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

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

republicans r so horny for that guy

i'm v horny for him too it's ok

do they have her standing in front of a green screen for assisting photoshoppers or what

he must be so hott

gotta say I love what Hillary is doing on Twitter right now

is she praising the great works of satan or what

also I loved how Carson followed up Christie's witch trial by literally calling Hillary lucifer

come to think of it Don Jr. was by far the best tonight. we should elect him.

hillary's role model is Euronymous

so all the overhead shots seem to imply that this whole convention has been very sparsely attended

like I said, you can hear it in the applause

best thing tonight was probably Eric Andre getting a bunch of screentime during Carson's speech

David Axelrod's very good on strategy: he's perplexed they put Carson and Lucifer on after the son.

they got the order wrong last night too

did the nyt not have a single editor who refused to believe this phrase currently has a non-dirty usage

Donald Trump’s Convention: Day 2
All About Hillary

By FRANK BRUNI

At his own banquet, Donald Trump is getting sloppy seconds.

Whoever sabotaged her speech is throwing her under the bus now http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/us/politics/melania-trump-convention-speech.html

feel kind of bad for tiffany trump. she just wants to use snapchat and hang out on yachts with other heiresses but now she's forced to go on tv to defend the indefensible

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/755601024908300288/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

fucking lollll

i wonder if i died and this is hell

Is that for real?

In hell Morbius would keep popping up and saying how stupid you are for hating Satan when Mephistopheles and Lucifer are actually worse because they're such hypocrites, maaan

i wonder if i died and this is hell

You will find the answer to your question in AAD's Rough Guide to the Infernal Regions.

supposedly the american conservative guy was the speechwriter, so he was only copying himself

So for the record: buckley cowrote junior's speech
But still very funny.

Guarantee that was a rewrite in the hopes of defusing the melania deal

the "death of the author" doesn't feel liberating anymore

Handy:

http://quantum-displacement.tumblr.com/post/146015554444/anti-trump-masterpost

http://www.factmag.com/2016/07/19/the-republican-partys-house-band-covered-david-bowie-and-it-was-a-travesty/

da fuck

I like good headlines: "Strange Attack."

http://www.salon.com/2016/07/20/ben_carson_plays_the_lucifer_card_strange_attack_on_hillary_leaves_heads_shaking_at_rnc/

I think GE Smith knows exactly what he's doing.

In hell Morbius would keep popping up and saying how stupid you are for hating Satan when Mephistopheles and Lucifer are actually worse because they're such hypocrites, maaan

get Trumped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1Nae_EBvQ

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnyVgF5XEAAHkVK.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnzvbazWYAAd49E.jpg

the first and only validation of the existence of third eye blind

the skinny: http://www.pajiba.com/politics/third-eye-blind-played-an-rnc-concert-just-so-they-could-troll-republicans.php

I'm trying to put together a sentence containing the phrases "Third Eye Blind" and "Make fun of" but I can't seem to get "Third Eye Blind" to be the subject rather than the object. Please help.

i was aware that theyre "bad" but had no idea what their actual music was was thinking it was some dire post pearl jam contempo rock but im listening to their hit now and its much more classically elegant bachelor music

that's why Brad Nelson's a fan.

Yeah they were more MOR-ish ballad rock stuff (a la Counting Crows, Goo Goo Dolls, and a million other bands no one can name from that period.)

You got to ponder how loco the right can get if and when Hillary wins. It is not like you can casually walk back to the negotiations on various issues when you describe your opponent as Lucifer itself or casually state their body language states they are working with 'our' enemies.