Wow! Talk about telling on yourself! Don, if all CW has to do is call them to make them “aware” of One Demand, why haven’t you already done this?

He explains clearly and in plain English in his bio on his website that he's an idiot. Perhaps it's just that simple. ;)

If someone calls the wrong number to your home looking for “Mary”, how much do you know about Mary after having been made “aware” of her???

Who is Mary Jane? ;)

Yeah, but he CAN be impeached! What happened to Impeached?

How many times do I have to reiterate that I don't believe Trump will be impeached? It's like your brain is gone, old man.

Face it, nut job, you were dead wrong for 3 yrs, and that's FAR WORSE (in your case, at least) than ANYTHING those soldiers had to face, which is why your PTSD is also far worse than theirs.

Face it, troll: Appendix D, and you wouldn't know where to find your ass but for the fact that it's that thing your head is wedged far up inside. :)

There is nothing about One Demand for anyone to support...that why I keep asking you what it is that you believe CW could say about it! You want people to only vote for candidates that accept small donations or to waste their vote by writing in their own name if there are no candidates that meet your criteria running for election.

You expect everyone who signs up to donate money to the campaigns of these small donor candidates. But as there are not any candidates that you have gotten on board with your idea, there is no one for people who sign up to donate to — which makes your over the top estimates of how much One Demand supporters could raise in the election cycle down right delusional!!!

Listen even makes my point when saying CW could call all the candidates and he would not find one person that is aware of One Demand.

However, once CW called all the candidates they would be aware of One Demand.

Wow! Talk about telling on yourself! Don, if all CW has to do is call them to make them “aware” of One Demand, why haven’t you already done this?

If someone calls the wrong number to your home looking for “Mary”, how much do you know about Mary after having been made “aware” of her???

Yeah, but he CAN be impeached! What happened to Impeached?

Face it, nut job, you were dead wrong for 3 yrs, and that's FAR WORSE (in your case, at least) than ANYTHING those soldiers had to face, which is why your PTSD is also far worse than theirs.

I know, right!?

It's fixin'ta get interestin' again. ;)

C. R. Stucki
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Ignore that above. My computer is as nuts as Stucki!

Stucki, Trump can't be indicted for any federal crimes until he leaves office. They're neither my rules or my definitions. I know you're trying desperately to keep up with the rest of us, old man, but the more you ramble on, the dumber you sound... just like the Idiot-in-Chief.

Admittedly, it ain't much solace when compared to the magnitude of your PTSD affliction, but hey, when your head is disappearing beneath the waves, a straw is better than nothin'.

I meet on a regular basis with soldiers who actually do have PTSD, and it's not a laughing matter when you consider what they've sacrificed for the rest of us. As for your admission about your straw and your head disappearing up your backside, there are diapers they make for geezers like you that can capture those waves, which might or might not help you: Depends. :)

And gets to run the show.

is it actually a bad idea? if so, why? i've always thought the basic premise of keeping a database and grading candidates based on how egalitarian their campaign funding is was pretty good, and the main problems were planning, execution, and unwillingness to adapt.

Keeping a database and grading candidates based on how egalitarian their campaign funding is a good idea...but what does that have to do with OneDemand?

I’ve looked through the website and have found nothing of what you speak of being offered. This is why I have stated over and over again that OneDemand offers absolutely NOTHING for voters OR for candidates to make it worth even mentioning his site to anyone.

If I have promised to only vote for small donation candidates and there are none running, I am instructed to write in my own name on the ballot instead of supporting a candidate that actually wants the job! I am assured that my writing in my own name will, “send a message that we want small donation candidates to get our votes,” but they never tell me exactly how my write in vote will convey that message! The site wants me to promise to only vote for small donation candidates while not finding me any to support! Why isn’t Don trying to find which candidates would qualify for his support instead of expecting them to seek him out!?!?

JL, Don wants to start a movement, just as long as he doesn’t have to put too much time into it!

"But if we are going to put people on the moon, I would rather have us open it up to new firms instead of having the same old politically connected contractors do everything."

