My notes from the final night of the Republican National Convention, served in reverse order.

• @barackobama following the #rnc and @thedailyshow interview w/ Michael Steele, your task is clear, invite Ron Paul to speak at the #dnc #fb
• #rnc @thedailyshow Michael Steele, these conventions are largely INFOMERCIALS, not to get into the nuts and bolts of arguments.
• We must thank Clint Eastwood for revealing there is a President Obama that only Republicans can see @thedailyshow #rnc #late
• ... will the Democratic National Convention be equally reminiscent of a @wwe event?
• ... there's a problem if the night @barackobama was elected, remains your fondest memory of his presidency #truth
• ... the Romney-Ryan families charge the stage with "Living in America" blaring to end the #rnc
• ... @klout @googlechrome influence extension reveals @barackobama > @mittromney
• ... the Willard equation: champion wealthy success, stress opposition shortcomings, outline vague solutions.
• ... was Willard this critical of Bush about leaving office worse than he found it?
• ... who poses better than Willard Mitt Romney during pauses? This well of #rhetoric is truly impressive.
• ... Willard has all the traits of a winner, from his dress, to his smile, to his gestures and speech; Democrats are on the clock
• ... per Clint Eastwood's claim against lawyers for President, Romney has a law degree from Harvard #quit
• ... that awkward moment Marco Rubio receives an applause because he can speak Spanish
• ... watching Marco Rubio wait for applause is uncomfortable, someone needs to adjust the applaud cue cards.
• ... Marco Rubio's grand father knows how special America is, apart from the rest of the world, because he used to live in Cuba
• ... listening to Clint Eastwood discuss politics reminds me of the Chappelle joke about Ja Rule's opinion during September 11th
• ... watching surprise guest Clint Eastwood fumble through PRESIDENT Obama insults is worse than watching rappers try to act
• ... RNC sponsored video showed a loving family man, effective businessman, convincing leader, generally without fault #rhetoric
• ... swore everyone meant Taylor Swift was performing, still don't know how this guy won American Idol, weak field that season?
• ... best part of Paul Ryan's speech was hearing how he was carved out of a piece of wood by an old Italian man named Geppetto

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck

America is where the word swagger was culturally too long to pronounce, and Americans marketed themselves with the word swag in self offense. Where the idea of a billion dollars, more than the net worth of a life by all insurance standards, is feasible because the billionaires of the world earned their money, like our parents cleaning houses, raising children, delivering packages, selling clothes, typing documents, nursing the sick; except smarter, with better connections, or simple birth rights of pompous extravagance that we can relate to through mass media - they eat food just like me! The concept of a single person amassing more material wealth than families earn over lifetimes, solely due to the contributed proliferation of our personal information, seems to resonate well.

For some perspective, let's use a fictional class of forty students, each student's parents miraculously make $250,000 EACH for some 50 years; I apologize in advance for having you think about this. 40 Students * 2 Parents * $250,000 Annual Income * 50 Years equals $1,000,000,000 combined earnings over the working lifetime of forty families; then consider Mark Zuckerberg sold $1,100,000,000 of Facebook stock ... to pay taxes.

More of our money is spent on protecting wealthy interests than education, and the gap widens by all accounts through effective policies of rhetoric. Ask any person about austerity measures, then compare their response to policies of deficit-cutting by lowering spending via a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided; people may not be aware that schools, hospitals, and assistance besides food stamps and welfare constitute benefits and public services. The austerity with which wealthy public officials, otherwise known as all public officials, trample upon the majority is not the problem, the problem is the majority's austere response, like this is supposed to happen, because it is.

To simultaneously amuse myself with outgoing statistics, and draw the passive paranoid with search keywords, here are some conspiracy theories to dumb down the discussion ... Zeitgiest! Government Weather Control! Illuminati!