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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.

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What the hell does “firewall” mean in this context. I’ve seen it a lot

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2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

San Marcos also has a college with around 40k students and all that revolves around that which separates it from NB.

. . . and the 2nd & 3rd largest employers in San Marcos (behind Amazon) are Texas State and Hays CISD.  Educators tend to lean left.

4 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

*Fewer/Menos/Moins

lùghdaich?

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3 minutes ago, Helobious said:

What the hell does “firewall” mean in this context. I’ve seen it a lot

Enough early electronic votes triggers a security software program that protects against election day voter fraud

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3 minutes ago, Helobious said:

What the hell does “firewall” mean in this context. I’ve seen it a lot

It's a wall that stops fire

 

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1 minute ago, SimonBolivar said:

lùghdaich?

Ja, und „weniger“ auch.

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I'd make MN dark blue and AZ/GA light blue. Otherwise this seems supported by what we're seeing:

 

5 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Nazis

I hate New Braunfels Nazis.

9 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

lùghdaich?

Tha! Ach cha robh fios agam.

4 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

I’m guessing no one has told Donald about what happens when Teslas crash and the battery catches…

 

Indeed. Runaway lithium fires are quite a problem for the FD, and yeah, for the people in the cars.

3 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

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You can run, you can hide, but you can never escape the Jeb! memes

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2 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Tha! Ach cha robh fios agam.

It's all Greek to me.

40 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

Smith, quoting TS: you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where I was raised. 

18 minutes ago, Helobious said:

What the hell does “firewall” mean in this context. I’ve seen it a lot

Dude read the thread. Don't come in here ten days out and expect an explanation every time. 

 

Just now, David Dennison said:

tHe MaRkEt ThInKs TrUmP iS gOnNa WiN!!!

/MAGA

 

It’s funny: treasury rates spiked earlier in the week when everyone had their melt down about early voting and Trump winning.  As people have more data and come to their senses, they’ve come back down. 

18 minutes ago, Helobious said:

What the hell does “firewall” mean in this context. I’ve seen it a lot

Early voting totals for one candidate that build up a backlog the other side has to make up/overcome on election day.  It's like betting on a point spread or playing with a handicap.  

Just now, TexasEd said:

Early voting totals for one candidate that build up a backlog the other side has to make up/overcome on election day.  It's like betting on a point spread or playing with a handicap.  

Don't explain things to someone who just rolled in this week to spout that Trump is going to win, Nate Silver is always right and doesn't understand what the hell we've been talking about for weeks. 

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Got a #csb from voting just now.  2 people in front of me in line was a white man, probably in his mid 60s.  He had an empty open carry holster on his belt.  Between me and him was a black man probably mid 40s.  As we get to the line after having our IDs checked, the white guy turns to the black guy and says “be sure to check your printed ballot, because the voting machines are changing people’s ballots.”  The black man didn’t say anything, but I was standing right behind him shaking my head, and I said quietly “no”.  The white guys says to me “you don’t think that is true?”  And I said “I know it’s not true.”  It was our turn to vote so we all moved on.  But I was boiling.  I finished voting before the white guy.  I waited for him in the parking lot.  He came walking out with his wife and another woman.  I walked up to him and said “Sir, your comment to that man in line was wildly inappropriate.  Undermining people’s faith in our elections WHILE STANDING IN LINE TO VOTE is totally out of line and unacceptable.  It’s also unpatriotic.”  He just stared back at me with his mouth agape.  I gave him 2-3 seconds to respond, and when he didn’t, I just turned and walked away.  And that’s the end of my cool starry bra.  Not sure why that pissed me off so much but goddam im still mad about it.

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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

tHe MaRkEt ThInKs TrUmP iS gOnNa WiN!!!

/MAGA

 

Had a Trump supporting coworker tell me that "if Trump gets elected, it's gonna be the easiest time in history to get rich because the market is gonna go crazy."

Like my brother in Christ, the market is up over 60% in the past two years. What the fuck more do you expect Trump to do to bolster it? 

10 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

this should be an ad tomorrow ….

