So its 8:39 PM Eastern Time. The Governor of Oklahoma is talking about how she is awesome, thanks to optimism, determination, beef, and good old fashioned values. God. Applause it tepid. It's not a great speech. I'm kind of wondering how many people are actually listening. She says that Trump will speak "Truth to Power". Which I think is Nietzsche, yeah?
Well....I am going to do some dishes. I'll be back. Incidentally, I thought that Cruz did a very brave thing by not endorsing Trump yesterday. I'm sure he decided he has more to gain by doing so, but still. It was funny to see that Trump actually glared at him from the back of the hall. It was like WWE...I'm just waiting for someone to grab a chair and bonk someone over the head.
8:48. Still no Trump.
9:00. Okay, so apparently we are still a whole hour away from Trump speaking. Do these people know how tired how I am? I don't think I can make that. I am seriously considering whether this is worth it or not. Everybody in the crowd sounds tired too. They all, I think, want to go home.
9:20. In the course of doing more dishes, and getting kids water, and schlepping things up and down the stairs, etc. etc., I break a Pyrex measuring glass in the kitchen. Bollocks.
9:36 The Guardian reports that Trump will speak around 10:15. Man. It just keeps going on and on and on. Whoever is speaking now is bashing the Iran deal, which I thought was...good? Hard to say. So far so good, I'd say. But we'll see.
9:45 - Seriously reassessing my priorities in life. I hear a heck of a lot of crazy saxophone music down there. Someone is really laying down some Truth! I imagine there are lot of people dancing very badly right now. I wonder what kind of music Donald Trump actually likes? He's never really talked much about it - which is strange because he kind of talks about everything. Clearly he thinks the saxophone is one hell of an instrument. Really, who is this band? They are cheezy, and yet they are very solid.
9:54 - Drum solo. Break it down!
10:00 Allright, now were talking. There is a video on Donald's Trump career being shown, including that time he "wrote" the Art of The Deal. Its coming! Soon, soon, soon.....
10:04 - Here is Ivanka Trump. Now I am actually watching the RNC live feed on You Tube. I wonder how it is that there seems to be a bit of wind blowing through Ivanka's hair.
10:07 - Since when did Trump work for the world around us? He's some kind of batman now? Though it is very hard to criticize a woman talking about her father. Very hard. Hold your fire everyone! Hollllllllllllld.....
10:09 HA! Colorblind and gender neutral. Platitudes my lady. Platitudes. She does look awkward up there. Assured, but awkward. Smiling for applause lines.
10:11 Some very forceful language about how Trump treats women at his company. I wonder how Trump is actually going to make child care accessible to all? Perhaps he will elaborate later. Ivanka promises Equal pay for Equal work on behalf of her father. Which would be good. I mean, how can you disagree with that?
10:14 - Donald Trump is inacapable of thinking small --- because he is incapable of thinking! Ha. You set your self up for that one.
10:15 - Where is the Trump? The Donald? The man? Do I really think he cries everytime he sees a boarded up Main Street? THAT I would like to see. Listening to Ivanka is like when you go to someone's wedding and you hear the best man give a speech about how awesome the groom is, and you are like "I know the groom....and that doesn't sound like the groom." It's like she is talking about a totally different person then the one we have been acquainted with over the past....gosh, has it been a year? Yeah. It's been a year.
10:17 - Donald Trump will speak to every person of every background? So when is he going to stop by my door.
10:19 Okay. Here we go. Little smile on the face. Starts of humbly with some thank you's. A weak chant from the crowd, you can barely hear them.
10:20 And he humbly accepts the nomination. Surprise surprise. Good start though. He should quit while he is ahead. Chants of USA from the crowd. Oh, and now Trump tries to fire up the crowd. He is clearly enjoying this. He goes into a description of how many votes he has, and he has more votes than the democrats, so I guess he is the shit then. He is a winner, and so he will be a great leader.
10:22 Law and Order. He is Batman. Really. Donald J Trump......is Batman.
10:23 Mentions radical terrorism and threats to police....And Trump is going to end all the violence. Let's hear how?
10:24 His speaking style reminds me just a little of Bill Cosby in full Jello Pudding Pop mode. Probably not someone you really want to be compared to.
