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

is Benghazi Day going to help or hurt the GOP?

those benhazi twats are irritating

duck dynasty is speaking today. wtf.

also looking forward to European Fembot Melania Trump's first spoken words

I am tempted to remake the song "Bengali in Platforms" as "Benghzi, Our Platform" in honor of the RNC

can't imagine Flo and Eddie are happy with this G.E. Smith cover of "Happy Together"

why does ge smith take money from republicans

very moving pledge of allegiance tbf

http://www.guitarworld.com/features-news-interviews/ge-smith-talks-bass-republicans-and-performing-roger-waters/%0919609

I have an 11-year-old daughter and she’s going to be going to school for a long time. And it’s expensive, so I have to work. Last year I did the Republican National Convention. When they first asked me to do it, I turned it down. And they offered another really good offer, which I turned it down. They came back with one more and I said no. It wasn’t so much political but rather that I had just been away for two years and I wanted to go home. I’d just made a bunch of money so I didn’t feel the pressure. And then they came back with an insane final offer. And I thought, Well not only will this pay for several years of Josie’s school but I can hire six or seven of my friends, and give them a really good pay day too. So we went and played the Republican convention. We may not be Republicans, obviously, but it was really interesting. I got heavy flack from some people for doing it. If you remember, at that time, last August, a year ago, it wasn’t so sure. It was kinda looking like Romney was making a good run for it. So I got some heavy flack for it. But I’m a professional musician and this is what I’ve always done. I’ve been a professional musician since I was 11 years old. It’s what I do: work.

i can only hope josie smith's expensive education turns out to be more useful than ge smith's was

i respect that answer

If he'd gone with the Dems her education would be free!

He probably would play for the Dems if they didn't keep trotting out James Taylor.

hahahaha now i'm trying to think of a suitable republican-convention performer who could follow "JT IS HERE!"

duck dynasty is speaking today. wtf.

Because Evangelicals, and the not-so-secret theme of this shitshow is "Minute 19 of Our 15 Minutes of Fame".

scott baio

If this doesn't spark the Baiossance, I don't know what will.

I’ve been a professional musician since I was 11 years old

this is appropriate, b/c lots of people in the GOP would like to turn us back to the gilded age of mass child labor.

I have an 11-year-old daughter and she’s going to be going to school for a long time. And it’s expensive, so I have to work. Last year I did the Reichsparteitage. When they first asked me to do it, I turned it down. And they offered another really good offer, which I turned it down. They came back with one more and I said no. It wasn’t so much political but rather that I had just been away for two years and I wanted to go home. I’d just made a bunch of money so I didn’t feel the pressure. And then they came back with an insane final offer. And I thought, Well not only will this pay for several years of Josie’s school but I can hire six or seven of my friends, and give them a really good pay day too. So we went and played the Reichsparteitage. We may not be Nazis, obviously, but it was really interesting. I got heavy flack from some people for doing it. If you remember, at that time, last August, a year ago, it wasn’t so sure. It was kinda looking like von Schleicher was making a good run for it. So I got some heavy flack for it. But I’m a professional musician and this is what I’ve always done. I’ve been a professional musician since I was 11 years old. It’s what I do: work.

aw, scott baio, really? I didn't know he was one of them. :(

Phonies love Chachi

(I'm Hillary's new jokewriter, btw)

Phonies love Chachi

dying

he retweeted this

http://a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/w_652/eilgnf7gfgaoim6w2k7w.jpg

we should take bets to see if anyone says the c, b or n words during the convention this week in Cleveland

we should take bets to see if anyone says how many people say the c, b or n words during the convention this week in Cleveland tbh

hard to believe noted asshole scott baio is a republican tho, it's true

Charles is apparently no longer in charge of his misogyny.

bob loblaw's blowhard blog

If Boris Johnson can become Secretary of State after writing dirty limericks about a head of state, I'd imagine Trump would at least install Baio as head of the Department of Education or something on the basis of that RT.

apparently g.e. smith is playing 'station to station' at the convention right now

creepy magickal vibe of that song pretty much a perfect fit

also nebulous nazi connections obv

one of the best songs ever.

the aryan overtones make it problematic in context though.

it's mostly about a coke addict chasing the next high, though, which fits in with trump's addiction to diet pills, short attention span, and pathological need for attention/adoration

i feel like g.e. smith has been taking the piss with most of these song selections

he played "Eminence Front" earlier!! on the coke theme

Republicans forget they're hiding

Eminence Front is a coke song? oh I guess "The snow packs as the skier tracks".

from 1980 for a good long time afterwards all townshend songs are coke songs one way or another

this reminds me of my private east coast college's annual "snow ball"

Was Charlie Sheen the early-2010s version of whatever Trump is doing now?

Sheen-->McAffee-->Trump

yeah. trump is a shitty knock off of everything bad. a xerox of a screenshot of a polaroid of a piece of garbage.

"The Return of The Thick White Trump/Spewing Tweets In Clinton's Eyes"

"This is not a meeting of the Republican National Committee, it's a meeting of brown shirts." - former Republican US Senator Gordon Humphrey

Some of the stuff they'd rather keep off TV is on TV right now. Probably just a last-gasp for the anti-Trump faction, though.

actual lol at grisso xxp

lol the "we want trump" chant. what a bunch of degenerates.

"we are disgusting" not easy to chant

Rightwing anti-Trump Twitter absolutely apoplectic.

they might have been saying roll call vote. i am reading up on it now.

that's the problem with chants. they're never crisp.

i'll care when they endorse hillary until then it's just a temper tantrum xp