He could be ousted by a progressive primary challenger, though, as we have been seeing happen quite a bit this year.

What a pointless empty gesture that has no jurisdiction over actual medical practitioners.

I knew someone who voted for Bob Dole in the 1996 general election for no other reason than wanting more of Norm McDonald’s impression of him on SNL.

That’s what a lot of people from center to left thought about Trump in 2016.

I have more than once witnessed 18-20 year old service members drinking openly and legally in bars and restaurants by using their military ID.

Baldur’s Odyssey.

12 easy payments of $0.08!

or even a first private jet.

I expect the only states who complied are ones with a strong enough MAG voting block as to already be pro-Trump at the state level anyway.

Especially soltice bonfires, with witches.

Are … are you fucking the popcorn?

I mean the nerve of that guy skipping over 2-4. Is this the Star Wars of Mambo‽

I didn’t say spend a load of campaign money if every district. Just get somebody on every ballot is a start.

Also see, tariffs raising the cost of building materials.

Target every district! Leave no seat unchallenged!

Shouldn’t we want for the DNC to not prop up some primary candidates over others? I don’t think Hogg should have been procedurally yeated out like he was, but I do feel like the DNC playing favorites is something that we as voters have historically objected to.

But … they just deleted 75 million AI slop songs …

https://tech.yahoo.com/audio/articles/spotify-deleted-75-million-ai-195459893.html

Guess they were just eliminating the competition.

Well I did agree with you that they still should have the single candidate race on the ballot so you could have voiced an opinion. Other people could have run, but didn’t, and that’s on them for having chosen not to. As a far as Harris goes, they did open up the field for people to declare a candidacy to be voted for by the delegates to the convention, and several people did, and the pledged delegates did get their vote. It was a year of extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances. A measly 4% of the primary vote going to Uncommitted was enough to Garner massive media coverage, impacting public opinion, and pushing the donors to pressure the sitting president who was already the presumptive nominee to drop out. You can’t tell me that wasn’t a demonstration of the will of the people, starting with the primaries.

AOC and the rest of the squad got in thru their respective primaries, without party support. So did Mamdani. And Stayed and several others this year.

And I absolutely agree you about your city-wide primary being cancelled. Maybe you could consider joining the party to push for change.

Other people could have run, but didn’t. That’s on them.

I’m showing the observations that would lead one to hypothesize that the elections are rigged against 3rd parties. If you can look at the gerrymandered districts, the ballot access rules, the minimum percentage of the vote needed for public funding, the plurality-based vote counting, etc and then combine that with the statistically non-existent representation of 3rd party and independent legislators at the state and federal level and not suspect that the elections are rigged against 3rd parties then I don’t know what to else to say to you.