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I’m going to try to keep this one as brief as possible—I probably won’t succeed at that, but I’m trying–so I’ll be skipping some of the speakers, many of who essentially repeated points already made in the first three nights of the Convention. One of the early videos features former D/S/Cs who walked away from their party.
There were men and women, people of all genders, and a young man who seemed stereotypically gay. He spoke of government dependency as enforced by D/S/Cs: “If you want your fix, you have to keep voting for us.”
Ja’Ron Smith: Smith is a young, black White House advisor. He too is authentic, perhaps because he is a bit rougher around the edges than other black participants at the Convention.
“Growing up, I’d never really known a Republican—I believed all the stereotypes. It took meeting Republicans who shared my values to show me I was wrong. Donald Trump knows that in the work of revitalizing communities, America’s strength is America’s people. And I can tell you—he really cares. But, more importantly, he takes action.”
“Name an issue important to black communities—and it’s been a priority for him: prison reform, re-building broken families, bringing jobs back to America—jobs in Cleveland, jobs in Detroit, jobs in Milwaukee. Jobs for the future and jobs right here, right now. President Trump knows that means investing in human capital—in real people—not more broken government programs. That’s why he has prioritized historically black colleges and universities with two billion dollars in permanent funding.”
Worst racist ever.
Congressman Jeff Van Drew: From New Jersey, he spoke of how radicalized his former D/S/C party became, attacking the police and “our God-given rights.” When the impeachment vote was held his party leaders threatened his career if he didn’t vote for impeachment. He didn’t, spoke with President Trump who made him feel comfortable, and changed parties. He’s certain Gropin’ Joe Biden won’t stand up to the radical agenda.
Mitch McConnell: What a swamp creature. While he said the right things, I sensed little sincerity there, and don’t trust him as far as Joe Biden can throw him. Meh.
Sean Reyes: Utah’s Attorney General, he spoke of his father immigrating to the US from the Philippines. He is focused on human trafficking, and lauded Mr. Trump as a “fierce warrior” in that battle. He emotionally spoke of how his father recently died, and loved a pen given to him by the President, which symbolized, for him, freedom. Like so many others, anyone not deranged by partisan hatred could see Reyes is the real deal.
Ann Dorn: This was the most touching, emotional segment of the Convention. The widow of Capt. David Dorn, a 44-year police officer, murdered by “mostly peaceful rioters.” While frequently choking up, she spoke of how the vicious thugs murdered him and live streamed as he lay, dying on the pavement.
“Violence and destruction are not legitimate forms of protest. They do not safeguard black lives. They destroy them. President Trump understands this and has offered federal help to restore order in our communities. In a time when police departments are short on resources and manpower, we need that help. We should accept that help. We must heal before we can effect change, but we cannot heal amid devastation and chaos.”
“President Trump knows we need more Davids in our communities, not less.”
“We must come together in peace and remember every life is precious.”
David was black; Ann is white. Her two sons, who have much of their father in them, were in the audience.
She said she hoped speaking about this would help others change. She also spoke of how the wives of first responders see their husbands off to work, never knowing if they’ll see them again. In her, I saw my wife, seeing me off all those years. It would take one with the heart of a D/S/C not to be moved by her, and not to want every one of those thugs across the country to be struck down.
Ben Carson: Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon and the HUD director, is an impressive man in every way, a class act. He took on the media for calling Mr. Trump a racist, saying Mr. Trump is no racist, and gave many examples of how he worked with and helped Black Americans long before he became president, even being given an award by, of all people, Jesse Jackson, the prototypical race hustler:
“President Trump does not dabble in identity politics. He wants everyone to succeed and believes in the adage, ‘a rising tide lifts all boats.’ Many on the other side love to incite division by claiming that President Trump is a racist. They could not be more wrong,”
“In Palm Beach, Florida, Donald Trump led the crusade to allow blacks and Jews into private clubs and resorts. One of the first things he did as president was bring the Office of Historically Black Colleges and Universities into the White House so that it could get proper attention and financial support. Before the pandemic, African American unemployment was at an all-time low.”
From the testimony of the black participants in the Convention, and from the public record, Mr. Trump is the worst racist ever. Carson characterized the two parties as Republicans for the people—self government–and D/S/Cs for total government control of everyone’s life.
“He does not submit to political correctness and its enforcers: the media.”
That one had to leave a mark.
Pat Lynch: NYPD Union Leader. Lynch had a strong New York accent and spoke quickly, but his intensity and authority shown through. His union is strongly endorsing President Trump, and no wonder. Bill DeBlasio has constantly insulted and interfered with the NYPD, keeping them from doing their jobs. He said: “We are staring down the barrel of a public safety disaster.”
