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THANK YOU ST!! - CrankYanker Feb 3, 19:15 9
- happy bday! -- nm - budice Feb 3, 19:40
- Good to see you in these parts, and Happy Birthday! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 3, 19:35
- Heh, couldn't wait 'til Tuesday, huh?;-) -- nm - Meg Feb 3, 19:34
- cheers ! -- nm - mud Feb 3, 19:31
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - JaxSean Feb 3, 19:29
- Happy birthday, CY! I hope you enjoy it all. - Marlowe Feb 3, 19:22 1
  - Meg is right here in my backyard and Marcel has been a friend since he called El Adobe decades ago to wish me HB. - CrankYanker Feb 3, 19:25
- Credit where credit is due. Marcel and Meg were instrumental in organizing this. Happy birthday you old bastard! -- nm - Mop Feb 3, 19:20
- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Max Feb 3, 19:16
Ok THIS is where the caucus system loses me. A F-ing coin flip?!?!? -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 3, 19:06 4
- Also Accurate -- (link) - budice Feb 3, 19:41
- There are "regular" elections that have been decided on a coin flip or drawing of cards. -- nm - Reagen Feb 3, 19:14 1
  - "Eight of Hearts." "Death." "Damn, you girls play rough in Louisiana." -- nm - Max Feb 3, 19:16
- Thunderdome would be so much better -- nm - eag Feb 3, 19:07
Biden’s just bad at this, isn’t he? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 3, 19:02 20
- to be fair, his results will likely improve when numbers are in from rural communities not getting media coverage - that's where his campaign focused - b. Feb 3, 19:05 1
  - speaking of rural, gotta say I just welled-up seeing some good for Pete results from rural areas. I know Iowa was early in same-sex - b. Feb 3, 19:37
- #s -- (link) - mud Feb 3, 19:03 17
  - What are these numbers? Is this Liar's Dice? -- nm - Max Feb 3, 19:07 16
    - it's complicated. here's a quickety-gooogled summary. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 3, 19:11 15
      - here's the final results from the coin-toss-including caucus. nm but: -- (link*) - b. Feb 3, 19:14 14
        
        I see some scribbling out there. -- nm - Max Feb 3, 19:17
        
        Pete won the coin toss -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 19:17 12
        
        I saw, thanks. :) - (the whole thing is madness, but gotta deal with it as it is.) - b. Feb 3, 19:25 9
        
        I had a feeling the second choice aspect would be important - things like this are something. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 3, 19:28
        
        It's a great system actually. It gave us our current President for example -- nm - Bacon Feb 3, 19:27 7
        
        Trump famously lost the Iowa caucus. -- nm - Reagen Feb 3, 19:28 6
        
        I thought I was on Twitter for a second. be better, Red! ;p -- nm - b. Feb 3, 19:29 5
        
        Then ENTIRE system of determining a President gave us Trump. - Bacon Feb 3, 19:30 4
        
        Letting people vote? -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 19:32 2
        
        The Primary System sucks. That's where I am at. - Bacon Feb 3, 19:35 1
        
        there has to be a primary system to winnow - its issues in and of itself are small, though, compared to democracy being broken in other ways. - b. Feb 3, 19:42
        
