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Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech – Open Thread

Thursday, 21 July 2016, 22:23 BFH Uncategorized 150

I think I’ve just seen something extraordinary in Ivanka.

I hope Donald can top her performance.

 

150 Comments on Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech – Open Thread

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  15. Trump is killing it. He’s connecting the dots with how to repair America without it sounding like BIG GOVERNMENT.
    It’s actually repairing the basics of what a government is for – safety, infrastructure, securing a country’s position around the globe, upholding justice, all leading to prosperity. “You can’t have prosperity without law and order.”

  32. Hillary’s toast, for sure, Fur. But right now, as Trump is speaking, I’d venture to say she’s also toasted. Six empty Grey Goose bottles scattered on the floor while some mournful Patsy Cline song plays in the background.

  33. I was in a 25 year career as an executive recruiter. I saw all of this after the second interview (his second full-length speech and the first debate). Now, may I humbly ask everyone’s forgiveness for being an unapologetic Trumpster for the past year? πŸ™‚

    As Malania Trump said, “It won’t even be close.”

  37. Ivanka: She needs to control the nervous giggle. Otherwise, very, very good.

    Donald: He’s killing it, totally tearing the place up. I bet the locals are watching him on the TVs at their neighborhood bars and saying, “Damn, why can’t the Indians be this good?”

    MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

    MAKE AMERICA FIRST AGAIN!

    TRUMP/PENCE 2016!

    HITLERY IN JAIL 2017!

  40. The only weird sour note is his insistence that he will punish companies if they go overseas. That’s not quite a conservative position.

    It’s not a message of freedom.
    He should stick to saying he will get out of the way of companies and make it attractive to stay here and manufacture.
    If I’m off the mark, someone tell me where I have it wrong.

  48. “If I’m off the mark, someone tell me where I have it wrong.”

    I’m not going to say you are wrong but I will say you need to understand a lot of these very very stupid CEO’s. Off shoring is a mantra. If you don’t off shore your not cool. Yes these people are that stupid. Might take what Trump is saying to change that culture. Met them, understand them. Trust fund baby’s.

  53. Fur — He’s talking about companies that offshore in search of low-wage workers and avoiding U.S. regulations and import tariffs. He understands that companies have flown the coop because of these three things. That’s not the end game, but until regulations that block business start up, including forced medical insurance regs, are changed, he wants to stop the bleed-out. The goal is to create a robust, business-supporting climate that will not only cause American companies to return, but to entice overseas companies to invest here as well.

  57. #NeverTrump is looking pretty friggin’ silly tonight.

    I don’t know how this evening is being interpreted as Trump is “worse than Hillary.”
    This is a full-throated platform of conservatism.

    I’m not so sure how Cruz’s message could be any more conservative than Trump’s.

    The strife and grief and divisiveness they’ve caused is not at all in proportion to what we are witnessing.

    All you have left is “I don’t believe him.”

    Great. We’re going to roll the dice on Hillary because you have “a gut feeling that you are being lied to.”

    We’re going to give Hillary the commander-in-chief position because we need to bypass Trump and get to Cruz.

    I could absolutely vomit over that moronic plan.

  59. For a uniquely personal touch, Trump should call WCBS-FM in New York City (a station with a “golden oldies” format) and dedicate M. C Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” to Hitlery.

    That bitch is dead meat.

  61. BFH – Talk to someone who had to train their replacement. I had to teach Chinese engineers how to do design my companies products years ago because that is what my company wanted (cheap labor). Now my company is expanding design centers in China and shrinking them here. The management of my company lied to the employees, telling them to write their congressmen to support TPP.

  63. Good to see everyone being respectful on this thread. Speech may have been ghost written and rehearsed but it’s still inspiring as hell. He sounds sincere, honest and tough as hell and I can’t help thinking of Hillary, Isis, Iran and every other thug watching this and shitting their pants handily. He looks like a badass and it’s awesome!

  65. BFH

    IHis plan is to level the field by eliminating regulations, lower corp taxes, cheap energy, etc.

    I would agree if he punished companies without changing the uncompetetive rules.

    GRAND SLAM SPEECH!

  73. I understand the problem, and I’m sympathetic to it and absolutely want to see it end.
    I’m not so sure you can say you’re going to punish a company for deciding to go to Ireland.

