# 2020 Virtual convention thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 17, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353 "2020-08-17T23:18:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/284 "2020-08-24T19:11:41Z")
They don’t give the delegate vote totals for the nomination. I think that was the real roll call but maybe they’ll do a show one for prime time. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/285 "2020-08-24T19:25:41Z")
I’ve checked the schedule and what strikes me is the number of speakers. They are planning on 17 or 18 speakers a day. In addition, there are reports that Trump wants to talk in Prime Time every day although he is only on the Thursday schedule.Then again, the Democratic schedule didn’t list Biden’s grandchildren or Harris’ relatives as “speakers” while all of Trump’s relatives are listed. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/286 "2020-08-24T22:16:16Z")
Like :Damn 5 character limit: ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/287 "2020-08-24T23:57:31Z")
There’s no platform. > **[GOP Will Not Write a 2020 Platform, Pledges Undying Trump Support Instead](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/republican-national-committee-2020-platform-trump.html)** > > The RNC admits that the Republican Party is just a personality cult. On the one hand, that makes it easy to refute accusations that you’re not following your platform, or that a policy isn’t in the spirit of your platform, or etc. But… what are they for? Just “Trump”? or “Trump and whatever he tweets about that morning”? They couldn’t even throw out “oh, and we’re still against abortion” as a fourth paragraph? I might have disagreed with a great deal of their platforms in previous years - but at least they were willing to state a set of opinions. The Republican Party really has no _there_ there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/288 "2020-08-25T00:21:17Z")
Anyone planning on watching any (or all 😱 ) of the Republican convention? I’m going watch a little, but with the sound off and the captions on. I don’t want the evil spirits to enter through my ears and capture my soul. Might make myself a tinfoil hat, too. I understand they’re going to do a remote from the rim of a live volcano where winners of an _“I love Donnie more than my own children!”_ contest will toss effigies of the Obamas, the Clintons, the Bidens, Bernie, and AOC into the pit of flaming lava. Don’t want to miss that! I made that up. You knew that, right? But if they could have figured out a way to do it, they would have. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/289 "2020-08-25T00:39:24Z")
Whatever else the RNC does, it needs to ditch this ticker they’ve got. I can barely read it but it’s very distracting, too. ---
**Author:** ![ThisIsTheEnd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisistheend/32/4713_2.png) [@ThisIsTheEnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/290 "2020-08-25T00:40:24Z")
First speech, right to civil war. This should be a real cross-burner, er, barn-burner of a convention. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/291 "2020-08-25T00:47:41Z")
The local Fox channel is currently showing ‘the Kings Speach’, not sure what to make of that. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/292 "2020-08-25T00:47:42Z")
The defender of Western Civilization? Doesn’t look like they are going to try for the moderate/independent voter. The few thousand that there are. Going for turnout. I’m not going to watch anymore Who was the first speaker at the Dem convention? ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/293 "2020-08-25T00:49:06Z")
Did Gaetz just say that we are better fighting our own citizens than fighting against enemies abroad? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/294 "2020-08-25T00:49:52Z")
The teacher union buster just made a reference to the “Republican platform”, which doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/295 "2020-08-25T00:56:09Z")
Is the National Committee Chair saying that Democrats have no policies when _REPUBLICANS DON’T HAVE A PLATFORM._ ---
**Author:** ![Flopnoodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@Flopnoodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flopnoodle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/296 "2020-08-25T00:59:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I understand they’re going to do a remote from the rim of a live volcano where winners of an _“I love Donnie more than my own children!”_ contest will toss effigies of the Obamas, the Clintons, the Bidens, Bernie, and AOC into the pit of flaming lava. Don’t want to miss that! Is that feed on CSPAN3 After Hours, or is it Pay-Per-View? Because I’d pay. Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![Flopnoodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@Flopnoodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flopnoodle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/297 "2020-08-25T01:01:20Z")
More projection than a multiplex ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/298 "2020-08-25T01:11:41Z")
The best part is that at the end the camera operator jumps in _with the camera still running!_ Big Finish! Or maybe he just throws the camera in… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/299 "2020-08-25T01:14:03Z")
> [@](#): > > MSNBC’s Chuck Todd lit into Trump and the Republicans at the end of the address, saying “the party, for all intents and purposes, has no principles anymore.” It was a reference to the GOP decision not to pass a convention platform of positions on issues. > > “We were told this convention would be upbeat, optimistic,” Todd said. “Well, what we have just heard from the president was a grievance-filled informal acceptance speech that was filled with so many made-up problems about mail-in voting that if we were to air just the truthful parts, we probably could only air maybe a sentence.” > > After questioning some of the president’s other statements, Todd said, “it’s going to be a long week for fact-checkers.” > **[First day shows media coverage of convention is sore spot](https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-entertainment-politics-nc-state-wire-1ff7ef9d7add9581a402db8b424b7642)** > > NEW YORK (AP) — The opening of the Republican National Convention on Monday offered quick proof that how it is covered by the news media will be an ongoing sore spot. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/300 "2020-08-25T01:15:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The best part is that at the end the camera operator jumps in _with the camera still running!_ Big Finish! > > Or maybe he just throws the camera in… If it’s just thrown in, it’ll tumble. If the operator jumps in, you’ll see his feet. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/301 "2020-08-25T01:18:46Z")
So, basically the message is “big cities are scary!!!” With a side of “Trump can be a nice guy. Really. We swear. Every so often, he doesn’t kick puppies!” ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/302 "2020-08-25T01:23:25Z")
Trump’s little chat with COVID frontline workers just now, was actually the most human I’ve seen him in a long time. I have to give him his due, he’s good at speaking off the cuff like that. He has a smooth, ingratiating, conversational manner when he wants to. It’s not like he’s made ME feel that he’s any less venal and corrupt, but if the goal was to humanize him to the general public, I think they succeeded with that. There’s my 2 cents… ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/303 "2020-08-25T01:44:53Z")
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