I'm centrist enough to consider voting Red over voting Blue this year due to
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 08/07/2024 10:51:46 AM
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Most people who are voting have already made up their minds. And I have to believe that the ones who haven't are going to be swayed more by Project 2025 finally getting some traction in the media than by an old man looking old and tired on a debate stage.
Most people who are voting have already made up their minds. And I have to believe that the ones who haven't are going to be swayed more by Project 2025 finally getting some traction in the media than by an old man looking old and tired on a debate stage.
my concerns about the US on the world stage in our new multipolar world. The post WWII order is fraying - Yes, Biden 2020 and Trump 2024. But I also care more about ending illegal immigration and deporting illegal economic migrants who used the southern porous border.
But are you not at all concerned about how much the media, leaders, and our elected officials have apparently been covering for Biden this past year(s)?
Of course none of this matters as a Massachusetts voter. This state will go to Biden.
When the NYT Editorial Board calls for the incumbent President to step down...
- 29/06/2024 02:51:38 PM
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Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
- 01/07/2024 05:16:12 PM
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Re: Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
- 01/07/2024 05:56:14 PM
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Re: Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
- 01/07/2024 06:03:52 PM
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That term has been used for months if not years, they didn't just make it up...
- 01/07/2024 11:52:54 PM
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Right, but since Joe (and Donald) probably both wear adult diapers...
- 02/07/2024 03:29:23 PM
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Re: Right, but since Joe (and Donald) probably both wear adult diapers...
- 02/07/2024 03:50:08 PM
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Honestly, the word's been used so much it's an established term by now. Don't think they invented it
- 02/07/2024 08:54:50 PM
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How can you say this with a straight face?
- 04/07/2024 03:24:48 PM
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Very easily, I assure you - though there's a difference between 'did' (past) and 'would' (future)
- 04/07/2024 07:23:44 PM
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Re: Very easily, I assure you
- 08/07/2024 05:35:19 PM
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I'm not fool enough to think I can go toe to toe with you on the Russian-American relationship.
- 08/07/2024 09:33:57 PM
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Security doesn't exist in a vacuum
- 09/07/2024 02:42:36 AM
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Sure, but Russia is a threat to others far more than others threaten it.
- 10/07/2024 09:45:58 PM
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That's actually empirically not true
- 11/07/2024 02:35:23 PM
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You're right that I was thinking of Eastern Europe re: NATO, not Central Asia or the Caucasus.
- 12/07/2024 04:07:43 PM
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Let's not fool ourselves about Montenegro and Macedonia
- 15/07/2024 03:41:14 PM
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A smarter NATO
- 16/07/2024 11:35:46 AM
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Sure, for those two it was clearly more the political factors. For others not, it varied.
- 16/07/2024 06:02:47 PM
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I would pay quite a bit of money for us to switch to even only six months of campaigning. *NM*
- 07/07/2024 01:58:18 AM
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It was a bad debate, but I can't imagine a lot of people are actually swayed by it.
- 07/07/2024 01:56:44 AM
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I'm centrist enough to consider voting Red over voting Blue this year due to
- 08/07/2024 10:51:46 AM
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I've voted Libertarian for President the last two times
- 08/07/2024 02:55:35 PM
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You make a good point about the popular vote.
- 08/07/2024 03:01:42 PM
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Re: You make a good point about the popular vote.
- 08/07/2024 03:26:20 PM
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This is the part that bothers me as well.
- 08/07/2024 03:46:15 PM
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I agree he's putting his ego ahead of the Republic.
- 08/07/2024 04:44:15 PM
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I will vote for who I think will do best at standing up to Xi and Putin.
- 08/07/2024 05:21:43 PM
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Sensible enough as as criterium for your vote - but unsurprisingly I don't agree with the reasoning.
- 10/07/2024 10:21:24 PM
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Your analogy is pretty poor honestly.
- 08/07/2024 04:54:45 PM
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You also are trying to redefine how the score is kept
- 08/07/2024 05:44:02 PM
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Sure, that's how it has always been - doesn't mean it's fair or that the popular vote is irrelevant.
- 08/07/2024 08:06:01 PM
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If popular votes were paramount then Rassemblement National
- 08/07/2024 08:29:13 PM
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FPTP sucks in general, yes, whether in the US, in France, or elsewhere.
- 08/07/2024 09:53:57 PM
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Re: FPTP sucks in general, yes, whether in the US, in France, or elsewhere.
- 08/07/2024 10:34:12 PM
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To be clear I didn't say it should be eliminated entirely, but as for what would happen if it was...
- 08/07/2024 10:50:57 PM
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You're wrong.
- 09/07/2024 01:19:30 AM
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You're still looking at it from the current two-party system framework.
- 09/07/2024 07:17:39 AM
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Re: You're still looking at it from the current two-party system framework.
- 09/07/2024 01:45:33 PM
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I meant California
- 08/07/2024 08:43:35 PM
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The popular vote is the popular vote - one citizen, one vote, wherever they may live.
- 08/07/2024 10:37:56 PM
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I'm concerned about a lot of things.
- 09/07/2024 04:41:03 AM
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From a left of center/liberalish substack author about the Republican national platform
- 09/07/2024 11:15:00 AM
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It's an interesting read.
- 09/07/2024 09:46:47 PM
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It would be an interesting read, if it actually meant anything, but does it?
- 12/07/2024 04:42:21 PM
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James Carville has a pretty interesting suggestion in today's NYT
- 08/07/2024 06:32:51 PM
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I think Biden and his Inner Circle are playing the clock
- 10/07/2024 12:41:20 PM
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I don't care for Biden, but I think that time has long since come and gone. *NM*
- 10/07/2024 02:25:13 PM
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Agreed that it wouldn't be a good idea for Obama and Clinton to take a leading role.
- 10/07/2024 09:49:28 PM
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