NASA seems to agree with you. NASA is focusing on developing new cutting edge technologies and deep space exploration, but is not so interested in colonization.

"i've always thought the basic premise of keeping a database and grading candidates based on how egalitarian their campaign funding is was pretty good."

Opensecrets.org already does this very well. There are other internet organizations that do roughly the same thing. It costs money and takes serious information and web building skills to track our convoluted political fundraising machines. DH can't even build and update a decent meet & greet website after more than 6 years of trying. Not everybody can make it to the big leagues.

But if we are going to put people on the moon, I would rather have us open it up to new firms instead of having the same old politically connected contractors do everything.

So with those caveats, I am sort of in favor of what Gingrich is saying here: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/19/newt-gingrich-michael-jackson-moon-1466853.

is it actually a bad idea? if so, why? i've always thought the basic premise of keeping a database and grading candidates based on how egalitarian their campaign funding is was pretty good, and the main problems were planning, execution, and unwillingness to adapt.

well, also just generally being mean to people who aren't interested (cw, for example). and consistently misspelling 'about' in a way that mocks Canadians... but that's more of a personnel problem.

anyhow, let's say you're setting up an organization dedicated to pie-based voting. doesn't the pie promote itself?

;)
JL

Dayton had a similar, but smaller (much smaller) incursion of White Nationalists (KKK) prior to the shooting. Dayton police confined them to a play pen and counter demonstrators probably outnumbered the KKK by at least 100 to 1. Cost to the taxpayers but high, but money well spent in my opinion. One of the armed counter marchers was the Dayton Shooter - who just seems to have enjoyed marching around with a firearm. The Dayton shooter was clearly mentally unfit to carry sharp objects, let alone a firearm. Lot's of warning, no red flag laws. There were an awful lot of red flags over a period of many years leading up to the carnage.

I, and others have repeatedly failed to convince you that both your concept, and how you market your concept, are deeply flawed and doomed to failure. I always get the same nonsensical denials from you. So, I can predict the outcome of any discussion and further dialog with you would indeed be insane on my part. I will therefore skip reading your insane prattle... by manual or automated means, depending on the frequency and length of the prattle.

Funny how you criticize CRS for "knowing what other posters" think and you seem to know what CW thinks.

Let’s take a look at the replay....

I am GUESSING that CW chose to write about the Collin’s Chest folks because they were an idea that people had clearly chosen to get behind and support.

You love to play the “could it possibly work” card, but the honest answer is actually, “No, this could never work!” You might have created the one thing that will be constant across every possible alternate reality... 1D is just a bad idea born from good intentions.

As long as you are trying to redefine your utter and catastrophic loss in attempting to bring down Trump as some sort of victory because you got three of his flunkies, don't forget those two dozen Russian hackers trembling in fear over being indicted by Mueller for revealing that Clinton stacked the Dem primary deck against Sanders.

Admittedly, it ain't much solace when compared to the magnitude of your PTSD affliction, but hey, when your head is disappearing beneath the waves, a straw is better than nothin'.

Kick

While you're thinking up ways to redefin your disasterous

Coming soon to a cellblock in America: Roger Stone, Michael "Misha" Flynn, and Paulie Manafort back in court for more brought to you by the Supreme Court of the United States and the separate sovereigns doctrine and sung to the tune of "New York, New York"!

I LOVE it! I’m guessing there’s gonna be major betting for how many days after Trump leaves office before the first warrant is served! Or maybe “days” is being too generous...maybe it should be “hours” instead? With NY, it’ll be seconds after he steps foot in the state that he’ll be served...that’s a no brainer.

Flynn decision to stop helping the DOJ in prosecuting his old lobbying business partner seems like the dumbest thing he could have done. Especially after the judge in his trial all but told him that he needed to provide more help unless he wanted a long prison sentence be handed down. Maybe Flynn’s new attorney’s were shown the pardon just needing Trump to add the date to it, but as unreliable as Trump has been when it comes to keeping his word, I don’t know if that’d be enough for me to trust him given the risk!

That was Joe Wilson, who I think still serves as a rep from SC.

