{"id":176276,"date":"2020-07-23T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/23\/oh-snap-3\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:34:00","slug":"oh-snap-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/23\/oh-snap-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Snap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/national-politics\/article244447742.html\">Donald Trump won&#8217;t get his massive convention in Jacksonville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event has been cancelled, which means that the convention will be conducted in a far more sparsely attended manner in \u2026\u2026\u2026 I dunno \u2026\u2026\u2026 Maybe back to Charlotte, NC?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a stunning reversal, President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he was canceling the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month, abruptly calling off an event he\u2019d pushed only weeks earlier to relocate from North Carolina to his home state.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trump announced the decision during a White House news conference, saying \u201cthe timing of the event is not right\u201d amid the surging coronavirus outbreak in Florida, where earlier in the day officials announced a state record of 173 COVID-19 deaths.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI told my team it\u2019s time to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida, component of the GOP convention,\u201d Trump said, adding that his campaign would still hold \u201ctele-rallies\u201d and online events. \u201cI\u2019ll still do a convention speech in a different form, but we won\u2019t do a big crowded convention per se. It\u2019s just not the right time for that.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trump\u2019s announcement \u2014 which caught some of his closest allies off guard after he pushed the event out of Charlotte, N.C., in the hope that he could give his nomination acceptance speech in a packed arena in Florida \u2014 signals a shift in position on the novel coronavirus pandemic, which he\u2019d attempted to write off for months as a minimal threat.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The decision also avoids a potentially embarrassing clash with Jacksonville city and law enforcement officials, who warned early this week that attempts to gather thousands of law enforcement officers to police the event had fallen short. A workshop with the city council was scheduled Friday to go over make-or-break legislation that some council members had said they might not support.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe appreciate President Donald Trump considering our public health and safety concerns in making this incredibly difficult decision,\u201d Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams and Mayor Lenny Curry said in a joint statement.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a complete cluster-f%$#, which I find intensely amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Major props to Atrios for calling it, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2020\/07\/cancelled_23.html\">Trumpstock<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wish that I came come up with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Donald Trump won&#8217;t get his massive convention in Jacksonville. The event has been cancelled, which means that the convention will be conducted in a far more sparsely attended manner in \u2026\u2026\u2026 I dunno \u2026\u2026\u2026 Maybe back to Charlotte, NC? In a stunning reversal, President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,588,578,572,374],"class_list":["post-176276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-fail","tag-incompetence","tag-pandemic","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}