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

Morbs, the 'newly-politicized college freshman shouting powerful truths at the squares whose views are actually more nuanced than said freshman wants to believe' shtick is growing a little tiresome.

xxp and utah maybe? http://www.sltrib.com/news/3993058-155/poll-trumps-unpopularity-could-swing-utahns

OL, militarized corpo-Dems don't care how nuanced you are as long as you vote for them. You might as well be 80 million Lena Dunhams.

"The first time Obama was on Daily Show as president, Stewart said, to his face, that his actions were "timid.""

This is why I never watched that dude. Really, who the fuck are you to even talk, you lazy upper-middle-class soccer-major Jersey "comedian" who gets paid millions to stroke the superficiality of the politically vaguely-aware?

Nice how suddenly John Stewart is a liberal when you need him as a cudgel to beat Democrats. Why don't you stick to movies and baseball and other things you actually understand, or at least pretend to?

― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Saturday, June 11, 2016 8:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actualol

he's not a war criminal, at least. but i understand why that more respectable than being Jon Stewart.

howd ya dig Larry Wilmore's "you like raining bombs from long distances" line, gabby?

Always fun to revisit this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfMgqnq2uo

and for Phil D and others of his "shushhhhhh the truth on HRC" stripe:

@ggreenwald Apr 29

Is it really necessary to spend next 6 months pointing out that "criticism of Clinton" ≠ "support for Trump"? Just get a different tactic.

You're so fucking dumb I don't know how you don't choke on your own toothbrush. If you find yourself passing on oppo research from Citzens United, you may want to take a deep breath and consider whose work you're actually doing.

Don't worry, the real Stalinists will reveal themselves as soon as Sanders endorses Clinton, which he will.

think yr arg miiiight be with ABC News

or the Clintonmonster

so are we every going to get the chance for morbz-free discussion or is this pretty much it through november

If us ilx arent able to ignore dr strawbius then us ilx is looking for a dr strawbius to pay attn to imo

howd ya dig Larry Wilmore's "you like raining bombs from long distances" line, gabby?

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, June 12, 2016 10:31 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"howd ya dig" his calling the President a "nigga"? the other "joke" was slightly more professional than but almost as deeply unserious as anything you've ever posted, including the implicit suggestion that wilmore, fellow fetus-botherer and resident of richer-than-beverly hills-san marino (he "commutes" to manhattan), is any less of a privileged nonentity than the better-educated stewart.

how'd you like that mass shooting this morning?

On a relevant note, my Veep shortlist down to two names, I think: Biden and Franken. Always a bridesmaid, that Tim Kaine.

looking forward to a locked thread of horrifying gabbneb/morbs exchanges

I hadn't thought about Franken, but the idea is intriguing.

Only intriguing, though. Not gonna happen.

Uh, if asking Morbs "how'd you like that mass shooting this morning?" is supposed to be some kind of gay-baiting it's in spectacularly bad taste. Actually it's in spectacularly bad taste no matter what.

Don't be that dumb

not very surprised with the utah and kansas polls. this election is going to be a bloodbath on par with Mondale/Reagan.

KS poll is mostly meaningless

I'll believe it when it happens, re: Utah.

"howd ya dig" his calling the President a "nigga"? the other "joke" was slightly more professional than but almost as deeply unserious as anything you've ever posted, including the implicit suggestion that wilmore, fellow fetus-botherer and resident of richer-than-beverly hills-san marino (he "commutes" to manhattan), is any less of a privileged nonentity than the better-educated stewart.

how'd you like that mass shooting this morning?

Wow, this is a supremely terrible post, what the fuck is wrong with you?

try thinking a little

Try never posting

through the power of precisely applied thinking that post will be suddenly not terrible

Please never post again benbbag

Thanks

through the power of precisely applied thinking that post will come within the range of my powers of comprehension

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, June 12, 2016 1:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ftfy

FPfy, fyi

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

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

― 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