Sadly, my darkest fears for poor SugarFree have come to pass. He’s walled himself into a cave to escape the horror of this election cycle. Not even he can indefinitely maintain his peace against it all.
Hopefully, he’ll emerge and return to us soon.
In the meantime, I’ve got a few questions for all my dear US citizen Glibs.
1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)?
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever?
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices?
I plan on heading over to our polling station mid-afternoon. Try as they may to convince me, I definitely do not trust voting by mail AT ALL. The postal service routinely misplaces more important documents, so how can I trust them to actually deliver my ballot? Not to mention how simplistic it would be to “lose” a few hundred thousand of them. (I know, I know, it’s also easy to lose them when recorded any other way.)
And…now that the day is finally here, can we move past this crap?
HAHAHAHA, I crack myself up.
I wish you all a good purge
Another cup of coffee and I’ll get mine
Around my house, we refer to that as the “blessed event.”
Is that because it takes an exorcist to clean out the after effects?
1. Voted as soon as the polls opened at 6:00
2. Voted straight R across the board
3. Because the D’s need to be punished for their behavior.
By the way, my wife and I voted today for the first time in about ten years, because we were motivated by the Dem’s behavior to vote against them.
About the same here.
Voting for pot, and against gerrymander and ballot access because they both amend the state constitution.
Same. Voted for pot and against the government trying to enlarge itself. Also voted some select Rs and Ds, but mostly LP.
Did the same…not in shame either.
(Was going to vote L for our next orange jumpsuit Governor but Pritzer scares me to death)
Thinking seriously about moving to Missouri.
1) Yes
2) voting for “Go to hell”
3) Get off my lawn
1) Haven’t voted since Jesse Ventura ran for Governor of Minnesota.
2) Nobody is worthy to represent me or my interests
3) Nobody is worthy to represent me or my interests
Best governor of my lifetime. Would vote again.
The only vote I’m proud of is my vote for Ventura.
While I am proud of what he did for the state, it didn’t matter. The next election we gave the Vikings a fucking stadium (which I will never set foot in out of protest) and the symphony a new venue (which I will never set foot in out of protest) and all the taxes went back up.
In the long run, nothing changed. And I was a fool for thinking it could.
Well, you still don’t have to get the emissions tests.
You forgot the Twins stadium. Although that has paid off because the Pohlads have used the extra revenue to put a competitive team on the field.
And nothing else will happen
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/414804-surveillance-state-is-alive-well-and-operating-against-us-all
I haven’t voted, but I plan to. My son turned 18 in Sept and is excited to go. So we will go together later today.
The only candidate I want to vote for is Jeff Johnson for gov. We grew up together and are very good friends. He’s always been a fiscal conservative and even though he is a bit too socon for me, he is a decent man.
I’m still debating on whether I vote all R to punish stupid DFLers or just leave them blank.
1. I will be voting
2. Just for one congressional candidate and to kick out all the judges.
3. The Democrats are batshit crazy so I have to make a sacrifice and vote R for the first time. Although I feel like even if the R’s win it’s inevitable the Ds will eventually take control and derp will ensue.
I’ve decided that I’m not going to vote. I’m too busy and I know that my vote doesn’t matter. I’ll do something nice – visiting the nursing home my dad just moved into and feeding him supper.
Showoff
Look at this kulak insisting that doing something useful like caring for an ailing parent is more important than what Google and celebrities tells me I should do.
You know men literally died for your right to vote or something. I think that’s what started WWI. The Kaiser was all like “ill, I don’t like the French Fourth Republic with all it’s voting and such. Let’s invade those cheese eating surrender monkeys.” And then the Hapsburgs were all like “let’s totes do that.” And the Romanovs of Russia were all like “you know, we may be autocrats, but we like defending republican forms of government or something. Screw you Austria-Hungary.”
And that’s how the War to End All Wars ended all wars and established voting or something
You forgot the Ottomans and British collaborating to further destabilize the middle East for the next 1000 years.
/I smile coldly and stroke my upper lip where, if it weren’t for my daily shaving, a luxuriant mustache inherited from my Turkish ancestors would spring.
Easier to argue that the Ottomans stabilized the area ?
I fear that you took my comment too seriously
He’s walled himself into a cave to escape the horror of this election cycle.
On the bright side, he has a cask of Amontillado.
Puns are a tell-tale sign of higher intelligence.
Be still, my heart.
Yeah but too many of them will drive you stark raven mad
Maybe in the past, but nevermore.
I don’t know how much morella this I can take.
Pure Poe-try OMWC!
I think he’s overreacting. A premature burial, if you will.
Will vote right after work.
Will vote for every Pub on the ballot. Wife also says she will vote for every Pub on the ballot.
I have voted for every Libertarian Party candidate I have seen on every ballot since the 80s. But . . . .
1) Johnson/Weld
2) The Kavanaugh hearings
So now, I am a cranky old man voting a straight ticket for the Pubs.
Bob Barr was the deal-breaker for me to ever be a Libertarian. I sat out the presidential election that year.
Held my nose and pulled the lever for Johnson/Weld this last time, but I wasn’t thrilled. If they run Mike Rowe, I’ll re-enlist.
The LP would never endorse someone who the libs think is icky.
At least not the Sarwark LP
I’m pretty much with Kinnath, except I live in CA. So, very few Rs to vote for. Where the choice was only two Dems, I either wrote in a candidate (Snake Plissken), or voted against someone.
Plus, lots of stupid propositions to vote against this year.
1) Yes,
2) Voted straight Repub. except for state comptroller who I voted Libertarian.
3) Republicans are the lesser evil at this point. Met the Libertarian State Comptroller candidate at a meet and greet at a shooting range. She has good gun control. Also since I’m a cis-shitlord. Would.
1. Voted early. They give two full weeks to vote here, including weekends, 7 AM to 7 PM, and I guarantee that tonight there will be gigantic lines when the polls close and people will be screaming about voter suppression.
2. Left governor and Senate lines blank. Voted for Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Republican opponent. I don’t even know what his name is.
3. We’re a sinful species and all of us deserve death, so there’s no point in any of this.
I don’t believe in sin.
But sin believes in you.
Is this a twist on “you may not be interested in government, but government is interested in you”?
Sounds like it might be…
“3. We’re a sinful species and all of us deserve death, so there’s no point in any of this.”
Alright, Seth Mandel. (((You people))) are starting to steal our Christian shtick
Yep, voted this morning. I have been on the “don’t vote unless somebody gives you a reason to vote for them” track for the past 2 elections, but the progs have pissed me off this cycle, so I took 10 minutes out of my day to punish them.
Barbara Comstock over the excreble Jennifer Wexton for our house seat. If you threaten to take away my tax cuts and send me pro-baby murder attack ads in the mail daily for weeks, you’re gonna piss me off. This is the race that got me out the door.
Corey Stewart over Tim Kaine for the senate. Honestly, I was about to vote for the libertarian candidate, but doted for the R at the last second. Why? Because I want the Rs to retain the Senate for RBG’s replacement and to keep Trump from being removed from office.
Fuck the democrats with a rusty pipe. The Republicans didnt earn my vote this time around, but the democrats done pissed me off, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend this go round.
Voted for the Lib because Stewart wasn’t gonna win – Kaine was pretty much a lock for VA – other races are more realistic for improving the Senate majority – and Stewart looks like a bit of a douche.
1) Yes.
2) R except for one D who does a verifiably good job and I don’t think someone who does a good job should lose it.
2a) There were 3 ballot initiatives on legalizing marijuana under different conditions. The one that gets the most votes wins. I wanted to make sure to vote for the one with the fewest restrictions.
3) Rs to punish the Ds for their batshit crazy identity politics. Goodbye McCaskill. I hope.
Mo, re your 2a: Yeah, I hope the least-restrictive Mary Jane prop goes through.
As far as we could determine beforehand, that was #2.
1) I voted 2 weeks ago
2) I was mainly their to vote out judges and for the constitutional amendments.
3) I also voted to punish Democrats for the Kavanaugh shit show.
1. My wife and I made a date to vote this afternoon. Like most of our dates, it will involve alcohol and clumsy groping.
2. All over the map. Some L, some R, some D. Kash Jackson for sure because… he’s… not quite right. So therefore perfect.
3. Yes. Maximum monkey wrenching and mostly voting against people who particularly pissed me off by their campaign tactics (spelled “Sam Yingling”).
I hope you voted against the ones with the most ads. Living in the Chicago market I hate this time of year. On the rare occasion I watch live TV every ad is a terrible political hit job.
Those ads are to make sure you don’t vote for the evil person who wants to take your money, leave you at the mercy of gangs, and leave you in the street to die of cancer they personally will give you.
Mitt Romney?
That was a couple of election cycles ago. Now he is a wise elder statesman that the Republicans should nominate more of.
He’ll put you back in chains! He’ll strap you to the roof of his SUV! He’ll put you in a binder! He’ll cheat on your taxes and tithe your paychecks to the LDS!
Other than football, we mostly don’t watch TV. So we missed the TV ads. But Yingling pissed us off by stuffing our mailbox daily with the most transparently mendacious hit pieces imaginable (stuff like “My opponent, Trump Politician Ken Idstein, stands with child molesters and wants to declare war on women!”). I was particularly amused (negatively) by an incumbent politician referring to his challenger as a “politician.”
At least one mailer a day from that asshole, often two or three. Fuck him, he’ll probably win. Asshole.
Yeah, that is reason to punish the asshattery man… I have been lucky that there have been no daily fucking pamphlets from the asshats in my state although my recyclable bin and my trash are quit full of that crap.
Voter fraud! 7 year olds can’t vote!
I love you guys. True love is emetic for everyone else. I yearn to resemble that someday.
I’ma vote fer dem republeecans dat go ta da house ant senate, but fer da state races I’m gonna vote dat libertaryn ting.
Eyes likes da ways yos talken.
No I didn’t
I still live in Cali
I still live in Cali
I can vote for a Democrat. or a Democrat
So somebody will probably do you a solid and vote for you.
1. Yep, voted.
2. Voted for Josh Hawley, every Lib I could vote for and any R vs. D. I could find.
3. Claire McCaskill went right along with the rest of the witch-hunters in the Kavanaugh fiasco; she once did me a good turn as county prosecutor by forcing a former employer to pay wages he tried to cheat me out of. I’m sure she voted her conscience (?); I voted mine.
I don’t remember McCaskill saying anything about the witchhunt, but that she disagreed with him on some issue. But I’ve voted against her each time, so this time around was no different.
My kid just joined the cheer team and she’s cheering at her first game this evening. The polling station shares the parking lot with the school, so I’ll go after work.
For national I will go all R’s, even though I live in Indiana and it won’t matter, because the D’s have become insufferable. I usually leave about 1/2 the ballot blank because I have no idea who these people are.
If I were going to vote, I’d vote for Cthulu. Because… well, you already know.
Because he doesn’t thread either?
Evil is as evil does.
“1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)?”
For the first time in a decade I do plan to vote in a midterm.
“2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever?”
I will hold my nose and vote team red for all candidates in my deep blue state.
“3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices?”
After Kavanaugh I think we should keep team blue as far away from the leavers of power as possible.
Either way today goes, I think SF and I are going to have a bounty to work with. God help you all.
1. There’s, like, stamps or whatever and that’s, like, voter suppression, I think.
2. If I was, like, allowed to vote, it would be straight-ticket Democrats or, like, which is the one that wants to pay my student loans? Those guys.
3. Like, what?
Fucking Millenials.
1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)?
Hell no. I think I quit voting somewhere around the time the bipartisan creation of the TSA happened.
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever?
None. Now, if we were allowed to pull a trigger on the more statist choices, that would perk my interest.
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices?
