Dark, Dark, Dark and Dire: That’s a summary of how the mainstream media branded the opening night of the Republican National Convention. Was the RNC kickoff really that dark, or merely a factual description of the consequences of electing Joe Biden as President of the United States?
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The RNC is upbeat and hopeful compared to the DNC version. Apart from the knee-jerk kool aid drinkers, all I am seeing is positive stuff.
The RNC didn’t go up there with “light progressivism,” nor did they put up a bunch of old white guys with pie charts and copies of Hayek.
I wonder if Bill thinks they may have finally figured out these whole “messaging” and “compelling storytelling” things. All it took was a reality tv show host from the pop culture to take control of the message (and formall drive the “light progressive” crowd into the Democrat party where they belonged all along).
My moonbat friends are very depressed over Biden/Harris. They are struggling with depression and anxiety.
Happy days are here again!!!
I sure hope you’re right!!
It’s even more fun when they are trying to pretend that they are not depressed about it, and even counter with, “Yeah, well, I have a friend who voted for Trump and is totally turned off now.”
In my predominantly blue state of NJ, so far I have only seen one Biden 2020 yard sign and no bumper stickers (even on cars that still sport Obama, Hillary, and Bernie stickers). Yet, I see three or four Trump 2020 stickers or signs per day. And people are going over the top — getting SUVs and pickups rigged with flag poles for Trump and/or American flags, Trump flags in front of houses — sometimes bedsheet-sized banners strung up across the front of the house (even though advertising such support makes your house or car a target for vandalism).
I’m a teacher, and I’m not even seeing fresh Dem stickers on cars in the parking lot at work.
None of the people I personally know who voted for Trump intend not to vote for him this time around, and those who held their nose to do it in 2016 are enthusiastic about it now.
People are scared at the unrest and collapsing economy, and they are seeing the Dems as willing participants in (if not orchestrators of) both.
Most of my friends are millennial lefties, and not one of them is excited about Biden. They say they intend to vote for him, but they do so with the same depressed resignation with which they say it won’t matter anyway because they’re sure Trump is going to win (and that is exactly how they put it). They are utterly silent about Harris.
I know it’s all anecdotal, but I think that (given what state I’m seeing all this in), things are much more against the Dems than the media lets on. What’s more, I think the Dems know it, which is why they were desperately trying to pull together their disparate and drifting coalition with the “unity” message and tokenism at their convention.
(just for context, I make a point of counting bumper stickers and signs — I commute daily from northern Central Jersey, up through North Jersey, and all the way across Staten Island daily to get to work)
I don’t know if it was dark or not and I don’t care if it was or not. I see no reason to watch the Republican National Convention because I’m not a Republican and I already know exactly who I’m going to vote for in November. Or when my mail-in ballot comes, whichever way that goes.
Notice I said I’m not a Republican? Yeah, I gave up on the Republican Party a long time ago. I consider myself an independent conservative for two very good reasons. I used to live in California and when I lived there you had to mark your voter registration application with a party affiliation. I didn’t want to limit my options so I started marking that as “independent”. The other reason is that I got disgusted with the Republican Party trying to appease leftist internal enemies of the United States of America.
As far as I’m concerned until the advent of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, if you’re a Republican you’ve had nothing at all to crow about. If you think otherwise you need to familiarize yourself with a thing called “The Lincoln Project” and take note of the fact that former RNC Chairman Michael Steele belongs to it and endorses Joe Biden for POTUS. A man who led the entire Republican Party is endorsing radical leftism for control of this nation.
Also note that after his tenure the Republican Party elected a chairwoman with the last name “Romney”.
I realize there is a sea change underway in the Republican Party.. It remains to be seen if people who support the Constitution of the United States of America and who are willing to do what needs to be done to put the U.S. back in its rightful place as world leader and bastion of individual liberty are going to prevail in the Republican Party. For all I know this Trump MAGA thing is a flash in the pan. It’s a welcome flash in the pan if it is but I won’t be calling myself a Republican until I’m sure it’s more than a passing blip on the political radar screen.
