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

it's not very 'official' yet

Maybe you could say he's still on the ... pence?

in a shocking move donald trump announced his 10 year old son barron will be his running mate

Periods for Pence

pence should be pounded

tim tebow: not an elite convention speaker

https://twitter.com/mollyesque/status/753766904246841346

reporting from the RNC rules meeting: seems delegates are losing their move to retain the ability to vote their consciences

Shocking

well yeah

lol mookie

Also awesome: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-begs-adelson-for-6-million-to-cover-convention-shortfall-225571#ixzz4EQryu5DY

supposedly pence's plane turned around and headed back to indianapolis and he has not yet pulled out of the governor's race

amazing stuff

Christie's gravity might still tip the scale in his favor?

newt's final roll of the dice? https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/753777038935207937

sounds constitutional

Newt leaving on a high note: "That's it for me!"

this deliberate stirring up of bigotry toward muslims is so shameful and offensive. newt seems to have found a new low

what makes you think is low is anything new?

"Due to the attacks in Nice", Trump's cancelled his VP announcement press conference for later today.

They should try to build an airport somewhere in Alaska, so things like this wouldn't happen.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3690977/Trump-says-Sarah-Palin-REJECTED-convention-speech-offer-Alaska

Maybe a way to get from some isolated places in Alaska to other places? Perhaps... a bridge?

wonder if trump is rethinking his vp choice now; not that he had any good options, but it seems particularly dumb to have picked the governor of indiana when you yourself have zero foreign policy experience and stuff like this keeps happening.

i dunno, he seems to only care about pleasing his own supporters, and they seem pretty happy with his foreign policy plans (building a wall, abandoning nato, advising everyone to get a nuclear weapon, etc)

it's best to just be patient with the game because as you level up the pokemon you catch get stronger. So hold on to your stardust and candies for a while

"Okay, so what would you like to do on my new cable news network, Mike? You want your own show?"
"Wait, I thought...I thought you wanted me to be your vice president."
"...Mike. Seriously? You haven't figured out the con yet? Maybe you're not my guy after all. Sad!"

lol wrong thread xp

Tebow denying that he's speaking at RNC

I assumed you were going for allegory, there, carne.

lol wrong thread xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada)

I thought it worked really well as some kind of Zen-Riddle explanation for the Pence pick.

I keep reading stories of trump delegates reluctant to travel to Cleveland because they did not realize they would be footing their own bill for hotels and whatnot.

That hat money doesn't grow on trees, y'know.

A Woodstock-esque highway shoulder coated with sad-looking Republican hitchhikers, some of them willing to take their tops off and/or give blowjobs to get to Cleveland? That would be pretty epic.

lol wrong thread xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada)

I thought it worked really well as some kind of Zen-Riddle explanation for the Pence pick.

― clemenza, Friday, July 15, 2016 8:59 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha so did i!

sheldon adelson is the most horrifying looking human i've ever seen

otm no picture of dorian grey for his crimes

http://i0.wp.com/classicfilmfreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/picture-of-dorian-gray-1945-8.jpg

Yeah, he's a whole other level. Like, Trump is physically grotesque but that's almost all Trump's doing for whatever strange reason. He'd probably look like just a regular old dude without the Cheetos facial and the fright wig and the constant, bizarre mugging.

He announced pence on Twitter

Rip newt :-(

six Pence none the bitchier

adelson is unattractive sure but man like that particular photo he just radiates EVIL too, it's unsettling

Manafort: "he was never on our list of people who should've been announced"

Some idiot on ESPN radio last night was predicting tebow was launching his political career next week and would be president in the next 15 years.

Dude Who Has Just Bitten Into a Lemon / Dude in the Middle of a Peculiarly Satisfying Bowel Movement '16!

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1248x832/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/07/15/Interactivity/Images/crop_902016-07-13T011702Z_01_IND112_RTRIDSP_3_USA-ELECTION.jpg

When people approach me making faces like those, I cross the street and hope they don't follow, and I certainly don't vote them into the highest office in the country.

http://media2.fdncms.com/nuvo/imager/dramatic-reveal/u/big/2747068/screen_shot_2014-01-16_at_4.39.42_pm.png

Do you like movies about gladiators?

When asked whether he believes in evolution (for a second time): “I believe with all my heart that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them …. How he did that, I’ll ask him about some day.” (Many religious believers have no problem saying that God acted through the process of evolution, a view that is not considered to be science-denying creationism, and that reconciles, successfully, science and religion. But note here that Pence does not specifically accept that stance.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/14/watch-mike-pence-trumps-likely-vp-pick-question-global-warming-and-demur-on-evolution/

https://twitter.com/tcote/status/753768427672731649

"guy fishing in a cialis commercial" otm

C/Ping a bunch of tweets from a Politico reporter Shane Goldmacher:

A few easy digital things Trump's team didn't do before announcing Pence:
1) Update Trump's website with the news.
2) Update Mike Pence's profile on Twitter to say he is on the ticket
3) Or update the pinned tweet on the top of Pence's account linking to his reelect page, as people flood there:
4) Buy Google search ads for flood of searches (See comparison for Clinton search):
5) Secure top domains. See --> (example is trumppence.gop)
6) Have Pence update HIS political home page, or at least redirect to a Trump-related page
7) Put out of a press release highlighting Pence's life accomplishments that the thousands of reporters writing pieces can crib from.
8) One thing the Trump folks DID do was post on two social networks: Facebook and Twitter
9) But they still haven't told anything to his nearly 2 million followers on Instagram
10) Again, these are the precious first 30 minutes that hundreds of thousands, even millions, of voters are seeking information about Pence.
11) And another thing: In Trump's initial tweet, he didn't tag @mike_pence so his nearly 10 million followers could follow his VP.
12) Follow up on his promise to text supporters the news
13) At least so far (45 minutes or so), send an email to his massive list asking for money. VP day is big small-dollar potential day.
14) Okay I think that's all for now. Thanks for reading.

lol