Joe Exotic files with FEC to run for President... as a Democrat

[Marius25]

Last edited Tue Apr 11, 2023, 07:21 PM - Edit history (1)

Steven Bannon and others like him seem to be trying to cause chaos going into the Dem primary. First RFK Jr. and now Joe Exotic. Too bad Bannon is not in prison where he should be after being convicted, but obviously the law doesn't apply to him.

Link to tweet

[Lovie777]

1. LOL.........

[TheBlackAdder]

47. When will Honey Boo Boo's Mom enter the race?

[Emile]

2. He is a registered Libertarian. . .

[Marius25]

16. He changed his party

[Emile]

27. That's real comforting. . .

[Hortensis]

3. I presume it's Steve Bannon's premise that our primary's in "chaos"?

Pure projection with tRump AND the Republican Party literally threatening the planet Earth with chaos.

You need to get used to this. Every election people wanting to grab some attention claim they're running for president months before the serious candidates do. Hostiles make big noise over them as long as they can be put to use somehow, and then they mostly just return to the shadows they never really emerged from.

[Marius25]

18. I don't think Bannon thinks our primary is in chaos - he wants it to be

RFK Jr. is running at the urging of Steve Bannon.

[Hortensis]

42. :) Ah, got it. Using the Kennedy's dud to project GOP chaos over to Democrats

to confuse the confusable about who's who and what's what. The usual. Similarly exploitive LW anti-Democratic campaigns always use the same dirty tactics to project GOP ideology and corruption onto Democrats.

100M were discouraged from voting in 2016, nearly 100M of them claiming wisely that "they're all the same, voting's a waste of time, yada-yada."

But only 80M in 2020 as fewer people were confused, and the candidates whose chances hinged on sowing confusion and delusion about who Democrats were all lost big.

And the lessons continue. Wonder what it'll be in 2024.

[allegorical oracle]

4. Playing decoy to siphon off the most naive dems? nt

[former9thward]

12. Its not as complicated as that.

Its just personal vanity. If you check with the Federal Election Commission you will find that every election cycle about 100 to 150 people file to run for president in the various states. Almost none are able to qualify for the ballot. The ones that do just get a few dozen or so votes.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. That tiger abuser

Needs to fucking stfu and die.

[FakeNoose]

6. They're just wasting a lot of time and money

[madinmaryland]

7. Sure. He and Marianne Williamson can have a debate on Fox Noise.

[Ocelot II]

8. Don't forget RFK, Jr. It could be a real freak show.

[madinmaryland]

13. You might as well throw in JFK, Jr. Though I think Coke Junior is going to run with him.

[allegorical oracle]

45. And Coke Jr. won't notice when JFK, Jr. doesn't show up for public appearances. Coke Jr. is

downright pitiful...he's full-out broken.

[Celerity]

44. Will be a debate in a federal prison, if they want it all in person. Joe is locked up until 2036

[CanonRay]

9. He's as credible as RFK Jr

[DemocraticPatriot]

10. What is that, a cartoon character ?

[Bev54]

11. Well let's face it, all Bannon can get is kooks.

[jmowreader]

14. Wouldn't a man currently in federal prison be better off in the GOP?

This is like the joke "Cthulhu for President" campaigns: "Why vote for the lesser evil?"

[regnaD kciN]

15. Of course...

…Tiger King is going to run as a Democrat. After all, Lyin’ King is already running as a Republican.

[Demsrule86]

17. No chaos...no one will vote for the right wing morons sent by Bannon.

[In It to Win It]

19. Wrong Joe!

[madinmaryland]

20. Lee Mercer, Jr. is running. Eye spy. National and international. All three.

[BigmanPigman]

21. Who?

That is what 90% of the population will say when they hear he is a Dem candidate.

[Johonny]

22. He's over qualified to debate Williamson

[The Grand Illuminist]

23. Punishment is reserved for the poor and the destitute.

Publicly known RWers are set up for comfort in prison as wardens primarily tend to lean to the right.

[TwilightZone]

24. There is no chaos.

People who have no chance enter presidential races all the time. Most, including these two, will be barely a blip on the radar.

[ecstatic]

25. wrong turn? the clown car is to the right

We're not interested, buddy.

[JETTBHEART]

26. Maybe...

He had a change of heart or he's helping the enemies of life make a mockery of our democracy, as they attempt to destroy it. Hope it's not the latter

[HelpImSurrounded]

28. No. Start lower

[brooklynite]

29. This isn't chaos.....

There are DOZENS of Democratic candidates who've filed to run for President. Almost none will have the finance or organization to get on State ballots.