    How?

    Exit taxes?
    Maybe.

  81. BFH. If he drops the corporate tax, drops taxes on repatriated money to get it back, restructures our punishing trade deals, eventually no one will want to leave. A smart man would lay a heavy Tarrif on ex pat corps that try and ship their product back into the U.S. And Trumps a smart man. I won’t add my tale of woe to AA’s and Jethro’s. You’ve heard it before.

  84. Fur, I think you could do it with a disincentive points scheme rather than actual penalties.
    Move your HQ to Ireland, then competing companies for gov contracts have an advantage when everything else is equal.
    Move your AC manufacturing to Mexico, AC’s manufactured in the US have a 20% advantage in gov quotes.
    Yes it’s nationalism
    Yes it is protectionist
    Yes its whateveryfuckingbodyelsedoesalready.

  88. JohnS, it’s nice runing into somebody occasionally that is a DICK by nature and not one that’s had to practice at it. Go join Sooper. He’s swirling the drain right now. DJT just pressed the lever on him tonight. Another stupid stupid individual. You’ll be in good company

  91. @Anonymous — “Thank you!” barely covers my gratitude, but thank you!!

    I just wish everyone here could have seen what we saw all along πŸ˜‰

    (Maybe we have that special ‘Trump Insight’, that third-eye for sizing up talent.)

  92. Jimmy, MJA, Dianny, true patriots sucked it up and made the logical next move. Loco, Menderman, not happening. JohnS is here for the shit disturbing in the first place so he doesn’t count. I think we have a pretty good team shaping up.

  95. Loved it, every minute.

    Trump was dismissed as a phony from the start, but I believe him. He put himself, his company and family on the line by telling us the hard truth about our situation. The man is a patriot, and I’ll vote my ass off for him.

  98. BB — You know we will do everything. No time for losers! No more stupid arguments with the forces of darkness. It’s a zero sum game.

    Did you love John Barrack’s speech?!! He made Clinton completely irrelevant to the Trump narrative.

  99. just got back from work and decided to read the thread on Trump first, then watch the video tomorrow. Wisl i could have seen it live. Sounds like it was incredible.

    Now the media is saying Trump cant win. listened to Tom Sullivan show on way home and is was “Trump cant win”

  101. AA, there were so many great speeches, especially yesterday. Unfortunately there was a cancer that drowned them all out. Ingram was out of this world. All the Trump kids are amazing. Too bad some broke dick loser screwed up that coverage. No matter. Can you imagine the very first coughing fit? Oops, I mean debate.

  106. I haven’t watched a convention and felt this good since 1980. I got to vote for Reagan in my first election.

    BHO and HillBilly are just as incompetent as Carter, but way more evil. Trump/Pence will crush the eventual Democrat ticket.

    I will sleep well tonight.

  107. Well I gott tell you, one thing I’ve never been accused of is being prissy. I just read that line to my wife and she’s still laughing. Hey Loco, go try and find a job. Your here 24/7. It might help a little with your self respect.

  108. commentator on Fox sez “In 2008 Barack Obama came out with ‘Yes we can’. History will say ‘No, you didn’t'” … lmao

  109. BB — All Killery has is character assassination. That’s it. And all based on lies, edited clips, tortured doublespeak. And the Killery’s delivery makes me feel very, very sorry for people who are so twisted in their souls to believe it.

  112. Glad I could oblige Brad.
    Once again, YOU attacked me first.
    Why?
    You know damn well I won’t back down from a fight.
    You must want a fight.
    I was 100% on the Trump Train tonight.
    I was ALL IN.
    But NOoooo, you have to say I am not a patriot.

    Why? Why fuck with a cooperative dog?
    Why? Why?
    I don’t fucking get it?

  113. Charlie WalksonWater July 22, 2016 at 12:37 am

    Now the media is saying Trump cant win. listened to Tom Sullivan show on way home and is was β€œTrump cant win”
    ———————————

    When the media says that they know Trump can’t win, it means they’re scared shitless. They say that in hopes it will stick, but it won’t. The libs always tip their hand, they are so easy to figure out. Go Trump!

  114. P.S.I can’t stand to listen to Tom Sullivan. He has a speech impediment that drives me crazy! He stutters…F’ing stutters. I never listen to him. When Hannity starts ranting I turn him off too. I tune into FM Jazz or easy listening – it soothes my soul.