He laid the blame for riots and violence in the laps of D/S/C politicians who are using them to attack President Trump and to go to war with the police. He said Republicans believe all black lives matter, and all lives matter. He said a vote for Biden threatens violence everywhere. He concluded by noting throughout history, the right people have risen to the challenge. President Trump is one of those people.
Tom Cotton: Arkansas Senator and combat veteran, he’s an actual conservative and patriot. He noted we lead the free world, but will stand alone if necessary, because America must be first. In a damaging comment, he noted Obama’s Defense Secretary said Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy issue over 40 years.
Rudy Guliani: Over the years, I’ve noticed age has taken much of the flow and glibness from his speaking. He tried to make up for it in this speech by being loud and intense, and succeeded to some degree. But he speaks from long and honorable experience as a NYC mayor who made the city safe. He noted that in 2013, New Yorkers elected a progressive as mayor, and violent crime, rioting and looting have skyrocketed. Recently, DeBlasio has prevented the police from making arrests and the prosecutors have released rioters without charges. He closed with this:
“Don’t let Democrats do to America what they’ve done to New York.”
Good advice.
Carl and Marsha Mueller: The parents of Kayla Mueller, kidnapped in August of 2013, tortured and raped by ISIS and it’s demonic leader himself, she was eventually killed. Their segment was emotionally devastating. They spoke of the fecklessness of Barack Obama, who eventually authorized a military operation, but he delayed it until the Fourth of July, hoping to use a successful rescue for political aggrandizement. By the time our military was allowed to act, the perishable intelligence of her whereabouts had expired and she had been moved.
I wrote about this in detail here. They said: “to this day, we’ve never heard from Joe Biden.” Obama/Biden actually kept the Muellers from negotiating for Kayla’s life, and lied about their feckless timing.
They spoke with emotion about President Trump who authorized the killing of Al Baghdadi, who repeatedly raped Kayla. The operation that obliterated him was named after Kayla. They said: “if Donald Trump was president when she was captured, Kayla would be here today.” There is ample evidence in this, and other instances, that make that a certainty. Go here and here for additional articles about Kayla. They’ll make you mad as hell, and they’ll anger D/S/Cs too, but for entirely different reasons.
Alice Johnson: A black grandmother who in 1996 was sentenced to life + 25 years for a first drug offense, her sentence was commuted by President Trump after 22 years. In prison, she turned her life around and accomplished much and seems to be a genuinely changed person. During his eight years in office, Obama/Biden did nothing for her. She said: “When President Trump heard about me — about the injustice of my story — he saw me as a person. He had compassion. And he acted. I couldn’t believe it. I always remembered that God knew my name, even in my darkest hour. But I never thought a president would!”
She radiated sincerity and goodness, and it too was rewarded. The next morning, President Trump pardoned her. She is 63 years old. Yet one more demonstration that America is a land of second chances, of redemption.
Her final comments at the Convention: “God bless you; God bless President Trump; God bless the United States of America. God bless you too, Alice.
NOTE: Just after posting this, I found this article by Paul Mirengoff at Powerline. It paints a different picture of Johnson. Take the link and decide for yourself.
Ivanka Trump: Like the rest of the Trump family, she’s a capable and accomplished person. She smiles easily, but is not a natural public speaker. Still, her speech was effective. She and the President spoke from the South Lawn, ,which as given D/S/Cs the vapors. As Barack Obama said: “elections have consequences.” She gave a number of humanizing personal antidotes about the President. Her son made a Lego replica of the White House, which Mr. Trump displays on the mantle in the Oval Office. She said he fixes problems; he doesn’t use them as political weapons. He came to Washington to Make America Great Again, and “the results speak for themselves.”
She noted last year over 70% of new jobs were secured by women. President Trump doubled the child tax credit, and not a single D/S/C voted for it. She said Trump is no political partisan. He does what’s right for the American people.
“For the first time in a long time, we have a president who calls out Washington’s hypocrisy, and they hate him for it.”
No kidding. This was my favorite:
“Washington has not changed Donald Trump; Donald Trump has changed Washington.
President Trump: He entered with Melania, classy as always in a striking green dress, to the strains of “God Bless The USA,” a song that always chokes me up, though I’ve performed it many times. No trendy pop tunes for Mr. Trump. They stood through a shortened version of the piece before he helped her to her seat and began.
