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The Horned Tulip God's avatar

I look forward to the day when we can have a non-partisan/bipartisan White House. However, that day will not be November 6, 2024.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

No labels, man! We’re like Naomi Kline! This is such errant dog meat. Richard Hofstader: “third parties are like bees: they sting and they die.” In this case, what might die is democracy, as well as this ridiculous astroturf party.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

can i just say, every time i see Xitter in print i hear 'shitter'

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

Me too! It's one of the benefits of a classical education!

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

Can I just say every time I hear No Labels I think of Superstore house brand No Name?

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olpossum's avatar

These mystery donors, does one of the bigger ones have a number between 9 and 11 of yachts? Maybe more, even? Just asking the question, like Trucker Swanson.

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grumpy soupman's avatar

I'm still mad at Ralph Nader staged a vanity run against that hurt Gore in 2000 and Jill Stein, that Putin schmoozin' floozie, siphoned some votes from Hillary in 2016. No Labels is no good.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

This x1000

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belfryo's avatar

"No one needs to be excited about the next election."

THIS!!!

if there was ONE GODDAMN thing I could 'obliterate ' if I could is 'politics as entertainment

You want to be entertained?...WATCH A GODDAMN MOVIE or some TV or go hang gliding JFC...

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SunMoonStars's avatar

https://www.politico.com/ne...

A 6-figure Donald Trump donor is now a No Labels adviser Allan Keen is heavily involved with the centrist group, but previously worked to re-elect Trump.

Yep, Rs lying, cheating and stealing as usual.

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tegrat's avatar

What is so terribly wrong with Joe Biden's leadership? OK, could do better on immigration, perhaps, but where else has he gone wrong besides not playing more hardball with the obstructionists? I don't get it. No Labels is simply a rest home for grifters IMO.

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Tina Mouse's avatar

I think he has been great.

I am not excited about 2024.

I am terrified.

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JWinfield's avatar

Oh if only Joe lieberman was available, he was so handy for the mealy mouths who think politics is just such a buzz kill. Also why do 3rd parties always start with the top?? Why not a mayoral or gov mansion first? A dog catcher? A county board seat? Just for the first 10 years then branch out.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

Because they are well funded and those billionaires want results right now.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

when I clicked on the article, for a moment I thought that was DeSantis in the header pic

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Megan Macomber's avatar

Never, ever, ever affiliate with anyone, group, or thing that Joe Lieberman is affiliated with. Just don't. Do. It.

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simpledinosaur's avatar

Truer words was never spoke. I can't abide that man. It was a huge disappointment when Al Gore picked him as his Veep running mate back in 2000. Ugh!

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

"After Cunningham lost the 2022 governor’s race, he prioritized a No Labels paycheck over keeping Trump out of the White House."

If I were a just-asking-questions kinda guy, I might be asking whether Cunningham ran up any particularly large bills during that failed stint that might be tough to pay off. Or whether he recently moved to some shiny new digs. Maybe his credit card debts did a kegstand and vanished overnight? Does he trade wine tips with the sole member of the Sinema Party? So many possibilities - it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

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agony's avatar

I do think that having something other than the rigid two party system currently operating in the US would be a good thing. As it stands, the, in global terms, pretty centrist Democrats get called "the Left" and "socialist" when they're really not that far left and not at all socialist, simply because they are in opposition to a quite far Right wing.

But this is not, at all, the way. Even if it was good faith rather than this total bullshit, you don't start at the top. You start building at, at largest, state level. County level. Municipal level. Let people see that there are different ways to operate, and that coalition building is a thing that can happen.

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Roger Merle's avatar

The authors of the Constitution never intended the US to be a 'democracy', a concept as anathema to them as monarchy, if not more so. Their most 'radical' idea was governance by an enlightened elite (meritocracy) drawn from the upper classes, which is why the Constitution is larded with anti-democratic fail-safes: the Electoral College; the existence of a Senate (originally appointed by state legislatures, often just the state senate instead of the full lege); the lack a of federal right to vote amendment; allowing states to impose property and other restrictions on voting; the whole checks and balances thingy with the four branches of government (House, Senate, Executive, Judiciary) having veto power over the others, designed to stop progress, not facilitate it.

In short, they wanted to preserve the existing socio-economic/political structure at it existed then in Constitutional amber forever. And the vast majority of them would be as depressed as horrified at how much 'democracy' there is these days. That said, I fully agree with Mark Twain that "It was good that Columbus found America; it would have been better had he missed it."

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El Duderino's avatar

There’s high inflation and turmoil in the Middle East, and I’m mildly disappointed with Carter. But I could never vote for Reagan, so John Anderson in 1980!!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I voted for Barry Commoner of the Citizens' Party, that's how pure I was (like Caepan, I got better). Art Buchwald had a column, "I meant to vote for Carter but my hand wouldn't move. Is there anything I can do?"

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Caepan's avatar

How did you manage to quote 18-year-old me?

P.S.: I got better.

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Lyndsey Loves tRump Farts's avatar

Having nothing but the purest and cheeriest form of animosity for these (other) tRump fart huffers... I was beyond amused to see polling that showed anyone they put up will actually end up helping Biden.

In fact, he led by 10% when this bozo's wet dream ticket ran. With the obvious caveats that TFG could be in prison by then.....at this time in the 15 cycle JEB! was an immortal lock for the nomination.....and no one is actually paying any attention to this horserace BS that doesn't get paid by someone to pay attention to it.... Other than you and me and our fellow Good Humans checking the mail every day for our Soros checks.

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Amanda Mitchell's avatar

The No Label party is primarily composed of moderately educated white men who start many of their sentences with, "Well actually..."

They are a highly punchable lot.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Did you hear about the man who drowned in a cistern?

He drowned in a well, actually.

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