Joe Biden Puts a Bow on the 2020 DNC

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1. Well… ol’ Uncle Joe just blew a hole through the “too senile to give a speech in public” narrative wide enough to drive his campaign through. I wonder if all that expectation lowering was a good idea.
   I’m gratified. The Dems virtual convention was not bad at all. Maybe even a little good; mmmm.. I mean it was still a glorified infomercial so I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was good television but I think it was firmly in the not bad territory and that ain’t nothing.Report

   1. The Roll Call was cute as heck and I hope they keep that particular take on it *FOREVER*.Report

      1. From your lips to God(ess)’s ear! Though on the down side the Roll Call gave me a fierce hankering for calamari which you can’t get a decent plate of to save your life in land locked Minnesota. Curse you Rhode Island!Report

   2. The transition to “Well, we worry about his health, because he’s not out there campaigning” (the pandemic is ignored) and “Well, I worry about how he’ll handle a debate” is already well underway.

      Which is, again, the exact same sequence of ‘concerns’ and ‘worries’ deployed on behalf of Sanders in the primary. Although not, I might add, by Sanders and frankly I sincerely believe Sanders found those particular accusations as moronic as everyone else.

      If I were a cynical man, I might suspect that a coordinated attack by the same group, albeit one that is not very smart or capable of learning from their prior mistakes.Report

      1. I mean, seriously, they put expectations at rock bottom levels for the speech and Biden blew them out of the water. So they start making the same bar for the debates? I’m good with that kind of idiocy.Report

2. The RNC convention seems to be in the comments section on this Biden speech. It’s filled with epic greatness. ^_^

   There don’t even seem to be any Democrats in there.Report

   1. Hey George, I was promised by you that HRC was going to take out Biden and seize the nomination for herself again this year! What gives?Report

      1. What you watched above was Joe Biden delivering his own eulogy.Report

         1. Double checked, still alive, still Presidential nominee.Report

3. The DNC clearly put a lot of effort and/or dollars into getting the technology for their virtual convention to work. I am very curious to see how the RNC does, since they started on their virtual version much later.Report

   1. Well, they didn’t spend money on getting a lot of different people to watch…

      Apparently, the DNC couldn't even find 30 people who were excited about Kamala Harris, so they had to duplicate someone's livesteram pic.twitter.com/1cLhQRRkzg

      — Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) August 20, 2020

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      1. I’m disappointed Aaron. You’ve played the match game before. Look closer!

         Second duplicate: Directly to the left of the circled woman on the right is a woman with her hand over hear heart. She also appears one row up (middle row) on the far left side.

         Third duplicate: Directly above the other circled woman is a woman dark clothing. She’s also shown in the lower left corner.

         So the DNC could only find 27 women on the entire Internet who were on camera clapping for Kamala.Report

   2. I certainly hope no hackers interfere with it; you know, splice in video of the wall blowing down during Trump’s speech. That would be terrible.Report

      1. I hope that for real. Look, under the right sort of emergency declaration — eg, interference in campaign/election activities — Congress has granted the president a huge amount of authority to clamp down on US telecommunications networks.Report

         1. We can’t have the president interfering with telecommunications,

            https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/william-barr-rupert-murdoch-muzzle-andrew-napolitano-fox-news-trump-critic-book

            The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network.
            […]
            Stelter writes that Trump “was so incensed by the judge’s TV broadcasts that he had implored Barr to send Rupert a message in person … about ‘muzzling the judge’. [Trump] wanted the nation’s top law enforcement official to convey just how atrocious Napolitano’s legal analysis had been.”

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      2. Agree with Michael; I hope no outside hackers interfere. If it is a shit show I would much prefer they have no outside excuses to hide behind.Report

4. There are reports that the all of the streams for the convention were managed from many-time Emmy winner Glenn Weiss’s living room.
   https://twitter.com/JohnBrownlow/status/1296862997957271553Report

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