{"id":20343,"date":"2024-08-20T09:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=20343"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:33:44","slug":"great-bs-contest-of-democratic-convention-first-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/20\/great-bs-contest-of-democratic-convention-first-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Great BS Contest of Democratic Convention, First Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was the biggest BS of the first night of the Democratic National Convention? Biden, Raskin, Coons, Warnock, and others made heroic efforts to seize that prize.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tacit theme of President Biden&#39;s speech: &quot;No Lie Left Behind&quot; &#8211; recycling his biggest hogwash from the last 3 years  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocraticConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocraticConvention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825741307815338020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When politicians appeal for unity, they are actually demanding submission.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DNCConvention2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DNCConvention2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825705818152644931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biggest BS of night? &#39;Biden saved and cured our souls!&#39; Sen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCoons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChrisCoons<\/a>.   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocraticConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocraticConvention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825731742050701688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Biden is whooping up his Climate Corps, the dude is getting really desperate for applause lines.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825741984469839948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What is the best term to describe Biden&#39;s visage tonight?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825741751459414144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRaskin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepRaskin<\/a> : &quot;Five people died that day&quot; on January 6.  And it is irrelevant who killed them, right? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemConvention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825719913740194143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorWarnock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@senatorwarnock<\/a> forgot to mention that he bought his Senate seat by distributing leaflets promising to give voters $2000 bribes apiece if he won. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocraticConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocraticConvention<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MluecW9yae\">pic.twitter.com\/MluecW9yae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825732969954197552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tacit theme of President Biden&#39;s speech: &quot;No Lie Left Behind&quot; &#8211; recycling his biggest hogwash from the last 3 years  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocraticConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocraticConvention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825741307815338020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJamesClyburn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJamesClyburn<\/a> in first place so far this week for Biggest Lies about Covid Lockdowns  &#8211; boasting about Biden re-opening the schools?  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemConvention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825717785378292147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UAW chief: \u201cKamala Harris is one of us.\u201d  Lordie, how much deeper will the BS get this week? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocraticConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocraticConvention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825706871291818120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OK, maybe this line is biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocraticConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocraticConvention<\/a>   BS so far: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorWarnock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorWarnock<\/a> \u201cA vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825735100245365102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ultimate test of Joe Biden&#39;s decency: He illegally decreed that 84 million American adults must get Covid vax injections and then derided vaccine skeptics as murderers who only wanted \u201cthe freedom to kill you with my COVID.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QZQ3EOytgc\">pic.twitter.com\/QZQ3EOytgc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825734589723144227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden&#39;s wife and daughter praising Joe Biden for his humility &#8211; OK, maybe this is the BS winner?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825735493364928704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looking at the list of pending <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemConvention<\/a> speakers tonight, will President Biden even start speaking before midnight EDT? Is bumping him past prime time one more slap in the face for Biden? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/svKUW7HDW3\">https:\/\/t.co\/svKUW7HDW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1825723732045742248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the biggest BS of the first night of the Democratic National Convention? Biden, Raskin, Coons, Warnock, and others made heroic efforts to seize that prize. 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