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

and gallop offstage on a glorious white horse firing pearl-handled pistols

xxp sure. when it comes down to it I doubt there is any conspiracy involved.

scapegoating a staffer for the plagiarism would give him the chance to say 'you're fired' tho

― report your crimes to my burning ghost cock (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, July 19, 2016 12:24 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a good point someone shd pitch it to him like that

catching trump in dumb lies gon be a media sport before this is over https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/755439932659859456

http://theslot.jezebel.com/day-2-of-the-republican-national-convention-all-hell-b-1783881235

Check it out, Dinesh Dsouza is out of jail!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/19/on-melania-trumps-plagiarism-a-laid-off-journalist-watching-in-an-l-a-starbucks-scooped-everyone/

The Trump campaign has cycled through various denials and explanations for the, um, overlap between the Melania Trump and Michelle Obama speeches. Perhaps the best so far came from campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, speaking to the Hill: "This concept that Michelle Obama invented the English language is absurd."

Trump founded America, so he's technically responsible for all decisions made within its contiguous borders since then. Just the good ideas, though.

There's also now a story floating around about the multiple claims about Melania's college degree...despite a number of mentions in the past about having dropped out before graduating. Again: why? Why not decline to mention her higher education altogether rather than tell stupid and easily disproven lies about it?

trump gonna trump

xxpost

Trump will point out the, like, words that were different from the cribbed passages and, what, did Michelle Obama invent words now? We're not allowed to use words just because other people used them? Rigged system. Sad!

― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, July 19, 2016 7:55 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://mobile.twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/755439932659859456

See a CNN anchor whine "WhHHYYY?!" on-air!

You can't make this shit up. Except that you clearly can at this point.

I'm seriously considering changing a handful of words in Art of the Deal and self-publishing the resulting product. It's not like Donald Trump invented words (or even wrote the ones in his own book).

Clinton's facebook page is live streaming a list of lawsuits Donald Trump and his companies have been involved in. It's been going on for a little over half and hour now.

Meantime...

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-gop-republican-party-leaders-future-donald-trump-214065

Pence is on TV right now talking about meeting Reagan in 1988--"You can probably Google it and find the photo." Which he clearly already did.

http://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/mike-pence-veep-donald-trump-career-02.jpg?quality=75&strip=color&w=758

just checking out the gipper's package, no big thing

New defense being floated on CNN right now: you can also say that Melania stole from Kid Rock and John Legend and House of Pain and Public Enemy, everyone steals from everyone, it's impossible not to.

So Melania is Girl Talk?

hmm i like the "cover version" defense, it's at least new

trump's speech will begin with Reince storming the stage with an airhorn yelling REEEEEEEEEEEEMIIIIIXXXXXXXX

https://vine.co/v/5ZDuVZYtAz3

So apparently Stephen Baldwin is there and rapping

I'm combing the transcript and finding all sorts of suspicious phrases:

"Let's all come together in a national campaign like no other!" -- Beatles

"There will be good times and hard times and unexpected turns" -- Chic

"...love and compassion for each other that will bring us together — and keep us together" -- the Captain & Tennille

Very troubling.

did this get discussed? https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/how-the-haters-made-trump

When host Seth Meyers took the mic, he piled on with his own rat-a-tat of jokes, many of which seemed designed deliberately to inflame Trump’s outer-borough insecurities: “His whole life is models and gold leaf and marble columns, but he still sounds like a know-it-all down at the OTB.”

The longer the night went on, the more conspicuous Trump’s glower became. He didn’t offer a self-deprecating chuckle, or wave warmly at the cameras, or smile with the practiced good humor of the aristocrats and A-listers who know they must never allow themselves to appear threatened by a joke at their expense. Instead, Trump just sat there, stone-faced, stunned, simmering — Carrie at the prom covered in pig’s blood.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/755439932659859456

See a CNN anchor whine "WhHHYYY?!" on-air!

because he's an unrepentant narcissist and serial liar. its not hard, lamestream media.

there was a similar article in the times a while ago, enlightening def xp

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/07/19/republican-national-convention-norovirus-outbreak-california-rnc/

trump flew home without notifying the group of big donors he was supposed to be meeting with http://time.com/4413148/republican-convention-donald-trump-corporate-donors

baller move imo

he just does what he wants god bless

also has a really intense thing abt sleeping in his own bed

Republicans now saying the plagiarized part of Melania's speech actually came from Twilight Sparkle of My Little Pony, fucking lol

i can't even tell if that's a joke anymore

The group was led out to the football field, where NFL champions the Cleveland Browns play, to take pictures before they were let go with no information about when and if a third meeting might take place.

wait

heh wrong team

New defense being floated on CNN right now: you can also say that Melania stole from Kid Rock and John Legend and House of Pain and Public Enemy, everyone steals from everyone, it's impossible not to.

― clemenza, Tuesday, July 19, 2016 12:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so the new Avalanches is really as bad as everyone says huh?

I just watched the clip of Steve King being crazy insanely STUPIDLY racist and omg

seriously, forget the plagiarism (which of course is bad and also laughably dumb) and consider that we have people in a government who don't know where writing originated

and chances are he'll be reelected :/

pencils?

consider that we have people in a government who don't know where writing originated

― http://porno (DJP), Tuesday, July 19, 2016 2:41 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

white ppl invented comic sans tho

which is reason enough for our extermination

i stand with the whites

this is fun:

http://www.msnbc.com/tamron-hall/watch/baio-defends-jokes-about-women-727836739775?cid=sm_fb_msnbc

don't know where i'd be without scott baio to explain things for me

charles in charge of our jokes and our tweets

Chachi Mansplains It All

I am learning so much about Baio. Embarrassed that I didn't know know he was like that. In my defence, I am Scottish, so it's perhaps understandable that this stuff passed me by...

i'm scottish and the story about scott baio getting pamela anderson car mats for her birthday when they were dating back in the late 80s / early 90s still cracks me up

Baylight come and me wan' go home.