I’ve had beef-bacon, egg, and cheese and it’s quite good.

“‘The kind of poisonous hostility that led to Charlie Kirk’s murder … still exists on campuses and elsewhere,’ Barrett said.”

Is it known what motivated the lone gunman? Is there any evidence of anti-conservative hate?

Lies and Propaganda spread by self-righteous Supreme Court justices.

I think West Des Moines, a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, spans four counties.

I knew the Pope is a Southsider, and I googled Awa III. Awa III graduated from Mather High School on the North Side.

Would a parliamentary state government comply with the constitutional requirement for a republican form of government and current federal law?

“For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”

- Thomas Paine, 1776

America has no kings and it never will.

TAX WEALTH. DISTRIBUTE UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME.

Shitting all over America.

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It’s a universal rule that all yellow lines are in play.

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Thank you for posting this.

After pursuing the rabbit hole further, I think it’s universal that all yellow lines are in play.

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From watching on my phone, it looks like if it hit the wall, it had to have hit the yellow part of the wall. Wouldn’t that make it a home run?

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The DOJ has it. www.justice.gov

The State Department has something about the Democrats-led shut-down. www.state.gov

It wouldn’t change much. They have had it in Alaska for a while and Alaska is still dominated by the two parties. Republicans withdraw from the general elections if they weren’t the top R in the primary, keeping general elections 1 R, 1 D, & 2 fringe.

Shutdown near certain after Senate again rejects funding bills Lawmakers are poised to barrel into the first government funding lapse since 2019.

Republicans just shut down the government to rip away healthcare and hand Trump another blank check for his illegal power grab. Instead of negotiating a budget that protects families, Republicans chose to throw working families under the bus. This is the GOP’s shutdown & they own the damage from it.

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

It’s necessary with 15 teams in each league, which is better than 1 division with 6 teams and 1 division with 4 teams.

I think you refuse to think of partisan primaries as a method of partisan nominations. You refuse to view a winner of a party’s primary as having been nominated by the party.

You’re continuing to dispute it while denying that you are disputing it. You are speaking out of both sides of your mouth.

Most offices on American gen ballots are not single-seat cases of CLPR. They are OLPR. The People names predominate with BIG letters. Parties are in tiny letters.

“America largely has a system of self-nomination where parties don’t have much input.”

Kinda, but not really.

1. To the extent this is true, I don’t want a reform that perpetuates it. Don’t tell me that I do.

2. The parties have tons of input on who wins the primaries and gets nominated.

“How you get into a primary is a similar question as how you get onto an open list.”

No, they aren’t, at least as far as a major party lists.

Getting into a primary is drastically different than winning a primary. Lots of primaries have lots of candidates that only get negligible votes.

“I just see a certain equivalence between having public primaries and having open lists,”

They are not equivalent or even that similar. Just because you find certain equivalence between your ass & your elbow doesn’t mean I find them interchangeable.

It’s incredibly ignorant to conflate them.

“Without anyone creating the lists is not what I meant.”

That seems to be exactly what you wrote. Lists could be created before a general election by primaries (or other methods). You advocated combining the primary and general, that is, a general without pre-existing lists on the ballot.

Americans voting in American primaries to nominate (e.g.) 5 candidates for the OLPR general election to elect 5 representatives in a 5-seat district would be very easily understandable to Americans because there are many multi-winner primaries and elections in American elections.

“Your judges example would correspond to the Swiss system.”

No, nothing has anything to do with the Swiss. You’re injecting more crap.

Nominating multiple candidates by primary for multi-winner offices is American and extremely common in American elections (even NY).

(… or other nominating processes (for other parties).)

If there is list PR, the parties should make the lists, by primary, convention, committee, or whatever.

“But the NY fusion voting ballot structure could just as well be used with a proportional allocation rule and be called list PR.”

You injected NY & fusion voting into this discussion, which just obfuscates things unnecessarily.

The NY fusion voting ballot structure exists AFTER PRIMARIES.

“I don’t dispute how Americans perceive it.”

You disputed it several times and told lies to dispute it. I showed that it’s untrue that in NY you vote for parties. You kept injecting CLPR, contrary to how Americans vote.

I explained very basically. You made this exchange very tiresome.

No, you’re obfuscating.

I think OLPR without anyone creating lists does not make any sense and lacks many of the positive incentives to improve the party system of OLPR with party lists. I’d never heard it suggested until you did a few days ago. It just seems dreadful.

I think CLPR, asking voters to vote for parties with no input (on that ballot) about which candidate to elect, would not fly in this country at this point.