#Caucus

[memenewsdotcom]

Trump wins Nevada Caucus

[whenweallvote]

Did you watch Shirley on Netflix and wonder how political parties select their nominee for President? 🤔 

Voters participate in primaries or caucuses at state-level party conventions in order to select the delegates who represent their community at their party's presidential nominating convention. At the convention, delegates ultimately select a candidate to represent their party on the November ballot. 

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[caucus-loduz]

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[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Historiquement, le long processus des primaires américaines débute dans l'Etat de l'Iowa, qui dispose d'un système de scrutin atypique: les "caucus", des assemblées traditionnelles d'électeurs. Cela donne une influence disproportionnée à ce petit Etat rural, à la population majoritairement blanche.

Les électeurs américains se préparent à voter

[nicklloydnow]

“Donald trump should have seen it coming. He arrived on May 25th at the Libertarian Party’s national convention in Washington, DC, hoping to expand his support, but the crowd mostly responded with boos. Attendees lacked enthusiasm for a protectionist who added $8.4trn to America’s national debt. They also spent the weekend squabbling among themselves. After losing presidential races for more than half a century, the Libertarian Party is facing an identity crisis.

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The most intense divisions are about strategy. The hardline Mises Caucus (named after Ludwig von Mises, a pro-market Austrian economist) has dominated the party’s leadership since 2022 and adopted populist rhetoric. The group was responsible for inviting Mr Trump, as well as Robert F. Kennedy junior, an independent candidate, to speak at the convention. The debate about whether to invite the outside candidates at times seemed more heated than the Libertarians’ own presidential-nomination fight. On May 24th, the convention’s first day, one attendee yelled into the microphone, “I would like to propose that we go tell Donald Trump to go fuck himself!” The crowd cheered.

“I would rather us focus on the Libertarian candidates,” said Jim Fulner, from the Radical Caucus. “I’m fearful that come later this summer, when I’m working the county fair, someone will say, ‘Oh, Libertarians, you guys are the Donald Trump people.’” Nick Apostolopoulos, from California, welcomed the attention Mr Trump’s speech brought—and said his presence proved “this party matters, and that they have to try and appeal to this voting bloc.”

Few believed that Mr Trump won much support. He promised to appoint a Libertarian to his cabinet and commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving life in prison after founding the dark-web equivalent of Amazon for illegal drugs. The crowd responded positively to Mr Trump’s nod to a Libertarian cause célèbre, but booed after he asked them to choose him as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee. Mr Trump hit back, “If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your 3% every four years.”

Mr Kennedy was more disciplined, tailoring his speech to the crowd by highlighting his opposition to covid lockdowns. Even so he received a cool reception. Libertarians want a candidate who will promise to abolish, not reform, government agencies.

The reality is that Libertarians are more interested in positions than personalities. The exception may be the broad admiration for Ron Paul, a retired Republican congressman whom many cite as their lodestar. But at 88 Mr Paul has achieved the difficult feat of being considered too old to plausibly run for president.

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But the party is far from unified. Given the choice between Mr Oliver and “none of the above”, more than a third of the delegates preferred no one. It remains uncertain whether the party’s candidate will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, as several previous nominees have. If the Libertarian candidate has any influence on the presidential election this year, it will be as a spoiler in a close-run swing state.

Mr Oliver’s victory marked a rare defeat for the Mises Caucus. But the re-election of Angela McArdle, a Mises Caucus member, as the national party chairperson is perhaps more important to the future of the movement. Ms McArdle faced criticism for her decision to invite outside candidates to speak. Controversy over the Mises Caucus had led several state delegations to split, and much of the convention’s floor time was eaten up over fights about whom to recognise. The rise of the Mises wing of the party has led more pragmatically minded members to largely give up on the project of advancing libertarian ideas by building a political party.

The party struggles on big stages, such as in presidential, gubernatorial or Senate contests. Yet it occasionally wins municipal elections, leaving some to wonder whether national activism is pointless or even counter-productive. Why would Libertarians invest time in a hopeless race for president when they could direct their energy to fighting a local sales tax or antiquated laws restricting alcohol sales?

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The party faithful believe that national and local activism are not mutually exclusive. Elijah Gizzarelli won fewer than 3,000 votes when he ran for governor of Rhode Island as a Libertarian two years ago, but he argues that the party has a long record of success—so long as the definition of success expands beyond winning elections. He says the party succeeds by shifting the “Overton window”, or the spectrum of political ideas that are generally considered acceptable.”

[doculicious]

Donald J. Trump will continue to be 2024 presidential primary, caucus and general election ballots as he should be.

