The Couple Who Almost Shot Themselves, and the Lady in the Tight Red Dress

The first half of the first night of the 2020 Republican Convention

Jorie Mar
4 min readAug 26, 2020

My plan was to watch the Republican Convention every night and then do snarky (but reasonably accurate) recaps. But last night, I only got as far as watching the first hour and a half, and then I couldn’t bear any more. I was going to take a break and get back to it later, but look, here it is Tuesday evening, and the second night of the convention has already begun. Life is short; conventions are long.

Screenshots of Convention by author

So this is what happened in the first half of the first evening. It was diversity night, with women, Blacks, and Hispanics — and even a Democrat. I don’t think they were fooling anyone, though.

There’s nothing I can say about the politics that you haven’t already heard more times than you ever thought possible. So I’m going to look at the Convention as if it were a play. And the most dramatic moments were the back-to-back appearances of the gun couple and the Lady in Red.

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Jorie Mar

Semi-hopeful New Yawka. Baby boomer. Inactive attorney. Content mill veteran. Aspiring humor writer. semihopeful@gmail.com Twitter: @semihopeful