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

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

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

now that dems are voting for his policies again the cognitive dissonance must be terrifying

Kaine sucks but I'm relieved it isn't Vilsack

I'll be surprised if Chuck Todd turns out to be right

now that dems are voting for his policies again the cognitive dissonance must be terrifying

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, July 22, 2016 10:20 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this is... untrue

i guess if Trump had been "unpolished" it mighta been Franken!

but this is encouraging - Richmond Times-Dispatch, reposted by Reason (http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/bart-hinkle/article_16adc43f-8fca-5ca5-b727-4c8dcadbd273.html)

But the public should not be seduced by efforts to put Kaine in the center of the political spectrum when he is so far from it. Think of it this way: Suppose Kaine had a mirror image in the GOP—a Republican former head of the RNC who repeatedly tried to cut taxes, who sought to restrict abortion, who got high marks from the NRA and low marks from environmentalists, who wanted to cut social programs, who supported privatizing Social Security, and who was, in all visible respects, a down-the-line soldier for the political right.

Would the press term such a politician—no matter how genial and friendly—a "cautious centrist" and a "pragmatist"? Or would he be labeled an "arch-conservative" and an "ideologue"?

Exactly.

i'm voting for clinton because i want harriet miers on the supreme court!

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

Indeed, I remember when we thought his father was bad.

i still think theyre bad :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Sos3q6ASo

mp’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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-vp-pick-tim-kaine-226013#ixzz4F9ISD2m0
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Richard M. Nixon ‏@dick_nixon 4h4 hours ago
'68 brought people in. Trump locked the door and threw away the key. If you can't see the difference, the hell with you.

Trump's speech was sort of not the worst -- ok -- but it was in the midst of a circuslike convention

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/manafort-fbi-crime-statistics-cant-be-trusted.html

Trump's speech was the worst because his was the only one promised to show the potential to pivot in time for the general. It didn't, he didn't, he can't.

only trump brand stats will give you the luxury info you crave

here's a thread

http://ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=40

oh fuck lol

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