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The Daily Swell
@daily · 1:19

Politics: What to expect at this year's Republican National Convention

article image placeholderWhat's happening at the Republican National Convention?
And also weirdly, did you all see that whole thing about the president's relative, who used to be a judge coming out with secret recording saying he's a phony, et cetera. That's a whole other thing that we could maybe talk about. As far as how much is that influencing your view of this election, this nomination for as Trump to the RNC this year. Honestly, I'm a little overwhelmed by it all. If you can't tell, there's a lot to process here

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The Daily Swell
@daily · 0:51
And if anything, it definitely gives us more insight into this moment in history, which I still am finding to be a very crazy thing in general, as far as what's happening with our political system and how to make sense of it. So it swell be interesting at the very least, to watch parts of it. And I hope to hear you on here as we discuss it at some point, I'm sure
@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 2:21
It's just like a combination of very strange individuals with us politics, professional history of any kind. I saw that they're having that, like doctor that talked about demons speaking. And then that kid who was antagonizing the Native American man at Lincoln Memorial a few years ago. I don't know if those two are true. I'm pretty sure they are, though
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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Ruth Steinberg
@LittleSaplings · 0:04

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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 1:48
I will not be watching the RNC a couple of reasons. One ratings are what this guy thinks being President is about, so I certainly won't contribute to him having any. But Secondly, we already know what's going to be said. He's going to do what he always does. He's going to pretend every failure was a victory. He's going to pretend every scandal was a hoax. Par for the course. Typical nonsense
@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 1:32
So I'm wondering if other people actually had trouble falling asleep or recognized that they had bad sleep last week. It was definitely the case for me when they had coronavirus hearings and when they had daily meetings and the feud between Trump and the press was getting very agitated. I kind of had the same thing. So I just kind of know myself and should probably stay away and do exactly what Joe is talking about doing and just watching the highlights tomorrow
@AskMarkWard
Mark Ward
@AskMarkWard · 1:25
I don't need to hear more of the hateful rhetoric and the pathological line from the Orange Narcissist. I just can't and the sick advance that support him, most of which are his family, according to the schedule. I just can't do it, so I too, will probably just read what happened and watch the highlights. I'm hoping I stick to this commitment because I've got to start taking care of my emotional well being. There are only so many
@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:58
Well, let me just say this. I watched as much of that RNC as I could stomach. That was a horrible, pathetic. Oh, my God. Do people really believe that stuff coming out of those people's mouths? How can we not look at those performances last night as anything other than performances? How do we look at that as sincere? They really mean it so tricked and deceived. Why do we allow ourselves to be lied to intricate and deceive like this every four years?
@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 3:58

Takeaways of night 1: Fear mongering, revising history and audience of one.

And I thought Democrats did a pretty good job of that last week here. I don't know what they're doing. It doesn't even seem like they're trying to bolster the base. It seems like they're going after an audience of one. And that's my third and final key point is that there's this audience of one that they're going after, and we know who that one is. But it just seems like everything is geared towards thanking President Trump
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