# The Republican national Convention **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 18, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729 "2016-06-18T21:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 52
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1022 "2016-07-22T01:13:06Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > 1. There’s been a lot of gum-flapping about what wonderful kids Mr. Trump has, and how well they’ve carried themselves, how they should go into politics themselves, yadda yadda yadda. This is kind of mystifying to me, since wasn’t one of the main talking points of Trump supporters back in the day the claim that they didn’t **want** members of some “political dynasty” continuing to run the country? They liked “outsiders” who had the ability to win on “their own merits” as opposed to their family connections? But now that their favorite “outsider” turns out to have spawned some offspring who not only inherit some of their various mothers’ model/actress good looks but can actually read coherent English off a teleprompter with reasonable poise, they’re all excited about turning said offspring into a political dynasty of their own. 😕 > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Hey, I won’t argue, but all they suggest to me is that it indeed seems possible to be a colossal douchebag and a decent parent after all (especially when you’ve got a few hundred million to throw around on their upbringing). Sure, although bear in mind that Trump divorced his first wife when their oldest son was 13 and divorced his second wife when their only child was 3. Both his ex-wives had full custody post-divorce, AFAICT, and both of them have claimed that Trump didn’t have much to do with actually raising the kids. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1023 "2016-07-22T01:14:24Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Trump is a wild card, though. Sometimes his salesman instinct takes over. He smells the crowd is right in his palm and he plays to that. Starts “shooting from the hip”. Yep, this is what we are all waiting to see. Will His Orange Highness read off the teleprompters or will he start winging it? I hope he goes way off the script and makes this interesting. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1024 "2016-07-22T01:16:21Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > The black guy? Pastor Mark Burns is his name. I was pissed because my TV reception was crapping out (antenna woohoo!) and really interrupting the crazy for me. > > All Lives Matter! Even Muslim lives! _screeedeech_ Apparently that was the Benediction. I found it offputting. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1025 "2016-07-22T01:19:16Z")
Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel is supposed to talk about being gay next. Should go down like a lead balloon with this crowd. Tump’s VP Mike Pence is Mr. Anti-LGBT. He said, “Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s [sic] as a discreet [sic] and insular minority entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.” ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1026 "2016-07-22T01:26:50Z")
“I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.” Surprisingly, he wasn’t booed off the stage. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1027 "2016-07-22T01:29:48Z")
A video narrated by Arrogant Donald Jr. “Everything my father does is first class.” I feel nauseous. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1028 "2016-07-22T01:29:55Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > “I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.” > > Surprisingly, he wasn’t booed off the stage. Any booing that might have started at I am proud to be gay would have looked damn silly when he then went on to be proud of being a Republican and most of all an American. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1029 "2016-07-22T01:33:01Z")
Did Reince Priebus accuse the Clinton Foundation of funding terrorism? I think he was trying to say that the foundation has taken money from people who are from countries that fund terrorism, which is some pretty weak guilt by association shit, but it was worded so awkardly (intentionally?) that it sounded like he was saying that the Clinton Foundation was the funder. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1030 "2016-07-22T01:35:50Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Any booing that might have started at I am proud to be gay would have looked damn silly when he then went on to be proud of being a Republican and most of all an American. Yeah, he had a good delivery there to keep the crowd behind him on what could have been a divisive point. ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1031 "2016-07-22T01:37:04Z")
That nod to Melania by Tom Barrack was creepy and way too much. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1032 "2016-07-22T01:37:49Z")
Donald has one of his rich friends, Tom Barrack, CEO of Colony Capital, kissing his fat orange ass. This is where the entire audience takes a bathroom break. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1033 "2016-07-22T01:39:27Z")
Given Donald’s history with Gaddhafi, you’d think they wouldn’t want to open that can … but there I go thinking of them as rational people interested in reality. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1034 "2016-07-22T01:43:06Z")
Tom Barrack tells a story which demonstrates Donald is nice to “little” people. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1035 "2016-07-22T01:47:03Z")
I’m actually going to watch the acceptance speech. Not sure why. Guess it’s cuz I’m up. ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1036 "2016-07-22T01:52:11Z")
Trump’s big legacy: Improve the Trump name. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1037 "2016-07-22T01:52:38Z")
An exceptionally long music break while we wait for Princess Ivanka to address her loyal subjects. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1038 "2016-07-22T01:54:01Z")
> [@rock\_party](#): > > Trump’s big legacy: Improve the Trump name. Exactly! Not improve the world, improve the Trump name. Another weird anecdote courtesy of Tom Barrack. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1039 "2016-07-22T01:56:34Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Donald has one of his rich friends, Tom Barrack, CEO of Colony Capital, kissing his fat orange ass. This is where the entire audience takes a bathroom break. Just read an article the other day about this sleazeball’s company. His capital firm was part of how Trumpster won the right to renovate the Old Post Office building into a luxury hotel. The Old Post Office building, which is a few blocks form the White House, that is. Trump won the bid through in no small part, his promise to retain an architect who had played a key role in the buildings history, and also that Trump had the backing of Colony Capital, Barrack’s firm. Almost immediately after winning the bid, Trump fired the architect, and then let it slip out that Colony Capital would be pulling out as well. Trump then borrowed against the property itself to finance the renovation. And he has applied for multiple tax breaks because he is restoring a historic building. But he really isn’t really even doing that. He wants to carpet over the marble floors, and put gold leaf on everything. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1040 "2016-07-22T02:04:03Z")
You know, I wonder if we’re missing the actual point of the Trump candidacy? Not as a conspiracy theory to elect Clinton, not as simply a vanity project, but maybe he’s trying to increase Ivanka’s national profile? Is it a coincidence that Ivanka is first eligible to run for President in 2020? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1041 "2016-07-22T02:04:51Z")
Princess Ivanka is not categorically Republican or Democrat? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=53)