Arthur D. Hlavaty

Some hope

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:49:01 GMT

More states may let everyone vote. [Mother Jones]

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

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A No Trump Bid

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:46:08 GMT

I am not a Hillary hater. She has two of the endemic flaws of American politics: She has made friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness, and she believes in that wonderful idea of America charging into Asia and fixing things that has served us so well in the past. Nevertheless, there are reasons for voting for her besides her not being a tiny-fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret-wearing shitgibbon.

She is a politician, which is not the most excellent thing for a person to be, but saying, “I’ll vote for him because he’s not a politician,” is not unlike “I want him to operate on me because he’s not a doctor.” She seems to be basically a liberal. It’s past time for a woman president. I’m not wildly enthusiastic, but I think there are good things about her, and I would fairly cheerfully vote for her if she were running against a sad, rather than rabid, Republican.

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Obscen act behind a curtain

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:04:58 GMT

I am going to vote for the Democratic candidate in the presidential election, either way. I always vote for the lesser of two evils; we’re choosing someone to lead an armed gang.

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True believer

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:34:10 GMT

The president still seems to believe that unmoored anger is not really a force in politics. Once again, the electorate showed him how wrong he was. The president still seems to believe that calculated vengeance is not really a force in politics. Once again, the electorate showed him how wrong he was. The president still seems to believe that covert (and not so covert) racism is not really a force in politics. Or he believes he has the personal and political skills to overcome all of them with the strength of his personal narrative. Fundamentally, that's the hill he would have his administration die on. Once again, the electorate showed him how wrong he was

--Charlie Pierce (Read the whole thing)

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Graphic

Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:46:33 GMT

Map shows how much the Republicans depend on the white male vote.

Thanx to Feministing

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Election Day

Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:18:41 GMT

There are three kinds of people who should not vote Republican:
* women
* men who love women
* gay men

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Cronyism

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:16:30 GMT

With the election a day off, I hereby endorse my old pal Sean Haugh, the libertarian candidate for the Senate in North Carolina. I will be happy if he wins, assuming he will. (I said he was a libertarian, didn't I?) I will also be happy if he naderizes the Republicans. Come to think of it, I hope a lot of libertarians and other third party candidates do so.

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Voting

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:15:22 GMT

Libertarians and Teabaggers: Don't let the Republicans trick you into thinking they're on your side. If there's no third party candidate, stay home.

Liberals: see you at the polls.

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A necessary form of self-defense

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:41:22 GMT

You gotta vote.

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

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Good votes

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:46:34 GMT

Ohio and even Mississippi get it right.

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Citizenship

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:53:53 GMT

I'm going to vote today. If you want to vote Democrat, go thou and do likewise. If you want to vote Republican, remember: Voting just encourages them.

ETA: I have voted. I miss the clanking machinery and the chance to do something so obscene the state makes you do it behind a curtain.

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