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

lmao i was wondering which thread would get the milo news (haven't check the other usual suspects yet)

public health officials confirm that norovirus is breaking out in the convention center

oh sure a GOVERNMENT QUARANTINE

It's in the Racism and Sexism in Video Games thread too.

god forgive me this schadenfreude

https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/20/norovirus-confirmed-rnc-republican-staff-cleveland/

a swollen orange norvirus

GOP fever - catch it! The enthusiasm is contagious!

"Noroviruses cause violent bursts of vomiting and diarrhea."

Maybe they were all listening to the speeches.

They missed the opportunity to turn the convention into a convention cruise. The only way this could get better is if it was all taking place on a boat.

third eye blind is good!

trumps gonna win

Stoked for Peter thiel tonight!!!

hopefully it will be a 90 minute presentation on seasteading timeshares

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/755802342067429376

finally worked their way to the obvious decision

isn't Thiel tomorrow night?

Taylor Wofford ‏@taylorjwofford 2m2 minutes ago
Meredith Melver has two ghostwriting credits for Trump books on Amazon but other than that there's no indication she's a real human.

the culpret just some completely unqualified trump hanger on lmao, obvious in retrospect

xp Right. There goes my Wednesday night :-(

update

Taylor Wofford ‏@taylorjwofford 16s17 seconds ago
I guess that's because her name is McIver.

Maybe John Barron transitioned?

Robert Costa ‏@costareports 28s28 seconds ago
I'm told by a Trump adviser that McIver is considered "golden" inside TrumpLand--a discreet loyalist who has ghostwritten for years

Man, cool to think you can be a professional writer with sentences like "I asked to put out this statement because I did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump's historic campaign for president and Melania's beautiful message and presentation."

Seriously, statement reads like it's written by a sophomore intern.

Hey, are you an English major and a former ballerina? Didn't think so.

learning that melania admires michelle obama bums me out for some reason. she just wanted to be a trophy wife and now she's been roped into this evil circus.

i wonder the degree to which she understands american race relations and how her husband's success is due to bigots who want nothing more than to undo obama's legacy? is it possible she thought her husband's "birther" campaign was just about "finding the truth" in some value-neutral way?

pretty sure melania trump and tiffany trump don't give a fuck about any of this and would rather be left alone.

demands fanfic def get to work

come of it treesh

good job.

i wonder if farrar, strauss, and giroux would publish an executioner's song-length novel called "the life and times of melania trump"

the world needs more trump related media

and Treeship-written Melania slash fic

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Man, cool to think you can be a professional writer with sentences like "I asked to put out this statement because I did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump's historic campaign for president and Melania's beautiful message and presentation."

― we're gonna live in spatula city (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:46 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously, statement reads like it's written by a sophomore intern.

― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:53 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You guys clearly don't understand that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them the volume of your voice

treesh love you man but your white-knighting for the trump ladies is a bit of a creepy look

yeah i can see that

that melver letter reads like some coerced false confession, I think she will be executed now

if Melver works for Trump Corporation is it a against campaign finance laws for her to be working on this?

maybe for an extra thrill i'll try to find some of the far-right lunatics who were sure the melania cribbing was done by a cuck infiltrator saboteur, see how they're following up

xp oh now don't you start iatee

in a week or so she will never have existed so it's not a big deal xp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_McIver

someone just made this like five seconds ago

Trump Worker Takes Blame For Ms. Trump’s Speech Misstep
How Melania Trump Sent Her Speech Veering Off Course
Trump Claims Nomination Amid Discord
Scenes From Trump’s Search for a Running Mate
Convention Speeches Unsettle Black Republicans
Silicon Valley Squirms Over Mogul’s Embrace of Trump

current first six stories on nyt home page

@nytimes
The employee is the first person to publicly apologize for an error at any point during the Trump campaign

otm was gonna say

ha

wow

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn055pGXYAAIFf9.jpg

please lord jeebus let heaven not be a boardroom

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/755766654152368128

NBC: Hillary Clinton to name VP pick during visit to Florida this week. Ex-Florida governor Charlie Crist said to be among candidates.

oh for fuck's sake

Crist has demonstrated no talent – twice! – for wooing independents.