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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2016 / Open Thread: Your Republican Party, America!

Open Thread: Your Republican Party, America!

by Anne Laurie|  July 20, 20163:14 pm| 39 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Republicans in Disarray!, Assholes

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The kids are orange too? Holy hell.

— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) July 20, 2016

Preview of Wednesday’s convention schedule pic.twitter.com/Wa65XPNmF5

— Daniel Lin (@DLin71) July 20, 2016

Half of the Republican convention is over and no one has used a fact.

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) July 20, 2016

This kind of show is why Atlantic City died. No wonder he went bankrupt there.

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) July 20, 2016

Let us never forget (especially in 2020 when he will most definitely run) that @SpeakerRyan fully endorsed this entire shit show. #RNCinCLE

— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) July 19, 2016

This is one of the two major political parties in the most powerful nation in the world. Don't laugh. It's not funny.

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) July 20, 2016

You know, I was taking this problem seriously while you were enabling it, so I’ll laugh when I damn well want. https://t.co/o7bRVqPNJQ

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) July 20, 2016

On Hollywood Boulevard, @realDonaldTrump's star now has a wall around it… https://t.co/aBMApShJCl

— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) July 20, 2016

Levantan un minimuro alrededor de la estrella de @realDonaldTrump en el paseo de #Hollywood https://t.co/Oc1oOLsn0g pic.twitter.com/xDPJbXKH7f

— Univision Política (@UniPolitica) July 20, 2016

I wonder after the convention is over, the GOP, in retrospect, will agree that "Cleveland 2016 RNC- Hillary Stole My Bike" was a bad idea.

— Hodor Lives! (@Johngcole) July 20, 2016

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39Comments

  1. 1.

    hovercraft

    July 20, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    The kids are orange too? Holy hell

    Gotta love John Dingell.

  2. 2.

    Trentrunner

    July 20, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    Good for Jamison Foser. I’m sick of the Douthat/Frum/Will “serious” wing of the GOP clutching their fuckin’ pearls in 2016.

    This bigoted shit has been going on for decades, and they just NOW see it? Fuck them.

  3. 3.

    Mike J

    July 20, 2016 at 3:19 pm

    “My computer’s not working!”
    What did you change?
    “Nothing! I didn’t change anything!”
    Are you sure?
    “I never changed anything!”
    Nothing?
    “I installed this software, but that shouldn’t break it!”

    Press 1 to sigh, 2 to pound head on desk.
    Even worse when it is family tech support.

  4. 4.

    Trollhattan

    July 20, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    The tiny wall is hilarious. Even a tiny lapel-pin size flag.

  5. 5.

    ruemara

    July 20, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    Hey, San Diego & SD adjacent Juicers! Meet-up at Karl Strauss Mira Mesa this Friday approx 7pm. Shoot me emails at my nym @ gmail.com.

    Also, John Dingell is a Twitter treasure.

  6. 6.

    Josie

    July 20, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Good news for Texans. Just saw this on TPM:

    A majority of the full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the heavily litigated and controversial Texas voter ID law does have the effect of discriminating against minority voters, and ordered the state to devise a remedy to that problem before the November elections.

  7. 7.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 20, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    @ruemara: Considering Dingell is 90 years old, he’s got a strong Twitter game.

  8. 8.

    Roger Moore

    July 20, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    That seems really unfair to Rainbow Dash. What did she do to deserve this calumny?

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    July 20, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    That Hodor Lives! twitter guy is pretty good; maybe he should start a blog somewhere.

  10. 10.

    Chat Noir

    July 20, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    I have a perpetual headache from all of the bullshit emanating from anyone with an “R” affiliation.

  11. 11.

    Emma

    July 20, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    I am wallowing in great music today. Right now I am listening to the fabled First Night of the Proms. They opened with the Marseillaise in memory of the French attacks. First there was Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’. That will be followed by Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor (one of my favorites pieces ever), and will end with Prokofiev’s Cantata ‘Alexander Nevsky.’

    This morning it was Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.

    Thank you, BBC Radio 3!

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    July 20, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    More photos of the wall here. Note that it was built by someone calling themselves Plastic Jesus.

  13. 13.

    Mobile RoonieRoo

    July 20, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    @ruemara: Grumpy and I are visiting SD from Austin right now. I’ll shoot you an email tonight.

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    July 20, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    @hovercraft:

    Gotta love John Dingell.

    He is hilarious on twitter.

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    July 20, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    @Emma: Alexander Nevsky is a great piece of music (great film as well). Enjoy the concert.

  16. 16.

    rikyrah

    July 20, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    @Josie:

    YEAH!!!!!!!

    First, Wisconsin and now Texas…

    YEAH!!

