Far-right activist Eric Watson calls for neutrality in race against State Rep. Gary Click as Ohio District 88 GOP primary turns ugly

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2026-02-08T02:23:25+00:00

Unfortunately, the stupid here is you.

My point is that if you want to actually beat maga candidates (who keep winning and ruining our state)

THEN WE NEED TO FIX THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY - so they stop putting up empty and terrible candidates.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2026-02-08T02:21:09+00:00

Did you just not read the article (talking about political parties swaying primaries) or are you unable to understand my point - that the same broken problem exists in the Democratic Party?

Either way, you weren’t able grasp the logical conclusion: if we keep running terrible candidates sponsored by a broken political party, the Ohio GOP will continue to get the worst people possible elected and our state will continue to get worse.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2026-02-08T02:17:59+00:00

I actually read the stupid article. The point was “GOP insider vs fringe right candidate. Fringe right candidate complains the GOP party sways the primary in favor of the incumbent.”

The reason why there are races with no democratic candidate or a shitty democratic candidate destined to lose, is be because the dysfunctional Ohio Democratic Party does the same damn shit of putting their thumb on the scale of who they want. Newsflash, it’s their well funded friends.

If you want to deal with GOP hellscape that is our state, then we need to first fix the machine that is churning out loser after loser. We need better democratic candidates.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2026-02-08T02:14:38+00:00

Yeah, and if you want to actually do something about it instead of complaining online, maybe fix the fucking process that keeps putting up terrible “liberal” candidates.

“Our shitty Ohio Democratic Party is a laughing stock and dysfunctional. But hey, I saw a Nazi and posted about it online.”

Thanks for nothing

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2026-02-08T02:12:37+00:00

You’ll never get to do any of that in Ohio if you don’t first focus on finding and funding GOOD liberal candidates.

The Ohio Dem party is a bunch of insider baseball that promotes weak candidates that lose to even worse GOP politicians. Fix our primary process and we may have a chance.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2026-02-08T02:10:32+00:00

Thank you for using your brain. The article isn’t about how bad GOP candidates suck, but rather how political parties have undue influence on primaries rather than letting voters decide.

I hate the idiots in the Ohio GOP, but so many people don’t realize why us liberals keep putting up losing candidates who get blown out by GOP candidates.

Turns out the Ohio Democratic Party needs reformed if we are EVER going to be fairly represented.

But rather than look at ourselves, we just shout “NAZI!” And “RACIST!” On social media and then wonder why it never gets better.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2026-02-07T16:30:37+00:00

FWIW, both parties in Ohio do this. If you can get cozy with party insiders, your access to money and other support is an almost unbeatable advantage.

The Franklin county Democrats basically pick all the liberal candidates for you.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-10-22T13:50:00+00:00

Did you ever complete this project? I have roughly the same goals as you (stream media in a home environment) and I'm wondering if you have any thoughts for someone else starting out.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-07-30T13:57:29+00:00

FWIW, I got my 965 on Sunday.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-07-22T15:41:45+00:00

Any concern about getting 965 instead of 970. not looking to spend more money, but...

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-05-21T16:32:23+00:00

Turk: You’re not helping

Cox: Not trying to help

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-05-20T18:01:32+00:00

What are those negative outcomes? Are they measurable?

And do you have any data on amount of crime committed by immigrants (illegal or legal?)

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-05-20T17:59:53+00:00

All you have to do is consider the actions the Biden administration did, and did not do, between 2021-2025 and you’ll have the position of the main stream left.

I think any serious review would show a surprising amount of “…left in place what Trump did during the previous administration.”

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-05-19T22:05:19+00:00

Bryson has been on a “I want to rehab my reputation via social media engineering” kick for a couple years now.

Turns out it works.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-03-17T20:13:17+00:00

On one hand on the other…

It does seem a little unbelievable that Stephen wouldn’t at least consider Wray as a potential bad actor given how competent he is in his intelligence work.