 

im curious if his team had identified army officers that will back cause 

hugo chavez playbook 

I begin to suspect a general strategy going on between entities that don't normally cooperate to launch carefully timed missiles at Trump. It sure looks like different stories are being lined up and timed. It would make sense with the stakes being so high.

John Kelly. Ellis. The grope story. The number of GOPs turning on Trump who likely have ammo. I think the water is about to be filled with torpedoes. 

Trump had his toady Kash Patel in place at the Pentagon with Mike Flynn's brother in on the decision making. The lies about Flynn's involvement afterwards have always been worrisome to me. (EcomCon for those familiar with the great Seven Days in May original).

 

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22 minutes ago, Helobious said:

What the hell does “firewall” mean in this context. I’ve seen it a lot

 

Why do you do this? You haven’t posted in this thread really at all and then all of a sudden you come in thread shitting left and right. Did you just need the attention? 

 

And fuck, I just gave you that attention. 

 

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1 minute ago, Snake Diggity said:

 I waited for him in the parking lot.

ah man.  i was hoping for a totally different ending.

 

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2 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

Had a Trump supporting coworker tell me that "if Trump gets elected, it's gonna be the easiest time in history to get rich because the market is gonna go crazy."

Like my brother in Christ, the market is up over 60% in the past two years. What the fuck more do you expect Trump to do to bolster it? 

Just wait until Trump is elected with a R senate and the market goes down and he starts blaming the Dems in the minority for causing the market to go down.  

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This story is tangentially related to a horse race and to election issues. It's too impactful to not post.

 

1 minute ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

ah man.  i was hoping for a totally different ending.

 

Huge success yesterday with favorite Billy Madison lines, let's do the same  today with another golden age Sandler movie... Happy Gilmore. : r/Xennials

I expected to go differently as well.  Kudos to the piece of shit Trumper for not escalating it further.  Although it’s probably too much to ask to expect him to have actually thought about what I said.

10 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Tha! Ach cha robh fios agam.

Come on boys, we don't want no trouble in here, not in any language.

25 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

*Fewer/Menos/Moins

29 minutes ago, bolverk said:

As a liberal arts major, I feel somewhat obligated to rectify this egregious grammatical error.

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I saw that after I posted, but I did not want to do the edit of shame.

And nobody here wants to see me attempt to actually spell words correctly without spellcheck.   They tried to teach spelling using phonics in the early 60s. Moving to different parts of the country every two years made me incapable of figuring out how a word should be spelled.

2 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

Got a #csb from voting just now.  2 people in front of me in line was a white man, probably in his mid 60s.  He had an empty open carry holster on his belt.  Between me and him was a black man probably mid 40s.  As we get to the line after having our IDs checked, the white guy turns to the black guy and says “be sure to check your printed ballot, because the voting machines are changing people’s ballots.”  The black man didn’t say anything, but I was standing right behind him shaking my head, and I said quietly “no”.  The white guys says to me “you don’t think that is true?”  And I said “I know it’s not true.”  It was our turn to vote so we all moved on.  But I was boiling.  I finished voting before the white guy.  I waited for him in the parking lot.  He came walking out with his wife and another woman.  I walked up to him and said “Sir, your comment to that man in line was wildly inappropriate.  Undermining people’s faith in our elections WHILE STANDING IN LINE TO VOTE is totally out of line and unacceptable.  It’s also unpatriotic.”  He just stared back at me with his mouth agape.  I gave him 2-3 seconds to respond, and when he didn’t, I just turned and walked away.  And that’s the end of my cool starry bra.  Not sure why that pissed me off so much but goddam im still mad about it.

Last election, I overheard a guy talking voluably about some such conspiracy believed by the idiots who vote MAGA. I pursed my lips and looked at the ceiling. Politeness and outrage fight it out inside me. 

He's comfortable assuming such utterances are acceptable in the voting line. It's not a social gathering, so my silence doesn't mean affirmation. Still, why should the yokel go unchecked? I stayed quiet, but I do struggle with that stuff. 

My experience is different than yours. You were clearly correct. My own polite silence frays.

8 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

Why do you do this? You haven’t posted in this thread really at all and then all of a sudden you come in thread shitting left and right. Did you just need the attention? 

