2020 US Presidential Election

Picking over my absentee ballot and I have to say, the Liberterians kinda have it going on this year. At least in Georgia.

UPDATED:AUG 31, 2018 ORIGINAL:OCT 24, 2012 Did Marie-Antoinette really say “Let them eat cake”? It’s one of the most famous quotes in history. At some point around 1789, when being told that her French subjects had no bread, Marie-Antoinette (bride of France’s King Louis XVI) supposedly sniffed, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.” With that callous remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the decadent monarchy and fueled the revolution that would cause her to (literally) lose her head several years later. But did Marie-Antoinette really say those infuriating words? Not according to historians. Lady Antonia Fraser, author of a biography of the French queen, believes the quote would have been highly uncharacteristic of Marie-Antoinette, an intelligent woman who donated generously to charitable causes and, despite her own undeniably lavish lifestyle, displayed sensitivity towards the poor population of France. That aside, what’s even more convincing is the fact that the “Let them eat cake” story had been floating around for years before 1789. It was first told in a slightly different form about Marie-Thérèse, the Spanish princess who married King Louis XIV in 1660. She allegedly suggested that the French people eat “la croûte de pâté” (or the crust of the pâté). Over the next century, several other 18th-century royals were also blamed for the remark, including two aunts of Louis XVI. Most famously, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau included the pâté story in his “Confessions” in 1766, attributing the words to “a great princess” (probably Marie-Thérèse). Whoever uttered those unforgettable words, it was almost certainly not Marie-Antoinette, who at the time Rousseau was writing was only 10 years old—three years away from marrying the French prince and eight years from becoming queen. BY  HISTORY.COM STAFF

Found an interesting article about Marilyn Manson and politics and it just reminded me, I find it extremely fascinating that the support for Freedom of Speech and anti-censorship has shifted from the left to the right this go around. "As Kurt Reighley (2015) pointed out, Marilyn Manson has stated that political correctness had suppressed hatred. People do not express their hatred enough. People are ashamed to express their natural human feelings, beliefs, and thoughts. When Donald Trump ran for president, one of the core pillars of his pitch to the voting public was this: Political correctness is a cancer eating at the body politic the core of American society. Further research has shown that support for Trump (and opposition to Clinton) is especially likely amongst people who feel emotional reactance to restrictive communication norms (Soave, 2018). Even if Manson has described himself as an “across-the-board misanthrope”, his position towards political correctness has moved him away from the American Left, and got him closer to the Conservatives instead." https://medium.com/@vicentequintero/culture-war-marilyn-manson-politics-and-the-2020-u-s-presidential-election-ed9e54d749c7