Third party and independent news update Aug. 9

Reminder for readers: The filing period to become a write-in candidate in Texas runs through Aug. 19. Specific information about presidential candidates here. The Secretary of State's office usually takes a few days to verify this and then releases the list at about the end of the month.

OK, now to news.

Shock me that Brainworm Bobby would be lying about the success of his campaign, but he is! Ballot Access News notes his lies about allegedly collecting more petition signatures than any other independent presidential candidate in history. Reality, per BAN? He's barely in the top five.

Related, also from BAN? Minor party and independent ballot access is tougher today than four years ago.

Also, why does Brainworm Bobby, alleged environmentalist, hate bears?

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Brainworm Bobby is on Texas ballot as independent.

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Claudia de la Cruz and veep choice Karina Garcia, the Party of Socialism and Liberation's ticket, have also officially been nominated by the Peace and Freedom Party. Per Mimi Soltysik eight years ago, this also underscores completely the splinter-fragmentation of parties of the left.

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Thanks to Democrat brainwashing, many Merikkkans do believe "democracy is on trial" or similar, per an AP-NORC poll. That's a poll that ignores third-party and independent candidates as well as Democratic efforts to keep them off the ballot. It's also a poll with nothing more than the vague label of "independent" beyond "Republican" and "Democrat." Meh. I don't know if NORC was the only one with a hand in the design; if AP were consulted and didn't say boo, shame.

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In a broadly similar vein, Mondoweiss talks about the presidential choices that Arab-Americans in specific face in this election. It does get to the third-party world about halfway through, with a Jill Stein mention.

It also, without calling it outright hypocrisy, notes that many of these voters get called single-issue voters. That's probably above all by the tribalist "Vote Blue No Matter Who" #BlueAnon, but may also include anti-abortion single issue voters, or broader tradwife / tradfamily ones.

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In case you're wondering, aChase Oliver also opposes the genocide.

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I excerpted Jill Stein's Veep panderfesting into a separate post.

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I excerpted Scott Ritter, convicted pedophile, and hypocrite on non-duopoly issues, talking about having burgers with Brainworm Bobby, into a separate post.