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

the resemblance becomes clearer without makeup: http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2012918/1024.ivanka.mh.101812.jpg

Common-sense suggestions on how to run his campaign more traditionally (i.e. in a way that has any chance of success)

His success so far has been unconventionally attained. He can claim (not without justification) that the "traditional" way is the way of losing losers who lose. Why should he listen to traditional advisers advising him on how things are traditionally done?

(All this said, of course, as a bitter foe who hopes he doesn't suddenly acquite a chance of success.)

(And, pace DJP, with an awareness of how awful his candidacy is, win or lose - but his losing abysmally is surely better, right?)

Trump's sons look like an amalgam of every dude who ever told someone to stop hitting themselves.

(And, pace DJP, with an awareness of how awful his candidacy is, win or lose - but his losing abysmally is surely better, right?)

http://www.wcvb.com/news/police-man-with-hammer-shouts-racial-slurs-attacks-teens-at-revere-beach/40130564

the damage may already be done

Are you guys saying that merely because you want it to be true? There is still an entire general election campaign ahead of us and Trump has proven that anything possible and nobody is safe from evil.
― Evan, Monday, June 20, 2016 10:41 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this. it’s incredibly unlikely he’ll win, but i hope nobody gets too cocky or comfortable.

i want Hillary to win this by 20% or more*

*no, that doesn't mean I'm enthusiastic about Hillary. this is, sadly perhaps, no longer about her.

DJP, i fear the effect of trump even when (and before) he loses, but i don't think that individual incident really makes the case for his influence.

It's probably not fair to tar his children with his noxious level of eevil; they didn't choose their father. But I'm sorry, dude on the right does kinda look like a lamprey.

http://i.imgur.com/ktqpVJf.jpg

http://i2.wp.com/hooniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/uct-of-the-year.jpg

that these kids can have lived with this monster for decades and still endorse his candidacy suggests they are as fucked as he is (or nearly).

I have seen many presidential campaigns where a victory by one of the two major party candidates was extremely depressing or angering. This is the first I have seen where a victory by one of the 'major' candidates would set all my alarm bells screaming at once. It would feel a bit like sitting in an airplane with smoke and flames pouring from all its engines.

that image triggered me :(

Trump's kid looks like Rik Mayall.

The son with the mullet looks like one of the models for one of the preppie asshole bisexuals in The Secret History.

And speaking of creepy...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClaA64BUkAASNir.jpg

Well here's a new one:

http://theresurgent.com/donald-trump-is-new-coke/

I had an uncle who loved New Coke. The product certainly appealed to a particular sort. He was a routine liar who wound up in jail at one point. It takes all kinds and New Coke appealed to that kind. Trump too appeals to a particular kind of angry and aggrieved white guy who thinks everyone else agrees with him when really 70% of the nation does not.

That's a spicy take!

I really need him to play out this idea that New Coke was exclusively designed for criminals.

he's a little more like fresca

erickson is so hapless at this point that "I had an uncle who loved New Coke" still reads like a huge self-own

See, those first four sentences would make an excellent start to a monologue or novel in different hands.

like fresca? you mean fizzy and light on the tongue with a harsh chemical aftertaste?

Was there ever a soft drink marketed exclusively to bigots and xenophobes?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClaHS8FWQAIWtPY.jpg

worst QOTSA line-up yet

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClaHS8FWQAIWtPY.jpg

http://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/88/11/20/2/mountain-dew-white-out-soda-2-l_1546482.jpg

I thought that was the cast for the new Edd Ed & Eddy movie

They should do a limited run of New Coke just to clarify for those of us who weren't there what the big deal was.

I never drink cola, but as I recall one widespread opinion was that New Coke was formulated to taste like Pepsi. as if taste matters in a cola drink.

Taste doesn't matter in a cola drink if you never drink cola obviously! New Coke sucked, as does Pepsi.

New Coke was fine tbh, ppl were just mad because it was sweeter than they expected

no it sucked

I thought they were mad because of fears of discontinuing Coca Cola Classic in favor of New Coke

They did discontinue it! It wasn't "Coca Cola Classic" until they brought it back in response to the New Coke bomb.

We've established that Donny Trump Jr is just there so his old man can transfer his consciousness into him at some point, y/y?

IIRC New Coke fell out of favor when the company started floating the question of whether Pepsi was even really a cola and suggesting that it might even secretly be a citrus-flavored soda in disguise.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jyOBXnfg1Wk/hqdefault.jpg

scene from a future trump rally

I thought a soft drink called Coke II was funny.

http://www.usasoda.com/images/coke80.JPG

did it taste funny?

feeling the fizz from Doctor Casino's post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Conspiracy_theories

it certainly seems fair to me to suggest that coke is playing a large part in trump's run for president

Right wing Twitter is agreeing re: New Coke

https://twitter.com/LeonHWolf/status/744965911002681345

We've established that Donny Trump Jr is just there so his old man can transfer his consciousness into him at some point, y/y?

I imagine it more as a future source for organs.

I was thinking that his hair is completely ridiculous, but if you assume it's going to get bleached and woven into his father's rug, it makes sense

he's a hair surrogate

I try to be kind to how people present themselves, but I look at that picture with three of the children and wonder, other than Ivanka, why it looks like something is wrong with their faces

People forget about the Pepsi challenge, in which Pepsi clearly and definitively trounced Coke, which is why Coke rejiggered the formula to be more Pepsi-like.

Anyone else remember the Gen X OK Soda?
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/2/23/14/enhanced-buzz-12462-1361646289-0.jpg

My friend's response was to start calling Pepsi Epsi-pay Soda.

if you see Ivanka without makeup, she's got a lot of Trump in her

well. or so he hopes.

OK Cola was p awesome lol @ "beverage"

those GenXers were so ironic!

never seen those, WOW at Charles Burns and Daniel Clowes soda