I’ve been watching the Party conventions of both Democrats and Republicans since 1968. A long time. Yes, it’s a four day infomercial but it’s when both sides get to orchestrate their vision of who they are and how they’d lead with relatively little media telling us what THEY decide is worth us seeing. Last night I watched Peter Navarro, Don Junior and of course Vance. Junior gave a speech that energized the delegates in the hall and I’m sure MAGAs watching, and with Trump himself looking on. (Wearing his ostentatious bandage again) No matter. Junior’s speech of lies and projection was well delivered but still just another case of following daddy’s orders. He does need daddy’s money to support himself. I’m sure Junior felt ‘Finally, FINALLY daddy will love me.’ And he’s wrong.
It was an interesting evening. I wrote yesterday how sometime Trump aid Peter Navarro checked out of federal prison in the morning having completed his sentence. The convicted felon gave a speech that blew up the doggie doo-doo paper bag of “unity” the GOP hastily decided to project in the wake of someone shooting (and luckily only nicking) Trump. Navarro made like a teenager leaving such a bag on someone’s doorstep at Halloween – with a lit cherry bomb inside! My question was whether as things continued, with big speeches coming whether Navarro’s rant would be an outlier or if more, and more lofty in Trump World people would follow with more divisive rhetoric.
Navarro’s speech was slotted for a time earlier in the evening but plenty saw it. Junior’s speech was in prime time and if Navarro’s red meat speech rocked the convention hall Junior’s beat it. Again, so much for unity. Junior had dialed down the cocaine, at least until after he got back to his hotel and dialed up red meat in the form of hate and divisive rhetoric. Junior delivered the speech that had been written for him, and to his credit not being all coked up delivered them well. As I said, the crowd ate it up and asked for more as the saying goes. They didn’t get “more”, at least in rabble rousing tones from Vance but that’s a separate story.
However make no mistake. While this Axios article about Junior’s speech gives some basics I found another piece by them following (you have to scroll down to see the next article) about Junior having become a ‘Kingmaker’ in Trump World interesting. I don’t buy it. Junior is a paid employee of his P.O.S. father. He does what he’s told when it comes to formal campaign stuff, and though he apparently pushed for Vance to be the VP Trump made the decision almost last minute. If some of the rumors (and I specifically chose the word rumors) are true the choice of Vance was in part a reaction to (or perhaps Trump was “off balance” emotionally?) Saturday’s shooting.
Junior had an opening to push Vance who he’s become buddies with. Vance as we are being reminded trashed Trump in any number of ways until he needed Trump when he was in a crowded Ohio primary for his Senate seat. Then he started sucking up. Just like Junior once did when he finished college and wanted a cushy, high paying job. Junior lest people forget wanted nothing to do with his sperm donor for years. But when given a choice between actually working hard to earn a good living, or a make-work job for lots of money and perks at the Trump World it was a no-brainer for a no brains punk. With a ‘Yeah, it’s ugly that he raped you mom but sorry, I want the easy money’ Junior started kissing Trump’s ass and has never stopped. With all we know and all we will learn about Vance, J.D. Vance is turning into Fredo 3. Again, that’s another story I’ll get to later on today.
Junior’s job however is to rile up the base and as I thought might happen after Navarro’s speech Junior’s remarks were planned to let everyone in MAGA world know that the unity bullshit was just that. Nothing more than a stunt to try and maybe pull in some disaffected Republicans like the famous suburban soccer moms who started voting Democrat. But it would be the job of some, including Don Jr. to let MAGA know there’s going to be red meat aplenty to feast on come Friday and through the election. That’s what Trump sent his namesake out there to do.
No doubt Trump was pleased last night, but I still say for Junior it was the political/public version of an epic coke binge. Awesome in the moment but then comes the inevitable CRASH. Vance might prove to be (I’m betting he will) a bona fide liability to Trump and if as reported Junior pushed hard for him the fallout from his father will be more severe than any of us can imagine. I can guarantee you that this morning, with Junior running to his dad’s hotel suite asking ‘How did I do? I was great wasn’t I? NOW do I get to be what Jared was?’ Trump will look on him coldly and say something like ‘Well, you didn’t f**k it up. You did what I told you to do. Just keep doing it, and keep laying off the drugs.’ Â
Oh to be a fly on the wall as Junior dejectedly walks back to his own room, filled with the realization that ‘Daddy STILL doesn’t love me…’
Qusay and Uday will never be real men. How could they? The person who deposited a couple of loads in their mother isn’t a man. Pity Ivana did not re-marry: these boys might have had a chance to become men. As it is they are poor shadows of a hate-filled, cowardly, loser. If I had sons like these I would have disowned them long time ago. I’d say maybe Barron has a chance but look, having a mother who cares wasn’t enough to lift von shitzinpants’ eldest sons out of spoiled brat-dom.
By “well” did you mean what sane people would consider wellfor the address by a high school valedictorian? Or by Junior’s standard,,which means he read words in a,semi-coherent manner at an AA meeting with a terrible hangover?
He wasn’t amped up on drugs and delivered his lines at a normal rate of speech. Maintained enough control to not raise his voice and get red faced, and articulated his words reasonably well – not mush-mouth like his sperm donor does and is doing again and again tonight. For Junior that qualifies as pretty well and for MAGAs the speech was filled with lines they’d love. He didn’t mangle them so the goobers in the crowd cheered whatever in in their heads instead of brains out.
Jr…if I need to know what the current price of an 8ball of coke goes for…I’ll get up with you…otherwise you’re just another phuckhead spewing shit out your ass to stay on the gravy train.