RNC Mocked After Announcing They're Totally Abandoning a Party Platform, Just Supporting Trump

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By Sarah Rumpf
Aug 23rd, 2020, 10:44 pm

Social media erupted with mockery Sunday after the Republican National Committee announced that they were abandoning any efforts to debate, update, or adopt an official party platform at the Republican National Convention, which kicks off Monday, deriding the decision as the latest example of the GOP’s sacrifices of their principles to a Trumpian cult of personality.

Link to tweet

The decision was announced in a resolution released by the RNC on Sunday, which cited how the party had “significantly scaled back the size and scope” of the convention due to the pandemic, and so the 2020 convention would adjourn without adopting a new platform. Instead, the RNC “will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.”

“All platforms are snapshots of the historical contexts in which they are born, and parties abide by their policy priorities, rather than their political rhetoric,” the resolution said, going on to say that if the Platform Committee had met, it “would have undoubtedly unanimously agreed to reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration.”

The resolution also made several swipes at the media for “outrageously misrepresent[ing] the implications” of the RNC skipping the whole platform process.

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https://www.mediaite.com/trump/cult-of-personality-rnc-mocked-after-announcing-theyre-totally-abandoning-a-party-platform-just-supporting-trump/

[Cha]

1. FUCKING CULT45. The SWAMP Convention Featuring

PSYCHO HOG!

[Maru Kitteh]

8. "Psycho Hog" needs to be a protest song Cha!

I still love it!

[Cha]

12. Yeah, I've become rather attached

to it, too Maru, during this Swamp Convention for traitors, fascists & nazis.

[Totally Tunsie]

2. In plain speak, no work will be performed and no business conducted

other than to tongue bathe their fatted calf for four days.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. I think you mean

fetid calf.



Right?

[Totally Tunsie]

11. Nope. I meant "fatted".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatted_calf

Fatted calf is a metaphor or symbol of festive celebration and rejoicing for someone's long-awaited return. It derives from the Parable of the Prodigal Son in the New Testament. In biblical times, people would often keep at least one piece of livestock that was fed a special diet to fatten it up, thus making it more flavorsome when prepared as a meal. Slaughtering this livestock was to be done on rare and special occasions. Thus when the prodigal son returns, the father "kills the fatted calf" to show that the celebration is out of the ordinary.

In modern usage, "killing the fatted calf" can simply mean to celebrate in an exuberant manner, as used in the Elton John song "Bennie and the Jets".

[DFW]

3. In other words, "we got nuthin'"

They could just as easily come out and say it. They are using far too many polysyllabic words for most of their base to digest anyway.

[Guilded Lilly]

5. The same words"they hot nuthin" went through my head. That and...

that this is just going to be one big shit show of Cretin Worship Campaign Rally KISS his Ass Ego stroking.

[Mekonsrevenge]

15. We don't believe in anything

we don't stand for nuthin'

Piggy Pop - Beyond the Law

[dchill]

4. Oh, there's a platform, all right, they're just not gonna tell us what it is.

[dalton99a]

6. The GOP platform: Fourteen Words.

[DFW]

7. I didn't see what fourteen words they were, but I can imagine:

"If you don't already know, then you have no business asking what they are."

[obamanut2012]

18. Google what the poster is referring to

It is a Nazi slogan. It is too disgusting for me to write out tbh.

Trump et al would literally use that as their slogan if they could get away with it.

[DFW]

19. I did, and saw what this was all about

I live in Germany, and had never heard of this.

Of course, Nazi propaganda is forbidden by law here, so, no surprise. Even Fox Noise got nowhere negotiating for a license to broadcast in German here. I guess the resemblance to Nazi propaganda was a little too much for the government here.

[CTyankee]

25. I know you can't speak for the EU, but can we hope for a reversal of that body's decision not

to allow U.S. citizens entry to its countries if Biden is elected?

I had tentative plans with my daughter for a trip to Barcelona that I would like to re-implement!

[DFW]

27. The travel ban is mostly virus-related

If our numbers come down proportionately to match what they are here, then there is a good chance. Keep in mind, though, how much progress we’d have to make!

Also, since Biden already knows many of the leaders here, much of the ill feelings now existing will evaporate overnight, once he is confirmed as President-elect. Contacts will be established immediately. Biden will be careful not to conduct our foreign policy prior to taking office, but unofficial damage control will start right away.

I used to live in Barcelona, still run down there every six weeks or so, and speak Catalan. It is one of my favorite cities in the world. Good choice!

[CTyankee]

28. Several years ago I was briefly in Spain and never made it to Barcelona (aghhh) but for some reason

I found myself in Pamplona (not during either running of the bulls thank god) and loved that city. Beautiful, mannered people, not at all the dusty place we might have imagined based on the bull running (isn't it really ghastly?).

