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  1. Poll: 94% Of Nation Would Rather Live In Authoritarian Dictatorship Than Wait 10 More Minutes For Results

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    WASHINGTON—With almost all respondents claiming there is no agony greater than anticipation, a new Gallup poll released Tuesday found that 94% of the nation would rather live in an authoritarian dictatorship than wait 10 more minutes for election results. “I would much prefer to be subjected to the cruel whims of an autocratic megalomaniac than wait any longer for the final election outcome,” said Georgia resident Chris Mitchell, who, along with a nearly unanimous majority of Americans, expressed a willingness to be dragged from his house by government agents in the dead of night and disappeared if it would result in a shorter period of uncertainty. “Being forced to do hard labor in a concentration camp? Sign me up if it means I could finally find out who won this damn thing. Feed me propaganda, shoot dissidents in the street, do away with elections altogether, I don’t care! I’ll accept anything at this point. I just want to know.” At press time, the other 6% of respondents confirmed that they were willing to wait another five minutes maximum.
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  2. 4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    What is that, a picture for ants?

    I'm sincerely sorry to hear about your job and your mom, man. And Tom Herman, but we all know that shared pain.

    Sorry. Here, I'll zoom in for you.

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  3. There are too many reasons to count. The complete absence of reason from the incumbent President and his supporters suggests to me that simply having reason is enough to support Biden.

    But I'll list them anyway.

    1. Biden is saying all the right things about uniting America. He is right dead in the center.
    2. He's not going to be a left-wing loony and he is not a socialist.
    3. He's going to listen to what the scientists say on COVID and lives will be saved as a result.
    4. He is not going to separate families at the border or throw them into concentration camps. He is not going to randomly deport people who have families here.
    5. He is going to pursue sensible foreign policy, strong against the terrorists and enemies of the state and friendly with allies we can benefit from -- the exact opposite of what Trump has done.
    6. He respects the institutions of democracy, that our families and ancestors fought and died to institute and protect.
    7. He also respects where those institutions have completely and utterly failed black Americans and how they need to change.
    8. He respects our military and, unlike Trump, understands what they fought and died for.
    9. He is not a laughingstock for our enemies.
    10. He will not tear America down the way Trump has.

    All of the above apply to Kamala as well.

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  4. 21 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I should probably update my previous post to just say "Having a nervous breakdown." I might block off my work calendar for the rest of the day with that message as well. 

    I lost my job yesterday. Coupled with the loss of my Mom, Tom Herman continuing to coach at Texas, and this, I'm already there.

     

     

    But at least I can have some fun on the way down.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

     


    No, no, see, even the IDEA that he’s calling for violence makes you a “kook.”
     

     

    First: You're not a kook, you're a loony. Totally different.

    Second: I've said repeatedly that it is not merely the idea that he's calling for violence, but that you think it'll set off some kind of civil war.

    Third: The fact that you repeatedly get these things wrong only reinforces the point that you're a loony, totally detached from reality.

  6. 18 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Beto's out there killing it. And love AOC being involved as well. 

     

    "You can't win, Darth Cruz. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

      --O'Rourke-Wan Kenobeto

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  7. Woman Hopes She Did Enough Worrying To Help Biden Campaign

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    ERIE, PA—Waiting on tenterhooks on the eve of the election, local woman Elise Stalter expressed her hope Monday that she had done enough worrying to help the Biden presidential campaign. “I’ve been panicking pretty much every day for the last few months, but now that there’s only one day left, I wonder if I could have done more,” said Stalter, admitting that while she had regularly taken to the streets to collapse in a puddle of despair, she couldn’t shake the feeling that she could have gone even further with her mental breakdown. “I’ve been sending out texts telling everyone I know that I’m constantly on the verge of a full-blown anxiety attack, and I’ve spent hundreds of dollars supporting a variety of self-soothing products. Now I just pray that I’ve experienced enough existential dread to make a difference.” At press time, Stalter consoled herself that she still had almost a full day to slip into a catatonic state.

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  8. 19 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    Brisket is often too pessimistic. But he’s not a kook. The  GOP filed numerous lawsuits requesting that the courts throw out whole categories of votes. Think about that. Is that something that happens in a healthy democracy? Fuck no. 

    Thank god this judge did the right thing. But don’t diminish the seriousness of one major political party waging a widespread war on democracy. If Biden wins tomorrow, we need to spend the next four years working to unfuck national politics. Because things are pretty fucking far from okay right now.

    Edit: not so fast... 

    Let's be clear here. He is not a kook to think that a small number of nutcases, our current POTUS included, are going to try every trick they can to fuck up getting themselves elected out of office. They can, and they will. You can sue anybody for any reason in this country, as long as you pay a lawyer dumb enough to do it or file the suit yourself.

    Where he's a kook is that he thinks the rest of America -- from rank-and-file citizens like you and me, to the courts, the House, even his own hand-picked SCOTUS members -- will put up with that bullshit, or that any of his ranting will even benefit him. Hell, he's shooting himself in the foot big-time.

    For example:

    Let's take these 3 Gore vs. Bush lawyers that are now on SCOTUS.

    Do you remember precisely why the counts weren't changed? It's because Florida had tried to change their own rules in the middle of the counting. That's what SCOTUS ruled that they couldn't do. Florida tried to change the rules to make them more fair, granted. But what SCOTUS ruled -- and the Bush lawyers argued for -- was that the states were eminent in determining their own election laws, and that they couldn't change those laws after-the-fact.

    Now, what is it exactly that we're afraid Trump will do? 

    Change the laws after-the-fact or override the states' own laws. When he himself has 3 people on SCOTUS who argued against just that.

    Remember, too, that these people are on the court for life, or until they decide to quit. There's no tit-for-tat here. They can rule however they see fit, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. Trump has no leverage on them.

    In other words, once you actually look at the facts and the data and the evidence, this whole line of alarmist bullshit is absolute kookery.

    Brisket believes what he believes because he believes it and despite the mountain of data that shows he's wrong. That is what makes him a kook.

     

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  9. 5 hours ago, mchookem said:

    i'm reminded of the looks on the faces of many of my co-workers that didn't vote in 2016 because 'they were both terrible'. i heard numerous variations of 'i didn't think he would win!'

    perhaps many of those folks realized the actual consequences of their non-action.  

    I think this can't be understated. People realized, between then and now, that their vote actually matters.

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