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The news says that Cheney is not ruling out a White House bid. I know of at least one Democrat friend a and maybe another who have said they would cross party lines to vote for her if she ran. It seems a little late to get started, at least for this election. She said given the choice between Biden and Trump, she would vote for Biden. Got to like her for a few things anyway.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...ite-house-bid/
Promoting freedom, liberty and a Democratic Republic over feelings and Maoism/Fascism, one vote at a time.
https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...VA&oe=6572043A
Go Alan, go!
we had nothing on the ballot today, that I could find, anyway. Very weird for a November voting day.
Now I need to go off and double check that.
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Originally Posted by Alan
Are you announcing?
I should know by 8:15PST tonight if I got elected to the non-partisan position of Fire Commissioner. I engineered a takeover of the Commission by finding solid candidates to run against 3 of the 5 incumbents in this election. Unfortunately, one of my "volunteers" stepped out, so I had to run myself.
The Commission has been terribly dysfunctional the past 4 years or so - violating Public Meetings/Public Records laws, engaging in behaviour that drove ~1/2 of our volunteers out, budget mismanagement, violating elections laws, and so on and so on.
Hopefully that all stops today.
Interestingly, for this non-partisan position, I got lots of emails and phone calls asking my opinion on "woke culture", the Israel/Hamas conflict, the Ukrainian war, abortion, and half a dozen other things. Which seemed to not be pertinent to the job, which consists of budgeting and oversight of a fire/ems agency.
Strange days.
Yes, announcing my reasoning for not voting Democrat.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
I attended a meeting of our city’s Planning and Zoning Commission where our attorney argued the legal points of federal, state, and local definitions of “family” having to do with local zoning ordinance. Our case is logical and in sync with state law.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
I could tell the discussion was lost on at least 3 of the 9 Commissioners. They will depend on the recommendations of the city attorney anyway.
It struck me that ChatGPT will soon be able to run these boards and commissions better than the plodding, dunderheaded hoomans. And then, Chat GPT can move on to Legislative bodies.
Fascism is the republican way these days…by trying to overthrow the government and manipulate to a one party system any way possible!
There are so many differing descriptions of fascism I should be more specific when I mention fascism from the left, I'm referring to the Social Fascism movement of the early 1900's which Stalin described as the "twin brother" of social democracy, which we now see in Democratic Socialism. He believed that fascism depended upon the power of social democracy and social democracy was only possible with the support of fascism. We're seeing an awful lot of that these days in our every day politics.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
You and I are both using the term fascism as a pejorative, just applying it to different sides.
Maoism from the democrats. Those of us in the reality based world can only LOL. Meanwhile on the other side of the aisle we have a party leader and likely presidential nominee who promises authoritarianism and using the government to go after his political enemies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...e-second-term/