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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court affirmed the lower Commonwealth Court decision in a one-page order, saying it agreed with Schmidt's office that West failed to file the required affidavits for 14 of West's 19 presidential electors by the Aug. 1 deadline.

These third parties are so bad at filing paperwork it amazes me that anyone thinks they could lead a country…

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Its almost like they don't want or plan on actually winning, only sowing chaos

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This guy is not serious, and should be ignored. He's only on the ballot in 15 states. Among other flaws, like taking money from Harlan Crow.

By August, the campaign reported being $17,000 in debt. The campaign was aided by Republican-aligned groups, donors, and lawyers, to get on the ballot in several states including Michigan,[56] Georgia,[57] Virginia, Nebraska, Maine, North Carolina,[58] Arizona[59] and Wisconsin.[59][60] Although West stopped actively campaigning, registered Republicans have signed up to be electors for West in swing states.[11] His campaign had only spent $2,400 on signature gathering between January and June of 2024.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West_2024_presidential_campaign

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If Republican big wigs are showering you with money to do something, save your soul and don't fucking do it.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

So disappointed in him to. He was a huge supporter of Bernie Sanders then goes and does this why?

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean you're gonna find a lot more plutocratic ghouls on Harris' donor list then his.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you think Harlan Crow gave money to Cornell West?

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

Probably cause he thinks he'll spoil the Democrats campaign. Probably doesn't like his politics since if he ever did get in his policies would liquidate people like crow. West did return the money though

Meanwhile Harris' donors are just as sus and are expecting something for their money. Whether that be AIPAC and getting her to continue the genocide or health insurance companies getting her to flip on Medicare for all. You don't see her returning or rejecting any money from them.

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

The kremlins not gonna be happy about this, hopefully Stien is enough of a spoiler on her own but i think they aimed to take votes from different demographics and with west trailing stien has been trying to win over more uninformed black voters and getting clowned in the attempt.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is Cornel West the guy of the meme of the rent is too damn high?

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, that was some guy running for, I think, NY governor, but not actually running - he just wanted to use his platform to bring light to the issue of rent prices. --I had to google It while typing this out - Jimmy McMillan.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, the image of the thumbnail looks like him.

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I never payed close enough attention, I always thought he looked like Samuel L Jackson in costume

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Shit I'll never be able to unsee this.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 month ago

The raised hand got me.

[–] Ion@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 month ago

It's McMillan's gloves and beard that make it for me

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

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[–] daydrinkingchickadee@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it.

[–] snow_bunny@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they're trying to prevent you from voting.

[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We are left with the same two parties that declare "this time we are really going to help the people" and two armies of morons convinced their person is really going to do it! It is literally the same BS every election cycle.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And morons who think voting for a third party presidential candidate means anything instead of working to elect down ballot candidates who actually could affect meaningful change.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a west supporter I'm fine with this. Though I'm not fully convinced on the magnitude of the spoiler effect, eg. If 2% want to vote for west that doesn't mean that those 2% vote for Kamala if he's off the ballot, they'll most likely just not vote. The race in Penn seems really tight though so anything to get Harris over the line is good.

If you arent in a swing state ( eg. Margin bigger then 10%) and think Kamala's tacking too far right then id recommend looking into west. He and stein get a lot of slander on here because people are deathly afraid of spoilers but his platform is actually pretty good if you want to do a protest vote. Again in a non-swing state so everyone doesn't come after me for "helping trump"