This is no joke -- RNC Convention Slate

[CatWoman]

[zentrum]

1. Onion?

[grantcart]

69. No but it is a joke, OP should correct title.

[CatWoman]

97. no

[MustLoveBeagles]

112. Whether it's real or not that list is vomit inducing as another poster said

[grantcart]

114. Agreed but the title is a deceptive one that takes time to get to the truth.

[MustLoveBeagles]

121. Point taken

I didn't see any indication this was satire. Though it wouldn't surprise me to see at least some of these people on the real list.

[Pluvious]

120. Funny satire - but untruthful title - thanks grantcart, for speaking up (n/t)

[Grokenstein]

83. Every day, TheOnion grows more obsolete.

Is this reality? Or is this some shit-show satire?

[Skittles]

2. that is just plain vomit-inducing

[Hoyt]

3. Ignorant white wingers will love it, like watching Hee Haw.

[Leith]

41. Hey! I watched Hee Haw when I was a kid

The best bits were Where oh where are you tonight? and Archie Campbell's telling a story and switching the first letters of words (like Pree Thittle Ligs).

[CatWoman]

42. as did I

I still watch bits and pieces on You Tube

[Hoyt]

47. I did too. But some of them, like Junior Samples, was an outright Klansman,

although not on the show. He lived about 35 miles outside Atlanta in a county that had no Blacks, not one, until late 80s.

Roy Clark was an excellent musician.

[KS Toronado]

58. Well now I'm glad I never bought his Edsel, that was a close call.

[CatWoman]

76. BR-549!!!!

[Soxfan58]

80. Roy Clark

Was one hell of a guitarist.

[ResistantAmerican17]

103. Gloom, despair, and agony on me.....

[Leith]

108. oooOOOOOOooooh!

[ResistantAmerican17]

117. Lol

[GulfCoast66]

113. Back off Hoyt! Ok. Not really pissed. And appreciate your point.

There was some great music on the early Hee Haws!

Back when country music still had real some ties to early folk music. Singing about the struggle of living.


Unlike today’s so-called country which is nothing but pandering to racist, white rural folks.

Many of those folk grew up in the poor south and supported what FDR did for the South.

[sheshe2]

4. Stellar line up.

[Walleye]

5. Wow. Nobody that ever got elected to anything. Pathetic

[CaptYossarian]

101. Trump calls everybody else losers.

[Initech]

6. ...

[nuxvomica]

12. LOL. Perfect!

[Thomas Hurt]

7. Fine line up of carnival geeks...which one bites the heads off chickens?

[SergeStorms]

62. It's a tie...

between Nugent and Ritchie (the self-proclaimed king of white trash).

[DBoon]

118. Alice Cooper wasn't invited

He may be a republican but AFAIK has never publicly supported Trump.

And besides, the stories about Alice Cooper biting heads off chickens were completely untrue.

Kind of like the stories about Frank Zappa eating .... oh, never mind

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. I thought "Diamond & Silk" were now claiming racism exists

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after getting fired by Fox?

https://www.theroot.com/diamond-and-silk-call-out-fox-news-racism-after-they-go-1844754864

[CatWoman]

17. They appeared on stage at the Trump Tulsa rally

after being fired by Fox.

Grifters gotta grift.

[Celerity]

46. Auntie Ruckus and discount Candace Owens

[Laelth]

9. Unreal.

Really?



-Laelth

[Frustratedlady]

10. This HAS to be a joke...surely!

Nugent would have to shower, which knocks him off the list.

Diamond and Silk were kicked off FOX, right?

There's only 1 Black for Trump. He attends all the rallies.

[tblue37]

13. You forgot Kanye. nt

[Frustratedlady]

22. You're right! My goof!

[keithbvadu2]

40. Blacks for Trump

[Frustratedlady]

44. Aren't they dressed to the nines?

[Dagstead Bumwood]

94. Or "neins," in their case. n/t

[Grokenstein]

82. Wait--why would Teddy Buttnuggets have to shower?

Isn't that a violation of his Eleventeenieth Amendmentarian Rights? What are you, an agent of Big Soap? God gave us stank so we could track each other in the wild! BODILY FLOOOO-IDZ!!

[DBoon]

119. Ted Nugent taking a shower would be easier than Ted Nugent learning to play guitar

[hlthe2b]

11. Goya is determined to have his beans GOYA

away... Last I heard that boycott is causing pain.

[chriscan64]

23. The damage is done.

He needs to find a new market. Photo ads from the White House probably only got a couple of idiots to buy a can or two.

[louis-t]

39. Magats don't eat black beans.

Mostly Big Macs and KFC.

[Owl]

104. I bought dried beans today. NOT Goya. Not ever again.

[GulfCoast66]

109. Haven't used canned beans for years.

Dried are healthier, taste better, have better texture and are cheaper than dirt.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Blacks for Trump guys is a literal cult leader.

He was once on trial for murder.

I'm waiting on the official list--don't see the source here. But I know Pumpkin and Honey Bunny and Smirking MAGA Hat Boy have been invited.

