# 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:** 53
**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, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1042 "2016-07-22T02:09:04Z")
Ivanka giggles a bit between verses. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1043 "2016-07-22T02:09:14Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I laughed out loud at Reince Preibus’ description of the Iran deal. And I’m the only one here! Was that the one he referred to as Hillary’s Iran deal, the one that was reached more than two years after she left the state department? I’ve been avoiding watching any of the convention, but I was out in my car and had the radio on. ---
**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, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1044 "2016-07-22T02:10:46Z")
I’m calling bullshit on Trump finding stories from newspapers and finding those individuals who need help. ---
**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, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1045 "2016-07-22T02:11:16Z")
Princess Ivanka says my father is “gender neutral” … unless the woman is a fat pig like Rosie O’Donnel. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1046 "2016-07-22T02:13:12Z")
I think Ivanka is really attractive. I don’t mean in a lustful sort of way, but she just seems very confident, intelligent, and competent. Don’t get me wrong, she is a babe, but she has a certain quality about her. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1047 "2016-07-22T02:13:19Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > Ok I’ve been just browsing the thread and not really paying much attention to the RNC in general but my parents are watching it out in the living room and I have a question. Who the HELL was on just now that was screaming and yelling at the top of his lungs about the promised land?? I have no idea what he was talking about and I was still really disturbed hearing someone get that worked up in a speech. You mean Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, one of the top Silicon Valley investors today? The guy who funded Hulk Hogan to take down Gawker? ---
**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, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1048 "2016-07-22T02:14:24Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > I’m calling bullshit on Trump finding stories from newspapers and finding those individuals who need help. Probably true. It’s a natural human urge to respond to things you read in the paper, that’s why if a puppy is abused and it makes the news the puppy gets 1000 adoption requests, whereas if a puppy is abused and it’s not in the news, the puppy goes unadopted and gets euthanized. When you’re a billionaire, you can do something about any news story you read about individual misfortune. ---
**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, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1049 "2016-07-22T02:14:50Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I think Ivanka is really attractive. I don’t mean in a lustful sort of way, but she just seems very confident, intelligent, and competent. Don’t get me wrong, she is a babe, but she has a certain quality about her. Uh, okay. :dubious: ---
**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, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1050 "2016-07-22T02:15:18Z")
“My father is incapable of thinking small” … or thinking at all. ---
**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, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1051 "2016-07-22T02:16:46Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Probably true. It’s a natural human urge to respond to things you read in the paper, that’s why if a puppy is abused and it makes the news the puppy gets 1000 adoption requests, whereas if a puppy is abused and it’s not in the news, the puppy goes unadopted and gets euthanized. When you’re a billionaire, you can do something about any news story you read about individual misfortune. Doesn’t fit with his reported lack of charitable involvement and giving. Not buying it. ---
**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, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1052 "2016-07-22T02:18:14Z")
Ivanka is doing the one thing no one else has tried to do: make a case for Donald Trump as opposed to a case against Hillary Clinton. I think she’s wearing rose colored glasses as a daughter is prone to do, but she did the job assigned to her very well. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1053 "2016-07-22T02:20:04Z")
Thiel gave a very good [speech](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/21/thiel_fake_culture_wars_only_distract_us_from_our_economic_decline.html). “Fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline.” That line really separates the wheat from the chaff. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1054 "2016-07-22T02:20:45Z")
Trump already going off script. He won’t be able to stay on it for long. ---
**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, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1055 "2016-07-22T02:20:51Z")
I don’t think she has said anything of any consequence, but well delivered. She has a good speaking style and seems sincere. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1056 "2016-07-22T02:20:51Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I would assume that “class bias” in voting also comes from a sense of hopelessness and helplessness, more time pressures, and the difficulties of rural areas in stuff like infrastructure. I don’t think so, since the overpaid, for the jobs they actually perform between mouthing off, have only the time between when they drag their sorry asses out of bed, working (giving a flexible definition of "scheduled time), and hitting the bars to vote. FTR: Really? Have you ever tried to write a cost estimate around these assholes? There is a flat 25% for “fucking around.” ---
**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, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1057 "2016-07-22T02:22:01Z")
Are Trump’s facts about the GOP vs. Democrats votes accurate? ---
**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, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1058 "2016-07-22T02:24:08Z")
He’s going to end crime! Very soon! Not sure how that works since the federal government doesn’t have a police power… ---
**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, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1059 "2016-07-22T02:26:46Z")
Right after saying “no lies” he says that the administration has rolled back the fight against crime. Um, no, that’s individual city governments if it’s anyone. ---
**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, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1060 "2016-07-22T02:28:51Z")
Since Obama took office, there has been a nationwide 13% drop in homicides. ---
**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, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1061 "2016-07-22T02:29:00Z")
Trump is rambling on about crime, illegals, and law and order. The crowd robotically chants “build the wall.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=54)