Todd Ashcraft (North Carolina)
Larry Azevedo (California)
David Barnard (Florida)
Shabad Bharara (Connecticut)
Janice Brown (New York)
Ron Bull (Pennsylvania)
Charles Camilleri (Michigan)
Christopher Campbell (Pennsylvania)
Mary Clement (Maryland)
Gary Davis (Tennessee)
Jerome Doctor (New York)
Kristopher Davis (Indiana)
Howard Dotson (Minnesota)
Tristan Eggenberger (New Mexico)
William Gailey (Oregon)
Ishah Laurah Guillen (District of Columbia)
Kevin Harding (District of Columbia)
Lori Henriques (Hawaii)
Alan Huddleston (Michigan)
Theodore Hudson (New York)
Bryan James (North Carolina)
David Jefferson (Illinois)
Lindsey Kelch (Indiana)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (California)
Michael Landingham (Ohio)
Mikey Lane (Pennsylvania)
Frankie Lozada (New York)
Jennifer McMurray (New York)
Lee Mercer (Texas)
Robert Moldafsky (Missouri)
Heather Munoz (California)
Gibran Nicholas (Georgia)
Antonio Marco Pantalo (Pennsylvania)
Wayne Pope (California)
Dorsey Porter Jr. (California)
Christin Powers (Florida)
Mattie Preston (Louisiana)
Isaiah Otis Reid (Florida)
Lee Rhodes (New York)
Jerome Segal (Maryland)
Jodie Smithson (Virginia)
Michael Soetaert (Kansas)
Michael Swing (Florida)
Gregory Thomas (Texas)
Alix Christopher Toulme (Florida)
Jonathan Tuan Tran (California)
Trenita Walker (Missouri)
John Washington (Texas)
Dantwan Watkins (Georgia)
Donald Way Jr. (Pennsylvania)
Randall Wick (Washington)
Marianne Williamson (California)
Thomas Winterbottom (Pennsylvania)
John Breckinridge Yunits (Hawaii)

[Marius25]

30. I'm not saying it is chaos. People like Bannon are trying to turn it into chaos though

RFK Jr's run is being backed by Bannon.

[brooklynite]

32. How will RFK Jr "shake up" the Democratic Primary?

[Marius25]

33. He's already polling the 2nd highest in the race

Obviously Biden is being him soundly right now, but the Kennedy name carries a lot of weight.

[brooklynite]

35. 10% isn't "a lot of weight"

RFK Jr isn't RFK or JFK or Ted. And the average Democratic voter isn't fixated on the history of the Kennedy name.

[allegorical oracle]

46. Sadly, he has a voice problem that makes him sound shaky and sometimes difficult to

understand. That erodes efforts to make him appear "presidential."

[Roland99]

31. He'll get a few hundred joke votes at best

[Cha]

34. Who the fuck is joe exotic?

[Bleacher Creature]

36. My exact reaction as well!!

But you said it so much better, Cha!!

[Cha]

38. Mahalo, Bleacher!

Whomever he is, and some others who are running in the 2024 Presidential Primary, Don't give a Crap about our Democracy.

They're Chaos & Vanity runners. Bannon is throwing everything at the wall to get the Traitor back in the WH

[GoCubsGo]

37. He's that "Tiger King" asshole.

[Cha]

39. Sorry, still not ringing

any bells. I don't have a tv if that's where he's known.

I read up thread he's a Libertarian.. I guess any POS can run on the Dem ticket not to Win but RF.

[GoCubsGo]

40. It was a very popular Netflix series, and he was the main subject of it.

I never saw it, either. All I know is that he ran an exotic animal zoo in Floriduh (because of course), and served time for an unsuccessful murder-for-hire of a woman he had long been feuding with, who ran a big cat sanctuary. Which is a felony. From what I've read, she isn't a very nice person, either, but that's beside the point. I can't imagine any Democrat would want to vote for that POS, even if he was a real Democrat, and not a Libertarian. You'd think that a felony for trying to kill someone would be disqualifying...

[Cha]

41. Eeee gods! Oh wow..

TY GCG.

[tritsofme]

43. Completely irrelevant. No one will notice or care.

[jcgoldie]

48. who?

[Takket]

49. Does the DNC get any say in this stuff?

Like let’s say drumpf just decides he can’t beat Desantis and says “uh I’m a Democrat now and running for president”. Can the DNC say, “nope, you can’t run as a Democrat.”