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brooklynite

(94,792 posts)
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 08:42 PM Aug 2020

Trump's GOP convention will be a parade of 'ghoulish clowns': conservative columnist

Raw Story

Writing for The Washington Post on Friday, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker condemned President Donald Trump, warning that his upcoming renomination convention is doomed to be a spectacle of “ghoulish clowns.”

“The Democratic National Convention, as tightly choreographed as a Broadway production, was a four-day anthem to decency, empathy and reason, framed with heartfelt stories and a seriousness of purpose. I can’t recall a more-solemn Barack Obama, who exchanged his hope-and-change template for one of direness and urgency,” wrote Parker. By contrast, “I imagine an array of circus acts involving non-Hollywood performers jumping through hoops of inflammatory rhetoric,” like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and QAnon conspiracy theorist congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Trump's GOP convention will be a parade of 'ghoulish clowns': conservative columnist (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2020 OP
It'll be more of trade show/sales convention of wealthy business owners and their GOP shills Blue Owl Aug 2020 #1
If you're a wealthy business owner and presumably somewhat smart... brooklynite Aug 2020 #2
Step right up, follks, for the greatest freak show on earth... The Genealogist Aug 2020 #3
raw story lol nt msongs Aug 2020 #4
It guarantees to be bizarre. A dystopian view of the future. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2020 #5
Trump is going to be pissed. He knows a shit show when he sees it NCjack Aug 2020 #6

brooklynite

(94,792 posts)
2. If you're a wealthy business owner and presumably somewhat smart...
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 08:47 PM
Aug 2020

...,are you going to risk showing up in person?

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
3. Step right up, follks, for the greatest freak show on earth...
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 08:48 PM
Aug 2020

See Depraved Dotard Dirty Donnie Dainty Digits and his cast of deplorable snake oil salespeople.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,679 posts)
5. It guarantees to be bizarre. A dystopian view of the future.
Sat Aug 22, 2020, 09:05 PM
Aug 2020

Dog whistles for all! Tailored to your specific social hate. A convention of anti-socialist con-men.

GOP -> OCP The Organized Crime Party. Headquartered in Moscow.

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