2018 Midterms

[bune]

[tragabigzanda]

i STILL say the Green Party, or any third party, has as much right to be on the ballot as the Dems and GOP. If the Dems can't wrestle Washington away from Trump's clutches because of the big, bad Green Party, then fuck 'em.

[Norris]

Of course they have a right to. That's not the point at all. The point is recognizing a common enemy, recognizing math, and deciding that you need to unite behind one front or you're stuck with the worst option.

[tragabigzanda]

Of course they have a right to. That's not the point at all. The point is recognizing a common enemy, recognizing math, and deciding that you need to unite behind one front or you're stuck with the worst option.

i agree, but it's also easy for me to see the line of thoughts that goes "this shit will keep happening as long as we're stuck with a 2-party system."

[Norris]

Of course they have a right to. That's not the point at all. The point is recognizing a common enemy, recognizing math, and deciding that you need to unite behind one front or you're stuck with the worst option.

i agree, but it's also easy for me to see the line of thoughts that goes "this shit will keep happening as long as we're stuck with a 2-party system."

You don't change the system by losing elections.

[tragabigzanda]

Of course they have a right to. That's not the point at all. The point is recognizing a common enemy, recognizing math, and deciding that you need to unite behind one front or you're stuck with the worst option.

i agree, but it's also easy for me to see the line of thoughts that goes "this shit will keep happening as long as we're stuck with a 2-party system."

You don't change the system by losing elections.

The Dems lost last time and everything is differentt now.

[bune]

alt text: "There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired."

[bart]

God that comic is the worst.

[96583UP]

green party needs to just take over the democratic party

like a hermit crab taking over an older hermit crab that does spirit cooking’s larger shell

that's our shell now

go manage your global pay to play foundation elsewhere

[McParadigm]

Fuck yeah go Green Par-

Green Party candidate was on state GOP payroll

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A man who registered as a Green Party candidate for Montana's U.S. Senate race was on the state Republican Party's payroll and heads a newly formed anti-tax group, according to a review of election documents.

[Norris]

Fuck yeah go Green Par-

Green Party candidate was on state GOP payroll

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A man who registered as a Green Party candidate for Montana's U.S. Senate race was on the state Republican Party's payroll and heads a newly formed anti-tax group, according to a review of election documents.

[washing machine]

Edit: It's worse when you watch it unfold:

She is essentially Sarah Palin: a fatuous vessel capable of pandering to an oinking, water-brained constituency unable to separate intellectual wheat from populist chaff, but little else.

Planet Money's take on Democratic Socialists in a nutshell:


https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018 ... socialists

[McParadigm]

That seems to be the viewpoint of the majority of Democrat voters, too, based on how these primaries are going.

Congrats to Republicans for pranking the media into acting like it’s some big party shift, though. Almost as effective as their effort to get every pundit talking about what a danger democrat support for Nancy Pelosi is while Jim Jordan runs for speaker.

[McParadigm]

The Judiciary Chairman’s son...

[McParadigm]

And more!

[bune]

Awkward holiday meal conversations coming up...

[wease]

He should join us in the “long term parental strife” thread.

[bune]

An 11-Year-Old Hacked Into a U.S. Voting System Replica in 10 Minutes This Weekend

Well I feel so much safer now.

Speaking of Florida:

Florida State House Candidate Admits She Faked College Diploma

[BurtReynolds]

Edit: It's worse when you watch it unfold:

She is essentially Sarah Palin: a fatuous vessel capable of pandering to an oinking, water-brained constituency unable to separate intellectual wheat from populist chaff, but little else.

You called it: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/commen ... ssion=true

[BurtReynolds]

Nice job, Cuomo.