Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 10/27/24 16:35, Titus G wrote:

On 28/10/24 10:49, Chris Buckley wrote:
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As far as ease for getting your name on the presidential ballot, let's
look at New York.  It requires 45,000 valid signatures, including 500
from each of at least one-half of the congressional districts.  This
year the signatures were due by May 28, before many parties even knew
their nominees! The two major parties, of course, are exempt from this
requirement since they have already proved their "legitimacy".
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It cost many millions of dollars total to get on the ballot for most
of the states.  Kennedy's PAC last year was targeting spending 10-15
million for 10 of the harder states.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-ballot-access/

 Knowing little about the electoral processes in the USA, I was
gobsmacked to read your post and the beginning of that article.
Initially I thought that might partly explain why from about 320,000,000
possibilities you get such trash as Trump, Biden and Harris.
And Obama, Clinton, Bush, etc but then I realised this pot from Aotearoa
  was calling your kettle black as with no such monetary obstruction, we
don't do much better with only 5,000,000 to select from.
 

Biden is the best President since Roosevelt. Pulled the nation
back together except for the Trumpites of vaious striped. He served
in Congress for quite a long time and learned and changed over
the years. He had run for President many times before and even
was a prospective candidate when Hillary Clinton ran and lost
to Trump.
No really competent Republicans since Eisenhower who wrote
homophobia into Military Service law called the Uniform Code of
Military Justice. Some came close but no cigars for them when
they hit off target.
Harris is not trash but an elected Vice President who did everything asked of her by her President. Now she is running at
his instigation since her policies will aline more with his than
most others. She served as Attorney-General to the State of California
which is bigger than Autearoa both in population and surface area.
Trump is a charismatic power seeker and we have had that
sort running for president before, thinking of one Huey Long aka
the Kingfish who was very similar but who was killed by a
disgruntled office seeker to the best of my recollection.
Obama was just Ok but he spent a lot of time trying to
get the health care system working. He might have done better
to intervene in the Ukraine when Russia stole Crimea from
them
.
Which Bush? We had one competent one term and one incompetent
who served two terms.
Clinton played a good saxophone and should have been a musician
as he was taken in by the Republicans promoting lax banking and
investment laws.
And it started with Reagan, puppet of the Interests who busted
unions and shifted the tax load to the less well-off. His 8 years
favored the rich people like himself and Nancy. So did the laws
passed and the regulations repealed.

bliss