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13 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

I'm not going to lie. The shit coming out right now almost indicates that the fourth estate moneyed business interests understands the stakes. My main issue is that these idiots are a week late. 10-15% of the people who will vote have already voted.

I agree it's being leaked late (and too late) for a reason.

But I posit it's "Wall St" or money financial people in general worried Trump will fuck shit up or just that success in American business will be largely dependent on whether you curry favor with him and his administration.

Also, how is this a surprise? We know the Starlink system used by Ukraine was being turned on and off. It wasn't being done by accident.

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13 minutes ago, softlynow said:

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.  

That sounds terrible. Mine was a similar situation where it was a singular summer semester that had two semesters of Ancient Greek in it, and I needed both to graduate in the fall just like you did. I had taken a semester of Portuguese (and made a D in it) in my first semester of college and then just dropped foreign language until later like all good 19-year-olds would do. I found myself in Latin for a couple semesters and planned on taking 4 semesters of Latin, but it would have meant staying until the spring of my 5th year. 

I remember the hardest part was that it was from 8-11:30 with no break and that it was my first 8AM in 4.5 years of college. We did get extra credit for attending the Classics Club meetings at night though for pizza and fun (Classics women at religious schools are the opposite of fun) every Thursday night.

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As someone who a Boy Scout Leader for decades I have a lot of conservative leaning friends.   And the thing I have been grappling with since 2016 is that a lot of them are intelligent and successful…and yet they believe all of the Maga shit Trump/Fox spews even though it’s clearly false and bullshit.

So basically, they are gullible.  I always thought that intelligence was an antidote to gullibility, but it seems they are two distinct species of mental abilities.   With no rational explanation, I’ve finally come to conclude that “gullible” is simply choosing to believe that which you want to believe for your own reasons.   

it really defies explanation.

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11 minutes ago, quigley said:

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?

What kind of self-respecting man would go to a gas station on the wrong side of the street?

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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

As someone who a Boy Scout Leader for decades I have a lot of conservative leaning friends.   And the thing I have been grappling with since 2016 is that a lot of them are intelligent and successful…and yet they believe all of the Maga shit Trump/Fox spews even though it’s clearly false and bullshit.

So basically, they are gullible.  I always thought that intelligence was an antidote to gullibility, but it seems they are two distinct species of mental abilities.   With no rational explanation, I’ve finally come to conclude that “gullible” is simply choosing to believe that which you want to believe for your own reasons.   

it really defies explanation.

"Intelligence" doesn't always imply common sense.  "Successful" cuts across all kinds of demographics.

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11 hours ago, BamaATL said:

Did anyone invite Travis Scott?  

Hopefully he's not handling security

11 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

That revised map is funny for Texas in that all the Rs that live around the periphery of the blue urban centers are donating much more than their rural counterparts.  More expendable income in the suburbs and exurbs than the farm towns?  More density to pile up a big number?  Or does proximity breed resentment?

boise and kind of Atlanta are the only similar areas. 

Our suburbs, like the suburbs of Boise and Atlanta, are a mecca for the reverse dust-bowlers fleeing commiefornia.

5 hours ago, G650 said:

Are there though? It seems both Democratic and Republican voters reject it now. Which i find kind of wild.

I think there's a high percentage of "ex Republicans" or normie Republicans voting for Harris who quietly believe it's too soon to tell if the 2001, 2003, and 2017 tax cuts will pay for themselves, and always will be. 

1 hour ago, The Dog said:

Bread.

This point seems somewhat self-evident and people keep overlooking it. The Big Sort works both ways.  

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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

How much Houston voter turnout is needed to make significant dent into Texas shifting? I know something was posted about it recently.

Texas might shift, or be close to it, if Harris county turned out like the other big counties do. They’ll just never be at Travis County margins. 56% for the Dems in 2020 - now imagine if they got 65% like Dallas county

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28 minutes ago, 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.

Worst episode ever

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Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

I think there's a high percentage of "ex Republicans" or normie Republicans voting for Harris who quietly believe it's too soon to tell if the 2001, 2003, and 2017 tax cuts will pay for themselves, and always will be. 

Yes, I agree there will always be some. More that I mean that both parties are explicitly advocating against it now. I don't really see a laissez faire party.

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Texas might shift, or be close to it, if Harris county turned out like the other big counties do. They’ll just never be at Travis County margins. 56% for the Dems in 2020 - now imagine if they got 65% like Dallas county

Harris county won’t ever get to 65% with cypress and. Northwest Harris county being so aggy and MAGA

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5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

How much Houston voter turnout is needed to make significant dent into Texas shifting? I know something was posted about it recently.

Obviously Houston turnout is great.

But what we need is Dallas turnout to be high. Not to mention El Paso and San Antonio.

All the major cities need to come out strong every election and we have just not been able to make that happen. It seems like we have come tantalizingly close in the recent decade but still...

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1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:

I guess I’m a dumbass because I just now realized that a lot of people choose the color of the clothing they wear to go vote based on who they are voting for.  It dawned on me as I looked at this long ass line and was like “why are like 80% of the people in this line wearing blue?”

