Well, even though the democratic convention
is kicking off this week, the Republican convention
is the one that is currently stealing headlines.
And obviously one of the reasons they're sealing
headlines at the moment is because they're
going to do a lot of the events at federal
buildings, uh, which means they're most likely
going to run a foul of federal law, specifically
the hatch act, which prevents any federal
employee from engaging in overtly partisan
political behavior, which is exactly what
would happen if any of the federal employees
at these federal buildings, uh, participate
in the Republican convention, even though
it's happening at their workplace, uh, violation
of federal law. But there's another reason
why the Republican convention has kind of
a, you know, capturing headlines right now
before the democratic convention. And that
is because the Republicans have been forced
to kind of retailer what their convention
is going to be about.
Not just because they have to do a digitally,
but because they're dealing with a, a egomaniac
at the top of the ticket, you know, they've
got to play to his narcissism. So they've
revamped the Republican convention. And, uh,
now every single night of this four night
event is going to strictly be about how awesome
Donald Trump is. Every night. If you tune
into this event, all you're going to hear
is a parade of high profile Republicans, including
the president's children, of course, telling
you how Donald Trump has made your life better.
How this country that we're in right now is
a totally, super crazy awesome because of
Donald Trump, no problems at all. Economy's
kicking ass, right? Uh, it's not like we're
in the middle of a global pandemic. Uh, it's
not like we have civil unrest. Nope. None
of that. You're just going to hear about how
great things are today and how it's all because
of what Donald Trump has done.
Uh, let's be clear. Most of what is happening
right now in this country is because of what
Donald Trump has done. Let's, let's give credit
where it's due, but none of those things are
good. The trade war that is still going on.
I know it's kind of hard to pay attention
to that because we do have obviously a much
more pressing issues happening the trade war.
Uh, there's no end in sight talks collapsed
over a month ago, over a month ago, Peter
Navarro, uh Trump's trade advisor admitted
that himself. He said, yeah, we were back
to square one. We don't know where we're going
to go with us because we can't come up with
a deal. So that's a thing that probably won't
get mentioned. They'll probably say like,
it's been tough on China. Trump's the toughest
he's much tougher than Biden would be Biden.
Probably wouldn't be this ridiculous with
a trade war that is costing us jobs in an
already weak economic setting.
Then of course we have the response to the
pandemic, which the Trump administration actually
seems to think they're doing a good job on,
uh, that'll probably be featured as one of
Trump's triumphs that we're going to hear
about at this convention. But here's the problem
with this. Not only does this prove that the
entire Republican party has transformed itself
into a cult of personality surrounding Donald
Trump, it also undermines the entire point
of the convention. This whole thing is really
supposed to be a bit of a circus and you don't
bring out your best circus act, right at the
beginning. You know, you don't lead with your
strongest act and then everything else after
that is just kind of like, it gets boring.
You got to have a little bit of showmanship.
You have to build to that grand event. You
know, that's why every story follows the same
kind of format that you learn about in high
school.
The climax is like almost right there at the
end, then right after the climax is the resolution,
then the end. But at that climax, that's what
the convention is about. That's why the nominee
always speaks on the last night and every
night prior to that, it's the buildup, right?
The anticipation, the excitement you hear
about the party, you hear about the other
people in the party, you hear about your plans,
your ideas what's going to happen in who is
the person who's going to make all this happen.
Oh my God, here they come on. Night. Number
four, blah. Not the Republicans. Nope, totally.
Just going to be every single night. Look
at Donald Trump, look at how great he is.
If everybody could just get on your knees,
you know, worship him a little bit. It doesn't
have to be too much, but if you could just
do it a little bit every few times a day,
uh, that's going to be okay for the Republican
party because that is 100% what Donald Trump
has forced them to turn into and believe it
or not, didn't even take a lot of coercion
from Trump has self, uh, to make them become
this disgusting.
