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

If Lyin' Ted refuses to endorse, that may be interpreted as an endorsement; he should endorse, followed by a quick reminder that he's a helpless liar.

Lyin' Ted attempts endorsement, founders upon the venerable liars paradox.

Finally, gawker Trump descriptions in list form:

Seagull dipped in tikka masala
Bursting landfill of municipal solid waste
Mountain of rotting whale blubber
Sputum-filled Orange Julius
Gangrenous gaping wound
Racist, sexist block of aged Cheddar
Oversized wasp exoskeleton stuffed with old mustard
Neo-fascist real estate golem
Abandoned roadside ham hock
Bewildered, golden-helmeted astronaut who’s just landed on this planet from a distant galaxy
Monument to human hubris crafted out of rotting Spam
A walking pile of reanimated roadkill
Heaving carcass
Stately hot dog casing
Flatulent leather couch
Swollen earthworm gizzard
Narcissistic bowl of rotten gazpacho
Yellowing hunk of masticated gristle
A human/Komodo dragon hybrid
Blackening scab artfully hiding in your Raisin Bran
“Taco truck”
A man who could one day become the first hobgoblin to enter the White House
A pair of chapped lips superglued to a hairball
Horsehair mattress stuffed with molding copies of Hustler
Malignant corn chip
Human Kinder Egg whose inner surprise is a tiny pebble of rat shit
The sculpture your three-year-old made out of soggy ground-up goldfish snacks
A man with the hair of a radioactive skunk
Roiling Cheez Whiz mass
Cryogenically frozen bog man
A glistening, shouting gristle mass with a history of saying terrible and stupid things
Screaming giant cheese wedge
Republican frontrunner and 250-pound accumulation of rancid beef
Day-Glo roadside billboard about jock itch
Temperamental gelatinous sponge
Sentient hate-balloon
A Rumpelstiltskin inflated with a bike pump and filled with bacteria
Sun-kissed ass plug
Self-tanning enthusiast
An enraged, bewigged fetus blown up to nightmarish size
Parental pile of burnt organic material
Human-shaped wad of Gak
Walking irradiated tumor
Uncooked chicken breast
KKK rally port-a-potty holding tank
Neon-tinted hellion
A plentiful field of dung piled into the shape of a presidential candidate
Malfunctioning wind turbine
Seeping fleabag
Sloshing styrofoam takeout container filled with three-day-old mac and cheese
A sticky, grabby, Cheeto-hued toddler with no sense of adult deportment
Figurative rubber, and also literal rubber
A carnivorous plant watered with irradiated bat urine
Sentient waste disposal plant
A disappointment
Poorly-drawn fascist
Racist teratoma
Lamprey eel spray-painted gold
A hair that you pluck, causing a cluster of hairs to sprout in its place
Sunken, corroding soufflé
Nacho cheese golem
Undead tangerine
A cartoon representation of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in a pharmaceutical ad
Fossilized meatball
Horking mole-creature suffering from radioactive spray-tan
Tattered Craigslist sofa
A full-grown Monopoly dog carefully balancing a spongecake atop his head
Play-Doh factory explosion
A new superfood made of finely-ground clown wigs
Unkempt troll doll found floating facedown in a tub of rancid Beluga caviar

Seagull dipped in tikka masala
Bursting landfill of municipal solid waste
Mountain of rotting whale blubber

Captain Beefheart sure could be vicious!

dinah shore's shoes

Seagull dipped in tikka masala

I'd surprised if you follow Welsh news reports over there, but it's a reference to this. This passes for news in Wales.

facebook mate, it's worldwide, orange fuckin bird

"Stop eating Oreo cookies" is the new "please clap"

Captain Beefheart sure could be vicious!

LOL

I really hate Ted Cruz but his shade game is on point

otm, dude is bringing a very cold game to the table

Captain Beefheart sure could be vicious!

LOL seconded. A+

running Hillary's twitter acct seems like a fun job

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/742894093366333440

The Song Remains The Same
http://web.archive.org/web/20071213024912/http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/davidcorn/2007/12/hillary-on-obama-fear-and-hatr.html

A lot of people are saying Trump has tiny man-baby hands.

"The clarity between the two nominees is very clear." – Herman Cain, introducing Trump just now

lol @ Return of Cain

it's the best clarity, so clear, you won't believe it

https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/743109707263533057

Rosie Gray
‏@RosieGray

Cain: "this sounds like a shucky-ducky kind of crowd on a shucky-ducky kind of day, here to support an awww-shucky ducky kind of candidate"

Trump/Cain please please please

can totally see Trump selecting Cain to prove he's not a racist, has the best African Americans etc.

he's an ideal VP pick

one thing we really need is for an accomplished neurosurgeon to play Stepin Fetchit to a racist toupee running for President

Cain sells pizzas iirc

Herman Cain is a neurosurgeon??

oh lol I kept thinking Ben Carson, whoops

I feel so much better about Cain saying this nonsense

and it's not what *we* need, it's what Trump needs, and Trump's needs are all that matters, because he is the greatest, really great, you have no idea

that's what some people are saying anyway. I would never say it.

Cain has been 100% clown from the jump, I don't care how much more he embarrasses himself

I really need to hear what "awww-shucky ducky" sounds like out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO3ot894Oyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbv6B8Ky4ns

I see the speaking in tongues has finally begun in earnest.

storify of a live tweet of a trump rally

https://storify.com/case_face/a-trump-rally-in-greensboro-anger-in-here-is-palpa

really sounds like a cross between heavy metal parking lot and immortan joe opening up the pipes

Do people say "Aw shucky ducky now" in "some parts of the South"? Inquiring minds need to know.

this was enlightening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuckey_Duckey

He was parodied on Saturday Night Live by Bobby Moynihan as "Slappy Pappy," with the catchphrase "Slappy Pappy Way Way."

what what

the guy introducing Trump right now is prattling on about how Hillary is an enemy of union workers; Georgia is a right-to-work state

lol, I must have missed those in 2012.

did we not cover trump saying US soldiers had looted the redevelopment money sent to iraq?

https://storify.com/DemFromCT/corbin-reiff-on-honor-duty-and-donald-trump

this series of tweets is p revealing in a number of different ways, not all of them anti-trump necessarily...

god i just watched the frontline on the origins of isis, seeing again the pre-iraq-war days, cheney and the rest. what an awful time. it really is the original sin that made the world we're in

yup. will never forgive any of those jackals. (I don't really forgive Hillary for her craven gullibility at the time either tbh)

altho I do think there are tiers of guilt/complicity in terms of who was driving the bus and who was willing to be a passenger

ugh i barely like to think about the pre-iraq war days. i remember reading an article written by richard a. clarke which was fairly prescient and even then it seemed otm. talking about the vacuum that would exist in a middle eastern war, and how extreme terrorist groups would begin to fill the gap left by the ousted government(s) and how there could be worse groups than al qaeda on the horizon. he also said, iirc, that the u.s. should be less concerned about airline terrorism and more concerned with assault weapon attacks carried out in public places.

did we not cover trump saying US soldiers had looted the redevelopment money sent to iraq?

https://storify.com/DemFromCT/corbin-reiff-on-honor-duty-and-donald-trump

tbf the bush administration literally 'lost' a billion dollars in cash in iraq but I doubt the soldiers are the ones who took it.

they certainly did, some of it

which soldiers? it's a meaningless accusation unless you can narrow it down a little.

I assume its all bribe money

look i think it's clear trump just fell asleep drunkenly watching three kings on a plane one time

https://lisathatcher.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/realmovieplots-threekings.jpg