Geoff Young (D-KY6) won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. He is running for the US House of Representatives in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District (which includes Lexington) against the incumbent Republican, Andy Barr, (a member of the House Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committees).
Geoff Young on the Issues
- Abolish the CIA
- Get Big Money out of politics
- Abolish AFRICOM
- Help prevent a nuclear war
- We need Medicare-for-All
- End Corruption
- Abortion: I'm totally for Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood. Andy Barr & the GOP are 100% wrong & immoral.
- Legalize cannabis
- Energy & the environment
Long story short, after talking to the guy he's essentially got all of our positions without having all our terminally online brainworms. I'd say if you're in Kentucky country or you got some cash to spare to donate - we have an honest to god fellow traveler (that is to say someone that's aligned with our politics but isn't a political radical) that could use some help spreading his message of anti-imperialism to the Kentucky people and if possible as a bonus - win.
And I mean this in the "Even if he's got no shot to win, trying to spread his anti-war message of America's fuckery in trying to siege Russia and having it backfire in the electoral theater to as many people as possible will help undermine the legitimacy of the state in the minds of the people."
He's said he's running for the House because he views it as 'the peoples house" and hopes to start pushing in the general consciousness of the American people the illegitimacy of the Judicial branch, the aristocratic Senate, and restraining the presidency and the ABC agencies.
Kentucky folks, all I gotta say is screw you for having a cool candidate.
Also he just told me he wants to lead impeachment talks on Biden for becoming an official co-belligerant with the Ukraine in a proxy war on Russia, in driving U.S navy ships illegally in PRC waters trying to provoke a military response, and for continuing the illegal sanctions on Cuba. fuckin based
locally he has the "official" reputation as a perennial crank candidate. all of the "adults in the room" around here hate him, saying he's a spoiler candidate. watching libs seeth about him during the primaries in the local comms was fucking music. i love every opportunity i get to vote for this guy, because he gives zero fucks and talks mad shit. i also enjoy liking him because it makes the libs so mad, and i can just be like "show me the lie". not to mention, i can say snooty shit like "the republicans have had a lot of successes running anti-establishment candidates. maybe there's a teachable moment here."
i voted for him in the primaries this go around, fully accepting the lib narrative that the cardboard standee they had up there would trounce him. but, i distinctly remember the hint of rising unease in their sudden campaign to denounce him. like they, as usual, paid no attention to us out here and my man geoff walked by the gatehouse.
i remember a topic popping up "don't vote for geoff!!" and thinking, oh is he at it again? and setting a reminder so i would remember to vote for him. i even brought it up with a lefty neighbor insisting that upon reading his latest platform, "abolishing the CIA" is a position i can actually relate to these days.
anyway, when i saw he won the primary i fuckin' died. hell yeah. barr is a serious piece of shit from a connected family that has paved his path to power his whole life. and he is lazy af as a politician, but his last go arounds have been shitlibs culivated by the DCCC, who spend their entire campaign on their heels trying to insist they aren't "too liberal". so barr easily walks right through them.
i'm kind of excited for some kind of debate or at least some back n forth in the media where young gives him both barrels every time some reporter comes around for a react quote.
If I were you I wouldn't be able to resist telling local libs who hate this guy to "Vote Blue, no matter who" in a voice so smug that God Himself smites me for it
He’s said he’s running for the House because he views it as 'the peoples house"
I remember going to baby's first antiwar protest when I was 17. I took a US flag with me because I thought "This is OUR flag and we need to take it back." I actually got clowned on by some communists while I was there.
None the less, I will support anybody who's first order of business is to abolish the CIA.
i assume hes specifically contrasting it to the senate. but idk maybe he's patriotism brained in some way or another
sounds pretty cool as far as electoralists go
Yeah to me it sounds he's being honest about the house's place in the bicameral legislature. Originally senators weren't even elected, so the house was the only representation of the (white male landowning) people's will. Of course, that makes it the lower of the two legislative bodies. In the UK they're even more obvious about it, with the House of Lords and the House of Commons, although from what I can gather from cursory googling the Lords have much less power than the Senate.
House of Lords and Canadian Senate are basically the same thing: unelected political favour posts that do absolutely nothing.
The UK has more of a hereditary thing going for it, and the Canadian one is just straight up party loyalists. It's around the same political favour needed as being appointed diplomat to somewhere tropical but unimportant.
I don't think the Canadian one ever blocked a bill. Conservative Stephen Harper (prime minister for a while in mid 2000s to early 2010s) when he was young campaigned on getting rid of our Senate but ended up using it to reward long-time party members like every single other prime minister.
That's pretty funny, because there was a constitutional amendment to force a retirement age of 75 for senators in the 1960s. So they definitely could've changed it if they did the age change.
They changed the age probably because Desaulles was appointed at 80, died as a senator at 103 in the 1930s, and only spoke on record twice in 23 years as a senator. Once to thank people for wishing him a happy 100th, and once to deny that his appointment was due to corruption.
if he wasn't running for a public office quite literally right now, I'd love to sit him down with a certain book about states and revolutions.
And I mean this in the “Even if he’s got no shot to win, trying to spread his anti-war message of America’s fuckery in trying to siege Russia and having it backfire in the electoral theater to as many people as possible will help undermine the legitimacy of the state in the minds of the people.”
:lenin-da:
"Abolish the CIA", that's cool comrade but uhhhhh, might not want to say that part too loudly 👁️ for the eye is ever watchful...
You make the same enemies either way. But the point is to be vocal about it. Otherwise there's no point.
Funny enough he said he's run 3rd party, dem, repub, green, etc. Just to see what vibes among his electorate.
Also apparently the Kentucky dnc fucking hates him to the point they're all-but-actively endorsing the right-wing crank he's running against because he keeps suing them for breaking electoral laws
Yay america. Land of the free and the shining beacon of democracy in the world.
because he keeps suing them for breaking electoral laws
lmfao hel yeh lessgooo
I remember when Joshua4congress said "abolish the CIA" and got clowned for it. At least this guy has some chance to succeed.
I was there too. Unlike trukker Josh, this dude has a history of being fucking annoying to the libs and hogs in KY apparently. I'm more willing to trust he's not a grift since he's been on the trail since ye Olde days when none of us were irony poisoned by the internet.
Ballotopedia says he's been affiliated with DSA which is cool.
There's also a big Constitutional amendment on the Kentucky ballot this November on abortion.
Future victims of the CIA heart attack gun. Somebody get him the Cuban Havana Syndrome gun to fight back
this emote looks like lenin borrowed one of luxemberg's hair things
I remember following this guy's primary campaign. He's got the good policies, but I definitely get the impression that he's not particularly bright. Like, good for him, but he isn't going to be a thought leader for the left.
Being a bourgeois politician requires no thought and honestly thought can be restrictive. When you're running for office your goal should be to stick to a purely ideological message and maintaining a stone face when people try and call you out for being "radical".
"Who would protect us from our enemies if we abolish the CIA?!"
"Shut up loser, we're abolishing the CIA whether you like it or not"
Unless they have really sus views otherwise, I'll get out and vote for anyone who wants to abolish the CIA and/or massively defund the military.
Destroying American Imperial tools and “please dear god do anything to slow climate change” are my primary concerns
only person im voting for. He makes the "squad" look like a bunch of neocons. Honestly he's wasting his time and not going to win, get him to join a communist party later or something.
Edit: actually whats his position on Israel?