Hey... Speak2 speaks true!

Sneaker! <--- the highest honor I bestow. :)

Old man right-wingnut board troll obsessed with the posters on this board, fixated, possessed, and claiming repeatedly to know what we're thinking.

Now, I ask you: Who's flipped?

The common denominator of the trolls on this board is their ignorance regarding Mueller's investigation and how Trump's associates are filling up jail cells all over the country. Obviously, Trump's time will come when he's no longer president, but that sure as hell hasn't nor could it ever stop all the other Trump Trash from being prosecuted and incarcerated.

Meanwhile, I would wager the trolls must really be butt hurt because their heads are demonstrably jammed so high up their own asses that they're obviously missing the big picture. See Appendix D, Mueller Report, heavily redacted. *laughs*

Coming soon to a cellblock in America: Roger Stone, Michael "Misha" Flynn, and Paulie Manafort back in court for more brought to you by the Supreme Court of the United States and the separate sovereigns doctrine and sung to the tune of "New York, New York"!

Get your popcorn ready. :)

While Joe Walsh did make the news this week, he wasn't the rep you said "You lie." That was Joe Wilson, who I think still serves as a rep from SC.

Great catch! I tip my cap to you!

When I first saw the headline, I thought, “Why does CW want to change Columbus Day to a holiday honoring a 70’s teenage heartthrob whose stardom burned out before the 80’s even began?”

While there are lots of fun things you could do to make Leif Garrett Day a special holiday (Sadly, feathering your bangs and getting your mullet permed while downing shots of rubbing alcohol are the only things that comes to mind right now), I see why Leif Ericsson makes more sense.

I think Trump’s desire to purchase Greenland is proof that he knows that climate change is real! Greenland is gonna be a beautiful tropical island soon enough and Trump wants dibs on where he gets to put some gawdy Trump-brand beachfront condos.

Is that 20% of people who contribute to political candidates’ campaigns, 20% of registered voters who intend to vote in the upcoming election, or 20% of the total population regardless of whether they plan on voting?

Just curious as to the percentage of Americans that donate to political campaigns in this country?

Your site notes that you have had a grand total of 4 people register with Voucher Vendetta, or 1Demand, or whatever you are calling this scam since you hatched it back in 2014. How many zeros after the decimal point do you think you need to figure out what percentage these four people make up of the total number of national participants needed to make a difference?

This is about the same percentage of voters as the Tea Party, but I believe that the desire to vote for “Hundred Dollar” candidates is shared by a much larger percentage of voters than the Tea Party platform of smaller government.

Still waiting for that list of OneDamnMan candidates who have signed up with you???Tea Party candidates proudly announced where they stood on multiple issues that were important to their supporters and allowed them to claim that they were “Tea Party Candidates”.

In fact because One Demand is a conservative free-market based approach to campaign financing, even many Tea Party members will participate in One Demand because those Tea Party members dislike and distrust corporations as much as they distrust and dislike government.

How many of the four you signed up were Tea Partiers? Also, how exactly is OneintheHand “a conservative free-market based approach” to campaign financing? You offer nothing to the public that deserves their support. You offer nothing to get candidates on board with you. Your idea that voters should only give to small donation campaigns doesn’t need your group to make it happen. You want people to give you their info, but for what purpose? You don’t list any candidates on your site.

But at least you did offer this Trump-worthy babble...
With 20% national participation there will be some states below and some states above the 20% national average. If a state like New Jersey where I live were above the national average at 25 or 30% there would be some of our 12 congressional districts below our state average and some districts above the state average at 30, 35 or even near 40% of voters in that district committed to voting for “Hundred Dollar” candidates.

How high were you when you wrote this, or, even better....how high do I need to be to understand the point you thought you were making?

I am guessing that CW chose to write about the Collin’s Chest folks because they were an idea that people had clearly chosen to get behind and support. In other words, they demonstrated that they were NOT an idea that no one wanted to be associated with!

Oh, just a “head’s up!”, a nice lady from NJ’s Attorney General’s office might be contacting you regarding your website and your non-profit status claims.

