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
hovercraft
Gotta love John Dingell.
Trentrunner
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.
Mike J
“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.
Trollhattan
The tiny wall is hilarious. Even a tiny lapel-pin size flag.
ruemara
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.
Josie
Good news for Texans. Just saw this on TPM:
Gin & Tonic
@ruemara: Considering Dingell is 90 years old, he’s got a strong Twitter game.
Roger Moore
That seems really unfair to Rainbow Dash. What did she do to deserve this calumny?
dmsilev
That Hodor Lives! twitter guy is pretty good; maybe he should start a blog somewhere.
Chat Noir
I have a perpetual headache from all of the bullshit emanating from anyone with an “R” affiliation.
Emma
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!
dmsilev
More photos of the wall here. Note that it was built by someone calling themselves Plastic Jesus.
Mobile RoonieRoo
@ruemara: Grumpy and I are visiting SD from Austin right now. I’ll shoot you an email tonight.
rikyrah
@hovercraft:
He is hilarious on twitter.
dmsilev
@Emma: Alexander Nevsky is a great piece of music (great film as well). Enjoy the concert.
rikyrah
@Josie:
YEAH!!!!!!!
First, Wisconsin and now Texas…
YEAH!!
dmsilev
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.
Chyron HR
@Roger Moore:
Obviously the convention is a Merriwether Williams episode.
Tom Levenson
Pulled my post to avoid bigfooting. John does it so much better.
Emma
@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.
Jeffro
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!
hovercraft
@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.
dmsilev
@Emma: One of the best propaganda films ever made. If you’ve not seen it, _Battleship Potemkin_ is also worth hunting down.
Miss Bianca
@Mike J: “Hello, IT…”
hovercraft
Adam called this:
The Ancient Randonneur
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.
Emma
@dmsilev: I saw that as a kid! Had forgotten it. On the list.
The Dangerman
@Mike J:
PEBCAK
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@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.
SiubhanDuinne
@Trollhattan:
And tiny barbed wire!
Leto
@Tom Levenson: Nobody does it better.
Ben Cisco
@Mike J: I feel your pain.
rikyrah
@hovercraft:
Uh huh
Uh huh
Why surprising?
Captain C
@Mike J:
“You mean the one with the dot R U address with ‘All your finances are belong to us’ written in Cyrillic?”
Ben Cisco
@Captain C: Nothing makes my day quite like discovering “Spotify” is, apparently, a mission-critical app.
Glidwrith
@ruemara: Me too! Me too!
Shana
@Miss Bianca: LOVE The IT Crowd. Thank you for that.
Calming Influence
The set of computer-unfriendly actions included in “nothing” done by computer users is close to infinite.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: This. A thousand times this.