Yeah, I saw this from a friend whose comment was, "It says a lot about the fact that people voted for him based on what they thought his race was and not about what he stood for." Because that's the first time voters ever used race as a proxy for their political views!
1 - In the past, I've used a name I assumed was a woman's to make my deciding point in elections (for her, as it turns out), but then you have crazy pants people who make relying on gender alone not such a great idea.
"crazy pants people who make relying on gender alone not such a great idea"
Wait, is "crazy pants people" another term for intersexuals?
Why are there so few moles in politics? Why not run on the Republican ticket in a deep-south district in Mississippi or wherever and then, when elected, shout "Mwahaha fooled you all!!" and vote with the Democrats on every issue until the next election? Even if you get recalled, you could still get a lot of votes in before that gets organized.
When I worked on the Obama campaign I was struck by how easy it would have been to totally screw up the election day protocol if I was an evil Republican agent. All I would have had to do is a bitwise flip on the "have contacted/have not contacted" list and it would have likely swung way more votes than any one lowly organizer could. It'd be fun to infiltrate an enemy political campaign and act as a saboteur. I wish I had thought ahead and joined the College Republicans when I was an undergrad. Of course, that would have involved an awful lot of hanging out with College Republicans...
In some election, I could not bring myself to vote for Schumer or Gillibrand for Senate and so checked a box at random. I hope it wasn't for somebody horrible.
4: Something like Dan Savage's germ warfare?
4: When I was at college, the Young Democrats held an open meeting to elect officers. College Republicans invited themselves and elected their entire slate.
One of the only stories I remember from the Robert Caro book that included LBJ's college years involved a cohort allied with Johnson moving from classroom to classroom to vote in multiple elections, or cast multiple ballots, when that wasn't permitted.
Why are there so few moles in politics?
Don't tell anybody, but the entire Tea Party movement is a false flag operation by liberals seeking to permanently tarnish the Republican brand.
|| personal to Minivet: are you having a burrito for lunch? I am sub-prosopoagnosiacally bad with faces.
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Also: The Houston Community College Board of Trustees is the object of public elections? Granting that Dave Wilson should be shamed for his deceit and for taking advantage of voters' rational ignorance, this looks like a case where fetishizing The Vote led to a loss of public influence.
I suppose, though, that I shouldn't assume that a transparent appointment process - or a vote limited to interested, informed parties at the Community College - was the actual alternative to the electioneering that made this manipulation possible.
Ted Cruz, a Canadian born mole whose Castroist guerrilla father carefully infiltrated him into the hard right conservative movement, then made sure he picked up a slick education in Princeton and Harvard while learning the Frankfurt School/Alinskyist strategy that all students imbibe there. He then rose through the ranks, upended the establishment and became the public face of conservatism. In the meantime papa Cruz spouts crazy nonsense will the fodder for many campaign ads and lamestream media hits during the presidential campaign of 2016 allowing the Warren/di Blasio ticket to win a landslide victory and complete the transformation of the Founder's Christian nation into the Union of Soviet Socialist States. /bizarro WND.
[Actually not _quite_ as implausible the real WND]
I read an entire article about that guy getting elected which went into detail in many areas, but neglected to mention the actual position he was elected to. I had the impression it was some sore of legislative body, but apparently it was the HCCBoT. I guess there is a limited amount of damage he can do there, provided you don't go to that particular school.
Warren/di Blasio ticket
I like this ticket. Warren's lack of international experience is balanced out by di Blasio's experience helping out the Sandanistas.
10: Not a burrito, but yes, I was just down where I assume you're referring to! Sorry if I missed you, I often fail to even look around.
I sorta did an eyebrow question mark at you but I guess I missed!
The pseudo-endorsement ("no, my cousin Ron Wilson, not the trusted public figure Ron Wilson") looks pretty egregious to me. I don't know if it would be possible to sanction him for that, though, or even what penalties would be available.
