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Bob D'A

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Jul 19, 2016 - 05:57am PT

I watched most of it last night, same old republican party, fear and hate.

fear

Ice climber

hartford, ct

Jul 19, 2016 - 06:13am PT

It's always fear and hate on either side.

Fear and hate of The Donald on the left since that's really all Hillary has going for her to deflect from her own crimes.

Sad state of affairs.

Re-read 1984 if you haven't.

HighDesertDJ

Trad climber

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2016 - 06:32am PT

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Melania inarguably plagiarized Michelle's speech from 2008, a speech that Melania Trump claims to have written with as little help as possible. Presumably we all assumed she meant "speechwriter" but she really meant FLOTUS.

Even better, the part that she stole was about loyalty, trust, honesty and character.

Lastly, for those of you trying to argue this away in your minds, the odds of two people writing the same 5 words in a row (excluding common articles like this, the, a, and, an, etc...) is in the same realm as winning the Powerball. The same 25 out of 27 words is impossible. This would be grounds for suspension at all universities, journalists would likely lose their jobs and academic papers would be retracted and the professors could lose tenure for this kind of behavior. Though...in her defense....plagiarism was probably encouraged at Trump University.

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Melania's bizarre speech cribbing is overshadowing some the kind of cartoonish racism one has come to expect from Steve 'Cantaloupe Calves' King, a prominent Republican politician who yesterday insisted that white people, and Christians in particular, were responsible for the rise and success of all of civilization.

zBrown

Ice climber

Jul 19, 2016 - 06:48am PT

Well, someone should have checked the handy desktop reference that those of us in the know got in the mail.

Dutch scientists have developed a unique solution to deal with the data storage problem. By manipulating single atoms, researchers have created the world’s smallest hard drive capable of storing 1 kilobyte of data (8000 bits) in a space under 100 nanometers across. Using this technology, one could store all the books in the world on a device the size of a postage stamp.

I've got my own economic issues to deal with today. Perhaps someone can read through this one for us all and present a reasoned critique.

Where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Stand on Economic Issues
**

http://graphics.wsj.com/elections/2016/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-on-the-economy/

divad

Trad climber

wmass

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:03am PT

Melania blew it for the Donald..

overwatch

climber

Arizona

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:11am PT

Of course that's why he married her

Gary

Social climber

Where in the hell is Major Kong?

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:15am PT

They are trying hard, give them credit. Fortunately they don't have a Leni Riefenstahl.

Jon Beck

Trad climber

Oceanside

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:18am PT

How can the Repugs follow that performance. Ratings tonite should be yuuuge

HighDesertDJ

Trad climber

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2016 - 07:26am PT

Can't blame her for wanting to take inspiration from a strong, intelligent, accomplished First Lady.

The combination of the plagiarism and the Rick Roll (which wasn't even cleverly masked) makes me think her speechwriter is an anti-Trump operative. There's no other explanation.

The RNC program apparently said that Malania got a degree in design from the University of Slovenia but she dropped out after a year. Trump's campaign has repeatedly referred to her "degree."

dirtbag

climber

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:31am PT

I must admit, even I did not think they would f*#k up so badly so early in the convention

Ya know, the point of a convention is to serve as a multi day infomercial for the nominee. And after day one, the takeaway is disunity in the party and Melanie plagiarized her speech. Did they really think no one would notice?

This is the campaign that promises to hire the best people, and to run the country extremely competently?

Seriously?

Reports before the convention said that Rnc staff were nervous about the convention. They were right: this is what happens when a con man with little interest in actually running things and bare bones staff is put in charge.

G-d help us all if he wins.

dirtbag

climber

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:33am PT

This is what a terminal party looks like.

HighDesertDJ

Trad climber

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2016 - 07:36am PT

This f*#king election. I mean holy sh#t. Is this real life?

*edit*

Ok, no it wasn't real life. It was photoshopped as a joke. Thank god.

Skeptimistic

Mountain climber

La Mancha

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:36am PT

"I know I'm not supposed to be up here, but neither is Donald Trump!" Brilliant!!

https://www.google.com/gfe_rd=ssl&ei=H-PqVqPmAuyD8QeWvJKADg#q=colbert+rnc+video

dirtbag

climber

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:38am PT

Hddj please tell me that Twitter quote from
Donald is fake.

Please please please tell me it's fake.

The closest Donald should get to the White House is an organized tour.

Craig Fry

Trad climber

So Cal.

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:44am PT

It's like watching a Junior High Talent Night Show interspersed with the dark side indoctrination sessions given by cartoonish goons straight from Dr. Evil's lair

I just don't get how anyone can think this is a Party that is worth voting into office.

It's nothing more than a Party of corrupt clowns hungry for power
that will throw the country under the bus to claim it

EdwardT

Trad climber

Retired

Jul 19, 2016 - 07:45am PT

The combination of the plagiarism and the Rick Roll (which wasn't even cleverly masked) makes me think her speechwriter is an anti-Trump operative. There's no other explanation.

Nah. Donald is already bored with all this campaigning nonsense. Melania's plagiarism was intentional. Donald made a bet with David Koch that none of his supporters would give a sh#t.