In this regard I’m not a “team player” in that I do not support the attitude that it’s “our team against their team and our team needs to win”. That’s a sports analogy and too many Americans look at politics like some sort of irrelevant high school football contest. The team that needs to win is Team America and that’s the only team I support. Until the Republican Party gets 100% behind Team America I’ll be calling myself an Independent and voting for conservative issues and candidates no matter what party they belong to. It’s true that voting that way has meant voting for Republicans for the last many election cycles and I’m fine with that too. It hasn’t always been that way and if I see Blue Dog Democrats willing to buck their Party arise I’ll take a Conservative Democrat over a RINO when and if that ever becomes the case again. I’m not holding my breath that’s going to happen and I’m not on the Republican’s side. I’m on the side of America and the U.S. Constitution and whoever joins me in that gets my vote. No matter what party label they carry.
In my admittedly not-so-humble opinion this is the only way to get both parties back on a track towards the advancement of the American condition. I won’t rule out voting for a Democrat but I certainly will rule out any chance of doing that while Democrats continue to advance anti-American, anti-Constitutional positions. If a Democrat wants my vote he’ll have to move his party back towards a rational American Constitutionalist agenda.
You may not think that can happen with the current political climate but if the Democrat Party fails badly enough often enough and if that party want’s to have any relevance in the future that’s where they’ll have to go. Until then if the Democrats want to tear down our Constitutional Republic they’ll get no help from me.
It is a beautiful thing to note the liberty you have to express your views and that we have to assess them on their merits. And of course the same thinking applies to the language used at the DNC and the RNC. CITOKATE.
I have remained registered as a Republican partly from inertia but also to retain some small impact during the primary season on who moves forward on the Republican and nominally conservative side. There are a few positions slightly left of center that I might endorse, but until the pendulum or the Overton Window moves rightward again, I am hesitant to support them at the expense of a more conservative outlook.
All of the Dems calls for “unity” ring hollow when Obama, Pelosi, et al. carry on as they do, and adding to the TDS whether justified or not.
Night number two of the RNC could only be described as IT ROCKED. I found it to be uplifting.
Glad to have this sort of feedback since I prefer to read about it after the fact than sit through the (usually not all that dramatic) speeches. Not enough time to do both, it seems.
“Dark and Divisive” were the talking points the press used for President Trump’s Independence Day speech. Which makes me wonder if they even bothered to listen to it. I’m not big on this kind of hyperbole, but I honestly thought that was the best speech he’s given since in office. Contrast that with the nasty, hateful speech that Obama gave a few weeks later that they praised.
I find it surprising that Trump does so well with the Twitter zingers (and/or distracters?) and when he speaks from “the gut”, a pretty decent showman if slightly off pitch communicator, whereas when he is reading a speech or a teleprompter, he is so often flat and unemotional. Perhaps we have been spoiled by the lucid dulcet tones of Obama reading his flawed message from the teleprompter, nodding left and right, with his voice raising and lowered in emphasis, etc., with nothing but lies evident in the end. But Obama did have good speech writers even if we could not believe that he meant what he said.
What Trump has done (and will do) is more important that what he says, but what he says during a campaign is still important enough I would hope he gives it the attention and energy it deserves.
I could never stand to watch/listen to Obama when he was speaking, teleprompter or not. That speech impediment he has, which causes him to hiss when pronouncing the letter “s”, drove me nuts. I just couldn’t stand it. I find it odd that more people don’t seem to have noticed that sibilant hiss and think he spoke so well.
I also couldn’t stand to listen to him. I found everything about his speeches to be over-rehearsed and fake. I didn’t like the cadence of his voice either. It was too contrived and unnatural.
At the beginning of Trump’s political career, his fouled-up cadences when reading from the teleprompter drove me nuts. Apparently no one dared correct him, or thought it was the trouble. It does make him unique. I’ve gotten over being annoyed by it, but I can understand why it triggers leftists, especially those in the media who think form is more important than substance.
I still can’t stand to listen to Obummer… or his messages… subliminal or explicit…
It turns out I have some age related hearing loss, and began wearing hearing aids in late 2013. Probably why I don’t hear this hiss you mention. I now hear the BWDC videos just fine, or repeat those few seconds when I don’t catch something.
Reading blogs such as this and others provides me with alternative insights/ view points that help mitigate my gullibility. Since I consider honesty to be the highest good, I sometimes fail to recognize when others are not as honest as they could be.
It’s what they’ve said about every speech, starting with his campaign rally speeches and going into overdrive starting with his inauguration speech.
The Independence Day speech was excellent.