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

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.

cruz has $7m on hand right now

his hands are bigger, he can hold more

the really sad thing about this is that you know there are lots of very small dollar GOP donors aka vulnerable elderly people who have been scammed into giving their money to donald trump

i wonder just how little cash trump really has. not the campaign, trump himself. if he had anything like what he claims he'd throw a chunk of his own money at this but afaik the filings reveal he hasn't even written off the $43 million loan from the primaries - donors are going to have to cover it because he won't?

not usually a caveat emptor hardass but boy am i here

the really sad thing about this is that you know there are lots of very small dollar GOP donors aka vulnerable elderly people who have been scammed into giving their money to donald trump

probably the same folks who gave the other half of their savings to the recent deposed financial minister of nigeria

no, it's not nigerian scammers. it's all these right wing publishers, magazines, small organizations and their mailing lists that send out communcations to get people to give them money to repeal obamacare, defund planned parenthood, whatever the causes of the moment are (stop hillary), etc. now trump isn't organized like anything to have much of a mailing list but there's still his rallies and his website and such and anyone who gives him money is just giving him money to pay himself, pretty much, since so much of it goes to rent his own facilities/use his own businesses/etc

Uh guys? GUYS?

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/745084049513906180

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/745096813821177856

huh

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/745100973425704960

Investigative reporters ought to have a heyday with the Trump campaign. otoh, political reporters won't know how to write about Trump except by pretending he's a regular Romney-type candidate. he totally bewilders them.

fuckin gall

my next question is, given that he doesn't call donors, doesn't read about policy, doesn't do events aside from the occasional rally, does trump basically sit on his ass all day watching cable news? that's pretty much all he does, isn't it?

(xposts) Draper Sterling! Will have to see if McMann and Tate are on there anywhere.

sorry that i am posting this opinion but the dave eggers take on trump appeal is so good

daria don't forget annotating printouts of online articles and furiously faxing them back

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/745102661888937984

hahah!

https://twitter.com/nonlinearnotes/status/745102404358639616

My prediction months back that Trump didn't actually want to be president certainly seems to be bearing fruit. That he would choose to reveal that fact to the world by basically not even trying altogether and flaming out as hard as a human being has ever flamed out is a bit surprising.

yeah a few weeks ago on one of these threads i was speculating that trump only reads news articles about himself that staffers hand to him personally and i was kind of exaggerating to make a point.. but it turns out that's exactly what he does

Wait until the convention and the traditional post-Labor Day campaigning and we'll see the full extent of his (dis)engagement.

https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/745109959466061824

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XenoTherapeutics, Inc.

• Is a 501(c)(3) “For-Patient” Corporation
• Is a transparent, accountable advocate for progress
• Combines a business mindset with a moral imperative
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More on Xeno-Skin

http://xenotherapeutics.org/xeno-skin/

nice of him to make up with cruz like that

finally we know where the hair comes from

is trump one of the special genetically modified pigs

Human cadaver used in conjunction with Xeno-Skin doubles the benefit to patient

!

so to recap the main prongs of a trump presidency: giant wall, gags on press, white mob violence, underclass harvested for use in conjunction with xeno-skin

"for-patient" and "once-impossible" reminding me of the diner in my hometown whose menu uses quotation marks all over the place for emphasis, shattering trust: "REAL" SNOW CRAB OMELETTE, or "LOW CALORIE" OPTIONS, or TRY OUR "FRESH" GARDEN SALADS

it's all these right wing publishers, magazines, small organizations and their mailing lists that send out communcations to get people to give them money to repeal obamacare, defund planned parenthood, whatever the causes of the moment are

I think I'm fine with them getting bilked tbh

if you had asked me what this election was missing, I absolutely would've replied "xenoskin"