No one on the ballot who is an anarchist libertarian, and if they were they wouldn’t win, and if they could win I wouldn’t be the deciding vote.
Shorter: got better stuff to do with my time than lend legitimacy to people who want to rule/own me.
Are you me?
Most people at work have their stickers.
Last time at a different job it turned into a big deal that I wouldn’t cast a meaningless ballot, so this year I went with “I’m going to stop on the way home” technically correct because I do need gas.
I think I’m almost you. I’ve never had anyone at a workplace harass me to vote. I’m not shy about telling people I’m a libertarian if the subject comes up, so I’m guessing they were thinking I’d vote pro-Death-Star, pro-Skynet. Or something. Apparently being pro-freedom is evil.
The last time I voted, IIRC I voted for the one libertarian candidate on the ballot, against all the initiatives, and left the rest blank. The person running the ballot machine seemed to think this almost unpunched ballot was an oversight, and encouraged me to go back and finish the job. I politely disabused her of that notion.
Didn’t vote and I’m not going to.
Will vote later. Probably all repubs unless an unexpected L is on the ballot.
Because of hate. I hate Bob Menendez and all the other NJ crooks who aspire to be like him. I don’t know Josh Gottenhiemer well enough to hate him. But I hate that they gerrymandered my district and now I’m represented by a liberal who lives on the other end of the state.
And I’ll vote for my neighbor and shootin buddy who is running for Mayor.
I’m not voting. I moved and haven’t bothered to fix my registration. I suppose I could make the five hour round trip to vote in my hometown, but I don’t live there any more so I care even less than I used to. I don’t know any of the local candidates, and there aren’t any ballot initiatives this year in Pennsylvania so there isn’t anything for me to vote for or against.
PA doesn’t have ballot initiatives. Considering where you live, you only have one choice for your state Senator/Rep anyway. That said, the governorship could go to someone marginally better than Wolf, if people bothered to vote against him. Votes in Pennsylvania this election is mostly to keep the status quo in the state assembly so they won’t go full New Jersey on guns.
PA does have ballot initiatives, but they are pretty rare, and none this time. I’m in Lansdale now, right on the border of two of the new congressional districts that the courts drew and I’m honestly not sure which side of the line I’m on. I likewise have no clue what my state rep or state senatorial district is. I’ll vote in the next election, but I’ve only been in Lansdale for a month now, and I’ve had far more important things to get squared away than my registration. I have to renew my license next month, I’ll get it sorted then.
My mistake, I thought ballot initiatives weren’t a thing, also thought you were in Philly for some reason.
I’m surprised at how many glibs there are in/around the Philly area. We should do a meetup sometime. You arranged one when I went MIA, correct? Do you still have a contact list? There are several more in places like NJ, NY, and MD who might enjoy an outing with food and drink.
How did you arrange it last time? I assume most people weren’t crazy about posting contact info in comments here where they can’t be deleted/edited again for removal?
I was in Philly, until jyst recently. Granted Lansdale is only a few miles outside of it. I did organize a meetup while you were gone, and DEG just mentioned setting another one up, I’m game. Mostly I just posted an announcement on each thread with my email if anyone wanted in on it, nothing fancy.
Cool. I’ll find it and get you my contact info.
If you’re in Lansdale right now, you’re probably ~10 minutes away from me.
Small world.
I’ll be voting and will be voting for Republicans where I can, but I live in the Bay Area so it won’t make a difference. Not voting for anyone for Senate. I had planned to vote for Feinstein as the lesser of two evils, but then she pulled the Kavanaugh stunt. I can’t bring myself to vote for the guy she’s running against, because he’s worse and will probably be there for a long time if he wins. My default on the propositions is to vote no unless I have a good reason to vote yes.
1. Yes.
2. 1 Independent, 1 Dem, a few GoP. No to Kelsey Grammer, Yes to wet county.
3. Mostly voting against people, often for petty reasons.
I just looked up info on the Independent I voted for. He is worse than the GOP Incumbent, probably. I am still okay with my vote.
Also, my precinct is now scanning your ID when you vote, not just checking it. I should have given them my CCDW as my ID, it doesn’t have the barcodey thing on the back.
Mine’s been doing that for at least the last 3 elections.
I should ask the Indians*, Bosnians**, and Belgians*** in my neighborhood if they thought it was racist to have to show ID.
* They both work with me too.
**I didn’t see any of them at the polls, they may not be citizens.
***He works with me also, not technically in my neighborhood, but votes at same place, just the other precinct. It was his first election as a US citizen.
Funny how they do that in some places, but accuse anyone of asking this be done everywhere of doing voter suppression, huh?
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1059500431917936640
The media primarily exists to police your speech. I’m not even joking. Getting this ad by Trump banned from outlets has become a cause de celebre among the media right now.
https://twitter.com/donie/status/1059506206253948929
And it’s working
So it is legit for media outlets to censor political ads they don’t agree with before an election, to benefit a political party they support?
The FEC has nothing to say about this?
All I’m saying is that a lot of people who use to complain about social conservative groups that tried to get offensive programming dropped from networks are awfully silent about the new moral police.
It’s almost as if their only complaint was with the principal and not the principle involved
So it is legit for media outlets to censor political ads they don’t agree
No it’s not.
Political ads used to be untouchable (See Willie Horton).
Literally Hitler justifies an exception to every rule.
Libertarians like bureaucracy all of a sudden ?
Libertarians want to tell capital how to run their businesses ?
I’m not taking sides; I just need updating on which principles are in play.
Am I on acid or did not many libertarians object to the NFL requiring players to stand during the anthem or object to the Facebook purge of Liberty Memes? Is not the exact same principle at issue here?
I did not object to the NFL requiring players to stand, although I did object to their one-sided application of their rules on what you can wear on the field.
Facebook can do what it wants, as long as it does not enjoy special privileges (which it currently does under the CDA).
NBC can do what it wants, as long as it does not enjoy an oligopoly position in the broadcast media market (which it does, although the value and relevance of the broadcast media market is in terminal decline, much to my delight).
Facebook can do what it wants, as long as it does not enjoy special privileges…
NBC can do what it wants, as long as it does not enjoy an oligopoly position in the broadcast media market
I don’t know that I agree with this. If your rights are contingent on not taking the financial benefits made available to you by the government, what happens to my rights when I take deductions on my 1040 or subsidized student loans?
I think that is wrong way round. NBC’s rights aren’t being curtailed because they are making money via a government benefit. The government granted the benefit (spectrum license) to NBC with caveats and NBC willingly agreed to those rules because they thought they could make money.
We can argue about whether the airwaves really are “public” and thus owned/controlled by the govt, but the current reality is that they are.
’tweren’t me, sir; I probably only agree with 80% of what goes on here
it is the exact same principle if it is a principle; that’s what I was asking
I seldom disagree with RCDean, but don’t care about telecom regs either
Cable companies can run whatever ads they want or ban which ever ones they want.
The tricky part is what can companies that own a license for a particular spectrum of the airwaves do? By licensing that spectrum are they operating under some limited rules that don’t apply to cable stations?
I’m not entirely sure that the FCC should exist and have a monopoly on controlling who gets to broadcast on various spectrums. But since we have it and we do come down hard on people who dare to broadcast without a license, I think that the companies that do own a license can be asked to be content neutral when it comes to political advertising.
meh; respectfully prefer:
get rid of FCC
commercial fight ensues over old technologies and related spectra
new ways of broadcasting arise; markets decide; live kinda happily until next paradigm shift
no opinions on broadcasts needed other than: change the channel
I’m with you. Abolishing the FCC would be a net positive in my view. But like a lot of other dreams I have, I doubt I will live to see it come true *cough – Vikings winning the Super Bowl – cough*
It isn’t just TV broadcasting either. The amount of time and energy that FCC regulations impose on other technologies (think IoT devices) is enormous.
But since we have it and we do come down hard on people who dare to broadcast without a license, I think that the companies that do own a license can be asked to be content neutral when it comes to political advertising.
That is uncomfortably close to the Fairness Doctrine for me. I also wonder about other forms of occupational licensing. I’m professionally licensed as a patent attorney. Should I be forced to take on a client who has made an invention that is distasteful to me?
If the amount of patent licenses were limited to 100, then maybe? I’m assuming that there would be thousands of attorneys who would be bidding to get one of those licenses. A condition for getting it would be that you couldn’t discriminate.
That is why I said that cable stations could discriminate. In theory you could have as many of them as you’d want (like patent attorney licenses?).
You make a good point about the fairness doctrine. I’m not sure how the FCC/FEC would control when or how much an ad should cost.
Again, I think you make my point that the gubmint should get out of the FCC business altogether.
If the amount of patent licenses were limited to 100, then maybe? I’m assuming that there would be thousands of attorneys who would be bidding to get one of those licenses. A condition for getting it would be that you couldn’t discriminate.
On one level, I completely get this. My first blush reaction is that you don’t get to be biased when you use a limited public resource.
On another level, I’m seeing how rife it is for abuse. There are something like 20k active patent licenses today, but what if the government decided to restrict it to that number and issue new licenses under the condition that we didn’t file software patents (I’m just making up some contentious issue)? Does my relationship with my client actually change now that there is only a limited number of licenses available? What is the mechanism by which I now owe my services to all clients? Is limiting the issuance of licenses by number any different than limiting by other factors (to get your patent registration number, you have to have an accredited STEM degree* and pass an examination with a 55% passage rate among those with said accredited degrees)?
*it’s more complex than that in reality
Can a baker refuse to bake a cake for any reason? Yes.
Can a plumber/laywer with a license to practice refuse a customer for any reason? Yes.
Can a legacy media company with a license that grants exclusive rights to government managed spectrum refuse a customer for any reason? Maybe. Maybe not.
I definitely hated the fairness doctrine and equal access to the airways. I am less comfortable with the legacy networks making editorial decisions on the content political speech. But I can tolerate it.
Internet platforms get protection from lawsuits because when they don’t exercise editorial control of user-supplied content. Those protections should be stripped away now that they are clearly imposing editorial control of both user-supplied content and paid advertising.
The insinuation is that the rubes are too stupid to evaluate the ad on their own.
Mr girlfriend & I went at 8 this morning. She normally would do an absentee ballot for mid terms, but this year she “doesn’t trust those fuckers to not mess with her ballot.”
We both voted a straight
fascistR ticket.We’re running low on proggie tears (also we like guns).
Mr girlfriend
NTTAWWT
We learned a lot about Sean just now.
I almost pissed myself
Doh!
I’ve seen worse typos around here.
GUILTY!
1. Will be after work. (working for real Rufus!)
2. Republican all the way.
3. Dems can’t be trusted with a Popsicle stick.
We also have a special question on our county ballot
I will be voting no to that because the question is terrible.
That last thing there sounds like a serious bullshit excuse for greedy fucks to tax some business the government no longer feels should be winning more..
So just to try to translate that:
Does the state really want to own a bunch of abandoned commercial property?
There is also the instance when a building sells with a lease already in place. Can that sale price be used as the actual value of the property? The sale price reflects the value of the property and the value of the lease.
Maybe I should just write “taxation is theft” all over that section.
Voted in Hawaii and it is oddly liberating to know my vote means even less than it would in most states. The SJW, oops I mean Democrat, primary is the actual election here. Before the election I wrote both Sen Hirono and Rep Gabbard on exactly why I would be voting straight red. There are no Libertarian’s only the ballot but we have multiple “Watermelon Party” candidates.
