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

That's so utterly tepid

Meanwhile, over in Moscow, one of Trump's foreign policy brain trust types, a Carter Page, has been giving a speech and answering questions. And oh my god.

https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/751098519151312896

https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/751099084367400960

But the best is this whole Twitter thread. Just read 'em all.

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/751089043945971712

Article 12 details how we rebelled against King George VII and quotes III Corinthians.

That said, cue Republican "57 states" counter-zing.

Haha - Roger Stone is doing a Reddit-style AMA on men's style on *nfoWars tonight:

https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/751080723415638016

the tpm rundown of the trump-GOP meeting has some more quotes, all very good

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-changes-few-minds-with-meeting-on-the-hill

oh shit 2 hrs behind as usual

never thought i'd have any pity for paul ryan but this is just humiliating

“What I thought was especially helpful today was our members just got access and got to ask their questions and talk about their issues,” said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.). “I thought he did a great job engaging with our members, and I think our members appreciated it.”

“We clearly have a presumptive nominee who wants to work with us on moving this agenda forward,” Ryan said.

I have no pity for Paul Ryan. He's chosen to roll in this shitpuddle.

And again, what's the upside? These dudes aren't even getting any campaign finance assistance by smooching Trump's ass.

Ryan can go die in a dumpster fire

looks like he's getting his chance

some enterprising reporter needs to ask trump, 'who's worse, hillary clinton or jeff flake?'

"who's worse, Hillary or Graydon?"

if ryan is really a republican, why is his middle initial "D"?

Where's his baseball cap which indicates his preference re: the status of America? He must want the USA to be even worse. Sad!!

because he puts the "dick" in Republican.

^ Roger Ailes wishes he could

because he puts the "dick" in Republican.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

the man's no richard nixon.

And again, what's the upside? These dudes aren't even getting any campaign finance assistance by smooching Trump's ass.

― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 7, 2016 2:32 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, but they're STICKING IT TO THE LIBTARDS!

And again, what's the upside?

Maybe no one runs against them in primaries? That's all they worry about.

I know it's an old saw but, depending on the ultimate fallout of his candidacy, I feel like history is going to be particularly unkind to the weasels who fall in with Trump or grant him any legitimacy.

Paul Ryan is a fraud and a horrible human being and deserves no one's sympathy

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The more you know ...

lol Lyin Ted set to speak at the RNC

Speech Forecast: 100% chance of lies!

yesssss

I saw that and literally cackled with glee, then sat back and thought long and hard about all the decisions in my life that led me to a point where seeing that message pop up as a CNN alert on my phone would actually make me cackle with glee, and now I'm kind of depressed

oooh

I'll be deeply disappointed if the RNC isn't a complete shambles

erick² has decided trump's entire candidacy is a clinton setup; claims that trump would lose a convention fight if the delegates could vote in secret

missing is an explanation why a) the gop has completely fallen for it (because lol it wasn't due to open primaries erick²) b) none of the delegates have the moral fortitude to cast their anti-trump votes in public

I saw that and literally cackled with glee, then sat back and thought long and hard about all the decisions in my life that led me to a point where seeing that message pop up as a CNN alert on my phone would actually make me cackle with glee, and now I'm kind of depressed

I loathe and despise myself for this, but

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/46/c0/95/46c0956f87419b42cb5f00bf91fb6a44.jpg

My internet is spotty at the moment so forgive me but: is Lyin' Ted speaking at the request of the RNC or at the request of Donnie Daddyissues? Because both options are hilarious but different varieties of hilarious.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmyrxzfUMAEpm9L.jpg

Cruz told reporters Thursday that the real estate mogul offered his former primary rival a speaking slot during the meeting and Cruz accepted. He added that he and Trump did not discuss an endorsement

speaking as someone with an it background, i would love to see a world where we actually had the power to deny access to sensitive data to anybody who displayed "extreme carelessness" handling it. we'd have most of the ceos of fortune 500 companies locked out of their companies' computer networks within a week. :)

Presented in a recent interview with a scenario, floating around the political ether, in which the presumptive Republican nominee proves all the naysayers wrong, beats Hillary Clinton and wins the presidency, only to forgo the office as the ultimate walk-off winner, Mr. Trump flashed a mischievous smile.

“I’ll let you know how I feel about it after it happens,” he said, minutes before leaving his Trump Tower office to fly to a campaign rally in New Hampshire.

I am running for president, folks, make no mistake! We are gonna take back the White House and it's gonna be terrific.

Is this for real that his campaign is floating Ivanka as the vp choice???

feel like i predicted that at some point

nothing says power mad authoritarian like appointing your children to key positions in your government

papatrump and babytrump

don't desecrate the good name of Frog and Toad. i'll cut you.

otm

State Dept reopening investigation into email server. for fuck's sake

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/state-department-reopens-probe-into-clinton-emails/index.html?adkey=bn

I think this is procedure: they suspended their internal whatsis while the DoJ investigation was ongoing. Now that that's done, they can tie up loose ends.

State's internal process will determine whether any of them "security and administrative" consequences are warranted - either disciplining current employees, or putting some kind of negative mark in the file of past employees. Again, since Clinton was the actual boss, it hardly matters what her Permanent Record says, and she doesn't work there anymore so they can't really do anything to her. Even if they wanted to. Which they don't.

is there really such thing as a permanent record

according to thread "Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do", yes.

whose job is it to keep Trump off Twitter right this moment, cuz he's doing a phenomenal job.

you know he's got that "Thanks Obama for creating a racial divide in this country! Sad!!" tweet locked and loaded

feel like hill is gonna be just as vocal abt this