You have to take into consideration the empty room. You can't write the same speech you would if it was on a convention floor with a packed house. You can't write applause lines or jokes. She looks like a raving lunatic screaming in an empty room, but if there was a packed convention center, they would have been on their feet screaming and cheering, and it would have looked like she was riling up the crowd.
You're not taking into consideration half of Medellin's crops being up her nose last night. Pretty tough to stay calm with that much coke in you.
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Satanists in America are advocating ritualistic abortion!!
Okay, not exactly. But kinda.
The Satanic Temple (an official religion that doesn't believe in Satan and is working for the separation of church and state among other things), announced that their satanic abortion ritual exempts members who wish to have an abortion from practices such as mandatory counseling, being forced to view sonograms, waiting periods, etc.
Basically, it's taking the expanded ideas of religious freedoms as interpreted by the Supreme Court, and using them as a tool to protect women from attempts to guilt them into not pursuing their abortion.
(The actual ritual, in case anyone's curious, is simply reciting two of the TST's tenets, about the inviolability of one's own body and that one's beliefs should conform with one's scientific understanding.)
It'll be interesting to see (a) whether any legal cases result from someone attempting to use these protections, and (b) how far conservatives fly off the handle over this.
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Just watching highlights (lowlights?) from the RNC, I think the Republicans look to be doing just as good a job of rallying their base as the Dems did in their convention.
They stick with messaging that people in that bubble will believe in and get enthusiastic about, maybe even fervent.
It'll get the hardcore MAGA cult riled up, for sure. However the problem with Trump's base is that's it's been shrinking since the last election and he hasn't gained any traction anywhere else. The guy won in 2016 by the thinnest of margins, roughly 77,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin-- three states that Biden currently has significant leads in.
Biden is also leading in most of the other swing states as well. Trump and the GOP are in trouble. The only way they'll win this thing is with ridiculous amounts of cheating, voter suppression, and Russian interference. Sadly though, that could still possibly work for them if the Dems don't get out there and vote like their lives depend on it.
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