Jammies, of course, is also guilty of this sort of thing.
Not a burrito, but yes, I was just down where I assume you're referring to!
A taco then? A clam?
For some reason this reminds me of Dave Chapelle's blind, black white supremacist.
I've been advocating entryism for some time now. Especially in rotten boroughs like the one I live in, where the Republicans are practically non-existent, it would be simplicity itself to get bumped up to a pretty decent level of power at the state convention. You wouldn't necessarily have to espouse that much that was hateful to you -- just say you're a single-issue voter against repealing the 2nd Amendment or whatever, the GOP is loaded with those, and everyone can assume that you'll fall into line on the other stuff.
It's like a race-reversed version of Eddie Murphy's The Distinguished Gentleman!
Also, am I right to guess that he did this specifically to mock black voters? There isn't really enough at stake in being on a cc Board of Trustees. He just wanted to be able to say "HAHA tricked you into voting for me!"
Yes, the idea was to create another anecdote about how racist black people are, because they don't look deeply into who they vote for, in elections where nobody has heard of any of the candidates and nobody knows what the official does anyway.
I went back and read some pre-election material on the race it appears that there were some active issues of governance at HCC, and other incumbents lost or are in runoffs. So there probably was a baseline anti-incumbent vote. He seems to be more known for his anti-gay positions more than his racist ones, and sent out attack flyers against a gay white candidate running against an incumbent Hispanic woman (they are in a runoff).
Community college trustee is, I think, the most ridiculous elected position that we vote on, at least locally, and there's plenty of competition for that title. I've certainly never once known anything at all about any of the candidates. I have no idea whatsoever what they do or what their power is. I'm not even sure which community colleges they have power over. I of course usually vote for whoever's name shows up on some endorsement list I have, but there have definitely been times when I've forgotten the list and just picked names at random. And I'm an informed voter, damnit!
24: I'm told that in my part of the state at least, it's where aspiring and connected politicians cool their heels waiting for the next election they can get into.
OT: Most ridiculous defense of Obamacare ever?
This underscores why I, and many others like me, are needed in my state. I am one of the "young, healthy people" they need to sign up to make the whole thing go.
And, frankly, I am proud to be part of the solution, helping to cover the cost of delivering coverage for healthcare in my state. Sure beats the alternative, as Obamacare opponents still manage to insist that healthcare was a gem before the Affordable Care Act came along.
One of the key features of any successful society is how well it take care of its old, poor, and sick. And guess what? The young, healthy, and strong have always played that role.
The hunters spent all day killing a wholly mammoth and dragging back to the cave, only to turn around and share it with the whole clan. No one screamed "that's socialism!" in their faces.
What's so ridiculous about it? (Other than the fact that it involves "wholly" mammoths, that is.)
The hunters spent all day killing a wholly mammoth and dragging back to the cave, only to turn around and share it with the whole clan. No one screamed "that's socialism!" in their faces.
Paleo-socialism! This is how the Dems can win the white male vote!
No one would drag a mammoth anywhere; you butcher it where it falls. I think this means no more hospice for the elderly.
No one would drag a mammoth anywhere
You forget how incredibly strong our pre-grain ancestors were.
Wow, so starvation and lack of food wan't an issue?
... must try and think...
29: you could drag a pygmy mammoth. But they only lived on the (California) Channel Islands. So you couldn't drag it far.
32: We're talking about our ancestors who built the underwater pyramids, here. They'd drag it right down into the channel and down to their aquatic cities.
Once you're in the channel, though, you're towing, not dragging.
But they only lived on the (California) Channel Islands. So you couldn't drag it far.
And on Wrangel Island until well into the 2nd millennium BCE. And, just possibly, on some islands in the Mediterranean.
There's an Egyptian painting of some foreign ambassador apparently leading one on a string (see link in previous para.), which would be a lot easier than dragging it, if it didn't mind going with you.