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

do you drink gin at the office?

― wizzz! (amateurist),

I don't drink soda either!

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

― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Monday, June 20, 2016 2:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

temped to joke "Coca Cola?" here but idk enough about the politics of 19th cent atlanta

Coke's founder did become the mayor several years after the atlanta race riots, interestingly (he says, after looking at wikipedia)

still making my way thru that Hope Hicks piece. whole lotta O_O in there

meanwhile, great, great work, kiu, just what we need here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/06/20/man-arrested-for-wanting-to-kill-trump.html?via=twitter_page

Fanta was invented exclusively for nazi germany when they couldn't import coca cola syrup.

Invented by coke, that is. True fact.

no shit

in some better universe there's a version of me that doesn't feel the need to do this

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

― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Monday, June 20, 2016 9:06 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all this soda talk and no one made the fanta joke

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, June 20, 2016 10:40 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fanta poodoo

Is it a well known true fact? I only found out the other day hence my giddy excitement.

Trump adviser resigns after mocking Lewandowski on Twitter

Is it a well known true fact?

ha, idk! it does appear in the preamble of the wiki article tho (looked it up before post cuz feared i'd suddenly blanked on the fanta/fresca/faygo difference).

To circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola GmbH) during the Second World War, decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including whey and apple pomace – the "leftovers of leftovers", as Keith later recalled. The name was the result of a brief brainstorming session, which started with Keith's exhorting his team to "use their imagination" (Fantasie in German), to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted "Fanta!"

it's definitely a Crazy Fact i've been told at parties but i feel like if it were really ubiquitous they'd just make up a new soda.

Speaking of Faygo, are juggalos bigots and xenophobes, or am I unfairly demonizing an already-persecuted minority?

Trump adviser resigns after mocking Lewandowski on Twitter

looool @ "I'm resigning; call if I can help"

Nathan Rabin's book about Juggalos was entertaining, as was Colt Cabana's podcast about wrestling at the Gathering.

what is the overlap b/t trump supporters and juggalos? can i see a venn diagram?

yr traditional Juggalo would want to set Trump on fire on account of him being rich bxtch boy

so trump attracts the non-traditional juggalo

they fired this Caputo so Hope Hicks doesnt keep emailing the 'Caputo' who works for politico on accident

I knew this would exist if I searched for it.

http://img.ifcdn.com/images/4746309da4d0b69528e0ed330699dfbc4d3434687df135757c2d56dc5e87dff4_1.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/juggalosforbernie/?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/juggalos4donaltrump/

what a world

omg @ bernified hatchetman

not sure why #Berniejuggalos didn't use this approach in the spring

juggalos are a historically inevitable formation, a proto-revolutionary cadre to be led by an as-yet undetermined vanguard willing to shepherd them

Yo! Trump will be speaking at this event! Woop woop

JUL 11
Insane Clown Posse feat. Guy Fieri and Smashmouth live at 7-Eleven® Hosted by Ron Jeremy
Mon 1:00 PM in EDT · 3211 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14214-1322, United States
3,909 people interested · 3,091 people going

(troll but i like how much interest he got up)

can't find any juggalos for hillary :(

There is nothing on the Internet that the addition of Juggalos can't improve.

https://twitter.com/HicksNoComment

xxp Juggalos are the previous attempt to talk about class in the US.

Email me at HopeHicksDidNotResp✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ and I will ignore you.

lol

While Trump nurses an obvious addiction to cable news, the reading that's put in front of him is largely confined to a topic he already knows well. Every morning, staffers print out 30 to 50 Google News results for “Donald J. Trump.” He then goes at the sheaf with a marker, making circles and arrows and annotating things he likes or doesn't like. The defaced article gets scanned and e-mailed to the journalist or the person quoted who has drawn Trump's attention, under the subject line “From the office of Donald J. Trump.”

this fucking guy.

sci-fi novelists are going to have a hard time keeping up with the clusterfuck that is america in 2016.

lol @ printing Google News results

lol: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/politics/donald-trump-television-ads/index.html

wtf

Regardless of how much he invests in his own advertising, Trump can be expected to respond to Clinton's ads.
"Believe me folks, they're false ads," he recently told supporters in California. "They are so false. Ah, some of them aren't so false. Mostly."

always strange when he strays into telling the truth like that

from the Hope Hicks GQ piece:

She wasn’t always so earnest, however. In her senior yearbook, she mistakenly attributed the words of Eleanor Roosevelt—“The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams”—to Jimmy Buffett.

uh every Parrothead I know is earnest

sir, my friend, you are dreaming:

Within the tight, alpha-male circle of hired guns, Nunberg could sense her unease. A tall, heavyset man with slicked-back hair, Nunberg gifted Hicks a book, Running for Office. He nicknamed his new friend “Hopesicle” and quickly developed a fondness for her. “She was very cute, because she was very anxious at first about all of this,” he told me as he sipped a Thai iced tea at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. “I joked with her once, like, ‘You're like my Peggy, like I'm Don Draper.’ ”

Going from the radio right now, turns out Trump of course couldn't have been more wrong about Orlando, the fucker.

what are you hearing now on the radio?

Armed guard (moonlighting officer?) was working the club, exchanged fire with gunman, backup police there in 2 minutes, followed by 3 hour standoff. Unclear how many deaths, if any, were due to friendly fire/police.

Guys, the FEC filing...political Twitter just went crazy. SCAM after scam from Trump.

http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/514/201606209018595514/201606209018595514.pdf

https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/745068761712033796

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/745075852027670528

https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/745081523754262528

https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/745076413812871168

https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/745082013321990145

https://twitter.com/thestustein/status/745084145953431553

Good summary starting here

https://twitter.com/dbernstein/status/745074818169638912

next month's filing is due to be published during the RNC convention

543k to these guys and he doesn't even make their public-facing portfolio - sad!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-money-campaign.html

(543k last month, rather, xp)

Mr. Lewandowski said, “If this was the business world, people would be commending Mr. Trump for the way he’s run this campaign.”

Great thinking there! But only if the point of the campaign were trying to turn a profit. Sadly, an electoral campaign has only one product and it is purchased with votes. Spending the least money per vote gained would make a lot of sense, if that were the measure of success. It isn't.