Donald Trump is presumptive no more. I did not watch it, as there are only a few billion barf bags in the world. Last night at the Rectumite Rampage, most of the fools in attendance made it official. Delegates who had hoped to dump Trump were not even allowed to cast their votes as determined by their states voters, and they were not happy about it.
On Tuesday night, the Republican National Convention blasted the opening bars of Sinatra’s “New York, New York” and fireworks flashed across the arena’s jumbotron as Donald Trump officially became the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. But the moment that should have signified party unity was broken by shouts of dissent and demands for a recount as multiple delegations had their votes changed against their will.
In the delegation from Washington, D.C., ten were assigned to support Rubio and nine to Kasich, based on how D.C. Republicans voted in the primary. But, relying on arcane party rules, the RNC overruled them, and assigned all 19 votes to Trump…
…Minutes after the vote, first-time D.C. delegate Kris Hammond told ThinkProgress he felt insulted and excluded by his party and its nominee.
“How is [Trump] going to listen to us if he’s elected president, if he’s not listening to us now?” he fumed. “He’s not allowing dissent. He’s not going to allow anything other than subservience to Donald Trump.”
Though D.C.’s Republican Party does have a rule allowing for such a vote change at the National Convention, Hammond and other delegates said party leaders promised them they could vote for Kasich and Rubio.
“I am not surprised,” Hammond said of the surprise switch. “It has reinforced my previous conception that you cannot trust this party to do the honorable thing and act in a responsible manner.”
“We were told all along that this is not the way the rules would be interpreted,” D.C. delegate Chip Nottingham added. “To just be insulted like that is outrageous. It’s petty. The [Trump] campaign didn’t need our 19 votes. They didn’t ask for our 19 votes. They never earned them.”
He’s not going to allow anything other than subservience to Donald Trump
Three states also had their votes changed to back Trump against the will of the delegates, using provisions in the party rules of those states. But some, including Alaska, rose up in protest, demanding a recount.
“I was very unhappy when they announced our vote,” Cruz delegate Larry DeVilbiss from Palmer, Alaska told ThinkProgress. “Back in our state it looks tacky because we had a preferential poll, and we had our delegation proportionate to all those votes. I’m upset. I know [voters will] be upset.”
Another Alaska delegate, Glenn Clary, asked if the party will also overrule his state in November. “Is Alaska going to vote and then the RNC is going to change those votes?” he asked. “We don’t know. We’ll see.”
After an extended musical interlude, RNC chairman Reince Priebus overruled them, and the nomination of Trump proceeded.
But some delegates refused to go down quietly. Hammond, a civil rights attorney, said he is considering resigning from the local Republican Party Committee and casting a protest vote for Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. He told ThinkProgress that he wants his fellow DC Republicans to join him…
From <Think Progress>
Here’s an example:
There it is! First, let me say that voting for Gary Johnson, who has zero chance to win, is a wonderful choice for disgruntled Republicans, who are still too buried in BS to leave the right wing completely. On the other hand, lefties who refuse to vote blue are Trump’s unwitting allies.
Rump Dump Trump is presumptive no more, and the Republican Party had become his own Fascist Rectumite Reich.
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Democrats who are unhappy at the way delegates votes are being handled may have to quiet down. So far at least, the Democratic Party has not promised that delegates' votes would be recorded one way and then changed it to another way at the Convention. Of course there doesn't appear to be any "need" to do so, and therefore I don't expect any such thing.
I worry about regressives raising dishonest issues and the fight that could develop if Hillary's campaign is heavy handed over it.
I didn't watch it, haven't at all, btw…but read the news about it online. Ugh!!!
Thanks, Tom.
Of course it was all over our news too, including all the disparity within the NRC. There's just no getting away from Drumpf (he was so happy, he'll never forget this!!!! Barf)), not even in this tiny corner of the world. It almost overshadowed the the news that academics in in Turkey aren't allowed to leave the country for work, those who are out of the country have to return and over 50,000! people have now been arrested or – as we call it – put on non-active, unpaid leave I think you'd call it.
