If a third party makes up 5% of the vote, then in 2020 they get all the press and attention as the other 2 major parties will. And I got a feeling that may actually happen thus election. If not 2020 then 2024 for sure. Things are a changin, yes they are.

 

That just works into the hands of parties that have high compliance rates.

 

In today's climate, that would mean a permanence of the D party for decades if not lifetimes.

 

The only way a third party works is if it decimates the weaker party and transforms/becomes the viable second party.

 

If that happens, it must happen nearly instantaneously.  Otherwise, we've given permission to a ruling class that will never be undone unless by another Revolution to replace the government once again.

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"You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud."

If a third party makes up 5% of the vote, then in 2020 they get all the press and attention as the other 2 major parties will. And I got a feeling that may actually happen thus election. If not 2020 then 2024 for sure. Things are a changin, yes they are.

 

All they get is public funding for the next race, which wouldn't be much but would be more than what they raised this year.  They still would get ignored by the media though. 

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Change of subject...when do the numbers start coming in?

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Have you seen my baseball?

I'm just gonna go ahead and say what so many of us have wanted to for such a long time. It's not something I would think twice about saying to anyone else on this board if they were so committed to the rabbit hole that you find yourself in here. No special treatment, no kid gloves, just a simple, honest request:


Shut up.

 

There is no reason to think my post was an attempt to get special treatment or tell me to shut up.

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I'm sort of kidding, but sort of not.


Some black people refer to themselves as black, others as African American, other as colored. Same as homosexuals, gay, alternative, lesbian.


But if a straight white person says the wrong terminology to the "wrong person"...they get offended.

Let me just make you aware, you will NEVER hear an LGBT person describe themselves as "living an alternative lifestyle." That's a term people who know jack [BLEEP] about LGBT people use and implies people are gay by choice. If the thought of getting down with a same sex partner is wholly unappealing to you, that means you are straight and could not "choose" a "lifestyle" that would magically make it something you want to do.

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Only a chump boos the home team!

Get with it mods! These posts are not accounting for daylight savings time.

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Only a chump boos the home team!

I don't know, bisexuals choose to be with both genders.

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Have you seen my baseball?

I don't know, bisexuals choose to be with both genders.

Emphasis on the "you don't know" part. I am assuming you are straight. If you are not physically attracted to men, you could not "choose" an "alternative lifestyle" which would make getting with a guy a desirable option for you. Some people.. wait for it.. are attracted to both sexes.

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Only a chump boos the home team!

Just saw the OP, but is it illegal to take pictures of your ballot?

Technically,yes.

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I get that some people are attracted to both sexes and they have no choice about it...but they make the choice to either be with both genders or not to be with both genders.  That is a choice.

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Have you seen my baseball?

I get that some people are attracted to both sexes and they have no choice about it...but they make the choice to either be with both genders or not to be with both genders. That is a choice.

A bisexual person may choose to be in a monogamous relationship with someone of the same sex. It does not mean they are no longer attracted to members of the opposite sex. If they are "with both genders", they are in a threesome.

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Only a chump boos the home team!

I didn't mean both genders at the SAME TIME...but either way, the decision or choice would have to be made by that individual.

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Have you seen my baseball?

I didn't mean both genders at the SAME TIME...but either way, the decision or choice would have to be made by that individual.

They wouldn't be making a choice at all with respect to whether or not they have sexual attraction to both sexes. It doesn't work that way. Just like you could not turn on same sex attraction, they could not turn off one or the other. The point that I wanted to impress upon you is that nobody you will ever meet who is LGBT will self identity as making a lifestyle choice. That's a term non-LGBT people use to explain something they know little to nothing about.

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Only a chump boos the home team!

lol kotite confirmed hippie

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OMG.  Just like I would have to make the decision to sleep with a particular woman...somebody that is bisexual would have to make the decision to actually sleep with someone of the same sex.  That's what I'm trying to say here...I already understand that they don't make the choice to be attracted to people of the same sex.

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OMG.  Just like I would have to make the decision to sleep with a particular woman...somebody that is bisexual would have to make the decision to actually sleep with someone of the same sex.  That's what I'm trying to say here...I already understand that they don't make the choice to be attracted to people of the same sex.

 

Yeah, I don't think SF is particularly off-base here so I think it's safe to let him off the hook, K.

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<i>Behold man's final mad disgrace.</i>

<i>He chops his nose to spite his face.</i>

 

-Etrigan the Demon

 

Well I did it, I held my nose and voted for Trump........

 

I'm the Anti-Hilldebeast.......

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lol kotite confirmed hippie

No. I just know a number of LGBT people and don't like it when people promote falsehoods either through malice or lack of knowledge.

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Only a chump boos the home team!

Voted around 11.  As promised, I let my grandson cast the Presidential vote.  I won't say who he chose because that's his business to tell or not.  He'll be old enough in 2020 to do it himself. 

 

I prevented a fender bender as 2 cars were backing out right towards each other and neither driver was looking back.  I yelled STOP! loud enough that everyone in the parking lot stopped LOL.  They stopped about a foot shy of hitting.  The cop by the door thanked me for saving him some paperwork. 

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Well I did it, I held my nose and voted for Trump........


I'm the Anti-Hilldebeast.......

You should treat yourself by linking to a biased "news" article.

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Only a chump boos the home team!