#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. 

Swipe to learn more about delegates, national party conventions, and how YOUR vote in a primary election impacts who you’ll see on the ballot in November. Then, visit weall.vote/register to make sure you’re registered to vote! 🗳️

[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]

If President Biden has his way, future memories of Iowa and New Hampshire are gone. Gone because a sitting president with a remarkably good record to run for re-election upon does not have the confidence to believe that, in a fair fight, he would be nominated again. This, even though right now he does not have a credible opponent. Instead of preserving an open process to obtain his party's endorsement, he wants to stack the deck, cut the cards, then deal them and declare a great victory.

Former Congressman and state party chair David Nagle (D - Iowa)

[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

[lutnistas]

Caravanserai in Şəki / Shaki ( Azerbaijan )

[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.

[goaskalley]

My year of Looking Away

I intend to carry this on for many more years, as many years as it takes. For all I see around are distractions and mistakes. The D Trump will be president again – that seems to be at stake. It will bring many of those I love a great joy to see him take his place. I understand how you all feel, on both sides. There it is though- the two sides. I fear what will become of us if we…

[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.

[doculicious]

Nikki "Anti-Black People" Haley lost the 2024 New Hampshire presidential primary. Nevada and the U.S. Virgin Islands each have their Republican Caucus on February 8. February 24 will be the South Carolina Republican Primary. I don't expect Nikki Haley to win her home state of South Carolina.

Her comments in New Hampshire in 2023 about the Civil War and Slavery during the days of Kwanzaa (December 26 to January 1) were a dog whistle to get certain voters in the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary January 2024. As the governor of South Carolina where she was born and grew up in she saw firsthand that the American Civil War was about Slavery. For years she has gone by Civil War battlefieds, Confederate monuments, Dixie flags, slave plantations and slave cabins in South Carolina. She might have even stumbled upon a Klan rally once by accident. Her father taught at an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) in South Carolina. A result of the USA not wanting black students at white colleges in the 1800 and 1900s. White schools still don't want black students in this new century. I digress. Maybe she didn't like that growing up it was black students tuition and fees that were paying the bills at her house.

Hating black people does not stop you from being president of the USA. Take your pick of past racist presidents and those who owned slaves. The problem with her is that she is South Asian and wants to further their ability to come to America like her parents did. You can't do that if you are in basic denial of factual history of the USA that she in South Carolina can see every single day.

I am sure that while she campaigning in New Hampshire she did not stop and visit the African Burying Ground Memorial Park in Portsmouth New Hampshire. Slavery started in the North and ended in the South.