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

I imagine it's actually the safe familiar choice when faced with infinite options. Not that any block with a Chili's will have anything else too off the beaten path.

i don't even know what chili's is. is it ersatz mexican?

Big chain restaurant, ersatz tex-mex, more upscale than a Taco Bell, about on a par with Applebees. Its wikipedia blurb.

Baby Back Ribs! Last resort airport food tbh. The last or maybe only time I ever ate there it was for the free Wi-Fi after a long flight delay.

They have passable burgers, but it's pretty hard to fuck up a cheeseburger.

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/754696163748708352

the photo is one thing.. also font + design looks like it was pulled out of a box from 1990

fwiw they were at the NJ airport chilis

Chili's is also one of those "Food, Fun, and A Ton of Crazy Crap on The Wall" places. They have bar areas inside them that are the kind of places where the term 'White Girl Wasted' may have been coined.

I don't even own a chili's

posted this accidentally on another thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/opinion/sunday/were-helping-deport-kids-to-die.html

this was a powerful piece about the Obama administration's complicity in Mexico's deportation program. basically, they are refusing to give asylum to people who aren't migrants but refugees, fleeing powerful gangs in el salvador and honduras.

i'm not always a big believe in national conversations, but i think America needs to start talking about the moral responsibility we have toward central america. these countries were directly devastated by US policy and not just economically. i don't think anyone here needs the reagan year footnotes

― Treeship, Sunday, July 17, 2016 2:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anyway, i want to see clinton address this. right now the discourse on immigration is kind of beating around the reality of the situation on both sides. the republicans have their own libelous narrative of immigrants as parasites and the democrats talk in vague truisms about how immigrants our hardworking just like you and me. left out is a discussion of the fact that there are a bunch of failed states south of the border and we had a hand in making them that way

i don't even know what a non-failed state looks like anymore

was there really that much calculation behind a visit to chili's

man now i really could go for some kind of platter at chili's. or applebee's. i never was too sure of the difference tbh.

like the mention of 'tex-mex' above was seriously the first time it ever occurred to me that chili's was meant to have a theme beyond "american dinner restaurant staples."

I don't hate on chili's even though they don't have a lot I can eat but I can usually put some kinda plate together and it's all right. this part of the campaign, where the bad guy doing ANYTHING AT ALL gets an "oh my God, who is this chump, thinking he can use an iPhone!" reaction is a special level of the campaign because you might have thought that after the mess of the primary season, people'd leave their worse shit to the side and get focused, but no, it gets worse, "ha ha they ate at some rube restaurant!" goes into the mix and what's it do? win some hearts and minds? no, it makes some guy somewhere think "I'm going to make a point of voting for whoever these dickheads are being such assholes about" and that guy, even though he's voting wrong, is otm

Chili's is not texmex, stop with these lies

Hoping someone opens up part 7 for this thread tonight, taking it through one or both of the conventions. (I don't really have any title ideas myself, else I'd go ahead.)

Jclc otm

I agree, there should probably be a new thread to coincide with the conventions. Especially since we are currently talking about Chili's.

Honestly haven't really thought much about that place one way or the other, like I said outside of airports, but pretty lame that he specifically called attention to it. #pencegotpaid

I have no issue with the choice of chilis , just want to echo dr casino that the real issue is the lack of reflection of a vampiress and that weird kid in the red shirt

Cleveland police union to ask governor to suspend open carry law for RNC

http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2016/07/cleveland_police_union_to_asks.html#incart_big-photo

How about this:

Empty Chair Cites Other Commitments: The 2016 Republican Convention (Elections, Part 7)

(Be gentle if you don't like it.)

Hillary Clinton just said 'delete your account' on twitter to Trump and the internet exploded. What (old) meme should she use next?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/754789482621243392

what does the first part of this even mean?? "Our country is a divided crime scene, and it will only get worse!"

sounds like a threat tbh

ILX would probably provide a useful safe haven for Trump at moments like this.

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

(Although when I look at the title, I realize "second thoughts" is a foreign concept to him.)

god, it's been a while since i actually read through his twitter timeline. he seems so demented

VPs you had second thoughts about but chose anyway

Good start to the convention: Rove vs. Aex Jones at the airport:

https://twitter.com/alyonamink/status/754803339079057408

Chili's is fine u little lord Fauntleroy mofos

Red hot chilis repper

Guys, Chili's has two for one all day every day.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cnmoun7WIAAe86c.jpg:large

The Trumpiest Trump quote: "I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."

the french fries at chili's aren't even vegetarian

I wonder how much of a spike Grindr use in Cleveland is gonna get this week?

Chili's is fine u little lord Fauntleroy mofos

― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, July 17, 2016 6:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the post of the year easy

idk how but i somehow read that as being posted by Morbz the first time, went "huh, okay, sure" and moved on

also: good one, darragh

i just ate a "fritos pie" at a dive bar so i definitely won't disparage chilis

Good start to the convention: Rove vs. Aex Jones at the airport:

https://twitter.com/alyonamink/status/754803339079057408

― Any Given User (Eazy), Sunday, July 17, 2016 6:34 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yeah

this is the post of the year easy

2nd only to the one right after it

lol treesh was it happy fun? birdy's? i have never actually ordered a frito pie at any place i've ever seen that had them, are they any good? worth the price?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/trump-is-still-taking-fired-managers-advice.html

Although Trump fired Lewandowski last month, the power struggle between Lewandowski and campaign chairman Paul Manafort continues, sources close to the campaign say.

Lewandowski continues to advise Trump to stick to his off-the-cuff style he displayed in the primaries (“Let Trump be Trump,” he calls it). Sources say that Lewandowski even told Trump not to apologize after Trump faced criticism for tweeting the controversial image of Hillary Clinton and a Star of David surrounded by cash.

hahahahahahahahaha

New long Jane Mayer piece on Trump's Art of the Deal ghostwriter:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

Did not expect Colbert to show up(in costume, no less):

http://jezebel.com/stephen-colbert-hijacks-the-rnc-stage-delivers-anti-tr-1783829143

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diaCHYO7haY

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-pence-clinton-iraq-war-vote-cbs

"I don’t care," Trump said when asked about Pence's past vote for the Iraq War.

"What do you mean you don’t care that he voted?" Stahl asked.

"It’s a long time ago. And he voted that way. And they were also misled. A lot of information was given to people," Trump replied.

Stahl then pointed out that Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton for voting for the Iraq War as a senator.

"You’ve used that vote of Hillary’s, that was the same as Gov. Pence, as the example of her bad judgement," she said.

"Many people have, and frankly, I’m one of the few that was right on Iraq," Trump said in response.

When asked again about how Pence voted, Trump said, "He’s entitled to make a mistake every once in a while."

"But she’s not," Stahl clarified, referring to Clinton.

"She’s not. No, she’s not," Trump said.

lol but seriously, these guys need to point out that Trump was NOT right about Iraq every single time he mentions this

OMG @ that exchange. Is it even cognitive dissonance anymore when there doesn't appear to be any actual cognition involved?

"I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."

Nothing tops this.

My humility is better than anyone else's humility, I can tell you that.