Virginia House, that major state, where the r*tfcker thinkers of Southern fascism grew, is no longer Republican. By one vote. Voting matters.

[Mark Thibodeau]

I no more fault Dr Stein for running than I do Vermin Supreme (an equally
qualified candidate). It's her idiot voters I deplore.

J

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 9:49 AM, <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You’re all correct in that I should have given more attention to the wider
> results instead of responding to the single vote in the subject line.
> Admittedly I hadn’t seen any overall voting numbers/splits for the House
> races, which I had assumed were closer than that for the governor - going
> back, all the breakdowns I’m looking at lack this information. And I’m
> aware of course of the brutal disadvantage of gerrymandering. What I mainly
> picked up from coverage (NYT analysis, for instance) was that, according to
> the papers anyway, voters were mostly repudiating Trump and Trump-ism as
> opposed to voting for candidates or their policies per se. Not that there’s
> anything wrong with wanting to put him and his camp’s reactionary ideas out
> to pasture, but I’m uncomfortable with the seeming lack of constructive
> policy proposals to go with it. Also, I’d like to think we can agree that
> Alabama was very close, disturbingly so given the nature of that race.
>
> Telling, though, that kneejerky thinks that defending Stein’s ability and
> right to run for office is a fellating gesture. I think she’s a nut, and
> I’d never vote for her, but I find the phenomenon of shaming her for
> running at all disturbing.
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2017, at 6:59 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> But by all means, keep sucking Jill Stein's dick. See what that gets you.
>
> J
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oops... sorry. Hadn't seen the followups by the time I wrote mine.
>>
>> Yeah... "scraping by" (ffs)
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, guess what? The Dems had to win Virginia 55/44 to "win by a single
>>> goddamn vote" in one district. To get a tie. Because of GOP gerrymandering,
>>> they had to have a landslide... to score a tie.
>>>
>>> Did you know that?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:42 PM, <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It’s pernicious to suggest that minor political parties and candidates
>>>> be barred from participating in elections, and especially worrying when
>>>> it’s offered from an ostensibly progressive viewpoint. When, even if it
>>>> could somehow be proved that it would have a demonstrable effect, do you
>>>> apply the metric of necessity for marginal candidates to exempt themselves
>>>> for the “greater good?” Just now in trump times, or as a matter of course?
>>>>
>>>> To my view when you win/lose by a single goddamn vote, that’s hardly a
>>>> resounding affirmation or renunciation of either platform. Dems should not
>>>> be patting themselves on the back for scraping by as the preponderance of
>>>> citizens’ wealth is being gutted, environmental regulations dismantled,
>>>> federal courts packed with literally incompetent sycophants. It might be
>>>> just barely enough right now to run on the “we’re not them” platform
>>>> against pedophiles and hyperventilating nationalists, but it won’t work
>>>> forever, nor is it right. The onus is on them to appeal to the nation at
>>>> large, not Jill Stein/whatever harmless half-crank politician wants to
>>>> appeal to a hyper-minority to take one for the team.
>>>>
>>>> > On Dec 20, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > I would say you are a much more useful  than Stein when it comes to
>>>> being used by those who would undermine the first amendment and continue
>>>> fascistic wars of aggression and who want to revive McCarthyism. But I
>>>> don’t support the use of personal insults like idiot, which is a
>>>> meaningless word at this point with origins in the mockery of disabled
>>>> people, which is the kind of thing that Trump does.
>>>> > Jill Stein doesn’t like war, she wants health care for all and green
>>>> economy. That is why she is hated. Tell me why those are bad ideas.
>>>> >> On Dec 20, 2017, at 7:52 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hey, Joseph Tracy!
>>>> >>
>>>> >> By your lights, would Jill Stein count as a useful idiot?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Jerky
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> Jill Stein wasn't on the ballot.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> >> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> >> Date: Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:02 PM
>>>> >> Subject:
>>>> >> To: Me at G <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/943211847465033728
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > -
>>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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