[nodynasty4us]

From the October 30, 2023 article:

On Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, Nevada will hold a state-run primary.... It means nothing. The winner doesn't get any delegates. Two days later, on Feb. 8, 2024, the Nevada Republican Party will hold caucuses, like Iowa. That's where all the delegates will be chosen. ... The consequence of all this is that Nevada could have two winners. Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, and Mike Pence filed to run in the primary.... The winner won't get any delegates but will get a ton of publicity and some momentum, which may be more valuable than the handful of Nevada delegates. Two days later, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, and Doug Burgum will compete for the actual delegates in the caucus. When the caucus winner is announced, there will be less publicity and a lot of explanations of why the state had both. Haley's strategy is probably smart. She is likely to win the primary, since all she has to do is outpoll Scott and Pence. Headlines everywhere the next day will be "Nikki Haley Wins the Nevada Primary." People in other states won't understand that she didn't get any delegates. When Trump wins the caucuses 2 days later, a lot of people are going to be scratching their heads and saying: "But didn't Haley already win Nevada?"

[improvisateur777]

Les USA, cette république bananière ?!

Comment un pays aussi innovant que les Etats-Unis, grâce, entre autres, à une jeunesse tout à la fois dynamique que créative, va, selon toute vraisemblance, se retrouver en Novembre 2024 obligé de choisir entre un vieux pervers narcissique doublé d'un délinquant politique et un octogénaire pratiquement sénile, prêt à utiliser toutes les combines afin de rempiler pour quatre autres années.

[progressivemillennial]

Trump 2024: Fuck Around and Find Out

[tikhanovlibrary]

Three books on Central Asia

The year is 1920. Russia, which has been steadily advancing across Central Asia for the last century, is in the throws of a bloody civil war.

The Communist revolution is not only contained within Russia. Revolts break out across Mongolia, Turkestan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Afghanistan. Stalin, who has been working as an agitator in the oil fields of Baku, returns to Russia to form a part of Lenin's emerging Bolshevik party.

As terror grasped the East, it caused an exodus of intellectuals and freethinkers, desperate to escape the pull of revolutionary bloodshed. With them, a number of memoirs and war diaries describing the beauty of the pre-revolutionary Orient, and the horror of the Civil War.

Tikhanov Library is happy to announce the publication of three such books, which will be released within the coming week:

Blood and Oil in the Orient, by Essad Bey -Tells the story of a young Azerbaijani nobleman who's forced to flee his home and travel throughout Asia as a refugee from Communist Violence. Full of picturesque descriptions of the different people he met and the stories he heard, Blood and Oil in the Orient is a kaleidoscope view of the old east, as modernity comes crashing down around it.

Asian Odyssey, by Dmitri Alioshin -Is the story of a young Russian army officer, raised in China, who flees to Mongolia to escape the Red Terror. During this escape, he is enlisted in the forces of Baron Ungern-Sternberg, a brutal warlord who believed himself the reincarnation of Genghis Khan.

Men, Beasts, and Gods, by Ferdynand Ossendowski -Tells the story of Ferdynand Ossendowski, and Polish Chemist (and possibly spy), who flees from Siberia to China by way of Mongolia, encountering all kinds of characters along the way and risking his life over and over. Men, Beasts, and Gods was an instant bestseller at the time of its publication, and remains a cult classic to this day.

Read these books at www.tikhanovlibrary.com

[kenwhytock]

Pierre Poilievre and his caucus trolling Canadians with lies about their party….

[panspanther]

tRumps landslide closely resembles afew balls of shit rolling downhill

shitler's iowa "win" in context

56K Christofascist losers (out of 752K voters, 115K of whom actually went to the caucuses) picked their own fascist loser to be the loser in November.

The narrative they are trying SO HARD to push on us is bullshit. This isn't some kind of landslide victory over a tough field. He *barely* topped 51% against the most pathetic field of weak candidates who fell all over themselves to not criticize him or even tell the truth about him. And look at the roughly 700K voters who stayed home or picked someone else. That's a big part of this story I am not seeing.

America hates this guy and everything he stands for. Yeah, there's a lot of white supremacy in the Republican party, and they have exerted minority rule for a long, long time. They have a loud and angry base, and an entire propaganda network dedicated to pushing their lies. AND STILL they and their policies aren't popular. Their leader is indicted on 91 felony counts, will almost certainly go to prison, and is so feeble he can't risk facing anyone but his most sycophantic (ever dwindling) audiences, lest he shit himself and forget who he's running against.

He's dangerous as fuck, but he's a massive loser and we can beat him again, just like we did in 2020 and 2022 when his hand-picked lunatics were defeated all over the place.

Do not get discouraged and think that this means America has suddenly forgotten about all of his violence, chaos, cruelty, corruption, and crimes.

Remain vigilant, check your registration, confirm your registration, and make sure you and everyone you know turn out to protect America and the world from this piece of shit.

[hanzi83]

Episode 554-From Ashes to Fascist

talking about wrestling, political, social media, celeb discourse. I will probably do the mass recap edition on the weekend.