The speech was more than an hour long, perhaps 20 minutes or more too long—though filled with important, meaningful content–and Mr. Trump apparently took the advice of advisors and delivered it in a more restrained style than usual. He has greatly improved at public speaking, no longer repeating himself, or using verbalized pauses like “I can tell you this,” as a means of allowing himself to catch up with the teleprompter. Even restrained, he remains himself, not adopting any artificial affectations or feigned emotion. He began by praising his family, his recently deceased brother Robert and Mike Pence.
“America is not a land cloaked in darkness. America is the torch that enlightens the whole world.” Imagine Joe Biden or any D/S/C saying that
“We will produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner.” I bet we will.
“Our country is blessed by God and has a special place in this world.” Any D/S/C saying this would choke on the words and be immediately cast out of the party.
“This is the most important election in the history of our country.” Some are calling this hyperbolic. I think not.
This was my favorite: “How can the Democrat Party lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?”
“We don’t look to government to restore our souls, we put our faith in Almighty God.” Amen.
In a slyly funny moment, he noted that blue collar workers gave Joe Biden donations, and all he gave them were “hugs and kisses.” He paused with a slight smirk, and the audience finally got it and laughed uproariously. Here I should note there was no social distancing on the White House lawn, and few masks. I suspect Mr. Trump did that on purpose, knowing D/S/C idiots would attack him for that, thereby seeming small and petdty. They fell into the trap.
A transcript of Mr. Trump’s speech is here, so I’ll only hit a few additional high points.
“I keep my promises.”
“Instead of putting them [the Washington swamp] first, I simply said: ‘America first.” That’s largely why they hate him—and us—so much.
“We built the strongest economy in the history of the world.” True, and he seldom says “I” unlike Barack Obama, whose speeches were always all about him.
He recognized Border Patrol officers in the audience and said: “This country loves our law enforcement.”
“I say modestly that I have done more for African-Americans that any president since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president.” And so he has.
“I have done more for the black community than Biden has done in 47 years.” Also true.
On Biden, he observed: “He has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history,” and “China would own our country if Joe Biden is elected.” They’ve already made a substantial down payment to Hunter Biden.
Mr. Trump provided only a partial list of accomplishments that would be extraordinary for any two-term president, particularly since D/S/Cs have obstructed and attacked him every step of the way. He spoke of his real accomplishments in dealing with Covid-19—D/S/Cs are lying about that—and said: “Joe Biden’s plan is not a solution to the virus, rather it’s a surrender to the virus.”
This really left a mark: “When it comes to his agenda, Joe Biden wants to keep us completely in the dark. He doesn’t have a clue.” I can’t wait for the debates.
“I will not raise taxes; I will cut them very substantially.” I can’t wait.
This was deadly; “Joe Biden’s agenda is made in China. My agenda is made in the USA.”
Speaking of the California blackouts, he quipped: “How can Joe Biden claim to be an ally of the light when his party can’t even keep the lights on?”
Mr. Trump reminded us the D/S/C Convention didn’t mention mob violence. Driven by polls and focus groups that are scaring the hell out of D/S/Cs, Biden is making half-hearted stabs at it since. Mr. Trump said at least 13 members of Biden’s campaign staff donated to bail rioters out of jail.
He really drew the battle lines, but D/S/Cs have been drawing them for decades. Referring to statutes and historical revisionism, he said: “Americans built our future; we don’t tear down our past.”
Mr. Trump actually got quieter at the end of his speech. Pundits claim this was because he was tired. He wasn’t. This is a very effective technique that forces people to concentrate on what he was saying.
His speech was all about unity and patriotism—poison to D/S/Cs. The evening ended with a magnificent fireworks display around the Washington Monument. It made the parking lot display of the D/S/C convention look like a couple of kids with $10 bucks worth of fireworks in a suburban backyard.
It featured patriotic songs, and even Nessun Dorma from Turandot. The moment was beautiful, celebrated America, and was unabashedly patriotic.
Final Thoughts:
The Convention was well thought out and expertly executed. The speakers, mostly normal Americans, spoke from the heart and with real authority. Their composition, whether male, female, black, disabled, gay, was carefully targeted. Where the D/S/C Convention was heavy on old, has-been politicians—could John Kerry or Bill Clinton be any more corrupt, annoying and feckless, less welcome in American homes?–the Republican Convention was heavy on thoughtful, hard working Americans, many from states President Trump is aiming to win.
I’ve always believed the right rhetoric, delivered by the right person at the right time can change minds, and in so doing, change history. The stories of so many of the normal Americans appearing at the convention will do just that. This was particularly so for the many Black Americans that spoke. If Mr. Trump gets an additional 5% of Black voters, it’s all over. I suspect he’ll do better than that, and will have sufficient legitimate votes to overcome the massive vote fraud D/S/Cs have planned. It’s hard to cheat if it isn’t close.
