Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

A consequence of cucumbers

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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Drowning Government in a Bathtub

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If you want to see an unmitigated disaster, check out the WV Secretary of States’s election results website. Hell, the whole page is a clusterfuck.

The results are in some cases 15 hours behind WV Metro News. I can’t imagine why WV is having trouble luring tech industries here.

They ought to remove the 2016 copyright and replace it with 1995 Geocities.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    The problem doesn’t jump out at me.

    The current Secretary of State is a Dem, and is up for reelection according to that page. Maybe she can hire the healthcare.gov fixers.

    ETA: The one problem I noticed is that I didn’t get any votes.

  3. 3.

    patroclus

    Did Ojeda win? Or do I have to look it up?

    Yes he won! I looked it up. Karma’s a bitch! What a great site!

  5. 5.

    D58826

    @Baud: Obviously the Hillary bots and the Bernie Bros are terrified of facing your awesomeness so they joined forces to erase all of your votes and give them to Tailgunner Ted. The horror of it all

  8. 8.

    Prescott Cactus

    @Damien:

    I see the Bigfoot tables have turned, Mr. Cole

    Et tu, Anne Laurie ?

    One minute.

    Feel the Bern.

  10. 10.

    Starfish

    Be fair. That looks like an outdated sharepoint site, and not an outdated geocities site. It needs more blink tag.

  11. 11.

    Morzer

    Interesting piece by Jedediah Purdy on West Virginia here:

    http://www.scalawagmagazine.org/articles/what-west-virginia-is-saying

    On Twitter last night, people who have never been near Appalachia, emboldened by the sense that We Are All Nate Silvers Now, fought over exit polls showing that many Sanders voters said they would support Trump over Clinton in the fall. Some said they would support Trump over Sanders, and some Clinton voters also said they’d be voting Trump. The exasperation of poll-readers is understandable. This tells us nothing, they say, except that West Virginia is being West Virginia again….

    West Virginia is neither a secret socialist stronghold nor a racist fever-dream. It is one of several bleeding edges of a sharply unequal country, where people who never had much are feeling as pressed as they can remember ever being. Some are bigots. Many are not. Some, no doubt, find that Trump’s cocktail of arrogance and disgust, grievance and triumphalism, reassuringly resembles their own psychic survival strategies, blown up into world-historical dimensions. Others are voting for the socialist for the same reason they voted for the Chicago community organizer: a desire for a more equal society, born out of the lived experience of inequality. Maybe future organizing and leadership, like the decades-long fight that first built the unions and the Democratic party in the coalfields, will show that they are not alone in that.

  12. 12.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @Morzer:

    Seems like he uses the word “some” and “others” instead of saying “a lot” of West Virginians are racists. #NotAllWestVirginians.

  17. 17.

    iLarynx

    “Do you want to trust the website “www.sos.wv.gov” to use the “SharePoint Browser Plug-in” plug-in?”

    And using Flash-wannabe MS “Silverlight” for alleged functionality?

    The whole site reeks of Microsoft. What do you expect?

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    LOL. I’m late to read this thread, and when I went to the West Virginia secretary of state’s site just now the results are still incomplete! I guess they said fuck it after everybody’s interest quickly waned.

  19. 19.

    Jim

    On May 3, Virginia held some local elections. Results were up on the commonwealth’s website an hour after polls closed. Easily accessible. It’s possible.

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