The Canadian government has launched a survey to see how Canadians want to vote.
Some backstory though - one of the Liberal party's promises in the last election was "Electoral Reform." So in a fine Canadian tradition, the Trudeau government created a committee to hold hearings and come up with recommendations. The result was a joke...
With our "Minister of Democratic Institutions" rejecting the committee's fundings and insulting the members on the committee for not doing their job. Head of the committee shot back and said they did just what they were told to do.
Basically, this is all a delaying tactic, and while the online survey is great, it is in my opinion - a smokescreen to help this issue disappear. Proportional Representation doesn't help the Liberal party. Ranking ballots is silly. So this is in reality a tax-payer funded PR exercise.
Humbug!
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
They do ranked choice voting in San Francisco. The two with the most points then go to a runoff. If the Republican primaries had been ranked choice, maybe Trump wouldn't be president.
sancarlos wrote:They do ranked choice voting in San Francisco. The two with the most points then go to a runoff. If the Republican primaries had been ranked choice, maybe Trump wouldn't be president.
Do you have to pick a second candidate?
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
sancarlos wrote:They do ranked choice voting in San Francisco. The two with the most points then go to a runoff. If the Republican primaries had been ranked choice, maybe Trump wouldn't be president.
Do you have to pick a second candidate?
I'm sure if America in total went to a voting system like that, not choosing a second, third, fourth..etc choice means they are all tired for second equally. Because politics.
mister d wrote:Couldn't have pegged me better.
EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
degenerasian wrote:is ranked choice like MVP voting?
Yep. Quite often the winner of the first round does not win the runoff. Especially if the eliminated 3rd place guy endorses the 2nd place guy when they go to the runoff.
I find this to be a legitimately interesting idea, though it's not so much a new idea as a policy goal. The federal government is already very much spread out in some areas (courts, prisons, military bases), but it could be radically much more decentralized in a way that would not just save money but also do some legit good for some places.
Looks like Johnny Handsome (aka Justin Trudeau) has begun to blame the media for his party's emerging sleaze-bucket of a scandal. (Bear in mind, that this is Canada, so it;'s all small patates.) Looks like Pierre's boy isn't one for taking responsibility.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
(CNN)Chris Christie maintained Wednesday that he would have landed a top White House job if only his wife would have let him... "Mary Pat made really clear she wasn't coming to DC if I went."
(CNN)Chris Christie maintained Wednesday that he would have landed a top White House job if only his wife would have let him... "Mary Pat made really clear she wasn't coming to DC if I went."
That is a mighty large piece of shit.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
So, Trump killed Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership today. Interesting, given that so many Republicans (such as Paul Ryan) have been free-traders, before this protectionist president took office. Will they reverse their previous stances to get in line for Trump?
Yep, those damned Liberals worshipping the Hollywood elites. I loved the complete lack of awareness to the cognitive dissonance of Trump supporters bitching about all of the celebrities speaking out against Trump and refusing to perform at his inauguration, Liberals blindly following them (and really, does any Liberal hang on the words of actors or singers?), then blindly worshipping a Billionaire reality TV star obsessed with seeing himself on TV and newspapers for the past 40 years.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
I'm not going to her Twitter page, but someone showed she posted this picture, saying Jesus is back in the WH:
Also seen this one. Nothing represents Jesus more than building a wall to keep out your less fortunate neighbors, rewarding the uber-wealthy, support a guy like Mnuchin (if you haven't read up on his disgusting predatory loan schemes and shocking foreclosure traps), gut all environmental protection laws and enforcement, gut labor laws, drastically cut funding to aid the poor to make the rich richer, push for reinstating torture, threaten to steal an ally's oil, threaten to stop protecting allies from invasions unless they pay us... But he did say the Bible was the greatest book, with his book a close second, and his favorite Bible quote is "all of them," so clearly Jesus is calling his shots.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
Tomi Lahren has bumped Michelle Malkin from the top of my hatefuck list. That's a Cosmo pic like overlayed with a to-be-taken-seriously statement. She's an adorable troll. I'd make Rocco Siffredi look like Butters from South Park.
In all my learnings of Jesus, he's only ever carried a cross. So, he's going to need bigger luggage for the world's baggage.
mister d wrote:Couldn't have pegged me better.
EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
DETROIT — A county Republican leader in Michigan is under fire for seeming to suggest in his social media posts there should be a Kent State type of crackdown on violent protests like the one that erupted at a university in California last week.
But in an interview Sunday with the Detroit Free Press, Dan Adamini, the secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, said he apologizes, supports peace and was merely trying to prevent further violence and hatred.
The Marquette resident said that he has received death threats and been harassed by people outraged over his remarks that refer to the 1970 shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University in Ohio by the Ohio National Guard. Nine other students were wounded in what many consider a turning point in public opinion about the Vietnam War.
Raw: Protests erupt at UC Berkeley, Yiannopoulos speech canceled
Adamini, 56, tweeted Thursday after violent disturbances at the University of California-Berkley shut down plans for a senior editor at the far-right website Breitbart to speak on campus.
“Violent protesters who shut down free speech? Time for another Kent State perhaps. One bullet stops a lot of thuggery," Adamini tweeted.
In a separate Facebook post, Adamini wrote: "I'm thinking that another Kent State might be the only solution...They do it because they know there are no consequences yet."
Not that it matters, but those weren't students, or even protestors, who were smashing windows, etc. in Berkeley.
While I am clearly and completely on the side of anti-G.O.P and anti-Trump protests, this gives me pause:
The Marquette resident said that he has received death threats and been harassed by people outraged over his remarks that refer to the 1970 shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University in Ohio by the Ohio National Guard. Nine other students were wounded in what many consider a turning point in public opinion about the Vietnam War.
I guess that's the world we live in where every bit of outrage/anger/social media disagreement has to be accompanied by death and/or rape threats.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
Pruitt wrote:While I am clearly and completely on the side of anti-G.O.P and anti-Trump protests, this gives me pause:
The Marquette resident said that he has received death threats and been harassed by people outraged over his remarks that refer to the 1970 shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University in Ohio by the Ohio National Guard. Nine other students were wounded in what many consider a turning point in public opinion about the Vietnam War.
I guess that's the world we live in where every bit of outrage/anger/social media disagreement has to be accompanied by death and/or rape threats.
I'm suspicious of undocumented "death threats" these days. Especially from the GOP.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. - God
