# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/384 "2020-08-27T21:19:58Z")
Hope to God they don’t plan on having Mike Linndell speak… ---
**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 27, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/385 "2020-08-27T21:28:36Z")
He could put everyone to sleep…which is likely his plan. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/386 "2020-08-27T23:38:28Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I love how somewhere reported that the day before the election, an asteroid is coming close. Yikes! We have no time, people! We need to build a massive rocketship that can impact the asteroid and nudge it just a little bit closer. ---
**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 27, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/387 "2020-08-27T23:51:35Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > > > I love how somewhere reported that the day before the election, an asteroid is coming close. > > Yikes! We have no time, people! We need to build a massive rocketship that can impact the asteroid and nudge it just a little bit closer. - Too late for that! Everyone run to one side of the Earth and push like your lives depend on it! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/388 "2020-08-28T00:23:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Too late for that! Everyone run to one side of the Earth and push like your lives depend on it! Not that side–the other side. THE OTHER SIDE, DAMMIT!!! Never mind, it’s gonna miss. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/389 "2020-08-28T01:14:46Z")
This idiotic AG from Arizona just told how his father came from the Philippines with nothing and lived his American dream. Is he even aware that Trump would not have let his father in? He is talking about how the desperate and downtrodden want to come to America because Trump has made it so great. Cognitive dissonance much? ---
**Author:** ![Flopnoodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@Flopnoodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flopnoodle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/390 "2020-08-28T02:29:02Z")
Is… is… is Melania wearing a green screen on purpose? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/391 "2020-08-28T02:50:50Z")
Would she rather just disappear from the whole RNC shambles? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/392 "2020-08-28T03:05:00Z")
Of all the false things Ivanka claimed, the most risible had to be the story about her father supposedly getting quietly emotional about Alice Johnson and musing about how many others like her there must be out there. I would bet everything I own that never, ever happened. But it does make transparent that her job was to go out there and try her best to fill in the deep, deep holes (chasms, really) in her father’s image. Foremost among them: a stunning lack of empathy. So she tells a story about Donald Trump expressing empathy in a way we have never seen, that he mostly doesn’t even try to fake. Do they really think anyone’s going to buy that rather than the evidence of their own “lying eyes”? 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/393 "2020-08-28T03:17:13Z")
Well, some might… but they were going to vote for Trump anyway. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/394 "2020-08-28T03:29:32Z")
Right, I meant anyone in the presumed target audience: wavering suburban white women in the Rust Belt who reluctantly voted for him in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/395 "2020-08-28T03:31:20Z")
Eh, who knows. It’s kind of hard to gauge. The Trump administration has probably been the most nakedly partisan one in at least 100 years (if not ever). ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/396 "2020-08-28T03:32:05Z")
Man, does this guy ever shut up? It’s 11:30 PM on the east coast and he’s still talking! I didn’t see when this started; anybody got an estimate on how long this has been going on? ---
**Author:** ![Flopnoodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@Flopnoodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flopnoodle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/397 "2020-08-28T03:37:03Z")
God, that felt like a eulogy ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/398 "2020-08-28T03:38:26Z")
Why couldn’t it have rained in Washington DC tonight? ---
**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 28, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/399 "2020-08-28T03:52:32Z")
Not really getting the opera singer serenading Trump and his family from the White House. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/400 "2020-08-28T03:53:36Z")
Haha, that would have been great. It really did drag on, didn’t it? So random, no thematic throughline. I kept wondering about the very few masked people seen in the crowd. That is kind of brave to stick out that way. I wonder if they will all quietly be fired next Friday night. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/401 "2020-08-28T06:10:30Z")
MSNBC noted the thousands of maskless people, jammed together for hours, and called it a death cult, since they’re apparently willing to die for Trump. I thought that might have been a _tad_ over the top. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/402 "2020-08-28T10:40:51Z")
I’ve been calling it a cult for four years, and ever since not wearing masks became a tribal symbol, I’ve been calling it a death cult. I think the term’s pretty on point. It’s not only that they’re willing to _die_ for Trump. It’s more that their cult leader demands that they _sacrifice the old and infirm_ for his glory, and they acquiesce. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/403 "2020-08-28T13:48:30Z")
I can’t remember; was it Joy Reid or Nicolle Wallace that quoted, “The difference between a religion and a cult is that, in a religion, your Savior will sacrifice his life for his followers, but in a cult, the followers are expected to sacrifice their lives for their Savior.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353.md?page=21)