  115. You were on the fucking loser Cruz train all day long. Can’t trust you, can’t count on you. If your not my freind you are my enemy. You chose. We have a good team building here, figure it out. I’m of the opinion there’s no time left. DJT love him or hate him is our last hope. I love him.

  117. AA

    Agreed.! The Hilliary elocution is worse than finger nails on a chalkboard. It is also commical when she trys to talk like a Black or a southener.

    Imagine if Cruz won the nomination and we had to listen to him and Hilliary in 6 debates. If I was the moderator, I would shoot myself on national TV.

  119. The Dems, and the crypto-Dems, are shitting themselves – full panic. In all likelihood, Trump buried Hillary tonight.

    She does not have a prayer in the general – and they are realizing it right now.

  121. GoldenFoxx, I had the AM on just to hear about Trumps speech, and the only station i could get was the one sullivan was on. He’s not on my list of preferred talk show hosts either. But he did admit he cant stand cruz because as a Christian, he should forgive Trump and endorse him.

  122. Brad_Cock, I find it facinating you would go that direction. I have no problem with gays as long as you leave me alone and keep it inside your own bedroom. Your life style your choice. I think a lot of your community will help get DJT elected.

  123. @Mortgages (MFTM) —

    Yes, indeed. So weird. I have been Geoff C.’s touchstone when he gets all worried about voter fraud, dirty tricks, etc. from the Killery campaign. I’ve never been so certain of a thorough route by a Republican candidate in my life. I’ve been chary to say this because of how a certain candidate from Texas used extreme religion to manipulate voters, but I’ve had a growing conviction that we are wholly in God’s hands and I see divine intervention all over this enterprise.

  129. wow … Hitlary spokesfascist on Fox just said that Trump’s ‘law & order’ part of the speech was a dog whistle for Hitler-speak
    … this is where they’re going folks … get used to it … combat it

  130. … & when I say ‘combat it’ … do it with ridicule … it’s the only thing that works
    ridicule them for their paranoia, their stupidity, their obvious brain-cramp of history

  131. Loco, no problem, I’ll sleep well, get up at 6:00, at the gym by 6.30, at work by 8:00. Like every day. And I won’t consider you until I get a chance to check in around 10:00 after I get all the machines running and the first parts off inspected. You over rate your sorry ass.

  133. I’ve noticed a lot of the liberals here like to gang up on the conservative and turn our “Hate Speech” into Chinese. You’ve learned well. You’ll fit right into the Hillary agenda. (Fucking Losers, get off my lawn)

  134. Great speach. Great night. Now the work starts, again. Who here wants to work for the Trump team ? I can put you in touch with the Trump campaign to do campaign calls, yard signs, or door knocks.
    Let Mr. Hat know and we will find a way to get in touch.

  135. @Molon Labe — If you didn’t get a chance to listen to John Barrack’s speech tonight (I think I have the right guy, he was the one who didn’t use the podium, the fellow who told the stories of his 40 year friendship w/Trump), do listen to it. He made the best case for how to approach the next 3-plus months. It’s the high road, but not the meek road. The image comes to mind of the year I went to the Seattle Auto Show when Chrysler started making their ‘K’ cars. Boxy, clunky, horrid paint colors, completely unattractive, but promising great gas mileage. That’s all they could tout. But I rounded a corner and there sat something I couldn’t stop staring at: the first Jaguar XJS. Red. A sleek hood that went on forever. Connelly hide, leather interior, highly-laquered wood dash, glittering chrome wire wheels. After seeing that car, I could never imagine owning anything else — and didn’t — until I bought that car eleven years later.

    When you see/hear Trump, you’ll never want the ‘K’ candidate. You’d rather not have a president at all unless you can have Trump.

  136. MA -Loving the dialogue here. Most of it, anyway. I have not seen the speech other than I did catch the law and order part. Taken out of context, which it will be, and context being L&O isr equired for prosperity and freedom, you are are damn right MO(wierd symbol) (WS)(WS)BE

    What I’m really getting a kick out of, however, is the Keyboard War going on between a couple folks here. Hey, its free and entertaining. On that front, I was behind Cruz very early on and remained so almost to the end. DT was my second choice. I’ve done a 180.
    Before I did, however, I knew I would be voting for and supporting whomever was selected. Period. End of story.

