Posted on 08/28/2020 9:16:44 AM PDT by RightGeek
The most impressive political fireworks display most will recall ever seeing on their TV sets finished President Donald Trump’s address at the close of the four-day Republican National Convention Thursday evening, wrapping up the party’s rallies, energizing the president’s supporters, and changing the convention genre forever.
Just one week after a physically isolated, professionally awkward, and visually timid Democratic National Convention finale featured Joe and Jill Biden walking down an empty hallway to a cute fireworks display while socially distanced cars honked their horns in a Delaware parking lot, the Washington sky was alight and a live concert played while hundreds of attendees applauded on the White House’s South Lawn.
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RNC vs. DNC's fireworks. This says it all. #TrumpPride @teamtrump pic.twitter.com/QarogKHWIu— Billy McLaughlin (@BillyNRA) August 28, 2020
The president’s speech began and finished with American history, distilling the platform he ran on and the accomplishments of his administration into an hour-long address focused on “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” Its themes included industry and fairer trade deals versus outsourcing and China; law and order and police versus lawlessness, murder, and defund movements; and late-term abortion versus the innocent unborn and a moral America.
Characterizing former Vice President Biden as a weak betrayer of the American worker, the president said, “For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue-collar workers, gave them hugs and,” drawing laughter, “even kisses… And told them he felt their pain – and then he flew back to Washington and voted to ship their jobs to China and many other distant lands.”
“How,” he asked at another point, “can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?”
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Shoulda aimed a few of those fireworks down the streets in front of the WH.
“oops, Sorry!”
Actually the only complaint I have is they needed 2-3x the police on the streets to protect the attendees walking back to their hotels. But I'm sure the DC mayor deliberately understaffed the streets promoting more violence.
I would love to know if Schiff had anything to do with the DNC disaster. He prides himself on his skills as a writer/persuader. That whole convention had his stink all over it.
I watched some of the demonRAT convention and yet I cannot remember a single memorable theme or outstanding quote from any body.
On the other hand, the black speakers during the pubbie convention had and outstanding theme, "Look at me joe, I'm black and you can't tell me how to vote".
How mant black voters that were on the fence saw those speakers and did it sway them?
I don't know but I hope so.
My messages to the commie “protesters” (rioters):
1. Socially distance, you creeps!!!!
2. Thanks to YOU, I have NO INTEREST in talking or hearing about race!!!! That especially applies to the blovations coming out of Harvard University! And I would like to see them FIRE all their overpaid administrators in charge of diversity, inclusion, privileging of “minorities”, etc. That especially includes their new hires!!!!
Those brave patriots who gave their lives in wars from the Revolutionary through the most recent conflicts did so in the belief that they were preserving and protecting that precious gift of liberty endowed "by their Creator" to them prior to their entry into any nation on the face of the earth.
The following is excerpted with permission from the 1987 Bicentennial Volume Our Ageless Constitution [p.51] (Stedman & Lewis)
The Spirit That Enabled A People To Transform Their Ideas Of Liberty Into A New Concept Of Constitutional Government For A Free People
“…one must understand something of the spirit of the people who had been experimenting successfully with liberty for over 165 years when the Constitution was framed.”
From 1620, the settlers of America were motivated by a passion for liberty. British statesman Edmund Burke, in 1775, traced the astounding economic development and the unparalleled spirit of liberty of the Americans when he appealed to Parliament for conciliation with its colonies (See: Part VIII – Burke Speech on Conciliation). He said: “…it is the spirit that has made the country…
Examining some of the reasons for the spirit, he continued:
“Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit…. This is a persuasion not only favourable to liberty, but built upon it…. This religion, under a variety of denominations agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit of liberty, is predominant in most of the northern provinces…. The Southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward.”
Burke’s comments shed remarkable light on the American spirit exhibiting itself, even to those in foreign lands, by the time of the American Revolution. His observations are significant for they reveal something important about a people already established in the eyes of the world as lovers of ordered liberty and participants in outstanding progress. Burke described what he called the “temper and character” of the people, saying, “In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole….” Among the reasons for their “untractable spirit,” he said, was their “education.”
“In other countries the people … judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle.”
In other words, Burke observed that in most of the world, people could only begin to understand an oppressive or bad idea in government after it had been employed to harm them. Americans were different, he said, for they were taught to understand the principles--ideas and principles inherent in human nature, both good and bad--before they could be used to oppress them. Possessing such understanding, he said, Americans could detect “misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.” James Madison later expressed it this way:
“The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much, soon to forget it.”
It is clear that Americans were educated in the ideas of liberty for several generations. As late as 1830, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville observed among the general population of America the same high degree of education and understanding of basic principles. “It cannot be doubted that in the United States the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of the democratic republic….” Even in outlying areas, he said, the American “will inform you what his rights are and by what means he exercises them….”
Such understanding was the primary purpose of the education provided to early generations. As Thomas Jefferson stated:
“The most effectual [effective] means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate …the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.”
According to Jefferson, the people’s study of history would “qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it to defeat its views.”
By 1787, after having endured a long and traumatic struggle for independence and freedom from a government that had become increasingly abusive and oppressive, their understanding of the nature of mankind as revealed through history and their examination of ideas and principles necessary to liberty had equipped them to undertake the establishment of a government for a free people – a government having its very foundation set in the knowledge that the rights and liberty of people are endowed by their Creator and are, therefore, unalienable.
With this concept and these principles firmly fixed in their minds, and with a “stubborn spirit attached to liberty” they were ready, in 1787, to prepare a Constitution for the United States of America.
drs fauxi and scarf no doubt deeply saddened
lol
Those that walked the gauntlet from the White House to their hotels did us a favor. They showed the country what the left is all about.
DjT outsmarted them again. Can’t have a full convention in Charlotte ?
Fine...we’ll go RoseGarden.....with fireworks filling skies over the White House. It was spectacular. Lemonade from lemons.
If that wasn’t enough, let’s get the socialist revolutionaries to stage another Trump rally in the streets outside the WH, just to convince some indies still on the fence about the true nature of the D party.
Damn good job, all around !
Best convention ever!
I agree.
i should add another D fumble: the NBA felt obliged to jump to conclusions to demonstrate all the injustice...but what was the result ?
No NBA TV.....more eyes to see DjT !
How much of that was seen on television? (Republicans harassed while walking back to their hotels). I was only able to watch bits and pieces on my cell phone
We need to bring a halt to the riots. Why not determine that if there is a riot going on that it is illegal to wear a mask during a riot and immediately arrest them for participating in a riot and wearing a mask? My bet that would slow things down.
The term "game changer" is overused but last night we watched it happen. There were even dismissive comments of "this is nothing but a campaign rally." Well, yes, that's what conventions are by definition. And compared to the Dem convention, which had all the awkwardness of a junior high school prom, it was a brilliant campaign rally put on by professionals.
In a way, however, Trump's campaigns are, despite a certain level of high-tech glitter, very conventional and long-established political practices: lots of flags, patriotism, bombast, and cheering audiences. What the game was changing into was what typified both the '20 and the '16 Dem conventions: no flags, anger, hostility, self-righteous condemnations and hatred of the country; in short, a lurch to negativity. Not one single positive message was sent that wasn't couched in "we're going to crush our enemies and make them obey" rhetoric. They're still at it and it's a formulaic failure as empty virtue signaling always is, and when it's confronted with "promises made, promises kept", it's painfully obvious that it's only promises.
Beautiful fireworks display.
Can’t help but wonder if what was seen was the remainder of those sold to HRC; those DJT proposed to buy to get them off her hands. He certainly negotiated a good deal there. She doesn’t ‘do’ inexpensive.
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