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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Nov 7, 2020 11:36:08 GMT -5
Well everyone it looks Dony Tinyhands will need some help moving out of the White House as Joe Biden is now officially set to be the 46th President of the United States. ☺️
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 7, 2020 11:48:55 GMT -5
Yes! I was waiting to comment because even though the outcome was inevitable, I was waiting for the networks to finally frigging call it!
Up until 2016, I had a policy of trying to be as politically neutral as possible on this site- Donald Trump and his election made it impossible- I had to speak up. Trump, unfortunately, made everything political.
This was not Democrat vs. Republican. This was democracy vs. fascism.
It's a little scary so many people voted for a racist, but I'd rather focus on the positive.
The fight isn't over yet as there's still two house seats in Georgia for control of the Senate up for grabs so we can't get complacent.
And now, you guys can discuss amongst yourselves further, but for the most part, I can finally go back to the political neutrality I was forced to give up because of all the norms Trump broke.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Nov 7, 2020 14:45:42 GMT -5
Thank goodness Trump's reign is coming to an end now. It still won't solve the complete divide from what I see as two America's so to speak. The rhetoric that was inciting it will be toned down significantly however, and hopefully the Biden administration can do something about this.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 6, 2021 6:53:29 GMT -5
Alright, looks like the Democrats have won BOTH Georgia Senate races meaning they'll have control of the senate (50-50 senate but Kamala Harris as VP would have the tie-breaking vote). This is HUUUGE as outgoing cheeto would call it since if the Senate remained in Republican control, all of Biden's efforts would be hamstrung by Mitch McConnell. So thanks everyone for continuing the fight even after we dumped cheeto!
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 6, 2021 22:04:09 GMT -5
And then all that later craziness *sigh*.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 20, 2021 12:24:09 GMT -5
And finally, Trump's no longer President!!!
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Post by HeadMarshal on Jan 20, 2021 14:38:20 GMT -5
And finally, Trump's no longer President!!! My personal opinion is simply "this is beyond significant for the future of global democracy". |
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Post by 912thamwuser on Feb 20, 2021 17:24:56 GMT -5
When I heard that various groups who were promising multi-Megadollar old money donors that they'd search for evidence of voter fraud in the '020 election turned out to be grifters who didn't spend the money the way they said, it reminded me of Edward Albert Dunn's, William John Dunn's, and Gordon Wallace Mackie's M.O. Those three were busted as Captures #141, #177, and #178, and they were bank fraudsters who promised to use money in joint bank accounts to hunt down swindlers, and the element of fraud artists pretending to be looking for fraud reminded me of that old case AMW solved way back when.
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Post by Scumhunter on May 25, 2021 5:15:44 GMT -5
Big election in NYC next month- the Democrat and Republican primaries to become the nominee to be the next Mayor of NYC- but rather it is really the Democratic primary that will determine the next Mayor of New York City as the city is overwhelmingly registered Democrats (this isn't the 90s when it was still balanced enough that Giuliani got in- the city is increasingly and increasingly registered democratic).
I'm still undecided to and it's going to be a difficult decision. Thankfully, unlike eight years ago, when DeBlasio got in by default basically (Anthony Weiner was the only decent candidate idea-wise before he got into another perv scandal), I do feel this current crop of candidates is a lot better, but there's no clear cut person I'm most excited to vote for. Andrew Yang, who has been the front-runner in early polls but lately has lost traction has some interesting ideas, but part of me fears he's like a liberal version of Trump. He has a large base of followers online and it's alleged they've harassed non-Yang supporters and honestly I'm just sick of the idea that just because you're a business man means you can run a government (we saw with Trump how that backfired obviously).
Right now I'm leaning towards Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough President, who is now leading Yang in some of the latest polls. The city has seen an uptick in crime, and Adams is an African-American former police officer, so I feel that he is sort of right for the moment as he'll be most likely to strike that delicate balance of being tough on crime but also being sensitive to the Black Lives Matter movement and the police controversies involving minorities.
Thankfully the city is introducing ranked choice voting and you can vote for up to five candidates based on first choice second choice etc.., which thankfully makes my decision easier since now I don't have the pressure of choosing only one candidate, and it's a matter of how I want to rank them. (It's still a little confusing but basically it goes by the first candidate to get to 50 percent gets the nomination- if no one gets 50 percent of first choice, the person with least votes gets eliminated, and then they see if someone gets to 50 percent as 1st and 2nd choice and if not then they go to 1st 2nd and 3rd or something like that- I'm probably not explaining it well enough but it is much a fairer system as opposed to someone just being the presumed front runner which discourages people from voting for their preferred choice).
