American Politics: Fiscal Cliffhanger

[Jellian Federation]

So why should the US continue to memorialise those who committed treason against it?

New signs cost money.

It costs more to continue honoring slaver traitors

[Eahland]

Im curious what peoples thoughts are on unopposed candidates in general elections. I always leave it blank and personally I wish no one not even the candidate would vote so they lose and special election is called.

In Mississippi this year several statewide offices will be unopposed and many state legislative districts will be which is honestly pathetic. Get a high school senior to run for all I care.

Yes, we're all aware of your nonsensical beliefs on this.

If I support the candidate, why should I not vote for them just because there isn't a candidate that I don't support on the ballot?

If I don't support them, I'll either leave it blank, or write in someone else, sometimes myself.

My mom is one of the cemetery commissioners in her town, which is an elected position. She's run unopposed each time, because no one else wants the job... they've had trouble at times keeping enough of the seats on the commission filled to make quorum. Should Mom not be allowed to be cemetery commissioner because no one else wants to do it?

[Tarsonis]

New signs cost money.

It costs more to continue honoring slaver traitors

It costs more to keep bringing dead topics from 10 pages ago up to the forefront so you can score cheap points

[The Black Forrest]

Im curious what peoples thoughts are on unopposed candidates in general elections. I always leave it blank and personally I wish no one not even the candidate would vote so they lose and special election is called.

In Mississippi this year several statewide offices will be unopposed and many state legislative districts will be which is honestly pathetic. Get a high school senior to run for all I care.

Either they like the one person or nobody else cares to run. Better the job has a person……

[The Black Forrest]

It costs more to continue honoring slaver traitors

It costs more to keep bringing dead topics from 10 pages ago up to the forefront so you can score cheap points

Indeed. Especially when the comment was handled

[San Lumen]

Im curious what peoples thoughts are on unopposed candidates in general elections. I always leave it blank and personally I wish no one not even the candidate would vote so they lose and special election is called.

In Mississippi this year several statewide offices will be unopposed and many state legislative districts will be which is honestly pathetic. Get a high school senior to run for all I care.

Yes, we're all aware of your nonsensical beliefs on this.

If I support the candidate, why should I not vote for them just because there isn't a candidate that I don't support on the ballot?

If I don't support them, I'll either leave it blank, or write in someone else, sometimes myself.

My mom is one of the cemetery commissioners in her town, which is an elected position. She's run unopposed each time, because no one else wants the job... they've had trouble at times keeping enough of the seats on the commission filled to make quorum. Should Mom not be allowed to be cemetery commissioner because no one else wants to do it?

What’s nonsensical about it? They will win even if only the candidate votes. It would send a message if only one vote was cast.

I never said she shouldn’t be able to run.

[Jellian Federation]

It costs more to continue honoring slaver traitors

It costs more to keep bringing dead topics from 10 pages ago up to the forefront so you can score cheap points

There are no points.
I didn’t want to skip over some of the conversation.

It costs more to keep bringing dead topics from 10 pages ago up to the forefront so you can score cheap points

Indeed. Especially when the comment was handled

So one response and nobody else can respond?



I thought part of this place was that we each contribute our two cents.

[Tarsonis]

Yes, we're all aware of your nonsensical beliefs on this.

If I support the candidate, why should I not vote for them just because there isn't a candidate that I don't support on the ballot?

If I don't support them, I'll either leave it blank, or write in someone else, sometimes myself.

My mom is one of the cemetery commissioners in her town, which is an elected position. She's run unopposed each time, because no one else wants the job... they've had trouble at times keeping enough of the seats on the commission filled to make quorum. Should Mom not be allowed to be cemetery commissioner because no one else wants to do it?

What’s nonsensical about it? They will win even if only the candidate votes. It would send a message if only one vote was cast.

I never said she shouldn’t be able to run.

If nobody can be bothered to challenge them in the regular election, what makes you think a worthwhile opponent will step up in a special election?

[Eahland]

Yes, we're all aware of your nonsensical beliefs on this.

If I support the candidate, why should I not vote for them just because there isn't a candidate that I don't support on the ballot?

If I don't support them, I'll either leave it blank, or write in someone else, sometimes myself.

My mom is one of the cemetery commissioners in her town, which is an elected position. She's run unopposed each time, because no one else wants the job... they've had trouble at times keeping enough of the seats on the commission filled to make quorum. Should Mom not be allowed to be cemetery commissioner because no one else wants to do it?

What’s nonsensical about it? They will win even if only the candidate votes. It would send a message if only one vote was cast.

I never said she shouldn’t be able to run.

No, you said that no one should vote for her, not even her, and so she should lose and they should have to do the election again. What rational purpose does that serve? Why do you think another candidate is magically going to appear the second time who wasn't willing to run the first time? Why should the town not have a functioning cemetery commission because only one person is willing to do the job?

