Feel guilt about not watching the hate convention?

[Cyrano]

Jennifer Ruben's column in today's Washington Post gives you every possible reason you shouldn't waste one moment of your life by tuning into the sewer. Take two minutes and read it. It'll make you feel a whole lot better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/dont-want-watch-rnc-youre-good-company/?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-c-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Not even a flicker of it.

I'd feel guilty if I gave it even an instant of my attention.

[LisaL]

2. Why in the world would I feel guilt?

What a bizarre idea.

[cwydro]

4. I know, right.

What a weird thing to write about.

I’ve not watched a second of it, and I won’t.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. None At All

It's a total waste of time.
I don't know why anybody would feel guilt.
I don't even need to read JR's column. Her reasons will be exactly why I chose not to watch.

[Mike 03]

5. Thank you.

Some folks here apparently think it's a sign of weakness if you take a break from this abominable shitfest. Maybe they think skipping it makes you "uninformed."

[Cyrano]

14. Yep. I always feel uniformed that way. She told me to not eat shit.

[Mike 03]

21. ...

[dubyadiprecession]

6. I'm not interested in back to back liars!

[Turbineguy]

7. No point

We've been watching it for 3-1/2 years already.

[Jeebo]

8. I tried Monday evening, but just could not stomach it.

When it started Monday evening. I felt I should watch some of it just so I could claim to have an open mind, and also out of curiosity to see what it was going to look like. But then that 26-year-old fellow started spewing his nonsense, and everything he said was the exact OPPOSITE of reality, and I got only five minutes into it before I just couldn't take it any more.

So for these four days, when the TV is on, I'm going to be keeping it on other channels than the political ones.

-- Ron

[jrthin]

9. Absolutely not. It's the civic thing to do.

[Vinca]

10. Guilt? Why should I feel guilty about keeping my blood pressure within normal levels?

[Sherman A1]

11. No

not one bit.

[grumpyduck]

12. I don't need to read an article about not watching the convention

to know that I won't watch it.

[DinahMoeHum]

13. No guilt whatsoever.

But I do love going to YouTube the next day and getting comments from the likes of Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt, among others.

[lark]

15. Not feeling one little tiny bit of guilt, just anger at what those fascists are doing.

I feel proud that I'm not giving him one minute of bandwidth, not giving into my active curiosity. Anything they do will show up in the news and I can read it there.

[Cyrano]

16. Beautifully stated

[lark]

18. Thanks you for the kind words.

[roamer65]

17. FUCK NO.

[Mme. Defarge]

19. Why would I want to increase

its viewers?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. lol wut

[stillcool]

22. I liked this part...

If you ever found yourself at the end of a week — or even a day — experiencing difficulty recalling the third- or fourth-most-recent outrage, you understand how more exposure does not necessarily make you more cognizant of the lying, norm-breaking, meanness and bigotry. The sheer quantity of his lies, outrages and attacks makes it all a blur. (Remember when he commuted Roger Stone’s sentence? That was only last month.)

[Cyrano]

24. Yep. The outrages can be counted in seconds, not minutes.

[redstatebluegirl]

23. Nope not a bit, my mental health is important to me!

[BlueJac]

25. Nope!

[3catwoman3]

26. Not for a nano-second.

I'll watch Rachel, Nicolle and Joy talk about it afterwards, but cannot stand to look at or listen to anyone who is a fan of Trump, especially not his biggest fan - himself.

[XanaDUer2]

27. I couldn't wait to miss it

Nt

[uponit7771]

28. *** WATCH IT THROUGH LPTV **** Watch it through Lincoln Project TV on YouTube

[In It to Win It]

29. Nope

[Gothmog]

30. I feel no guilt about skipping this hatefest

[Caliman73]

31. I have no guilt at all.

I already knew what they were going to say, not the exact words, but the general idea.

Trump and the GOP have only FEAR and RACIAL Grievance to run on. Plus, Trump is a narcissist. So, the only things that would be said, are the same things that they said in 2016. That (name your candidate) is a socialist, leftist, crook, etc...; that Black and Brown people are coming for you and they will rape your husbands and take your wives' jobs; that only Trump can fix everything (even though he has had almost 4 years and has fucked everything up), that poor little White Christian babies are going to be persecuted by the evil leftest Black & Brown Immigrant, god hating, hordes, unless the GOP is elected, and that the election, except if Trump wins, is rigged by the Democrats who control fewer state houses & governorships, have a minority on the Supreme Court, and control only One chamber within the 3 Branches of the federal government yet somehow, have the power to steal an election.

That is it. That is what they have. That an cheating.