{"id":7201,"date":"2020-02-09T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T01:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2020-02-10T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:49:03","slug":"iowa-caucus-theres-not-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7201","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Caucus: There&#8217;s Not An App For That"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The election primary season is kicking off and the Democratic needed a solid beginning to send a strong message to America&#8217;s Impeached  CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump that his days as &#8216;dear Leader&#8217; of this country are numbered. But instead of serving up a caucus the Iowa Democrats served up a caucusf*ck. Apparently, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"an app the administrators had a &quot;reporting issue&quot; and wasn't functioning properly (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/02\/04\/iowa-caucus-app-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">an app the administrators had a &#8220;reporting issue&#8221; and wasn&#8217;t functioning properly<\/a> and brought the integrity of the results into question. It&#8217;s the weekend<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" but the precise results are still in doubt (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/evp2020\/Pres\/Maps\/Feb07.html#item-1\" target=\"_blank\"> but the precise results are still in doubt<\/a> with Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders both claiming victories. Talk about serving up red meat to Trump. You just know that the orange haired megalomaniac and his flying monkey sycophants at Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, will continually point to the incompetence displayed during the caucus as proof that Democrats will do anything to &#8216;rig an election&#8217; and cannot be trusted. And all this after a superb performance by House <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Democrats, led by Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler,  in proving the guilt of Trump in his impeachment trial (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/the-report\/articles\/2020-01-24\/adam-schiffs-show-impeachment-performance-draws-praise\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats, led by Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler,  in proving the guilt of Trump in his impeachment trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least the Iowa fiasco is pushing forth a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"movement that just might get rid of the troublesome caucus forever (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/02\/04\/politics\/future-of-iowa-caucuses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">movement that just might get rid of the troublesome caucus forever<\/a> and install a primary system in its stead just like almost every other state. There are several annoying anomalies on the Democratic primary side (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"superdelegates, anyone (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debate.org\/opinions\/should-the-superdelegate-system-for-democratic-party-conventions-be-abolished\" target=\"_blank\">superdelegates, anyone<\/a>), and if the Dems finally decide to move into the 21st century and kill off the caucus and superdelegates, then that would probably increase their chances in future elections. Plus, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"there's no way Iowa should be the first voting event (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/3\/21046546\/presidential-primary-state-order-iowa-new-hampshire-south-carolina\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s no way Iowa should be the first voting event<\/a> of the presidential elections season since its demographics are so homogeneous. Here&#8217;s hoping at least that the Democrats learn something from this debacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpiowacaucuskansascity2.jpg\" alt=\"America's CEO\/Dictator and geography genius Donald Trump offers the administrators of the Iowa caucus app that clusterf*cked spectacularly a special reward for helping him in his re-election effort; annexation to Kansas City.\" class=\"wp-image-7219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpiowacaucuskansascity2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpiowacaucuskansascity2-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator and geography genius Donald Trump offers the administrators of the Iowa caucus app that clusterf*cked spectacularly a special reward for helping him in his re-election effort; annexation to Kansas City.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election primary season is kicking off and the Democratic needed a solid beginning to send a strong message to America&#8217;s Impeached CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump that his days as &#8216;dear Leader&#8217; of this country are numbered. But instead of serving up a caucus the Iowa Democrats served up a caucusf*ck. Apparently, an app the administrators &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iowa Caucus: There&#8217;s Not An App For That&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,2054,60,8,85,3],"tags":[543,331,2082,107,147,4,9,1852,330,2084,98,343,296,19,2083,47,48,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7225,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}