And, again, if I support the candidate who's on the ballot, why should I not vote for them?

I've voted for Bernie Sanders every time he's run since I turned 18 in 1992. He's won all of those races handily. I don't even remember who ran against him in most of those races. What difference does it make if the other guy wasn't even on the ballot? Why should I not vote for Bernie if there were not some other guy that I wouldn't vote for anyway on the ballot?

[Zurkerx]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

[Farnhamia]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

Because he's trying to out-MAGA the MAGA king.

[Urine Town]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

casually adds this to my evidence documentation for why Republicans are slowly plotting to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a Christofascistic dictatorship

God I hope this doesn’t amount to more than an attempt at getting the Democrats angry because hahaha owning libs

[Shrillland]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

casually adds this to my evidence documentation for why Republicans are slowly plotting to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a Christofascistic dictatorship

God I hope this doesn’t amount to more than an attempt at getting the Democrats angry because hahaha owning libs

For a lot of them, that's pretty much it.

[Terra dei Cittadini]

New signs cost money.

It costs more to continue honoring slaver traitors

It costs even more to value a couple bucks over the liberation of the oppressed.

[Rusozak]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

The solution to the progressive-leaning younger generations, bar them from voting. Because they totally won't remember who disenfranchised them when they finally do get allowed into the ballot box.

[Dimetrodon Empire]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

The solution to the progressive-leaning younger generations, bar them from voting. Because they totally won't remember who disenfranchised them when they finally do get allowed into the ballot box.

The idea being that other measures will be passed to ensure we won't be able to access the ballot box later. Even when we do come of age.

[Ryemarch]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

Because he's trying to out-MAGA the MAGA king.

A second-generation Indian-American reaching for the helm of the party stuffed with white supremacists, eh?

[Terra dei Cittadini]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

casually adds this to my evidence documentation for why Republicans are slowly plotting to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a Christofascistic dictatorship

God I hope this doesn’t amount to more than an attempt at getting the Democrats angry because hahaha owning libs

I'm often semi-surprised at how our Nazi cartoon villain right-wing (always the damn conservatives, yep) keeps creating these plans to send the country back to when the 13th amendment didn't exist and the KKK reigned supreme.

[Bombadil]

CNN Town Hall with Trump is starting, because media cannot resist their Trump fix for ratings.

[Port Caverton]

casually adds this to my evidence documentation for why Republicans are slowly plotting to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a Christofascistic dictatorship

God I hope this doesn’t amount to more than an attempt at getting the Democrats angry because hahaha owning libs

I'm often semi-surprised at how our Nazi cartoon villain right-wing (always the damn conservatives, yep) keeps creating these plans to send the country back to when the 13th amendment didn't exist and the KKK reigned supreme.

The Republicans are not Nazis. That's like saying that the Democrats are the CCP.

[Bombadil]

I'm often semi-surprised at how our Nazi cartoon villain right-wing (always the damn conservatives, yep) keeps creating these plans to send the country back to when the 13th amendment didn't exist and the KKK reigned supreme.

The Republicans are not Nazis. That's like saying that the Democrats are the CCP.

Some of them are very much acting like it.

[Terra dei Cittadini]

The 26th Amendment helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. There have been other proposals to lower it, but for one 2024 GOP Candidate who is as relevant as that dead horse in California, Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the age - to 25, with the only exceptions being for citizens 18 or older that are enrolled in the military, work as a first-responder or pass the same civics test given to immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Vivek is 37, btw. The only way this would even come to fruition is if an Amendment was passed. Given literally almost no one supports this, it's rather interesting he would come out publicly in support of such an asinine idea.

The solution to the progressive-leaning younger generations, bar them from voting. Because they totally won't remember who disenfranchised them when they finally do get allowed into the ballot box.

Yep. If we can't beat 'em, disenfranchise them.

[Necroghastia]

I'm often semi-surprised at how our Nazi cartoon villain right-wing (always the damn conservatives, yep) keeps creating these plans to send the country back to when the 13th amendment didn't exist and the KKK reigned supreme.

The Republicans are not Nazis. That's like saying that the Democrats are the CCP.

Well, they're also not cartoons, but I don't see you objecting to that part.

[Port Caverton]

The Republicans are not Nazis. That's like saying that the Democrats are the CCP.

Well, they're also not cartoons, but I don't see you objecting to that part.

Eh. They're doing dumb things daily like cartoon characters.

[Bombadil]

First answer from Trump..

“I think that when you look at that result, and when you look at what happened during that election, unless you’re a very stupid person, you see what happens a lot of people in this audience and maybe a couple of people understand what happened was a rigged election,”

Collins pressed him to acknowledge his 2020 election loss. Trump demurred.