Lemon of the Crucible

Equip to make lemonade.

A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced.

For your consideration (please don’t.)

For federal level, I can agree that the lack of ranked-choice hurts third party chances. Voters see too much risk in not voting for a major party.

That being said, well-coordinated local and state-level can definitely get a higher rate of success and show that there’s more to those parties besides political posturing. I’ve seen more campaigning for a primary for my local sheriff’s office this year than I had ever seen for any third party candidate ever at a local level. If the third parties focused on the down ballot, they would have more opportunity to show that they can put forward competent candidates to build trust for higher elected positions.

It’d be great if any of them had a proper ground game for local elections instead of just popping up every 4 years and only hyping a presidential candidate. They look too disorganized to take seriously.

That’s very strange that they closed the polls with people waiting. My understanding was you had a right to vote if you were in line.

Not voting means you’re fine if either of the two major candidates win. Inaction is also a choice with consequences that can have decades of impact.

“I have now taught you everything I know about fighting malarkey.”

If you need unwanted teen pregnancies to offset a population loss, then maybe you have bigger issues.

on any issue that is important to most citizens

I’d argue there’s one that’s definitely important to roughly half the population.

I’ll wait for the * price tag… And a winning lottery ticket.

But seriously, a Scotch barreled in 1948? I didn’t know they aged anything that long.

The original source is The Hill.

All part of Project 2025!

I feel Dean has so many meme-worthy moments.

It’s so confusing that people mix the infotainment OS with the Android connectivity app. Both have their use cases, but Google really needs to rebrand one of these.