1 hour ago, TexEx15 said:

I wore a blue USA shirt. But I’m also a big bald white dude in Texas. I’m willing to bet most folks in line would assume I was voting for Trump. Boy could they not be more wrong.

I wish I had waited to vote and picked up an Arnold Palmer t-shirt to wear in line.

Its Friday, should be time to get my Soros check and I should  go vote again, wonder how fast I can get an Arnie shirt here,

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2 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Harris county won’t ever get to 65% with cypress and. Northwest Harris county being so aggy and MAGA

Deport them to Montgomery County. We don’t want them 

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1 hour ago, The Dog said:

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

 

I think he means "if actual," not that the actual result is that way. But regardless, I think that's more likely than either the polling average being exactly right or the pollsters underestimating Trumps base again. 

I'm not ready to call my shot, but that's my map if the election was held today. 

BTW - I don't think his shading is anything other than an artifact of setting the colors on the battleground states.

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11 hours ago, wood said:

Yep. I just thought the big, very sharp difference between SM and NB was interesting. There's no gradation at all. Just blue, then wham, red. What accounts for that? Is it the German factor that was talked about weeks ago?

Those German anti-secessionist genes are long gone.  Its a bunch of transplants from elsewhere, most from Texas so they can create their own like MAGA fiefdom.

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I think he means "if actual," not that the actual result is that way. But regardless, I think that's more likely than either the polling average being exactly right or the pollsters underestimating Trumps base again. 
I'm not ready to call my shot, but that's my map if the election was held today. 

BTW - I don't think his shading is anything other than an artifact of setting the colors on the battleground states.

That’s my map on the prediction thread, with Arizona and Nevada flipped.
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12 minutes ago, G650 said:

Yes, I agree there will always be some. More that I mean that both parties are explicitly advocating against it now. I don't really see a laissez faire party.

Um, not sure about that. Other than the tarrifs I don't see a lot of light between Trump's  debt-financed fiscal stimulus for people at the top plus regulatory capture by cronies and Reagan/Bush 2's version of the same thing. The biggest difference is that Trump doesn't pretend that the revenue generated by the growth will exceed the cost of the the debt we incur to get it. He doesn't care at all. It's just a tax cut for it's own sake. Then they force interest rates down to suck the cash into asset prices and pretend that's not inflation. 

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13 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

The people who majored in a liberal arts major and didn’t dual or tri major are wastoids.

 

13 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

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13 hours ago, David Dennison said:

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13 hours ago, Thatguy said:

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We should start a band.  Good thing for me the Navy didn't give a fuck as long as I had a BA at the end of four years.

I was also one who screwed up the FL requirement... big time.  I took French starting in 8th grade all through high school, and even spent a summer in France at a language school.  Thought I was hot shit.  Took the AP French exam and placed out of a ton of hours - don't recall exactly how many, but it ended up being 3 hours short of the LA FL requirement.  I ignored it until my last semester until I had no choice, meaning that I went 3-1/2 years without staying current with my French at all.  Because I had placed out of so many hours, I was forced to take a higher level class.  Being my last semester, I fucked off a lot and halfway through the semester found myself drowning in that French class.  I knew I blew the final, and as I turned it in pretty much begged the prof for a D so I could graduate the following week.  Prof said, "see you at commencement on Saturday."  

Now back to the topic of the thread... as big of an idiot and wastoid as I am, I was still able to sniff out Trump's bullshit back in 2011.   

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56 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."

Well, one of the easiest ways to make money is buying stuff cheap after the market crashes.

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2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Um, not sure about that. Other than the tarrifs I don't see a lot of light between Trump's  debt-financed fiscal stimulus for people at the top plus regulatory capture by cronies and Reagan's version of the same thing. The biggest difference is that Trump doesn't pretend that the revenue generated by the growth will exceed the cost of the the debt we incur to get it. He doesn't care at all. It's just a tax cut for it's own sake. Then they force interest rates down to suck the cash into asset prices and pretend that's not inflation. 

Uh, other than those trifling things like tariffs? I would characterize that as earthshaking change for the Republican party. Not even throwing details like pulling us out of, you know, like NAFTA and shit.

 

Look, I don't disagree with the result, but the messaging from Republicans is something so out there that 20 years ago if you told me exactly what was going to happen I would have laughed in your face.

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22 hours ago, Longhorn94 said:

I don't know who needs to hear this but Kamala is going to fuck shit up and we are going to win this fucking election! It won't be close.

LFG!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'll have what this guy is having, unless its Chili's. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Guadaloopy said:

I was also one who screwed up the FL requirement... big time.  I took French starting in 8th grade all through high school, and even spent a summer in France at a language school.  Thought I was hot shit.  Took the AP French exam and placed out of a ton of hours - don't recall exactly how many, but it ended up being 3 hours short of the LA FL requirement.  I ignored it until my last semester until I had no choice, meaning that I went 3-1/2 years without staying current with my French at all.  Because I had placed out of so many hours, I was forced to take a higher level class.  Being my last semester, I fucked off a lot and halfway through the semester found myself drowning in that French class.  I knew I blew the final, and as I turned it in pretty much begged the prof for a D so I could graduate the following week.  Prof said, "see you at commencement on Saturday."  

