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

why is my state such a shitshow?

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, July 21, 2016 1:36 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gerrymandering and voter suppression, presumably

sometimes I'm nostalgic for both Rick Perry AND Michele Bachman

http://i.imgur.com/kBJZR.gif

If he's smart, he'll make a couple of innocuous, gee-whiz jokes about Cruz, who miraculously granted Trump some victim sympathy last night.

which reminds me - obviously I'm not watching all of this, but isn't it a bit weird that there hasn't been like, a single laugh throughout this whole thing? aren't these conventions supposed to be like pep rallies?

thanks, Dan

any time!

I dunno, does this look like a case of gerrymandering?

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/j1qlydo81ftsnaq/Central%20Texas%20Districts.png?dl=0

xxxpost these guys think chanting "Lock her up" is hilarious

and those Benghazi marines were making tampon jokes on Monday

Meanwhile, sorrows from the religious right:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/religous-right-gop-convention

Tommy Valentine, a 22-year-old delegate from Virginia, said he felt like Trump was costing them a major opportunity.

“We had really good candidates and this was our chance to really turn back the tide on what’s been happening in the last eight years. ... Out of 17 candidates, we nominated the worst possible candidate,” Valentine told TPM at the lunch. “I’m just scared. I think Trump’s gonna go down in flames. There is no party unity and you see better speakers at CPAC then you do at this Republican convention because nobody wants to hear Donald Trump.”

As he spoke, Valentine fought back tears.

"Valentine then realized maybe he shouldn't've used his dating profile pseudonym."

i get more of a "power pop band pseudonym" vibe from that, honestly

Pobrecito.

"pool shark from guys and dolls"

and you see better speakers at CPAC

Rick Perry and Scott Walker?

i get more of a "power pop band pseudonym" vibe from that, honestly

Michael Stipe's pre-REM name was Michael Valentine, when he played in Gangster.

The Valentine in question. I've no doubt he's earnest.

https://www.facebook.com/tommyvalentine2016/photos/a.1662805140654930.1073741825.1662804880654956/1664509417151169/?type=3&theater

tonight's speech will probably look like something out of Manchurian Candidate

I'm weirdly excited for this

he's going to sing the speech to the tune of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"

He'll pretend to fall to his knees a couple of times and Chris Christie will bring out a cape to put around his shoulders.

https://youtu.be/_k8YpQKzl_k

Reactions to the leaked speech are already out there, maybe?

More excited for Peter Thiel's speech about being a gay republican tbh

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-republican-convention-2016-live-small-business-owner-michelle-van-1469050586-htmlstory.html?utm_source=kw&kwp_0=187436&kwp_4=745982&kwp_1=375741

so Rasmussen still is roughly 4-5% in the wrong direction in all of its polls thus far, today being the only poll to give Trump a slim lead (and last week it had one that had Trump up 7 when the rest were roughly even or with HIllary in the lead). they were notoriously bad the last two elections too.

I know Gallup was the institution that actually proclaimed they would rework their methodology to improve the Republican bias their polls unwittingly churned out. Does Rasmussen just ngaf or something?

their shit's always amusing.

I wish I could watch this speech!

I expect it will be at about 3am my time.

No need to wait http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/full-transcript-donald-trump-nomination-acceptance-speech-at-rnc-225974?lo=ut_d1

jesus fucking christ

starts out in an anti-BLM mode and goes downhill from there

two favorable mentions of Bernie Sanders so far

Oh good, a Benghazi ref

http://www.vice.com/read/porn-viewership-soars-in-cleveland-during-republican-national-convention-vgtrn?utm_source=dmfb

But many of those porn-watchers were also looking for Donald Trump–themed porn, too, and his name became a trending search, so the masturbators definitely had politics on the mind.

promises to defeat the evil tetrarchy: criminals, terrorists, immigrants, globalists.

rails against NAFTA, TPP, asia generally

ends with an encomium to his slumlord father as a man of the people

really grim shit, can't wait!

No mention of Cruz at all. (Did a word search, don't want to read it in advance.) That I find hard to believe--surely he'll work in something.

v clear continuity with his "BRING BACK OUR POLICE" ad all those years ago

would be interested in seeing a version that highlights all the egregious mendacity in yellow

terrifying speech. like a dispatch from hell.

I read a little and got too annoyed and nauseated to continue before long.

One last Cruz thing before tonight. I've spent the last 18 hours trying to remember a movie line that almost sums up Trump's trap for Cruz last night. (I've pretty much completely moved in the direction of the idea that the whole chain of events was a set-up.) It's Hal Holbrook in All the President's Men, disgusted with Woodward after they gum up that one key moment in the investigation:

"You’ve done worse than let Haldeman slip away: you've got people feeling sorry for him. I didn’t think that was possible."

He'll tell the crowd that Americans "will come first once again" under his presidency, touching on crime, terrorism, trade, and the economy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/japanpeterpan/orgy.jpg

https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.srcq7v7h8

On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone.

Study the juxtaposition of those two sentences. "Finally." Laws "enforced." The causal link between enforcing the law and compassion

xp the author's tone there is p unbearable, she sounds just as bad + intellectually dishonest as anyone she's describing

brit zing crew target in 2007 iirc

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never will be.

Oh, cool, if his first act of office is deporting himself, I guess that's one problem solved.

They keep wanting to tell Clinton "You're fired!" "You're not hired!" just doesn't work as well.

holy shit turn on right now if u ain't watching https://www.twitch.tv/gopconvention

whoa

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/21/letting-joe-arpaio-speak-at-the-republican-convention-is-a-tremendously-bad-idea/

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/756281093960048640