    So, LBO (Leveraged Buy Out?) and BB, please quit the yapping; get constructive. Though I will miss the laughs.

  138. @AA ~ thanks, I missed Barrack’s speech, but I will definitely look it up.
    Side Story: Brought a Dodge/Chrysler once … only once … She Who Must Be Obeyed fell in love w/ a Dodge Asprin (Aspen) … it was the model the year before the infamous K-cars … worst car purchase EVER!!! no kidding … had to warm it up for 30 minutes in the winter, until the Catystrophic Converter was glowing cherry red before it could be driven without conking out… had that car in the shop more times than it ran … even the car mechanics said, “I give up”. Seriously, I actually had them saying that they couldn’t fix it… don’t bring it back…most US cars in the ’70’ through the ’90’s were absolute garbage

  141. @ATM (& BB) … it’s an auto switch that blanks out the comment if too many ‘thumbs down’ occur … (all you need to do to see the comment is to click on the Chinese characters) … you just need to refresh the page to ‘thumbs-down’ again … it’s a common practice for posters (flamers, trolls)to continually do that until the post ‘disappears’ into Chinese characters … a way to shut down the post … sad, pathetic & lame, actually

  142. @Molon Labe — You’ll enjoy his speech. An “Aspirin”! LOL!
    I’ve been pretty lucky with cars. But I cried real tears when I had to get rid of my Jag when I got a Ford Mommyvan. No room for a car seat. Ugh.

  143. watching the Trump acceptance speech again (& Ivanka’s introduction … can I have your baby?) & it’s even better the second time around.

    ‘No one knows the system better than me… & that’s why I’m the only one able to fix it’

  144. @AA ~ Dodge Aspirin … the only car I truly loathed … feel your pain about losing the Jag … had to be painful
    had a ’69 Ford LTD … leather seats, power everything, 390 engine … absolute gas guzzler … but that beauty was absolutely a dream on the highway (which had a speed limit of 70 mph … which meant that you could cruise @ 85 mph w/ no problem) … a lot was wrong with it … but, at least I could fix most anything that broke … including the A/C, power windows, points, plugs, stereo ….
    … had a ’61 chevy impala 283 (wish I had it now … collector’s item
    … had a ’61 corvair Monza
    … had a ’67 Camaro … 327, 3 2-barrel carbs & a Holley shifter
    … had a ’62 panhead 74 CHP surplus Harley that me & my cousins built from a mailorder crate … (why did I sell that?!!!!!)
    … had a ’70 Ford Maverick … & it went downhill from there ….

  145. Fur wrote: “The only weird sour note is his insistence that he will punish companies if they go overseas. That’s not quite a conservative position.”

    That’s the whole point! It’s no longer ideology.
    He’s a BOSS, and bosses know *when* to use the carrot, and when to use the stick.

    I don’t “feel bad” for such abusive companies; they’re as parasitic to the USA as Al Sharpton.

  146. p.s. Bad Brad has the answer to “how?” with “a heavy Tarrif on ex pat corps that try and ship their product back into the U.S.”.

    If
    BETRAYAL HAS CONSEQUENCES
    is not “conservative,”
    I don’t want to be conservative.

  147. Trump’s first major hurdle will be overcoming the inertia of the GOPe. He won’t be able to enact anything without a supportive Republican House and Senate. And there’s a lot of butthurt in both places about him right now. I’m hoping his targeted use of the bully pulpit will get the recalcitrant in line.

  148. We have lift-off!
    We have direction!
    We’re on course.

    It feels good to believe in a winner again.
    It didn’t feel that way with Romney (although I was encouraged)
    It never felt that way with McCain!
    It never felt that way with Dole.
    Now we also have to keep the majority in the House and Senate or Trump’s battle will really be uphill. With that majority I really see Trump as a builder and a unifier, but first he has to start swinging the biggest wrecking ball ever to knock down Obamaville.
    That includes every, single America-Hating Progressive Asshole that the Lying, Deserter-Honoring, Gay-Obsessed, Communist-Organizing, Racist, Marxist Muzlim, Shitpickle-Eating, Jug-eared Jihadi put into place!

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