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

murica gone get tp'd yall

P on his Ts

in other news, WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin's stream of recent editorials about how the #NeverTrump people are gonna stop Trump at the convention is charmingly delusional. The layers of denial from her ilk about the nature of their party is so pitiful.

gonna trump that pence so hard in the luxurious mar-a-lago presidential suite, so hard you won't even believe it I promise you

Much as I enjoy all this hilarious snark at Trump's new logo (esp. rushomancy's eye exam comment), its design won't change a single vote for or against him, so its deficiencies are irrelevant. As I recall, Hillary's arrow logo caught a similar amount of flack when it was unveiled in 2015. Didn't matter.

I don't think anyone on this thread has any illusions about what we post "mattering"

i was totally gonna vote for trump until i saw that logo, now my delicate aesthetic sensibilities are offended

It's the crapulence of the logo that doesn't matter.

are you really policing an ILX thread for discussing a thing that doesn't matter

like, we all know it doesn't matter BUT joeks

I'm feeling glum and the joeks didn't cure it.

JOEK HARDER GUYS AIMLESS IS GLUM

I'm actually surprised the logo isn't shittier. Like something Trump doodled on a cocktail napkin and photographed with his cellphone.

PENCE + RUMP

RECENT PUMP

PREP ME CUNT

CENT PUMPER
MEN CREPT UP
PERT CUM PEN
CRUMPET PEN

'Pert cum pen' is probably the most disgusting erection euphemism I've ever encountered.

CURT MEN PEP

it's no 'spam javkein

TEN CUM PERP

Er, spam javelin

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/753968154225811457
A few easy digital things Trump's team didn't do before announcing Pence:
1) Update Trump's website with the news.

and goes on from there

call Doug

http://trumpandpence2016.com/

@DanaBashCNN
Scoop: @realDonaldTrump was so unsure about @mike_pence that around midnight last night he asked top aides if he could get out of it

decider-in-chief

No takebacks, Donnie.

trump's gonna make an amazing deal with doug, just the best deal

Secretary of State Doug

really curious to see what Cruz says in his speech at the convention

"You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Donald."

presumably some dominionist ravings with no mention of the candidate whatsoever

'san dimas high school football rules!'

Yeah, there's gonig to be a lot of coded "This is going to be an apocalyptic disaster, but we can come back in 2020, and we still have a chokehold on the Senate"

the house maybe. they're going to lose the senate i think.

yup

assuming they retain the House, will be interesting to see what Ryan has to do to hold his caucus together

pat toomey is running these totally bullshit "i'm a courageous warrior for sensible gun control" advertisements in PA. he has an A rating from the NRA.

lol what a doucehbag

I doubt the GOP is going to lose the Senate. Even more would have to go wrong for them than already has. And if they do lose it, they're getting it back in 2018.

the house maybe. they're going to lose the senate i think.

― Mordy, Friday, July 15, 2016 11:09 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obviously i hope this is what happens, but i think they have a decent shot of only losing 3 seats and keeping the senate.

Or, god forbid, losing 4 seats but trump wins the presidency so they keep the senate, but I don't really want to think about that right now.

It looks like one of those horrible Nike signature logos.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/36/5c/ce/365cce02597370d31db5d3dc722077fa.jpg

Or, god forbid, losing 4 seats but trump wins the presidency so they keep the senate, but I don't really want to think about that right now.

― intheblanks

losing four seats while trump wins is a pretty big longshot.

do wonder how much behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing the dem national leadership is doing to take the senate. the whole bayh running for senate thing, for instance. one suspects they have some sort of plan.

lack of coordinated organization is gonna fuck GOP gotv efforts, I don't see how that doesn't have disastrous downticket consequences in swing states

they're underfunded, understaffed, and with a top ticket that doesn't give a fuck about or understand turning out gen election votes - overcoming those odds means a *whole* lot of Trump voters come out and swamp the more coordinated Dem efforts + minority voters

yeah, rushomancy otm, if trump wins there's no way that the senate lost 4 republicans.

I think it's fairly safe to say that dems will pick up the illinois and wisconsin seats, but in a lot of seats that are considered "toss-ups," the GOP candidate is leading in the polls.

Republicans who don't already are going to hate Trump soooo hard after November.

I mean, they'll wait ten years to admit it, but still.

McGinty's up +3 in PA

Polls for Rubio in FL are all over the place, but I'd be shocked if he won

xp

in other news

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/ivanka-rabbi-haskel-lookstein-no-convention-225618#ixzz4EVG2WFUO