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Hello Twitter fam it is me @Hegemommy coming in hot for DAY 2 of f the #RepublicanNationalConvention

Have you eaten? Hydrated? Stretched? Good because we are in for one wild ride tonight

@Hegemommy Last week the Democrats had their big party. And what a party it was! Except for that whole part where they basically ignored two of the most important and intertwined issues of this election: abortion and the courts

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We know that will NOT be the case tonight. How do we know that? Well because one of tonight's featured speakers is anti-choice activist and noted parenting vlogger Abby Johnson. Maybe you don't know Abby. Here's some background

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Since Abby likes to talk a lot about Planned Parenthood and Republicans have a lot of thoughts about abortion and race I'm going to go ahead and preemptively rebut their nonsense with this foundational piece from our won @AngryBlackLady because trust me. It'll come up

When conservatives tell you Planned Parenthood is "preying" on Black communities just send them this

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We might here some nonsense that Planned Parenthood was "selling baby parts" even.

Send those folks this:

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Abby Johnson and other Republicans will likely also claim that Democrats support "abortion up to birth" and let me tell you that is also a bunch of hooey

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We could hear a lot about "born alive" anti-abortion restrictions that are a solution in search of a problem

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Sec. of State Mike Pompeo is also speaking. You might not think of Pompeo as an anti-choice speaker, but you should!

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Welp, here we go. It's starting or something

Prayers, the pledge of allegiance, and pandering to open Day 2 so right on schedule

Absent the political pros I will not snark about the speakers just as a programming note. Punch up, always.

Speaking of! It's Senator Rand Paul. Wonder how his neighbor is doing

Owen Wilson so clearly plays Rand Paul in the Hallmark Movie of all this right, Twitter fam?

Rand Paul, another anti-choice numpty speaking tonight

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Donald Trump is the peacenik candidate, says Senator Rand Paul which I mean .... no?

Current ad suggests you protesters are losers who don't earn their keep

Maine fisherman praises Trump for nominating federal judges who "protect life" in case it wasn't clear that tonight's entire programming is going to be about abortion even when it's not

It is just WILD to me that the Republicans pulled this dude into the speak and EVEN HE connected the dots between judges and abortion and the Democrats did not.

LARRY KUDLOW WITH THE COLD OPEN

Is there not an editor on staff right now who approved that cut?

Larry Kudlow sounds about a bourbon or two into the night but aren't most of us

Welp there's a phrase you will hear more of -- A Biden-induced recession

Put it on a bingo card for later, folks

Keep the UW Badgers out of your mouth, sir. Bucky will not have it. #forward

In case it wasn't clear that @Hegemommy is tweeting from this account right now that rapid defense of Bucky Badger should have clued you in #sorrynotsorry

@Hegemommy Okay now is the part of the programming where Republicans talk about religion and it's not going to be great.

This is what tonight's entire programming is about

@Hegemommy The Biden-Harris vision of America leaves no room for people of faith, says Billy Graham's granddaughter who somehow also failed to mention the Muslim ban. Weird.

Here is Abby Johnson. She's going to go all in on Planned Parenthood.

Her job is to chum the waters. We're not gonna let her.

HEY DID I CALL THE MARGARET SANGER APPEARANCE OR WHAT

Reminder: it's a lie. Here's the rebuttal. Planned Parenthood isn't preying on Black communities

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I'm not going to actually tweet this part because it is science fiction and this is an evidence-based outlet

Did you know abortion even had a smell is for sure ending up in some kind of dark money ad

Maybe that's a Spinal Tap song who is to say

Just like Jerry Falwell Jr. was tasked with bringing home the evangelical vote for Trump, so too was Abby Johnson tonight. That's her job. Bring in the waning Catholics

Wait that's it? I was promised A BARN BURNER and we got the smell of abortion instead

That said Abby Johnson said the word abortion more in five minutes that the Democrats did in the entirety of their convention and the Democrats reaaaaally are gonna have to think on that

Bart Kavanaugh III is currently speaking

Just kidding it's the Covington Catholic kid

He's here to speak about his experience with "cancel culture" and how it silences people, like this young man currently addressing the entire country at the Republican National Convention

And now Pam Bondi is here to talk about how she knows corruption when she sees it

Literally this is amazing for the meta commentary on corruption and Bondi

Bondi is here to lay the counter-narrative to Russian corruption in the Trump administration with: China corruption in the Biden administration

Well that was certainly something!

