# 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:** 22
**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 28, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/424 "2020-08-28T19:45:57Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Can anyone who isn’t conservative ever denounce rioters? - It’s been done quite frequently. You must have missed it. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/425 "2020-08-28T19:46:58Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Can anyone who isn’t conservative ever denounce rioters? They do so regularly. Will Kamala Harris do? In her speech yesterday: > [@](#): > > “We must always defend peaceful protests and peaceful protesters,” she said. “We should not confuse them with those looting and committing acts of violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder. And make no mistake, we will not let these vigilantes and extremists derail the path to justice.” > **[‘It’s not supposed to be about him’: Harris scorches Trump in prebuttal of...](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/27/harris-attacks-trumps-incompetence-coronavirus-response-in-acceptance-speech-prebuttal-403770)** > > The Democratic vice presidential nominee accused the president of deadly incompetence and “a reckless disregard for the well-being of the American people.” ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/426 "2020-08-28T19:47:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s been done quite frequently. You must have missed it. It’s not her fault her phone and TV can only access Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/427 "2020-08-28T19:47:38Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s been done quite frequently. You must have missed it. One has to be looking for them first. 🙂 ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/428 "2020-08-28T19:48:05Z")
Her. I watch tv, including CNN and MSNBC. ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/429 "2020-08-28T19:48:44Z")
I meant on this board. You’d like them to beat him to the ground before denouncing it? ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/430 "2020-08-28T19:49:10Z")
I’m getting popcorn for the debates. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/431 "2020-08-28T19:49:25Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Her. I apologize and have corrected my post. ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/432 "2020-08-28T19:50:18Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I meant on this board. You’d like them to beat him to the ground before denouncing it? There’s been a great deal on the boards. You must have missed it. ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/433 "2020-08-28T19:50:45Z")
Maybe if they’d fixed his hair… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/434 "2020-08-28T19:52:20Z")
> [@Feds 'black-bagging people' in Portland](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feds-black-bagging-people-in-portland/915638/239): > > …it isn’t really a tricky situation at all. Its a matter of scale. Its a matter of proportionality, its a matter of basic training. There are thousands of videos of the police and of federal agencies casually beating people at the protests, casually aiming and shooting people with pepper balls, casually throwing tear gas into the middle of the street, casually throwing people off bikes, with almost zero accountability. The police and the federal agencies are rioting. The police unions supp… ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/435 "2020-08-28T19:57:37Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Biden’s campaign celebrated the overnight ratings win – and [embraced](https://twitter.com/TDucklo/status/1299390728175587329) it as a potential way to get under Trump’s skin. Ha! And Trump had everything going for him attention wise. Baseball, Hockey, and Basketball were all canceled. There was nothing else to watch on TV and Biden still beat him in ratings. ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/436 "2020-08-28T19:58:11Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Feds 'black-bagging people' in Portland - #239 by Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feds-black-bagging-people-in-portland/915638/239) Can anyone who is conservative ever denounce police rioters? ---
**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, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/437 "2020-08-28T20:55:31Z")
Democrats will accept responsibility for mobs in Washington, when Republicans accept responsibility for Kyle Rittenhouse. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/438 "2020-08-28T21:01:28Z")
You really have selection bias and are ignoring the many of us condemning rioting and looting, condemning those who said “loot back”, and being clear about the difference between protests, violent protest, and looting using protest as an excuse. Indeed some recognition of murder by police as a major issue, a structural one, from the conservative side would be great. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/439 "2020-08-28T21:54:41Z")
Whenever I hear people talk about looting, I 'm reminded of this quote: “There are two modes of invading private property; the first, by which the poor plunder the rich … sudden and violent; the second, by which the rich plunder the poor, slow and legal.” – John Taylor, “An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States” (1814) ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/440 "2020-08-28T23:30:34Z")
Did Trump actually get a “convention bump” in the polls? I saw an article that claimed Biden didn’t get a bump, but that same article said Biden got an 3% increase in his favorability rating. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/441 "2020-08-28T23:39:10Z")
> [@ricksummon](#): > > Did Trump actually get a “convention bump” in the polls? Too soon to tell, as the convention just ended last night. It’ll be the better part of a week before we start seeing the results from any major polls conducted after the convention. ---
**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 29, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/442 "2020-08-29T02:56:46Z")
It must have been the lighting that made his girlfriend so loud, too. > **[Donald Trump Jr. Denies Rumors That He Was On Cocaine During His RNC Speech](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-denies-cocaine-rumors-rnc-speech_n_5f46c4cac5b64f17e137e0e2)** > > "I guess there must have been something with the lighting," Trump Jr. said. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353/443 "2020-08-29T02:59:30Z")
Maybe it was _light beer_. There is a correlation between alcohol consumption and loudness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2020-virtual-convention-thread/918353.md?page=23)