[denem]

15. I'm guessing Hannity.

[jcgoldie]

16. No corpse of Charlie Daniels?

WTF that would be at least as entertaining as Eastwood conversing with a chair!

[Initech]

21. I think he's slated to speak after Herman Cain.

Too soon?

[Elwood P Dowd]

27. Who will speak after Joe McCarthy. (nt)

[Leith]

43. And right before Roy Cohn

[Tanuki]

18. It is a joke and has been debunked.

[CatWoman]

32. i googled it and several stories contain these names..............

[groundloop]

50. It speaks volumes that you can't tell fact from fiction with this administration

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[Tanuki]

91. Snopes:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/diamond-silk-gop-convention/

Claim

The Trump campaign announced in July 2020 that Diamond and Silk, Ted Nugent, Scott Baio, and Antonio Sabato Jr. would be speaking via Zoom at the Republican National Convention.

Rating

False
About this rating 


... "This message went viral as social media users
mocked the Trump campaign for inviting what some would consider “D-List” celebrities to speak at the GOP convention, which is scheduled for August. But while Baio, Nugent, Sabato, and Diamond and Silk are all supporters of Trump, the Trump campaign has not officially announced this lineup of speakers at the convention. 

Mike Sington, the Twitter user who originally posted this message, confirmed to The Associated Press that this tweet was intended to be a joke. 

The Trump War Room, a Twitter account managed by the president’s campaign, labeled the message as “fake news”....(more)

[JimGinPA]

19. Impressive Lineup

[Renew Deal]

20. Nugent said he would be "dead or in jail" if Obama was reelected.

What happened with that?

[Initech]

29. Like most conservative he's full of empty promises.

[Submariner]

24. No Kelsey Grammar or Robert Duvall

Chickens

[hot2na]

52. And I guess Victoria Jackson is Busy.

[mr_lebowski]

25. Welp, joke or not ... it's freaking hilarious (nt)

[33taw]

26. This is the list I found

Abby Johnson
Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)
Patricia and Mark McCloskey
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
Vice President Mike Pence
Andrew Pollack
Nick Sandmann
Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.)
President Donald Trump
First Lady Melania Trump

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. That's not much of an improvement over the OP's list.

[33taw]

38. Nope, pretty much status quo. The St. Louis couple and Nick Sandmann are still on the list.

[rurallib]

56. Will there be videos of great Confederate victories

and statues of generals?

[33taw]

98. Just General Washington saving the airports while having his covefe.

[rurallib]

60. Where is Putin?

[AwakeAtLast]

75. I'm gonna need X-tra strength Vivarin to watch that!

[DURHAM D]

30. This can't be right.

Where is KC and his Sunshine Band?

[CatWoman]

34. HEY!!!!

That's BLASPHEMY!!!!

I love KC

[DURHAM D]

35. You do know that he is a Republican don't you ? nt

[CatWoman]

37. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[avebury]

31. I may peak in or it from time to time to see how much of a cluster f**k

it is but I don't think that I will want to watch much of it. I may just check in with DU to see if anybody is willing to fall on their sword and watch it and comment back to us.

[Totally Tunsie]

33. I'm afraid this IS a joke.

Link?

[LyndaG]

36. They Snubbed Roseanne???

I'm crushed!

[unblock]

45. It has to be fake! If it were real, there would be pedophiles there!

Oh wait, there's Ted Nugent.

Oh, and Scott baio.

Ah, and James woods.

Ok, if it's a fake, it's a convincing one!

[dmr]

48. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Maybe I shouldn't laugh at pathetic ...

I just can't help it ...

[spanone]

49. Total Entertainment Budget $375.17

[JonLP24]

51. Deplorables

[Schmice3]

53. Kid Rock looks like Zonker in Doonesbury

[VA_Jill]

54. Sad

Just sad.

[Harker]

55. It's a who's who of who cares.

A pathetic lineup of has beens and never will bes.

[dem4decades]

57. Will there be strippers?

[SergeStorms]

68. Please....

Kid Rock will be there. Those are the only women who will be seen with him, and that's because they have bad taste and he pays them.

[kag]

100. And they're probably smart enough...

to demand the money up front.

[SergeStorms]

59. Never before has so much ignorance been gathered in one spot.

Well, maybe at a Trump family reunion, but other than that....

[Celerity]

61. AP : Tweet falsely claims announcement of RNC speaker lineup

https://tinyurl.com/yxbst4pf

CLAIM: “Trump’s campaign announces its all-star line-up of speakers for new scaled down Republican Convention. Ted Nugent, Scott Baio, Antonio Sabato Jr, and Diamond and Silk will all appear virtually in Zoom boxes before Trump’s acceptance speech. You can already feel the electricity.”

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A tweet claiming that speakers were announced for the Republican National Convention was meant to be satirical, the person behind the post confirmed to The Associated Press.

