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

the way he talks is like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvTVL6lwFk

why does g.e. smith keep choosing one-night stand groupie anthems to play? the boss is on his third wife

David Brooks just said "next week Hillary Clinton is going to drive a truck through this"

omigod 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' on again

Ha "You Can't Always Get What You Want" now xpost

Needs some Eagles...

"Last Worthless Evening" would be nice

Take It Easy

semi charmed life

"Last Worthless Evening" would be nice

― Neanderthal,

"Wasted Time" imo

"Better In The USA"

what would Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn say?

oh my fucking god this is boring

AT LAST

LOCK ELECTION

"On The Border"

DON: I can't believe this shit.

GHOST GLENN: An arena going crazy over the claptrap of a windbag in a bad toupee named Don? Who'd a think it?

DON: Well, yeah.

CNN FITE

Yeah this CNN panel has reached a breaking point

Van Jones at his best right now

Usually find Ana Navarro really corny, but she's good tonight.

First Trump commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swyFqRB3dxY

Why are both the candidates this year over a million years old?

aging population, also old is in right now

When the CW consensus 'next Obama' is Marco Rubio, then it makes good sense to look at 'oldster Obama' instead.

CoS answered a question I had:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/donald-trump-ends-his-rnc-speech-by-playing-rolling-stones-a-band-who-once-pulled-a-knife-on-him/

David Brooks just said "next week Hillary Clinton is going to drive a truck through this"

Too soon.

there's no such thing as bad taste at the end of the world

did no one involved think to have g.e. smith play the SNL closing theme over trump's speech?

it's like nobody has any imagination anymore

the music has been like twilight zone shit

watching the ivanka into now. i wonder if she/anyone actually believes that trump would be a competent president

Give her a break--She used to live in his nuts!

it's more a general point. like, ppl cheering for him or voting for him... they know this is a joke, right?

i understand voting for him as an expression of disdain for "the establishment" or as a kind of profane gesture but i don't understand thinking he will improve anything

"thinking"

Why are both the candidates this year over a million years old?

Scooping up a billion dollars takes time.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-threatens-the-ghostwriter-of-the-art-of-the-deal

In which our thin-skinned hero, Donald Trump, takes time out of the middle of the RNC convention to have his lawyers threaten the trash-talking ghostwriter of his book.

@ByronTau
Final tally of RNC arrests: 24, per the police.

For context:
St. Paul in 2008 saw 700+ arrests
NYC in 2004 saw 1,800+

that's a good thing

he thanked the police last night!

proof Bloomberg was a great fascist

the best!

the kind liberals cheerfully voted for -- some 3x

but I thought things were worse than they've ever been???

per capita

1 arrest per 4750 NYCers

1 arrest per 4303 Minneapolitan/St. Paulites

1 arrest per 16534 Clevelanders

yes, all things, my god yr intellec powers astound me frogbs you just keep winning

xp

glad the clown show stayed inside the arena.

if anyone has an hour to kill, go rewatch W's acceptance speech in 2000. compare to any portion of what we got last night.

morbs pretty sure frogs was referencing the apocalyptic tone from trump's speech there. geez

Remember when we all thought W was so bad; simpler times

And after Donald Trump’s somewhat more polished performance Thursday night, even Democrats who had been pushing for a flashier choice like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren or New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker were sobered by the challenging four months ahead. “After last night, she needs to make the safest choice possible,” said a former senior White House aide.

good Christ

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-vp-pick-tim-kaine-226013#ixzz4F9Ahnigg

yeah, carne, i got it. no harm no foul