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This issue is not new, and its being brought up by people with intentionally short memories. Hillary caught a ride on AF1…past presidents did the same thing.
So in terms of what I really care about…this isn’t one of them. What bothers me is rioting in streets, the economy and the best way forward, life issues…not the rehashing of old issue that gets brought up every four years by the party not in power.

 
President Trump is about decency, compassion, sacrifice , family and fighting corruption.
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So when the next Democratic President does that, you’ll be fine with it too?

No place else to hold a Republican convention event?
 
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(CNN)President Donald Trump’s demagogic convention speech played out before a spectacular but norm-crushing White House backdrop in a potential super spreader viral event.

It explained why Democrats warn he must be driven from power at all costs – and why he may win a second term anyway.

After a GOP gathering that amounted to one of the most sustained displays of propagandizing in the modern history of Western democracy, Trump painted an apocalyptic vision of a nation on the cusp of a takeover by “violent anarchists” who would exploit a “weak” Joe Biden to destroy America. He claimed that Democrats view this country as a “depraved” and “wicked” country that must be punished for its “sins.”

In accepting the Republican nomination, Trump turned his back on the crowd and surveyed the executive mansion, stretching out his arms in a gesture that exemplified his vision of ultimate, unaccountable presidential power.

“The fact is, we’re here and they are not,” he said.
 
It takes two to tango…hard to be united with people who started impeachment efforts prior to the oath of office
Sigh.

The Impeachment was warranted. Many Republican Senators agreed, but refused to vote to convict.

However, someone who isn’t a petty and vindictive narcissist could have still emerged as a uniter. Trump could still be a great statesman. But, alas, he has chosen to be a divider.

Maybe that’s not fair. Maybe his personality makes that impossible. Despite the attempts at the convention to show him as empathetic, he has never acted that way.
 
I don’t think Air Force One is the main issue. The main issue is holding a political rally at the White House.
 
What is racist is the fact that African Americans have the highest abortion rate. President Trump is the most pro=life president in the country’s history. He will continue to fight for those who cannot yet speak. Ben Carson
 
Aren’t you talking about the guy who wanted to put women who had abortions in jail?

Yeah, that’s the guy.
 
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It takes two to tango…hard to be united with people who started impeachment efforts prior to the oath of office
Sigh.

The Impeachment was warranted. Many Republican Senators agreed, but refused to vote to convict.

However, someone who isn’t a petty and vindictive narcissist could have still emerged as a uniter. Trump could still be a great statesman. But, alas, he has chosen to be a divider.

Maybe that’s not fair. Maybe his personality makes that impossible. Despite the attempts at the convention to show him as empathetic, he has never acted that way.
Sigh…without arguing specifically about the impeachment itself…the process started for some Democrats BEFORE Trump took office. That is my point. You said Trump is a divider…I said it take two to tango. POINT: The Democrats had no intention of ever working with Trump in any meaningful way…from the start.
 
I don’t think Air Force One is the main issue. The main issue is holding a political rally at the White House.
I bucket them into the same category. AF1 is how he travels. The White House is where he lives. The RNC should reimburse for all costs.
 
Yeah, this is what I don’t get. I am not a court of law and have no real opinion whether something would legally be found to violate the Hatch Act, but banging that drum is folly. Even if you end up being right, the electorate doesn’t care. Perhaps they should, but it is what it is.

Trump’s speech was effective at what he wanted to say and accomplish, and the Democrats need to learn from 2016 and from how he operates if they hope to see Biden in the White House. The speech didn’t resonate with the far left or many Democrats, but it wasn’t intended to any more than the DNC resonated with Republicans. But there are battleground states that are quite close in pre-convention polling that can turn this into an electoral landslide for either side if they pick up a few votes here and there.
 
Please remember to watch Mary Ann Mendoza, a speaker at the RNC convention tonight. She was hooked up with Steve Bannon in the ‘We Bulid the Wall’ group whose folks just got indicted.

" Mendoza, an “angel mom,” is scheduled to speak Tuesday about her son’s 2014 death at the hands of a drunk driver who was in the country illegally. Her tweet on Tuesday linked to a lengthy thread from a QAnon conspiracy theorist that laid out a fevered, anti-Semitic view of the world. In its telling, the Rothschilds—a famous Jewish banking family from Germany—created a plot to terrorize non-Jewish “goyim,” with purported details of their scheme that included plans to “make the goyim destroy each other” and “rob the goyim of their landed properties.”

Drawing on more than a century’s worth of anti-Semitic hoaxes and smears, the thread claimed that malevolent Jewish forces in the banking industry are out to enslave non-Jews and promote world wars. Riddled with QAnon references, the thread from Twitter user @WarNuse claimed that the Titanic had been sunk to protect the Federal Reserve, and that every president between John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump was a “slave president” in the thrall of a global cabal.

The thread also promoted “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” an anti-Semitic hoax popular in Nazi Germany, and claimed that its allegations about a Jewish plot to control the world are real.

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is not a fabrication,” the thread that Mendoza shared reads. And, it certainly is not anti-semetic (sic) to point out this fact.” "

Mendoza has been banned by Facebook and Twitter for weird posts.
That’s their base.
 
Yeah, this is what I don’t get. I am not a court of law and have no real opinion whether something would legally be found to violate the Hatch Act, but banging that drum is folly. Even if you end up being right, the electorate doesn’t care. Perhaps they should, but it is what it is.
I have to agree with you on this one.

I think the past four years have shown that the majority of the electorate don’t know or care about the things that keep the American Experiment going, such as checks and balances and following conventions and traditions that, it turns out, have been voluntarily complied with by Presidents and other politicians up to this point.
The speech didn’t resonate with the far left or many Democrats, but it wasn’t intended to any more than the DNC resonated with Republicans. But there are battleground states that are quite close in pre-convention polling that can turn this into an electoral landslide for either side if they pick up a few votes here and there.
I think that a lot of voters believe what they heard this week.
 
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