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 1, 2021 1:12:41 GMT -5
Big election in NYC next month- the Democrat and Republican primaries to become the nominee to be the next Mayor of NYC- but rather it is really the Democratic primary that will determine the next Mayor of New York City as the city is overwhelmingly registered Democrats (this isn't the 90s when it was still balanced enough that Giuliani got in- the city is increasingly and increasingly registered democratic). I'm still undecided to and it's going to be a difficult decision. Thankfully, unlike eight years ago, when DeBlasio got in by default basically (Anthony Weiner was the only decent candidate idea-wise before he got into another perv scandal), I do feel this current crop of candidates is a lot better, but there's no clear cut person I'm most excited to vote for. Andrew Yang, who has been the front-runner in early polls but lately has lost traction has some interesting ideas, but part of me fears he's like a liberal version of Trump. He has a large base of followers online and it's alleged they've harassed non-Yang supporters and honestly I'm just sick of the idea that just because you're a business man means you can run a government (we saw with Trump how that backfired obviously). Right now I'm leaning towards Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough President, who is now leading Yang in some of the latest polls. The city has seen an uptick in crime, and Adams is an African-American former police officer, so I feel that he is sort of right for the moment as he'll be most likely to strike that delicate balance of being tough on crime but also being sensitive to the Black Lives Matter movement and the police controversies involving minorities. Thankfully the city is introducing ranked choice voting and you can vote for up to five candidates based on first choice second choice etc.., which thankfully makes my decision easier since now I don't have the pressure of choosing only one candidate, and it's a matter of how I want to rank them. (It's still a little confusing but basically it goes by the first candidate to get to 50 percent gets the nomination- if no one gets 50 percent of first choice, the person with least votes gets eliminated, and then they see if someone gets to 50 percent as 1st and 2nd choice and if not then they go to 1st 2nd and 3rd or something like that- I'm probably not explaining it well enough but it is much a fairer system as opposed to someone just being the presumed front runner which discourages people from voting for their preferred choice). Suddenly Kathryn Garcia, the city's former Sanitation Commissioner who also won praise for running a program that provided free meals to those in need during Covid has risen to the top of some polls. Any of the three presumed front runners would make history in some sense (Yang would be the first Asian-American Mayor of NYC, Adams would be only the second African-American Mayor of NYC, and Garcia would be the city's first female Mayor- despite her last name I think she married (then separated from) a Hispanic man but isn't Hispanic herself- her husband's name was Jerry Garcia- same name as Grateful Dead's lead singer lol- but she'd still make history as the first woman Mayor, so this is actually an exciting race in my opinion. Which is nice as opposed to a "best of the worst" race like we had eight years ago lol. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 1, 2021 7:23:05 GMT -5
Sorry one more thing and then I'll stop lol. I think in the past I've mentioned I've been a registered independent so some may be wondering- the problem is I had not been registered in a party this prevented me from voting in the primaries- and New York City and state is traditionally democratic- and I got tired of not being able to vote in the primaries- so I had to bite the bullet (for lack of a better word) and officially register with the Democratic party this year.
I'm actually not happy about this since although I *usually* vote for the Democratic candidate, in the pre-Trump era at least- I don't think I can ever vote a Republican again unless they ditch the tea party and/or it's a Larry Hogan/Charlie Baker more tolerable type tbh- I really was about the candidate and although not often sometimes did vote for the republican candidate. So whenever I complained about Trump or Republicans and got "accused" of being a liberal, I always had not actually even being one in my back pocket for my argument (I promised to no longer even talk about Trump any more but once again with him it was- it doesn't matter about policy- whether you're a republican or democrat you should be against him because of morals and him being the worst most evil person in American history- it was a moral and not policy argument which I kept screaming to deaf ears), but unfortunately- even though I valued/argued my independence- I got tired of missing out on voting in the primaries.
To be fair, if I lived in a bright red state like Alabama I'd probably register as a Republican just since the winner of Republican primaries would probably wind up winning general so at least I could vote for the least worst in the primary if they wind up winning the general Mayor, Governorship, Senate race etc... (and still likely vote for the Democrat in general- we did have Doug Jones win a Senate seat but he ran against a pedophile and still barely won) but hey at least I admit it lol.
