We now return you to your regularly scheduled Megathread!

Today is July 16th and it’s the second day of the Republican National Convention where Donald J. Trump will be officially nominated as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

The convention runs Mon-Thur, you can see the calendar of events here:

https://gopconvention2024.com/master-calendar/

The Day 1 Megathread can be found here!

https://lemmy.world/post/17577769

Typically, day 2 of the convention is where things start to ramp up, but day 1 ALREADY saw the actual nomination vote of Donald J. Trump, the announcement of his running mate, J.D. Vance, and the appearance of an unusually somber, almost SAD looking Trump on the show floor.

We should see speeches from more prominent people starting today, culminating in Trump’s actual acceptance speech to close out festivities on Thursday.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why does a farce like this need to drag on for four days? Just to have people go up on stage and puff up these authoritarians? Does anybody actually care about anything that goes on during these events other than the nomination?

    It will never cease to amaze me that someone can go up on stage, say “the political elite and the billionaires are screwing you guys over”, and then point to Trump and say “Vote for this guy, though.”. The complete lack of self-awareness is baffling.