RSBN’s live streaming coverage of the Republican National Convention continues on Thursday, July 21, 2016 from Cleveland, OH. Watch the live speeches from the convention floor and get updates from RSBN hosts live at Quicken Loans Arena. Begins at 7:30 PM.
Day 4 Highlights:
– Mary Fallin, governor of Oklahoma
– Reince Priebus, chairman of the R.N.C.
– Jerry Falwell, Jr., president of Liberty University
– Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal
– Ivanka Trump, one of Donald J. Trump’s daughters
– Donald J. Trump, Republican presidential nominee
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We’ve been watching since the stream started. So far, it seems pretty normal for an Repub convention. Last night, out of the whole thing, my personal opinion is the best speaker was Laura Ingraham. I thought she did a fabulous job. Newt also. As for almost all the politicians who spoke, I could have written the speeches myself since I’ve heard enough of them to last the rest of my life.
B o r i n g. I’ve so had it with fakey politicians and their fakey speeches.
The band trying to do the Beatles songs are not so hot imo. Watching all the old people like us trying to juke around and dance is a hoot. I keep thinking they’ve probably boozed it up a little before the evening sessions. The Trump people may not have had a whole lot to do with things like picking the bands and some of the other parts. I guess my expectations where pretty high for this one, after having seen so many of these and being told this one was going to be really different as far as quality and entertainment goes. There have been some really good moments.
We’ve enjoyed the regular people who have come on, like the Benghazi guys. The guy on right now who had his spinal cord broken is good. I’m about ready to get to the end now and hear Ivanaka and Mr. Trump. I hope he brings the house down, which probably won’t be difficult, and more importantly that his speech is a great one for the people watching from the rest of the country.
Intellectual Froglegs just tweeted: “Even when I agree with them, I don’t like listening to the vast majority of politicians.” Amen to that. (Tweet courtesy of my husband who still goes on twitter.)
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Totally agree about Laura (and most of the rest you said too!)
I listen rather than watch most of the time.
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I listen as well and I don’t hear any of the music because I’m on youtube.
I also agree with both of you on the politicians, they bore me to tears. I finally watched Laura’s speech today and she was the best speaker last night.
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This guy Tom Barrack is a terrific speaker.
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John Kasich may have skipped RNC but he was in Cleveland… bashing Trump and his supporters
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/07/21/john-kasich-may-skipped-rnc-cleveland-bashing-trump-supporters-367886
Ohio Governor John Kasich was in Cleveland on Tuesday, but he wasn’t at the Republican National Convention.
Instead, the former Republican presidential candidate was busy telling a gathering of the International Republican Institute just how peachy immigration is. There is, apparently, a “stagnant growth of population” in Ohio, so Kasich wants “people to come” to his state.
“When I look at immigration I look at a new level of energy,” Kasich said, “I look at immigration as an opportunity. One of the things that we face in Ohio is a stagnant growth of population – we want people to come to Ohio. We want to integrate these folks and we want them to become part of our economic dynamo. So this refrain we hear around the world, and I understand some of the problems we have, is this anti-immigration is unhealthy.”
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“When I look at immigration I look at a new level of energy,” Kasich said, “I see the way the swing those big sword knife things when they cut peoples heads off and think, ‘Wow! That’s a new level of energy!”
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Almost exactly my thoughts. Why is it that the immigrants they want are the terrorists who want to kill, the criminals, the drug pushers, the gang members, or just the plain old people who want the welfare, food stamps, and healthcare?
Where is their compassion for besieged Tibetans or dying Christians in the Middle East?
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Trump is killing it, this speech is going to reach Democrats that still have a brain cell in their head, it’s going to reach blacks that aren’t stoned or out looting, it’s going to reach immigrants who came here legally, it’s going to reach women who can actually think for themselves.
This is the best speech he’s ever given and I’ve heard almost every single one.
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A Message for Christians About Donald Trump
http://www.charismanews.com/politics/opinion/58729-a-message-for-christians-about-donald-trump
I am a Jew turned evangelical Christian. I am also a passionate supporter of Donald Trump.
I have a message for Christians who don’t like Donald Trump: “You’re missing the boat.” Christians have Trump all wrong. God sends messages in many forms. You’re just not listening. God is talking, but your eyes and ears are closed. …
I guess you think God is only nice and gentlemanly. Really? Then you’ve missed the whole point of the Bible. When necessary, God is a pretty tough guy. When necessary, God strikes with pain, death and destruction. When necessary, God inflicts vengeance.
Maybe you think God couldn’t possibly be associated with someone like Trump. Trump is too vicious, rude and crude.
When we won World War II, was God “nice?” Were we gentlemanly when defeating Hitler? Were we gentlemanly when firebombing Germany? Were we gentlemanly when dropping atomic bombs on Japan? Is God ever “nice” on the battlefield? Or does He send us vicious guys like General George S. Patton, so the good guys can defeat evil?
It’s pretty clear to me God sends unique people to be “war leaders.” That’s a different role than a pastor or church leader. God understands that.
