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Sorry. I simply believe it wasn’t a good election to give up a meaningful vote

Finally a university with backbone. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/14/metro/harvard-response-trump-demands/ Harvard joins Princeton in pushback, unlike Columbia which caved. Would that our senators showed some.

"One time I farted so long that I was surprised my butt didn't have to stop and catch its breath." Interviewer: "... and an occasion that you are not so proud of?"

Thank you for asking. I most aligned with Chase Oliver with the exception of his stance on Gun Control. Especially liked his position on immigration - which echoed some comments I've made on here. https://votechaseoliver.com/immigration/

I agree that it's most definitely a wasted vote. That said, I think the only justification for your choice would be if you truly believed that voting for the independent reflected your values, moral principles, and beliefs.

Are you saying that the US can only ever function as a two party system? This whole saga has shown just how flawed the American version of democracy is.

I was going to jump in, but then I remembered this is not SC.

Hold that thought. I gotta get some popcorn. This is about to get real interesting.

In a winner-take-all system. voting for a no-hope candidate is a wasted vote.

Hi Wendy, Thanks, I think. Jerry Baumchen PS) Sorry, Tanya.

When PM Liz Truss did something comparably stupid in the UK in 2022 she was thrown out on her ass in a couple of weeks. We have to put up with Trump for another 21 months. There's a lot to be said for a parliamentary system.

Hi folks, Now that we know Trump is going to try to run for a 3rd term, my daughter thinks we should just run Obama against him. Sounds good to me, Jerry Baumchen

Jessica Brosche is a 29 year old woman from Berlin; a tattoo artist. She was arrested on Jan 25th for unknown reasons; she was coming into the US on a legal tourist visa. She was held in solitary confinement for a week, where she became psychotic due to the close confines. She was then placed in a regular prison for six weeks before being deported to Germany. You think that's worthy? You feel safer yet? Lukas Sielaff was arrested Feb 29th at a legal border crossing because he answered a question incorrectly, after misunderstanding the immigration official's question due to his accent. (The agent asked him "where do you live?" and he told the agent where he was staying rather than where he lived.) He was also here on a legal visa. He was jailed for two weeks before being returned to Germany. Feel safe? Lennon Tyler was also arrested Feb 29th, handcuffed to a bench, then transferred to a prison cell. She was a US citizen. Her crime? She was the girlfriend of Sielaff. How much safer are you now? If they arrest another 100 young American women, will that make you able to sleep at night? How about 200? How about if they deport all German tattoo artists here legally? Will that ease your night terrors? Have you ever been pulled over by a cop, then handcuffed and pushed down into the street because of the color of your skin? Have you ever been fired because you were "DEI" (i.e. a black or a woman?) Ever been tied to a fence and beaten because you were gay? Then you got special treatment. The irony of republicans wanting to call someone who vandalizes a car a "domestic terrorist" - while claiming that all the people who looted, vandalized and pillaged the Capitol while gouging out the eyes of police are just innocent tourists - is amazing. I am not surprised you don't see that.

In doing so, district administrators appear to have inadvertently drummed up division and controversy of their own. Lol at ‘inadvertently’. Anyway, this is all part of the far right shell game. You can’t ask kids not to be racist because that’s pushing an ideology. When the kids grow up and go to college the university can’t make any effort to better think about how to admit a fair proportion of qualified black kids because that’s race based. They can give preferential admission to an unlimited number of alumni kids - who surprise surprise are almost all white - because that’s just fine and is perfectly acceptable in the ‘meritocracy’. Then when those college graduates apply for jobs you can’t give any consideration to whether there are likely to be equally talented minorities graduating from less prestigious colleges, and you can’t do anything to try and stop the racists who were never taught not to be racist from bringing their prejudices into the interview room - because if you did that would literally be worse than burning black people to death. Its all the circle of white supremacist life.