Welp, it's that time again. I'm going to put together a thread covering the final night (thank goodness) of the 2024 RNC. Follow along for clips and commentary.
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Steve Danies opens the last night of the RNC by vowing that Republicans are gonna "build the wall" and "drill baby drill." The talking points never change.
Daines: "They can't even define what a woman is. But let me tell you something -- back in Montana, we know the difference between a bull and a cow." 😬 😬 😬
Since he's speaking at the RNC tonight, I should probably add Hulk Hogan's comments on Fox News to my thread
Linda McMahon is the first of 3 RNC speakers tonight who has been hit with a Stone Cold Stunner
Linda McMahon: "President Trump is a job creator." (Fact check: He was the first president in a century to president over net job loss.)
I have nothing to post from Mike Pompeo's speech. The crowd didn't care either.
the RNC crowd is being treated to another Trump air jerk video, set to a gay anthem
the RNC is now featuring a speaker who is praising Trump's golf game
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the energy has come crashing down at the RNC as random businessmen are on stage singing Trump's praises while the crowd naps
Alina Habba gets emotional when describing Trump as "her friend"
Fact check: "Loving America" was not among Trump's 34 felonies
Habba: "Trump did not just take a bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. He has and will continue to take them for each and every one of us."
reminder that not so long ago Tucker Carlson, now on stage at Trump's RNC, sent private texts saying of Trump, "I hate him passionately"
Tucker Carlson claims Trump's attempted assassination turned him into "the leader of a nation"
Tucker Carlson nods at the big lie: "The presidency ... is a title bestowed by a process of some sort -- that can be subverted."
this woman is REALLY into what Tucker is saying
TUCKER CARLSON: "You don't see our commander in chief suggesting that we use our military to protect our country or the lives of its citizens. No. That's for Ukraine."
CROWD: ...
the next RNC speaker is doing an extended promo for one of Trump's golf courses in Florida
it's a personality cult
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they're playing "Real American" and Hulk Hogan's titantron video at the RNC ahead of Hogan's speech
Hogan is doing a WWE-style promo, complete with some Macho Man sprinkled in
Hogan rips off his shirt and has a Trump/Vance tank on underneath
Franklin Graham claims "God spared his life" about Trump then adds, "I cannot explain why God would save one life and allow another to be taken."
it's failson time
Eric Trump has a LOT of gall in accusing the Bidens of grifting
This is awk -- Eric Trump's speech is getting no response for the crowd at all.
has anybody ever sounded whinier than Eric Trump?
Eric Trump alludes to the great replacement conspiracy theory that has inspired numerous mass shooters
Eric Trump: "Your hard-earned tax dollars will enrich a better America, not be squandered in corrupt foreign nations." (That seems to be a shot at Ukraine.)
Eric Trump: "Our children will love God."
Ivanka and Jared are in the house for the RNC
nightmare rotation
Melania is finally at the RNC and getting a special entrance for herself
The RNC is now playing a propaganda video meant to rewrite Trump's first time as a golden age for the country, which would make sense if, you know, voters hadn't rejected him in 2020
wait for JD Vance headbanging to Kid Rock
get a load of Melania's face during Kid Rock 😆
Trump begins his RNC speech by making mouth noises about unity and being a president for all Americans
Trump on the assassination attempt against him: "I had God on my side."
"It was a shot to the head" -- Trump on the assassination attempt against him
the backdrop for Trump's speech
here we go -- Trump pivots from "unity" to calling on Democrats to stop describing him as an "enemy of democracy"
Trump describes Aileen Cannon as "highly respected," which is a whopper. He then says that if Dems "want to unify our country," then should drop all charges against him
Trump praises Kid Rock for the size of his "rallies." I believe they're called concerts.
earlier in the speech, Trump embraced the uniform of Corey Comperatore, the retired fireman who was killed during the shooting at his rally on Saturday
Trump brings up "Crazy Nancy" -- there goes unity -- and says "they're destroying our country"
"I am trying to buy your vote. I'll be honest about that." -- Trump's (tongue in cheek) message to Wisconsin
Trump promises to return "law and order to our streets" and "patriotism to our schools" (these were also regular talking points during his first term)
Trump invokes the big lie while criticizing the Biden administration: "We have people that are a lot less than fierce. Except when it comes to cheating on elections."
"I call it an invasion" -- Trump's talking points about the border are unchanged from 2018
Trump on the 2020 election: "We had that horrible, horrible result that we'll never let happen. The election results, we're never gonna let that happen again."
remember 6 hours ago when pundits were talking seriously the idea that Trump wasn't even going to mention Biden during this speech because of #unity?
"Just a few short years ago under my presidency, we had the most secure border and best economy in the history of our country, in the history of the world. We had the greatest economy in the history of the world." -- the unemployment rate was over 6% when Trump left office
"By the way, you know who's taking the jobs? The jobs that are created? 107% of those jobs are taken by illegal aliens" -- Trump (needles to say 107 percent is not a thing)
Trump says migrants "are taking the jobs from our black population"
Trump promises to end "the green new scam"
Trump mentions "the China virus," which should give everyone bad flashbacks to his disastrous press conferences in 2020
"We will take over the auto industry again" -- Trump
Trump explains that one of his signature policy proposals came to be from a brief conversation he had with a waitress while he was eating dinner at one of his properties
Trump is now talking about "the illegal immigrant invasion." #NewTone
Funny -- Trump's new tone sounds exactly like the tone he had in June 2015
"The late great Hannibal Lecter" -- drink!
Trump: "Bad things are gonna happen and you're seeing it happen all the time. That's why to keep our families safe the Republican platform promises to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country."
Orban gets a round of applause from the RNC
Trump announces that he's obtained the coveted endorsement from totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un
Trump on the leader of the Taliban: "He called me 'your excellency.' I wonder if he calls [Biden] 'your excellency.' I doubt it"
"We will replenish our military and build an iron dome missile defense system" -- Trump
Trump attacks Biden for not cancer and says he'll do it
Trump describes Washington DC as a "horrible killing field"
Trump's extremely long speech is finally winding down it seems. Here's a time lapse of me at my computer.
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let me wrap up this thread with video of Melania dodging Trump's kiss
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