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

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.

there are quite a few people willing to rep for third eye blind on ilm I think

o wow lol http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/magazine/how-donald-trump-picked-his-running-mate.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cnz-MHkWAAAyebJ.jpg

It is not like you can casually walk back to the negotiations on various issues

when's the last time congressional republicans negotiated?? they've been insane since the clinton years

yup

"hey Kasich, do you want to do my job while I swan around in Air Force One and smirk"

"donnie i need you to find someone to do the work for me, someone boring, maybe that guys whats his name was at all the debates, have that done by lunch ok"

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.

― earlnash

best possible outcome is that the republicans focus, both before and after the election, in destroying each other in rage rather than attempting to launch some sort of coordinated attack on clinton.

people learn from their experiences. when obama was elected he was genuinely willing to work together with congressional republicans, and has gotten no end of shit from the left over it since. clinton will certainly make the right noises about "bipartisanship" but it will all be lies.

stretch goal for clinton is to get a senate majority. this is going to be important not for the purpose of passing legislation- that's out of the question- but to get her judicial appointments approved. if clinton gets elected the next step for the republicans is going to be to (a) impeach clinton over the email thing and (b) block all judicial appointments going forwards.

that nyt excerpt is a new peak, just incredible

im puking http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/07/20/tiffany_trump_s_sad_vague_rnc_speech.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnzyI2YXYAA1bQF.jpg

there are quite a few people willing to rep for third eye blind on ilm I think

third eye blind - semi-charmed life
Taking Sides: Semi-Charmed Life or One Week?
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#1 modern rock hits of 1997
Third Eye Blind - s/t
ITS TIME

etc

Some fascinating reports on local NPR the last few days, about how so many Illinois Trump delegates had no idea what they signed up for, what it actually meant to go to Cleveland, and are apparently completely disinterested in anything the state party has to say to them. At the same time, there are a number of high-profile Illinois politicians who skipped the convention altogether, including one of our Senators, our governor, and a whole bunch of other people as well at least on the fence. So you get local Republican people not interested in Trump trying to encourage delegates only interested in Trump into supporting the Republican party at large, but I guess the Trump supporters are not interested in that at all. They just like the big spectacle. Call them t-shirt cannon Republicans. Anyway, perhaps bodes well for the Republicans doing really poorly down ticket, given how many lifelong Republicans don't like Trump and how many new Trump supporters only like Trump.

@_grendan
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