Must go to Barcelona with dtr. A true bucket list item (I am old).

[DFW]

29. I first came to Barcelona 52 years ago. How's THAT for a scary bit of trivia?

Franco was still dictator, and I had no idea what to expect. I arrived at my Catalan family knowing no Catalan at all, and unfamiliar with European Spanish. My two high school teachers had been Dominican and Cuban, although the Cuban had been a highly educated Cuban who knew French and Italian, and never used a Cuban accent in class, which is almost incomprehensible to most Spaniards.

Our host families had been "instructed" to speak Spanish when we were around, but at age 16, you're curious to learn the world, so I told them to go ahead and continue speaking Catalan among themselves so I could learn it. They were very relieved, as asking Catalans to speak Spanish among themselves is like asking a family of Appalachian Hillbillies to speak Shakespearian English among themselves in your presence. Even if they could, they'd have a hard time remembering to do it always. As this was during the Fascist era, Catalan was still forbidden in the schools, so they all knew fluent Spanish.

It was a different world for me, of course, but I adapted easily enough. By the time I had to go back to the States, I had embraced the place as home, and didn't want to leave. At least I get to go back on a regular basis.

As I was getting ready to leave for the USA this past July, something popped up in Barcelona that needed my immediate attention. By that time, it was too late for me go. My colleague there that had asked me to come speaks decent German, so I asked one the guys from my Dutch office, who speaks good German also, if he could fly down there and cover for me. He had never been to Barcelona before either. After the work part, he had a couple of hours before he had to go back to the airport for the flight back to Amsterdam. My colleague in Barcelona took him across the street for a simple, but fabulous lunch, and then my Dutch colleague walked over to the Sagrada Familia, Gaudí's famous work, which was only a ten minute walk away.

After he got back to the Netherlands, I asked him how liked Barcelona, or what he had seen of it in the few hours he was there. He simply wrote: "I'll be back!"

[struggle4progress]

10. "Following Our Glorious Leader is Our Platform"

[keithbvadu2]

13. No principles for 2020

No principles for 2020

2016 Republican Party Platform

With this platform, we the Republican Party reaffirm the principles that unite us in a common purpose.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2016-republican-party-platform

[happyez]

14. Well, kinda makes sense ...

... if your idea is to impose full totalitarian rule from Nov onwards.

This might show their hubris/confidence that this will be the way forward for the USA after they 'successfully' win/steal the election.

I'd take it as an open loudspoken part of how the future is, if we don't match their energy and exceed it. It's not like they're hiding it.

On the positive side, when they show all their cards (because they believe they will win no matter way, but anyway), you get all the choices of pathways to defeat it. And just because they may not believe they have to look at our hand, because that is immaterial in the obvious future that will become real, doesn't mean we don't have a hand that can beat them.

Let them lose by hubris alone!

[live love laugh]

16. How do you abandon something that doesn't exist? nt

[North Shore Chicago]

17. Well.....

those fuckers got EVERYTHING they wanted (and less) with the anus, why would they do anything else? Mean and petty hating machines, that is who they are.

[Midnightwalk]

20. Who knows what trump will do next

A platform is inconvenient.

Free trade? Trump’s against that so strike that.

Fiscal responsibility. That’s always been a lie for the rubes, but we’re trillions of dollars in the red this year.

Family values? Again, always has been bs, but with trumps family taking half the speaking slots and in charge of stealing from the government family values is too easily mocked.

Anything else is likely to be contradicted the same day by trump.

Much better to leave the platform “whatever trump wants”. It’s the truth anyway.

[brooklynite]

21. The platform is not inconvenient...because no President abides by it

Party Platforms are a vestige of the days when candidates didn't campaign as individuals (100+ years ago) and what the Party stood for was a critical message.

[maxrandb]

22. Stop making excuses for this fucked up Retrumplican Party

Thanks.

[Midnightwalk]

30. Embarrassing maybe is a better word

I don’t pay much attention to platforms or state of the union for a similar reason. There’s nothing binding in them so they are just symbolic.

This is a different in that there are good odds that trump would directly contradict things they out in the platform before the election.

Not that anyone would care that trump was doing contradictory things again, but with no platform that’s one less thing to deal with.

[tanyev]

23. Gosh, they could at least produce a document affirming their undying loyalty to Dear Leader.

Actually, I'm surprised Donny hasn't made them do that already.

[bullwinkle428]

24. We are now officially North Korea.

[chriscan64]

26. Too much of a moving target to write something down.

The platform is whatever Trump says at the time which is dictated by what he last saw on TV. It should just say, "Hannity, check local listings."

[Gothmog]

31. The @gop has given in to the cult of personality of @realDonaldTrump .

Link to tweet

[bdamomma]

32. They have no platform

which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, he just kills people.