I guess CW thought the Collins fund had merit, and 1D doesn't. It's his blog, his call.
If you don't like it, don't visit, don't support him at the next Kitten drive...which I doubt you ever have ever done in the past.

Your logic is faulty. Endlessly repeating a failed action is insanity. Correctly diagnosing that this is pathological in each and every intance is simply being consistant. Your argument would embarrass most 4th graders. You really seem like of those rare indivduals who has no sense of shame. If you do have a sense of shame, how can you sleep in your car at night?

Good for the good people of Portland and fu^k the "proud schmoes" and Blotus who praised them.

(New York Daily News)

This headline should be awarded some kind of fabulous prize.

Collin's has collected a war chest, nearly all of it from individuals giving <=$200. As near as I can determine, you have collected moonbeams. Head to head, who is weak?

You are a sad crank. Repeating the same failure over and over is a good working definition of insanity and/or stupidity.

While Joe Walsh did make the news this week, he wasn't the rep you said "You lie." That was Joe Wilson, who I think still serves as a rep from SC.

After pinning all her hopes for Trump's demise on the Mueller report, when it finally appeared after three interminable yrs and fizzled, she went catatonic and descended into a permanent state of PTSD "supershock", from which she is unlikely to ever recover.

But then again, I wonder about Beto. He's got until (I think) 12/9 to make up his mind. If by Thanksgiving he's still in sixth place, he might reconsider. Even another failed Senate run would put his name in front of Texas voters once again, prepping him for a 2024 Cruz rematch, no?

Yes and no. Oh, it's more complicated than that with so many candidates already, and I honestly think Beto would be quite content helping the Democratic presidential nominee in whatever capacity he could be utilized... as long as it did not require a run for Senator in 2020.

Depending on the nominee and their chosen running mate, Texas might seriously be in play, and if Texas doesn't flip in 2020, the Democrats should/could still cost the Republicans a whole lot of cash to defend her that should/could have been much better spent other places.

When Texas flips, it's all over, and they know it. Yes, Texas is the key to the whole enchilada, and it's not a matter of if Texas flips but when she flips. :)

As with most Trump Talk It's a mix of appalled and amused. You could say I am applused.

"The answer is no. I have no plans on running in 2020," Biden says, but then adds: "What people want me to say is that under no circumstances will I run. That would be a foolish thing to say."'
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/15/564263766/biden-tells-npr-he-has-no-plans-to-run-in-2020

We knew that. :)

And, I was just joking.

To be perfectly honest, they should consider going back to the senate, you know, for all intents and purposes. Ahem.

Mea culpa.

-CW

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/08/15/sanders-and-warren-rising-in-the-polls-but-biden-still-dominates/#comment-142584

-CW

Being a strong advocate for indigenous rights is the perfect antidote for any of Trump's nonsense.

EXCELLENT point! I had wondered that myself. I mean, Cruz is the most hated member of the Senate (including BOTH sides of the aisle), so he'd obviously be a lot easier to beat.

But then again, I wonder about Beto. He's got until (I think) 12/9 to make up his mind. If by Thanksgiving he's still in sixth place, he might reconsider. Even another failed Senate run would put his name in front of Texas voters once again, prepping him for a 2024 Cruz rematch, no?

Heh.

:-)

-CW

You may find this amusing. Or hilarious...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/16/emperors-new-island-tale-trump-buying-greenland/?noredirect=on

:-)

-CW

Perhaps Beto O'Rourke should have been more precise in his response there. For reasons I won't bore you with, running against Ted Cruz in 2018 versus running against John Cornyn in 2020 are two whole different prospects. While I would wager some serious cash that O'Rourke will not attempt a run against Cornyn in 2020, on the other hand -- barring any unforeseen events -- I can certainly see him running in 2024 in a second attempt to unseat that other senator not named Cornyn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ADuDylCeU

Well, you asked. :)

Is Walsh "having a come to Jesus Moment" or is offering himself up as a Messiah to primary Trump? Sacrificial lamb may be a better way to describe it.

I second Paula - great column!