Apparently Boris is no longer available

Isn't it a conflict of interest to nominate family members?

I suspect that a lot of our BE members secretly like the "1984" idea of perpetual warfare, and Hillary is the approved candidate of the War Party. Trump? Well, nobody is quite sure what he'll do, but he doesn't seem all that keen on expanding The Empire. Hillary can at least be relied on to slaughter or dispossess another million or so Middle Easterners, and that can't be bad, right?

Trump appears to be from the Ministry of Truth.

All signs pointing to Mike Pence.

*makes joke about Pounds, shillings and Pence*

So here is the list of items banned from the RNC convention area. Some interesting ones. Notably absent on the list are, of course, guns. They are apparently deemed perfectly safe.

Here's a list of at least 72 things that are prohibited from the event zone:
Lumber larger than 2 inches in width and 1/4 of an inch thick, including supports for signs
Metal, plastic, or other hard material larger than 3/4 quarters thick and 1/8 of an inch in wall thickness including pipe and tubing
Air rifles
Air pistols
Paintball guns
Blasting caps
Switchblade knives
Automatic knives
Knives having a blade 2.5 inches in length or longer
Cestuses
Billy clubs
Blackjacks
Swords
Sabers
Hatchets
Axes
Slingshots
BB guns
Pellet guns
Wrist shots
Metal knuckles
Nun chucks
Mace
Iron buckles
Axe handles
Shovels
Fireworks
Rockets
Sound amplification equipment
Drones and other unmanned aircraft systems
Containers of bodily fluids
Aerosol cans
Pepper Spray and other chemical irritants
Umbrellas with metal tips
Water guns
Water cannons
Ropes in lengths greater than 6 feet
Chains in lengths greater than 6 feet
Cables in lengths greater than 6 feet
Strappings in lengths greater than 6 feet
Wires in lengths greater than 6 feet
Strings in lengths greater than 6 feet
Lines in lengths greater than 6 feet
Tapes in lengths greater than 6 feet
Glass bottles
Ornaments
Light bulbs
Ceramic vessels
Padlocks
Bicycle locking devices
Chain locks
Gas masks
Tents
Sleeping bags
Sleeping pads
Mattresses
Cots
Hammocks
Bivy sacks
Stoves
Coolers
Ice chests
Backpacks and bags exceeding the size of 18" x 13" x 7"
Lasers
Non-plastic containers, bottles, cans, or thermoses
Ladders
Grappling hooks
Sledgehammers
Hammers
Crowbars
Canned goods
Tennis balls

Cestuses
Blackjacks

I had to Google

Bring your guns but not your tennis balls.

Didn't see "millwall brick" listed.

Mmmmmmm. Yeah. Nope.

No Liberal: Hillary Is Pro Multinational and Pro Military-Industrial Complex | The Daily Bell
Now this is from the Ministry of Truth! Trump is a boy scout by comparison.

Oh for pity's sake, if you're going to quote 1984, it's a good idea to have actually read the book. Otherwise, you'll look monumentally stupid when you don't understand what the Ministry of Truth represents.

BTW if you think I like Hillary Clinton's neo-liberalism, then you clearly haven't been paying attention. I'm not happy about the choice we have. But to suggest Trump would be better is massively ignorant. As an example, research Trump's ideas about nuclear weapons and then tell me he would be better than Clinton.

Trump is malleable, Clinton is politically tone deaf. We don't need anymore ideologues in office.

If Trump was elected and tried to do have the shit he has said he will then I think it will only be a matter of time before he is impeached. And this will be a real impeachment, not a bullshit Clinton impeachment. That's why the VP pick is important.

The VP pick is important but everybody decent has bowed out. Sure, Pence is better than Gingrich but he's a wannabe choke artist. His claim to fame is that he was very anti-gay right up until it hurt his image.