Pundits are working overtime to depict Joe Biden as “nice” and “empathetic,” because he’s had tragedies in his family. Well, welcome to Normal American reality, Joe. Tragedies, as tragic as they are, are common. No rational American thinks dealing with tragedy entitles them to anything, to say nothing of the presidency. The RNC Convention portrayed Joe as what he is: corrupt, feckless, weak, and wrong on just about everything for 47 years. His policies have not been benign, but have caused grave harm to America and Americans. There’s shockingly scant niceness in that. They very well made the point that he’s had 47 years to fix everything about which he now complains. He’s not going to do it during the 48th. Mr. Trump didn’t attack Joe’s obvious cognitive decline in any excessive or cruel way, but that’s coming, particularly if Biden actually debates Mr. Trump. His candidacy won’t survive the first debate.
Gropin’ Joe Biden got no bounce from his Kamala Harris pick. His Convention provided a bounce, but to Donald Trump, whose favorability rating increased several points. I suspect Mr. Trump will get a one or two point bounce from his Convention, but he’s already over 50%, which is a deadly number for D/S/Cs. Deadly too is D/S/C’s late realization they are not going to be able to use the riots again Trump, rather the American people know who’s responsible and are getting damned tired of it. Even D/S/Cs are buying guns and ammunition, and they’re unlikely to vote for people promising to confiscate them.
Republicans laid out a compelling case for America. They told Americans exactly what is at stake and exactly what they plan to do. D/S/Cs laid out an angry, gloomy and hysterical case against one man and for socialism, and carefully avoided saying virtually anything about policy. Vice President Mike Pence made the point that if his policies were theirs, he wouldn’t way to say anything about them either. We’ll see how many Americans want bald socialism, which is likely only possible with unprecedented levels of vote fraud, which is what mail-in ballots are all about.
PDJT took time it to recognize a lot of people & groups in the audience–MOH winners, Border Patrol, nurses/doctors, Mrs. Dorn, the family of Officer Familia (Mrs. Dorn was sitting behind the Familias & reached out to hug the shoulder of the daughters–a wonderful, upportive gesture)–which lengthened the speech. But that recognition of “regular” Americans fit perfectly with the theme of the Convention.
Dear March Hare:
Honesty, and honest emotion, are always touching.
During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump sat for a number of interviews with Hugh Hewitt. I caught all of them, sooner or later, on podcast.
While it’s been the fashion to call Republicans “RAAAAAYYYYYYSISSSSST” for at least half a century, I noticed in Trumps interviews that he didn’t come across as racist. What made it easier for the Left to pin the label on him was that he literally didn’t care about race, and didn’t care about mouthing the politically correct language or treating minorities as if they were fragile and stupid.
He also hits back, and “protected class”, be it race, sex, preference, disability status, or whatever, was not a shield. If you’re touch enough to throw a punch, he considers you tough enough to receive one.
He may have overstepped, punching back at people who deserve to be shielded, but for the most part I find relatively little reason to object to his practice.
Dear Karllembke:
I’ll take a man who fights for America any day over a kinder and gentler pacifist, or a socialist/communist puppet.
Reblogged this on It's Karl and commented:
Scroll down for Ben Carson’s speech.
Dear Karllembke:
Thanks for the reblog!
I am an old fart who was born in 1956. I remember the last time the
Democrats turned a blind eye to violence in the streets. This led
to two massive landslide elections for Richard Nixon and two more
for Ronald Reagan as governor of Marxifornia. In times of civil
insurrection, the American people will always vote for the strongest
candidate, a man who will restore order.
In this case, the Demo☭rat party is actively supporting and inciting the
violence. Donald Trump won because he appealed to the forgotten man
in the Rust Belt and coal states and the farmers and ranchers in flyover
states. He won every Rust Belt state and coal states except Minnesota
and Virginia. The blue state Demo☭rat mayors and governors are
committing political suicide.
This is not going to end well for the Demo☭rats. In the sixties, the
rioters were called the lunatic fringe, today they are representatives
of the mainstream Demo☭rat party agenda. The Paleo-leftists with
their shriveled dicks and desiccated vaginas are attempting to pass
the baton to the latest generation of radicals in an attempt to recreate
their glory days as members of the Woodstock generation.
Trump over preformed with blacks, Hispanics, Independents, and
private sector union voters. Now, inner-city minorities are scared
to death at the prospect of defunding or eliminating police departments.
To make matters worse, BLM and Pantyfa savages are taking the
fight to the suburbs. Liberal suburbanites are having second thoughts
about their future. In Virginia, the state legislature has voted to reduce
assaults police officers to a misdemeanor after repeated assaults against
the Second Amendment.
