Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:42 am Somebody ought to tell the Democrats that boosting far-right candidates in Republican primaries in order to make their own candidate look better in the general is a dangerous game.

Yeah, it's also telling that centrists view what would be Tea Party/Freedom Caucus-level Republicans 10 years as a threat to their own candidates.

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:42 am Somebody ought to tell the Democrats that boosting far-right candidates in Republican primaries in order to make their own candidate look better in the general is a dangerous game. The 2016 presidential election obviously wasn't lesson enough. Even if you win you're still stoking extremism, you dicks.

I assume referring to JB Pritzker (incumbent Democrat governor of Illinois) spending millions to run ads against a moderate Republican in the Republican primary, boosting a far-right nutjob to a huge victory in the primary?

Yes, I have similar feelings. It's guaranteed to backfire; *probably* not this time, but at some point it will.

The fact that this is legal is evidence that we badly need election reform.

(More to say about JB Pritzker. I'd like to vote against him, but with many civil rights being threatened at the federal level, and with a wife and two teenage daughters, I don't foresee voting for anyone other than a Democrat for Illinois governor anytime soon.)

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:42 am Somebody ought to tell the Democrats that boosting far-right candidates in Republican primaries in order to make their own candidate look better in the general is a dangerous game. The 2016 presidential election obviously wasn't lesson enough. Even if you win you're still stoking extremism, you dicks.

The whackos they boosted here in Colorado lost. They played dirty and lost money.

losthighway wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:42 pm

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:42 am Somebody ought to tell the Democrats that boosting far-right candidates in Republican primaries in order to make their own candidate look better in the general is a dangerous game. The 2016 presidential election obviously wasn't lesson enough. Even if you win you're still stoking extremism, you dicks.

The whackos they boosted here in Colorado lost. They played dirty and lost money.

Didn't AR-15's-4-Jebus dingbat Lauren Boebert win her primary?

Krev wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:02 pm

losthighway wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:42 pm

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:42 am Somebody ought to tell the Democrats that boosting far-right candidates in Republican primaries in order to make their own candidate look better in the general is a dangerous game. The 2016 presidential election obviously wasn't lesson enough. Even if you win you're still stoking extremism, you dicks.

The whackos they boosted here in Colorado lost. They played dirty and lost money.

Didn't AR-15's-4-Jebus dingbat Lauren Boebert win her primary?

Yes she did

jfv wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:56 am (More to say about JB Pritzker. I'd like to vote against him, but with many civil rights being threatened at the federal level, and with a wife and two teenage daughters, I don't foresee voting for anyone other than a Democrat for Illinois governor anytime soon.)

That's an understatement. With every state adjacent to Illinois now getting their Gilead on, you really can't afford any more local victories for white life.

Oh sorry, my very clearly-enunciated reference to white replacement theory which I didn't bother to correct and which you all cheered for was a just a meaningless verbal slip-up in a sentence that wasn't supposed to contain any "wh" sounds at all. How did that get in there? I guess I've been hunting too many wascally wabbits! Well, you all know how easy it is to say "white" when you meant to say "the right to".

I see Emmett Till got a new monument today, his fourth, after the first three were smashed up and dumped in the river without any apparent irony.

Krev wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:02 pm Didn't AR-15's-4-Jebus dingbat Lauren Boebert win her primary?

And I quote:

"The church should lead the government... I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk."

Colorado voters: yum yum more of this please

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:50 pm That's an understatement. With every state adjacent to Illinois now getting their Gilead on, you really can't afford any more local victories for white life...

Oh sorry, my very clearly-enunciated reference to white replacement theory which I didn't bother to correct and which you all cheered for was a just a meaningless verbal slip-up in a sentence that wasn't supposed to contain any "wh" sounds at all. How did that get in there? I guess I've been hunting too many wascally wabbits! Well, you all know how easy it is to say "white" when you meant to say "the right to".

Yeah, that was something else. Fucking ashamed that she's from the state in which I live.

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:30 pm

Krev wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:02 pm Didn't AR-15's-4-Jebus dingbat Lauren Boebert win her primary?

And I quote:

"The church should lead the government... I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk."

Colorado voters: yum yum more of this please

If anyone thinks Florida is the most fucked up state, you have NOT spent enough time in Colorado. There are some twisted people scattered around those communities. More than you think. Indian Hills, which is where I went to summer camp, 45 minutes from Denver. It was allegedly like half KKK at some point.

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:30 pm

Krev wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:02 pm Didn't AR-15's-4-Jebus dingbat Lauren Boebert win her primary?

And I quote:

"The church should lead the government... I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk."

Colorado voters: yum yum more of this please

Ahem, not Denver, CO voters. Not Fort Collins, or Greeley, or Boulder. The majority rural 3rd district with its crowning metropolis being Grand Junction. Those people voted for Boebert. The part of our state that would secede if they could and instantly become a microcosm of 3rd world living conditions, except I guess they have resorts like Aspen.

Sorry, little Colorado geography for you. Back on topic.