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

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

it's all safe pieties from her til november

@realDonaldTrump
Prayers and condolences to all of the families who are so thoroughly devastated by the horrors we are all watching take place in our country

obv not his words

much longer response on Facebook, yeah this is clearly not him

After watching him at his last rally reading something he wrote on the plane trip over, I have a clearer if not much altered idea of what he's actually capable of writing.

Paulina Burton knows what's up

http://i.imgur.com/F7YOFPs.png

it's all a plan for obama to institute martial law and extend his Presidency of course

He reminds me of when I worked retail and there was that handful of weird regulars who would come in to the store that we were instructed to ignore until they go away. Mostly because they would have these very distinct styles of inane ranting that never had a particular point, or they would contradict themselves in the very next rant, but the only consistent element was that they wanted their ranting victim to understand that they understood clearly that things were very bad, not good at all, and that those responsible knew it but won't admit it but they know they're screwing up or they know exactly what they're doing (evil), etc. Actual non-vague solutions to these wake up sheeple issues were indeed things like "gotta nuke them all" or "gotta build a wall and get rid of them" or "ban all of them from coming here". If Trump didn't have money you know he'd be just another one of those guys with terrible breath posting flyers around town and cornering some retail employee until a manager comes over to distract them or kick them out.

xxp man, that new communications director is already earning his paycheck

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/f7/BarneySober.png/revision/latest?cb=20100703160414

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

that new communications director is already earning his paycheck
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.)

I don't ever look at Trump's social media--just whatever makes the news--but the same thing occurred to me at some point yesterday. I kept waiting for some kind of incendiary, reckless statement, and nothing came.

I'm sure it was as simple as instructing the appropriate staff member to change his Twitter password. I highly doubt he knows how to navigate a technical obstacle of that magnitude.

but does he know how an e-mail server works

Oh, he knows, I promise you that. He knows better than anybody.

He knows how all of the mail servers work. E-mail, f-mail, even w-mail. You name it.

i've read that he writes out his tweets and hands them to an aide to actually type them into the twitter app

which would not surprise me

Oh my god, that makes so much more sense. I couldn't figure out how such an apparent technophobe manages to use social media as frequently as he does.

Nabokov, Kael, all the great ones write by hand.

he actually types out his tweets on a vintage 1921 mechanical typewriter, then sends them by pneumatic tube to his intern downstairs

If she wants to, Clinton might still be able to run against Bush. Unless there's someone in closer proximity.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/193517/bush-leads-obama-blame-economic-troubles.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles

then sends them by pneumatic tube to his intern downstairs

― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, July 8, 2016 2:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gross!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/10/donald-trump-likely-choose-indiana-gov-mike-pence-/

This would command the world's attention for about 90 minutes. I guess boring is part of the calculation...still hoping for rogue Newt--maybe his sane comments the other day dropped him from consideration.

FYI Mike Pence is batshit insane and far from boring

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/08/473518239/periods-as-protest-indiana-women-call-governor-to-talk-about-menstrual-cycles

Guys: Trump has added the director of communications for UFC to his staff. I don't even know what world this is anymore. I expect to hear news of the cabinet appointments of Hulk Hogan and several of Jeff Dunham's puppets any day now.

http://fusion.net/story/323539/how-bernie-sanders-lost-black-voters/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=fivethirtyeight

look, someone took a bunch of my ILX posts and supported the general unease with the Sanders campaign with a bunch of interviews

obvious headline grab from the GOP platformers, but i have to credit yahoo with a great photo choice here

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rnc-platform-draft-porn-000000329.html

ahahahahahaa

Thanks iStockPhoto

obv I'm stealing that

So THAT'S where they keep the porno.