I like that they have a locals clause. When I lived in Indiana, it was a slap to the face and a fucking disgrace that Mitch The Bitch came in from out of state, and was basically appointed governor. Indiana was always a backwoods moron factory, but from then on it was another junta run third-world shithole.
It's a locals clause but also a loyalty clause. If you don't vote for the other Republicans, you can't run.
Here's the thing about political parties: They're not in the Constitution. If they're going to have state funded elections, if the ballot is going to feature their impimatur and only one guy can run per party, they should be democratic -- not run like little clubs for the powerful.
Nice time to remind everyone that with a non-citizen father Obama was not a natural born citizen, and thus ineligible to run for president (where he was born was irrelevant).
There are the rules as written and the rules as enforced.
So some fucking Californian hypenated-American spic comes in (moved to TN in 2019) and wants to tell me how to live? Fuck him. Good on the judges for once, and good on the GOP for requiring people to actually participate in the party before runnning.
BTW, the spic's name is Robert Newsom. Him changing his name makes him only marginally smarter than Byron "Lowtax" Looper.
Carpetbagging foreigners need to get the fuck out of Tennessee and never return.
This is a highly contentious issue within the TN GOP but it stems from considerable Democrat tampering with our primary process, from running their own candidates as Republicans to voting in our primaries since we have an open primary process. I’m not sure that I support this measure but its genesis stems all the way down to county and municipal elections as well.
The state parties are not government. They are parties, with their duly appointed leadership and processes. I'm not particularly sympathetic to people who both...
A. Run as member of a party, and...
B. Don't try to either ingratiate themselves with the party and/or take the whole fucking thing over.
I have a great deal of respect for people who DO try to storm the gates and take a state party over. I've seen it happen before, with the Paulites in Iowa. It's beautiful when it happens.
Robby Starbuck strikes me as someone who's too lazy and impatient to build a coalition, and too much of an idealistic outsider to play with the team he has to work with today.
Yes, we're Republicans. Democracy is a Greek recipe for chaos.
SM, I'm a committee member in my local party. You know what it's taught me? Our people are very, very dumb. Well meaning, but terminally dumb. Episodes of stupidity that would take pages for me to describe. Idiocy you wouldn't even believe if you weren't there.
If I could have done it in one primary in my own county, I would have. The RIGHT candidate (an ex-military MAGA father) came up a dozen votes short of a one-issue loudmouth Baptist millennial Steve King fanboy who LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE SOY WOJAK. We're gonna lose that one in the general, cuz this kid can't win that district.
The parties are not deprived of rights simply because the voters choose to make them preeminent.
The US is not actually a two party system. It's a two coalition system, and the right just hasn't gotten the memo.
After Ralph Nader torpedoed Al Gore, the Democrats and Greens (and later the DSA and the Justice Dems) effectively agreed to fight their fight inside the coalition tent.
The Right are only now getting it, that the Libertarians have to fight for control within the coalition, rather than pretending to be outside the coalition. The fact that we have party primaries exposes it. We have a British style confidence and supply and no-compete system, it's just we use different terms like freedom caucus.
I wish the Pirates and Libertarians would accept registering as Republicans and creating "Pirate Caucus" and "Libertarian Caucus" movements instead of continuing to play by old rules that the left doesn't use.
I think this tweet has a decent explanation under it.
https://twitter.com/ntsbfh/status/1535339805818736641
I like that they have a locals clause. When I lived in Indiana, it was a slap to the face and a fucking disgrace that Mitch The Bitch came in from out of state, and was basically appointed governor. Indiana was always a backwoods moron factory, but from then on it was another junta run third-world shithole.
It's a locals clause but also a loyalty clause. If you don't vote for the other Republicans, you can't run.
Here's the thing about political parties: They're not in the Constitution. If they're going to have state funded elections, if the ballot is going to feature their impimatur and only one guy can run per party, they should be democratic -- not run like little clubs for the powerful.
Nice time to remind everyone that with a non-citizen father Obama was not a natural born citizen, and thus ineligible to run for president (where he was born was irrelevant).
There are the rules as written and the rules as enforced.
I thought like with the anchor baby situation, and with Hawaii being a territory at the time, he would be a citizen.
So some fucking Californian hypenated-American spic comes in (moved to TN in 2019) and wants to tell me how to live? Fuck him. Good on the judges for once, and good on the GOP for requiring people to actually participate in the party before runnning.
BTW, the spic's name is Robert Newsom. Him changing his name makes him only marginally smarter than Byron "Lowtax" Looper.
Carpetbagging foreigners need to get the fuck out of Tennessee and never return.
This is a highly contentious issue within the TN GOP but it stems from considerable Democrat tampering with our primary process, from running their own candidates as Republicans to voting in our primaries since we have an open primary process. I’m not sure that I support this measure but its genesis stems all the way down to county and municipal elections as well.
I'm not really seeing the problem here.
The state parties are not government. They are parties, with their duly appointed leadership and processes. I'm not particularly sympathetic to people who both...
A. Run as member of a party, and...
B. Don't try to either ingratiate themselves with the party and/or take the whole fucking thing over.
I have a great deal of respect for people who DO try to storm the gates and take a state party over. I've seen it happen before, with the Paulites in Iowa. It's beautiful when it happens.
Robby Starbuck strikes me as someone who's too lazy and impatient to build a coalition, and too much of an idealistic outsider to play with the team he has to work with today.
This is fundamentally no different to the DNC rigging their primaries to keep Bernie Sanders from ever being the nominee.
It's completely anti-democratic, and it deserves to be shamed.
Yes, we're Republicans. Democracy is a Greek recipe for chaos.
SM, I'm a committee member in my local party. You know what it's taught me? Our people are very, very dumb. Well meaning, but terminally dumb. Episodes of stupidity that would take pages for me to describe. Idiocy you wouldn't even believe if you weren't there.
"I've seen retards you Goys wouldn't believe"
... Adam Schiff on fire on Conan O'Brien. I've seen drunk d-bags piss in the dark on the Brandenburg gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
“I just don’t see the issue of rigging the elections to ensure a certain person doesn’t win”.
You are retarded.
If I could have done it in one primary in my own county, I would have. The RIGHT candidate (an ex-military MAGA father) came up a dozen votes short of a one-issue loudmouth Baptist millennial Steve King fanboy who LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE SOY WOJAK. We're gonna lose that one in the general, cuz this kid can't win that district.
I would entirely agree with you if there weren’t two parties with an effective monopoly on the political process.
The parties are not deprived of rights simply because the voters choose to make them preeminent.
The US is not actually a two party system. It's a two coalition system, and the right just hasn't gotten the memo.
After Ralph Nader torpedoed Al Gore, the Democrats and Greens (and later the DSA and the Justice Dems) effectively agreed to fight their fight inside the coalition tent.
The Right are only now getting it, that the Libertarians have to fight for control within the coalition, rather than pretending to be outside the coalition. The fact that we have party primaries exposes it. We have a British style confidence and supply and no-compete system, it's just we use different terms like freedom caucus.
I wish the Pirates and Libertarians would accept registering as Republicans and creating "Pirate Caucus" and "Libertarian Caucus" movements instead of continuing to play by old rules that the left doesn't use.