By adamg on Mon., 5/28/2018 - 5:32 pm
Candidate on the far right.
Shamus Moynihan happened to drop by the Dedham Whole Foods this afternoon as independent Senate candidate Shiva Ayyadurai and some minions were outside trying to collect signatures.
People are running away from him like that street scene in Borat.
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Yes
By cybah
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 10:14pm
Yes I know.. I ran for office once myself. But even still, know your audience.
Why would a person sign a petition
By roadman
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 8:26am
for someone or something they don't support?
Sometimes you just want to put someone on the ballot
By Ron Newman
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 8:30am
without committing to vote for them. For instance, I think I signed both Mike Capuano's and Ayanna Pressley's nomination petitions, and I can only vote for one of them in September.
That was the tactic that a
By anon
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 3:33pm
That was the tactic that a woman gathering signatures a few weeks ago was attempting at the Star Market on Mt Auburn across from Mt Auburn cemetery (on the Cambridge/Belmont line).
Her: "Hi, would you like to sign a petition to get another candidate on the ballot? Better for democracy to have more than just two candidates, don't you think?"
Me: "Who is it for?"
Her (embarrassed, but truthful?): "Shiva..."
Me: "Haha, no thanks, and you've gotta be kidding me. Have a great evening."
For a candidate?
By erik g
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 9:11am
Because you want to see them run in a crowded field of second-rate independent candidates, so as to dilute and divide the vote of the 27% between as many lunatic fringe mouth-breathers as possible.
For ballot initiatives? No idea, which is why I was very confused when the dude at the JP Whole Foods wouldn't accept "Sorry, I don't agree with that initiative"as an answer last week.
I'll sign nominating
By Vicki
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 9:18am
I'll sign nominating petitions for people I don't oppose, because I think voters should have a choice of candidates, not wind up reelecting someone just because they have more campaign funds. Using Ron's example, I don't see a large difference between Capuano and Pressley; I signed a petition for him, and will sign one for her if it's offered, and decide sometime in the next three months who to vote for in the primary.
It's not like signing a petition for a ballot initiative. Those are yes/no, and if they don't pass, or don't get on the ballot, things go on as they were. With a senate seat we're choosing the best (or least bad) candidate, given that exactly one candidate will be elected.
He may be a right wing nut
By anon
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 8:10pm
He may be a right wing nut but that doesn't mean he is not a locally grown, organic right wing nut.
The blur between reality and phoniness these days......
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 8:51pm
I am convinced that this guy's entire campaign is performance art. Has to be. Invented email? Married to Fran Drescher? Truck parked in Cambridge with "Fauxchahantas" on the side? This guy reminds me of that "mockumentary" a few years back with Joaquin Phoenix growing out his beard and getting into fights while launching a rap career.
I smell something funny too
By anon
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 9:17pm
I too suspect this guy is a bit of an act. The relationship with Dresher alone shows he is showbiz oriented. I always felt that way about Ann Coulter also. People get so worked up about her, but I suspect that, though she may hold some conservative beliefs, she is basically having us all on.
Seems par for the course when
By Kinopio
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 10:32pm
Seems par for the course when a thrice married reality show host who brags about sexually assaulting women is president. It doesn't matter if they are "real" or not if morons vote for them.
If by 'brags' you mean...
By dmcboston
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 1:29am
..."They let you grab their bleepy", then I guess it's bragging, but not about sexual assault. Assault is an unwelcome advance.
He, on the tape, plainly says, "...let..." See? A famous man once said, "Words have meanings."
See that word, "let"? It means something.
Plus, he's getting so many things done on the world stage. It's fun to watch.
" It doesn't matter if they are "real" or not if morons vote for them." Coming from someone who thinks that representatives are there to 'protect' their constituents, I'm wondering who's the moron?
Trump IS getting things done on the world stage!!
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 7:44am
Ivanka Trump is doing a GREAT job getting licensing deals from China, while a fat baby faced lunatic makes her father look like the biggest sap on the world stage.
Right...
By dmcboston
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 10:57am
"Ivanka Trump is doing a GREAT job getting licensing deals from China, while a fat baby faced lunatic makes her father look like the biggest sap on the world stage."
Right...by meeting with him to discuss getting rid of nukes on the Korean peninsula? What's next?
"BABIES IN CAGES!! LOOK!! BABIES IN CAGES!!
...2014...never mind...
