Technobarbarian wrote:

     I feel terrible about this. I've never done anything like this before. I tried to stop the madness, but I must have been too late. I changed my registration to Democrat so I could make a vote that means something. All of the Republicans are just running for political
theater. So I ended up a registered Democrat--with a Republican
ballot. What to do? What to do? It was a terrible dilemma. I did the
only thing that made sense. I voted for the most retrumplican losers I
could find. Let the theater begin.

You're a Democrat who got a Republican ballot. At the end of the day
going forward, you've literally just proved Republican voter fraud.
That's a story line you can run with for a statistically significant
amount of time.

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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

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I feel terrible about this. I've never done anything like this
before. I tried to stop the madness, but I must have been too late. I
changed my registration to Democrat so I could make a vote that means something. All of the Republicans are just running for political
theater. So I ended up a registered Democrat--with a Republican ballot.
What to do? What to do? It was a terrible dilemma. I did the only thing
that made sense. I voted for the most retrumplican losers I could find.
Let the theater begin.

TB

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On 5/1/2022 4:15 PM, bfh wrote:

Technobarbarian wrote:

      I feel terrible about this. I've never done anything like this
before. I tried to stop the madness, but I must have been too late. I
changed my registration to Democrat so I could make a vote that means
something. All of the Republicans are just running for political
theater. So I ended up a registered Democrat--with a Republican
ballot. What to do? What to do? It was a terrible dilemma. I did the
only thing that made sense. I voted for the most retrumplican losers I
could find. Let the theater begin.

You're a Democrat who got a Republican ballot. At the end of the day
going forward, you've literally just proved Republican voter fraud.
That's a story line you can run with for a statistically significant
amount of time.

No, actually I'm only a "registered" Democrat. I'M only registered because it's required to vote. When you get right down to it I'm
actually a very independent Independent. My wife voted on that ballot.
It looked mostly boring, except for some loons here and there.

Who knows? I might even vote for the "Independent" candidate for
governor this time. Not to be confused with whoever the Independent
Party might run. She's getting big money from people who have it to
spend, so she might not be "independent" enough for me. I'm seriously
tired of voting a straight ticket simply because one party has been
taken over by loons.

It's gotten so crazy here that we have people who are running for non-partisan positions loudly proclaiming that they're one of the loons.
I voted against those nuts.

Look at their reaction to the last election. Look at all the wild conspiracy stories. The retrumplicans don't need "statistically
significant" or any other connection to reality for their wild fantasies.

TB

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On 5/1/2022 5:17 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:

     I feel terrible about this. I've never done anything like this before. I tried to stop the madness, but I must have been too late. I
changed my registration to Democrat so I could make a vote that means something. All of the Republicans are just running for political
theater. So I ended up a registered Democrat--with a Republican ballot.
What to do? What to do? It was a terrible dilemma. I did the only thing
that made sense. I voted for the most retrumplican losers I could find.
Let the theater begin.

TB

Probably not nearly as terribly as you do for voting for Biden.

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Why do liberals fear free speech? Because they can't handle the truth.

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On 5/2/2022 7:47 AM, George.Anthony wrote:

On 5/1/2022 5:17 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:

      I feel terrible about this. I've never done anything like this
before. I tried to stop the madness, but I must have been too late. I
changed my registration to Democrat so I could make a vote that means
something. All of the Republicans are just running for political
theater. So I ended up a registered Democrat--with a Republican
ballot. What to do? What to do? It was a terrible dilemma. I did the
only thing that made sense. I voted for the most retrumplican losers I
could find. Let the theater begin.

TB

Probably not nearly as terribly as you do for voting for Biden.

bzzzzz, wrong again. I've never voted for fascists before. My only
excuse is that they're clowns who aren't going anywhere. I'd feel much
worse if they actually got elected.

Hey, you should be happy. I voted for your people--the ugliest
fascists running as retrumplicans.

TB

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On 5/2/2022 9:40 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:

On 5/2/2022 7:47 AM, George.Anthony wrote:

On 5/1/2022 5:17 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:

      I feel terrible about this. I've never done anything like this >>> before. I tried to stop the madness, but I must have been too late. I
changed my registration to Democrat so I could make a vote that means
something. All of the Republicans are just running for political
theater. So I ended up a registered Democrat--with a Republican
ballot. What to do? What to do? It was a terrible dilemma. I did the
only thing that made sense. I voted for the most retrumplican losers
I could find. Let the theater begin.

TB

Probably not nearly as terribly as you do for voting for Biden.

     bzzzzz, wrong again. I've never voted for fascists before. My only excuse is that they're clowns who aren't going anywhere. I'd feel much
worse if they actually got elected.

     Hey, you should be happy. I voted for your people--the ugliest fascists running as retrumplicans.

TB

For example, if I had read the Willamette Weekly first I would have
had to go with the Qanon nut or the guy who wants to reduce voter access
in a state where we all vote by mail. I went by what the candidates said
about themselves in the Voters' Pamphlet and voted for the nut who
thinks critical race theory is an important political issue. Our jive
ass black idiot should love her.

"Given the political geography, Democrats are expected to prevail in
Oregon’s new congressional district. (The Dems have a 26,000-vote
advantage in voter registration.) But seven Republicans are vying for a
shot at the seat.

Only two of them came to our endorsement interview: state Rep. Ron
Noble, who has represented parts of the new district since 2017, and
Angela Plowhead, a clinical psychologist who began her career as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.

We’re big fans of independent thinking here at WW, and both Noble and Plowhead described positions that separate them from the Trump-era pack.

Noble, 62, is a former police officer who bucked his party on
immigration. His son-in-law is from Ireland. Watching him navigate our
broken immigration system convinced Noble that something must be done
for people whom the right demonizes.

“If my daughter had fallen in love with someone from Mexico City, would
I see my grandson?” Noble asks. “There are inequalities.”

That explains why he defied his party in 2019 and voted to allow
undocumented immigrants to obtain Oregon driver’s licenses. Some of his conservatism sounds George Bush compassionate, but we thought Noble
sounded pretty sincere about bridging divides, and his record speaks to
that.

Plowhead spent much of our conversation railing against critical race
theory. She’s a woman of mixed race, so her views interested us. Unfortunately, she fell back on familiar tropes.

Of other candidates, Mike Erickson is a logistics consultant who wants
to reduce voter access, and Amy Courser, who owns a carpet cleaning
company, spoke in 2020 at a QAnon recruiting rally. Neither offers a
viable alternative to Noble."

https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/04/27/wws-may-2022-endorsements-congress/

TB

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