Here is my prediction: If Minnesocold and Virginia flip it will be a
bad day for the Demo☭rats. Even if Trump loses by 10 percent in
heavily populous states like New York, Illinois, and California, it
will send shock waves throughout the Demo☭rat party!
Dear Leonard Jones:
Shock waves, indeed, but I suspect if Trump wins, I’ll be changing from D/S/C Party to S/C Party. These are people who cannot learn from history. They’ll double down on tyranny and things will get ugly.
I’ve been through 13 presidential elections. This year presents a never before more stark difference between the Republican and Democratic Parties. I started out voting Democrat but that changed quickly to Republican when the Democrats first developed their irrational attitude toward gun owners. I have to say I again bought into the “hope & change” mantra of Obama then right after he was re-elected in 2012, he went right back to “guns cause murders” and the made up my mind forever – I will never vote Democrat again. I think the Republican convention this year was a high water mark in conventions because it was fancy and they managed to have an outdoor convention which turned out to be a great changed from the chambers of tumult of past conventions on both sides. Less hysterical and fan frantic, the Republicans did a classy job on all levels. President Trump himself is looking and sounding better than ever. He is the greatest president of modern times. I’m proud of the people who stand with me as a supporter of Republicans and Donald J. Trump.
Dear 1706to1790:
What you said. It really is a stark choice between a party that hates America and Americans and the opposite.
Mike,
Excellent analysis of night 4. Thanks for all 3 articles.
Dear Phil:
Thanks!
It’s been much discussed that Trump’s approval rating has been below 50%, which is typically bad news for an incumbent. But remember that Trump’s RCP average favorability rating on Election Day 2016 was a mere 37%. He’s not a typical pol, obviously, and people don’t have to like him personally in order to vote for him.
And factor in that the “shy voter” phenomenon is probably worse today than in 2016…well…It looks pretty good.
But don’t get cocky. The left (foreign and domestic) and the never-Trump republicans (including most US senators and the US chamber of commerce) are desperate to defeat him. Expect more black swan events, potentially including more Chinese viruses or a new proxy war in the Middle East.
It’s only going to get hotter from here. Keep your powder dry. Prepare for war if you want peace.
Dear The other Phil:
Good advice.
I agree with you Mike, but the D/S/C dropped the D a long time ago!
When (not if) Trump is reelected, the violence will escalate. They
let the Genie out of the bottle and there is no way to put him back
in. They are now protesting outside their master’s homes. They
are going after the evil capitalist Jeff Bezos. They set up a mock
Guillotine outside his place in DC and performed a mock execution.
From the French Revolution in 1789, when they ran out of nobles,
they started eating their own.
As a former leftist, I know how these people think. All of the major
league sports teams and corporations are feeding the alligator in
the hope that they will be the last to be eaten.
Not that long ago we had a midterm GOP tsunami. One of the
weekly magazines did a post mortem. The internals floored me!
Every pro-life candidate won. Every pro-abortion candidate lost.
The one thing I noticed was that there were six or seven questions
that garnered the same 6.5 percent. Pro-abortion at taxpayer
expense 6.5 percent. Opposition to war even if we were attacked
6.5 percent. The other four I forgot but they were all at 6.5 percent.
This allowed me to quantify the radical left. Let’s say that they are
now at 8 percent of society at large. A tiny fraction of them will
have the testicular fortitude to hit the streets. An even smaller
fraction will go all-in for armed revolution. America will survive
this as we did in the sixties and early seventies.
Dear Leonard Jones:
I suspect we’ll survive too. The only questions are how many will have to die, and will America survive in its current 50-state union?
The Democrats are banking now on fraud coupled with a chaotic vote counting process coupled with Lawfare advocates beavering away with endless challenges on the most picayune issues in order to drag it out to Inauguration day or longer. They will not accept defeat quietly this time. Then cannot, will not accept a Trump victory under any circumstances. It is their belief that it is an existential crisis for them, because were the tables turned they would gleefully subdue any opposition by any means necessary, and expect the same to happen to them. IMO we’re in for a long rough ride well into the new year.
Dear TarsTarkas:
Indeed, thus the record sales of guns and ammo.
I’m not a regular contributor to this scruffy little blog, but I’d
like to suggest that the powers that be in the Democratic Party
are actually and intentionally stoking a race war. That indicates
that their goal is not the preservation of a republic, but something
else. What that something else is is the question.
Dear Vlad:
You’re certainly welcome here. It’s the Cloward-Piven Strategy: Make life so chaotic and impossible, people will give Democrats absolute power over their lives for the promise of protection.