THE FACTS: Facebook and Instagram users are passing around a satirical tweet that Trump’s most prominent speakers at this year’s virtual Republican National Convention will include pro-Trump celebrities like rockstar Ted Nugent as well as Facebook personalities Diamond and Silk.

snip

[bucolic_frolic]

63. How can you believe anything they say? They lie about everything. /nt

[Celerity]

72. AP lies about everything? Curious take on 'fake news'.

Mike Sington, who sent the tweet Sunday afternoon, confirmed in a message that the tweet was intended to be a joke. In an email, a spokesman for the Trump campaign also confirmed that those speakers have not been announced.

[SergeStorms]

65. That makes sense...

getting all of that trash together in one spot would keep Waste Management busy for months.

The flies! The flies!

[PatrickforO]

64. OK, I just honestly couldn't believe this wasn't satire, so I looked it up.

The OP is not the slate, but the actual speaker lineup IS pretty lame. CNN is reporting it might be closed to the press. Note the conspicuous absence of past presidents.

Here you go, courtesy of Ballotpedia:

Speakers
This section provides a list of speakers participating in the 2020 Republican National Convention. This list was last updated on August 19, 2020.[11]

Abby Johnson
Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)
Patricia and Mark McCloskey
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
Vice President Mike Pence
Andrew Pollack
Nick Sandmann
Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.)
President Donald Trump
First Lady Melania Trump

So there you have it. Here's the link: https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Convention,_2020/Schedule_and_speakers

[SergeStorms]

67. Holy christ.

What a bunch of ass munching Trump sycophants. They don't have a single Democrat, do they? That's funny, because we had hundreds of republicans we had to turn away from endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

[MizLibby]

78. The ballotpedia link above

also shows the 2016 convention cast of characters. From Duck Dynasty to Jerry Falwell Jr. I'm sorry I missed it.

[ancianita]

79. If the RNC is closed to the press, then it's likely as fake as the original lineup. They do lie.

What's missing are Americans across the country. Which shows how they regard their own base.

What the lineup shows is the lean in to oligarchic minority rule.

[cos dem]

66. So, no Herman Cain?

Oh, right!

[UrbScotty]

70. A major political party. My goodness.

[BadGimp]

71. This is a Joke right?

[Tanuki]

90. Yes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/diamond-silk-gop-convention/

[CatWoman]

96. thanks for keeping my thread kicked

as I stated above, I googled "RNC Convention 2020" and several stories came up listing many of these people.

"News" stories at that.

[Tanuki]

99. A few are indeed in the actual lineup, but others are not. As others have said,

the line between reality and a bizarre, dystopian alternate reality becomes more blurred each day !

[Celerity]

110. a couple, but not the most attention grabbing, like that demon sperm nutter, AP debunked this, so

did Snopes. You should self delete or label it satire, as it is not true and currently carries no disclaimer.

[PatSeg]

73. It is like some really lame parody movie

Even Idiocracy didn't seem this absurd.

I love "The Blacks for Trump guy"!!! One guy???

[Tribetime]

74. Where's Clint Eastwood....did he see the light finally?

[AwakeAtLast]

77. They sold his chair

to pay for James Woods.

[Grokenstein]

86. Super busy making his next Aggrieved White Male movie.

I understand it's about some crotchety old white guy who hates everyone who isn't a crotchety old white guy who hates everyone, and all the nonwhitemales and Europeans and liberals in the neighborhood misunderstand him and plot against him, but at the end he dies and is resurrected after three days and it is revealed that the sun literally shines out of his ass and everyone realizes they were wrong about him and and and AND AND AND

[NRaleighLiberal]

81. it's the deplorables!!!

[lillypaddle]

84. If someone on DU says something is not a joke,

I believe them. Please change the title of your OP. Thanks.

[onetexan]

85. Will he be parading a buncha generals again like he did in 2016?

[sellitman]

87. Which guest is talking with the chair this time?

[JHB]

88. It may be true, but really, it's also a joke.

Grifters, ranting cranks, and "martyrs" standing up to those turrible turrible libs.

[SunSeeker]

89. Vomit-inducing.

[Sloumeau]

92. Proof, or it is not real. :) nt

[Celerity]

111. it is not real, see multiple posts upthread nt

[dchill]

93. Oh, so it IS gonna be about IDEAS!

Congrats, Pukes!

[Cha]

95. IOW.. the usual suspects. Traitor trump killing people

doesn't phase those fucking idiots a bit.

[Smackdown2019]

102. Maybe it's a farewell party bash!

The blacks for Trump, are they spray painting some Russians or giving citizenships certificates to Haitians with poor English?

Either way, Obama will put an end to trumps dream of another 4 years tonight when he rallies Americans against Trump!

[Jim__]

105. Maybe Jon Voight will do a Clint Eastwood for us. That worked out so well. - n/t

[griloco]

106. And to sing YOUR NATIONAL ANTHEM

[demtenjeep]

107. bwahahahahahaha

oh my god, I may have to watch just to laugh

[BlancheSplanchnik]

115. ROFL!