This hits close to home, as my daughter just dropped French as her minor at UT, essentially wasting a whole bunch of accumulated hours and costing me even more money.

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3 minutes ago, G650 said:

Uh, other than those trifling things like tariffs? I would characterize that as earthshaking change for the Republican party. Not even throwing details like pulling us out of, you know, like NAFTA and shit.

 

Look, I don't disagree with the result, but the messaging from Republicans is something so out there that 20 years ago if you told me exactly what was going to happen I would have laughed in your face.

Fundamentally I see the tarriffs as another form of regulatory capture to favor well connected inbumbent interests. My point was that there was never any "there" there. The economic orthodoxy of that era was all just a kayfabe.  The tarriffs are just the mask coming all the way off.  Surprise, it's not wrestling it's "sports entertainment". 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Well I have no idea who to vote for now without the WaPo telling me

Sure, but old guard media endorsements are kind of an important part of the process and an expectation of sorts.  Chickenshit move.  I will be canceling my subscription.  I don't read it much anyway these days.

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21 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Nate Silver almost certainly has a large bet on Kamala winning and has been using his model to move the line in betting markets toward Trump to get him a bigger payout.

 

This is exactly correct. These gambling sites can't risk all the money going one way, because then they could get fucked over really hard. They need the betting to be more or less even both ways, that way no matter who wins or loses, they get their vig. If all the money is going one way, then the hype needs to move to the other way to balance they betting. 

 

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Sure, but old guard media endorsements are kind of an important part of the process and an expectation of sorts.  Chickenshit move.  I will be canceling my subscription.  I don't read it much anyway these days.

Bezos clearly afraid of Trump seeking retribution  

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2 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Bezos clearly afraid of Trump seeking retribution  

. . . AND I just discovered my annual sub auto-renewed last week.  Of course it did.

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4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Fundamentally I see the tarriffs as another form of regulatory capture to favor well connected inbumbent interests.

We will have to disagree up to a point on that. It certainly will pick winners and losers, but there's been violent shift in terms of what interests are protected. Going from protecting corporate interests to protecting rich guy interest are very different things, because they have markedly different results (and problems obviously). I can assure you it isn't in John Deere's interest to be called out and have no political cover to offshore their workforce.

In general we are looking for the same policy outcomes, so it isn't like I'm really having a massive disagreement, but the messaging from both parties is clearly miles away from what it was. No one is running on free trade right now.

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14 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Those German anti-secessionist genes are long gone.  It’s a bunch of transplants from elsewhere, most from Texas so they can create their own like MAGA fiefdom.

Even the legacy German families are all in on MAGA. My German/Texan ancestors voted against succession, hid Confederate “deserters” on our ranch, had some of those deserters ultimately hung on a tree on the ranch, maintained 100 years of dislike for our Lutheran neighbors because they suspected them of turning people in to the Confederacy, and voted for Republicans when Texas exited Reconstruction and many years afterward. At this point, they are almost exclusively Trump voters and it reflects the urban/rural divide in this country and way too many years of watching Fox News.

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1 hour ago, Helobious said:

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

let me chatgpt that for you:

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In political elections, a "firewall" refers to a region or group of voters a campaign relies on to secure enough votes to win, even if they lose ground elsewhere. For instance, a candidate might perform poorly in one set of states but has a "firewall" of reliably supportive states where they anticipate strong backing. If this firewall holds, it can compensate for losses in other areas and help maintain a viable path to victory.

Firewalls are especially relevant in close elections, where campaigns concentrate resources and effort to solidify support and prevent opponents from making inroads in key areas.

 

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3 hours ago, BamaATL said:

Daily Georgia EV data dump takeaways:

1.  2.369 million votes now cast

2. Women out pace men by 272k or 55.5% to 44%  (.4% growth from yesterday)

3.  2020 day of voters represent 149k or 6.3% of the total (.3% bump from yesterday)

4.  2020 non voters are 387k, young voters 18 - 29 outpace old ones 65+ by 35k

A little something different today, turn out by Democratic Congressional districts:

GA 2- 138k 25.6%

GA 4 - 138k 26.5%

GA 5 - 162k 26.1%

GA 6 - 182k 36.8%

GA 13 - 167k 27.3%

 

 

Thank you for the data.

Please tell me how you're interpreting it based on expectations and benchmarks.

Posted
2 minutes ago, G650 said:

Going from protecting corporate interests to protecting rich guy interest are very different things

But see, you're begging the question. I don't acccept the premise that they were in fact protecting corporate interests. I think there were and are specific interests associated with specific people that benefitted, and I'm sure to some people that looks like being pro-business or pro-capitalism, but it's not. 
The greatest danger to capitalism is not socialism, but rent-seeking. The greatest danger to American business is not overregulation but regulatory capture. 

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