7 of the most bizarre and unhinged moments from the Republican National Convention's first night

[Soph0571]

The opening night of the Republican National Convention was every bit as unhinged as you might expect it to be.
1. The crowd chanted "12 more years".
Trump began his RNC speech with a ‘joke’ about holding office for longer than the legal two-term limit – to which attendees responded by chanting "12 more years".
2. The St Louis 'gun couple' warned people about "Marxist revolutionaries" destroying the suburbs.
3. A chair accidentally touted Maryland's "greatest segregationists".
4. Kimberly Guilfoyle shouted into an empty room.
5. Trump praised Tennessee's "beautiful war fields".
6. Louisiana's chair said that Joe Biden is "hiding in the dark, waiting to take the lives of our unborn babies".
7. Mike Pence said we need to "Make America Great Again... again".

https://www.indy100.com/article/republican-national-convention-rnc-trump-mike-pence-9686876]
Emphasis mine

They are all batshit cray cray

[The Wizard]

2. Weird, strange and bizarre

all in praise of a cheesy, second hand reality TV performance artist.
We must remind the cult that Trump was put in place to expose the radical fringe that will be herded into FEMA reeducation camps. Is mental illness covered by Obamacare?

[underpants]

3. Fun times.

[North Shore Chicago]

4. They should all

be offered a fruit flavored drink, they look thirsty.

[leftofthestorm]

7. Or maybe a special tea....

[Nexus2]

5. And that was day one.

[crickets]

19. Brain twin.

Belated welcome to DU, Nexus2!

[Tanuki]

6. The theme last night was supposed to be "Land of Promise"!

https://people.com/politics/2020-republican-national-convention-schedule-speakers-events/


... "The RNC is organized under the daily themes of “Land of Promise,” “Land of Opportunity,” “Land of Heroes” and “Land of Greatness." The bulk of the programming is expected to air each night in primetime, on TV and online, with daily business being streamed as well."...

[Harker]

8. They left out

"Land of Gullible Rubes Ready to be Fleeced."

[Illumination]

9. Isn't it GREAT that there's coaches, therapists & psychiatrists on-line ready to chat, video

& text this group? Poor things! Hope the professionals are able to help!...

[Aussie105]

10. Lots of parallels

with the rhetoric of the first night and that of cults, and how they control their followers.

Hype, add some fear mongering, stir in some racist leanings, another sprinkle of fear of the unknown, demonize the 'others', and you have a cult.

But yeah, if Trump told them the Democrats would render the unborn from the womb before their eyes, take away their guns, and make them swear allegiance to Big Brother (aka 'Biden'), they would believe him. In such a state of insanity, Trump can get them to do anything he orders them to do.

Tell you what - just cut to the end chapter, where they drink the Flavor-Aid and lie down and smile, thinking the Mother Ship will come to collect them.
Because that is how it's going to end, if they don't smarten up soon.

Yes, batshit cray-cray. And dangerous.

Expect the next few nights to crank the cray-cray up to Force 11.

[IronLionZion]

11. Joe Biden is a radical leftist socialist

was the main takeaway.

Dem cities with Chinatowns are the main reason COVID is surging out of control through rural Southern states. Also lots of COVID survivors happily claim it's not that bad, just take antibiotics and zinc, Trump himself took those things and hydroxychloroquine for some unknown reason like prevention.

Also America must not be great right now since it needs to be made great again, again. So whoever has been in charge the last 3.5 years will make it great again. or something like that.

Marxist revolutionaries are not only destroying peaceful law abiding suburbs, they are getting elected to Congress. Guns will solve this problem somehow.

Women and minorities and millennials love Trump

[machoneman]

12. Hey, Kimmie G's Eva Peron moment on the balcony was comedy gold for the ages! I shit you not.

It's a gotta watch moment that crystallizes the insanity of true Trump believers. I also doubt she wrote that drivel herself as I saw the hand of Trump and his crazy WH messaging staff at hand.

Oddly, she'll be remembered as the low point of the convention as I don't see any other flame-throwers coming even close to her bat shit crazy, loudspeaker rant!

[Harker]

13. They must be saving "Joe" the "plumber"

for the grande finale.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Pure projection

Trump destroyer of democracy claims Democrats are the threat to America!

We can't let this take hold. It's pure bluster.

[NCjack]

15. The GOP platform is: elect Leader Trump to be president of the Fascist States of America, with

a blank check. He alone gets to decide what programs/projects he would do and the amount of tax money he will spend on them.

And that is OK with all of the Republican members of Congress. It reminds me of a horse that my cousin had. She was a fantastic quarter horse named Cookie. We had an irresponsible neighbor who owned a knot-head stallion name "Bubba". Bubba wasn't worth the cost of one year of his feed. Everyone told the owner to get Bubba fixed, but he didn't. One night, Bubba broke out and impregnated Cookie. We are "Cookie" and Trump is "Bubba".

Extremely disappointing that those GOP Members of Congress don't have standards of quality. If they want a fascist dictator, they should go to the top and get at least a colonel. Maybe a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is interested.

[live love laugh]

16. They are NOT cray -- they're trying to drive everybody else crazy.

And sadly they’re succeeding.

[Aristus]

17. That fact that there were enough bizarre and unhinged moments in the evening

to create a representative sample of 'only' seven, tells one everything one needs to know about these monsters...

[DeminPennswoods]

18. They could've saved themselves a lot of time and money

by just replaying Buchanan's "culture wars" RNC speech from 1992.

[PatrickforO]

20. Apparently that St. Louis gun couple shares a fence with a Synagogue.

The Rabbi put up beehives on the fence to produce honey, and this guy went over there with a sledge hammer and destroyed them all.

Your average Trump supporter, I guess. Say, I hear they are shortly to be facing criminal charges.

[Smackdown2019]

21. Oh Rats! I missed it. :(

I was too busy watching "the Resistance" on PBS that I recorded early that morning.

Kinda funny, they were Anti-Fa of the 1940s.


And Trumps platform is get rid of the AntiFa?



I think I seen how it ends, the Americans will win the fight in 45. So, in November, we Americans again will win during 45 reign of power and round up his Nazi Party members. Hold them like the Nuremberg Trials.

[cynical_idealist]

22. my first impression: NEGATIVITY

As expected.

Dramatic contrast with the Dems' great show

[XanaDUer2]

23. Kimberly Guilfoyle was yelling

Like a nut

[Aussie105]

24. Be scared of 'them'

is not good policy for the RNC.

Saying the RNC 2020 policies are those of the 2016 election, isn't going to do it. We have seen where they lead.

Saying 'Trust the Magnificent Leader' on making up policy on the fly, isn't going to work either.

The RNC approach to politics is clearly based on present and past Dictatorships.
Why some people can't see that, is beyond me.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

25. That put in a concise list like that

Looks crazy as shit.

Maybe do a list like that one and put it on a card and leave them everywhere.

[VA_Jill]

26. Thank you

to anyone who can watch and report on this so the rest of us don't have to. I mean it. I can't even hate-watch. My blood pressure would go up dangerously in spite of two meds.