Curb Your Authoritarianism? The 2016 Conventional Wisdom Thread (Elections, Part 6)

delete your account xp

Trump 18 minutes ago on FB:

While I greatly appreciate everybody congratulating me for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congratulations, I want toughness and vigilance. We must finally be smart!

I would like to barf into his mouth

If anybody needs it: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/7717

And no, Morbz, my "arrg" is not with ABC or other media outlets because despite the popular conception, the media has always disliked the Clintons and will breathlessly and uncritically report every ginned-up "controversy " that comes down the pike. That doesn't mean so-called "leftists" need to help them do it

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― mick signals

thanks but i have gotten old and stupid and do not know how to internet anymore. :( i realize this is entirely my problem and i appreciate your trying to help anyway.

oh dear

now how will we learn what was said on the sunday morning shows, and which comedians and politicians went to higher-ranked colleges

the lingering nightmare fart has finally dissipated

this was weird:
http://i.imgur.com/1P5bUZM.png

hardly the worst thing trump did on twitter today

in the light of hillary's "foreign policy" speech/roast so effectively making trump look febrile and out of his depth, i don't think october surprises like this have the tradiitonal effect on moderate voters (perhaps even the opposite)

Wait: why is Lena Dunham a go to for morbz? What does that mean?

because more like lena dumb-ham http://time.com/4306966/lena-dunham-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/

this thread has reminded me why i've steered clear of ILX recently.

X-post yeah, I knew of that article, it just struck me as an odd 'go to'. (Actually, when I hear people invoke Dunham it's usually right wing anti-feminists)

You don't say!

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/13/3787615/trump-suggests-obama-purposely-allowing-muslims-commit-terrorist-acts-united-states/

Trump said there were two possible reasons the gun massacre took place in Orlando. The first possibility was that Obama is “not tough” and “not smart” and therefore incapable of stopping terrorist attacks.

The other scenario, according to Trump, is that Obama is fully capable of stopping terrorist attacks but “has something else in mind.” In other words, Obama is purposefully allowing terrorists to kill people in the United States to pursue a hidden agenda.

Trump emphasized this second theory. “The something else in mind, people can’t believe it,” Trump said, “There is something going on. It’s inconceivable.”

I feel like he has a special brand of innuendo that deserves to be termed a Trumpism.

I've heard from people some unbelievable things about Trump's lack of sphincter control. Which is fine, which is good, he's very proud of his sphincter. I don't know if it's true, this story about his near-constant anal leakage, I'm just saying. I'm building a wall. Sad! Smaller, the best, number 1!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-orlando-attacks-reaction/index.html

Hillary Clinton said Monday she's not afraid to say "radical" Islam as she countered attacks from Donald Trump that she's too politically correct to use the phrase.

he really is the perfect, functioning endpoint homunculus of the right-wing pander machine.

fuck hillary for even playing that game. j/k love you hillary. except don't play that game. love you. don't play.

Seriously. This is a game of chicken where you don't even get into the car. That bugfuck moron will happily accelerate off a cliff without your participation.

fucking Trump playing the secret muslim Obama shit smh

it's just fucking crazy and depressing

Well, tbf, he's saying that Obabma is in collusion with terrorists and also saying that Obama can't curb terrorism because he's weak and incompetent. Because it's both night and day, and now you can mindlessly nod in ascent because your mind is as gone as mine.

Seriously, though, Hillary: anytime Trump says you're too afraid to do or say something, you just mention offhandedly that you heard his weave is made of 100% pubic hair, something like that, and then you just let him hang himself with his own garbage mouth.

Has any Repub pres nom ever gone this hardcore batshit racist troll for reals?

i dunno but reagan announcing his presidential campaign at neshoba county fair was pretty obnoxious

i don't really have a problem with hillary, or any democrat, saying "radical islam" -- i always thought the taboo against saying it was silly. but to say that now, after what happened this weekend, and in response to being baited by trump...ugh

Has any Repub pres nom ever gone this hardcore batshit racist troll for reals?

― Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie)

Goldwater didn't vote for the Civil Rights Act, and then there's the matter of Nixon + Strom Thurmond

Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan were hardcore bad and awful, but their racist dog whistles were artisanally hand-crafted compared to Trump, who is easily the most batshit racist-trolling nominee since Benjamin Harrison.

Benjamin Harrison supported the Lodge Force Bill!

he was the best prez on race b/w Grant and FDR, and that's not much

Seriously, though, Hillary: anytime Trump says you're too afraid to do or say something, you just mention offhandedly that you heard his weave is made of 100% pubic hair, something like that, and then you just let him hang himself with his own garbage mouth.

― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 June 2016 16:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is not what the word 'seriously' means

is this the first time a presidential candidate has ever accused a sitting president of treason? just wondering

That's the thing though, Trump doesn't outright accuse Obama of treason, he just uses the vaguest possible dog whistles. And he phrases it in this confusing "people are saying" "I don't know" sort of language so he can convince the audience he believes it but have plausible deniability.

xp he'd say you have "misconstrued" his words, bcz he only implied that Obama was committing treason without having the courage to state his accusation clearly.

Obama is up to so much secret stuff Trump knows about, I can only imagine the secret stuff he's up to that Trump doesn't know about. That's reason alone to vote for Trump. The man keeps no secrets, at least none besides the specifics of literally every single policy or plan he has promoted. But at least we know he's not a secret Muslim (or is he?) or fascist (it's no secret).

Trump has no secrets to keep because he has no filter between his lizard brain and his wordhole. We hear every rudimentary half thought he has ping ponging around in his head. He's maybe a little more discreet about who's a great piece of ass or a total dog than he used to be, but that's about it.

Trump has no secrets to keep

That so?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c2/f4/51/c2f451c546bef3a7c8b1470d09dd53d4.jpg

Donald Trump is claiming that the gunman in the Orlando mass shooting was an Afghanistan native — even though the suspect was born in New York City.
Trump made the claim in his speech in Manchester, New Hampshire Monday. He said the gunman, who has been identified as Omar Mateen, was "born an Afghan." The shooter was born in Queens to parents who emigrated from Afghanistan.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Clinton-says-she-can-address-8097421.php

should just start calling Donald a Klansman, after all his dad was a member

as long as we're playing this "sins of the father" game

maybe he meant that the shooter was born a throw blanket, xp

He is an Afghan the way the judge is a Mexican. That is to say, Donald Trump is a racist.

i'm not sure i'm capable of being surprised by the human shitstain that trump is anymore. he could publicly declare that hillary molests little boys and it'd just be the same old, same old.

he's a horrible cartoon caricature come to life, and i say that without intending the slightest bit of hyperbole.

he's ratcheted things up so far already that i'm not sure what he has left except to announce that hillary clinton "maybe, i dunno, i've heard rumors" fucks little boys.

waiting for republicans to drop their support of him any minute. mccain? ryan? anyone? yeah, they can all go to hell.

none of them are going to drop him, they need his supporters' votes

god, i hope he will be the albatross that drags the entire party down, but i guess there are enough shit for brains in this country to keep that from happening.

even if it brings the party down, there's still the problem of all the non-pols who believe/celebrate this garbage

Trump will not bring the party down

he will damage (hopefully cripple) their effectiveness at the federal level for a few years.