10:25. I see. If we stop being politically correct the violence will stop. So let's here some Truth Donald Trump . Lay it on me! Let's go. I'm ready....
10:26 He seems now to be running for the mayor of a major city, talking about crime and shooting and violence. With guns. But he blames it all on Obama, as if he is the cause for the whole thing, which is an incredible claim to make. Just incredible. What power, really, does the President have over local law and order? Ah....the Mexicans, the illegals, the muslims. Jesus Christ this man is loathsome. Chants of "Build the Wall! Build the Wall! Build the Wall!". All Trump is peddling is fear and sadness.
10:29 He paints a pretty bleak economic picture. That is probably the most truthful thing he has said. We, he says, will fix it. But I'll tell ya, he's just got a pocket full of magic beans.
10:32 Shhhh. I'm listening. Now to our many humiliations. Syria now. I would like to know what Trump would propose we do about that one.
10:34 Hillary Clinton now, and her bad record on foreign policy (apparently). Wow. He basically blamed the whole ails of the middle east on Hillary Clinton alone, from Egypt to Libya to Syria to Iran even to Iraq. Though he does make an important point -- after 15 years of wars in the middle east we have little to show. Wars that Bush, a REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, started. Hell, Bush was in power 15 years ago.
10:36 Okay now Trump. What do you got? We are in the shit. How do you get us out?
10:37. Americanism, not Globalism. Respect is earned, not deserved. Have we earned it?
10:39. Law and Order again. KUNG CHUNG! Batman.
10:39 There are about 217,000 people watching on the You Tube feed right now. Pretty good pull, I guess.
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10:43 The crowd is trying to get a full head of steam up here. They can't seem do it. Like an old man on his anniversary who is waiting for the viagra to kick in, and it just.....it just isn't happening.
10:44 Hello Cleveland! You rock! I think that was just something to get a cheer out of the crowd. This is something else man. Something else.
10:44. Ah yes. The emails. I sympathise with him there, actually. It really makes me pause when I consider a vote for Hillary Clinton. She lied about the system she had, and I think she was just dumb to have her own email. Another example of the Clinton's living in their own world. Though Trump has layered on much more than just that, he sounds like a conspiracy theorist.
10:47 Literally, at this point, I say "Goddamn, what a fucking son of a bitch". Only he can fix our ills? He is like Batman and Jesus, all rolled into one. He makes an appeal for Bernie Sanders supporters. I'll tell you what....this democrat never will. He is getting very little applause here. Very little.
10:49 Mike Pence now.
10:50 Hillary Clinton is probably watching and saying "Oh, these rustics are so inept. It nearly takes the honor out of victory.....nearly."
10:51. Don't compare Trump to Hitler. Hitler was a way better public speaker. Way better.
10:51 Now we are back to law and order again. This is very disogranzied. I wonder if he is just shooting from the cuff at this point.
10:51 For the thrid time he says we are going to bring law and order back to the streets. I think this is a bomb man. He's dying out there. Dying. Batman is dying.
10:53 He will protect the children, and make sure they are all equal. All treated equally. BUT HOW IS HE GOING TO DO IT! THIS IS MADDENING! Most people have a plan. It may be a shitty plan, and it might not work, but its still a plan. I don't think he has any plan. None. I am
10:54 He is almost on a loop here. We are going to defeat ISIS now. Fast. Good fucking luck. HOW WILL YOU DO IT!??? HOW???
10:55 I am literally just getting angrier and angrier watching this. Believe me. Believe me. It's total shit. Am I just dreaming? Am I taking crazy pills? Does anyone else see what I am seeing???? This man has not a clue. Not a clue. He has not said one constructive thing in like 36 minutes. It is nice, though, this convention to see a rift finally developing in the party over human sexuality.
10:56 "God. Stupid fucking idiot". That is what I said when he decides to blame Hillary Clinton for the problems in the Middle Easter. There was this man, called George W. Bush. He invaded Iraq. It was stupid. Trump only says we are going to win, and we are going win fast? HOW!!!???
10:59. I'll bet Israel is quaking in their boots right now.
11:00 Trump is now taking credit for NATOs resent call to set up a task force to fight Terrorism. Nicely done.