        ok. -- nm - b. Feb 3, 19:32
        
        Did he elect to receive or kickoff in the first half? -- nm - eag Feb 3, 19:23 1
        
        He deferred. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 3, 19:24
vid: -- (link) - mud Feb 3, 19:00
This has been Cuzzin Todd reporting for STNN. - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:56 5
- thanks for the report - safe travels! -- nm - b. Feb 3, 19:06 4
  - It was only about a mile and a half, but thanks. ;) -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 3, 19:14 3
    - Look out for bears! -- nm - Mop Feb 3, 19:17 1
      - its those kids in the corn -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 3, 20:30
    - :) - -- nm - b. Feb 3, 19:15
Viable candidates for my site: warren Bernie Pete and Amy. No Joe. -- nm - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:44
Oscars: Academy Twitter decided to hand out "its" predictions -- (link) - budice Feb 3, 18:39 5
- Here’s hoping. 1917 feels like a “Oh yeah, *that* won,” in five years time. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 3, 18:46
- umm.. -- nm - Reagen Feb 3, 18:42 1
  - Price Waterhouse Colluders -- nm - Beryllium Feb 3, 18:57
- not again, Beatty -- nm - Max Feb 3, 18:42 1
  - He did nothing wrong! -- nm - Reagen Feb 3, 18:42
One other interesting thing I learned, I didn't realize that uncommitted was an option, if you can get a big enough group that it's viable. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 3, 18:38
"Now let's go around to all of our sites and have people explain how this works in the exact same way over and over again. This is CNN." -- nm* - znufrii Feb 3, 18:32 4
- they stole that from the Oak Island show :))) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 3, 18:59
- "Listen, I didn't travel all the way to Fuckwich, Iowa in fucking *February* to *not* share the research I did on this ass-backward system!" -- nm - Reagen Feb 3, 18:34 1
  - The "loose meat sandwiches" bit from The Good Wife absolutely slayed. -- nm* - David Feb 3, 18:35
- "look, it's not that exciting and we need to fill a lot of time." -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 18:33
I had been debating a rather pricey archaeological trip for June. Now it's been taken off the schedule :( - Meg Feb 3, 18:32 1
- Might this mean TIFF this year could be a possibility? (please say maybe) -- nm - JenBro Feb 4, 03:59
Dana Bash is a tiny little person. -- nm - Reagen Feb 3, 18:30 1
- your face is a tiny little person. -- nm - dana Feb 3, 19:08
This year also features Iowa's first-ever caucus in ASL -- (link) - znufrii Feb 3, 18:29
Round 1 results: 1 Warren 2 Pete and Bernid tie 4 Amy 5 Yang and Biden tie - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:26 11
- I'm sorry, but this system seems so dumb. The worst part is it's not secret and these small towns everyone knows everyone, plus why don't they just - jnine Feb 3, 18:31 8
  - You aren't wrong. -- nm - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:38
  - proud tradition! different from everyone! exclusionary! you can pressure people out of their choices! -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 18:32 6
    - I would just send in a really hot chick with free booze going, hey, wanna caucus? -- nm - jnine Feb 3, 18:34 5
      - have you... been to mining conferences? -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 18:36 3
        
        No. Is that what happens there? -- nm - jnine Feb 3, 18:37 2
        
        not as much as it used to, but yeah, booth babes are a thing. -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 18:43 1
        
        The car shows of geologists. -- nm - jnine Feb 3, 19:23
      - Looks like someone might have tried that... -- (link*) - znufrii Feb 3, 18:35
- That's just your location, right? -- nm - Meg Feb 3, 18:27 1
  - Yes -- nm - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:29
“So your top priority is beating Donald Trump?” “No. It’s my only priority.” -- nm - Volnelk Feb 3, 18:08
Ladd McConkey. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 3, 18:08 4
- also they did a photoshoot and have a giant light-up hashtag sign. -- (link) - mafic Feb 3, 18:31 1
  - He is clearly stealing that football from a high tech bank vault. -- nm - Reagen Feb 3, 18:32
- I assumed a Scottish Dickens character would play rugby. -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 18:27 1
  - He'd be very confused if he went to Scotland - Reagen Feb 3, 18:30
Round 1 top 3 seems to be Bernie Pete and Warren. -- nm - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:06
Cards Against Humanity bought Clickhole -- (link) - Reagen Feb 3, 18:04 1
- Good. Clickhole was created by The Onion but given the utter collapse at G/O Media, this is a rescue. -- nm - Mop Feb 3, 19:01
Sounds like Joe might be in for a long night -- (link) - znufrii Feb 3, 18:02 3
- Joe likely ain't "viable" here. Unfortunate Amy doesn't seem to be either -- nm - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:05 2
  - Independent of any candidate, I see not being viable in Iowa as a positive. - David Feb 3, 18:27 1
    - It's very urban vs rural, liberal vs conservative here. Kind of evenly split. -- (edited) - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:43
"According to entrance polls, a third of Democratic Iowa caucusgoers are over the age of 65, up from 28% in 2016 and 22% in 2008." - ty97 Feb 3, 17:55 12
- It's like they get older every year. -- nm - Mop Feb 3, 18:58
- this is my biggest problem with caucuses, by their nature they exclude people. -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 17:56 10
  - exactly. Iowa need to move to a primary. -- nm - ty97 Feb 3, 17:57 9
    - You could structure a ranked-choice primary to get the same results as a caucus. -- nm - znufrii Feb 3, 18:18 4
      - Yes but that’s always your answer. -- nm - spamlet Feb 3, 18:18 3
        
