Republican Freakshow Comes To An End After 4 Days Of Lies

The 2020 Republican convention is now in the past, and we can move on from the nonstop parade of lies. And even though the misinformation coming from the convention was the big takeaway for most people, we should be far more concerned about the fact that there is no platform and we weren't offered any policy positions at all throughout the entire week. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Well folks after four days, four nights, uh, the Republican freak show known as the Republican national convention has finally come to an end. And the fact checkers are going to enjoy a much deserved weekend break. Cause let's be honest, uh, as the facts, checkers themselves have been telling us all week, this whole thing has been a parade of dishonesty that is according to CNNs Daniel Dale parade of dishonesty. That is the exact phrase that he used to describe this week. And, uh, I think if anything, that is an understatement, uh, this was not just a parade of dishonesty, a parade of lies. This was Republicans presenting us with an alternative reality that none of us have access. Thank God because the vision of America that they currently see is not anywhere near what we're seeing right now. And the vision of America that they see under Joe Biden is physically impossible because Joe Biden is not as radical or as insane as they tried to paint him all week lawn.

Even with the lies, even with the screaming, even with the millions of flags that they use throughout the week to show that by God we're Patriots, we just spent $8,000 on flags. Look at how much we love this country. Um, even with all that, the biggest takeaway had nothing to do with any of that. For me, after four nights of Republicans talking, laying out their plan for America, the one thing that emerged to me was that they don't have a plan for America. Now we learned before the convention even started, that the official GOP platform was going to be that we don't have an official GOP platform. We're going to go with whatever Donald Trump says. Uh, that's that's bad policy. That's bad politics, but it's what they to do. They officially became a Trump owned property at that point. But even still, this was Trump's convention.

He was there every night. He was the focus. He was the feature and that is it. They don't have policy. They don't have ideas. All they have is this fictitious version of the United States that they claim we live in right now that they want to keep building upon. But what we really have is a country where 170,000 people so far have died unnecessarily from a very containable disease. Had we had leadership at the top leadership from this administration, that number wouldn't exist. Oh sure. There were, there would still unfortunately be deaths, but it wouldn't be 170,000. It wouldn't be a hundred thousand that's on him and he has no plan to contain it right now, either. In fact, we as Americans, we're just going back about our business. I mean, schools have reopened. We're pretending this thing doesn't exist. Restaurants are reopening. People are eating out again.

Like it's not a dumb idea. It is. It is a very dumb idea. And it's a very selfish idea for people. I know we have to support these workers. We have to figure out a way to do that. But again, that comes from the top of the government had this country done. What other countries did give citizens $2,000 a month, $3,000 a month throughout the duration of this pandemic, people could have afforded to not have to brave the pandemic and unnecessarily go back to work when they're not an essential worker, but instead servers and other people in service industries, they had no income during this time. So they had to go back to work. They have to risk their health and safety because people still want to go out to eat.