In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980. Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform .
[what follows is a list of 20 or so proposals like abolishing the fda, and the epa that are too long to quote here]
If a government that is nominally responsible to the people is abolished, what takes its place?
Corporate Overloards, natch!
I’m linking this for the headline, and the subhead:
But, also, Alabama isn’t going to be electing the keebler elf in a klan hood, ever again!! Woo Hoo!
I don’t actually know anything about his opponent apart from being not-Jeff-Sessions, and it’s not like I support him, but I’ve always wanted to see Sessions weep bitter tears.
Tommy Tuberville was sponsored by Trump.
Let’s hope his endorsement does as much good as in the election that Democrat Doug Jones ended up winning.
He probably thinks Tommy Tuberville is a cartoon or something anyway…doesn’t it sound like a British kids’ show?
I’m really glad Sessions is out… it does seem like Tuberville might be worse, though. He’s a football coach and has at least one or two scandals under his belt…
I’m hoping for Jones as well…
Maybe he’s an internet native, which I’ve been told, is actually a series of tubes, not (as one might expect) like trucks. This must be disappointing to the truck appreciator in the Oval Office. What were we talking about again? 
Animated by Pixar or the people who did Thomas the Tank Engine (which my son ADORED as a kid; I kinda liked it myself.)?
He sounds like a head coach, which I think is a form of Southern Ur-honky.
Alabama native here. Best to think of college football as a combo of religion and fundamental identity in the South.
A few true illustrations from my own life:
A co-worker whose dad had played at Auburn who earnestly told me she could never marry an Alabama fan.
My best friend’s daughter offering Alabama and Auburn coozies as their reception gift - choose your team to declare your allegiance on this important issue. We then had to line up according to team and shake team color Pom poms as they ran through on their departure from the reception.
Going to the mall during the Auburn-Alabama game. The highways were eerily empty. The mall a ghost town. The entire state (except me) was watching The Game.
I’m guessing that last sentence is making some reference to sportsball.
Sounds like University of Michigan and Michigan State.
The sportsball reference explained. Or perhaps not. I assume sports journalists have some measure of expertise, but more that I wouldn’t know.
“He lost his last Iron Bowl 36-0 …,” wrote @ALDemocrats. “Tubs, Doug’s gonna run through you like Fred Talley at an 11AM Jefferson-Pilot game.” That’s a deep-cut SEC reference right there. Like something you’d hear at SEC Media Days. Talley was a running back for Arkansas from 1999-2002. He rushed for 242 yards against Auburn in 2002.
(Tubervbille coached Auburn from 1999 to 2008)
So today I thought, okay, obviously we have to vote for Biden. He’s not exciting but at least he seems to be a functioning adult.
But then I started to imaging him at president for 4 years at least and I got the sads. I can’t think of another candidate I felt so completely unenthused about. Yes, good, no more Trump. But I just can’t deal with this as our future.
If you haven’t seen this, it is worth watching. I’m not a football fan but this was fucking amazing.
Yeah, I think most of us are hoping he bows out early and the VP, whoever that turns out to be, gets most of the reign. That’s still quite sad when you think about it. But it’s the best we can do at this point. Over 330 million people in the country, and somehow we can’t even find one fit to be president, at least not one that has a shot at it. If you needed one more example of how our society’s broken.
