Bleary eyed
It's 10 o'clock Monday night.
Delved into my official Washington State Voters Pamphlet, doing my civic duty studying the Initiatives, Measures, Federal candidates and their statements, State candidates and their statements, then County candidates and their statements, and a slew of State and County measures and amendments.
All 135 pages of it.
Ten candidates for POTUS alone. Five of them I recognize. Two of the five I'm sick of hearing about. But the other three, Jill Stein, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Cornel West I paid some attention to. Kennedy has since dropped out and went to the dark side (but not the darkest side). I know well what Stein stands for and continues to represent my values and morals.
West is a rather vague candidate who lists as his Community service as "taught in prison for 50 years", leaving me to wonder what he was serving 50 years in prison for?
He certainly could use a good proof-reader.
I did read through the statements of the remaining five candidates just to make certain I've not missed a messiah there somewhere.
Nope.
The rest of the Fed, State, and County candidates was made easier by determining who the incumbent was, and then voting for the other guy.
Breezed right through there.
The initiatives, measures, and amendments I painstakingly read through, both the arguments for and against, including the rebuttals to for and against, all on glossy 8 x 10 photos with pictures and arrows on the back.......no, wait that was a song in my head.
Anyway, I'm tired and confused and definitely bleary eyed and ready for bed.
Lets see, there's an envelope around here somewhere with my name on it.
I can really understand why so few voters participate.
I'll post this in the morning.
Good morning. Thread is open.
Comments
The CO pamphlet
was about 50 pages, and then you have to add in the county-only sub-pamphlet. Colorado has a proposition for ranked-choice voting that is so bad that even the dems oppose it, for example.
I waded through all that dreck, and voted the day I got my ballot. Voted for Stein, voted against Boebert (who is carpetbagging in my district after getting thrown out on the Western Slope), voted not to retain any of the judges, and voted no on the vast majority of the propositions. Took forever. Dropped it off in the county lockbox the next day, and washed my hands of the whole sordid affair.
If they didn't mail me my ballot, I certainly wouldn't have bothered. It is just the repressed Calvinist in me that makes me do it at all.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Yeah, most of my votes
were against, incumbents, initiatives, amendments, propositions, etc.
One such prop. was a levy lid raise on property taxes of 41 cents for police.
But reading through till the end, I found they slipped in an automatic 5% increase per year.
It will probably pass because most people will not read much of the details of the proposition, let alone the whole thing.
And Stein is my non-evil preference.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
There wuld never be an energy shortage if we could do the
same thing with slimy politicians.
Politicians would gum up the works
And it would never be reliable power.
But thanks for the clip. Looks interesting.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I looked at
our sample ballots. There were no state wide propositions to vote against.
Stein is on the ballot.
There are a few Democrats on the ballot for state rep, and Ted Cruz has opponents in the D and Libertarian party.
We shall see how many Texans are genocidists.
Hope you got sleep and plenty of morning coffee, e1. Thanks for the OT, friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It seems that voting
for either party is pro Genocide. I see little difference.
The Libertarians I'm unsure about.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Unsurprisingly there seems to be a lack of coverage of this
in the MSM.
Yeah, truly a brave new world
Lotta talk in the alt media about something really big (Black Swan Event) gonna happen to distract the world from focusing on the big meetup.
Be ready for it.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
that is a fun looking bunch
.
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it is almost like they enjoy saving the world
I know you won't respond, so thanks to e1 for
the OT anyway.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security