Matt Allison Posted yesterday at 03:31 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:31 AM The way Russia is losing their war, it won’t be long before Putin has to pull trolls off their computers and send them to Ukraine to be cannon fodder… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Larsen Posted yesterday at 05:48 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 05:48 AM (edited) 12 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said: Vince P. posted this on Facebook today: Is this guy transgender? He's looking more feminine now. IMO Edited yesterday at 05:50 AM by Sandy Larsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted yesterday at 05:53 AM Share Posted yesterday at 05:53 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Larsen Posted yesterday at 06:08 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 06:08 AM 4 minutes ago, Matt Allison said: Matt, I watched this video a day or two ago. If anybody wants to know the truth about what's happening with congressional Democrats regarding the Biden presidential run, AOC will give it to you straight. I didn't post the video here because it is long. But I did watch the whole thing. AOC wants Biden to stay in the race. She doesn't ask others to feel the same way. She just explains why she does. Bernie Sanders wants Biden to stay in too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fite Posted yesterday at 07:56 AM Share Posted yesterday at 07:56 AM (edited) Having recently watched the elections in France I can't help but think how broken the US election system is in comparison. All candidates from all parties in a race (both at the presidential and assembly levels) run against all other candidates in the first round. Elections are run in a 6 week period not 2 year campaigns. No one state/region is given the power of going first. All vote on the same day. There is no power given to a South Carolina or Iowa or New Hampshire to winnow the field for all other regions as in US primaries. (An aside question for the Democratic Party why South Carolina - the state that started the Civil War?) Paper ballots - you choose up a pieces of paper with the candidates names on them from tables then go into a booth and put the one that you are voting for into an envelope which is then deposited into a box on a table in front of the election judges. Proof of identity is required. Your name is checked off on entry and vote deposit. To officially be a candidate, contenders must, among other things, be nominated by at least 500 elected representatives (e.g. mayors, deputies) There is an upper limit on spending which is monitored by a committee Once the official campaign has begun, each candidate must have strictly the same amount of airtime on TV and radio. If no candidate wins over 50% of the vote, a second round is organized. Only the two candidates with the most votes qualify for the 2nd round. The candidate with the absolute majority of votes cast is elected. Blank (blank - none of the above ballots are available) or spoiled votes are not taken into account to determine the outcome. But the blank ballots are counted - in the last French presidential election they were 6.5% of the votes cast. Elections are held on Sundays and not on a weekday - most people are off work and most businesses closed - making it easier for people to vote. IMO - the US system was probably the best for its time (200+ years ago) but is now broken and doesn't work as well as others. Recently ending up with a choice between 2 candidates with low approval ratings. Is it time for a Constitutional Convention? - either fix it or get it over with. source to presidential election info Edited 23 hours ago by Bill Fite adding Sunday election day & blank vote % Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 1 hour ago, Bill Fite said: Having recently watched the elections in France I can't help but think how broken the US election system is in comparison. All candidates from all parties in a race (both at the presidential and assembly levels) run against all other candidates in the first round. Elections are run in a 6 week period not 2 year campaigns. No one state/region is given the power of going first. All vote on the same day. There is no power given to a South Carolina or Iowa or New Hampshire to winnow the field for all other regions as in US primaries. (An aside question for the Democratic Party why South Carolina - the state that started the Civil War?) Paper ballots - you choose up a pieces of paper with the candidates names on them from tables then go into a booth and put the one that you are voting for into an envelope which is then deposited into a box on a table in front of the election judges. Proof of identity is required. Your name is checked off on entry and vote deposit. To officially be a candidate, contenders must, among other things, be nominated by at least 500 elected representatives (e.g. mayors, deputies) There is an upper limit on spending which is monitored by a committee Once the official campaign has begun, each candidate must have strictly the same amount of airtime on TV and radio. If no candidate wins over 50% of the vote, a second round is organized. Only the two candidates with the most votes qualify for the 2nd round. The candidate with the absolute majority of votes cast is elected. Blank (blank - none of the above ballots are available) or spoiled votes are not taken into account. IMO - the US system was probably the best for its time (200+ years ago) but is now broken and doesn't work as well as others. Recently ending up with a choice between 2 candidates with low approval ratings. Is it time for a Constitutional Convention? - either fix it or get it over with. source to presidential election info Wow,! That sounds fantastic Bill! There's also parts of it that is much needed campaign reform in the U.S. The money in politics has just made everything so convoluted now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fite Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago (edited) deleted message for edit to French election comparison - added Sunday voting & counting blank ballots info Edited 22 hours ago by Bill Fite added info to original post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago Donald "Bone Spurs" is looking less blimp-ic. I suspect that he's taking Ozempic. Though the man is a zero, he thinks he's a hero, whose athletic feats are Olympic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Hey, if it can't be RFK Jr., Timothy Mellon is now giving 75 million to Trump! ***** Trump’s biggest donor is a Gilded Age heir also backing RFK Jr. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/17/timothy-mellon-donor-trump-rfk/?wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3e69eaf%2F669d2870d58c452cbbe8686e%2F646f594f44d19211b692299e%2F30%2F48%2F669d2870d58c452cbbe8686e I wonder why sizing of letters is disabled in some posts? I had no intention of making my top comment as big as a typical Morrow post, but I wasn't given a size option!! Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Israel's Continued Denial of the Reality of the Occupation Will Be Its Ruin - Haaretz Editorial - Haaretz.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Biden drops out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Mass protests coming Wednesday https://wapo.st/4d9CpWv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race (nbcnews.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago 28 minutes ago, Kirk Gallaway said: Biden drops out! WOW! Good for Joe! He has served our country well, and this is a noble decision, IMO. My hunch is that his neurologic deterioration has been quite recent, and that it has taken Joe and his advisors a while-- as is often the case-- to come to grips with the problem. Now what? Hopefully, an old-fashioned, open convention to select the nominee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago I actually HOPE we’re now in uncharted waters here, and not in some horrible repeat of 1968. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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