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

Time to update your resumes!

wow chyrons on cnn right now as mukasey speaks -->

mukasey joined with other gop national security officials saying they could not support trump

mukasey has called trump's criticism of a latino judge 'baseless and squalid'

he wants to be attorney general don't blame him

Trump speaking from Trump Tower

now Mitch is up

Man, Trump's continued lack of specifics is so troubling. When he blurts about "restoring law and order" it really does sound like some despot. Does Trump even know that others got to fascism first?

Wow, Mitch is terrible at the podium.

Democrats spreading Zika

this is moving along!

Nixon wasn't specific either!

smh john scalzi

so is ryan going to mention trump at all, i wonder

We've been waiting on the phone until we talk to real person! (re: Obama)

xpost You're my guy, happy to credit you over Scalzi!

Aw, shucks, it's Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan, you fucking pussy shill asshole.

Gosh, by golly, this guy.

paul ryan wants to destroy the social safety net and his budget is not serious

everyone does not need health care, right paul ryan
who needs social security

Is Paul Ryan trying to have his Obama '04 moment

Gonna have to pour another Tanqueray Rangpur to sit through Christie

Christie putting Rodham on trial right now.

this is so awful

feels like yet another line i'd have thought should not be crossed re encouraging your party to yell 'lock her up' b/c it's not just about winning the election, you really think your political opponents should be put in jail

Guilty says the crowd!

See?

this is sick and weird

yeah this is super fascist

this is why it is the constitution that all trials are to be performed by angry mobs

Christie's prosecution would be much more effective if he had an empty witness chair and an empty jury box on stage as props.

if you really want to go down the road of praising dictators there is that matter of trump blatantly praising many of them

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Live_at_the_Witch_Trials.jpg

Some of these jury instructions are very wordy.

are they indicting the clenis right now

Typical white ppl - can't even chant in rhythm

do they not know how terrible this looks???!! not joking about the witch trial! that's what this is! what are they thinking???

anyone shouting at furniture yet like eastwood did?

Christie just indicted the Ottoman! (ie: Hillary) (amirite)

its funny cause christies prob gonna face a jury soon

if you really want to go down the road of praising dictators there is that matter of trump blatantly praising many of them

google Hillary + Mubarak, could be fun

Trump winery up!

No, but Chris Christie did some excellent reenactments of various scenes from The Verdict and 12 Angry Men.

CNN just quoted Daria on the Witch Trials...

Salem witch trial evoked by CNN commentator re Christie!

xpost!

if they want to toss the entire convention into the cuyahoga and see if it floats, i have no objection

Just for laughs, they should have hired a few extras and reprised Carson's bumbling debate entrance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfZ-j1owQE

seriously uh.. i had the sound off b/c didn't seem interesting, turned up the volume and the first thing i heard was talking about lucifer?? what??

Ben Carson: Hillary Clinton's role model "acknowledges Lucifer" https://twitter.com/CNN/status/755595090152808449

lol he was talking abt Saul Alinsky i guess