I voted against calling a Hawaii State Constitutional Convention since it would only make the state worse off by adding more proggie stuff. I was going to vote against a poorly worded referendum that would allow an additional tax be levied on “rental properties” to “fund education” with no mention of the rate of additional tax or how it would be determined for mixed use dwellings. The State Supreme Court stopped that about 10 days ago. The kicker for that issue is the state has relied on “ohana units” (aka mother-in-law apartments in PA and elsewhere) to help deal with a housing shortage caused by restrictions on building. Now the leg wanted to tax that and further worsen the housing crunch. Damn non-sentient being politicians.
I also did not vote for the racist and discriminatory members of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. OHA is a government agency that collects tax funds from all Hawaii residents and can only spend on “native hawaiians”. It is as big a cesspool of graft and outrageous illegal activity as you can imagine.
I used my lease on a timeshare in Hawaii to get myself a state issued Hawaiian ID card. It is pretty awesome how much money that has saved me over the years. (free parking, secret discounts at stores, free admissions to a lot of places, etc.)
Now, I need to figure out how to become a native hawaiian I guess. I’m guessing that is a tough nut to crack. Sort of like getting yourself on the rolls of one of the tribes with a profitable casino.
Does the state really want to own a bunch of ___________________?
Yes. Yes, it does.
There was a local news story, dealing with this just from the owner/lessee side. I can’t imagine how getting the city and state involved would be better.
1. Voted about 20 minutes ago – for the first time in 10 years.
2. L when possible (including Larry Sharpe), otherwise R unless said R was also listed as a D. Left many positions blank.
3. Rationale: vote against every D in sight. I am fully aware it is a complete waste of time but for those ten minutes I got some small thrill out of it so… meh.
waste of time but for those ten minutes I got some small thrill out of it so… meh.-
If you enjoyed it, then it was worth it.
It’s going to hurt later so I might as well derive what enjoyment I can out of the whole shitshow.
That’s the spirit!
I’m like you, except that instead of leaving positions blank, I cast write-in votes for STEVE SMITH.
1) Yes, before work. Got there right after polls opened and was stuck in line for 45 minutes.
2) Waters (L) for Senate and McAdams (R) for House. “No” on two amendments for property tax exceptions.
3) I want to punish Team Blue for their antics, but could not see Stewart winning. So no need to hold my nose for that one but went ahead and did so for the House. The amendments just add to discriminatory taxation that I am against.
Also, also, pissed at the LP. Johnson got enough votes that the KY-LP has ballot access for 4 years. It requires 2, TWO, signatures to get on the ballot. Yet, nary a libertarian on my ballot. There should be one in every state house and state senate race, not to mention US house.
And, yes, I realize mote/beam.
It’s inequality, all the way down
This isn’t a story about American childhood; it’s about American inequality.
“Kids’ sports has seen an explosion of travel-team culture, where rich parents are writing a $3,000 check to get their kids on super teams from two counties, or two states, away,” said Tom Farrey, the executive director of Aspen’s Sports & Society program. Expensive travel leagues siphon off talented young athletes from well-off families, leaving behind desiccated local leagues with fewer players, fewer involved parents, and fewer resources. “When these kids move to the travel team, you pull bodies out of the local town’s recreation league, and it sends a message [to those] who didn’t get onto that track that they don’t really have a future in the sport.” The result is a classist system: the travel-team talents and the local leftovers.
Unsurprisingly, the leftovers often lose interest. As Chris Moore, the executive officer of the U.S. Youth Soccer Association, told The New York Times, “If you can’t make a travel team, some kids may say, ‘What’s the point?’ and quit playing altogether.”
In short, the American system of youth sports—serving the talented, and often rich, individual at the expense of the collective—has taken a metal bat to the values of participation and universal development. Youth sports has become a pay-to-play machine.
Boo hoo hoo. Oh, no, not the collective, George.
What I noticed about kids’ sports these days, while watching the ex-girlfriends kids’ soccer games: none of those kids… NOT ONE! looked like they were having fun. Why the fuck bother?
Holy deja-vu.
Anyway, in my day it was a blast.
“…it sends a message [to those] who didn’t get onto that track that they don’t really have a future in the sport.”
Nesflash: only a tiny fraction of a fraction of HS athletes have a real future in a sport.
My son had a blast playing high school football. He’s talking about playing lacrosse this year even though he’s a senior and has never played the game – just for fun and because some of his buddies are on the team and want him to play.
Yeah, that’s all it was for me. Hang out with friends, make some new friends. I was under no illusions that soccer or tennis were in my future. If you’re really talented, they’ll come for you anyway.
He’ll probably play D2 or 3 college football. He’ll never get paid for it.
I’ll take “Sour Grapes” for $800
Git gud!
I am amazed at the amount of money parents around here pay for their kids to play hockey. Our friends 13 yr old son plays goalie. Pads, stick, mask, and skates are several thousand dollars per year. The kid is growing like a weed so they have to buy new equipment every year. Then the transportation costs…pfewww.
I’m glad my daughters only played in-city soccer and lacrosse and my son only likes video games.
I always tell the people who have their kids in sports so they can get a scholarship that they should take all that money and put it in a 529. My daughter does gymnastics which is ridiculously expensive, but I’m under no illusion that it will be her path to college.
specialize? long snapper or tuba?
I was talking with a high school volleyball coach I know, and he mentioned that it’s fairly obvious who has D1 talent, even in middle school. Sure, there are some late bloomers and some strikeouts, but by and large, if your kid is playing anywhere near the competition’s level, they’re not scholly material.
He said that he has had to have “the talk” with parents every single year. The “your kid isnt a superstar and won’t be getting a scholarship” talk.
Absolutely true for girls.
He said that he has had to have “the talk” with parents every single year. The “your kid isnt a superstar and won’t be getting a scholarship” talk.
He can say it all he wants, most won’t hear it.
I had a coworker who’s life plan was for her daughter to get a soccer scholarship.
Her daughter didn’t even start varsity her senior year.
It’s always a pleasure to hear about sports inequality, especially when that information is coming from an institute that was founded in and named for the wealthiest ski resort in North America.
I don’t know Playa, the French are assholes…
I don’t know Playa, the French are assholes…
He must work out.
Pussies. I went to a hockey powerhouse and couldn’t see the varsity roster with binoculars. 30 years later I still play.
I can attest to the insanity of sports (music, dance, theater etc), but that doesn’t mean parents and kids have to buy into it. I’ve told my kids they can do whatever they want and both of them tried a bunch of different activities and had a blast.
My old man’s league consists of a bunch of ex-football players who never made the basketball team in high school because none of us grew taller than 6′. We’ve been playing since ’88. We start a new season next week.
If it wasn’t for trash talking and mockery, I would have quit years ago. Instead I have too much fun trying to pretend I’m not way over the hill with other guys in the same situation.
My youngest son is a very good athlete but because he isn’t a huge guy won’t ever get any playing time on the football or basketball team. (He might make varsity in tennis this year but he’s at a disadvantage because he didn’t really start playing until he was a sophomore).
His problem is he attends a giant suburban high school. To make things worse Minnesoda has open enrollment so there is some migration of good athletes to certain powerhouse schools. If he had gone to my home town, he would easily have been a 3 sport letterman (and probably started on a few of the teams).
But you know what? He has a blast playing house league basketball every winter. All he learned was that he wasn’t D1 material earlier than he would have if he had gone to that small school.
“If you don’t vote, you don’t get to bitch” makes about as much sense as “If you don’t play the lottery, you’re not allowed to fantasize about winning.”
I can’t vote, but if I could it would probably be a straight R ticket. The reason being they’re the only game in town for the first two amendments at this point. They also seem less likely to add legislation overall, except in a few key areas.
It’s really sad that every election and supreme court nomination is now an existential battle. People are left to vote for the status quo or against someone, rather than for specific candidates in the hopes that life will stay the same for another cycle. Elections would be much more mundane if everybody read and understood the constitutional limits placed on Congress and state governments, but as it stands voting isn’t really optional, if you have the chance.
Should the state legislature enact proposed legislation that closes the Dark Store loopholes, which currently allow commercial retail properties to significantly reduce the assessed valuation and property tax of such properties, resulting in a substantial shift in taxes levied against other tax paying entities, such as residential home owners, and/or cuts in essential services provided by an affected municipality?
WTF?
“We know what we want to spend, and we’re going to get it from somebody. Budgets and prioritization are for chumps.”
I’m embarrassed to say I had to pull the straight GOP ticket this year (not that it matters in NY). Normally, I’ll split the ticket with a libertarian or two. This year, I couldn’t, even though I liked the LP candidate for Governor. As far as I’m concerned the Dems simply have to lose. After the Kavanaugh fiasco, they have to learn that their behavior simply isn’t acceptable. At this point, I’ll take loutish boor over people who are willing to toss out due process and the presumption of innocence. A boor isn’t necessarily evil The latter bastards are.
They’ll never become self-aware enough to straighten up and fly right.
I agree that the activists are lost causes. But, I think the political pros do ultimately respond to incentives. If they lose badly enough, often enough, they’ll pick up the message that their behavior hurts them more than it helps them. Otherwise, screw them.
Well, Maxine was told to stop talking about impeachment, wasn’t she?
Which is why they can never be in power again.
We listened to Black Beauty as our latest audio book for car rides. The election commentary is still entirely applicable.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/42
Facebook Freezes LP Candidate’s Ad Buys Ahead of NY Election
I’d argue Facebook is influencing the election more now that when the “Russians” were.
I’m sure the same people at FB who made that decision also think Citizens United need to be overturned.
Love it. It will be interesting to see if he gets more than 1 vote in my district….
I guarantee that the two parties, and particularly the Democrats, have made it an objective to get influence/control over the social media censorship machine.
This is a zero sum game to them and they have no qualms about playing dirty.
Why do you think you need to argue? This was exactly the intent of the people that wanted to make sure only one side could get its propaganda out there….
1. I voted Friday, right before the early-voting cut-off.
2. I voted for the available R’s – left about half the ballot blank, especially the uncontested D candidates. I regret not leaving the governor blank, as our incumbent R governor is the biggest RINO who ever RINO’ed. Indistinguishable from his D predecessor. Wouldn’t even say anything nice about the R running against Liz Warren, much less endorse him.
3. Pure spite for the D’s and their disgraceful behavior. Plus the lulz if, somehow, Warren were to lose. Plus I wanted to vote against the 3 ballot questions (#1 is nurses union rent-seeking and trying to limit patient ratios by law, #2 is a ridiculous 15-member committee to get a anti-Citizens United amendment going and #3 is a transgender public accommodation law).
Things got a tad frosty this morning when I was honest with my wife about voting against #3 – I tried to be calm as I talked about how public accommodation laws are immoral and I wasn’t OK with throwing someone in jail just for being an asshole to other people. “So you’re OK with discrimination?!”
I’m not sure she quite grasped that you can be against discrimination without requiring the State enforce it.
We’ll get there, hopefully.
Or we won’t and just go back to not discussing politics.
Haven’t voted yet, I may vote on the way home. Just because there’s a property tax levy (for the children!), and for Ohio Issue 1. It’s not legalization, but taking away felonies for use and possession is a small victory. Then there’s six county issues allowing specific locations to sell liquor on Sundays.
Fuck DeWine. Fuck Cordray.
I might have to pull the lever for Renacci, even though he’s a douche.
Sunday Blu Laws, and yet you stay in the Illinois Wastelands? I figured you were the ultimate drinkin Buddy
Yeah, we got Sunday liquor here in NY a few years ago. It’s saved my bacon more than a few times.
Here in Ohio, it’s venue by venue, and dependent on the liquor license you have. The six different issues are for allowing six different bars and stores to sell Sunday liquor. Of course, one year St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Sunday, and one of our local Irish pubs ran into the realization that they had a Sunday liquor license, but couldn’t sell liquor until 1:00 PM. They had opened their doors at 6:00 AM. I don’t want to even imagine how much money they lost out on due to that.