Kellyanne Conway speaking about Trump as a champion of women and I think that's my cue to refresh my drink

Whoa it's Tiffany Trump who apparently graduated from law school during the pandemic and sounds like she's got a pack a day habit going on

Tiffany Trump asks why we deplatform Nazis, basically

Her speech is about technology and misinformation and "censoring" certain information and viewpoints but it's really about conservative grievance culture

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds here to talk about how the Republican plan for managing the COVID crisis is to just let it go buck wild!

Oh wait no? That's not it? My bad!

Mike Pence is saying some words but I'm not listening to any of them right now

Stiiiil not listening to the Mike Pence segment

Is Mike Pence still talking?

Maybe this is filler because they had to cancel culture that QAnon lady

Mike Pence talking about how Trump is gonna make sure the torches stay lit maybe could have been workshopped

Or not given who the intended audience is

this is a predatory adoption story and I will not recount it nope

Also didn't we hear this same exact story before? Have I covered so many conservative conventions that I am having a fever dream?

So the thing about not having an actual party platform like the RNC decided to forgo this go round is that you get a lot of flag waiving speeches and literally nothing else

And now we break for a quick naturalization ceremony

I have zero tv production experience but could have put together a better program tonight just gonna say it

This entire segment is so icky. I don't have snark and I'm out of words for the anger. It's the Hunger Games of policy it really is. Hurt many and make a show of helping a few. And it's unconscionable

And there are A LOT of legal ..... questions! around all that is happening here. It's a partisan political event with active members of the military and on federal property and that's all not great!

Here’s Eric Trump to tell those watching that Democrats are coming for their stuff

This is absolutely the Dear Leader segment of the night

Republicans have mentioned the Supreme Court more tonight than Democrats did during their entire convention

Would love to hear evangelicals square Eric Trump's "if you do not have a border you do not have a country" with "a church is not a building"

Eric Trump promising that Trump is going to send someone to the moon and I think that is both a nod to Elon Musk and maybe domestic abusers who is to say

Mars! We're going to Mars! That's what I meant sorry it has been a day 😂

The joke stands

"Forward looking leadership" is a rich phrase for Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron to invoke given that conservatives are expressly calling this country back to regressive policies

YIIIIKES it is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who really shouldn't be doing this!

Oh super there's Attorney General Barr to witness this massive Hatch Act violation

They don't have the chairs spaced right which I know I know but these things matter

Anyway Melania is up now and speaking from the Rose Garden and her styling for tonight is.... a choice! Military greens behind a sea of American flags cool cool cool

So this is a very boring speech

Maybe that was the point after last night lol

Any time this administration mentions foster care y'all should be worried. They are currently asking the Supreme Court to let religiously affiliated social services groups from refusing to place kids in LGBTQ homes

Oral arguments for that case are scheduled for November 4th, just one day after the election

Well that’s a wrap! And we got through it all together

Thank y’all for joining me as I parsed through propaganda and anti-choice lies. It was a lot! Republicans love to spread misinformation about abortion

But trust that if you have questions about what you heard tonight, or are looking for resources to explain to your uncle that no, actually Planned Parenthood doesn’t target Black communities that WE GOT YOU

Democrats won’t talk about abortion. Republicans can’t stop lying about it. Gonna be a long haul till the election so count on us to get you through it

And with that it's time for me to turn the reigns on this account back over. @Hegemommy out. Y'all take care and be good to each other and I'll see you on the tubes