        "What should we get for lunch?" "Ranked choice primary ... on multigrain." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 3, 18:34
        
        Better than some of the other ideas I've had over the years. -- nm - znufrii Feb 3, 18:21 1
        
        I didn’t say it was a bad one. -- nm - spamlet Feb 3, 18:26
    - One good thing with this many options is having a 1st and 2nd chooce. - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 18:17 2
      - Ranked choice voting does that and is starting to get used more around the country -- nm - Krusty Feb 3, 18:20 1
        
        The only difference I guess is that you have more information in the second round of a caucus than you would by voting preferences. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 3, 18:34
    - or make it a public holiday with mandatory participation (and proxies for like cops, hospital workers, etc.). I'd be ok with that too. -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 18:15
CNN literally shows them counting people on air and then says “this is just an estimate.” -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 17:44 3
- I guess they can’t call it official per caucus rules -- nm - spamlet Feb 3, 18:19
- I object to being called ‘three potato.’ -- nm - Qale Feb 3, 17:59
- 1, 2, 3, 4, lots! -- nm - Carrot News Network Feb 3, 17:49
And here I was, all ready to do my taxes, but where is Form 8889 on my free file fillable forms, I ask you. Where?!? - znufrii, human scum Feb 3, 17:43 2
- We can sell you that -- nm - Turbotax Feb 3, 18:04 1
  - Turbotax can fuck right off. I'm not paying to do my taxes. -- nm - znufrii Feb 3, 18:10
I think this could be entrapment -- (link) - JD Feb 3, 17:41 7
- *sniff sniff* "GAWWEDAMMIT, WHO PUT FOOD IN THE EVIDENCE LOCKUP?!?" - Patrol Sergeant, 3 weeks later Feb 3, 18:09
- And he was dumb enough to think a burger would substitute for $80?? -- nm - Meg Feb 3, 18:03 2
  - That's my entrapment claim. Oh..wait. - JD Feb 3, 18:07 1
    - Playing in my head....~ Hungry, Hungry, Hooker ~ -- nm - Meg Feb 3, 18:12
- Your honor, my client should go free because the burger never made it into evidence. -- nm - Max Feb 3, 17:51 2
  - If there's a stronger case for habeas carnis, I've never seen it. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 3, 17:55 1
    - if the burger wasn't bit, you must acquit -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 3, 18:47
dude gets 55 thousand letters (at once) about his student loan, took 2 trips with his car...oh, they were wrong too. -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 3, 17:36 4
- even if it's an automated system, that probably cost the student loan company like $30k. -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 17:47
- This is the worst sequel idea for Miracle of 34th Street ever. -- nm - Qale Feb 3, 17:42
- This is worse than the guy with the NULL license plate. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 3, 17:39 1
  - I *love* that one. -- nm - mafic Feb 3, 17:39
We should do the presidential election as one big national caucus. -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 17:25 4
- People would die. -- nm - Ender Feb 3, 19:24
- "Our model projects that the lovely split-level at 1216 Rosella Drive owned by Mrs. Johnson will go to Elizabeth Warren, so color it chartreuse." -- nm* - Lester Holt Feb 3, 17:36
- We'll see how strongly college kids support Bernie when they realize they have to walk all the way to the Vermont corner. -- nm - Max Feb 3, 17:28