We’ve got Michigan and Indiana to protect us from Illinois. And the state’s gotten better about alcohol laws in my drinking lifetime. I still remember when the cap was a measly 7% (IIRC, that was back in the 90’s), then it got lifted to 12%, and now it’s gone completely. And this has more to do with bad liquor license rules and allocations. We’ve still got state run liquor stores here (for anything above 40 proof) with fixed prices, and set profit margin for the liquor store owners.
Although I think there still may be a couple of dry counties through the state.
Dry counties are become rare here, despite being the norm just a decade ago.
Mine has only been dry this long because the city was so wet no one cared to bring it up. There is enough development going on outside the city now that smaller cities were going to push the issue and so the county ballot has happened instead. It will pass by 2 to 1, I bet.
I’m going later. I will be voting R for the two senate seats, governor, state rep and attorney general. There are precious few L this year and the ones we have are pretty useless. I may throw the L running for state auditor. Still undecided about our US rep. I may end up writing Pope Jimbo in (sorry Jimbo).
More concerned with city council and school board, since those are the ones that I can actually talk to. I got a text from a couple pals who said they wrote me in for school board.
I will be quite put out if I win.
If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve (but I will collect that big ass pension).
I don’t know if it is a consolation, but I also hope you don’t win a school board seat Tundra. I don’t have the time to attend all those meeting to heckle you.
I’ve thought about running for city council just to agitate: if elected: vote no or present on everything, cut the budget 80%, eliminate the police, hold up every crony project, and leave every early; in short: do all I can to be impeached or recalled.
1. I’m planning to vote after work today.
2. I’m pulling the lever for Governor Bruce Rauner, for the Attorney General’s race Erika Harold, and for the IL Congressional 6th District, Peter Roskam
3. Rauner because despite him being a noodle dick, is still a better option for Governor than Pritkzer. Harold because she would be somewhat of a check on the Democrat’s power and she’s super hot. Roskam because despite him being a typical squishy GOP guy, is a better option than asshole ignoramus Sean Castian. I’m not voting for any of the judges in Lake County because they are mostly police ass kissers and your typical law and order types.
“Rauner because despite him being a noodle dick, is still a better option for Governor than Pritkzer.”
Eh…perhaps. I’m voting LP on that one, because the result of either Rauner or Pritzker winning is essentially the same.
“Harold because she would be somewhat of a check on the Democrat’s power and she’s super hot.”
Oh my God, yes she is.
“Roskam because despite him being a typical squishy GOP guy, is a better option than asshole ignoramus Sean Castian.”
I can’t believe that a Republican congressman is even involved in such a tough re-election race in DuPage County!
I kind of feel bad for Bruce. I think dude did try to reform the state’s budget and got shut down by Madigan, the feckless GOP, and the public sector unions. He’s ineffective as fuck but in my own twisted way, my vote for him despite it being meaningless is sort of a, “Thanks for trying.”
Roskam also represents some parts of Lake County. And like you said, it’s unbelievable that he’s having a hard time having this race in the bag.
1) I went and voted this morning
2)I voted for Rs at the federal level (Scott to punish the Dems in the Senate, and whoever was running against Crist for the Republicans, wrote in Skink for governor and voted against retaining for all judges
3) I was going to not vote for Senate, but I decided I really do want the Democrats to lose seats for their shit-show. Other than that, I routinely vote against retaining judges and because FL always has constistutional amendments
I last voted for R. Reagan’s first term. Fool me once….
I’ve noticed that I get the same pols as those who vote. After many Doomsday political scenarios I’ve noticed that in spite of all the dire predictions the same people are still scamming the system, the same people are still going to work, life goes on. Hope the fish are biting…and still scamming
1.) I’m heading to the polls as soon as I leave work today.
2.) I’m checking the boxes next to any Republican on the ballot and leaving any boxes for unopposed Democrats blank.
3.) Mine is mostly a protest vote driven by the fact that I’ve never seen Democrats be more infantile in my entire life than they have the past two years. I also live in a very blue city, so any ballot I cast will ultimately be fruitless anyway.
I want to add that I have an uncontrollable urge to post the “R.I.P. RUTH BADER GINSBERG (cryingfrownyface)” as my Facebook status right after polls close tonight just to be the ultimate dickhead troll.
Ha! So on a “libertarian” friend’s FB I said something about RGB kicking it so Trump could nominate Barrett, and got ye olde “wishing death on someone you disagree with is trashy” line. I said, “It’s not a wish. It’s an inevitability. She’s old.” Apparently, that makes me not-classy and a horrible person. Which is why I am here.
Ain’t we all.
Glibs = confessional of all my not-classy and horrible-person-ness.
I resemble that remark.
I would risk losing so many friends in real life, though the potential for comedy here is making me seriously rethink whether those friendships are worthwhile to begin with. I guess the bigger problem will be with my wife’s entire family around the holidays. This is the trolley dilemma writ large.
Sorta sidebar: We (husband and I) and my icky uncle had a bitter confrontation (long time coming) last year, and while he’s generally persona non grata at family gatherings, it’s possible this year, my cousin (whose turn it is to host Tryptophan Day) won’t get the memo. It could get ugly. I am equal parts hoping it will happen and hoping it won’t happen. This also makes me horrible and not-classy.
Ugh. I think every family has experience with at least one person like this. I hope it works out well for you regardless of whether he shows up or not.
I think every family has experience with at least one person like this.
*starts to raise hand, looks around, awkwardly scratches head instead*
*snort*
I don’t go to any family gatherings anymore and was worried for a while that they would all be pissed and demand to know why I wasn’t there. Then I realized that they were just as happy with my absence (if not more) than I was.
Thanks. I don’t think it’d get violent because for the first time, I realized he was just a feeble old man now, but with his history, I’m not sure he wouldn’t throw the first punch.
Part of our distaste is that he horribly mistreats my aunt (mom’s sister), although she swears on a stack of Bibles that he doesn’t hit her. Our verbal altercation occurred because she was in the hospital, he wouldn’t bring her her diabetes medications, we volunteered to go get them for her, and he objected to our presence.
I can respect that a man doesn’t want his castle invaded, but it’s technically my aunt’s house and she gave us permission to be there. He called the county sheriff (very rural area). Deputy apparently has history with the uncle, because the deputy sided with us.
That has not been resolved.
/unsolicited family laundry
A man who withholds diabetes medications from his wife over a petty power struggle definitely also hits his wife.
That is what we suspect.
That’s messed up.
Couldn’t imagine either not bringing my wife some medicine she needed or getting mad if someone else did it if I was unable.
Any normal person would have fallen all over themselves in gratitude that we were willing to do what was truly difficult for him to have done.
Still, my husband would’ve moved heaven and earth to bring me what I needed no matter how difficult.
Still, my husband would’ve moved heaven and earth to bring me what I needed no matter how difficult.
That’s what you think now Mojeaux. I’ll believe it when I see it.
I once thought I lost my car keys while I was at the cabin. I thought I was going to need my wife to bring me a second set (100 miles one way). Luckily I found them. When I told her how lucky she was, she said “that is too far for me to drive for that.” (What she really meant was that it would have been easier, cheaper and faster to get a new key from a local locksmith, but it came out wrong). Since then, however, I have given her a hard time about the “radius of love” and how I now know mine is less than 100 miles.
I LOLd.
Want to borrow my “Still Like Beer” Kavanaugh shirt? I’m planning on wearing it for Thanksgiving.
This would be especially funny since I haven’t drank since a certain very specific day (not gonna say which) in 2016. Thankfully none of my wife’s family or our proggy friends have ever put two and two together on this one though.
Most people have a problem with some truths, especially when it kicks them in the tender spots Mo…
Not sure if you mean they are the touchy ones or I am, but I admit to being touchy about that particular incident.
1) Early voted last week and my dad dropped it off at the court house with his because he doesn’t trust the mail either.
2) I voted straight R except for Colorado University Regents where I voted for the L’s on the ballot.
3) Fuck the Democrats and anyone who would even be associated with that rat bastard diseased vile party of false allegations, corruption and violent mobs. Fuck the R’s too, just they happen to be less rat bastardy at the moment. Fuck the L party too, they are a joke as a political party. I do feel I need to vote because it gives me the false sense it slows the creep of tyranny that they move over us. I like delusions. I wanted to vote for the pot resolution in the closest town, (allowing rec sales) but it was limited to voters in city limits. I was hoping it would have been county wide initiative but alas no.
Oh ya, and voted against retaining any judge on the ballot.
I second the “fuck the L party” sentiment. They treat campaigning like a joke. They waste every opportunity they have and they never fail to act like sophomoric imbeciles or tinfoil-hatted whackos when they have the chance. Gary Johnson is the best of the bunch, and that tells you everything you need to know about the Libertarian Party. Fuck those guys.
In my state the guy running against Ben Cardin doesn’t even have a goddamned website. The gubernatorial candidate has one, which is stunning, it just looks like someone made it in 1994. Yeah, you shouldn’t vote or not vote for someone based on the quality of their website. But appearances matter, and when you can’t even get the little, easy stuff right, what are you going to do in office? It’s the same reason people dress well for interviews; you might be the best qualified person, but if you look like a hobo you’re not getting the job.
I’ve always chalked it up to their not having enough money to campaign effectively.
I used to, too, but now I’m not so sure. I think it might be a cultural thing. Just looking at the web bit, you can’t tell me there isn’t a web dev in the LP who’d donate time and effort to design and build a website for a candidate. I mean seriously, you can’t tell me that, because I was one a few years ago–I got no reply. For that matter, it’s comically easy and largely free to set up a basic, professional-looking website these days, but up until maybe two years ago the Maryland LP website hadn’t been updated since 2005 as I recall, and looked like absolute crap. Even the info on the page was out of date. It’s what you’d expect from a bunch of people who don’t put much time into working on the site, don’t especially care about it, and can’t get anyone to be in charge of it. There were ads in the sidebar as I recall.
Granted, hiring a communications person would help, as would hiring a campaign organizer. Still, I think a big part of it is that, on some level, they don’t want to win. It seems like a lot of the LP identity is being “edgy”, and running a professional campaign would violate the outsider image they cultivate.
I admit I have had that thought, too, but what’s to be done with a bunch of people who want to take over the world to leave you alone? Maybe as a personality cluster, we’re just not constitutionally suited for leadership.
You’re probably right. I just think the LP could do much better by saying, “We think it’s really important that people in the halls of power use their authority to preserve liberty and rein in government” instead of “We think government is stupid and don’t think anyone should do it”, which seems to be the current messaging. It’s the difference between studying martial arts because you dislike violence and want to protect people from it versus being a strict pacifist because you dislike violence and don’t want to engage in it under any circumstances. I can respect the latter, but the former is a more successful strategy overall.
I hate sounding like my Dad, but maybe they should lay off the pot for a few months during election time.
As embarrassing as it is, I find as I get older I’m becoming much more of a curmudgeon, to include thinking thoughts like, “Would it kill you to tuck your shirt in?” and “Maybe if you got a grownup haircut people would treat you like an adult.” In reference to LP candidates, but also just in general.
I’m cautiously optimistic about the Mises Caucus. Lots of good folks in that group.
Maybe it’s best to focus on local elections. Still, if we get more people like Larry Sharpe, there’s a good chance for national success/exposure.
I voted to punish a certain party for using false rape allegations as part of their political strategy. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have voted at all.
For Senate, I had the choice of 2 democrats. I voted for the one who isn’t Diane Feinstein, because she was one of the ringleaders of the gang rape circus.
I checked with my dad and brother. We’ve all been libertarians for at least 20 years, and they did the same thing. I’m hoping that a lot of other people did too.
