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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:06 PM Jun 2020

G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the 'Current President'

WASHINGTON — When Republicans read the platform their party is using for the 2020 campaign, they may be surprised to see that it is full of condemnations of the sitting president.

“The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk,” the platform reads. “Its gravest peril originates in the White House, the current occupant of which has launched a campaign, both at home and internationally, to subjugate it to agents of government.”

The warning about speech online is one of more than three dozen unflattering references to either the “current president,” “current chief executive,” “current administration,” people “currently in control” of policy, or the “current occupant” of the White House that appear in the Republican platform. Adopted at the party’s 2016 convention, it has been carried over through 2024 after the executive committee of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday chose not to adopt a new platform for 2020.


The platform censures the “current” president — who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama — and his administration for, among other things, imposing “a social and cultural revolution,” causing a “huge increase in the national debt” and damaging relationships with international partners.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/republican-platform.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes


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G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the 'Current President' (Original Post) octoberlib Jun 2020 OP
They are so lazy and incompetent. It's not just trump. It is all of them! SoonerPride Jun 2020 #1
The bestest attention to detail in the world. Bigger than anyone. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Jun 2020 #2
They are barely even aware of their surroundings at this point. Mike 03 Jun 2020 #3
Haha here's another story soothsayer Jun 2020 #4
lmao. n/t area51 Jun 2020 #5
Out-Onioning The Onion chia Jun 2020 #6
Pravda-Fox has not relayed the new Russiapublican party platform yet. Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #7

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
3. They are barely even aware of their surroundings at this point.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:11 PM
Jun 2020

Useless, vile beyond conceivability, inept and unfit--every single one of them!

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
4. Haha here's another story
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:17 PM
Jun 2020
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/republicans-accidentally-condemn-current-president-in-gop-platform-because-they-havent-updated-anything-from-2016-report/

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Last month, reports indicated that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was leading the effort to update the GOP platform, and wanted to make a number of changes including stripping out anti-LGBTQ language and using less “alienating” language. All of these efforts are apparently moot now that Republicans plan to keep their existing platform.
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