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Conventional Thinking

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It's the Republican National Convention week, or as pundits on the right call it -- Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and whatever other major holiday you want to thrown in there. We break it all down: the pluses, the minus, the hits and the misses. And we make some predictions for the next couple of months. As you're hear, we recorded this show on Zoom in front of an audience of our beloved Ricochet members. We'll be doing a few more of these on Zoom before the election, so if you'd like to participate, join us!

Music from this week's show: Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long

Discussion (134)

  • kedavis@kedavis

    How Rob-y of Rob to say that, contrary to his prediction last week, the Republican convention turned out to be much better than the Democrat convention... until Trump spoke.

  • kedavis@kedavis

    So, Trump says "things are bad, re-elect us!" Does Rob really think that Trump has to specify "things are bad due to Democrat governors and mayors and prosecutors etc, so re-elect US who are NOT Democrats and will do what we can to counteract those idiots who are letting their cities burn and their citizens be attacked etc, until hopefully the voters in those areas wise up and stop electing those Democrats?"

  • kedavis@kedavis
    Edited

    To coin a phrase, "boring is in the eye of the beholder." The expectations for a presidential/re-election speech by someone like Rob, are likely very different from someone who hasn't been... "trump-skeptical" to be kind... for the last 4 or 5 years.

    And there are plenty of those who take "but Trump didn't really build a wall like he promised!" to mean they now "have to" vote for Biden. Or just stay home. What nonsense.

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