A) Is there anyone among the current presumed (and actual) nominees for whom you could in good conscience vote?
B) Will you be writing in a candidate of your choice?
C) Will you just be skipping it altogether?
Also, do you think it matters to your daily life one way or the other who is elected? If so, why? If not, why not?
Discuss!
Trump
No
Possibly
Trump I guess. He fights the deep state.
Biden is literally a stooge and I can’t image the Dems swapping him out for anyone who isn’t worse.
Trump, simply because a vote otherwise will ensure that the FBI/DOJ/CIA wins when they’ve, in my mind, committed treason by deliberately undermining the incoming, duly-elected administration. When faith in that process is wholly lost by a significant portion of the populace, all bets are off.
No
No
This. Fuck them for making me vote for Trump
Relevant
Nope. My only temptation is to vote Trump so that the attempted coup isn’t rewarded. However, you fight coups with lead, not paper. Since I’m fresh out of lead, I’ll be letting the coup slide, I guess.
No.
Yes. Unless somebody downballot motivates me to get off my ass. If I had moved back to my old district here in Dallas, I’d go at least to vote against that schmuck Colin Allred. My grudge is 6 years old, but i still hate that guy.
Missed a question:
Also, do you think it matters to your daily life one way or the other who is elected? If so, why? If not, why not?
Yes. It’s not a night and day difference, but my paycheck has been bigger with Trump’s tax cuts, while I was stuck with shit health coverage that cost an arm and a leg in the aftermath of O-care. As a staunch pro-lifer, I’m very concerned that I will be forced, in the near term, to subsidize abortions. I doubt that happens when the GOP is in power. I like my guns. Having just moved from a place where I was very nearly made a felon to a place where people aren’t scared of guns, I feel that difference in my daily life. The people who push the idea of mandatory enslavement (required pro-bono) in my profession are all of one political stripe. The people pushing for me to go without plastic straws and large soft drinks and myriad other petty vices are all leftist.
The GOP sucks on an absolute scale, but the Democrats are an immediate threat to my way of life. If I cared to vote pragmatically, I’d vote GOP every time. Their motto should be “we suck, but at least we’re not insane”
‘Their motto should be “we suck, but at least we’re not insane”’
*glances at deficit spending over the last three plus years*
Insanity is on a sliding scale, right? 😉
This drunken spending spree has really put me off Trump. I was considering voting for him because of the tax cuts, but if you destroy the value of the dollar, those few extra shekels don’t mean shit.
Yep. And I still predict another round of Trumpbux before November to prop up the stock market and 401ks. No freaking way is he going to allow the free fall of the artificially inflated
market to happen before election day. Too many life savings ruined, too many old people, women and minorities hardest hit stories, too much ammo for the D)s.
“another round of Trumpbux before November” to buy votes from the possible fence sitters
Yes sir, at the long term value of your retirement savings. Doesn’t being protected by Big Daddy State make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
I’m in NY, so my vote doesn’t matter.
Except that I’ll probably vote TEAM RED in the HoR race since we’re in a swing district for one more election until reapportionment/redistricting and the legislature gerrymanders the few remaining Rs out of existence. They hate hate hate Stefanik (not my district).
The only reason I may vote is because my vote may count for something here,
Shit sandwich or turd icecream?
No thanks.
Its a rigged game anyway. The only winning move is not to play.
I mean, Biden is the best out of 30 or so candidates the Dems put up? And Trump? WTF?
“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.” -Lysander Spooner
The best part of the Fed elections are they come come during deer season and I’ll be too busy to take time out to think of voting. Also what Pistoff said.
Mentally reviewing that group of wannabees from either party is brain damaging. How did we get to this point? Yukie the dog would be a better candidate and a better president.
Duke, the mayor of Cormorant, MN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghcGzwHXcI
I mean it’s up by Detroit Lakes, which is Pope Jimbo’s hometown, so you KNOW the residents are crazy.
Was Duke running against Jimbo?
Duke’s a good boy!
(The Wonder Dog is also a great pyr.)
Trump. Didn’t last time, but given the coup attempt, etc., and at least a chance of decent-to-good judges, yeah.
No
Probably not
1. Trump
2. No
3. No
The wife and I voted for Trump in 16 “ for the lol’s”. The insane reaction from the lunatics from left and right has been funny, but terrifying. We’ll be voting for Trump again in hopes it pushes those same lunatics right over the edge. Max chaos, why not?
I have only one path that makes sense to me.
Trump.
No.
No.
Trump’s America first stance runs counter to all the globalist bullshit we’ve had forced on us for decades. So, yes, I think it does matter to my daily life.
Yeah, what he said. With the addition that I voted Johnson in ’16.
Will either skip or vote LP.
It wouldn’t kill me to vote Trump.
Would never vote Biden in a million years.
This, and what LemonGrenade said above. In 2016, I was a “not Trump, but never Hillary” voter who picked Johnson as a protest vote. Unless he does something else really stupid, I’ll probably go with Trump.
1. Trump. My vote might actually matter here in Iowa, and no way do I want whoever the Dem ends up being as Prez.
2. No
3. No
Nobody, but nobody takes a whiz
🙂
Wrong spelling, though. It comes from my last name, which has an “H”.
My cousin gave a a T-shirt with “Got Whiz?” on it, from a Philly-cheesesteak place in NYC.
NYC doesn’t get it – should be Whiz, with – otherwise they will yell at you.
I’m voting for Jo Jorgensen.
And I’m sorry guys, but I don’t understand how a libertarian in good conscience can even consider voting for Trump. The only libertarian thing he’s done as President is putting Gorsuch on SCOTUS.
Being a libertarian and voting for POTUS are two different things. My conscience is clear.
There’s been a little dereg.
I think Trump has a better chance of reining in, or at least slowing down, the lunatic Total State than Jo would. She would be utterly isolated without a party power base/support and likely wouldn’t be able to do much, sadly.
Jo is fine. GayJay would’ve have a dozen gaffes already, but she seems pretty solid in her beliefs. Oh, and she can control her tongue both figuratively and literally.
Know her well, do you?
POTUSILF.
Ah, presidential ambitions. Got it.
I’d be her intern.
I dont get the Trump votes either. He is still the guy who destroyed the USFL. That hasnt changed in the last 4 years.
Trump
Perhaps SMOD would be the best choice
Yes. Judges
I would vote for Trump if he had actually done as he promised in ’16 and gotten our military out of the many shitholes they lovingly call a mission. I won’t vote for Trump in ’20 because a) he hasn’t done as he promised, and b) he doesn’t give a shit about FBI, et al abuses other than he himself got abused. If it happened to someone else he would laugh and/or applaud. Fuck him. Although had either Harris or Bloomberg won the Democratic nomination, I may have sliced open my bowels and voted for Trump even in spite of a and b. Biden? No. Vote for the libertarian? Yes. In good conscience? Not particularly.
Writing in is a bigger waste than voting Libertarian.
I haven’t broken the conditioning about civic duty – yet. One day…
‘Writing in is a bigger waste than voting Libertarian.’
How so? I feel no need to legitimize the LP as it’s currently structured.
“I haven’t broken the conditioning about civic duty – yet. One day…”
I skipped the election once, and we got Mitt Romney as a senator, so now I feel bad.
It is never a waste to vote for the best candidate. What if everyone does what you did? That’s the point behind voting. Do what’s right, because it’s right. Not because it’s more likely to win.
A) Is there anyone among the current presumed (and actual) nominees for whom you could in good conscience vote?
I have never voted for a major party candidate (going back to 1980). I may vote for Trump because I am so fucking pissed at the democratic party and all my friends that support it. I have a strong urge to thumb my nose at all those friends.
In all likelihood, I will vote for the libertarian candidate just to record another vote for the party and try to earn ballot access.
B) Will you be writing in a candidate of your choice?
even more pointless than voting to get ballot access for a minor party.
C) Will you just be skipping it altogether?
no. I feel the need to continue the self-abuse.
I think the longest-lasting impact a president has is through SCOTUS nominees. That’s why I voted for Trump in 2016, and because of Gorsuch, I’ll vote for him again in November.
I don’t think it matters because “it’s who counts the votes that matters”. Find enough ballots in trunks to flip just a couple states and we get Biden until whoever gets picked as his VP takes over.
At least if Biden wins, he won’t remember.
A) Trump
No. Voting isn’t about conscience, it’s about threat management.
No. Write-ins turn a little waste of time into a big one.
My individual votes, no. The results will, as we’re finding out in VA.
I plan on voting for bad orange man and however many libertarians there are down ballot.
I voted for Kerry 2004, Obama in 2008, and Johnson 2012 and 2016.
My transformation into a lesser of 2 evils yokeltarian is nearly complete.
You and I are 5 for 5 since 2004. I will vote for the man under the Hat and the Hair this November. I morphed from flaming liberal to libertarian to… whatever the fuck I am now? I don’t know, someone who sees Donald J. Trump as the least destructive option, frankly.
the voting song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAJCFfVAdUg
another classic voting analogy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8Rj5xkDPk
I AM
SPARTACUSSAMUELI won’t vote for president because I don’t support trump or Biden and the LP is a waste of time.
I won’t write anyone in either.
I’ll show up to vote against laws/constitutional amendments at the state level.
I am in a state that has given an (R) the electoral votes twice (72 and 84), and it is the state that gave the Hildabeast a higher percentage of the vote than any other state in the Union. That gives me the ability to vote for whomever I want since it won’t make a difference. So I am split between writing in Crazy John McAfee and voting for Jo Jorgensen. If, in a alternate universe, Trump actually has the state in play I would consider voting for him simply to try and punish the Dems for their attempted coup and Panicdemic response.
I will vote to try and stop some liberty destroying initiatives and try and break the Dem lock on the state that makes Hawaii well in the ultraviolet for political slant.
I really hate that I would ever have to consider voting for Trump to try and stop the madness of the political process.
I haven’t even paid attention to the actual libertarian party since they pissed me off so bad in ’16 and immediately after. I had no idea who they were fielding. I thought maybe they were gonna sit it out and endorse Biden. After ’16 that would make sense.
I thought maybe they were gonna sit it out and endorse Biden. After ’16 that would make sense.-
That’s where I am, that’s why I’ll leave president blank.
Here’s a recent McAfee interview if you’re interested:
https://youtu.be/3bhm7Q8e7O8
I like the guy too but in his old age he’s getting crazier.
Than whale fucking on meth?
Yes but not in a good way.
I’m cynical but I can see the US today is a hell of a lot better that most other places and times. In my view, the important things are letting people who are good making money keep most of it, dividing the power among many different people (something something checks and something), and changing who’s in charge every few years. As long as that happens, we should be OK.
changing who’s in charge every few years. –
Sure you can change who is in charge, but if the deep state doesn’t support them, they won’t be able to get anything done.
Fair point. Even so, it’s better to have gridlock than have the deep state and the head honcho on the same page.
Our state is mail in only this time, so my ballot is in the “whoops, we lost it” pile for sure.
Imma vote for Trumpy if the Libertarians put up another weasel like Johnson.
I write off a lot of candidates, but not in.
I ALWAYS vote and I always vote for the loser/losing props. It’s a perfect record that might be broken if I vote for Trump.
A)No
B) Zombie Almanian, motherfuckers!
C) Probably not, and my serious answer for B) is write-in.
It doesn’t matter who I, myself, vote for because everybody I vote for always loses spectacularly. Does it matter in a general sense? Of course. The splitting of philosophical hairs over generations can lead to some very radical outcomes in what a society bases its law and culture around. Most civilizations that maintain a strong sense of cultural, ethnic, and religious unity can probably truck along quite well without much political interest by its people but those in power become ingrained and begin to try to radically change the very notion of what your society is about then yeah, a declaration by the masses is needed.
I vote. If for no other reason than to have my dissent on record. My congressional house seat is locked in deep blue, the senate seats are usually up for grabs but the main choices are usually scumbags(McCaskill and Hawley last time, ffs) so I refuse to give them my vote, and presidentially there’s no way in hell Missouri is going blue in 2020. Outside of state and city/county amendments, propositions, and tax votes my vote means fuck all.
B) Zombie Almanian, motherfuckers!
Shit… you’re right. How could I forget Almanian?
RIP
What about J Sub D?
True.
RIP.
He was before my time. Maybe I was lurking around the time he passed…I think so but I can’t say for certain.
”
What about J Sub D?”
He was a good soul
Since I’m in California my vote doesn’t really matter. In a normal election I would most likely vote Libertarian. But the coup attempt can’t be rewarded so this time around I’ll vote for Trump. He’s not perfect, but I don’t expect perfection. He’ll be better on regulation and judges and might even get us out of Afghanistan, though I’ll believe that when I see it.
Right now Jo is she doesn’t piss me off before the election. I think I could vote for her with good conscience. As stated yesterday the better of two evils is a strategic argument, not a moral one, and I have the luxury of knowing that my vote won’t matter, so I don’t have to grapple with that.
No.
I might sit out the president portion but I’ll still participate in the local elections.
In Presidential elections, no ones vote matters ( maybe certain black robe wearing folks…maybe), so strategic voting is never necessary for Prez.
Trump.
No.
Probably not.
Voting Trump to send a message to the DemOp apparat, Deep State, and misc. TDSers and hysterics.
That message is “Fuck. You.”
I replied in the dead thread:
308 Win – 150 gr FMJ – Federal American Eagle (AE308D)
Sweet. A thousand rounds, too.
Burning up the last bonus I will see for years to come.
Jorgenson’s alright isn’t she? If you live in a state that’s a lock either way you may as well vote for her so that’s what I’ll probably do. If I lived in a swing state, which I don’t, I’d vote for His Orangeness.
There are no swing states for a single vote.
True, but if the vote was close and the Dems took the state I’d feel bad about it. YMMV.
How does something this awful get 256M views?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPw_izFr5PA
From people like you who link it!
*runs from room sobbing*
isn’t that the guy that joined and then snitched on some crip/blood gang or something? Thought he’d be dead by now.
Yes, but unfortunately not.
A) No, though depending on how things shake out, I might hold my nose and vote for Trump. Yuck.
B) Maybe Ron Paul
C) I think I need to send a “FUCK YOU” message, especially given it is a NH gubernatorial election.
Also, do you think it matters to your daily life one way or the other who is elected? If so, why? If not, why not?
It’ll be the difference between driving the speed limit or PUTTING THE METAL on the highway to Socialism.
PUTTING THE METAL
In my defense, I have only just begun drinking tonight.
PUTTING THE PEDAL TO THE METAL
Hit that theme music!
President I don’t know, since my vote doesn’t count for much in CA for that, maybe Jo since she seems all right, but I would also like to just throw a tiny wench into the Most Popular President EVARRR bullshit so maybe Trump, but I’m certainly gonna vote against as many shitweasels as I can for other offices in this shithole state. Even if it’s all pretty meaningless in the end with the stranglehold the Dems have on Sacramento.
A) Join me for some mediocre, overpriced wine and an overcooked steak topped with a bland tomato paste.
Y’all know I am on the Trump train. For all his faults, he is still the proverbial “protest candidate”, among other things.
Voting Trump to send a message to the DemOp apparat, Deep State, and misc.
*obligatory pox on both their houses blah blah blah* but not really because one is actually a worse evil in my humble opinion.
Democrats are insane authoritarians that cannot be allowed to have power.
“Democrats are insane authoritarians that cannot be allowed to have power.”
In the last ten years, the Republican Party has marginalized their Rick Santorums.
The Democrats have marginalized their Alan Dershowitzs.
I think it is cumulative. One particular vote in one particular election may not affect my daily life. But looking at cities and states that have had one-party rule for decades, you can see differences (for better or for worse). At some point, it must matter.
Hey I was just wondering what would happen if a bunch of blue states locked down their states for months until the stress is unbearable – then – a cop gets filmed murdering a black man. I bet that would some crazy shit. People would be going to the riots just because there’s nothing else to do. And Blue State Mayors and Governors are now too pussy to do anything.
I believe Ohio is considered a “swing state,” so my vote might actually make a difference. In ’16, I held my nose and voted Johnson/Weld, as I considered Trump an assclown based on what little I’d seen of him on TV. I admit he hasn’t turned out to be as awful a president as I’d feared. Most of all though, I plan to vote for Trump this time to fight against the blatant attempts of his opponents to wreck the economy in order to hurt his reelection chances AND the transparent push for a “safe” mail-in election in order to perpetrate massive voter fraud.
I may vote for down-ticket Libertarians if possible, but I don’t have any plans to write in any candidates.
The results of the election matter more to me personally than I would like – the effect on the economy, the possible passing of laws that further erode my personal liberties, and, as other have mentioned, the appointment of judges whose terms will long outlast whoever’s in “the big chair.” I hope someday that it makes little to no difference to me who’s president.
We were there once upon a time in this country; maybe there’s a way back.
GT,
I believe we live relatively close to one another in Ohio. And I’m with you on voting for Trump as a counter to the ridiculous actions of his opponents.
Not sure if we’ll have many libertarians to vote for down-ticket, but if so, I’ll probably support them.
I also wish the presidential election wouldn’t matter as much.
I have to hold my nose and vote for Trump. The reason I won’t vote symbolically (like for Rand) is because I’d rather have the R machine picking the judges instead of the D machine.
I plan to vote for the nonexistent libertarian chick.
Trump.
Yes, my day-to-day life will be impacted – taxes, affirmative action policies, general economy (primary impact for my children), regulatory, free speech, 2A.
OT aside to Mojeaux: I was just looking at the “After-Supper Amusements” you’ve listed for Cods and Cuntes on your website, and I see you included Magpie! May I shamelessly take credit for turning you on to that song?
You betcha!
Sadly, I have already finished the acknowledgments and uploaded the files to be processed to all the right places, or I’d have put that in the acknowledgments for you.
When I go back and do corrections, I’ll correct that oversight.
I thought I also included Lullaby, but it appears I didn’t. I’ll fix that.
Oh, don’t worry about adding that to the book files. At most, maybe a H/T next to that song in the list on the web page would be the greatest of plenty. (“Last Lullaby” is listed, but without a link. To be honest, I don’t remember that one, so I can’t take credit for it.)
https://twitter.com/Madonna/status/1266123482393427968
OFFS!
Her son is paying tribute to racism and discrimination.
NGL, he’s not a bad dancer.
Not a bad dancer? I’d have gone with great, but I poke my eye out every time I churn the butter.
OT: The Clown Prince speaks
The order is set to expire at the end of the month if it’s not renewed. Sununu said the state is keeping a close eye on hospitalizations and the percentage of positive tests as businesses reopen.
“We’re anticipating the stay-at-home order to stay in place for a couple more weeks,” Sununu said. “We’re not going to do it in months at a time, but really do it a couple weeks at a time and kind of mesh it with how we’re doing with our reopening process.”
Reopen NH responds
The main reason I kept working as an engineer long after it became clear it was the wrong place for me was that I could say to myself “well, at least I don’t work for the govt”. I took a lot of pride in that. A bad private sector job was more honorable to me than a good govt job.
But I have bills to pay like everyone else and I’d prefer to do work that is interesting to me. And so here I am. I’m basically a conservative, patriotic guy. Eagle Scout (hat tip to HM and any other glib Eagles), engineering degree paid by scholarship, Peace Corps, Army- the US of A has been pretty good to me over the years. I like to think that through my work I have given back at least as much as I was given.
I’m fine with govt programs that people must work for- I certainly made use of them- but that’s the thing. There are mobs of people who want to get paid just for being alive. Well, if you’re able to work, you should. That always seemed obvious to me. If nobody works, we’ll all starve. I remember years ago being in between jobs. When I told people, they asked me if I was taking unemployment. I said no because I don’t believe in it. They said “what, are you a *Republican?*” They said it like it was being a child molester.
I take comfort in the thought that none of this is new. The phrase bread and circuses comes from a time in Roman history when more people were on the dole than working.
We should all just move to a quiet corner of Wyoming and make our own town. I suggest we name it Middle Finger.
*left-handed handshake*
Wow, I forgot about that. I guess should turn in my medal.
Wing-maka-dink, Wing-a-law-sick, What-a-hemma-way
Quando Omni Flunkus, Moritati
“Middle finger”: +1 Forever War
I’ve used the phrase “on the dole” a few times lately and no one seems to know what it means.
Dole hasn’t gotten any action since the 90s.
Elizabeth was on the Dole.
A lot of boys no longer know what “thrifty” means. Kids these days…
The Boy Scout troop I belonged to disbanded a few years ago after being active for about 60 years. No more boys.
Kind of sad, but seeing as the *Boy* Scout is now accepting girls, what’s the point? What are we, Venture Crew?! [spits]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kctx5hx1Wmc
Husband is an Eagle, plus was a Scoutmaster for one of the local troops for several years and even set up a Girl Scout troop before Boy Scouts buckled under the rising tide of gender conformity. Honestly, from his perspective, allowing girls in Scouts is totally fine. We’ve already had them in Venture Crews for years, and while Cub Scouts might have been boys only, it was structured in such a way that entire families were encouraged to attend and participate on campouts, etc, which led to resentment when the girls who had been attending Cub Scout meetings and campouts for years were told they couldn’t officially join. He believes BSA is about turning out leaders, not men. My daughter wanted to be a Boy Scout. Girl Scouts sucks; they barely do any outdoor or leadership skills, it’s all about progressive causes now. She was really excited about the prospect of joining the Scouts BSA when they announced, and once we finally set up a troop in the area. Then the Peking Pox hit, and Scouts completely pussied out, went for fully virtual meetings and canceled all camps for the summer. That did it for my husband, he’s done, and he’s completely fine with teaching our kids to shoot and cook, and plan their own activities, without going through the Scouts any more. BSA lost a 60 hour a week volunteer through sheer wussiness.
Can’t we find a slightly warmer state? That’s my only objection.
We could live in Subaru Outbacks as Sugarfree intended and migrate south in the winter.
I suppose we could live in Nevada, but that place gets too hot in the summer.
My dream is to relocate to Florida, stay there over the winters, then rent the place out to idiots all summer who want to smother in the heat while I travel in an RV. So, kinda like that.
A) Is there anyone among the current presumed (and actual) nominees for whom you could in good conscience vote? – No. For Senate here, we have a choice between McSally and Kelly, both of whom I despise. There is no third choice. For president, Team L really disappointed me with Jorgensen. So I’ll skip that line as well….
B) Will you be writing in a candidate of your choice? …except maybe I’ll write in SugarFree. He earned my vote.
Also, do you think it matters to your daily life one way or the other who is elected? I left Facebook about a month after the 2016 election, when I posted something to the effect of, “It really doesn’t matter who won, your life won’t be much different,” and I got my first exposure to the absolutely unhinged TDS that everyone in my “friends” list (except for a few of my old H&R- and later Glibertarians- friends) succumbed to. I was right, of course. Ditto this time- no matter whether it’s Trump or Biden, we’ll get a mental defective who will continue the wars, continue and expand domestic spying, continue asset forfeiture, continue the War on Drugs, continue warrantless CBP stops, expand DHS and TSA, and massively increase spending.
JFC, just pass me a razor blade already.
Are you out of rusty can lids?
Time spent thinking about who to vote for POTUS > Influence your vote could actually have
McSally sucks as a campaigner, so we’ll probably get Kelly (Gabby Giffords’ husband). Could well flip the Senate, which would be a Bad Thing. No more judges, another batch of impeachment investigations. Yay.
govt explained- alien uses Socratic method to understand earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUS1m5MSt9k
Don’t know. I will vote but I really don’t believe it matters. Probably for Trump
This here is an allegedly libertarian board and 90% of the people are voting for Trump.
That’s sad.
And the candidate, for her flaws, is about twice as smart and principled as Trump
and Biden combined.
That’s sad.
Pragmatism > Ideology
And the candidate, for her flaws, is about twice as smart and principled as Trump
and Biden combined.
To whom are you referring?
Pragmatism is the gender-fluid of philosophy.
My gender fluid is quite pragmatic
Too much asparagus…
Whoa. Mind blown.
your mom
no jk. I mean is it really pragmatism? your vote really doesn’t matter. you just *feel* like it does.
It can’t be a sort of silent-ish protest?
To add to that, I am off the opinion that if libertarians are going to make any progress we need to infiltrate one of the major parties. As Republicans are ostensibly (at least…) amenable to individualism/constitutionalism we should infiltrate them and force them to live up to their own stated philosophy*.
*yes, I am aware, “party of mercantilism” and all that, but I believe it is a viable option considering the choices and current paradigm.
yup
I believe it’s mostly just a reflx born out of visceral hatred for authoritarian progressives and their recent behavior.
I would guess the LP candidate. They nominated one that wasn’t a washed up Republican this time around IIRC.
that wasn’t a washed up Republican
I haven’t bothered to observe any LP business. But, without any further knowledge, I assume this would be an improvement.
allegedly libertarian is right there in the small print after Family Safe.
Thot Thursday has a joke.
http://archive.li/A7i3p
Q: What does an OCD baker make?
A: Anal creampies!
Candidates we can all get behind.
4, 5, 37, 41, and I’m spent.
#73 is Riley Reid
I noticed that as well. *checks browser history* Not that I know her from anywhere in particular. . .
Adriana Chechik > Riley Reid. Fight me.
Threesome.
Riley all day (and night…).
#9 and #66 are the same picture. Which is OK by me. She’s the best of the bunch.
#73 is Riley Reid (NSFW).
#9
Mia Malkova: NSFW
https://i.redd.it/x7soug75ucj21.jpg
Shit. I should have noticed it was her.
I will hang my head in shame.
To be fair, she was clothed in the Chive link, so…
que?
The whole thing here:
“Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/
Summarize it for me. I’m too tired to form my own opinion right now.
IANAL
oh you
“Hey, media companies should live up to their terms of service, and we should investigate to see if they are taking content down in bad faith.” It’s mostly a digging expedition to get explanations for why so many ‘conservatives have been suppressed on social medial while liberals roam free’. It doesn’t actually do anything or change status of online platforms.
Thicc?
A: No
B: No
C: skipping the election.
A) Is there anyone among the current presumed (and actual) nominees for whom you could in good conscience vote?
Like I have a conscience. I hate the R’s only sightly less than the D’s and the L’s? Well, this year it is a maybe because now my vote doesn’t count here. (ya you puritans I am one of those) But the whole coup attempt so many have mentioned might be the most infuriating thing I have seen (pre-Covidfreakout) in my life. But I fall back on CO front range chooses our delegates and now the asshats voted to do away with the electoral college so there is that too. Seriously I am ready to leave the state and maybe the country.
B) Will you be writing in a candidate of your choice?
Depends on the office. I might write in myself for a few.
C) Will you just be skipping it altogether?
If I forget and or am to drunk to fill out the ballot when I need to mail it right before the deadline then yes. It has happened.
Ya, I take this shit serious!
Trump
No
No
Trump needs Michigan.
1. Probably Trump for the same reasons enumerated above. In a solid blue state, but one grain of sand still adds to the popular vote, for what it’s worth.
2. For dog catcher. Pisses me off the number of contests that only have a single candidate, often through a rigged process in the primary.
3. Unlikely. There is at least one down ballot contest where the public union supported leftist nut job needs to be thrashed hard (keep dreaming).
If I dont go Trump, Ill likely write-in Vermin Supreme/Goldwater like I did in 2016
Or maybe Hunter Thompson/Jimmy McMillan
“Vermin Supreme”
One of the few who gets the joke…and plays along.
If I were ever to vote (we mustn’t, precious), Vermin would be my cast.
My last vote was for Jesse Ventura for Governor of MN. He won and did a lot of things I liked. But those things didn’t last beyond his term.
During one of the debates, I commented that VS and Jimmy McMillan should run…”the boot is too damn high!”
Jo. I don’t think she is great, but it is a vector.
No
No.
I hope they don’t have a flag for this.
https://twitter.com/JohnTory/status/1265972099203678213
BLOODY HELL!!!
They do, but instead of running it up a pole, they put it in a hole.
CWAA
Earning his redwings.
If I were to vote, it would be for Trump, but I doubt I’ll bother. I’ve never voted for a Democrat and can’t imagine under what circumstances I ever would. The LP can go pound sand so long as that protoleftist sack of shit Sarwark is in charge.
I’m probably not going to bother voting unless there’s something down-ticket I need to put my 2c in for.
I voted for the pothead and while it’s fun saying, “Hey, don’t look at me, I voted for the pothead,” he has since left a little bit of a nasty tang in my mouth.
OTOH, I may feel like voting for not-Biden/not-Hillary.
OWMC on Twitter is quite pithy. He’s a regular HL Menchkin.
SP just said, “Oh, look, straffinrun misspelled ‘pissy.'”
Making fun of my lisp. Sheesh.
“risp.”
He’s gone native.
Call me Miasnialo
Needs a abenomask with the smoke hole cut out.
Well my default would be to vote Libertarian. TBH, I haven’t really looked that deeply at Jo yet. My RAGE over the media induced CV panic had me planning to vote for Trump (even though I’ve hated him long before he was even doing reality TV) for NO other reason than a fuck you to CNN, MSNBC and the progfucks. He’s making it very difficult for me though. He is such a manchild idiot. Of course the DNC terrifies me right now.
Schemeing demons dressed in kingly guise? This belongs here, I believe.
Beating down the Multitudes,
and, scoffing at the Wise….
Just like witches at black masses!
Oh Lord…
Yeah!
Great song, but it still bothers me that they tried passing off rhyming masses with masses
I haven’t looked at any responses yet. Sorry if I am redundant. Assuming the election were today:
I’m in a potential swing state, so I would likely vote for trump so we don’t get whom ever is the dem VP, but I wouldn’t know unless I had to actually do it.
No.
Unfortunately yes, I think the president has more and more influence on daily life (e.g., increase in executive orders and potential impact to the SCOTUS, which also has more impact on daily lives than it should) and is something that may affect my future and my kids‘ future.
Would it be possible to run a campaign as a write-in candidate? How many write-ins would you need to, at the very least, make a statement? It seems that the right person could follow the Trump formula and gain some support. After the last few months, I would think that more people are willing to think outside the box or make a protest vote. Apparently, nine states do not allow write-ins for president.
According to this article, you shouldn’t write in a candidate because it’s mean to ballet-counters (it makes more work for them). https://electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Feature_stories/write-ins.html
yes but you will lose.
usually somebody does
Usually we all lose.
THAT’S THE POINT!
They win. you lose.
The hell you say
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8367221/Prosecutors-warn-evidence-does-not-support-criminal-charge-George-Floyds-killing.html
Prosecutors warn there is ‘evidence that does not support criminal charge’ in case of four cops accused of killing George Floyd
Well, it was only the one that did it.
as they say police can use a ‘certain amount of force – but not excessive’
I daresay asphyxiation to death while in police custody is rather excessive.
9 minutes might have been a tad much, 8 is just enough, like the TV show.
Totality of the Circs
…or of the circus.
+1 Clown world
If the prosecutors try that shit “Minnesota Nice” may mean something else by Independence Day.
aka “Minnesota”-woodchipper sound-“Nice”
Damn that is a tease.
I must know the extenuating circumstances that somehow make that ok.
There’s no way they don’t prosecute.
Well, they just lit the fuse on at least a few more nights of discount shopping, if my memories of the early nineties are correct.
They were incredibly stupid to call a press conference for that.
I was 100% sure they were going to announce arrests.
Bullshit. The one cop straight up murdered him. The others in addition to failing to stop him and failing to arrest him on the spot for murder, are also subject to felony murder & conspiracy.
I’m guessing he didn’t die from asphyxiation if they’re saying that.
It went down as a covid-19 death.
You probably already saw this.
no but i’ll admit it was an obvious joke.
What an odd statement. Yes, they need to build the case properly and provide due process, but this smells funny.
Why is Libertarian branding so shitty?
Look at that craptastic logo. And the website looks cheap.
What happened to the porcupine smoking a joint that I submitted? Seriously pissed.
You forgot to have it humping a pile of money.
porcupine humping a pile of money
What’s with the yellow eyes? I guess I get the tarnished liberty imagery? I wouldn’t call it a UI or design win, though.
No, see, the purple is symbolic and shit. Why the rest of it looks like a logo for a community college is beyond me.
Don’t be elitist. A community college would have a way better logo than that.
Nice.
She does teach at Clemson (zing!!!).
Freedom’s just another word for the party that always loses.
What? And act like a real political party?
here’s a great vid for clearing windowlickers from your social media: I’m allowed to rob you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE
Derp is on a Larken Rose kick!
Lol. This begs a question since we’re discussing voting. The States ratified the Constitution. If you vote for state and federal representation, are you giving validation, perhaps even tactic permission, to the system that enforces the “right” to steal from you? If so, if you don’t vote, can you and do you withdraw that permission?
No, but if so, to what end?
Modern day Lysander Spooner. *Spooner wasn’t the dickhead in his private life that Larken is
I mean he (Lysander) kind of was a dickhead. He sued the government over the monopoly of the post office.
They passed a law specifically to shut down his business. If that doesnt justify a lawsuit, nothing does.
Pistoff was being sarcastic, no?
Time for me to do some weeding.
https://imgur.com/a/sVhUaOn
So grateful that was actually a picture of a garden.
Missed opportunity to mosaic it.
Moments like these are why I stay at glibs.
Glenn Greenwald is the Rob Deer of journalists; Either smacks a 400 foot home run or whiffs while his helmet spins around on his head.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1266106757979361280
Rob Deer is the Patron Saint of the Three True Outcomes.
C) first. The DoI has a phrase along the lines of “government is by the consent of the governed”. I figure that if I vote on the Federal level then I am providing my consent. So I choose to not do so. However, it it false bravado because NM is a soft blue state. Our EC votes will be for the D guy and our Senator and whoever “represents” me will be D.
Downstream is different. I know the president of our HOA. If I made an appointment I could visit with my county rep and he would probably listen to me. Above that it is hardcore D so I’ll vote against them all. And my vote won’t mean a thing (last election I batted 0.000).
Probably that idiot in the whitehouse since I live in MI. I normally vote Libertarian and donate money to the campaign but I’ve tired of sad ineffectiveness. As for whether the president matters personally, I am disappointed that yes it now matters. Fuck the creeping pervasive total state.
Not that my vote “counts” [even in a swing state] but I’ll vote for Jorgensen. Without a significant number of votes the LP’s ideas will never be adopted, even in part, by a major party. It’s a fantasy that “libertarians can work from within the GOP” as long as the GOP isn’t scared of losing libertarians to the LP. And, you’ll never get reform or a better quality of LP leadership as long as quality people and candidates aren’t attracted to a party that gets only 1% of the vote.
A little something in the story for everyone
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/coronavirus-outbreak-hits-townsend-farms-in-fairview.html
Just arrived from…?
*whew*
I’m finished with the ebook of Cods & Cuntes and have uploaded everything for sale tomorrow.
*flops over*
*dies*
Unfortunately, the wife pays the CC bills and knows what the C word means. I blame myself. Maybe I’ll get my brother to get it for me. It’s how I launder money to glibs.
Ummm….you DO know that’s not the actual title, right?
No, I didn’t. That’ll work.
Don’t die!
*resuscitates*
Figure of speech. *Pulls UCS off Mojo’s body
I misread that as “booty”
I’ve noticed that as long as I don’t come right out and say I’m an anarchist, conservatives almost always agree with my takes* or at worst just ignore them. Not sure what that says about me.
*Cops not included
You’re a Trumptard?
He makes me laugh. Does that count?
Well it definitely makes you a white supremacist.
It always goes sideways when the issue of cops comes up. That and wars. And drugs. Nevermind.
There are ways to talk to them about wars and drugs without triggering them. IOW, there is a way to talk to them but it takes time and you gotta let them get there on their own with just a little prodding. I get nowhere with the left. They immediately disagree with everything because they demand fealty to their ideology first.
True that. Lefties always just yell “Oh yeah! What else did Fox news tell you to believe?” and then storm off.
I think they are open to drug conversations more an more. Especially the younger ones. Most of my circle is fairly conservative, votes republican, all of them at least want pot legal. They also don’t seem to care much about TeH gAyz anymore either. The culture war is winning those two issues.
http://archive.li/guzRZ/313c1779415e3dd14a51825dadb1b991d5a46971.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/70cIJ/69c54d6ef75bb3d9ead6aec1a8a86b144a77bc54.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/8TdIM/c032d440d65959a67e9972085bf5d95106c350a8.webp
NSFW.
http://archive.li/Nqxmc/9fd7939382a8161d31bd14f9e1ee5b02eb56934a.jpg
NSFW.
I suppose if you _like_ skinny with a big rack…
Does This mean the illegal mask order expired?
And technically, businesses have the constitutional authority to throw out customers for whatever reason they please, but “Freedom of Association” is a foreign concept to Andy.
Looks like the cops just abandoned the 3rd Precent. Mob now has control.
Be interesting to see how the state handles this.
Looks like in Columbus we have some protesters now in the Statehouse. That place is full of art and history. I hope they don’t burn it.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/crowds-gather-across-columbus-to-protest-police-brutality/
A) Don’t know enough about whatshername that the LP nominated to say. Was really hoping for McAfee or Vermin. Oh well.
B) Meh. IDK.
C) I’m in California, so my vote for President doesn’t matter. I’ll guess when the time comes I’ll try to swing my district back to red. Not sure what propositions are going to be on the ballot this year.
As the One True Libertarian, I have no choice but to cast a write-in ballot for myself.
Missouri ballot counters: WHO THE FUCK IS BROCHETTAWARD?!
Don’t be silly. The response is “Spoiled Ballot”
Oh damn.
1) JoJo.
I can’t see Trump actually ending a war or two between now and Nov but if he does that suggests he might end more wars and so that would be worth having him in there longer.
2) No
3) No reason to skip entirely as the Rs that run in my district tend to be more of the Massie/Paul types and thus very much worth trying to get elected.
Election?
Screw it.
I went for a bike ride this evening and took this.
https://i.imgur.com/mZxmbtR.jpg
I feel a lot better.
Is that a goat or a deer?
Pronghorn antelope.
We stared at each other for a bit and then it pranced over the hill.
This morning on my run I saw two rabbits, two Canada geese, two mallards, and a seagull.
Rad Mallard https://youtu.be/GRZwu2ytkMk
Seagulls https://youtu.be/4LQzfpe_wi0
I need suggestions for some place to go have a celebratory sit-down meal. It needs to be within day-trip distance of Albany, and most importantly – open.
For a meal like that, do you use your celebration gloves or your eating gloves?
The celebratory dinner gloves.
Sheesh, how uncouth do you think I am?
I drove around Green Bay looking for someplace to sit down and have lunch yesterday. The first place I went to was a new location for a brewpub I’ve been to a few times, but it felt too ‘hipster experience’ so I drove around for the next half hour just trying to find someplace ti sit down and eat that wasn’t fastfood. The places that weren’t still closed for dine in were closed permanently. Ended up getting too hungry so I just stopped at a Chile’s.
Green bay is a bit out of the way for a day trip.
You didn’t even go there when it was close. But, that wasn’t my point. It’s hard to know what restaurants still exist after the government tried to murder them all.
That’s why I was hoping someone knew of a place…
Probably not helpful as it’s closed, but highly recommended when things are allowed to open up. Ted’s should be able to verify.
http://thephoeniciansteakhouse.com
By then it’ll be too late to celebrate.
Wrote and was ready to record audio for a new cartoon last night. But my drivers for the mic weren’t right and I was getting a bunch of fuzz. Found the right drivers, then my internet shit out for several hours. Mic sounds good tonight, trying to get into the headspace to do the voice work.
Tom Morello’s birthday is tomorrow. Co inky dink?
Is it Che or Castro’s birthday as well? Otherwise I think he despises it.
Of course. He never gets his wish because he never blows out his candles. Burn!
In a private dining room at the Mandarin Oriental, Hyde Park, Late May 2020.
Well, our little epidemic appears to be fizzling out. We launched the campaign a bit too soon, I fear.
It would appear so. Any other ideas to keep the muppets distracted until the Yanks have their little election?
Hmmmm. It’s a bit evergreen, but why not try the old “white cop kills a black citizen” gambit again? With a bit of luck and encouragement from our friends, it could spin into a full-on race war. Then we could have the papers politicize it heavily. Divide and conquer and all that, what?
Evergreen, indeed. It could be that too many people have had that tired old “race card” played, usually unfairly. They may not cooperate willingly this time. They’re not racist, they know it and they aren’t going to fall for the ruse again.
But the youth have not yet been exposed to excess, their rage is easy to excite and they are so gullible. That may decide it.
Let me make a few calls.
I think you need to take a break on GT’s patio of tranquility.
Naw, I’m way past the age of rage. I can still do a pretty good high dudgeon though.
You have dudgeonous crabs? Is that an STD or a seafood?
Sure, now you care about lives.
https://twitter.com/CityMinneapolis/status/1266224316645027841
I hate everyone on both sides. Let it burn. Let it Bern.
“Ours” you say. I’m sure rich white girl is in power.
https://twitter.com/RachelSteiner1/status/1266217394315202563?s=19
You know what white girl wasn’t in power in Minneapolis?
Remember the riots?
Must have been a Quiet Riot.
I thought it was a Money factory
League of Legends…I didn’t think you were into MMORPGEATADICK games.
I’m not, but it’s hard not to have heard of them.
I play singleplayer games.
Not too hard apparently, I’d heard of the game but not them.
OMG. The emperor is not only naked, his giving us a facial.
https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1266222829852405760
Seriously, this might be the greatest thing you’ll ever see.
*Rome Burning in the Background* Nero: Everything is perfectly tranquil. I am a grand Emperor. *Continues playing his lyre*
Literally gas lighting. Literally.
Literally?
The Ministry of Truth really needs to up its game.
Wow. Guess the National Guard is stuck in that manditory 2 week diversity training like FEMA was before replying to New Orleans.
Some things never change.
Most of what I do believe is against most of your laws. I’m a fugitive from injustice…
well old songs that were recorded cannot really change can they?
Only for audiophiles.
Yup, it’s the same old song.
Not an American, but would vote libvertarian because it is simply time for a female president in the US and the US would have handled the covid better led by a woman, or so the NYT informs me, althoughI have a feeling that for the NYT the libertarian candidate in No True Woman.
While I have a different outlook than ya lot, I am slightly surprised to see people thinking Trump actually fought the deep state because it does not seem like all that much to me, outside defending himself from some attacks. My main hopes as a non American for the trump elections did not come true, although US was probably better off with trump from the point of view of supreme court.
It’s amazing that according to the media the only stupid women in politics are the women who aren’t democrat, otherwise #believeallwomen
I’ve been pretty busy. Has the Minneapolis crowd checked in lately?
What’s the date for the first Cal home game?
I’m pretty sure 4X is looking to pick up some more beehive frames at a discount.
I am looking at my FB feed and seeing Minneapolis friends’ posts.
One couple we were friends with (and clients of) just announced that their shop is now burning, and it’s in St Paul. Also burning (allegedly) is the Northtown mall, which used to be a decent place but they added a public transit hub. Nobody chooses public transit in Minneapolis, so the ridership is an eclectic group.
I first read that as “ethnic group” and didn’t bat an eye
LA area peeps should stay clear of downtown tomorrow. We got the call from County admin an hour ago to stay away since there’s a protest scheduled.
Looks like it works.
Alabama worker killed in wood chipper: report. https://tiny.iavian.net/10kuv
That would be weird if true.
https://breaking911.com/breaking-george-floyd-officer-allegedly-responsible-for-his-death-worked-together-report-says/
Those other descriptors don’t matter in this case, only fuel division.
Yikes. That plot makes for a typical TV crime drama. Fortunately won’t lead to exoneration and might even have an opposite effect.
I went for a trip yesterday and this guy pulled a Gandalf, None Shall Pass!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MNauiBgRJcJ9XXxRA
So i drove around him…
Too bad you didn’t kill it. They are a major contributor to the decline in Desert Bighorn numbers.
Oatman, protected, though I heard you can adopt them,
I have a dream that some day Star Wars (no, not “New Hope”) will be released in restored glory without edits and “improvements”. Sadly I think that day is further off than when Lucas still controlled the universe.
So what “Star Wars”, then? I quit after Phantom Menace because suck. If you want Jar Jar restored to all his glory, I don’t give a shit. If you want anything else after that restored, I also don’t give a shit. WTF are you even speaking about? 9 films, 6 suck. State your case.
I believe he means that the first movie was always just “Star Wars” until the new stuff and they started calling it ‘A New Hope’, Gustave doesn’t believe in progress.
In other trivial bullshit, I’m doing the Xerocole thing, sleeping in the middle of the day, then working at night, followed by a short nap, then play around at dawn.
tomorrow we have rafting visitors, so we are taking the Island to the Island for a picnic, oh and some Geocaching as well,
a) I can vote for the LP ticket. Not perfect, but definitely better than it could have turned out.
b) Nah. I’m in TX – any vote that isn’t Trump is probably wasted at the Presidential level.
c) Yeah, I’m gonna vote – we’ve got an LP candidate running against the SOB in my district that tried to pass legislation to neuter 3rd parties.
Late to the party, but is no one voting BangingLC1 in November . . . my campaign must be faltering. I don’t know why, I’ve mentioned once or twice on an obscure libertarian website.
BangingLC1 2020!
“I don’t really want to do the work to make it better, but I also won’t actively try to make it worse.”
He seems like a single issue candidate, I can’t take him seriously.
That may, in fact, be the most appealing position I’ve heard from any of the current crop of candidates.
Slogan #2:
“If you though Obama and Trump played a lot of golf, just wait!”
OK, I’m in.
Now I’m definately opposed.
Hmm . . . Now you’ve done it! I’m adding an extra tax on gloves!
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-52844192
I guess their aim is improving. /shrug
Seriously though, the cops abandoned the building? What a bunch of cucks! /sarc
And of course, Twitter can’t help themselves at this point.
Can Twitter really help anyone?
I donno, it seems to have helped Jack Dorsey.
I’m not so sure about that, Dorsey seems to have gone off the deep end. Say what you will about the EO, it’s not the smartest thing to pick an avoidable fight with the worlds single most powerful person.
The janitor lady at work cleans the men’s bathroom every day between 7-8am (eastern). This works very poorly for me. I get to work around 7. I make a pot of coffee. Start drinking it, and about now (7:30) the urge to defecate hits strong. This is a struggle every single weekday. There is no other bathroom in this building. I guess I could start identifying as a woman in the mornings and just go in there, but, well, I’m sane.
I am somewhat lucky that where I work the bathroom was cleaned between 10 and 11 and I also got to work around 7. Then again a lot more people get to work around 9 30
Hmmm. The cleaning ladies here DGAF if there are guys pissing/shitting in there. They just go in and clean regardless. It was a bit weird at first.
That is terrible Janitorial etiquette. We work around you, not the other way around. If someone needs the shitter there are about a hundred different things that she could be doing. I’m aghast!
The last janitor took 2 hours and couldn’t clean to save his life. I’ll take this, it’s a step up. But I still need to poop.
There can only be one and his name is Festus! Seriously, it’s a bad job that attracts bad workers. Once you gain an affinity for a site and get treated with decency you become “part of the team”. GIGO.
#1, I don’t need to smell your fresh leavings while I go about my “essential business”…
Let’s see who has good taste in music.
Minnesota is looking California and feeling California.
I like that band. Temple of the Dog, right?
Nope. Before that.
Soundgarden then.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH , Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah.
First wifey and I fell into the vortex of the “Grunge” movement in real time. Apologies for the error because we were buying a few cd’s and cassettes every payday for about three years. Chris Cornell was awesome.
I also like Audioslave and his solo work *smirks*
Temple etc was a Soundgarden/Pearl Jam mashup if I remember correctly.
Trump. Reluctantly.
If I were in a less purple state, I’d write in Ron Paul.
Or lp, just for a protest. But the party has been driving me nuts
Trump, because f#ck those people again.
Not happy about it but Trump, maybe Kanye if I stay up too late drinking the night before and I’m still drunk.