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The GOP Convention hasn't even really started and it's already a shit-show day for Trump. (Original Post) Drunken Irishman Aug 2020 OP
Some of us have weak stomachs and can't watch. So what's happened The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #1
I don't know why I watch. When he starts flapping his front hands bluedye33139 Aug 2020 #4
That hand-flapping looks to me like he's playing an invisible accordion The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #7
...then you'll appreciate this (it's one of a series): Buns_of_Fire Aug 2020 #11
Brilliant! The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #12
It looks like he's lying about the size of the fish he caught chriscan64 Aug 2020 #17
LOLOL.... OneGrassRoot Aug 2020 #15
Thanks for asking.. I did, too. I don't even have a TV.. just Cha Aug 2020 #6
GOP honchos from all 50 states got their mug shots taken. Laelth Aug 2020 #8
An old white guy from every state! The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #9
And it was 10:30 on the West coast when it all fell apart bluedye33139 Aug 2020 #2
Hah! "Crushed tan suede" VOX Aug 2020 #20
Care to mention Why for those who aren't Cha Aug 2020 #3
Not watching... regnaD kciN Aug 2020 #5
It was tumbling out of his mouth so fast, you could hardly keep up. Frustratedlady Aug 2020 #13
I have no idea what you are talking about. LiberalBrooke Aug 2020 #10
It could have been worse... SeattleVet Aug 2020 #14
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God.......Amen. tanyev Aug 2020 #16
Guessing the media will normalize it no matter how bad it gets They always do mucifer Aug 2020 #18
You mean the Fascist Trump Party, FTP duforsure Aug 2020 #19
Bet that 45's popping Adderal like after-dinner mints. VOX Aug 2020 #21

The Velveteen Ocelot

(130,526 posts)
1. Some of us have weak stomachs and can't watch. So what's happened
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:52 PM
Aug 2020

that we need to know about, other than GOPers behaving like their normal shitty, depraved selves?

bluedye33139

(1,474 posts)
4. I don't know why I watch. When he starts flapping his front hands
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:54 PM
Aug 2020

like seal flippers, and making that weird gurgling sound, he is so repulsive.

It was just stupid stuff. The articles describing it are pretty accurate. He went off script and started shrieking about a conspiracy theory involving the mail.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(130,526 posts)
7. That hand-flapping looks to me like he's playing an invisible accordion
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:56 PM
Aug 2020

and probably not very well.

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
17. It looks like he's lying about the size of the fish he caught
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:31 PM
Aug 2020

and changing the size of the fish during the lie.

OneGrassRoot

(23,953 posts)
15. LOLOL....
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 05:31 PM
Aug 2020

I can't stop giggling at "When he starts flapping his front hands like seal flippers, and making that weird gurgling sound..."

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
8. GOP honchos from all 50 states got their mug shots taken.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:58 PM
Aug 2020

This is what they call a roll call.






-Laelth

bluedye33139

(1,474 posts)
2. And it was 10:30 on the West coast when it all fell apart
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:53 PM
Aug 2020

It was really weird to watch that bizarre scene straight out of the handmaid's tale. Trump ranting, and what's up with his reupholstered face? He looked like he's gotten it redone in a sort of crushed tan suede.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
20. Hah! "Crushed tan suede"
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:55 PM
Aug 2020
I’ve thought that, too, only I came up with “vintage buffalo hide.” No doubt several coats of bronzer in varying tints. Read where it takes TWO HOURS to prep his cotton-candy hairdo, spray “tan,” etc. Utterly repulsive.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
13. It was tumbling out of his mouth so fast, you could hardly keep up.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 05:08 PM
Aug 2020

Lots about the Democrats raising taxes out of the gate, grabbing your guns, defunding police, allowing immigration, cheating on the election through mail-in voting, too progressive, losing companies and jobs overseas, wrecking the economy...on and on and on in that vein. He made fun of Biden and his mental condition (ironic), hiding in his basement and not appearing in public, not being strong enough to handle the job. Of course, Harris being nasty...

I can't remember all of them, but just include anything he's said in the last week and you've got it.

And, of course, he goes on about what a great job he's done on the pandemic...we would have had millions of deaths by now, if he hadn't made the moves he did. Supplying the world with ventilators, PPE, advice. How we're going to be back to normal soon, with schools opening, people back to work, the economy soaring in a short while...breaking all kinds of records on Wall Street...his new cure from former COVID victims, vaccine coming soon...

He's wired on the applause and shouts from the audience of 12 more years (not to mention something else like cocaine/adderall or whatever he's using). He was on a HIGH! If he died tonight, he'd be a happy man (or, whatever).

I couldn't watch it all, so there's certainly more.



duforsure

(11,885 posts)
19. You mean the Fascist Trump Party, FTP
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:46 PM
Aug 2020

The republican party is gone. Done, Finished. This isn't a convention , its just aother propaganda rally.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
21. Bet that 45's popping Adderal like after-dinner mints.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:59 PM
Aug 2020

All week long. He’ll be grinding his teeth and hallucinating by Thursday, but who could tell?

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