There was the rent control expansion on the ballot and the reduction of vehicle tax. Because we are a one party state they made the vehicle tax reduction as badly worded as they could to ensure that it would not pass. Fuck the shitstains that run this place.
And there will be no repercussions.
You can sue to get a ballot proposition declared unconstitutional if it wins. There’s nothing you can do if it loses.
They openly rig the system with zero consequences.
^^^ #metoo
I voted against Feinstein and left Lt Gov blank since it was two Democrats, otherwise voted for the non-D right down the line.
I thought DiFi was hanging up the clown shoes for good, to give her seat to that other gun-control wacko?
Nope. She’s going to die in those clown shoes on the Senate floor.
Live on TV during the hearing for RBG’s replacement.
Honestly, I’d rather have her in the Senate. You can’t argue with her rate of failure, plus she seems stuck in a mindset that allows people in a post-Internet world to see through her bullshit. God forbid someone competent with the same convictions got her seat.
What happens if some real key races end up too close to call tonight? Are we in for a serious shitshow? Anyone taking bets on the number of ballots that will be “discovered” in car trunks, trucks, buses, and any other such storage location prog counters can find enough votes to put their dem pals over the line??
I’d be surprised if there aren’t shenanigans.
Anyone taking bets on the number of ballots that will be “discovered” in car trunks, trucks, buses, and any other such storage location…
You want to put a stop to this. Prosecute. And prosecute hard. Catch some low-level putz in the act and let him know he’s looking at twenty years locked in a little cage with a roommate whose amorous intentions roughly parallel those of STEVE SMITH unless he learns to sing like a bird on everyone higher up (sing like a bird or squeal like a pig). I’ll guarantee you’ll see this nonsense come to a halt.
My son had a blast playing high school football. He’s talking about playing lacrosse this year even though he’s a senior and has never played the game – just for fun and because some of his buddies are on the team and want him to play.
I’m glad to hear that.
Voted straight ticket (Whigs) today. If we keep up the good work I think William Henry Harrison will really have a shot in 2020.
Timely?
Illegal garment voting.
Planning to vote after work.
I had planned to vote straight R, but Knute Bueller went and flooded Facebook with a Vault-Tech worthy Orwelling (Your Neighbors will know you didn’t vote) campaign. So I’ll have to write in someone there. Maybe even Director O’Brien or something like that.
To punish the left as much as I can in this deep, deep blue state. First time I’ve voted since I moved.
A few Republican PACs sent out shot like that here in Nevada
Your voting is a matter of public record….SHAME! Fuck that noise.
1. I’ll be voting after I get off work today.
2. I’ll vote R down the line, where possible.
3. Several reasons. First, Maryland, particularly my area, is deeply blue. For governor, we’ve got Hogan, a Republican, running against Ben Jealous, an idiot, who nevertheless could win simply because he’s a black Democrat. For Senate, we’ve got Ben Cardin, a notorious shitheel who blames the availability of the AR-15 for the Capital-Gazette shooting despite the perpetrator being armed with a shotgun, who will likely win, running against some guy named Campbell for the Rs and Arvin Vohra for the Libertarians.
FFS, the Libertarians. It’s like they don’t even want to actually win elections. When they’re not acting like Twitter trolls or lunatics, they’re campaigning as if it’s a neglected hobby.
Vohra is against public schools, which I think is great, but he has the Libertarian penchant for saying ridiculous shit and not taking his image seriously. For instance, he once joked about killing school board members and referred to military veterans as “paid killers”. There’s some guy named Michael Carney who at least took the time to make a Facebook profile and seems to not be a lunatic, but as near I can figure his campaign position is that he is a third-party candidate and that’s important. The gubernatorial candidate, Quinn, seems to have some good positions (pro-2A, anti-drug war, lower taxes) but a.) he seems amateurish, and b.) it’s more important to keep Jealous out of office.
So basically, since the Libertarian party in Maryland isn’t serious, it comes down to trying to chip away at Democratic dominance of the state for me. I’m not wild about it, but there it is.
I guess I’ve just got the one reason. It’s just a compound, all-encompassing reason.
1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)?
Nope
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever?
The Adder Party
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices?
Standing at the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party is not running in my area
But does the Adder Party really have your best interests at heart. I heard there was a bribery scandal involving the Adder Party.
A man needs his turnips
Midterm election not seen rocking 401(k) plans, but surprise outcome could roil stocks
“Still, the market reaction could be more violent under two scenarios: if the Democrats can engineer an election sweep and grab power back in both chambers of Congress, or the Trump-led GOP retains control of both the House and Senate.”
Usually when you make a statement like this you then proceed to explain why. My question is why would the markets be rocked if the Republicans retained control? It wouldn’t be any different than the last 2 years.
Bah the article had a drop down I missed.
“If the GOP keeps their power in the Senate and House, for example, it would validate Trump’s economic policies and likely give stocks a lift, although there’s a possible downside if the president uses his broad mandate to push China even harder on trade, causing a full-blown trade war, warns Hatheway of GAM Investments.”
1. I voted at 7:30 AM.
2. I voted L where possible, R for state auditor (she’s mostly a good one, would vote for her any time), and D for county supervisor because the R wants to run everything and actively causes trouble for anyone who gets in his way (there’s a good-ole-boy thing going on). Voted a write-in rather than for an unopposed D for county attorney; the incumbent is in cahoots with the aforementioned R (she endorsed the R — it really is about the clique at the county level, rather than the party). My write-in was a former county attorney, and I understand there may be enough people doing the same that her results may get reported with her name, rather than just as “other” — that would send a message to the incumbent.
3. I didn’t vote R for house rep because it’s the infamous Steve King, and I couldn’t pull the trigger on that one.
Also, I saw a “Vote Beto” sign today — and I live in Iowa. I guess they wanted to capture any absentee Texans who happen to be here?
Beto is totally going to win the national popular vote.
Voted by absentee ballot last week.
Voted straight Team Red because fuck the Democrats.
Voted for historic horse racing betting. Voted against expanding Medicaid. Voted for raising vehicle registration by $2 for the highway fund.
Our questions are mostly boring, but there’s one about allowing same-day voter registration at polling places that stuck out. I’m planning on voting against it.
But you can’t, because it’s Election Day and you’re not registered?
No, I, strangely, could be bothered to register at least one day prior to voting in an election, so I’m covered. Others, however, who might suddenly be inspired to register as they’re walking past a polling place, would be out of luck.
I’m surprised at those who wait significant time to vote. It’s never been more than a 5 minute wait for me. Even that seems like too much sometimes for the privilege of not mattering. I switched to independent this year from Lib due to the 2016 shitshow and went to voting by mail. I had the choice of Nancy Pelosi or Nancy Pelosi and Feinstain or Uber
prog Kevin deLeon for my DC critters. I’m hoping rent control doesn’t get expanded and the vehicle fee reduction passes, but I know the opposite will likely happen.
It took me 5 minutes to vote, including waiting in line.
No on everything except the gas and real estate taxes.
Yup. Same. Did you notice how fucked up the wording that they had for the gas tax repeal? I almost voted no on it for a second it was put so convoluted. (I was five or six beers deep though and watching a game when I filled mine out though).
I had read about the controversy beforehand, so I knew I was voting yes on 6 before I walked in.
I just skipped down to the fiscal impact section and voted yes because the government would lose revenue.
The commercials had the opposite effect on me.
“Bridges will collapse!!!!!”
GOOD. Then we’ll investigate where the fuck my gas taxes have been going for the last 30 years.
You want to return California roads to the post apocalyptic wasteland that they were like in 2016!!?!
Try Socal, the roads are FUCKED! Too Many Semis, and in the #2 lane they are crushing the Freeways, literally
“#2 lane” made me laugh a bit.
The roads were built semis, which pay way more in fuel taxes than you do. The problem is CalTrans spends what budget they have on utter bullshit rather than fixing them,
OT: Sometimes Twitter is just plain awesome.
This is one of those times.
Typical: white powder keeping the blacks and browns down.
Am I evil because I was waiting for a hunter to bag momma bear?
“No, Mom, I can do it myself!”
She did that on purpose to wear him out for an early bedtime.
Childrearing 101.
*Childbearing
Awesome, but still tough to watch.
1. Voted early. Never know when I’ll be inextricably tied up at work, so voted when I could.
2 & 3. Of note, I voted for Phil Bredesen for Senate. I am conflicted about this… He was an awesome Nashville mayor and Tennessee Gubnah. Very centrist in those rolls. However, I also want a Repub controlled senate for when RBG dies – it would be nice to know that the Supreme Court will be conservative until I’m too old to care.
Bredesen #MeToo
1) Maybe, haven’t decided yet
2) Will vote for every libertarian at the state level and below, voting straight R for Federal offices and anything else Libertarians don’t have a candidate
3) I don’t like Republicans but I loathe Democrats
I voted for Dave Brat and the Rep candidate for county board of supervisors. I did not vote for Corey Stewart, because fuck that clown – left the Senate section blank.
Not Waters?
No, because I have no interest in voting for another LP candidate so long as Sarwark is running the show. I don’t actually know much of anything about Waters, maybe he’s ok, but fuck the current LP.
Anyway, as far as rationales go – I can’t see myself ever voting for a Democrat, if for no other reason than 2A. Even the Donks who claim to be pro-2A will vote for leadership who will seek to eliminate the most fundamental right. If there were ever to be a Democrat I found palatable, the things I would like about him would make it exceedingly unlikely that he was a Dem in the first place. If there is an acceptable Republican, I’ll vote for him. As I said above, I will not vote for any more LP candidates while Mr. Woketarian is in charge.
Held my nose and voted straight R except one L to keep the insane party out of power.
Entire family voted early (even though I’m generally opposed to what are now outrageously extended voting periods).
All Republican – economy, taxes, 2A (and the entire Constitution for that matter), punish Dems for Kavanaugh, Russian fever dreams, identity politics to the nth degree, and sticking their hand in my pocket at every opportunity.
Voting should have the same requirements as buying a gun.
Change my mind.
Buying a gun is a constitutional right, voting is not. So the requirements for voting should be higher. I would say a property ownership requirement for local elections and paying income tax as a requirement for federal elections.
NICS for voters and for people running for office as well. At least until we can get the NFA, GCA and Brady act repealed.
Shall not be infringed?
I have a package for you if someone sends me your address (or PO box?). Nothing illegal.
I thought the webmaster passed it along; if not, I’ll email it to you.
And… thanks!
I’m excited.
I have a package for you
Sure, STEVE.
Voted on my way in to work this morning.
Voted straight ticket L, but scratched in for the R senator and R congress-critter.
I voted R instead of several L candidates on the ballot this year because Gov Wolf (D) needs to go. Sen Bob Casey (D) is running against Lou Barletta (R) and Dale Kerns (L). Kerns is good on all of the issues I care about and would get my vote any other year, but this year I’m miffed after the Cavanaough SP debacle and would like to kick Casey out for his support of it. He basically decided and announced he would vote against him as soon as he was nominated.
I’d like to buy you a drink of your choice.
Careful, he’s not a cheap drunk, but he’s a fun one.
Crap, what did I just get myself into? Luckily I just offered “a” drink, so as long as he can’t find a place that serves you in a 200 gallon drum, that should probably limit the damage a bit.
I’m a teetotaler for 5/7 of the week.
Thanks Caput,
Let me know if your’e going to be in the neighborhood around Thanksgiving.
I’ll be out by Tunkhannok, so the general area. Not sure exactly what dates and what my family schedule will be, but I’ll update you when I find out.
Whiskey on the rocks or any beer will do.
Tip for Antifa if you don’t like an election result and decide to club people. Keep your left up while swinging a club, because overhead rights can hurt.
More importantly, he didn’t hit the woman who wasn’t an imminent threat.
