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Post by GBG on Aug 21, 2020 13:21:12 GMT -5
Scooter, you wrote earlier that you found “the whole thing is terrible television”, and now you just wrote that you “watched a total of about 30 minutes”. Sorry, it’s not quite fair to write a convention “review” or “critique” if you barely saw it. I did watch virtually every minute of the four nights, plus pre and post-convention analysis panels on CNN and MSNBC (sorry, I don’t give Faux News a minute of my time). I believe my rebuttal to your critique should carry a bit more weight. 😉
Yes, I am a retired 66 year-old former Wall Streeter who lives comfortably, and has too much time on his hands. But my wife does enjoy tinkering in the yard. Don’t give away my entire identity!
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Post by TNF on Aug 21, 2020 14:06:16 GMT -5
I watched every minute on Youtube. I still go to bed too early to have watched it live. Somebody somewhere pointed out, rightfully imo, there was very little attention to Hispanics, and I noticed almost nothing per the transgender community. One mention by Elizabeth Warren and one transgender state rep. One group which was perhaps over-represented were black women, who are, as we know, the Democrats strongest supporters. To a racist Trump supporter, it would look almost as though black women were in the majority in the party.
However, what will be truly comical will be the attention, or perhaps I should say..."placement"...of people of color in the Pubbie convention. In the past, there would be ten total black people attending, or perhaps paid actors, and they are always right there behind the "star" white person. This year, there will be more people of color at their convention than exist in the entire country. It will be downright laughable.
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Post by scooter on Aug 21, 2020 14:43:08 GMT -5
Scooter, you wrote earlier that you found “the whole thing is terrible television”, and now you just wrote that you “watched a total of about 30 minutes”. Sorry, it’s not quite fair to write a convention “review” or “critique” if you barely saw it. I did watch virtually every minute of the four nights, plus pre and post-convention analysis panels on CNN and MSNBC (sorry, I don’t give Faux News a minute of my time). I believe my rebuttal to your critique should carry a bit more weight. 😉 Yes, I am a retired 66 year-old former Wall Streeter who lives comfortably, and has too much time on his hands. But my wife does enjoy tinkering in the yard. Don’t give away my entire identity! Fair enough. Still, I can read and the early reports are that Biden's speech (the most watched part of the convention) had ratings down 21% from the 2016 speech by the "not well liked" Hillary Clinton and 38% from Trump's horrible 2016 speech. I'm sure that in the relatively modest TV audience of 21.8 million people (about 6.6% of the US population) for the peak time of Biden's speech (the audience for other parts of the convention was undoubtedly much much smaller) there were some centrist persuadables, but we are talking about something like a couple million people. I doubt many disgruntled lefties were persuaded and to them I've already briefly supplied my $0.02 on FB today, as they are unrelenting in their criticism of the Democrats. The whole thing -- the convention -- is operating on the margins when it comes to making a difference and I'm pretty skeptical that Biden will see a net improvement in polling over the two weeks of the two "conventions."
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Post by TNF on Aug 21, 2020 17:36:08 GMT -5
I'm a leftie, and I say any "disgruntled lefties" out there today who are actually thinking of not voting or going third party need to get their head out of their azz. It's always the "lesser of two evils"...that's totally normal...but this time the phrase is 100% legit. Obama/McCain or Obama/Romney or Clinton/Dole...are all decent humans with policy differences. Trump is BY FAR the worst president in US history. Biden couldn't be close to as "evil" if his body was taken over by an exorcist-like devil. I am not joking when I say I would take (the ghost of) Charles Manson over Trump.
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Post by jimijam28 on Aug 21, 2020 18:00:59 GMT -5
How can anyone not vote for Biden,
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Post by jimijam28 on Aug 21, 2020 21:09:02 GMT -5
with all s**t that has down this yr-( millions of people out of work, social issue, 1,000 people dying each day)its the reason why i cant take any sports this yr seriously. this election is the only thing that is important.
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Post by TNF on Aug 23, 2020 18:09:38 GMT -5
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Post by jimijam28 on Aug 23, 2020 18:23:24 GMT -5
😂, I will use the drop off box
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Post by Butterman on Aug 23, 2020 22:52:24 GMT -5
They should have also said pay 55 cents for first class mail. I hope the people who we white people have fucked over have 55 cents
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Post by jimijam28 on Aug 24, 2020 23:02:01 GMT -5
what a f**k up day 1 convention.
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Post by GBG on Aug 25, 2020 0:11:08 GMT -5
Kept it on in the background while watching sports on another screen. From what I heard, GOP is resorting to North Korea style praise of Dear Leader. They surely give the rest of the world the impression our nation is batshit crazy.
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Post by TNF on Aug 25, 2020 5:58:48 GMT -5
No former presidents speaking. No former candidates speaking. Long list of past and current Repub congresspeople endorsing Biden. Only cultists, sycophants and family members speaking for him. What does it take to wake up the 40% to this monstrous clown's abject failure? It's positively Jim Jones-like. can they all just off themselves please, especially the Orange Greaseball? The world would be a much better place.
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Post by AbdulJabber on Aug 26, 2020 4:03:33 GMT -5
Kept it on in the background while watching sports on another screen. From what I heard, GOP is resorting to North Korea style praise of Dear Leader. They surely give the rest of the world the impression our nation is batshit crazy. Watched some of it tonight and hoooolllyy s**t is that some scary stuff. I can't even express how deeply disturbing I find it.
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Post by GBG on Aug 26, 2020 8:15:30 GMT -5
Last night WH staging was a complete Putin entrance ripoff...
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Post by GBG on Aug 26, 2020 8:20:17 GMT -5
Anyone who saw the scene at Melania’s Rose Garden speech will recognize camera angles and look if a Survivor fan. RNC is being produced by Mark Burnett and his associates who originated Survivor and The Apprentice. Looked to me like an exact copy of live season finale of either reality TV show.
We are living disturbing times. I truly wish that the vocal fans on this message board who yearn for player, coaching, and front office changes for the Nuggets feel even half as strongly that we need a change at the White House. You know who you are.
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Post by TNF on Aug 26, 2020 9:10:30 GMT -5
I am watching some of the "convention" on MSNBC Youtube this morning. The scariest thing about this shitshow is that 40% of the country believes every word. We live a country filled with real-life pod-people...i.e "the German People". If you don't think it can happen again, prepare yourself. Trump supporters are zombies far worse and more dangerous than anything any movie has ever presented. The lies being spewed forth are believed as the gospel by these brain-dead clowns. Calling them "deplorables" was too nice. There will come a day, hopefully in the near future, when it will be impossible to find anyone who will admit voting for this s**t-stain of a human being.
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Post by GBG on Aug 26, 2020 16:25:11 GMT -5
The NBA postseason might be over due to the outrageous Blake shooting. Good for the players in standing up for justice.
Expect Trump and his sycophants the next two nights to throw fuel on the fire. There needs to be a mass protest at BLM square (Lafayette Park) while Trump is giving his acceptance speech from south lawn of White House (itself an ethical and norms violation). Trump’s speech needs to be drowned out by mass protest!
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Post by TNF on Aug 26, 2020 16:41:24 GMT -5
Drown him out! Drown him out! Drown him out!
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Post by TNF on Aug 26, 2020 16:56:45 GMT -5
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Post by jimijam28 on Aug 27, 2020 10:04:41 GMT -5
serious questions guys,,, do you think these protest are going to help trump? I think these protest will start to hurt us -Dems,, i know these are peaceful but at the end we are seeing looting, etc,, (look at denver last weekend) also i think most the of the bad s**t is started by right wing group.
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