Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

[Oak Hills]

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/755954873632337920

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LOL

[Oak Hills]

Oh that is a glorious image. First time since Iowa that someone has put a hole in his massive ego, and it shows.

Is that from when it became clear Cruz wasn't endorsing him?

[Oak Hills]

Insert obligatory Reagan reference here.

[Oak Hills]

Why is an Orthodox bishop speaking? I missed: which church is he from?

Greek Orthodox

[Oak Hills]

Why is an Orthodox bishop speaking? I missed: which church is he from?

Greek Orthodox

Which patriarchate?

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_Demetrios_of_America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Archdiocese_of_America

[Oak Hills]

C-SPAN's joining in on the cable new countdown-clock craze?

[Oak Hills]

Does Arpaio have a gun-shaped pin on his tie, or were my eyes fooling me?

[Oak Hills]

This is one of the best speeches I've ever heard in this convention.

Well, it's certainly the highest-energy!

[Oak Hills]

BOBBY KNIGHT!!!

For all of five seconds.

[Oak Hills]

Is a superPAC guy allowed to speak at the convention? Doesn't that require "co-ordinating"?

[Oak Hills]

Tom Barrack might be the only good speaker that this convention has had.

Yeah, he gave a good speech. Probably helped that he actually told humanizing anecdotes about Trump and didn't resort to attacking Hillary, the Democrats, or the "establishment".

[Oak Hills]

Apparently the North Carolina delegation is pissed about Thiel calling bathrooms a "distraction".

[Oak Hills]

"Feelling that life can be great again" lol.

[Oak Hills]

Is there a fan blowing Ivanka's hair?

I noticed that too.

[Oak Hills]

LOL, no one is "colorblind and gender-neutral," no matter how hard they try.

[Oak Hills]

She's actually making good points on the wage gap. 

[Oak Hills]

Seems like Ivanka is just inserting policies into Trump's campaign platform that he has never once even mentioned. It's gross.

True.

[Oak Hills]

Ivanka is so much more convincing than any of the other speakers.

[Oak Hills]

So Ivanka's a Democrat?

She's never advocated destroying the family, cultural degeneracy, or abolishing the nation-state, so I wouldn't go that far.

And neither has any Democrat, so I don't see the problem.

[Oak Hills]

As if anyone believes Trump is capable of humility...

[Oak Hills]

Really? He's comparing an open-seat primary to one with an unopposed incumbent?

[Oak Hills]

Trump really isn't good at reading speeches...he sounds way too artificial.   He sounds a lot better just letting his mouth go off on it's own.

Yeah, but then he says stuff that terrifies swing voters.

[Oak Hills]

It's like back to the 90's with this speech.

Crime is going up, that's a fact.

Um... it's not?

Have you seen Ferguson, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago?

Have you seen the national statistics?

[Oak Hills]

Really, is first points of his speech is the number of votes he got in the primaries?

I was confused by what he meant when he said the democrats got 20% less vote than 4 years ago.

He was comparing the 2016 primaries (hotly contested to the end) to the 2012 primaries (never seriously contested). At least if I interpreted correctly.

[Oak Hills]

Really, is first points of his speech is the number of votes he got in the primaries?

I was confused by what he meant when he said the democrats got 20% less vote than 4 years ago.

He was comparing the 2016 primaries (hotly contested to the end) to the 2012 primaries (never seriously contested). At least if I interpreted correctly.

I think he meant 8 years ago and not 4 years ago from the 2008 Dem primaries.  

That would make more sense. I haven't bothered to check the numbers.