But as I said, there was no getting away from the GOP and their not-so-presidential nominee. Guus Valk had the front page of my newspaper, and I really wish he'd publish it in English so I could link to his article. It was truly blistering. He dished out how the party was in chaos all day yesterday with all these disgruntled delegates having their arm and their votes twisted. He further concluded that no speech was about Drumpf it was all about bashing, moreover criminalizing Hillary. In the end that's all that seemed to unite the GOP: their hatred of of Hillary. He also mentioned that it is the first time a party, i.e. the Republicans, resorted to criminalizing an opponent. IMO they tried and failed to play the woman-card, that one was less attractive and too obvious after having played the race-card for eight years. So they're really started scraping the the bottom of the barrel with criminalizing her. But seems to work, doesn't it.
They've had 24 years to set it up and practice it – why shouldn't they have gotten good at it?
presumptive
[pri-zuhmp-tiv]
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adjective
1.
affording ground for presumption :
presumptive evidence.
2.
based on likelihood or presumption:
a presumptive title; the presumptive nominee.
3.
regarded as such by presumption; based on inference.
4.
Embryology. pertaining to the part of an embryo that, in the course of normal development, will predictably become a particular structure or region.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/presumptive
I choose to prefer #4 as correct meaning.
As regards royal succession, it means "unless something happens to change it." Such as if a monarch has no children his/her oldest subling might be the "heir presumptive" but the monarch having a child would change that, as the new child would now be the "heir apparent." Different countries have different rules. I think some still have a Salic Law.
I did not watch last night or tonight, bad for my blood pressure. Apparently, all they did last night was bash Hillary. If they can turn on their own people and change their votes, as they apparently did, how can any one believe they will vote for laws that will support all the people? This is not the party of Ike and Abe. I am voting Blue, because any vote taken away from Hillary makes it more likely Drumpf will win.
With the help of a conservative activist SCOTUS in 2000, Republican Baby Bush stole the presidency from Democrat Al Gore. That seems to have emboldened them such that they no longer need SCOTUS, they just turn on their own ignoring the will of the people.
"I am not surprised,” Hammond said of the surprise switch. “It has reinforced my previous conception that you cannot trust this party to do the honorable thing and act in a responsible manner.”
If a person can't trust his own party, why is that person still a party member?
Now that Drumpf is no longer the presumptive presidential candidate for the republican party, he IS the candidate for the republican party.
Who would have thunk it a year ago…
Just so you know this: The Republican Platform! Oh the horror of it. The most extreme Republican agendas in history. Reading these two lists will increase your blood pressure, explode your brains out. You may need to take a tranquilizer beforehand in preparation to reading the platforms. Really. I just about died. All the progressive gains we, as an enlightened society, will be lost!
Simply unbelievable! Read them carefully at your own risks. You may need several barrels of barf bags.
SET 1: 50 Shockingly Extreme Right Wing Proposals in the 2016 Republican Party Platform
What Trump, a GOP Congress and GOP-appointed Supreme Court would do to America.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/50-shockingly-extreme-right-wing-proposals-2016-republican-party-platform?akid=14451.176640.xMdPZ_&rd=1&src=newsletter1060435&t=6
SET 2: 6 Ways The RNC Platform Is Already Shaping Up To Be Crazy
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/12/3797322/gop-platform-draft/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tptop3&utm_campaign=tptop3&utm_term=3&utm_term=0&utm_content=53?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=0&elqTrackId=327e2a88c8784729904e466a6ca83f66&elq=f78018af454c4dd5ac0e6af110df2165&elqaid=30799&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6001
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Thanks, Jim. I shared the New York Nitty Gritty.
Thanks all! Tired hugs!
Chris hammond, and all the rest of the delegates, and now, all the rest of the peole who support Rumpy need to understand that HE does not give a bloody rat's ass fo their opinions, needs wants, rights, whatever. They need to understand that the GOPig Party gives not a damn either.
I am including a very funny bit abput Rumpy-
Thanks for the New York Gritty link. That was funny.
Good one Mitch! It does sound like the Narcissist-in-Chief, . . . what he would like to say.