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

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

Cuntness sounds like a Game of Thrones character.

judging by that photo, Baio looks better blonde

Oh good, someone let Lou Holtz speak

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/gop-speaker-lou-holtz-really-hates-immigrants.html

“I don’t want to become you. I don’t want to speak your language, I don’t want to celebrate your holidays, I sure as hell don’t want to cheer for your soccer team!”

Cuntness sounds like a Game of Thrones character.

― dinnerboat

Porn version of Hunger Games, more like.

lmfao https://twitter.com/SkyNewsTonight/status/755472151021428736

the william s burroughs cut-up approach to political speechwriting

watching roll call vote, all DC delegates voted for rubio and kasich. roll call guy says "19 trump". yeesh.

some minor weirdness seems to be going on here.. iirc in 2008 the first thing clinton did was to release all her delegates and ask them to vote for obama, so everyone voted for obama

cruz, rubio and kasich did not release their delegates. and michigan just passed completely and it wasn't for any strategic reason such as having the next state put the nominee over the top

and there's no one in this stadium! Every time a state announces its delegate total it sounds like 46 people applauding.

everyone outside rubbing alex jones nude belly

well, they went and nominated him

time to start releasing the REAL oppo research

getting reports in that trump "fucks bread" whatever that means

Corey Lewandowski--who looked after the roll call for New Hampshire--really does look like some sinister Haldeman/Liddy character.

Will opposition research even play a part this time? Surely almost everyone's made up their minds about both candidates.

theres actually an insane number of undecided voters because everyone hates both candidates

http://i.imgur.com/mosBODZ.png

http://i.imgur.com/mosBODZ.png

actually scary

tho i still think clinton will win pretty handily / will wait til after the conventions to worry abt the polls

Gee they are so much alike I just can't decide smh

lol

Trump Jr seems like a real swell fella

hillary clinton will find a way to bumble her way through some stupid and tone-deaf errors, there will be a period at some pt where trump is even or a little ahead in the polls and the whole earth will flip its shit, then hillary will win a map that looks kinda like the 2nd obama map

i'm already terrified for 2020! we're kinda due for a recession!

calling it now to seem sage in the future: Clinton wins this election, American economy goes into recession during her term, she loses in 2020.

Trump Jr seems like a real swell fella

― Clay, Tuesday, July 19, 2016 7:25 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know someone who went to high school with him who said he was a total stoner greaseball who took a year off before college to road trip the country in a van, also everyone called him donnie

also she said hes "totally normal" but given the milieu she grew up in im not sure if she knows what that means

i know someone who went to high school with him who said he was a total stoner greaseball who took a year off before college to road trip the country in a van, also everyone called him donnie

― lag∞n

specifically, the only thing anybody ever said to him was "shut the fuck up donnie"

:]

I guess I just can't deal with anyone who has that slicked back 1987 Wall Street asshole Pat Riley hair thing going on

https://vine.co/v/5Zp2L5qBzI2

oh he seems awful dont get me wrong i was just passing along some insider info

did trump do his monica lewinsky slideshow yet? when is that?

hillary clinton will find a way to bumble her way through some stupid and tone-deaf errors, there will be a period at some pt where trump is even or a little ahead in the polls and the whole earth will flip its shit, then hillary will win a map that looks kinda like the 2nd obama map

i'm already terrified for 2020! we're kinda due for a recession!

― goole, Tuesday, July 19, 2016 11:25 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some bastard on the radio was like 'this is technically the beginning of the 2020 primary here in Cleveland'

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