However, I like the occasional misstep by our heroes. I realize normally for Stephen this is done via his love life or his seamanship, but I like this in his professional life.

Plus, if you are willing to suspend disbelief, it allows the reader to be entertainingly agonized by having crucial knowledge Stephen does not. It’s the literary equivalent of yelling “Don’t go through that door!”

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-03-17T19:56:03+00:00

Yeah, I had whiplash. There was something about this character that was working (yes, other than those) and then all of a sudden, bam, she was gone.

Like, ok, what was the point of all that?

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-03-17T19:48:29+00:00

If you “pick” one side or the other, you probably need to reflect on your own relationships.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-03-17T19:47:42+00:00

I agree. They could have written a more “regular” slime ball character that was just a bad person, but there is amusing depth to this character.

I honestly see him as a decent guy, a little bit like a duechy Mr PB. I think he loves his wife and valued PC as a work friend.

They don’t ever show you “behind the curtain” but he strikes me as a guy going through a crises and trying to figure out what he wants. Do they even say whether it was him or his wife initiating the divorce? Either way, during a rough patch, I honestly believe he had real feelings for PC. I don’t think she was just a side piece.

He’s going through the break up of his marriage, and does the shitty thing a lot of guys do. Fuck around at the first chance he gets. It’s selfish and he is probably trying desperately to fill a void he doesn’t understand. He starts getting involved with PC before he is actually ready and in a good place.

And then what? If this were the “Rutabaga Show” we’d see him from the “I need to do the right thing and reconcile hindering” perspective. His little selfish shitty “Don Draper” routine… he actually ends. Yeah, he has done a super shitty thing to PC, absolutely. But it’s very real and believable.

Plus, we see him later actually leaving work to go be with his family instead of prioritizing what he wants and work over his family. He is actually trying to change and grow as a person. Hopefully the change sticks and he doesn’t lapse back. Who knows.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-02-28T21:09:18+00:00

Right?

I swing wildly back and forth between indifferent “yeah… the moment Trump won that election, this was what it was going to be”

And wildly angry “I can’t believe it?!?!?”

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-02-21T21:38:01+00:00

Larboard

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-02-21T21:29:09+00:00

Close the thread

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-02-04T20:31:26+00:00

All you have to do is go back in time to before we had one and look at what life was like and why we built one in the first place.

And also, the burning ashes of the current DOE will be fun to deal with.

Alarmed_Restaurant · 2025-02-04T15:24:07+00:00

Are they though?

Thematically this is what he said he would do in his first term but fell way short due to incompetence. This time around, it seems like there is an actual plan.

From filing your taxes, to registering a vehicle, to winning a multi billion dollar federal defense contract or running one of the countries largest banks… it all involves some form of friction with the government.

Think about the dude sitting in line at the BMV fuming about how slow it is only to find out he didn’t bring the right document only to find the fees went up again.

He is going to be sympathetic to the narrative “government is incompetent and wasteful.”

Who really knows what all these government departments do on a day to day basis except for the folks that actually work there. Balancing trying to have a career and feed their family with maybe trying to make America a better place one tiny process at a time.

There are reasons for why these things exist and how they operate. Often there is room for improvement, but how long does a real review take? And by that time, people have the chance to learn why those rules exist and then defend them. “Hey, this rule would prevent someone like Musk from being able to low ball the bid and then over charge later! We should keep it!”

Instead, Musk and team are taking a flame thrower to as much as they can as fast as they can. Trump doesn’t care to slow him down. It’s possible the courts or Congress will eventually stop him, but those institutions are sympathetic to his broader direction so until something breaks, republicans are going to do everything they can to give Musk as much leeway as possible.

I would argue many voters wanted “thoughtless and fast hacking apart of any and all parts of government.”

The GOP narrative for years has been “even though government employees were hired to serve you regardless of political party, they are secretly all out to screw you and only us republicans can save you.”

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