That was pretty sexist of him TBH.
She was just hanging around having a smoke at the riot.
Bahahaha…..dude was out on his feet, and the guy even double-clutched on the punch.
Yeah, and nice hip rotation before the release.
I think he was expecting the guy to do something with his left besides wave at him.
The victor of that exchange had very poor footwork and form but you can’t argue with results. The Antifa twit was out before he hit the ground
Form could have been improved, but he had the essentials:
(1) Step in to someone swinging a club at you. This is the hardest thing for people to learn, in my experience.
(2) Put your weight/hip rotation behind the punch.
(3) Keep your head up and don’t tunnel vision on the immediate target. The bint with the smoke is lucky she didn’t get clocked when she moved toward him.
Man, dude got him right on the button. I like that he dropped the immediate threat and then was ready to engage the next. That’s smart fighting.
And yet he still maintained enough composure to correctly identify the woman in front of him as not a threat.
All around A+ work
I suspect this was not his first fight.
I hope he broke that motherfucker’s jaw.
Seconded. Nothing will make an asshat rethink and reform more than a good ass whooping.
I’ve been waiting for this for weeks.
Punk is lucky he didn’t get maimed or killed.
That was immensely satisfying to watch.
Jesus, he brought that thing from the next county.
I think with an hour of good coaching, he’d be much improved. He’s got the right instincts, just needs to tighten up his form.
Voted early Hogan (R) for MD gov. He’s pretty moderate/milquetoast but holds steady popularity in a midnight blue stats by basically not being a douche.
Peter Franchot (D) for Comptroller. He and Hogan have forges a decent free -economy bond comtrolling taxes, reducing tolls and fees, holding school boards’ feet to fire to earn the ” built-in incentives,” and generally behaving fiscally conservative.
After that it was R, D, no vote, no vote, R… The person I like or no one if it’s Turd Sammich (D), Douche Nozzle (R), Putz Muffin (I). And NO on pretty much every “we can borrow a metric shit ton (that’s 2.2 Imperial shit tons) of $ if we budgeted poorly” measures.
Didn’t he sign the anti-gun bill that just got somebody killed?
Hogan’s the least-bad option when you consider Ben Jealous is the closest competition. Part of Hogan’s problem is that the Dems have an overwhelming majority in the legislature, so even if he were to veto the bill the state Dems would just override it. He’d make enemies to no benefit, then lose re-election to a Democrat. As it stands, the only hope for decent gun laws in Maryland is to break the Dem’s hold on the General Assembly.
Has anyone else noticed that a metric ton is just a rebadged long ton?
The metric system is a lie.
“The metric system is a lie”
PREACH.
“Only one country on the planet has landed a man on the moon – and didn’t need the fucking metric system to do it.”
– sloopyinca
Lets not bring up Mars landers in the age of Obama…
yes
an acre-foot is 42M fluid ounces
I voted.
Straight R (for the first time in my life). I actually don’t really feel all that bad about it to be honest, considering how useless the L’s are/have become and how thoroughly evil the D’s are.
Rationale: The L’s have decided to position themselves as a prog-lite party to try and seduce Bernie-bros away from the Jackasses. Not only will it not work, it’s going to alienate voters who supported them in the past (like me). As far as not voting Jackass, I’m not sure I really need to explain to this crowd; however the way I see it is that the Overton Window has shifted so far to the Left, and the activist wing of the party has been so successful at purging heretics that there are no “moderate” (read: sane) Dems left.
Couple that with the fact that the R’s running in CO this year are surprisingly not shitty; I think Stapleton is better than most Pachyderms and Brauchler’s definitely better than his “I want illegals to vote” opponent. The other races are pretty meaningless to me as I live in blood red legislative districts so my vote wouldn’t matter one way or the other. What’s of more interest to me are the litany of ballot initiatives and Constitutional Amendments this year; so many that the mail in ballot needed 2 stamps. I won’t go over all of them, but I ended up voting no on almost everything.
Sadly, based on number of returned ballots by party affiliation, it would take a miracle for Stapleton to win; I give Brauchler a 50/50 shot. What I’m more concerned about is the Jackasses taking back the State Senate, which has been R for a while. Based on the way the districts are drawn it’s essentially impossible for the R’s to win the State House, but split government is fine with me. The less they do the better. However, with both houses D plus Polis in the driver’s seat, things will get very ugly, very quickly.
The L’s have decided to position themselves as a prog-lite party to try and seduce Bernie-bros away from the Jackasses. Not only will it not work, it’s going to alienate voters who supported them in the past (like me).
Stated more eloquently than I did, but that’s exactly what I was trying to say. The “woketarian” bullshit is enough for me to ignore the LP until they get their heads out of their asses and stop this nonsense.
From this very site:
More Amash, less GayJay.
How is his senate run coming, it looked like he was closing hard last time I looked?
Looked it up. The September polls showed Johnson at 28% and the R at 10%, it is basically reversed with October polls (R in mid 30s, GayJay at 11% or so).
So comments at TOS were true. youz iz all a bunch of fash Republicans
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/40/a7/ed/40a7ed106855b633652c9733a56f616d.jpg
Sieg Heil!
(Yowza!)
I’m _really_ glad I slid my browser most of the way off my screen before clicking that at work.
Will revisit later…
I’ll put my challah in her oven.
Or something. I don’t know. I was trying to be both offensive and crassly lewd.
You’d take a shower with her?
The midnight train.
The LP is a sad joke, you can’t herd cats, and what passes for a Libertarian Party is no more than Cocktail party goers
I don’t like being on a team. But when you draft me in to a game that I didn’t want to play in the first place, I choose the team that’s against false rape allegations.
You don’t have to play, you know….
so you hate women… i guess that’s a ideology
I have been stuck with DiFi for close to 40 years, and Brown was governor when I was in High school, enough is enough for me.
After Brown is dead they will probably bring his zombie corpse back to run again for two more terms.
I think the schism at TOS was basically “cosmotarians vs. yokeltarians”, so probably reasonably accurate?
which one is us?
Yokels.
no self respecting cosmo would drive a kia
So I’m a Yokel? and You’re a Yokel!, and you! and You! you’re all Yokels……
I am not. I am a sophisticated European. I drink fine wines not beer like a yokel or cocktails. Me and OMWC are class
Class clowns?
I’m an out-and-proud cosmo that gets along swimmingly with yokels, so no schism there. The conflict arose when certain writers a TOS deemed a certain absolutely outrageous news story about a civil rights violation affecting a certain beloved commenter as “too local”.
*”at”, not “a”
That was the straw, it was coming for a long time before that
It was all downhill after joe left.
The first time.
If there was any schism leading to the split it was exclusively between some of the commenters and some of the writers. I’ve seen some knock-down-drag-out debates between commenters there over the years, but none that ever led to a mass exodus like this one.
There had been a few minor exodi over the years, but yeah, nothing like this.
exodi ? really?
As I was typing it, I realized I didnt know the plural so went for it.
The conflict arose when certain writers at TOS deemed a certain absolutely outrageous news story
IMO, the conflict arose much earlier than that. That incident may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, but the issue was their kid gloves approach to cultural Marxism and intersectionality, as typified by Robby and Shikha.
From my vantage point the non-stop Trumpity-Trump-Trump articles got tiresome.
Also, at least for a short spell, they were writing some anti-Nigel Farage pieces that got my skin crawling. Farage isn’t perfect but I would take him in a heartbeat over the EU.
i didnt care about TDS really but the articles were getting annoying for a long time and I was there to lurk in the comments, and when many of the better commenters left… also it was a chance as a lurker to come into the light on a newer site
^^^ this: where did all the cool kids go (sadz)
then the Hihn and John show drove me into the wilderness for a quiet year
I was pissy about TOS for about a year to 18 months prior to the glibbening, and prior to their catching the TDS virus. Perhaps I was in a different bucket than most that left, but I was slowly drifting away after 2chili left the first time.
I started hanging out at Reason and H&R around 2004. I made it all the way to the glibbening. There was a long, steady decline in the editorial position of the site from clearly libertarian to wokeness.
Shikka was the final straw — saying that street violence is bad, but antifa’s violence was justified because of bad words spoken by non-violent people — that was it.
Shikha belongs on dailykos, not Reason.
SENIOR. POLICY. ANALYST.
I think that’s just what sparked the actual migration. There had been a lot of complaints about the prog-lite bent of the TOS leading up to it, meaning they were mostly interested in covering the cosmotarian side of things.
If anything, I too am a cosmo (of the yokel-respecting variety).
For me the conflict arose much earlier. For the previous twelve months, I found myself increasingly frustrated with their reporting on a whole bunch of issues.
Ronald Bailey was pretending that the Exxon Knew campaign wasn’t a blatant scam and power grab.
All the authors penning articles about the campus rape epidemic pretended obvious liars might be telling the truth.
The coverage of Trump missed all the economic problems with his policy platform. They utterly failed to make classical liberal arguments that anyone who understood the theories could pen in their sleep. What they did write was often tripe that focused on his boorish behavior.
And the slobbering coverage of the LP was utterly sickening.
The coverage of black lives matter was deficient. They were thumbing the scale in an anti-cop way in a way that utterly undermined their credibility. All they needed to do was cover the issues and events honestly, but they seemed incapable of doing that.
Ditto immigration. I’m a fanatical open-borders guy. I was pissed off by their cyto-toxic levels of denial that free immigration actually brings social problems with it. How are you going to convince people who disagree with you if you blatantly and baldly lie to them about things they know to be true?
I could go on and on. By the time they sent their infamous “too local” email, I was done with them.
eh you’re an anarchist you weird
Ditto immigration. I’m a fanatical open-borders guy. I was pissed off by their cyto-toxic levels of denial that free immigration actually brings social problems with it.
Roughly where I stand, although there were some numbnuts in the comments fanning the Great Ebola Panic of 2014 that really got my dander up.
I don’t vote Democrat for the same reason I don’t give a random 13 year old girl all of my credit cards a ride to the mall. Plus gunz.
1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)? I did. I voted by mail a couple weeks ago.
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever? A couple team red, a couple team blue. No team L on the ballot for me. Mostly I went there to vote against Prop 127, and for 305.
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices? Gridlock, mostly. There was a time I reflexively voted no on all propositions, but they word them now I actually have to make sure voting No is a good thing.
I also vote against every judge on the ballot. I assume at some point, they made a ruling I disagree with therefore deserve to lose their job.
My adult daughter asked me if I would ever vote for a Dem. I replied that in my first election that I had voted for Morris Udall (D) and that I would be happy to vote for a Dem who convinced me that they believed in the 1A (it means what it says first word to last), 2A (shall not be infringed is non-negotiable), 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 8A and to actually believe that the 9A and 10A are vital and not dead letters; plus they need to abandon their fixation on “positive rights” and victimology.
She is a smart person since her reply was “So that is never?”
I have never voted for a Democrat in my life. I’ve voted R and L, and whatever Perot was. But never once since 1984 have I checked a name with a D next to it.
I voted for a couple of democrats, but they were local elections, and they were protest votes against the asshat that was in that office at that time. I learned my lesson when these democrats made the asshats I wanted gone look like they were decent people. One of the democrats that had been railing about an expensive project in town, instead of getting rid of it, immediately moved the work to his brother’s company and then doubled the cost to us. The other proceeded to fight us for almost a full year because we demanded the schools system cut 3 of the 5 top level administrators we had all doing the exact same job but only being around to do it about 2 to 3 months a year each at $175K/year plus pay. Picking the lesser of two evils just feels dirty, but there are times when it matters.
I don’t have many regrets. But, two of them are voting for Bill Clinton.
No love for the 3rd amendment?
My home isn’t a Marine Crash pad,
You should be so lucky!