Maybe God purposely sent Trump instead of the nice Republican powder puffs like Paul Ryan, or Mitt Romney, or John Kasich because He wants us to win. …
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I read something on FB that really infuriated me about his comment about LBGTQ and Republicans applauding and Christians ignoring God.
I do not ignore God, I am fully aware that it is sin, however my God never told me it was fine for me to kill them. My goodness people we are Christians, not moslems. Sometimes I find myself really ashamed of the people who are supposed to be our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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As Christians, we should recognize sin, and not pretend that it is okay, but at the same time we should be kind to our fellow human beings.
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We certainly shouldn’t get upset because someone says they’re not going to allow radicals to kill them.
Where do some of these people get this stuff?
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Against my better judgment, I tried to have a conversation with this person after being told I was turning my back on my Christian values if I am a Christian and me replying that I believe it is a sin and God will be the one to deal with sinners and that I am still against gay marriage, bakers baking gay cakes and men dressed as women in locker rooms and girl bathrooms and disagree with Trump on NC laws.
I was then told I was turning my back on social conservatism, because he praised sin and never once mentioned gay marriage or abortion. I replied that he didn’t praise sin he said he would do everything in his power to protect sinners from being slaughtered and for decades I’ve heard conservatives give speeches against abortion and I’ve heard my fair share of speeches against gay marriage, yet abortion is still legal and now gay marriage is legal.
Donald Trump gave a speech that in a nutshell said he was going to do his best to make government do what government is supposed to do and if he does that then we will have a government not ruling over states and states can once again deal with abortion and gay marriage, which if you believe in the Constitution is how it should be.
After all that I learned their heroes are Levin, Erickson and Cruz, so I gave up.
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Mary the prostitute! He didn’t have to scold her about her life; he loved her and told her to go and sin no more.
I don’t have to agree or like their lifestyle, but I am called to love them despite their lifestyle.
We just lost the NBA All Star game here today because of something stupid. I careless about the loss, but it seems to be such a small hill to die on given the gravity of the world around us. (My solution; build single stall gender neutral bathrooms! There fixed)
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I prefer single bathrooms myself, I hate people peeking under the doors to see if they are in use. lol
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Lol, or asking for paper!
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Then you always have those who think you want to have a conversation.
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LOL…
“Who does #2 work for?”
Hhahahahahahahahhah
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Funny, I read this last night and thought of posting it here, but then thought it would be of little interest.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2016/07/forward-he-cried-showing-them-the-crucifix-victory-is-ours-st-lawrence-of-brindisi-2/#comments
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All I can say is WOW!!!!
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It was a blockbuster, for sure!
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It’s certainly not we have been accustomed to in acceptance speeches.
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I thought it sounded almost like a state of the union address.
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All right! That’s more like it. Stupendous ending. Great speech too.
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More than a great speech. That finally had me hope filled that we might be able to survive the next 6 months.
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Fantastic speech!
I watched on Cspan and at the end of the speech when the Trump and Pence families were standing on stage they played The Rolling Stones, “You can’t always get what you want.” Does anyone know if that was just Cspan or was it the actual convention music?
I think Trump’s speech lifted some fence sitters off the fence and right onto Team Trump.
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It was also on One America Network, so I imagine it was at the convention. Message to Cruz?
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Oh good! I cracked up because I thought it was nice poke in the eye to Cruz, Jeb, Bush H & W, Kasich, and all the other whiny hypocrites.
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You can always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need. I believe the song says. Inspired words because it seems to me that God works that way pretty often. And we are always the better for it.
How many times are we ignorant in pursuit of our desires, never seeing that they are not what we need at all.
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But, but I pursue the box of cookies, not because I only desire them, I NEED the cookies!
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All I knew about this song was that one part:
“You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need”
I always interpreted that part from a Christian perspective. God will give us what we need, not necessarily what we want.
I just went to look up the lyrics and discovered it’s a Rolling Stones song. I’m not too crazy about their music, but look at this one part of the song and see who it makes you think of:
“I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need”
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I watched the RNC feed, so the song was the convention music. It seemed to me that the optics of the last part of the convention were more controlled by Trump people. Just my guess. It had the glitz and glamor I had wanted to see. Very well done. I was waiting to see if they would do the obligatory balloons “falling from the sky.” They did, but I can’t remember ever seeing so many balloons. They kept coming like forever. I was so disgusted with Republicans that I didn’t even watch the Romney convention, so I don’t have any comparison with the last RNC efforts.
His speech was long, but I took it as his way of laying out his entire platform. I think he gave it his all, and if you consider how long he stood up there in the spotlight having to talk and get it right, it was really something to see. I believe he covered everything. I agree with my husband’s comment – that there were many people out in America who were watching this speech and it was their first real exposure to Trump as the man running for president. My guess is maybe several million people who never pay any attention to politics still, tuned in to watch his speech. If that’s true, they got quite a shock, since he is so different, so blunt and to-the-point. There’s just no comparison between him and most of the rest of politicians.
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