for the week <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">before (August 17-20, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2020<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee)<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, only it was what the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dems<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> had <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">planned <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to be done clear back in March, so they look<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ed<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> careful and sensible whereas the Republicans look like a pack of damned fools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Republicans then announced that reporters wouldn\u2019t be allowed at the convention itself, and TV coverage would be severely limited. This confirmed that at least some Republicans had realized that this convention was going to be a clusterfuck of truly heroic proportions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was announced today that Trump would address the convention on all four nights. Normally in these carefully choreographed events, the first night is given to a variety of party wheel horses, former presidents and the like (won\u2019t happen here\u2014Trump hates Bush) and various congressional candidates, the second to a keynote speaker (usually a party up-and-comer, like Obama in 2004) and more party candidates, including endorsements from primary rivals) the third night to the presidential nominee, and the fourth to his choice for VP. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trump speaking all four nights sucks all the oxygen out of the event, stealing attention from everyone else in the party. That would be bad enough from the perspective of the party, but there\u2019s also the fact that, now deep in mental and cognitive decline, Trump couldn\u2019t give an inspiring speech to save his life, let alone ones four nights in a row. By night three, even Mike Pence will be yawning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He can still read from a teleprompter, but what comes out is leaden, much like a recitation from a text book by a dull-witted seven year old. He can\u2019t even fake enthusiasm, and it\u2019s not even entirely clear that he even understands what he\u2019s saying. If he wasn\u2019t such an evil bastard, I might pity him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When he wings it, he\u2019s liable to say anything, and he does himself and his party immense damage when he does so. One reason his plot to sabotage the Post Office and prevent mail-in voting blew up in his face so spectacularly was that he came right out and said that was what he was trying to do. Turns out Americans like their post office, and they like being able to vote without having to risk their lives. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Further, the appointee that Trump made to run the Post Office, one <\/span>Louis DeJoy, not only had absolutely no experience with the mail, but held some $30 million in stock in interests that would profit handsomely from the collapse of the PO. In other words, like many of Trump\u2019s appointees, DeJoy is an utterly corrupt swine putting profit well ahead of country. DeJoy authorized the destruction of hundreds of sorting machines, effectively crippling the organization, and tore out hundreds of mail boxes around the country. Word got out, and Americans erupted.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump gives his speeches, it\u2019s likely he won\u2019t even mention the Post Office debacle. He won\u2019t mention his brother Robert, who died the other day. (Biden gave a much more sympathetic and genuine response to the death than Donald managed, but in fairness, Donald probably had a bad day on the golf course as his brother lay dying). He\u2019ll give scant mention to the pandemic, other than to boast about how well he\u2019s handled it (At least 150,000 of the by-then 180,000 deaths will be the direct result of his incompetence and malice).<\/p>\n<p>Trump made it clear that when the Dems have their convention, he\u2019s going to stage something to steal attention from the convention. That could be anything from more misogynistic and bigoted lies about Kamala Harris to notice of intending to start a major war, but there\u2019s one thing he couldn\u2019t think of: the Democratic Convention goes first. If he deliberately messes with them, they\u2019ll be ready to respond the following week, and are smart enough to do or say things that will bait Trump into saying stupid things in reaction in his speeches. The Republicans won\u2019t even get a dead cat bounce out of this.<\/p>\n<p>Having Trump monopolize the Convention is the biggest gift he could have possibly have given the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>And he should do a great job of depressing and infuriating his own base even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\/Pence\/GOP Convention to be One-Man Spectacle August 16th, 2020 The GOP convention was already going to be the biggest shit show since the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Some of you remember that: one major candidate was assassinated going in, and the survivor was tied to the most unpopular policy the failed incumbent president had\u2014an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump\/Pence\/GOP &#8211; Convention to be One-Man Spectacle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[1006,258,351],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-convention","tag-gop","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\/Pence\/GOP - Convention to be One-Man Spectacle &#183; Zepp&#039;s Commentaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=900\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\/Pence\/GOP - Convention to be One-Man Spectacle &#183; Zepp&#039;s Commentaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Trump\/Pence\/GOP Convention to be One-Man Spectacle August 16th, 2020 The GOP convention was already going to be the biggest shit show since the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. 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