I missed the part about why we need to "save" the US Postal Service.

Because socialism, that's why!

I don't get the whole "vote on Saturday" thing. Aren't most polling places open til 7?

Bernie Sanders sounds like Larry David.

namatad:
You dont get that Saturday would be easier for a majority of the people on the planet?


Perhaps so, but a weekend voting day would lead to establishment clause problems, since it would effectively prohibit some religious people from voting.

FloydA: namatad:
You dont get that Saturday would be easier for a majority of the people on the planet?


Perhaps so, but a weekend voting day would lead to establishment clause problems, since it would effectively prohibit some religious people from voting.

this is kinda why I am in favor of 100% voting by mail or saturday and sunday voting.

(yes I know that homeless people would still need a place to vote ... hmmmm city hall isnt used for anything useful currently.)

stiletto_the_wise: FloydA: Perhaps so, but a weekend voting day would lead to establishment clause problems, since it would effectively prohibit some religious people from voting.

So make it Friday and Saturday. Solved.

And then you fark over the Jews and Muslims and Seventh-Day Adventists, etc.

Uh, it's easier to vote than ever (at least in my lifetime).

When I first voted I did have to vote on a Tuesday - sure, I could have gotten an absentee ballot, but I would have had to jump through a lot of hoops.

Now, I know they run elections differently in different states, but now I get a ballot in the farking mail several weeks before election day and I can take my time and I can mail it in or if I don't trust the USPS I can drive down to the courthouse any day before the election and drop it off and if I wait until election day I can drop it off at ANY polling place I want to - no waiting in line, nothing. I bypass all those suckers trying to use voting booths. I just say "Here's my ballot" and that's that.

I don't disagree with him that the 1% are the noble class, but it is to varying degrees. I've been particularly noting this recently in movies (Holy shiat, can you imagine living in a house like that?), but I don't need to be in the 1%. I'd be ecstatic to be in the 25% or even 50%....I think I used to be in the 50% - well, all of us are in the 50% on one side or the other. Right now I'd just be happy to have a job.and be in the lower 25%

I don't think he pwned anything.

namatad: You dont get that Saturday would be easier for a majority of the people on the planet?

The majority of the people on the planet don't vote in U.S. elections.

I work a 10 hour shift. Between early voting and the 2 hours the polls are open after I get off work, I don't find it terribly hard to find time to vote.

Shifting the elections to a Saturday won't change the public apathy, it just increases the likelihood that I'll be drunk.

EatenTheSun: Shifting the elections to a Saturday won't change the public apathy, it just increases the likelihood that I'll be drunk.

wait wait wait wait
you vote sober??
you are clearly doing it WRONG

namatad:
this is kinda why I am in favor of 100% voting by mail or saturday and sunday voting.

(yes I know that homeless people would still need a place to vote ... hmmmm city hall isnt used for anything useful currently.)


Yeah, I'd be OK with 100% mail in, if we made some way for homeless/mobile/transient people to use a public building as a mailing address.

violentsalvation: Bernie Sanders sounds like Larry David.

I think that he sounds more like The Aardvark from the Pink Panther Show

EatenTheSun: I don't get the whole "vote on Saturday" thing. Aren't most polling places open til 7?

8pm here.

URAPNIS: I can't believe people still vote at all.

Unfortunately, so many people think like you do, so we keep getting crappy candidates who only appeal to their base; horrible candidates count on voter apathy to get them elected.

DarthBrooks: I missed the part about why we need to "save" the US Postal Service.

Hey, "Such Great Heights" is a good song

We should require voting and make it a fine if you don't.

Then we should outlaw all TV / broadcast media / push media / cell phone / mass mail ads for candidates and issues, and initiatives. Period, no exceptions.

If you can't be bothered to learn about a candidate then the hell with you, you're an unamerican asshat and you deserve a fine, like $100 per non-voting offense. Exceptions (obviously) for illness, military service (maybe) and other stuff. Otherwise, read some web sites besides fark once in a while, learn about a candidate and make a got damn vote. Non voters are the reason we have idiots that win elections now.

Vote by mail is already being done in Washington State and Oregon, without the doom and gloom the plasterbrains at the local paper predicted. It works. No rampant fraud outbreak yet either.

DarthBrooks: I missed the part about why we need to "save" the US Postal Service.

Other than the fact that is is in the Constitution. But I guess that isn't all that important to blind ideologues like you.


Enthusiast: REALITY CHECK: Whatever it is that you're experiencing now, for good or bad, is the result of the system you're trying to save.

Not quite up on the whole change vs. save thing are you?

SharkTrager:
I vote every time but I'm not dumb enough to think it does anything at all to get us candidates worth voting for.

So run for office.

SharkTrager: FloydA: URAPNIS: I can't believe people still vote at all.

Unfortunately, so many people think like you do, so we keep getting crappy candidates who only appeal to their base; horrible candidates count on voter apathy to get them elected.

I vote every time but I'm not dumb enough to think it does anything at all to get us candidates worth voting for.

This.

Voting for the most part at the national level is a waste of time, 'cos all politicians suck. OTOH I go just before the polls close, no lines, and I'm only in the voting booth for literally 1 or 2 minutes, so it's no big deal. What 'they' need to do is phrase referendum questions more clearly, so I don't have to guess if I should vote Yes or No.

An old man whose down with OWS? Someone has a lucky family.

EatenTheSun: I don't get the whole "vote on Saturday" thing. Aren't most polling places open til 7?

pssst. some americans hold down more than one job.

Dinki: DarthBrooks: I missed the part about why we need to "save" the US Postal Service.

Other than the fact that is is in the Constitution. But I guess that isn't all that important to blind ideologues like you.

The Postal Clause empowers Congress to establish a Postal Service. Doesn't mean they *must* continue a Postal Service any more than they *must* declare wars if they don't want to.

But go ahead and dream up some more fables about what you think the Constitution requires Congress to do, vs what it empowers Congress to do.

henryhill: ....and then he went outside and yelled at some clouds.



You wanna yell at the moon with me?