The unconstitutional presence of a full time standing army in peacetime with the attendant plethora of military bases and barracks has largely rendered the 3rd irrelivant
I’ve voted for a Democrat because in CA we have the top 2 primaries, so the choice in the general is often between two Dems. Before that, I don’t know if I’ve voted Democrat, but I have abstained from voting in certain races.
Did you vote (or are you planning to)?
I did early voting
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever?
Libertarian candidates. A republican judge for a district seat. He was the only team red out of 5 or 6 district court spots the others were uncontested or two dems against each other. So i thought what the hell. The was no LP candidate for US rep, so I voted what I assume is a participation vote for the Republican.
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices?
I really only wanted to vote on the 6 north caroliba amendments on the ballot and to make sure the LP kept ballot access. I think NC’s threshold is low bc the LP is always on the ballot whereas other minority parties are not.
My usual strategy of voting (L) where possible as a protest and to keep ballot access in the unlikely event they stop being a clown show was foiled. There were no (L)s on my ballot. Not a single one.
The only race I really care about is Senate – Sinema is such an odious NPC mediocrity of a candidate that I just can’t even, so I voted for McSally (who I’ve met, and is pretty sharp even if pretty orthodox). I voted against every judge, because they all need to rotate out periodically. Ballot props were a mixed bag – some good, some bad.
The important thing is, I was able to run out to the liquor store at lunch. Will be refilling the tequila barrel tonight; the first batch of barrel-aged Legado tequila ($21 for a 1.75 liter handle!) is quite tasty. Not quite as good as top-shelf anejos, but as good or better than tequilas costing twice as much or more.
Also restocked the reserves of gin, white rum, and Jack Daniels. Exploring Irish whiskeys these days – they hit a nice sweet spot of being drinkable and interesting but not too demanding.
NPC – that’s offensive
Interactions with her staff and others who met her while I was at the VA is what turned me off her. That’s just a personal deal though, I am quite certain either candidate is going to disappoint.
I can’t believe a) Sinema was the best candidate the Dems could come up with b)that she actually has a good chance of winning. What the hell does anyone see in that woman? An obvious phony, a dim-bulb caricature of campus protester types who clearly despises many if not most of the people she wants to represent…..what’s the attraction??
She’s Bi.
Grading on a curve, here, but she gets the same benefit Occasional-Cortex does – she’s easy to look at. On a more insidery note, I am sure she will be a very loyal foot soldier who will vote as instructed on everything, and she gives some of that intersectionality cred for the lefty Dems, being a bisexual chick and all. If she wins, I think she’s a one-termer, so we’ll only be stuck with paying her ridiculous retirement benefits for the next 50 years.
I think the Dems are counting on Latino voters to flip the seat due to rage and hate of Trump. If so, I think Sinema was a bit of a misfire; should have put up a Latino. She’s the kind of white college-y chick that don’t connect with Latinos well.
On that race, I predict a reasonably comfortable win for McSally – 3%, maybe a little more.
I think you are right. They’ve called my sister and I… a lot this campaign season. I too think McSally will win it. but by a greater margin because of the overlap with Ducey’s base. Last poll I looked he was up by 15%.
She does have a pretty nice rack.
Don’t stick it in crazy Q!
R C Dean,
Got any recommendations for a mixing tequila? I’ve realized that’s a hole in my current stock.
On the Irish whiskey side, if you get Teelings in your neck of the woods, it’s solid. Redbreast is great, but pricey, and for everyday drinkers, I prefer Tullamore Dew to Jameson’s to Bushmill’s. On the expression side, the Jameson’s Caskmates Stout edition is quite good as well, I’m not as impressed by the IPA (Irish Pale Ale) expression.
1. don’t drink tequila
2. don’t mix drinks
3. my everyday irish is West Cork Blended Irish Whiskey
Got any recommendations for a mixing tequila?
Much depends, as with many liquors, on how much you want to spend.
We use Casa Noble, but that’s kind of a special (expensive) case, since Mrs. Dean has had bad reactions to others. Its pretty top-shelf and is kind of wasted in a mixed drink.
Tres Amigos is quite good (also possibly wasted as a mixer). Cazul was my go-to for awhile. Legado is the best value I have found, by a lot. Even their blanco, straight-up, is not bad at all and would make a fine mixer.
Stay far away from anything labelled “gold tequila” – its made with sugar as well as agave, and is the source of many people’s bad reactions to tequila, being famed for dishing out brutal hangovers. In fact, I would say that if anyone offers you gold tequila, they have violated the NAP and you should punch them in the face. In self-defense, and as a community service.
Thanks, I’ve added the Legado to the shopping list. Now to see if it’s available in my neck of the woods.
And doesn’t look like it is available only the Casa Noble Crystal is available standard in the state.
I’m a fan of the Teelings as well. It’s now available at the “people’s liquor store” so I’m happy.
That’s on my list to try.
Last time I made margaritas (not using a mix, thank you very much) we bought some mid-priced silver tequila, 100% Agave. It was mighty fine for mixed drinks.
I can’t remember the damn name because it has been too long, but my point is mixed drinks, especially margaritas, blunt the quality enough that I don’t see the point of top-shelf… unless you’re having Jesus and his disciples over for a few drinks.
You need a tequila-forward margarita recipe (shaken, served over ice), my friend. Its ridiculous to mix any truly top-shelf liquor, but with that recipe you’ll want a pretty decent tequila.
I’m a tequila newb – had some bad, bad experiences with it in college doing shots.
Anyhoo – this is the recipe I used and I liked the results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gYcvipozY
Similar to your recipe with orange liquer, agave, etc
What R C Dean said… and that’s why I specified mixing grade. Not rotgut, and not top shelf. I’m fine with you using my Bulleit for cocktails, it’s my mixing bourbon and rye. But if you grab one of my small batch bottles and try to make a cocktail with it, I’ll probably be asking you to put it back. Grab one of my top shelf bottles and try to make a cocktail out of it, I will be asking you to put it back.
Patròn silver and fresh squeezed limes. Dekuyper is fine for the triple sec, but Cointreau is better.
Tard Tuesday, “think tank” edition:
Ian Millhiser
✔
@imillhiser
There won’t be free and fair elections in the United States until the Senate is abolished.
1:16 PM – Nov 6, 2018
he’s got a point… also as long as republicans win house seats I assume.
You get it Pie.
I’ll see your tard and raise you one Chris Hayes:
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1059874765601693697
Hayes is so fucking stupid that he doesn’t even realize Farrakhan is not a politician.
And a fan of Trump? Yeah, evidence plz.
“free and fair” means whatever I want it to mean.
Romania had free and fair elections back in the day… and given the 99% for the party you knew people were properly represented
Who voted didn’t matter, who counted the votes did…
That’s allegedly still the case in major US cities.
I love the ones where turnout was 105% or higher than the eligible voter counts…
Dead people do vote…
According to a (self described) commie I know, this is a GOP disinfo campaign. Along with Trayvon Martin being anything buy a sweet kid who just wanted to get home.
http://www.fox29.com/news/local-news/woman-struck-killed-outside-lehigh-county-polling-place
Well, that sucks.
If Trump hadn’t created such a hostile climate for women and POC, voters wouldn’t need to crowd into polling places and risk their lives to make their complaints heard. So, really, her blood is on his hands.
You need to find a job at NBC or CNN man.. You can totes make big cash peddling this stuff they would love to hear people saying. Don’t tell them you don’t believe the shit however or get caught saying you think it is all shit. Cause even woke people >a href=”https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/6/michigan-paper-fires-reporter-bias-against-gop-sen/” target=”_new”>can sometimes go over the line…
I thought it was vote OR die.
1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)? I will be after work. My wife is going with and it will be her first time voting ever.
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever? I’ll be voting mostly R
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices? Because there are -surprisingly- no Libertarians on the ballot and the D’s need to be punished.
There’s also a ballot measure to legalize marijuana that I’ll be voting for. And it’s just legalize. No restrictions. The other thing it does is expunge all criminal records having to do with marijuana possession. I think it will fail, but closer than many people think. If it does, I think it will mostly be due to the expunging of records bit. While NoDaks are softening their stance on weed, they are still pretty much a law-and-order type group. Many think you should still have to pay the price for breaking the law, even if that behavior is no longer criminal.
The legislature is already talking about a what-if and a few legislators are crafting a de-decriminalization bill. I’m sure they are hoping that will placate everyone for a while and stave off full legalization. It’s very interesting that bright red North Dakota has all of a sudden moved to the forefront of the marijuana battle.
Can you grow it there?
I’m out, going to see a house, Good Day Glibs,
BRB
If it passes there is no limit on the amount of plants a person could grow…until the legislature promptly creates a limit, and creates a tax structure, and establishes possession limits, and…
I’ll be voting in about in an hour, God willing and the creek don’t rise.
I’ll be voting for every L, and leaving other lines blank.
I will then retire to the manse, put on my slippers, smoking jacket and ascot and drink whisky while revelling in my moral superiority — which is only possible because my vote has no effect on anything.
i tried googling ascot and it did not work
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I can google anything else
weird
works now
Ascot /ˈæskɒt/ is a small town in East Berkshire, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Windsor, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Bracknell and 25 miles (40 km) west of London.[1] It is most notable as the location of Ascot Racecourse, home of the Royal Ascot meeting, and is reportedly one of the most valuable towns in England when taking into account the average house price.[2] It is also one of the most expensive towns in Britain to rent a property.[3] The town comprises three areas: Ascot itself, North Ascot and South Ascot. It is in the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot.
This
^^ That’s the first person I associate with ascots.
Not voting for “Daphne!”?
It was two months before it was finally clear what party she was, her ads were so anodyne.
A bunch of Trumpistas here /random TOS commentator
I know right?
For state offices I was able to vote straight Libertarian. So good job Arkansas LP for pulling that off. For mayor, I voted for Schwartz based off of one hand drawn sign saying Mayor Schwartz be with you. That was about all the campaign material I saw for him.
Anything else I follow a few general rules:
No incumbents
No cops
No FOP endorsement
No prosecutors
No identity politics
I leave a lot of stuff blank.
My wife – naturalized as a citizen in September – voted for the first time today. She voted straight R, because she was as furious over the Kavanaugh shitshow as I was. Btw, she’s a suburban mother and (legal) immigrant, so put that in your pipe and smoke it, polling “experts”.
I voted straight R for the first time ever. The democrats need to cease to exist as a party.
That or they need to have a reformation, and not one that takes them further to the left…
I personally have no problem with this although it doesn’t seem all that fair to non-whites..
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-upsets-muslims-by-saying-she-wont-associate-with-white-people-they-are-disgusting
Oh no, not that. Anything but that.
*yawns*
No. Please no.
*falls asleep at desk*
the press should not abuse mentally ill people like this
Maybe if the pope forgave her.
This. O’Connor is not right. I feel kind of bad for her.
Same here. Poor girl has some serious mental problems and the press is using her for clickbait.
She’s all yours now Muhommed. Enjoy.
Arabs are white people.
Also, Sinead O’Connor’s still around? I thought she’d become a nun or something. And still getting a #4 at the barber, eh?
And she finished her rant by saying “Nothing compares to Jews”.
Boy if I were to believe that my bubble here represented the rest of the USA, the R’s would completely clean house. Since i’m not naive I recognize the rest of the world is not as I wish it to be.
I have voted for a few Democrats in my time, these days its mostly in local or state elections. I’m pretty sure my wife will hold her nose and vote Dem, but who knows.
We have been receiving the Blue and Red propaganda fliers daily, but few if any robocalls this election. I’m surprised at that.
Lots of mailers here – and ads on Spotify(!) – miss my Sirius car radio when I’m at work.