So yeah I'm now "offically" a Democrat- but I'm still a traditional call it like I see it guy and unlike the Republicans with their blind party loyalty- I won't vote for someone just because of their party affiliation but who I feel is best equipped to lead.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 10, 2021 22:39:37 GMT -5
I know no one cares besides me based on the responses but the NYC Mayor's race is crazy as suddenly Maya Wiley is now in second place. She's seen a bump due to support from progressives (Adams Yang and Garcia are all moderate Democrats).
While it would be awesome to see an African-American female Mayor (every front runner is a potential history maker!) and it would be nice to see the city and country become more progressive, I watched tonight's Mayoral debate and she basically said something that disqualified her from me voting for her. She's talked about wanting to reform the police department. I'm not opposed to the proposals to have more social workers and mental health resources and having police focus on the most violent of felonies, however when asked if she was going to take away guns from the NYPD she said she wasn't ready to answer the question.
I'm sorry but while there does need to be gun reform, the possibility of taking guns away from police is crazy and extreme even for me. Yes there have been bad shootings but Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd by sitting on his neck, not with a gun. Eric Garner died from an illegal chokehold. There's a way of reformatting the police but still giving them the support and tools they need to do their jobs effectively. This is the problem with the social media society we live in where we don't see nuance and think everything is one side or the other. It is possible to support the police and support black lives matter at the same time. And we need to figure out how to do both. No pun intended but not every issue is black and white.
I want to be fair here so it doesn't look like I'm bashing one side and only criticizing republicans- liberals are terrible at branding. Instead of reforming the police department, the ingredients of which is actually working in some cities that have tried it, they call it "Defund the police" instead of "police reformatting" or something along those lines.
Instead of calling making the wealthy pay their fare share of taxes and raising minimum wage and helping balance income inequality something like "Income fairness" they call it "Democratic socialism."
Say what you want about Trump (who I really want to stop talking about but unfortunately it's the example here) but he was an expert at branding. Make America Geat Again actually means getting rid of brown people, but the racism is hid under a catchy slogan.
Going off on a tangent, but yeah I'm probably going to rank one of the more moderate candidates as my first choice and it will probably be Adams. The lone progressive with a shot at the Mayoralty (the only other ones are now marred in scandals) is too extreme even for me.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jun 10, 2021 22:50:21 GMT -5
When I hear “defund the police” I think it means no more military grade weapons should go to police departments, so that term is a bit confusing tbh.
I’m Left Wing, but I don’t agree with taking guns away from cops as it is right now, as we have the worst gun laws in the world, and having a militarized public unfortunately means a militarized police department and it needs to be addressed first with changing the gun laws in the country to make it nearly impossible to get a gun rather than someone buying one at Walmart without a hassle.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 10, 2021 23:09:00 GMT -5
I think that's part of it but also not having the police respond to every call and having mental health professionals respond to situations with mentally ill people as well. But yeah they don't to be equipped like the Army although they should still have guns.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 1, 2021 9:52:59 GMT -5
A week later and the NYC Mayoral race has devolved into chaos- even though ranked choice voting aka RCV was good in theory- since it is first time using this system it has lead to major confusion.
Brooklyn Borough President was the winner in round 1 amount of 1st place votes but didn't get 50 percent. As such the person with the least votes gets tossed and they recalculate.
Adams had a pretty sizable lead and then suddenly after recalibrations Kathryn Garcia was only behind by 15,000 votes. Then it turns out they accidentally included test ballots. Then it turned out Garcia closed the gap anyway.
I myself had trouble voting which I won't get into, but it's been a chaotic mess.
The one silver lining is we may came out of the race with what the intent of rcv was meant to do- a winner that appealed to the broadest amount of people and overall representation as opposed to just not voting because there's a clear cut front runner less likely to appeal to those who didn't vote for them.'
Ironically, the running joke on Garcia was she was literally everyone's second choice (ironically mine as well after Adams). The other candidates were more top heavy with strong support from certain bases- Adams appealing to a more conservative/moderate wing of the Democratic party, while candidate Maya Wiley who also did well is more likely to appeal to progressives- those two likely wouldn't have the other be a second choice from their voters. Garcia is a technical moderate, but not really extreme one way or the other, hence why she was so many people's second choice even if they were more progressive or conservative (not to mention she has a good track record of competent management in her past city jobs). If Garcia pulls off the upset, it also shows she had the broadest appeal, and would be interesting to show strategy for any other race in the country using RCV.
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