- heh. that would be like The Purge. -- nm - Jovian Feb 3, 17:27
Someone is murdering our butterfly conservationists -- (link) - Reagen Feb 3, 17:15
If I had to estimate crowd sizes I'd say Warren #1, then Klobuchar #2 followed closely by Bernie and Pete, then Biden and Yang. - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 17:02 12
- Most to least Warren Bernie Amy/Biden/Pete all about the same Yang. - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 17:30 2
  - Any guess on how many people will get delegates there? -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 17:33 1
    - Hard to tell given how ppl are grouped. Warren and Bernie for sure. Biden Amy or Pete... strong maybe. -- nm - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 17:47
- when does the fighting start? Is it BYOWeapons? or are they provided at the door? -- nm - Beaker Feb 3, 17:12
- I'm looking forward to the candidates being walked around the arena like the National Dog Show. -- nm - Max Feb 3, 17:12 5
  - When do they check their testicles? -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 17:23 3
    - Those who had those had them cut off years ago. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 3, 18:03
    - damnit, when did they change the rules again? -- nm - Warren Feb 3, 17:37 1
      - That's why we have the chair with the hole in the seat, Lizzo. -- nm - Bernie Feb 3, 17:40
  - That candidate has two left feet! No, I mean, literally two left feet! -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 3, 17:15
- CNN: "There's one, there's a Steyer supporter." -- nm - Max Feb 3, 17:11 1
  - I legit LOLed -- nm - Jovian Feb 3, 17:17
You've probably long wondered what a caucus really is... - Caucus Todd Feb 3, 16:56 3
- See if you can sneak the Jeopardy theme song into the PA system. -- nm - Max Feb 3, 16:58 1
  - followed by some rigteous Andrew WK -- nm - prayformojo Feb 3, 17:27
- Oh it's a Chaoscus -- nm - Bacon Feb 3, 16:57
Did Cuzzin Todd win the Iowa Caucus yet? -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 16:46 3
- He's still accepting bribes to determine who gets his cauc -- (edited) - Bacon Feb 3, 16:49 1
  - Cauc-neck? -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 3, 17:13
- He finished a strong 3rd gaining essential momentum heading into New Hampshire. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 3, 16:48
today I'm being a dick. one of the people who uses my email address (dammit, Shaneka!) signed up for apartmentlist.com - mafic Feb 3, 16:40 3
- Did you see that your link title on b2 was PseudolateralSuperexceptionalSpaniard.jpg? Cuban, right? But superexceptional sure. - mandytab Feb 3, 17:07 1
  - I did! one set of great-grandparents were Spanish, I think. not sure if the sand is a step up from drinking seawater or not. (and thanks) - mafic Feb 3, 17:13
- Excellent. -- nm - Qale Feb 3, 16:50
Jim, the weirdest/funniest part about The Circle was (spls for next-to-the-last episode) - prayformojo Feb 3, 16:36
This weekend on Netflix I watched stand-up comedy from Chris D'Elia and a Brit named James Acaster. - Mop Feb 3, 16:34 2
- I love Acaster. Also watch clips of him on various British panel shows on YouTube. -- nm - Dano Feb 3, 17:40 1
  - I also have seen Acaster on many Brit panel shows on YT. His cabbage bit on "Would I Lie to You" is killer NMBL - howie Feb 3, 18:20 [youtube]
I just received this PR notification. Have fun! - David Feb 3, 16:28 1
- L3 -- nm - Max Feb 3, 16:44

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