August 26, 2020

RNC sloppy at best

looks like the Republican convention videos tonight used stock footage from a factory in Moscow and a Ukrainian company's shot of working on a cell phone

https://twitter.com/JFKucinich/status/1298447425024262147?s=20

August 25, 2020

Tantrum Coming: Ratings for Night One: DNC - 14.6 --- RNC - 11.6

Overnight ratings for night one of the conventions. Six networks combined, 10-11p ET:

Democratic - 14.6
Republican - 11.6

https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1298299955925397507?s=20

August 25, 2020

Wow, Aunt Crabby's Wisdom

The fear-mongering you are seeing from Republicans is directed solely at their base. That 30% of racist and hate-filled people who have nowhere else to turn.

The dystopian fearmongering and pictures that you see are actually from Trump's America.

https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/1298278213244919809?s=20

August 25, 2020

CNN re: RNC- "veered at times into the realm of disinformation even more than mere dishonesty"

CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checks the first night of RNC:

“That was a parade of dishonesty. We had false claims. We had misleading claims. We had major strategic omissions. ... I think it veered at times into the realm of disinformation even more than mere dishonesty.”

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1298112133041999872?s=20
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1298269345416503303?s=20

August 25, 2020

KRUGMAN: QAnon Is Trump's Last, Best Chance

This week’s Republican National Convention, by contrast [to the Democrats’], however positive its official theme, is going to be QAnon all the way.

.............it’s safe to predict that the next few days will be filled with QAnon-type warnings about terrible events that aren’t actually happening and evil conspiracies that don’t actually exist.

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What he and they can do, however, is conjure up imaginary threats that play into his supporters’ prejudices, coupled with conspiracy theories that resonate with their fear and envy of know-it-all “elites.” QAnon is only the most ludicrous example of this genre, all of which portrays Trump as the hero defending us from invisible evil.

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If all of this sounds crazy, that’s because it is. And it’s almost certainly not a political tactic that can win over a majority of American voters. It might, however, scare enough people that, combined with vote suppression and the unrepresentative nature of the Electoral College, Trump can manage, barely, to hang on to power.

I don’t think this desperate strategy is going to work. But it’s all Trump has left. The only thing he can hope for is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror based on nothing real at all.

via:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/25/1972139/-Krugman-The-Only-Thing-Trump-Has-is-Fear-Itself?utm_campaign=recent

August 25, 2020

Ana Navarro slams Kimberly Guilfoyle's 'crazy' RNC speech -- and says it frightened her dog

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https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1298249597081522176?s=20

August 25, 2020

"For anybody listening to what the RNC is doing right now--it's all propaganda."

"To say that 170,000 souls lost in our country, up to now, is success by any measure is fantasy. It's disrespectful to the families who've lost loved ones...

https://twitter.com/CAPAction/status/1298067341113282560?s=20

August 25, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr is the perfect mirror of MAGA con artists

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/627390555083735040/jerryfalwelljr-is-the-perfect-mirror-of-maga-con

August 25, 2020

Dan Rather re: RNC: "Subtle this convention is not. Air raid sirens not dog whistles."

Subtle this convention is not. Air raid sirens not dog whistles. And a playbook from very different eras, dark and divisive but often politically effective eras, in American history. Will it work in 2020?

https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1298076094118031366?s=20

August 25, 2020

Around the corner from the RNC's home base -"Donald Trump's COVID Chaos..."

The DNC's projection at the Newseum, around the corner from the RNC's home base, the Mellon Auditorium: "Donald Trump's COVID Chaos...5.7 million cases of COVID-19 in the U.S...175,000+ COVID-19 deaths in the U.S....'It is what it is" -Donald Trump"


https://twitter.com/kendallkarson/status/1298084871890440194?s=20