Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow
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nzlemming, in reply to
Regarding Paddy Gower, I had to laugh at his comment a few nights ago that "they are really drinking the kool-aid here."
That knee is full of iron, though I doubt Gower comprehends that.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Fewer Capitalists
touché
I shoulda known better!
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So much for my estimate of when Trump would speak, they do go on... – I couldn’t wait and had to go out – so gawd knows what time he started and I just got home and heard he only just finished talking – at midnight EST.!!
Don’t think I’ll bother going back and watching/listening – life’s too short now that I think about it… -
Fab article by Laurie Penny about Milo Yiannopoulos and the gay Republican trollery:
https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932#.7gky64tff<a>America is a nation eaten by its own myth</q>
Nothing says it better.
H/t Emma Hart
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Nothing says it better.
True dat. For my money, Laurie Penny conveys manages to convey more than a mountain of mainstream pundits.
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Well, the situation with Meredith McIver just got serious for Trump. He's now alleged to have broken federal elections law by having a corporate employee carrying out duties on his campaign.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Well, the situation with Meredith McIver just got serious for Trump. He's now alleged to have broken federal elections law by having a corporate employee carrying out duties on his campaign.
Rock and hard place - either McIver really truly does exist and Trump is guilty, or he has to admit he made her up, so there's no case to answer. Either way, he's going to have a harder job painting Clinton as lawbreaker and liar. Not that that will stop him, of course.
In a side note, the Federal Election Campaign Act has the acronym FECA, which seems very proper in 2016
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Melania does not look happy, smiling only when she realises the camera is actually on her.
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Finally, although the RNCinCLE is the gift that keeps on giving, this:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160722_Daniel_Pipes__With_Trump_as_nominee__time_to_quit_the_GOP.htmlThe Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership.
I hope his feeling spreads.
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Trump tried to step back from the mob in his speech. Cries of "lock her up" are no longer what he wants to hear - watch his body language when they start baying.
As always, those who first stoke the fires to get attention, cannot then look convincing as the fireman (or to mix clichés: genie, bottle, reap, sow etc).
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A.Eger Leintz 1902. Austrian painting captures the spirit of the following decades.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
It’s got some dangerous inertia.
My biggest fear with all this is 'what happens next?' Even if Trump loses, I really doubt that everyone is going to then pack up quietly and go home. Same with Brexit.
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nzlemming, in reply to
My biggest fear with all this is 'what happens next?' Even if Trump loses, I really doubt that everyone is going to then pack up quietly and go home. Same with Brexit.
This is concerning a lot of my American friends, yes. Whether Trump wins or loses, he's already screwed the place up.. We may be witnessing the start of the 2nd American Revolution, or the 2nd Civil War...
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
A.Eger Leintz 1902.
Thanks for the picture ID. It's an image that's stayed with me since it featured in an article in US Penthouse in the early 80s on the rise of the then-new American fundamentalist right. Can't recall the author, only that the striking image was copyright credited to an Austrian state art gallery.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Finally, although the RNCinCLE is the gift that keeps on giving, this:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160722_Daniel_Pipes__With_Trump_as_nominee__time_to_quit_the_GOP.htmlThe Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded by ending my 44-year GOP membership.
I hope his feeling spreads.
Then again, Pipes endorsed Ted Cruz, who's equally insane as Trump but for different reasons.
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Wipe out!
If as them scientifickers posit our brains are unduly influenced by our gut flora and fauna I can see a distant future archaeological dig at the Quicken Loans Shrine site uncovering a similar midden to this old Silk Road one revealing that the Alpha Centaurian synaptic fluke had been present for hundreds of years longer than suspected and well before their successful annexation of Earth - some point to the TV Series BrainDead as an early cry for help from a nascent resistance group... -
Quicken Loans Shrine
if they win it may become one
Laurie Penny summed it up like this
They ventriloquise the fear of millions into a scream of fire in the crowded theatre of modernity where all the doors are locked, and then they watch the stampede, and they smile for the cameras.
I’ve seen enough. This is an evil place, airless and soullessHow many millions? Not enough to win, just enough to make others wake to the danger. I hope.
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go sit on it, and rotate…
Putting things in perspective…
Behold the chaotically fragile marble (or snow globe) we live on
- one year in time-lapseGo full screen for best effect…
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The Washington Post's withering, comprehensive denunciation of Trump.
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Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone sums up the sad spectacle that was the 2016 Republican Convention. A campaign trail which was “more TV show than democracy” populated by fading celebrities. A very one-sided affair with “10 cops for every reporter and 10 reporters for every protester.”
It wasn’t what we expected. We thought Donald Trump’s version of the Republican National Convention would be a brilliantly bawdy exercise in Nazistic excess.
We expected thousand-foot light columns, a 400-piece horn section where the delegates usually sit (they would be in cages out back with guns to their heads). Onstage, a chorus line of pageant girls in gold bikinis would be twerking furiously to a techno version of “New York, New York” while an army of Broadway dancers spent all four days building a Big Beautiful Wall that read winning, the ceremonial last brick timed to the start of Donald’s acceptance speech…
But nah. What happened instead was just sad and weird, very weird. The lineup for the 2016 Republican National Convention to nominate Trump felt like a fallback list of speakers for some ancient UHF telethon, on behalf of a cause like plantar-wart research.
It's also worth checking out Jon Stewart's RNC rave when he guests on The Late Show.
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Rosemary McDonald, in reply to
It’s also worth checking out Jon Stewart’s RNC rave when he guests on The Late Show.
We watched that last night, along with this....
'truthiness comes from the gut....trumpiness from somewhere, er, lower.'
Provided a little sane relief...
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BenWilson, in reply to
Wow, that's unusual, harsh, and true.
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Even in small groups, he is completely incoherent.
ETA: Jaw dropping moment:DIEHL: What about China and the South China Sea. What do you think they’re up to and—
TRUMP: I think it’s a terrible situation, I think it’s terrible they have no respect for–
DIEHL: –and what should we do about it?
TRUMP: Well look, we have power over China and people don’t realize it. We have trade power over China. I don’t think we are going to start World War III over what they did, it affects other countries certainly a lot more than it affects us. But—and honestly, you know part of—I always say we have to be unpredictable. We’re totally predictable. And predictable is bad. Sitting at a meeting like this and explaining my views and if I do become president, I have these views that are down for the other side to look at, you know. I hate being so open.
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The Manchurian Candidate redux?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/07/trump_and_putin_the_real_winner_of_the_rnc_is_the_kremlin.htmlThe book General Motors and the Nazis notes that in September 1938 Knudsen met personally with Hermann Göring at the Nazi leader's hunting lodge. On Oct 26, 1938, the New York Times quoted Knudsen’s remarks upon his return from a trip to Europe: “He said that Germany had been transformed since his last visit several years ago and that the Reich today was ‘the miracle of the twentieth century.’ ” The following year, according to General Motors and the Nazis, Knudsen set into motion the construction of “a plant designed, at the request of the German Air Ministry, to utilize American technology to develop advanced components for aircraft engines in which the leaders of the Luftwaffe were particularly interested.”
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