Here's what worries me
By Waquiot
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 2:12pm
And it's not just you, so don't take it personally.
Ivanka Trump had some trademarks registered in China, and somehow the story has become her getting licensing deals. I fear for this country when a little tidbit of news becomes something completely different. And yes, the other side does the same thing, but that certainly don't make it right.
Making Duterte Great Again!!
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 2:34pm
Nothing to see here.....move along....
Once again, I'll note
By Waquiot
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 3:12pm
Registering a trademark is very different from becoming a spokesperson or anything else of that ilk. But sure, double down.
Companies from Starbucks to Walmart have internationally trademarks. Are they also stooges of the Trump administration?
Ahem....
By Brian Riccio
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 3:13pm
....after her father took office.
Sigh
By Waquiot
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 4:06pm
I'm reading a book about what Hunter Biden started doing with one of the Heinz kids back in 2009. The first thing they did was ink an equity deal with the Bank of China. Trust me, his business was a lot more interconnected with the Chinese government, but sure, someone who sells clothing in her name keeps on registering trademarks after her dad is elected President and....
Wait, you still haven't figured out the difference between a registered trademark and a "licensing deal" yet, have you?
I see the word "Let"
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 05/30/2018 - 10:47am
I see it as meaning, "...are sufficiently intimidated by the power imbalance, and sufficiently despairing of ever prevailing in a court, given the size of your legal team, to protest when you...."
Try splicing that into the sentence in place of "let" and see what you think.
Maybe Senator Joe was on to something...
By dwhogan
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 9:09am
Tinfoil hat-alert!
What is Joe McCarthy was on to something... The Russians infiltrated Hollywood because they saw how weak minded Americans had become, trusting their beloved TV stars above everything else. The Philip and Elizabeth Jennings of our timeline actually became Fran Dresher and Uncle Donnie.
I don't actually believe this, but I also starting to think that I should invest in Reynolds wrap...
Echo chamber, echo chamber, echo chamber...
By jonbowen
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 10:46pm
As sure as the sunrises...
Does Shiva drink alcohol?
By Daan
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 11:11pm
If so how much? Every high functioning alcoholic I've encountered is both brilliant in the bs and the biggest liar.
Or maybe Shiva just can't help being a fanatic for himself. He has a good example in D.C.
Can we not?
By adamg
Mon, 05/28/2018 - 11:39pm
Since we're not talking about the Republican representative from Virginia's 5th district, let's assume he comes by his views without the help of alcohol, please.
Snarky...
By dmcboston
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 1:44am
...but at least he's not a member of the Choom Gang.
It takes 10,000 signatures to get
By erik g
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 7:05am
onto the ballot as an independent candidate for the senate. At the rate he was scaring off customers yesterday, he’ll struggle to have that number in time to see if his email invention suffers from the dreaded Y2038 bug.
He claims to be an anti-GMO activist
By Ron Newman
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 7:17am
which is probably why he chose a Whole Foods, rather than say a Roche Bros., to do this.
I could maybe see the connection
By erik g
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 7:57am
if he were actually talking about his anti-GMO stance, rather than spewing word salad about Elizabeth Warren. But he opted to go the word salad route, mixed with a healthy dose of anti-Islam bigotry, so he can go fuck himself.
Also, I have a nascent theory I'm working on about the alt-right and their connection to the anti-GMO movement... the nazis who rallied on the Common last summer made a last-second pivot to some generic anti-GMO messaging, after it became obvious that they wouldn't be able to recreate what they did in Charlottesville. The InfoWars crowd has begun picking it up, in the same vein as the "fluoride in the drinking water is an insidious communist plot" wackos. Now this chucklehead is jumping on the bandwagon. GMO protest was once a leftist cause, but now I feel like it's on its own axis. Working theory: if you get rid of GMO-enhanced food, a billion people in the third world die of starvation. Those people are mostly brown, so it's your average alt-righter's wet dream.
Sounds reasonable
By anon
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 9:26am
Sounds reasonable
You also have the fact that people who are anti-gmo are already susceptible to groupthink and aren't too concerned with facts, so if you can get them on board with one common cause, it's not hard to use that as an indoctrination springboard. like how hard righters have co-opted the pick up artist community, which on the surface has little in common with conservationism either.
*Doing Fenway-like chant*
By B
Tue, 05/29/2018 - 5:52pm
"Shiva sucks...Shiva sucks"
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