Your life will be better when you pay for Spotify premium.
Gawd yes.
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/fPnrAkG-3sM
For those who were interested in the sharpener discussion over the past few days, woot.com is offering the Trizor Edge sharpener on sale for $80. Free shipping if you have prime.
Please stop ruining your knives.
/Not sponsored by Spyderco Tri-Angle Sharpmaker
Yeah, that’s what I have.
I would love to vote for some Ls, but the idiot California voters approved some measure a few years back allowing only the top 2 finishing primary candidates to appear on the ballots, so there are no Ls to vote for. As a result, mostly Rs and some blanks where the choices were D or D. My wife did the same and she’s normally a straight D voter.
She loves the straight D.
Especially when it curves just a little bit to the right.
Pulled a straight R ticket, except for a single L in a race where the R didn’t file. All of the Rs are detestable ranging from the RINO to the batshit insane to just an idiot. Protest vote against the increasing blueness of this state.
Voted against the graft funneling 102 and for the rest. Knowing the retards voting for the evil party in this state, 102 will pass solely on feelz. I’d be happy with those people getting what they want good and hard, but I get it too.
Here are my two favorite open minded music fans. They listen to Hip Hop and comment, but 2 years or so ago they stated to to review metal, hard rock, and country. They are great, funny, and have turned into real metal heads. Just a sample.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8RhhtblRlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12D7c5lNyLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03hxE9O-89k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9rVfyOhtYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZPHwI9pD6o
I’m in Atlanta and actually went to the polling place for the first time since 2012. Prior to that I’d been turning in blank ballots going back to 2000 (first +18 election) when I did vote for Bush etc.
Went straight R over the disgust of the Kavenaugh hit job, and I don’t want a D governor appointing vacant senate seats if that were to occur. Voted no on all state amendments since they made no sense. Voted to allow bars/restaurants in the city to be able to serve alcohol earlier than 1230 on Sundays.
Only took seven minutes in early voting Friday late morning at the location I went to.
My one preferred outcome would be keep the senate.
1. Voted at 6
2. Voted R when the option was available
3. I think the democrats have been terrible and shameless between kavanaugh and Russia.
I need to make a beer run for tonight because I drank all of RC’s BIF brews last week.
All the brews were great. The gose was an interesting take and totally works.. I enjoyed the Grand Canyon Stout while trick or treating with the wife and kids.
Finebaum is letting my neighbors announce political opinions on his football call-in show. The whole point of his damned show is listening to stupid redneck opinions that will be proven yea or nay next Saturday … doG knows I don’t care what these people think about anything else.
Huh, I thought the point of Finebaum’s show was to let Alabama fans gloat and everyone else bitch about Alabama fans.
Bama is already my lot in life . . . and I’d rather lose to Alabama every year than be the king of any other conference.
But I don’t deserve to wade through their political preferences as well: that’s just shit in my Wheaties.
Well, some of us have to live with being also-rans in weak conferences. Such is life.
Jebus, duud: just keep cranking your SAT requirements down until you get the results you need; this ain’t hard if rednecks can figure it out
I am not an American, but I got to toss in my mail ballot last week for our “For the love of God, you morons, give us Proportional Representation already” referendum, courtesy of Red-Green alliance (not related to the awesome TV show) that managed to obtain power by the skin of their teeth, with massive assist by Mushy Middle so-called Liberals.
I voted against because, even if I wanted PR, the stacking of the deck would piss me off. Instead of a single question, they presented two
1) Do you want to switch to PR?
2) If “yes”, please rate these three different PR systems.
They clearly knew none of the three systems had a chance, so they cobbled an impromptu coalition of PR-weenies. I’m shocked they didn’t suggest doing the same for regular elections instead (“Do you want to keep the incumbent Yes/No? If ‘No’ which opposition candidate do you prefer?”)
But I assume they’ll win and use it to secure the grip on power that keeps eluding them because Yokels won’t Prog correctly, even in Canada.
“Red-Green alliance”
Alien period sex.
My wife and I still have to vote in the PR referendum. We’re both voting against any form of PR. We’ve been to Europe too many times — it’s hard to support PR when you see all the pizza parliaments it’s producing there . . .
1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)?
CO has vote by mail; Mrs. A and I dropped our ballots off when we were home for deer season.
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever?
Straight R. The Ls are weak in CO, and it’s a swing state.
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices?
I am completely unwilling to see the Dems rewarded in any way for the horseshit they’ve pulled in the last two years. This year that means voting for some guys I hate less.
1. Voted at 7:30am this morning. I live in rural VA and there were lines. Almost everyone looked like a stereotypical Deplorable (TM), so I’m guessing this turnout against the Dems. Unfortunately, VA will never again go anything but D in a statewide election thanks to the cancerous growth that is DC. We could contain Richmond and Hampton Roads. Can’t stop the expansion of the Fed beast though.
2. L for Senator, R for Rep, and No to the two tax-distorting amendments (tax exemption for war widows moving to a new house and tax rebates for fat cats living on the beach)
3. R for Senate doesn’t stand a chance. Plus my understanding is that he’s a real shitbag. My Rep is pretty good. Awesome 2nd A supporter which earns my support. I’m sorry for the War Widows, but fuck the property tax for everyone. I don’t understand why I should subsidize vacation homes.
I’m really surprised there wasn’t a MJ legalization amendment on the ballot.
I’ve got an idea:
Instead of having a pre-residency requirement for voting, how about a post residency requirement? Not sure how it would work but you have to stay in the state for at least a year after voting so you have the opportunity to get fucked over by the policies you voted for and no chance to flee.
My somewhat related idea is that you get to vote for one of three budget packages. Essentially +15%, no change, and – 15%. You pay your taxes based on that number at the polling location, and the actual budget is required to be balanced based on the receipts to the local/state/federal revenue service on election day.
sounds like Don’s Salary Policy: executives should get a modest base salary and the rest of their income should come in shares of stock, payable each month three years later
A good start would be to prevent college students from registering in college towns, but I don’t know how you enforce that either.
Beatings.
Make them all serve on local juries.
NYT lists 30 tossups: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/us/elections/house-race-ratings.html
If all the, the “lean Dems” go Dem, and all the “lean GOP” go to the GOP, then they need to pick up 10 of the 30 red tossups. Sounds easy, right? Here they are, along with the margin of victor in 2016
CA-10 R+4
CA-25 R+6
CA-39 R+14
CA-45 R+18
CA-48 R+16
FL-15 R+15
FL-26 R+12
GA-6 R+24
IL-14 R+18
IA-3 R+14
KS-2 R+28
KY-6 R+22
ME-2 R+10
MI-8 R+17
*MN-1 D+0.8
NJ-3 R+20
NJ-7 R+11
NM-2 R+26
NY-19 R+8
NY-22 R+6
NC-9 R+16
NC-13 R+12
OH-12 R+37
PA-10 R+40
PA-8 R+8
TX-7 R+12
TX-32 R+52
UT-4 R+13
VA-2 R+23
VA-7 R+16
So they need about an average of a 12 point swing from 2016 across the board to flip 10 red tossups. I don’t know, but that seems like a pretty tall fucking order, especially considering the GOP dominated state legislatures drew most of these congressional district lines after the 2010 census.
Like, what am I missing? How can you call TX-32, or KS-2, or PA-10 a tossup?
TX 32 (I used to live there) went from exurbs to landlocked suburbs in a matter of 2 or 3 years. A substantial number of californians in illi-noise moved into the area with the relocations of State Farm and Toyota headquarters to the region.
We moved out of that area due to the insane changes (in traffic, mainly) over a two year period between 2014 and 2016. However, I doubt it’s a true threat to go blue.
By the way, Collin Allred is a fucking prick. I interacted with him during law school, and have nothing good to say about him.
My money says the Toyota crowd live further out in Plano, Frisco, or McKinney: prime single-lady turf but otherwise retched country.
Related: If a Texas ‘burb chick tells you on a first date that she’s training for a half marathon, just get up running and throw a stack of twenties at the waiter on your way out and keep running. Trust me on this one.
If a Texas ‘burb chick tells you on a first date that she’s training for a half marathon, just get up running and throw a stack of twenties at the waiter on your way out and keep running. Trust me on this one.
Well , I tried that but she caught up to me and we ended up getting married. ??
Seriously though, my wife probably knows half of those ladies.
I wasn’t going to vote, but I realized I had to.
Behold, a black female libertarian:
Jenica Martin
I suspect she is neither black, nor female. Probably some bearded white guy in blackface.
UNICORN!
Actresses are very stable people and you should totally take their political beliefs seriously.
*tears up yet another happy memory of years ago lust and throws it into the Milano pile*
I know I’m an asshole, but what is wrong with her?
How can you get so overwrought just from voting?
When your identity & self-worth are so tightly coupled to your politics, you get stupid…
It’s what happens when people have to latch on to something… anything just to feel relevant and important. Without that driftwood of identity politics, theres nothing to keep them from drowning in irrelevance.
And for the love of god, DO NOT SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE!
AAAGHH!!! The stupid, it burns!
I suppose if you were a North Korean Refugee who escaped, made it to America, worked your ass off and became a citizen that it could be emotionally powerful the first time you cast a ballot as a free citizen.
Outside of that, ya I got nothing.
Jesus. What the heck is going on? Is TDS that bad a virus? The comments are hilarious.
“dirty deems
@andrewdiemer1
55m55 minutes ago
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@CNN please run a story on this American hero”
That one was sarcasm, right?
Many are.
/makes the sign of the Cross.
Tonight’s election results…
Is there a NSFW continuation of this video?
1. Yes
2. Republican (and a few libertarians for some minor things)
3. Fuck the Democrats after they defended MS-13
I know there were some who did but was it an actual Democrat position?
Insane.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/06/msnbcs-test-misfire-airs-results-in-florida-race-for-governor-a-day-early/
Misfire?
1. Did you vote (or are you planning to)?
Yes this morning
2. Mind sharing for what parties and/or candidates you pulled the lever?
Libertarian for everything I had the option for except Governor (R) and Congress (we have an R running who seems to be in the mold of Amash or Massie)
Locals were basically unopposed so blank.
3. Have any rationale that goes along with your choices?
Not really
The R governor vote was basically predicated on the notion that a D governor is by definition going to be a gun grabber and a tax raiser.
1. My ballot is filled out, I’ll be dropping it off after work.
2. I voted R in every available race where I could vote against the D, even over the L candidate. This included Knute Buehler for governor, although if I had seen any of the facebook ads that Creosote Achilles mentioned above, I may have abstained. I also voted against all the proposed constitutional amendments except for the one which prohibited federal funds from going towards abortion. I filled out write-ins against any unopposed candidates, filling in ‘Leave Vacant’ as my preferred option.
3. I haven’t voted R in any race since GWB’s first victory, when I was 18. This was strictly to oppose the Democrats and their identity politics. The final straw for me was the Kavanaugh circus.
1) Yes, a few hours ago, in person.
2) Mostly R, one L when a poor lonely one made it on to the ballot. Left blank where it was D vs. D due to the idiotic Top 2 Primary garbage. Did think about giving DiFi the nod because her challenger is worse, but not after the Kavanaugh debacle… so just blank. And NO to all the “let’s spend our children’s money but say it doesn’t require taxes” idiotic ballot measures.
3) a) State has enough and wastes more than enough money — hence no on any increased function/bond proposals. (Yes to 6 obviously — do it with the money you should have in the first place instead of more pedestrian walkways in SF, idiots!)
b) Dems deserve to lose and lose big after the last couple years of crap. May not vote for an opponent, but not voting for them any more than I’d vote for official CPUSA members.
Unfortunately, I expect I’m spitting against the wind in this messed up state, but had to do it anyway.