Stan Jones, the libertarian candidate received over 10,000 votes.... More than enough to swing that vital seat to the Republicans and secure that the President's nominees to the Court have a chance of confirmation in the Senate.

Who is Stan Jones you might ask? He must be one hell of a political leader to garner that many votes on a third party ticket?

Stan has run for (and lost) every major seat in Montana government in the last several election cycles (Senate twice and Governor once). Other than that, Stan is almost unremarkable.... Except for one little thing...

Stan Jones is BLUE.

And I don't mean that in the euphemistic "Blue State/ Red State" way (although he has managed to push Montana into the "Blue Column".) Stan is literally blue.... He is a 6 foot tall Smurf. He is the post-dessert Violet, Violet Beauregarde from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.  His skin is the color of a tantruming child's, which is hauntingly appropriate given the Libertarian party's platform and reason to exist.

Of course, I agree we should be compassionate towards those who suffer from medical conditions and different skin colors... Even those in the ultra-violet hues... Except when that skin color tells you all you need to know about the man.

Near the end of the last Century, Stan began making, and DRINKING, a home-brew solution of SILVER, in order to prevent the terrors of Y2K from harming him... Remember Y2K? The fringy thought that the world was coming to an end on the previous Millennium embraced by frequent listeners of the Art Bell show, and others of the paranoid, conspiratorial mind-set?

Some people bought new computers....

Some people stocked up on batteries...

Stan turned himself into a blueberry.

Although the harms of Y2K proved to be somewhat hysterical and exaggerated, and ultimately turned out to be harmless, Stan's solution to those non-existent harms had a toxic effect on his body. And that toxicity manifested itself by turning his skin blue.

Yet 10,000 Libertarian Montanans didn't think that reason enough to question Stan's judgment...

No...

THEY VOTED FOR HIM FOR SENATE.





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