No, I didn’t listen to the Orange Shitweasel’s Fidel Castro-length “speech”. I don’t have the stomach for it, to be honest. But I heard it was very heart-warming. The invaluable Alex Cole over on Twitter (fuck you, Elmo, I’m never calling it X) has provided a dozen highlights:
1. He asked if people knew his friend, the “late great Hannibal Lecter.”
2. He praised Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban.
3. He said North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un missed him.
4. He attacked the UAW Union.
5. He called COVID “the China Virus.”
6. He said he was buying votes in Wisconsin.
7. He thought Scott Walker was still the Governor of Wisconsin and praised his leadership. The governor is Democrat Tony Evers, who did not attend.
8. He said he was going to “take over the auto industry.”
9. He called Nancy Pelosi “Crazy Nancy.” [Let add: He did a hammering motion while doing so.]
10. He said he wanted to hold the next Republican Convention in Venezuela.
11. He spread lies about the 2020 election.
12. He bragged that the Taliban called him “your excellency” and said they probably don’t call President Biden that.
CNN’s indefatigable fact checkers found out, surprise, surprise, that Trump’s speech was a
(To borrow a phrase from Green Day.)
And the Biden Rapid Response team was on the job:
This about sums it up:
Some people on our side are giving up.
Are you kidding me?
We’re gonna pound that fat orange fuck ALL OVER THE FUCKING RING.
David Frum (reformed bad guy) throws in his two cents:
The Republican National Convention cast a bright light on the party of Trump’s weaknesses: its extremism, its cultishness, its lack of welcome to the majority of Americans. The central idea implicit in the vice-presidential nominee’s speech was the superior Americanness of those with seven generations of ancestors buried in U.S. ground over those whose ancestors are buried in other places. The central idea in the presidential nominee’s speech was “me, me, me, me, me” for more than an hour and a half.
This crew is as beatable as any reactionary minority faction ever was beatable.
Now, if you haven’t yet jumped into the fray, here’s where you can go to do so: