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Bubba said:
So you were part of the 0.1% of Dems that voted for Harris in the primaries?

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After I posted that I started questioning myself so I tried looking for a copy of an actual 2020 Michigan Presidential Primary Ballot. I couldn't find an actual PDF (though I didn't search too hard) but I think Harris withdrew early enough that she wasn't actually on the ballot. Searching my Facebook history it looks like I was bummed that she dropped out before getting on the ballot and now I'm pretty sure I was part of the 0.69% of Michigan D voters who voted for Klobuchar in the primary.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
After I posted that I started questioning myself so I tried looking for a copy of an actual 2020 Michigan Presidential Primary Ballot. I couldn't find an actual PDF (though I didn't search too hard) but I think Harris withdrew early enough that she wasn't actually on the ballot. Searching my Facebook history it looks like I was bummed that she dropped out before getting on the ballot and now I'm pretty sure I was part of the 0.69% of Michigan D voters who voted for Klobuchar in the primary.
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Part of me wanted her to make some noise only for the reason that her mom was my kindergarten teacher.
 
I'm not in either party, but I don't think I've voted for a Democrat in the primary in years. There are usually only one or two candidates other than presidential races. I tend to believe that I would have more impact voting for a reasonable Republican candidate to make it through to the general. For the most part, the most we only get the most extreme since the Tea Party days, with one or two exceptions.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
I'm not in either party, but I don't think I've voted for a Democrat in the primary in years. There are usually only one or two candidates other than presidential races. I tend to believe that I would have more impact voting for a reasonable Republican candidate to make it through to the general. For the most part, the most we only get the most extreme since the Tea Party days, with one or two exceptions.
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Here in SC you don't declare a party, you're just asked at the primary election which party ballot you want. I always say "I better get the ______ party ballot because there's some people I need to vote against". The poll workers who are of that party look at me confusedly and the workers of the other party give me a wink and a nod.
 
MD Planner said:
Here in SC you don't declare a party, you're just asked at the primary election which party ballot you want. I always say "I better get the ______ party ballot because there's some people I need to vote against". The poll workers who are of that party look at me confusedly and the workers of the other party give me a wink and a nod.
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This is how it is in Michigan as well, but we hold our presidential primary so much further ahead than the rest of the ballot that in years like 2020 where an incumbent is running on one side, there's usually nobody else on that side worth voting for/against so I pick the ballot for the non-incumbency side so there are some actual choices.

I just dropped off my primary ballot this afternoon for our local/state/federal primary and I picked the R side but ended up only voting for U.S. senate and a candidate for the U.S. House and a local treasurer candidate. I chose R this time around because I wanted to vote against another R senate candidate. All the other slots on the ballot on the R side were people running unopposed or for local councils where it's pick 3 and only 3 are running or stuff like that. It was a similar situation on the D side of the ballot with most spots with only one candidate, especially in the local primaries. I've never seen a primary ballot with so few choices. I don't know if that means the local parties have done a good job weeding some people out and not helping them get signatures/funding or if it's a sign of a lot fewer people even wanting to get into politics, especially at the local level.
 
Wannaplan? said:
Fake or real? Seen on Facebook.

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The sovereign citizen movement thinks it's real. They're mistaken. The video is cued up to where the lawyer discusses the claims of the sovereign citizens in the video. If you want you can go back to the beginning and see the whole incident. In this case it's kind of humorous because you can tell the guy really doesn't understand the whole thing and he puts his girlfriend (I think) on speaker phone while she tries to explain that they can't pull over sovereign citizens. She's so convinced of this that she drives over to the traffic stop to try to assist the first guy (her boyfriend?) and she gets arrested too.

Sovereign citizens have invented this whole alternate universe where the authorities in the states and countries they live in have no authority over them. The courts laugh at that.
 
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Planit said:
The couple clips I've seen from the NABJ conference interview are just - :omg: .
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Why his people let him do that is beyond anyone's wildest imagination. Did he really think that would go well?

That was rough.
 
Just in case there was anyone here still planning on voting for Trump, here's 11 minutes of highlights from his recent disastrous NABJ interview.


 
I hope this weird thing might bring down the whole toxic masculinity trend. There are so many things that the "bros" have been doing and saying that are just inappropriate. They somehow took pleasure when those things appalled and disgusted people, but for some reason being called "weird" seems to have the opposite effect.
 
Doohickie said:
I hope this weird thing might bring down the whole toxic masculinity trend. There are so many things that the "bros" have been doing and saying that are just inappropriate. They somehow took pleasure when those things appalled and disgusted people, but for some reason being called "weird" seems to have the opposite effect.
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It can be great fun to engage in "othering", but it's no fun when you're the target.
 
Doohickie said:
I hope this weird thing might bring down the whole toxic masculinity trend. There are so many things that the "bros" have been doing and saying that are just inappropriate. They somehow took pleasure when those things appalled and disgusted people, but for some reason being called "weird" seems to have the opposite effect.
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We'll see. Fox "news" commentator Jesse Watters says that men who vote for a woman transition into a woman.

“It’s not the party of virtue, security — it’s not the party of strength — it’s definitely not the party of family. And to be a man and then vote for a woman just because she’s a woman is either childish — that person has mommy issues — or they are just trying to be accepted by other women...I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.”
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www.rollingstone.com

Fox Host Says Men Who Vote For Women 'Transition' to Women

The Fox host inexplicably claimed that “when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.” His colleagues weren’t happy.
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Oh, and RFK Jr. is full of surprises.
 
Oh, and RFK Jr. is full of surprises

What a strange sense of humor. He should be charged with illegal dumping just like Arlo Guthrie was.
 
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America's heartland to help win over rural, white voters, according to sources familiar with the matter.

If this ticket comes out on top in November, he will be third VP from Minnesota. Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale being the first and second, respectively.

*Edited by STTG to include Humphrey.
 
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fringe said:
Oh, and RFK Jr. is full of surprises

What a strange sense of humor. He should be charged with illegal dumping just like Arlo Guthrie was.
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I know :rofl:. I think I'm just facinated by the absurdity of each new headline from RFK Jr.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America's heartland to help win over rural, white voters, according to sources familiar with the matter.

If this ticket comes out on top in November, he will be the second VP from Minnesota, Walter Mondale being the first.
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Tim Walz was a Geography teacher. He was the keynote speaker at the ESRI UC 3 weeks ago and it was one of the best keynotes I've seen at the UC. He will make a great VP and beyond.
 
My undergrad degree was Geography.
I like Geography teachers.
Tim Walz was a Geography teacher.
 
MD Planner said:
I guess in this instance "from" means "born there" because I'd say Hubert Humphrey was from Minnesota too.
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You got me. Totally forgot about HHH. Humphrey and Mondale were born in Minnesota, Walz was born in Nebraska. I would then rephrase that two are from Minnesota and one is a transplant.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
You got me. Totally forgot about HHH. Humphrey and Mondale were born in Minnesota, Walz was born in Nebraska. I would then rephrase that two are from Minnesota and one is a transplant.
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No you were right. Technically. Which is the best kind of right. He was born in South Dakota but most people associate him with Minnesota since that what he represented.
 
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