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getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 09:55 AM Aug 2020

Thoughts on the impending GOP shite show happening this week.....

Trump has already telegraphed his strategy for the speeches this week when he accused both Joe and Michelle of using pre-taped and edited videos.

You know that all the major keynotes and, possibly, even some of trumps special appearances will be pre-taped.

That means we won't get to see shaking hands, or stupid juvenile gestures, or any of the uber-whacko stuff that normally oozes out during trump monologues unless he is standing directly in front of the press pool; but he could have dozens of short pre-taped "messages" in the can they will pepper throughout. So for those at least, they will be able to highly edit and use pre-tested messages. Well, if they knew what there doing that is...

But it also means they will be largely paralyzed by trump wanting to review and edit each speakers performance, the lineup, and the messaging. Probably writing sections of their speeches and ordering them to read it himself.

So this won't be four days with trump speaking once every day, it will be four days with trump speaking through every speaker and appearing in videos every hour. He wants to own the week.

That will surely cause delays and chaos that will spill out.

This should be easy to derail since trump is such an egotist. He will want to stop everything and change major sections based on tee-vee feedback. By manipulating that feedback, and grabbing headlines to get under his skin, this could actually be fun.

I suspect the biden campaign is on it. I'm hoping so anyway.

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Thoughts on the impending GOP shite show happening this week..... (Original Post) getagrip_already Aug 2020 OP
Trump is too lazy to do all of that pre-recording work. Laelth Aug 2020 #1
Ha ha! Let's hope so. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2020 #3
My thoughts....don't watch..don't give them the ratings and attention they want PLEASE!! Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #2
That's my plan . . . don't give him a rating boost. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2020 #4
Yep. No way in hades I'm watching this crap. Alliepoo Aug 2020 #6
watch? not me..... getagrip_already Aug 2020 #7
Good thoughts. Mike 03 Aug 2020 #5
stormy daniels porn would be funny as hell...... n/t getagrip_already Aug 2020 #8
I want ratings to crash into the basement, be so bad that the republicans realize that they have... SWBTATTReg Aug 2020 #9

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Trump is too lazy to do all of that pre-recording work.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 10:04 AM
Aug 2020

I think he’s going to get behind a podium, four nights in a row, and wing it. Sure, he’ll have a speech up on the teleprompter, but he’s bound to go off script. He always does. If, by some chance, he doesn’t, we’re in for some really boring speeches because his heart is never in the prepared script.

-Laelth

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
5. Good thoughts.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 10:09 AM
Aug 2020

I do hope Trump micromanages this, because he has such exceedingly poor judgment in what is impressive.

Of course, he'll over-edit everybody else, but he'll run wild without limitations.

I am still hoping for technical errors, broken microphones, long delays, missed cues, screens freezing up, accidental porn streaming, hacking by the group Anonymous, etc...

SWBTATTReg

(22,130 posts)
9. I want ratings to crash into the basement, be so bad that the republicans realize that they have...
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 11:25 AM
Aug 2020

made a major blunder by letting rump run things his way ... MORON will prove to his own party of how unfit he truly is, how grossly incompetent he truly is, and in general, what a despicable human being he is.

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