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    July 20, 2016 at 3:28 pm

    Reminder (reposting from deep in the last thread): Sometime this afternoon or evening, we should get the FEC June report from the Trump campaign. We’ll get the un-obfuscated fundraising numbers, cash-on-hand, find out whether he actual did write off all those loans, etc.

  18. 18.

    Chyron HR

    July 20, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    That seems really unfair to Rainbow Dash. What did she do to deserve this calumny?

    Obviously the convention is a Merriwether Williams episode.

  19. 19.

    Tom Levenson

    July 20, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    Pulled my post to avoid bigfooting. John does it so much better.

  20. 20.

    Emma

    July 20, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    @dmsilev: I have seen the movie but never heard the cantata in a concert setting. Which reminds me, I am planning a nothing but movies during the Christmas holidays. I think that one goes to the top of the list.

  21. 21.

    Jeffro

    July 20, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    1) R campaign advisor calling for the assassination of the D candidate
    2) R candidate now known to have no interest in actually running/deciding anything or any policy decisions other than ‘Making America Great Again’
    3) members of R “deep bench” whipped up crowd with witch-hunt/Satan-follwer talk about D candidate last night and public barely notices

    meanwhile, Temple of the Dog is actually touring…just not coming to DC…

    Only a Ted Cruz ‘the hell with Trump’ mic drop tonight could make this a good day!

  22. 22.

    hovercraft

    July 20, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    @Trentrunner:
    While I agree that they’ve been willfully blind for far too long, I still welcome them finally opening their eyes. Many of the stuff we bitch about is finally becoming apparent to some on the other side, so while I say took you long enough, I still say welcome aboard. Leon Wolf of RedState is one of the newly awakened.

  23. 23.

    dmsilev

    July 20, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    @Emma: One of the best propaganda films ever made. If you’ve not seen it, _Battleship Potemkin_ is also worth hunting down.

  24. 24.

    Miss Bianca

    July 20, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    @Mike J: “Hello, IT…”

  25. 25.

    hovercraft

    July 20, 2016 at 3:42 pm

    Adam called this:

    Trump Veterans Advisor and New Hampshire state representative Al Baldasaro would today issue a second call (see 22:22 in broadcast) for the execution of presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is hardly a surprise given that he had already called for her execution on Tuesday.

    What’s surprising is the venue on which Baldasaro made his second call for Clinton to be executed by a firing squad, for alleged treason : a white nationalist radio show that is currently broadcasting from inside the Republican National Convention.

  26. 26.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    July 20, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    99% of the GOP convention has been negative hate speech directed at Hillary Clinton, and the 1% that was supposed to be a positive message about Trump as a man and a candidate was actually about Barack and Michelle Obama’s familys.

    It’s going to be a long hot summer.

  27. 27.

    Emma

    July 20, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    @dmsilev: I saw that as a kid! Had forgotten it. On the list.

  28. 28.

    The Dangerman

    July 20, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    @Mike J:

    Even worse when it is family tech support.

    PEBCAK

  29. 29.

    Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap

    July 20, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    @hovercraft: Never forget these same sentiments were distributed on flyers in Texas in 1963. JFK’s picture was on the flyer. Just one time, one motherfucking time, I would like to see one of these “people” arrested for this shit. Just once goddamn it.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 20, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    @Trollhattan:

    The tiny wall is hilarious. Even a tiny lapel-pin size flag.

    And tiny barbed wire!

  31. 31.

    Leto

    July 20, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    @Tom Levenson: Nobody does it better.

  32. 32.

    Ben Cisco

    July 20, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    @Mike J: I feel your pain.

  33. 33.

    rikyrah

    July 20, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    @hovercraft:

    What’s surprising is the venue on which Baldasaro made his second call for Clinton to be executed by a firing squad, for alleged treason : a white nationalist radio show that is currently broadcasting from inside the Republican National Convention.

    Uh huh
    Uh huh

    Why surprising?

  34. 34.

    Captain C

    July 20, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    @Mike J:

    “I installed this software, but that shouldn’t break it!”

    “You mean the one with the dot R U address with ‘All your finances are belong to us’ written in Cyrillic?”

  35. 35.

    Ben Cisco

    July 20, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    @Captain C: Nothing makes my day quite like discovering “Spotify” is, apparently, a mission-critical app.

  36. 36.

    Glidwrith

    July 20, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    @ruemara: Me too! Me too!

  37. 37.

    Shana

    July 20, 2016 at 5:10 pm

    @Miss Bianca: LOVE The IT Crowd. Thank you for that.

  38. 38.

    Calming Influence

    July 20, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    The set of computer-unfriendly actions included in “nothing” done by computer users is close to infinite.

  39. 39.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    July 20, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    @Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: This. A thousand times this.

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