11:00 Oh boy. We are going to suspend imigration from the middle east. We don't want them in our country, he says.
11:01 Well the screening thing is a lie. It is very, very hard to get into the US if you are a refugee, at least that is my understanding. Maybe someone is lying to me, but I think it's probably the man with the funny hair on my computer.
11:03 And now we bob back over the immigration again. We're back on the illegal immigration thing again. This is a really horrible speech. Really horrible. In structure, in words, in delivery. It is just very, very bad. I don't really care what your political persuasion is. This is a horrible speech. I am not sure how many times I can type that. I am sort of curious to see how long he decides he is going to go on for.
11:05. You know? I think Donald Trump needs to read a few more books.
11:08 Based on the Guardians feed most of this speech is not ad-libbed but actually written. Which is incredible. It is incredible that someone can write something so insipid, and horrible, and disorganized, and incoherent. And so long. This has to end.
11:09 More USA Chants again. Weak. Very weak. I don't think that people in the crowd can really believe what they are seeing. They all kind of looked shell shocked. I know I am. My mind is definetly starting to wander. He is coming up on an hour. And its been a desultory hour spent in an act of politcal masturbation. But that would actually probably be more fun.
11:15 I do notice now that only 201,711 people are watching. Some of us have decided to ditch.
11:17 Now he is finally getting into his plans. Tax cuts. Fewer government restrictions. More energy. More mining. More steel working. His notice of tax cuts gets very light applause where normally that is a huge applause line.
11:19 I don't think his economics make sense. I am not sure. It just sounds like a bunch of magic unicorn farts. Ah....there is an endorsement for school choice. Here we are at an hour mark. Repeal and Replace Obamacare. This is all stuff he could have said ages ago. I can choose my own doctor now....
11:20 TSA a disaster. THAT we can agree on. Only 197,197 watching now. And falling.
11:21. So I guess if you are having problems with students loans, you can go and join the military. It looks like we are going to talk again about foreign policy. We will ask countries to pay for our protection. That is exactly, exactly what the British asked us to do back when were merely a colony. And we said "Fuck you Britain, and fuck your fucking tea!" And America was born. A little different, I suppose, in that that was a colony and NATO is not really like that.
11:23 Ooooh! A 100 day pledge. But I am not sure what is talking about now. Only 194,973 watching now. And falling.
11:24. The judge issue. THAT is an issue I think a lot of Republicans can get behind. It shows in their applause. Uhoh...we have buffering problems now. But we are back. Not quite as clear. But yeah, the courts are a huge issue. If Republicans are left voting for anything, its this.
11:25. Ahhh that is Bollocks. Clinton does not want to take your guns. I don't want to take your guns. Obama doesn't want to take your guns. We can't! It's in the constitution.
11:26. Now we are on to faith. There is a little bit of humility from the man, which is nice to see at this late, late, late hour.
11:27. I have Internet problems now. Now I am watching it on my phone. This is the third way that I have tried to watch this thing. I still can't believe he is talking. You have only 192,254 people watching right now, and I am inexplicably one of them. It's like when my family rented The Holiday and my Dad was the only one who stuck with it on principle. He has some very warm things to say about his family. And I think we are finally wrapping things up here.....
11:29 Big Applause. That should really be the end. We are going to start winning again.
11:30. Nope. I slap myself in the face. What a horrible idea this was. He is finally reaching for a little bit or oratory here. The last two minutes have been his strongest.
11:32. Oh ho. That was nice. "I'm with you, the American People". Turning the whole "I'm with her" thing that Hillary has on its head. It hasn't saved the speech, but that was good. Wrap it up man. You are ahead for once. Quit. Stop. Stop. Stop talking.
11:34 And that's it! He's done! The crowd sounds like a small crowd at a concert. Weak spotlights swirl around the crowd. Balloons? I don't see any Balloons. Here are the families. Applause has died down. People are tired. And so am I. It's time to go home.
Some reaction from the peoples though first. I haven't come this far not to hear what other people think. NPR did not think it was too compelling, did not hurt but it did not help. It certainly did not change my mind. Oh, there are the Balloons. There have to be balloons, and there are real fireworks too. At least in that I am not disappointed.
The fact checkers I think are going to rip this one apart.
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