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

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.

is it strange that there's been no official response from Trump yet? It's been 18 hours since he last tweeted.....

they probably have several interns sitting on him to keep him off Twitter

the idea that there are staffers who hide trumps phone and other ones who give it back to him is very nice to imagine

I'm worried, he loves his tweets so much

maybe he's dead

Only way to tell is to check the pulse of his Twitter account

apparently there is a surrogate memo

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/755482964700475392

WaPo has been shown today's internal surrogate memo from the Trump campaign- Christie likely got his 7% line directly from this document...

Memo also recommends saying the Clintons are "back at it" regarding attacks on Melania and to frame that criticism as an attack on women

With regard to plagiarism Qs, memo says to note how only 7% of the speech is under scrutiny (a point taken up by Christie on TV Tues)

Memo calls Melania controversy "silly" and urged allies to argue that attacks are because Melania was "too good" and scared Democrats

god that reads like a djmartian post i need to chill out

http://jezebel.com/5520264/you-lesbian-shitasses-scott-baios-wife-rants-on-facebook-updates

FB friend has just rechristened Mrs Trump 'Melania Vanilli'.

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

or numbers or algebra or gunpowder or codified laws or Christianity or

http://www.avclub.com/article/rnc-rocks-unauthorized-queen-butchered-bowie-possi-239765

Apparently the GE Smith Band started playing Rush at one point

between the plagiarism and the rickroll there cant really be any doubt that its sabotage no

― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 19, 2016 1:33 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

standing by this btw

― lag∞n

yeah someone is working from the inside to take down trump, it's amazing. they have to know who it is, right?? i guess i'm just surprised they're not hanging them out to dry, calling it a dirty trick by Clinton or something. there is a way to play this to their advantage or at least not their detriment, and they're doing the opposite of that. my little pony!!!

Locking up those valuable Brony votes.

I wish Melania had closed with a barely off-mike "That oughtta hold those little SOBs"

Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Scott "Bring Religion Back" Baio:

http://www.famousfix.com/post/izabel-goulart-osmoze-primavera-verao-2010-15971660

Try that again:

http://static9.imagecollect.com/preview/560/c810052b23656c6

IDGI

i truly had no idea that antonio sabato jr was (still) a thing until yesterday

he's not

who's that guy in the above pic?

not scott baio