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

Also, Trump will do all the debates b/c there's no way he will miss out primetime network coverage, but the GOP types will be gaming the refs harder than they ever did four years ago no matter who asks the candidates what questions and how milquetoast they phrase it

http://giphy.com/gifs/mashable-xTiTndCIut7o7OpEL6

Which I should mention makes me wonder how she'll hold up during 3 90-120min debates. Clinton survived 15+ fuckin' hours of the (latest) Benghazi panel staffed with the largest sets of clown shoes Congress could find.

She survived by keeping this face the whole time

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/10/RTS5OEU-1/lead_960.jpg?1445611733

Dem convention should just be three days of replaying the RNC on a big screen with the guys from MST3K doing audio.

Didn't Comedy Central do something like this back in the '92 or 96 seasons? Also, you'd have to get Joel back to hosting as Mike Nelson(and his wife) have reportedly somewhat more disagreeable political leanings

― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish)

i want to know if nelson is still on the republican train. you know, he's still funny- how long can you ride that train before you baio out? i'd like to think that mike nelson is one of those guys who will very earnestly and enthusiastically tell you that gary johnson is a really good candidate, really, and you should definitely think about him. but i don't know!

"She survived by keeping this face the whole time"

probably good of her to get the practice in

The Democrats should throw the aide who tried to resign today up on the big screen, with everyone in the building thrusting their fists in the air and chanting "LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!" This is bloodsport--you can't be passive.

oh goodie Rick Scott

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn2N5dvW8AMtram.jpg

To paraphrase John McGiver in Breakfast at Tiffany's, you can't really fire Hillary Clinton at this point, I don't think, unless there were some job she currently held in order to have some object from which to enact the firing.

Got this email from Morbius last night:

Email from user: helpless before THRILLARY
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ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧ Jul 20 at 8:18 PM

Message body:
rooting you bitches get Trump now.

Nice of him to think of us

BTW, Morbs, I'm not even American

"Lock her up" day 3 is well underway i see

Let me remind people about Pam Bondi: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/politics/pam-bondi-donald-trump-donation/

this lock her up stuff is p bad man wow

idk I'd lock up Pam Bondi

id murder p much anyone tbh

but a whole bunch of ppl screaming abt it is just... off, big league

also the fact that theyre so unmoored from reality i guess

so far the big news of the convention is plagiarism and lock her up cant wait to see what comes next trump hasnt even spoken

Don't forget Lucifer, he had a big night too.

see i already even forgot abt him, wild ride folks

From an adjacent room, this astronaut woman sounds exactly like Sarah Palin.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn2VraXXEAAbPzN.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hzaBHnNI_I

Does Trump speak tonight? Is this night three or night 333?

no one ask James Morrison how to pronounce Pam Bondi

lol fat dracula

http://i.imgur.com/zITAU0M.png

what the hell with the sieg heil shit

Brian Kaylor ‏@BrianKaylor 12m12 minutes ago
For evangelicals watching #RNCinCLE, please note this is the 3rd 'prosperity gospel' preacher at mic & no evangelicals in 3 nights

scott walker can't rock a crowd, this call-and-response is really doa

"America...deserves...better"--test-driving more election-friendly chants than "LOCK HER UP!"

(As I type, of course, I can hear "jail" in the background.)

yeah uh.. https://twitter.com/giphy/status/755921685736546305

its extremely odd is there a video what was she saying

guy at NRO: Just read Cruz transcript. He will not endorse Trump or even say his name.

jon favreau (obama speechwriter): Just read @newtgingrich's speech. If you don't want your children to have nightmares, I'd put them to bed soon.

Lyin' Ted!

I guess not mentioning Trump is statement enough. But even allowing for all the stuff that goes on in primaries, I'm kind of amazed Cruz would even participate after all the ridicule. I'd do what Bush is doing and stay away.

i don't know if that's true tbh

So much for that, guy at NRO.

found the laura ingraham salute video she just got done god blessing the country, incredibly sus http://www.youtube.com/embed/HJWygHbLIJc

cruz has chutzpah, if nothing else.

i mean not endorsing trump. but cruz is only here to build support for his 2020 run

What do these chumps make of the fact that both the Dallas police shooter and the Baton Rouge shooter were military vets?

(xpost) He should give up on that. Primary voters (and party establishment) wouldn't even rally around him as an alternative to Trump. He's just too creepy and disliked to ever get the nomination.

Creepy and Disliked is basically the GOP platform.

wow, that Ingraham video, I usually try to give the benefit of the doubt on stuff that gets gif-ed or otherwise removed from its context, but that really seemed like a white power dog whistle

Some dude on Twitter: "I like how she tried to turn the nazi salute into a wave, like when you trip on the sidewalk and start running."

ya something v odd happened there right and shes a big rave warrior too no xp

lol race

was there a thing w/ingraham where a pic of trump was onscreen, with him making the same gesture? can't tell if that happened or was just twitter people putting images together

(xposts) I know, but you know what I mean--even within the context of the Republican party, at a moment when Trump was sliding and could have/should have finally fallen apart, primary voters looked over and said "Uh...no way." I think he'd have close to zero chance of winning in 2020. (Which doesn't mean he isn't indeed there with an eye to 2020--I don't think he got the message.)