How do sovereign citizen and tankie go together?

Anyone remember the Moto Lapdock from like 15 years ago? This is better, for sure, but that’s a pretty long road from there to here!

I gave of MacOS when an OS update included a firmware rollback which disabled gigabit Ethernet on the NIC. So the Fedora install.may have updated the firmware or changed a firmware setting.

I would have to think things like shitting in public. There’s signs like this in locations around the world.

Shark still looks fake.

I’m so angry that the Governor, Lt Governor, and Attorney General are elected in the mid-terms. These asshats such a huge safety cushion from the low turnout.

if you’ve been elected twice, you aren’t eligible to be President.

That’s not what the 22nd Amendment says, though.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

In both cases it speaks to how many times you can be elected to the office of the president. But election isn’t the only pathway. There is line of succession as Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Cabinet Secretaries.

is it illegal for a majority of people to vote third party

No, they just choose not to. Fewer than 99% of legislative offices at the state and federal level are held by third party or independent politicians. No third party candidate for President has won a single Electoral College delegate since 1968, and Perot won almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992. In 2024 not one 3rd party was on the ballot in all 50 states, only 3 were on the ballot in more than 10 states. Did you know that when Bernie Sanders was first elected Senator in 2006, he actually won the Democratic primary but turned down the nomination to run as an Independent? So he already had the name recognition of the Democratic voters.

Unless and until your state has ranked choice or approval voting all you’re doing is lowering the threshold that the most popular candidate from the other end of the spectrum needs in order to win. The best strategy for change is to vote in the Democratic primaries (this is the important part, that people aren’t really doing today) and then for the Democratic nominee in the general while simultaneously working to get election reform on your ballot (and only 26 states allow direct ballot initiatives, the rest require the state legislature to put initiatives on the ballot for a direct vote by the public).

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did not champagne on Tariffs.

Best I can do is Miller High Life.

Sorry, I can’t keep up with all the new models and I thought ranked choice was in some way a catch-all for “models that don’t suck like first-past-the-post”

Don’t you think that’s going to have some affect on how/if people vote in the primaries?

Of course it does, I’ve never intended to convey believing otherwise. The ownership class is never going to say “I feel bad about having won this way because people aread.about it so next time I’ll put my resources towards electing someone who check my privilege.” We have to focus on the things we can actually do, and voting is the absolute minimum. And when I look at the history and present electability math of 3rd parties vs the major parties, I’m left with the conclusion that at the state and federal level, the only thing I can do to effect change is voting in the primaries. That doesn’t mean I think the DNC is looking out for me or sitting back to let then system work. It just means I don’t think any other option has any possible chance of working. And pretty much everybody who doesn’t already agree just gets incensed at the idea without having any practical alternative. Do you have an alternative suggestion?

Either party leadership will realize the error of its ways or it won’t

The ousting of old leadership in favor of new has already started with a progressive from Minnesota being elected DNC chair and David Hogg elected Vice Chair. And it happened because enough people who cared voted for it.

Kookie means it’s unlikely to succeed because it requires a group of grifters to make their grifting illegal.

How do you propose getting better candidates with a chance of winning* on general election ballot?

* Fewer than 1% of legislative offices at the state and federal level are held by independent or third party candidates. Zero 3rd parties were on the ballot in all 50 states in 2024 (only three were in more than 10 states). There have been zero Electoral College votes to third party candidates since 1968 (including when Perot won almost 20% of the national popular vote). So if your suggestion is 3rd parties then you’re going to have to show your work on how to make any of them viable before the 2026 primaries.

Allegation: the DNC exhibited overt favoritism in the primary process to ensure Hillary won the primary. Your response: but Hillary won the primary, therefore she won the primary!

I’ve never argued that the DNC hasn’t played favorites or that the primaries are all totally fair and equitable. My point is always that the only way to get the nomination is by winning the popular vote, because a lot of people seem to think that it wouldn’t matter and someone else would be nominated anyway. We certainly won’t win by sitting out the vote, because all they’ve learned from that is they don’t have to campaign for your vote to win. Third party and Independent legislators hold fewer than 1% of the legislative seats at the state and federal level, so that’s not a viable option. The only thing we have is to all just fucking show up and vote.

So we didn’t have a primary because Biden was the presumptive nominee

The hyperbole does you no favors here. Every state held a primary. Two did not have the presidential race on their ballots (I think Florida and Delaware). In Texas there we 9 presidential candidates on the Democratic primary ballot. I know you really really really want that to be the same as not having a primary, but it isn’t (except for the one race in those two states). Blame the fact that most of them were a joke on the better candidates who chose not to run.

Right, and we get around it by showing up in numbers to vote. But of course people need to actually step up and run for the nominations, too. I’m eager to see how David Hogg’s funding efforts pan out.

They railroaded Clinton into being the 2016 candidate and appointed Harris as the 2024 one.

Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 primaries. Nonratfuckety was needed. No superdelegates needed to cast a single vote at the convention because she had enough pledged elected delegates. The party even changed the rules starting in 2018 so that superdelegates don’t even get a vote in the convention unless the pledged delegates can’t elect a nominee in the first round of voting.

The DNC leadership doesn’t care what their constituents actually want.

Which is why we have to actually show up and out-vote them instead of losing elections to “teach them a lesson” which hurts us more than it does them.

Uncoincidentally, that’s why said leadership needs to be replaced.

Yes indeed. And the DNC leadership elections after the last election have finally started that shift towards more progressive leadership (notice that the leaders are voted into office, that and people had to participate in that vote, it’s kind of a theme here 😋).

The other half of it that everyone ignores is there actually has to be a better candidate campaigning for the nomination. Bernie lost the popular vote in the primaries, but inspired more progressives to campaign, and we got the squad out of it. People need to run, and people need to vote, or you get the status quo with donor-preferred candidates.