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Beth Gallagher

Beth Gallagher

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This is the place for "political droppings"... topics of interest but not particularly thread worthy.

For instance, I was reading that the top two polling candidates for governor of California are both Republicans. I have to wonder how that will pan out in the "ranked choice voting" situation. Anyone have thoughts?
 
Does California have Ranked Choice voting? I thought only Maine and Alaska had been so stupid. I guess California IS pretty stupid though. As to how it would work out, it depends on how many Democrats run. Many times, there are multiple Democrats running and all but one drop out before the election to avoid splitting the vote. Republicans are often too stubborn to back out for the good of the state/county/city and split the vote, even if there is a majority of Republicans registered. It results in the Democrat winning even in heavily-red areas.
 
Don Alaska said:
Does California have Ranked Choice voting? I thought only Maine and Alaska had been so stupid. I guess California IS pretty stupid though. As to how it would work out, it depends on how many Democrats run. Many times, there are multiple Democrats running and all but one drop out before the election to avoid splitting the vote. Republicans are often too stubborn to back out for the good of the state/county/city and split the vote, even if there is a majority of Republicans registered. It results in the Democrat winning even in heavily-red areas.
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I had to look it up since an article I read referenced RCV in CA. Apparently it is just in certain cities, most notably San Francisco. So I guess it wouldn't apply in state-wide elections. I'm still unclear on this.
 
Ranked choice was pushed into smaller states to allow people like Murkowski and Collins to be elected since they might not survive a real primary. I flew back to Alaska with Senator Murkowski on the same plane. I was surprised she had no security. She was escorted by two lobbyists from the teacher's unions but no other accompaniment.
 
Not sure this is political, but in Europe even the mainstream media is advising people to hold around $1000 in cash in mixed bills and change, carrying enough for a week's groceries and a tank of gas.

The issue is the growing frequency and duration of both network and power outages that can render cards useless. Fragile and overrun with immigrants, yet politicians fiddle while it all burns. Of course they also rejigger and re-run elections when they don't like the outcome.

It sure does get hard to understand what the intended endgame of bad policy might be.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
This is the part of the puzzle that I cannot understand. Why would even the richest of the elites want the middle classes to fail? What can possibly be the "win" in that situation?
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It's a real head-scratcher. I can only think of one outcome they might see as favorable: neo-feudalism where the high and mighty live even higher, if only by pushing everyone lower into a powerless servant population.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
It's a real head-scratcher. I can only think of one outcome they might see as favorable: neo-feudalism where the high and mighty live even higher, if only by pushing everyone lower into a powerless servant population.
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I think that idea might be behind some of it. The "elites" want to be come a new "noble class" with those below them bowing to them as they pass. The cash reserve thing I think is related to expected cyber attacks from Russia (in the case of Europe), China or Iran (in the case of the U.S.) If any of you have been affected by times that the internet goes down and no cards can be used, you will know what that means. There have been isolated instances of this in recent years, but no nation-state or terror group has made a concerted effort to do it on a widespread area.
 
Don Alaska said:
I think that idea might be behind some of it. The "elites" want to be come a new "noble class" with those below them bowing to them as they pass. The cash reserve thing I think is related to expected cyber attacks from Russia (in the case of Europe), China or Iran (in the case of the U.S.) If any of you have been affected by times that the internet goes down and no cards can be used, you will know what that means. There have been isolated instances of this in recent years, but no nation-state or terror group has made a concerted effort to do it on a widespread area.
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Good afternoon to all-

We need to add to the last sentence here the word "yet".

I am concerned at the level of electronic and tech system that EVERYTHING- commercial, medical, and even educational - exists on at this time. All it would take for a world-wide collapse of so much that our lives revolve around is someone who could bring down the power grid or the communication grid.

If you are a person such as I am who does not even carry a cell phone with me, there is so much in this world that I can't access or even be aware of. -to tell the truth, I don't feel so very deprived at this.

And Mr. Alaska- I agree with your statement "The 'elites" want to be a new "noble class with those below them bowing down to them as they pass."

We can see this sort of thing coming- very fast- in our daily lives and news reports of powerful people in high positions who disregard the rules of law, act on their own impulse, and decide how lives will be taken and how laws will be disregarded.

it's getting closer by the day.

you all be safe and keep well- and confusion to the republicans
Ed
 
I think the only time anyone sees Collins in Maine is the few months leading up to an election every six years, which could be why most of the pictures you see of her are old, from the last time she was in the state.
 
Chuck Schumer proves once again that he is a massive waste of oxygen.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer has filed a bill to give the pride flag the same legal standing as the U.S. flag and military banners.

The proposal, which faces long odds in the Republican-controlled Congress, comes in response to a simmering dispute over the Trump administration's decision to remove an LGBTQ pride flag from Stonewall National Monument in New York City.

Schumer said Stonewall is "sacred ground and Congress must act now to permanently protect the Pride flag and what it stands for" by granting federal protections that would allow it to be flown outside government buildings, and National Park sites.

"Trump’s hateful crusade must end," Schumer said in a statement. "The very core of American identity is liberty and justice for all – and that is what this legislation would protect: each national park’s ability to make their own decision about what flag can be flown."
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
We can't fix the problem without making some very hard decisions.

The REAL Reason Why Young Women Are Going HARD LEFT
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I can hardly disagree with anything said in the video. I would agree that motherhood is the highest calling of humanity and i why it has been protected by society until very recently in the West. It is still revered in most of the world and is why Western nations rely on immigration to fill societal needs.
 
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) got into a verbal tussle during the confirmation hearing for Surgeon General-designate Dr. Casey Means.

Mullin to Sanders: "You're part of the system. You're part of the problem. You've been sitting here longer than I've even been alive. This is your problem. You should have fixed this a long time ago," he said of the woefully broken health care system. You've been ... on it so long, what have you been doing?" :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:


 
It seems like every month or so, and sometimes even more often, the paid protesters are trading in one sign for one that looks almost the same and are out marching around.
Usually this happens in some left-leaning city, like New York, and those protesters are always in the news, making it look like everyone feels this way.
The people who are celebrating the same event (as @Beth Gallagher mentioned about Iran and Venezuela) are barely in the news, if at all.

I have been reading that the company that owns Paramount just bought out Warner Brothers, which has CNN under its umbrella of companies. The owner of Paramount is said to be a Trump supporter, so it is possible that the CNN news may reflect more true information eventually, if the owner is indeed a conservative.

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Beth Gallagher said:
This guy has an excellent take-down on Chuck Schumer and the democrats. He makes valid points and I hope people are listening.

CAUTION: F-bombs

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When you listen to Schumer's speech, he confuses DOGE with the SAFE Act. The guy in the video supports the viewpoint of 85% of Americans on both side of the aisle. Jim Crow was run by the Democrats by the way.
 
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