2026 Primary Elections

Reminds me of all those celebrities saying that they’ll flee to Canada if Trump wins.

The Texas 18th is probably headed to a runoff between two Dems, so in a month or so Li'l Mikey Johnson will have another Democrat he'll refuse to swear in.

Nate Silver once again misses the mark.

As far as claims that 9% will flee the city, compared to 10% who said they would haul ass if Obama were elected. Robert Reich points to research that shows far more low-income people are forced to leave because of rising cost of living than rich people who voluntarily flee in the face of a possibility of paying a few more $ in taxes, which they can well afford.

You act like NYC isnt already one of the highest taxed per capita in the nation. Its why so many financial firms have moved to South Florida that the term Wall Street South was created.

Good luck trying to soke the rich more to pay for all the free shit that was promised.

I'm sure New York will be fine.

There's always questions of "how are you going to pay for it?" when it comes to social programs that will help the poor, but never on police budgets, tax giveaways to the rich, and corporate subsidies.
Those questions are never serious because these people never gave a single fuck about the poor. They just don't want poor people to have it because in the US, being poor is a sin. The US hates its poor people.

While we're at it:

Remember, kids, the US spends nearly $1 TRILLION a year on its military, not accounting for hidden budgets.
A 1/4 of that budget, annually, would house the homeless and feed the hungry all across the country, with money left over for other social needs, and the the US military would still outspend its nearest neighbors (China, Russia) by hundreds of billions of dollars.

https://www.sciotoanalysis.com/news/2024/1/16/what-would-it-cost-to-end-homelessness-in-america

The only reason we don't have it is because in the US the rich are given priority because of Reagan's "trickle down economics" bullshit which we know doesn't work, but it does make the rich even richer.

Economists and mathematicians at the time the time knew trickle down didn't work, and they basically got shouted down with "fuck you, we're doing this anyway".
That's always the right's rebuttal.
"Fuck you, we're doing it anyway".

Exactly right, and it works because the rich control the seats of government. They control the media arms, they control the means of production. They control the narrative, so that even as people of all stripes were feeling their pockets and their bellies empty, those same people believed that somehow they'd also get rich if only they worked hard enough long enough, and then they died exhausted and in debt.

This needs to end. So many other countries have strong social systems that protect the poor and marginalized. The US has one of the strongest economies in the world, and that money all sits at the top, in the hands of the wealthiest men who produce nothing but still get paid. Meanwhile, the poorest people at the bottom who work, producing streams of profit for those billionaires until they die have nothing.

The couch-fucking VP's half brother got shelled trying to become the mayor of Cincinnati.

For the record, Cincinnati fucking hates JD Vance.

You realize that folks said, “I’m voting for this motherfucker who’s name I can’t pronounce because I hate Vance and his whole family.”

https://bsky.app/profile/juliusgoat.bsky.social/post/3m4twikub7k23

LOL, I'll give him this, for a Republican he at least has a sense of how dumb his voters (well, they will be next year) are...

https://x.com/KYSecState/status/1985748719825010758

this is a symtom of trump he spouts the same type of rehoric calling his opponets scum. look in the mirror and please stop throwing stones you glass is breaking all around you. look the entire republican party is covering for a pedo/felon president.

enought hateful northern republicans moved down here no need to wonder....but somehow you still do

These people are going to put The Onion out of business.

You used to have trash pickup more than once a week?

I have never lived anyplace where there was more than one garbage day a week.

Yaphet Kotto would have had a less painful encounter with the A-Team if there was.

Mine comes on Mondays and Thursdays.
Yeah, Florida!

Meanwhile, your HOA has twice the opportunity to fine you for leaving your bins out two minutes past pickup.

Elise Stefanik officially announces run for New York Governor

New York Voter Registration statistics say this is a complete waste of time.

So another easy call. Hochul will beat Stefanik by around 20 points.

Next.

My wife is far more terrifying than the hoa

https://bsky.app/profile/theneedling.com/post/3m53lf4rygs2a

Bit close here in the Seattle mayor’s race.

Wow. That is VERY close. Whomever comes up short will be demanding a recount.

It's kind of funny that we always talk about hand recounts as if they're the ultimate in accuracy, when tallying Scantron bubbles is actually one of those tasks that machines are much better at ... but I assume most of the point is that ballots that get rejected as undervotes or overvotes can be examined to detemine voter intent. (For example, if the machine didn't recognize somebody's vote because they made a check mark in their candidate's bubble instead of filling it in, it's easy for a human to tell what they meant ... or if they filled in two bubbles but scribbled over one of them and wrote "Yes" next to the other, which would cause a machine to reject the ballot as an overvote, but again the voter's intent is easy to determine.)

Yep. My buddy has a spreadsheet and while there are still 10k votes to count it looks like Katie will win by around 1k votes when this phase of counting is done.



HOWEVER there are almost 4K rejected ballots (usually unsigned or signatures don’t match).

Folks have until the 24th to ‘cure’ their ballots.

So now we see how good the campaigns ground games are as they track down their likely voters with rejected ballots and get them to go to King County Elections and testify that those were their ballots.

“For my clients with a kink for drawn-out psychological torture, at first I was wondering what could ever replace watching Mariners games,” said Payne as she drew up a projection of the latest King County Elections results.

Today’s drop means Katie Wilson is up 1,346.

It is far from over but looks like it is going our way.