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2016 Postmortem

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts) Wed Jul 27, 2016, 01:39 PM Jul 2016

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Guys, this convention's speakers have been disasters. I say WE NEED MICHELLE VAN ETTEN!!!!!

SHE RETIRED HER HUSBAND, PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Guys, this convention's speakers have been disasters. I say WE NEED MICHELLE VAN ETTEN!!!!! (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2016 OP

Well, she's got the spray tan down better than the donald Siwsan Jul 2016 #1

Found this little nugget gabeana Jul 2016 #2

The link is an about David Duke AwakeAtLast Jul 2016 #6

Sorry here is the proper link gabeana Jul 2016 #19

Thank you! AwakeAtLast Jul 2016 #20

Terrible speaker. Cracklin Charlie Jul 2016 #3

I kept cringing from second hand embarrassment throughout the RNC coverage kcr Jul 2016 #10

She speaks ... like ... George Bush. Weird stops and starts ... for no apparent reason. NurseJackie Jul 2016 #4

This just never gets old does it? Blue Idaho Jul 2016 #5

Only after she saw Barbie Dolls driving BMWs and wanting to be like them. nt Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2016 #8

And HE HOMESCHOOLS THEM!!! AwakeAtLast Jul 2016 #7

"Because of... excessive policies... and over EIGHT... years... of libruls!" Grown2Hate Jul 2016 #9

WTF did I just watch? tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #11

Yeah, the first 30 seconds are just your average forgettable Convention filler speech. Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2016 #12

She doesn't even know what she is saying... tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #13

Holy crap!! GaYellowDawg Jul 2016 #14

Oh my... Sancho Jul 2016 #15

That's the most bizarre thing I think I've ever seen. NurseJackie Jul 2016 #16

Van Etten admits she doesn't employ 100,000 people. NurseJackie Jul 2016 #17

She's doesn't own the company TexasBushwhacker Jul 2016 #21

At the time it aired I thought I'd had a mini-stroke. "WTF? WTF? WTF?" nolabear Jul 2016 #18

Siwsan

(26,260 posts)

1. Well, she's got the spray tan down better than the donald

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 01:47 PM

Jul 2016

Got to give her credit, where credit is due.

gabeana

(3,166 posts)

2. Found this little nugget

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:04 PM

Jul 2016

on this fraud, built her fortune on a scheme sounds like

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/70541105d2f149cc9b7b6951d8a13e7a/energized-white-supremacists-cheer-trump-convention-message

AwakeAtLast

(14,124 posts)

6. The link is an about David Duke

Reply to gabeana (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:41 PM

Jul 2016

At least when I click on it....

gabeana

(3,166 posts)

19. Sorry here is the proper link

Reply to AwakeAtLast (Reply #6)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 06:19 PM

Jul 2016

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/18/cleveland-rnc-star-sells-pills-that-make-alex-jones-crazed.html

AwakeAtLast

(14,124 posts)

20. Thank you!

Reply to gabeana (Reply #19)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 06:22 PM

Jul 2016

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)

3. Terrible speaker.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:32 PM

Jul 2016

My one year old granddaughter could do a better speech, and she has a three word vocabulary.

kcr

(15,315 posts)

10. I kept cringing from second hand embarrassment throughout the RNC coverage

Reply to Cracklin Charlie (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:45 PM

Jul 2016

and hers made me about pass out cold.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)

4. She speaks ... like ... George Bush. Weird stops and starts ... for no apparent reason.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:35 PM

Jul 2016

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)

5. This just never gets old does it?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:37 PM

Jul 2016

Where the hell did she learn those hand gestures?

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)

8. Only after she saw Barbie Dolls driving BMWs and wanting to be like them. nt

Reply to Blue Idaho (Reply #5)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:44 PM

Jul 2016

AwakeAtLast

(14,124 posts)

7. And HE HOMESCHOOLS THEM!!!

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:42 PM

Jul 2016

Grown2Hate

(2,010 posts)

9. "Because of... excessive policies... and over EIGHT... years... of libruls!"

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:45 PM

Jul 2016

That's some Sarah Palin level word salad right there... "Excessive policies"?!

tallahasseedem

(6,716 posts)

11. WTF did I just watch?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:51 PM

Jul 2016

I remember turning her off immediately the first time, but damn this is batshit insane.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)

12. Yeah, the first 30 seconds are just your average forgettable Convention filler speech.

Reply to tallahasseedem (Reply #11)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:52 PM

Jul 2016

But it gets deliciously bizarre after that point.

tallahasseedem

(6,716 posts)

13. She doesn't even know what she is saying...

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #12)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:54 PM

Jul 2016

the arm movements? My son's speeches in 7th grade had a harder rubric than this. His teachers would have failed him immediately!

GaYellowDawg

(4,446 posts)

14. Holy crap!!

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:56 PM

Jul 2016

I just have to say this: I am supremely grateful she is not my proctologist. Look at these screen captures. I didn't photoshop her in any way. I swear it. If you don't believe me, watch the video. Maybe there's something wrong with the camera. Maybe the RNC set up a camera that would magnify Trump's hands out at the periphery and were testing it on her. But good lord.

Sancho

(9,069 posts)

15. Oh my...

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:58 PM

Jul 2016

no words for this.

A army of teachers and neighbors just practiced saying, "I've never heard of her. Who?"

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)

16. That's the most bizarre thing I think I've ever seen.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 03:08 PM

Jul 2016

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)

17. Van Etten admits she doesn't employ 100,000 people.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 03:47 PM

Jul 2016

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/07/20/woman-speaking-at-rnc-admits-she-doesnt-employ-100000-people/

Van Etten is involved in selling products that claim to improve health and even fight cancer, all based on dubious science. And as you peel the story back, every single layer is fascinating: there’s Alex Jones hysteria, pyramid-scheme-style marketing, and questionable Clemson University research.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/18/cleveland-rnc-star-sells-pills-that-make-alex-jones-crazed.html

TexasBushwhacker

(20,185 posts)

21. She's doesn't own the company

Reply to NurseJackie (Reply #17)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 06:28 PM

Jul 2016

She's not even in upper management.

nolabear

(41,960 posts)

18. At the time it aired I thought I'd had a mini-stroke. "WTF? WTF? WTF?"

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 03:48 PM

Jul 2016

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