Every 4 years, hundreds of millions of people set their conscience to the side and continue to vote for the thing they'll complain about until the next time, when they do it all again.
I see lots of people talking about how bad this is, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it in light of Trump's utter mishandling of Hurricane Maria.
It's been 7 years but it's absolutely salt in the wound.
Maybe if there were a story in a book about people not listening to NOAA and they were destroyed in a massive flood. Maybe, just maybe, that would help them understand.
It's sad how much this will hurt good people who work for the Washington Post and how little this will affect Bezos.
I think they think Donald Trump is the standard. It's important to remember that he isn't. That's an easy comparison, and some roadkill wins that contest. Being better than the worst isn't enough of a selling point. 2016 proved that. Be better.
So many options for the title:
Jiminy Cricket is a Putin plant.
America's Collective Conscience: Misguided or Manchurian Candidate?
Ask not what your country can do for genocide, ask what genocide can do for your country.
This is so much satire that it's a little hard to tell if it's satire.
But, if the goal isn't necessarily to win the election, only to absolve yourself of blame if you lose the election, then blaming 3rd party voters is the stance for you.
Could it be a poor political platform, or just not even campaigning in the state? Maybe it's just not being appealing enough to the 40% of the electorate that doesn't vote. Couldn't be.
I feel like all the hate for 3rd parties is the same as the hate for immigrants. It's all redirection and obfuscation.
He needed 2 or 3 years to explore student loans. Maybe this is more complicated, so it will take infinitely longer.
Here's the one I have:
I have another Logitech one that cost about $25.
I really, really like it. They're really durable, easy for a kid to use, and pretty inexpensive.
Only con is if you drop it and the ball pops out, it can roll under the couch.
I use a HTPC. Using a traditional mouse is the worst. For a long time I used a Mac Mini because the Apple Bluetooth trackpad is the only external trackpad I've ever used that's any good.
Then I got a Bluetooth trackball mouse. It's by far my favorite. It's rugged, easy to toss around, and it just lives on a couch arm.
The only steaming device I have is a Chromecast that's exclusively used to turn on and off the TV.
As a pretty left person who lives in Tennessee, please get rid of it. Anytime I have this conversation with folks on the right, I always point out that there are more Republican voters in California than Texas. That usually gets them to concede.
Perhaps the strongest argument that it is God punishing sinful states. The old switcheroo right there.
Can't be a coincidence that these oil rigs are in the Gulf of MEXICO, creating storms to illegally cross our borders.
Or...
Dems are trying to assassinate TRUMP again with this sad, pitiful storm. Never seen one more pitiful. Mar a Lago is great. Really great. Trump will ride out this hurricane. Never fear.
You can't use box office take to measure a movie's success.
Shawshank Redemption is often regarded as the best movie of all time. It was a box office flop.
Battlefield Earth is often regarded as the worst movie of all all time. It was also a box office flop.
Using those two examples, obviously the only true measure of a movie's long term success is whether or not they overuse Dutch angles.
If Folie a Deux doesn't use a shit load of Dutch angles, maybe it'll turn out OK.
People talk about it all the time. Ron Paul was a household name. People we're talking about RFK JR a year ago. People were talking about 3rd parties due to Biden's stance on Palestine. People were talking about it after that first debate. All that's fine, but it only makes the two main parties sweat within 30 days of election. That's when all the "throwing your vote away" rhetoric ramps up.
Rather than doing better, working harder, or standing on better policy to turn out the 35% of people who don't vote, it's easier to vilify 1% of the people who do. That's a problem.
Yeah, but the US is too big for trains too. It's too big for planes, cars, all of it. It's been nearly 25 years since Herbert Garrison invented the gyroscopic monowheel but just like Nikola Tesla, he's being silenced by all these corporate fatcats and government bailouts.
Crazy to know that Cleopatra was born closer to the creation of Halo: Combat Evolved than to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Most standups are bad because they're not used as a quick collaboration tool, they're used as a demonstration to prove you're working, and then the least productive people talk the most because they're the most desperate to prove they're working.