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

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.)

please note this is the 3rd 'prosperity gospel' preacher at mic & no evangelicals in 3 nights

how much of a difference is there? and to whom does it matter?

For the first time in his political career, it seems Cruz mentions "gay"....in a sentence following one in which he calls for "religious freedom."

Diversity!

cheers for Brexit

cruz prob doing the right thing politically covers his ass now cause he showed up covers his ass next cycle cause w/o endorsing or even mentioning trump theres nothing really to use against him, hes p clever abt that sort of thing, is prob first in line next time

Still not much for enthusiasm, according to what I see. Or maybe it's still sparsely attended.

So boring that these tools are just dusting off their stump speeches again. Yeah, freedom, OK.

gotta love iy

someone tweeting from there said the crowd was feeling it

@timobrien
When we deposed Trump in our lawsuit, he threw Meredith McIver under the bus for inflating his financials: https://t.co/q5UWXtvPCF

Ok so is this a real person or no

Well, first you'd have to establish a pattern of Trump inventing employees, which he would never do.

uh guess they might be booing now tho xp self

What the...are they chanting "England sucks"??

uh is cruz up there in prime time basically telling people to not vote for trump

hahahaha

"let's go trump" i think xp?