Jynnan Tonnyx

Jynnan Tonnyx

Don’t Panic!

Category: Politics

  • Let’s Roll Up Our Sleeves and Get to Work

    Like so many of you, I am in deep despair. I cannot believe that we will spend the next four years with a foul-mouthed, thin-skinned, misogynistic, race-baiting demagogue as our President. I cannot believe that he won over a highly-qualified, well-respected stateswoman who had more job experience than any non-incumbent in recent memory. I cannot…

  • More Thoughts on Third-Party Voting and Game Theory

    I got a lot of pushback on the last thing I wrote about the “Bernie or Bust” movement, so let me try again to explain why, rationally, it makes no sense to vote third party within the current system. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, skip to the end, where I link…

  • So You’re Gonna Vote Third Party, Huh?

    I posted a link to this Slate article on my Facebook page today, and got an interesting reply from a friend (name withheld since the post wasn’t public): Trump would mop the floor with her in a General election based entirely upon the attacks he’d use that Sanders has not. There is that email thing…

  • Why I’m Not Feeling the Bern

    (I hadn’t realized that it had been so long since I had written a blog post. Facebook and Twitter really scratch most of the itch when I feel the need to write. Nonetheless, there are times when those platforms just don’t have the ability to capture my thoughts completely.) It’s been months since the Democratic…

  • Political Reforms You Probably Like, That Won’t Help

    …in fact, in some cases they would make things worse. There’s a lot of anger at Congress right now, from both sides of the aisle, and I share in a lot of that. However, there’s a number of proposed reforms circulating out there on Facebook and on the rest of the web that sound really…

  • Pass the Health Reform Bill

    Yes, it’s a shit sandwich compared to the filet mignon we might have had in a perfect world, but it is much better than the status quo. It will give coverage to millions of currently-uninsured people, get a handle on out-of-control Medicare cost growth, stop the most egregious abuses of the insurance companies (by eliminating…

  • How The Republican Party Can Regain Power

    I’m giddy with excitement over our new President-Elect, but some of my friends on Facebook are really bumming me out. I’m sure some of them actually think we’re in the End Times now that Obama was won. I truly do sympathize – I am Pro-Life, and I do care about ending abortion. But a political…

  • Why I’m Voting For Obama

    I’m sick and tired of being accused by every knee-jerk “conservative” that we Obama supporters are only voting for him because he’s black, or because we like socialism, or because we just want “change,” but we don’t care what that change entails. Get this straight: we know exactly what kind of change we are voting…