Maybe…it’s a gray area.
Unless it’s a family reunion, Trump is the dumbest guy in the room. Any room.
Early voting is here.
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The Carrot Demon is here campaigning today, which means highways are closed and the entire city is jammed. All so he can gripe about the fictionally inadequate federal response. This is a shit show.
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Maybe you’ll get a roll of paper towels thrown your way.
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Except that we already know it’s malignant. It’s just a question of whether it’s fatal or not.
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Two weeks ago, my 23 year old daughter asked me point blank and with prejudice, “is this the best you all can do? These are not viable choices”.
Stood in line for 40 min at the early polling place near my house in Austin. Things went smoothly and the poll workers did a superb job.
The highlight of my early voting experience was the elderly lady leaving the liquor store next to the polling place with a handle of Bacardi and her ankle-biter Yorkie in tow telling me if I valued my wallet to vote red because I should be terrified like her.
Hoo boy.
Bottoms up, lady.
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Kamala Harris is a perfectly viable choice. She is a career public servant which I view as a positive, she has legislative and executive experience, she is not blisteringly ignorant nor is she manifestly insane, she is running for President because she believes in the uplifting power of the government she seeks to lead rather than for personal gain and protection, and, and this is probably the most important piece, she will appoint serious minded institutionalists and serious, qualified jurists rather than arsonists.
So fucking stop with this nonviable bullshit.
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Why “you all”? Do you mean to say that your adult daughter refuses to take any ownership of the American electoral system?
I’m only kind of unserious. That attitude actually really drives me nuts.
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Trump is a convicted felon, so that SHOULD make him not viable.
What is not viable about Harris? Serious question.
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I totally understand the cynical sentiment of any young voter. For three election cycles – twelve years! – there’s only been one candidate available for anyone inclined towards democracy. That itself is antithesis of democracy.
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It really is past time to start looking into ranked voting systems. Only when we break the two-party stranglehold (and for presidential elections, lose the electoral college) will we start to see less polarizing candidates become viable.
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But, Harris isn’t polarizing. She’s basically the least polarizing candidate of my lifetime. Support from Cheney to Sanders. Where does this idea come from? We are a nation awash in propaganda.
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By a Democrat kangaroo court. All that Democrat politically motivated hissy fit did was gain him votes.
To put it bluntly, she’s an idiot. She can’t form a rational thought on her own when pressed on an issue. She talks in circles and ends up making no sense with one of her infamous “word salads.”
She’s polarizing to younger people because they had no say whatsoever in her selection. A lot of us are old enough that we’ve become inured to the process and expect the party simply to select someone electable and not wretched. But young people haven’t gotten that blasé/jaded/complacent yet, and they’re pissed. I was pissed at that age, too, and it’s why I wound up voting for Anderson (which is kind of funny when you think about it, but it was more a vote against the two-party system than anything else).
The difference between then and now is that Reagan wasn’t a clear and present (immediate) danger to our democracy. Trump absolutely is, but it’s hard to convince young people that sometimes you’re boxed into a corner and have to do the least bad thing. And I certainly hope that they’ve at least learned that protesting by not voting is worse than voting for a candidate that doesn’t set their soul on fire but isn’t named Trump.
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Not to mention she’s seen as part of the Biden administration whose support of Israel doesn’t jive with their riz or some shit.
That’s certainly a significant factor.
That and she’s an idiot.