Clint Eastwood loses his shit.

So, first off, the RNC convention is what I thought it would be.  A bunch of white blowhards, sucking off the rich and kicking the poor in the teeth.  Chris Christy didn't talk about Romney until 3/4 of the way into his speech.  No one was there to cheer on Romney, they were there to rip on the black guy in the White House and that's about it.  There was Paul Ryan's speech that was supposed to be the policy guy's main huzzah, but there were few details and a lot of lying.  There's also his logical fallacy of using the 'We Built This' as their motto for the convention.  President Obama was talking about roads and bridges, and the GOP took him out of context and says the president means businesses, which also means the rich shouldn't pay taxes or something like that.  If the GOP wanted to have an honest conversation about these things, basing the entire premise on a lie isn't a good start.  Also Ryan says if your business failed, it's the government's fault in his speech... umm... so is it you built this or the government failed to build this?  I'm confused, but I'm sorry, using logic, reason, and a period of time that goes back more than 48 hours... my bad.

Then there's Clint Eastwood... wow.  I'm not going to go into how nutty the speech itself was. I will talk a little shit about Hot 96, which is a local radio station that plays pop music.  They defended Eastwood by saying that he stuttered (his craziness in the speech was much more than a little stuttering), because.... he wasn't using a teleprompter.  Really?  REALLY?  That's your nonsensical, intellectually devoid excuse for a reason behind this old man's apparent senility, not to mention his logical fallacies?  Considering everyone else at this borderline KKK rally was using one.  You have an articulate black man who is the president.  He sounds far more intelligent than the last sad excuse for a human being you had in the White House, so you cut off that positive attribute by claiming it's only because he's reading his lines.  I'm sorry, but at least he can read, unlike Dubya, not to mention Romney uses one, and so does the pretty boy Ryan.  If it's something to rile up liberals, then whatever, but at least act like you have two braincells to rub together.

Secondly, I guess Eastwood didn't remember his Super Bowl commercial.  The GOP went nuts and attacked him non stop for like a week or two, because he showed faith in America.  The GOP wants the US to fail to make Obama look bad and they proved it in their reaction to Eastwood's commercial (not to mention the quote from Mitch Mcconnell).  That's the side he's chosen.  He's pro gay marriage and was attacked by these lunatics and this is the side he's chosen.  I, like most people, enjoy a lot of movies he's been in and still will, but goddamn.

 

 

As far as the rest of the convention goes, well there's this:

 



 

This isn't that surprising.  The GOP have been hyping up racism for a while, and quite a bit more since Obama's become president.  This is the side they've chosen, that's part of their team.  They could run away from it, but Romney made a birther joke recently, so they have no interest in not being racists or in the very least appealing to them.  It's disgusting and even though the people were escorted out, I think Romney and co. probably had a chuckle on the camerawoman's behalf. 

 

Also Ryan and Co. touched on 'Obamacare'... well it's the same as Romneycare, so I'm sure that type of criticism will work out great in the debates, which I'm soooooo looking forward to.  Obama is going to destroy Romney... I know he'll lie and stand by those lies, but we'll see what happens when he's not surrounded by yes men and people that agree with his 'birthright'.  Maybe we'll get another, 'Coorporations are people my friend,' or 'These locally baked cookies taste like shit (not exact quote)'.  One can hope.

 

I don't know how anyone can look at this convention and say, "This is what I want to vote for."  I just don't.  Unless your brain is so clogged with Fox News shit, and that you think that the teleprompter and birther jokes are legit and/or funny, then I see why you would... because you're an idiot.  Period.  I could go on, but I don't think there's a lot more to say about it right now.  I'll put up another blog in a couple of days.

 

 

 

On a personal note, I have found a job after looking for months.  It will pay more than my previous one, but the physical work will be a lot harder.  I'm okay with that, I'll keep writing in all of my blogs/freelance articles.