septimus:
We were hoping that intelligent Republicans, led by Romney and the Bushes, would save the day. On this very Board we have our very own Republican who we thought had a 100+ IQ and who’d promised to vote rationally. Let’s listen in on his “thoughts”:Brickhead ? What a moron!
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Because it seems relevant, I will share my own experience of voting today. I havealways voted, in every election since I was eligible.
As the election season unrolled this year, some of you may know that although I am not a fan of Mrs. Clinton, and believe her presidency will be a horrible one, I had nonetheless resolved to support over her main opponent, whose presidency I believe would be a more horrible one.
So I got my ballot and sat down. In my jurisdiction, we are handed paper ballots, mark them, and then they are ingested by a scanner.
I started to mark the ballot. I couldn’t.
I passed over the presidential electors, marked my choice for US Representative, chose my options for various bond issues… and then stared at the president’s choice again.
Finally I marked it for Trump. I couldn’t vote for Clinton.
I stood up and walked towards the scanner… and then I couldn’t put it in the scanner; I couldn’t vote for Trump.
I marked my ballot VOID and requested a new one. Sat back down. Filled out all the other spots again.
Finally I marked Clinton, stood up again. Sent the ballot into the scanner before I could change my mind again.
Outside some guy named Buridan had a donkey for sale.
The point of this little oversharing is to suggest that it’s not always irrational to refuse to vote.
By all means, bash away at the people who voted for Trump , or even the people who voted for a third party candidate, or who didn’t vote at all.
But attacking people who voted for Clinton is beyond stupid.
Stay in your fucking jungle ; don’t ever come back here to the United States; don’t vote in our elections; and set fire to your U.S. passport if you still have one.