I’m not looking forward to the Democratic Party and Republican Party’s political conventions this year. Both are going to be awful for different reasons. I’m still not sure what’s happening with the Dem convention, and I think they’re planning for something a lot more lowkey, but God knows, really. Meanwhile, the GOP and Trumpers are fighting with North Carolina (the originally scheduled site of this year’s convention) and of course Trump wants to make a bigly speech and turn everything into a big Nazi rally. Funny sidenote though – because the Trumpers are awful managers and the GOP doesn’t give a f–k, they’ve just replaced the year on their 2016 GOP platform and said “this is our 2020 GOP platform.” The 2016 platform was all about calling out the then-current president. This is hysterical:
When Republicans read the platform their party is using for the 2020 campaign, they may be surprised to see that it is full of condemnations of the sitting president.
“The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk,” the platform reads. “Its gravest peril originates in the White House, the current occupant of which has launched a campaign, both at home and internationally, to subjugate it to agents of government.”
The warning about speech online is one of more than three dozen unflattering references to either the “current president,” “current chief executive,” “current administration,” people “currently in control” of policy, or the “current occupant” of the White House that appear in the Republican platform. Adopted at the party’s 2016 convention, it has been carried over through 2024 after the executive committee of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday chose not to adopt a new platform for 2020.
The platform censures the “current” president — who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama — and his administration for, among other things, imposing “a social and cultural revolution,” causing a “huge increase in the national debt” and damaging relationships with international partners.
“The Middle East is more dangerous now than at any time since the Second World War,” the platform reads. “Whatever their disagreements, presidents of both parties had always prioritized America’s national interests, the trust of friendly governments, and the security of Israel. That sound consensus was replaced with impotent grandstanding on the part of the current President and his Secretaries of State. The results have been ruinous for all parties except Islamic terrorists and their Iranian and other sponsors.”
The Republican Party has found itself in this awkward bind because of President Trump’s decision last week to move the location of his nominating speech. Under the R.N.C. rules, the convention will adjourn with the old platform serving as the official party platform until 2024.
Congrats, GOP, you played yourself. Finally, Moscow Mitch, Desperado Susan Collins and I are all in agreement: the current president is THE WORST. The current president sucks so hard. The current president is a fascist undermining our republic. The current president has no foreign policy and everything is an ego trip for the current president. I’m glad the current GOP platform says that on the record.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red and Backgrid.
The world is on fire, so I will take any laughs I can. LOL!
You’d think they’d just … change the rules?
I assume they will.
These fools put less effort into everything they do than a high school kid who doesn’t like homework. You can’t even really call them evil because that implies a clarity of purpose that no one involved has ever come close to achieving. They’re just incredibly lazy and stupid.
They’re so incompetent at everything and it’s terrifying.
eh, I think they can be both evil AND lazy/stupid.
It’s sad how much they are paying themselves to be this terrible at their jobs. I work in communications and edit all kinds of documents. Not even bothering to read something before hitting publish is unthinkable; I stay up at night over a misplaced comma.
IKR? I’m a paralegal and I read everything I draft at least three times. I just sent a response to a demand yesterday and when I was closing it (after having proofed it multiple times) I noticed a missed period and wanted to DIE. How can they be so careless, lazy, and stupid. Oh…right. 🙄
That thing is over 60 pages long, small font, all single spaced, and words crammed onto every page. They are proving themselves to be lazy, careless idiots who do not deserve to hold any public office.
I am willing to bet both the Obamas are going to speak at the Democratic Convention.
I also predict more prominent African American leaders and freedom fighters using that platform to really ramp in the fact that people have to vote in November to see real change.
Bernie Sanders will probably say something to encourage the millions of generation X to also register and vote.
Gen Z not Gen X. 😏
Haha sorry 😂
Except for the Bernie thing I think you’re right it will be a night of great speeches. Probably lots via video to keep social distance. I’m actually looking forward to what they’re gonna bring.
And please, please, please Kamala for VP!
For once, incompetence leads to truth being told.
Some 21 year old staffer likely changed the date on the title, and posted it before being called to pick up the boss’ secret mistress or something.
Exactly. JFC, the sheer buffoonery would be comical, if our country wasn’t in such an utter shambles.
If the past four years were a movie made pre-2000, no one would believe it could ever be real life.
It would be like a Lampoon movie times 100 for absurdity.
Nobody in trumpworld is very bright. Scheming, devious, manipulative, evil-yes, a million times yes, but bright, not so much. Hope their daddies didn’t have to pay too much getting them into their various colleges.
Wait….What? I don’t get it!!!!
They took the original document from 2016 and changed a few words – but not some very important ones – and released that to the public.
I didn’t at first either, oops!
This is HILARIOUS. I love it.
I kind of hope the GOP keeps feuding with North Carolina, because it’s considered a swing state now, and the Dems would gladly take those votes.
So what is their explanation for the ineptitude?
Ugh, that pic of Trump holding the Bible… surprised his hand didn’t burst into flames for touching it.
I do so much wish it had…but then we’d have proof God is alive and we wouldn’t need faith….
I was willing to give up faith for absolute certainty He was there. I would have LOVED to have seen some kind of “nature” like a bolt of lightening, his hand bursting into flames, or real shite coming out of his mouth…or grasshoppers coming up to swarm him….there’s still time, and I’m praying hard for his expulsion from power….
Did you see the eagle, our national symbol, attack Trump back in 2016? That was a sign to chill the blood, I’m sure you can still see it on youtube.
Although I really love the sense of… finality of the signs you mentioned. 😀
These GOP’s can twist themselves into shapes and try to act like they didn’t create this orange monster but most people know better.
In 2016 Trump told everyone exactly who he was and the GOP supported his every word. He hasn’t changed and he won’t change. He has to go.
Another picture worth a thousand words. 🙂 Dumpty looking at the Bible thinking, what is it?
I won’t watch but will enjoy the thorough skewering of all involved.
Yes, but the 30 to 40 percent would go to their graves for him and that deserves several books studying this WTF sickening syndrome. I believe conditions must have been “ripe” somehow for this debacle to unfold. Parallels with the rise of Naziism in Germany after WW 1.