listening to npr this afternoon

[neci]

russian elections are rigged.

 

[JackLuis]

russian elections are rigged.

Well, yeah!

So are ours, but just a little less blatantly.

 

[Wife of Bath]

If you even knew how many of my stories began with 'so I was listening to NPR...'

 

[BotanyBoy]

Well, yeah!

So are ours, but just a little less blatantly.

LOL pretty much.

 

[clistenovena]

If you even knew how many of my stories began with 'so I was listening to NPR...'

Same here!

 

[Hypoxia]

I like Guatemala. I like the Guatemalan political system. They actually have fair elections. They actually jail ex-presidents. The newly-elected prez is a clown. Professionally. USA could learn a lot. Of course, we may elect an evil clown of our own...

I like the Guatemalan prison system. (Not from first-hand inside experience, I admit.) I like seeing jails in the old Central American cultural capitol, Antigua Guatemala. This is volcano-and-earthquake country. Many ancient cathedrals and colonial buildings in La Antigua (the old one) are quake-damaged. What to do? Solution: fence the place off and fill it with prisoners. Put them to work rebuilding the ruins. When they're done, haul them to the next ruin and charge admission to the historical site they've just restored. See, ex-presidents CAN be useful.

There are ways to not-rig elections. USA has no use for such. We like corruption and fraud and shit. We like being manipulated and cheated. We live for it. It's a tradition. Someday we'll be as free as the Russians. More vodka, tovarich?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The purpose of an election is to replace their thug with your's, to trade one clown for another who makes you laugh, not cry.