 

And fuck, I just gave you that attention. 

 

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Put him on ignore. Don't quote him.

8 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

Why do you do this? You haven’t posted in this thread really at all and then all of a sudden you come in thread shitting left and right. Did you just need the attention? 

 

And fuck, I just gave you that attention. 

 

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I truly did Google “election firewall”, nothing came up that made much sense. 

7 minutes ago, Chopper said:

This story is tangentially related to a horse race and to election issues. It's too impactful to not post.

 

tldw, is there a point reached eventually?

49 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I didn’t know people did that either. That honestly sounds pretty stupid. I miss when people didn’t feel the need to vomit their beliefs to the world

Congratulations on your first reasonable post ever!

3 minutes ago, WBT said:

tldw, is there a point reached eventually?

The child decides that taking the horse to school is a bad idea because the horse can’t fit in the closet and so there’s no way to protect it during an active shooter situation.

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Hays County. Took 18 year old son to vote for the first time. Goddamn it felt good to cast a vote against Trump and Cruz.

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Add one more to the PA firewall for my wife.

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39 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

My intensive summer of two Ancient Greek classes (3 hours a day) with a C and a D+ confirm that this is accurate. I get verb conjugations, but noun declensions are straight up bullshit. Baylor lets you get a BA with two semesters of Latin and 2 semesters of Ancient Greek, so it's possible to graduate without learning anything.

CSB time:

I had neglected my FL requirement and wanted to graduate in the Fall. The Summer Intensive Ancient Greek program is 10 weeks and gets you 3 semesters of credit. IIRC, class started at 8:30, broke for lunch at 11:30, and the afternoon session went from 1:30 to 4:30. The suggested study time after that was 4 hours. I actually did that some of the time. I got a B (I remember basically nothing, though).

I sat next to a Colonel in the Army who was headed for a teaching post in the Army War College. A 14 y.o. kid was in the class who had, according to the prof, an impressive knowledge of Eqyptian hieroglyphics. I was surrounded by people who knew what they wanted to accomplish and were dedicated to the things they did. That was a terrible summer, but I graduated on my timeline.  

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Just now, Snake Diggity said:

The child decides that taking the horse to school is a bad idea because the horse can’t fit in the closet and so there’s no way to protect it during an active shooter situation.

Yeah, it was a real fucking gut punch.

18 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

Early voting totals for one candidate that build up a backlog the other side has to make up/overcome on election day.  It's like betting on a point spread or playing with a handicap.  

 

17 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Don't explain things to someone who just rolled in this week to spout that Trump is going to win, Nate Silver is always right and doesn't understand what the hell we've been talking about for weeks. 

Did you miss the "handicap" part?

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

My wife does theology work.  The other day, I was working from home for part of the day.  I was working on a pretty complex appellate brief, writing some good shit, feeling pretty smarty-pants.  Then I realize that she's sitting across from me working with four different books open, preparing to teach on a text that she was reading in the original greek.  She was getting frustrated because a word had two slightly different/nuanced translations, so she was looking at two different secondary sources on that word -- not on the whole text, just that word.

I didn't feel as smarty-pants after that.

I did think it was kinda hot, though.

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18 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

Had a Trump supporting coworker tell me that "if Trump gets elected, it's gonna be the easiest time in history to get rich because the market is gonna go crazy."

Like my brother in Christ, the market is up over 60% in the past two years. What the fuck more do you expect Trump to do to bolster it? 

I'm no financial genius, but I think there's a good chance the market would significantly dip when Trump shits himself during his inauguration speech.

32 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

It’s just a feeling.

 

25 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

And nobody here wants to see me attempt to actually spell words correctly without spellcheck.   They tried to teach spelling using phonics in the early 60s. Moving to different parts of the country every two years made me incapable of figuring out how a word should be spelled.

http://www.learnenglishspellingrules1.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09 ...

13 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

You wanna hear why gas stations end up where they are?

If this is obvious, I'm sorry I missed it. I'd love to learn this. Why are they across the street from each other so frequently? Are they going to become charging stations in the next decade?

13 hours ago, David Dennison said:

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Loud and proud bro

Does anyone know when early voting starts? /Helobious

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