The Frankish Reich

Except for the hour-long spiel in the middle of a 1.5 hour speech. Other than that, he appeared perfectly sane and presidential.

He's so stupid he doesn't even realize it. The comms people pimped it as a "New Trump" who would be a peacemaker, bringing people together. And they wrote him a nice speech that touched on those themes. And then he negated all of that by going off script for nearly an hour with his old laundry list of grievances and self-aggrandizing war stories ("he said to me, Your Excellency - he calls me Your Excellency - we are willing to do what you ask us ..") Blah, blah, blah. Like when he used to pretend to be "John Barron," Donald Trump's publicist. We forget what an idiot this man is. No, because the takeaway will be "Trump rambles on for 1.5 hours in a low energy speech"

Damn right I don't care about this. His speechwriters wrote him a nice tight speech that touched on his near-death moment, moved into his love of country and his feeling that he has been given a new chance to make it better, and then ended on a high "we are all Americans in this together" note. And he effed it up with an hour long digression

So lack of eloquence is now a virtue. He sounded like a rambling old self-aggrandizing fool. At least I admitted that my guy stunk up the joint at the debate. Trumpies will insist that that was the finest political speech ever.

Don't lie ... you were staring at your watch as soon as he hit the 45 minute mark.

Talk about putting a positive spin on a disaster. UNSTOPPABLE is not a virtue in a political speech.

So which one do you dread most when visiting the Senior Home, the tired old guy who mumbles and you never know what he's saying? Or the full of himself teller of old war stories who won't let you leave the room?

Mumblin' Joe and Ramblin' Don. The best and the brightest NOT.

THERE IT IS! MELANIA JUST REJECTED THE HAM HAND!!

Holy crap ... walked away almost an hour ago and he's still going! Not dowdy. Preppy. Pretty. Makeup applied judiciously. A rather nicely written speech that as programmed ran about 25 minutes, sandwiching Trump's stupid rally speech. No self control.

"As Americans, we are bound together by a single faith." Cringe. Cut to Vance's wife please. I'm getting the software. A little AI and it'll be fixed. No one else will even notice.

The damn God Bless the USA. First time I heard it I thought what the hell kind of lyric is "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free." That sounds like you're saying the country sucks in other respects, but hey, at least I'm free. Needed to be rewritten. "Where I'll always know I'm free?" Whatever. Dude has dined out on that damn song for four decades.

That's an old lady.

Damn, that misuse of penultimate ruined an otherwise good tweet.

Yeah, because he was a 77 year old man inviting a 70 year old man to strip off his shirt on the stage of a nominating convention.

Hulk Hogan firing up the crowd for Trump. What do people in other countries think about how effin moronic American politics is?

No, there's nothing that interesting in his Venmo contact. I really did mean this as a reminder to people. And could you move on from the Biden thing? It's really a pretty commonly held view if you'd get out more often. People have mentioned Nate Silver here as a pundit guru. I like reading him. Guess what? He goes away beyond me, thinking that Biden is in seriously bad physical/mental health. And yet he says he would vote for Biden over Trump in a heartbeat if that's the choice he's given.

Friendly reminder: Venmo default is "transactions are public." https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/

I'm on a roll. Outta my way, sonny. Although you have to admit you've helped me along with the Matt Gaetz thing. That is far weirder than anything I've pointed out.

https://www.esquire.com/style/grooming/a61638847/matt-gaetz-face-rnc-botox/

Tucker with a high voice and girlish giggle. Too much sun on those nads, bro!

Mentally fit for the job = yes.

I won't hold my breath, but I really do think this is the rare constitutional amendment that could get ratified. Something like "no one who will have reached the age of 75 by the end of his or her appointed term is eligible to serve for national elected office."

So old I have no idea who or what that is. Enjoy the 80s revival tonight! Put on some REO and Journey to get fired up first.

Thank you, Bad Wig Hall of Fame Member Frank Luntz, for reminding us that the Democratic National Convention has never invited a WWE Hall of Famer to speak.