Republican Convention Day 3
I really can't take actually watching this, or pretending that there is one thing rational or normal about it. The audience was screaming about throwing Hillary in prison almost from the first moment. I'll just stand by speaker Laura Ingram, pretty much summing up what this whole thing is about:
I always thought they would make a lot more effort to hide what they really are behind a thick veneer of Lonesome Rhodes style folksiness, but I guess that didn't last long.
Anyone still wondering, as I used to, how it happened in Germany in the thirties?
By the way, if you don't get the reference to Lonesome Rhodes, you owe it to yourself to find a way to see the movie "A Face in the Crowd." It has turned out to be one of the most prophetic films you will ever see, as well as a peerless serious performance for Andy Griffith, before he spent his career being a professional nice guy. Here's a sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaLQMs_VDLw
I always thought they would make a lot more effort to hide what they really are behind a thick veneer of Lonesome Rhodes style folksiness, but I guess that didn't last long.
Anyone still wondering, as I used to, how it happened in Germany in the thirties?
By the way, if you don't get the reference to Lonesome Rhodes, you owe it to yourself to find a way to see the movie "A Face in the Crowd." It has turned out to be one of the most prophetic films you will ever see, as well as a peerless serious performance for Andy Griffith, before he spent his career being a professional nice guy. Here's a sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaLQMs_VDLw
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And the worst of it is that, if, as is likely, he loses in November, we know the Republican reaction is not going to be to ask why the American people rejected them, but to double down on their insanity; who knows what kind of monster may next come slouching down toward us.