Since I strive to be equal opportunity when it comes to mocking politicians for saying darndest things, and it didn’t seem fair to put this in the Democrats’ darndest things threads…new thread.
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I hope the earthquake doesn’t make Manhattan capsize from all the people on it.
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TIL that not all environmental events are caused by climate change
Wait doesn’t plate tectonics eventually lead to climate change
I mean in a few hundred million years the continents will be drastically different so
Shift in plate tectonics (mantle movements) are not related to climate change in the next 1000+ years.
The physics here are completely different.
Only way that I can think of “plate tectonics” impacting climate change is a massive shift in the EM field caused by a polar shift.
This would mean a massive amount of mass shifting from the pole to the south, which would then have an impact on the EM field.
I suppose if you had more landmass at higher latitudes things would be different in terms of solar reflectivity, influence on wind mixing, so super long term (definitely not kyrs, more like 10-100Myrs) climate will be very different.
Well we didn’t stop big oil when we had the chance but we can stop big plate before society gets dependent on it
Volcanos. Plate tectonics across the globe could set off enough volcanos at roughly the same time which could result in climate changes.
Next you’re going to claim that climate change isn’t responsible for today’s eclipse!!!
RN.
Sunny Hostin is an idiot. How she made it as a lawyer and fraud investigator only God can understand.
I did not have RFK Jr doing media appearances about eating barbecued dog and groping the babysitter on my bingo card today.
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National Anthem performer at a third-party Presidential candidate debate apparently doesn’t realize she is live.
Bumping since this thread exists.
Jo isn’t a Democrat.
I voted for her for President in 2020.
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No, I remembered the thread, but since Jill Stein was in the Dem thread, I was kinda following up on the Jill Stein campaign manager thing with the other semi-big “third party” in the U.S.
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That makes sense.
I was busy when I saw the Jill Stein thread, and wrote it off as the Dems thread being a proxy for “Left Leaning Americans”.
However, Jo doesn’t really fit under the “Left Leaning Americans” banner.
She seems to imply you can only become a legitimate candidate through primaries. In 2020 she ran in 11 Libertarian primaries and won 2 winning a total of 11% of the Libertarian vote, a total of slightly over 5000 votes. .
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I can’t put words in Jo’s mouth, but did she perhaps mean that Presidential candidates should be chosen by a voting process, as opposed to being appointed by the folks who run the party?
At the 2020 LP convention, Jo got 51% of the vote on the fourth ballot.
At the 2024 LP convention, Oliver got 60% of the vote on the seventh ballot, with the candidate who would have been appointed by the odious folks who have mostly taken over LP leadership having been eliminated at the fifth ballot. (Some of the events at that convention are the reason why I’ve been fishing/struggling to find a better label for my political stance.)
Harris, on the other hand…
The main problem with Libertarians like Jo is that they want to have their cake and eat it.
They want less Govt intrusion and less spending.
But at the same time, the collateral damage this is causing in the US is treated as more of a footnote.
Basically…this is not my problem and wink wink I approve of your slicing and dicing even though personal liberties are being severely damaged in the process.
She is a hypocrite basically.
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Truthfully, Democrats have zero obligation to let others decide the nominee and the party leaders have zero obligation to let DINOs decide it. The same applies for any political party. The entire primary/caucus system is a fairly recent development in American politics; it used to be that the party leaders decided it at the party’s convention and everyone else in America could get involved at that level or deal with it.
Whether that’s how it should be is open to debate, but IMO if the rank-and-file of the party and party leadership are on different pages about who to nominate, maybe leadership needs to get replaced. But if you view for leaders, do we really want the membership voting on everything the leaders have to make a decision on?
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