Election 2020

[washing machine]

I keep waiting for him to say jellyfish but he never does.

[epilogue]

I keep waiting for him to say jellyfish but he never does.

too dangerous, not funny enough

[Mickey]

Jellyfish are highly intelligent creatures so it's not a great insult.

[Norah]

jellyfish are going to kill us all

[epilogue]

If the McDonald's dipping sauces don't get us first.

[washing machine]

"You have a 4 piece McNuggets box with a side of sweet 'n sour in your skull"

[Bi_3]

Bernie staff doing what comes naturally to socialists:

https://mobile.twitter.com/briebriejoy/ ... 8670797824

You have porridge in your skull.

Nah, but I do have tendies on the brain

[epilogue]

"You have a 4 piece McNuggets box with a side of sweet 'n sour in your skull"

ha!

[bada]

Ever go swimming when there are a lot of jelly fish and the water is just full of their juice and it goes up your pee pee hole?

[Bi_3]

"You have a 4 piece McNuggets box with a side of sweet 'n sour in your skull"

[Mickey]

I would love to hear whatever it is that "comes naturally" to socialists here. I imagine that will be *quite* funny

[B]

Ever go swimming when there are a lot of jelly fish and the water is just full of their juice and it goes up your pee pee hole?

Um. No.

I would love to hear whatever it is that "comes naturally" to socialists here. I imagine that will be *quite* funny

I don't know. Consider how my actions affect others?

Great. Now I'm horny.

[Bi_3]

Ugh

Then ugh again.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019 ... ed-tweet-/

[run2death]

It's obviously a careless use of words by a presidential candidate.

But the words "murder" and "killing" are used almost interchangeably by many/most Americans.

[Mickey]

Also he was murdered so

[run2death]

Ummm...

[Mickey]

Damn guess I'm not gonna be president now

[Bi_3]

It's obviously a careless use of words by a presidential candidate.

But the words "murder" and "killing" are used almost interchangeably by many/most Americans.

Careless for sure, there is no reason to hit third rail issues that might trigger bigots to head to the ballot box next year

[Green Habit]

I think GH is saying that he had a hunch Hickenlooper's POTUS run would end this way.

What I'm saying is that there's a ton of time for a lot of these longshot presidential candidates to run for the Senate, and to freak out about them was woefully premature. Either they'll end up running for the Senate after all, or if they don't want do, Dems will find a candidate who's more devoted to that cause.

[Dscans]

But I don't find any value in the idea that being somehow torn between Democrats and Republicans--especially on a national level--is somehow admirable or inherently an expression of critical thinking rather than an indication that you have not thought seriously about your political commitments.

OK, try me.

If you take my worldview, much of which many of you know of from my years of posting in this forum, you'll know that it does not come even close with aligning with either major party in the United States. It's unfortunate, but I'm also realistic enough to know that I likely will never get such an alignment. I'm also realistic enough to know that the American form of government brutally imposes a two party system, and in almost all cases voting for a third party does, at best, jack shit. So what does that leave me with? Well, the best I can manage, since I don't fully trust the agenda of either party, is to vote for gridlock, and ensure that no one party holds all the branches of power in government. That naturally leads to a lot of ticket splitting on my part. I'll let you judge for yourself as to whether that's "an expression of critical thinking", but I would like to hope that it is.

I read something that made me think about this post. From https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/book ... alism.html

"New York's attorney general Eliot Spitzer, declaring himself a "fervent federalist," is using state regulations to prosecute corporate abuses that George W. Bush's Department of Justice won't touch. While the federal minimum wage hasn't budged since the middle of the Clinton era, 13 (mostly blue) states and the District of Columbia have hiked their local wage floors in the intervening years. After Bush severely restricted federal stem cell research, California's voters passed an initiative pouring $3 billion into laboratories for that very purpose, and initiatives are under way in at least a dozen other states."

The story doesn't even mention states that passed marriage equality (of course it's several years old at this point). Anyway, it made me think: If you believe in federalism, is voting at the national level for extreme, uncompromising candidates a more effective strategy than voting for a libertarian candidate? It seems that the outgrowth of this strategy is that it pushes power downward to the local level.