The next step would have depended on the Democrats sticking to their high-minded guns. They should have voted against the final version -- the Dallas Woodhouse-branded solution for discouraging the youth vote by whatever means. (In Jackson County, where Republican members of the local BOE were highminded enough to recommend a campus early voting site for Western Carolina, they got threatened by higher ups. One of the Republicans resigned in protest.) Voting against the Republican majority on the board forces by law a punt to the State Board of Elections, where, yes, another negative outcome is assured. The three Republican majority on the SBOE are in on the fix. But Democrats who don't keep fighting, even in the face of insurmountable odds -- it's not a good look.
I would like this not to be the Democratic brand in North Carolina: Caving, like DeeCee Dems. Make motions and argue to keep a voting site for young people, like you truly believe in what you're saying, like a hero for the people, and then turn around and vote with the opposition so that there cannot be a test of the decision at the State Board of Elections.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind that final unanimous vote.
No, never mind. In fact, just STFU.
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Myles Horton frequently reminded me that other forms of voting exist besides
ballots. See what I'm saying?
How democratic!
Voter suppression is an effort of diminishing returns, just like the military industrial complex. As the whack-a-mole strategy accelerates each suppressed vote costs more and more, and a volatile resistance is generated. The reason an advanced technologically boondoggled military loses asymmetrical wars
is unit cost. Imagine shooting down a $1,000 drone with a $500,000 missile.
Such an exchange extinguishes itself. There is no place to borrow the money.
Wealthy contributors don't support lost causes. Concentration of wealth is its own punishment. That's why Trump is down to 16% support. The stock market
is notte economy.
The guardrails are so high! So I get it why Jerry hasn't posted in a week.
There's not much acceptable stuff to be said. Dangerous decisions are being made tonight (Saturday 20th). Is Trump up in Thurmont (Camp David) or elsewhere, or in intensive care? If Iran doesn't accept a settlement our
economic system will likely collapse. Food and gas will be scarce and
too high for most people. Same if Israel and USA are hatching another surprise attack (maybe nuclear). It's like "Rebel Without a Cause" because our leather jacket sleeve is caught on the door handle. Hormuz is definitely closed and the war is lost. Evel Knievel is definitely gonna miss his landing ramp.
How badly will America be injured?
The stock market is where everyone's money is. Up or down, your future is tied to Trump.
To the unenlightened, shooting down a $1,000 drone with a $500,000 missile seems stupid. But that $500,000 missile may have saved MILLIONS of dollars in equipment and more importantly, saved people from death or injury.
And, when a drone is fired at us, we know exactly where it came from and then pound the Earth flat along with the people involved.
Reports are Israel's Iron Dome is using lasers to down drone swarm attacks for pennies. We are developing such technology ourselves.
War is a constantly evolving battle of tit-for-tat.
Anyone who believes that can be bought for $20 bucks.
The stock market has little to do with the economy.
Economy is measured in labor.
No doubt Fascism is failing as is senile Trump,
but he was never really in control, any more than stock exchanges.
He was a hollow figment on TV, about like Charlie Sheen.
FOOL! Where do you think the retirement accounts of tens of millions of Americans are invested? The stock market. Mutual funds, bonds, stocks, all the things you hate because you do not understand them.
Economy is not just labor, it is CAPITOL, the means of production. Workers are useless without tools, factories, mines, forests, fuel, and yes, investors, entrepreneurs, and men of intellect creating new products and markets.
No wonder you're broke.
Where in the Bible does it say about Iron Dome?
They do brag about Genocide in the OT.
Don't know, never read the whole thing, I'm sure some Christian hating lib who read the whole thing to flog the faithful knows.
And, from what little I have read, God has extorted the Israelites to massacre shit tons of people so they could take their land.
You could say it's in their culture, like child abuse and rape are part of Islam.
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