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3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Were you lost?  Did you not know where you were?  I mean pick a topic, any topic and the bolded holds true.

 

True...  I should have known better, but I was still shocked at what information they were holding up as true and accurate.

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7 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

phone call just now:

wife - i'm getting hungry, is chili's tonight or tomorrow?

me - tomorrow.

wife - damn.

there's a chance we may be fighting now, it's hard to tell.

Take her twice.

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As a fellow lake rat, that trek is excessive. There is a certain bent appeal of rolling off the lake looking rough and sliding into the galleria. Fuck the snooty assholes. We are lake rats, hear us roar.

Is Shades still around on the lake? Used to get burgers from there when I worked at LakeWay Marina in College
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8 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I'm proud of myself in that it is 4:50 and I have largely avoided any TVs, online coverage on CNN and the like and stuck to here and Threads.  Its a good way to cope with the stress but there will be margaritas tonight.

I just got back from the gym. Almost time to start drinking.

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I'm proud of myself in that it is 4:50 and I have largely avoided any TVs, online coverage on CNN and the like and stuck to here and Threads.  Its a good way to cope with the stress but there will be margaritas tonight.

I'm going flying in 90 minutes. By the time I land, it may be over, but I'm going right to bed. I'll check the thread in the morning. We just need good Quinn and no turnovers. God Speed everyone.
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3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Fox folks on The 5: “We’re going to hear from the voters tonight, and then we have to respect it.”

Narrator [if Trump does not win]: They, in fact, did not respect it, and happily amplified Trump's cries of cheating and calls for violent resistance.

Fox News is a fucking insurrectionist shithole, and any other self-respecting country would have drone striked the building by now.

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13 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Today is stress night at Chili's.  Tomorrow is celebration at Chili's.

Today, I was in Baytown around lunch time and chose from the billion taqueria options. Chili’s tomorrow will be child’s play. 

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Every year, I make fun of literally everyone who watches more than the first few picks of the NFL Draft. There's absolutely nothing that you can do about it, and, a few hours from now, you can see everything that happened in 30 seconds on your phone. 

Yet, here I am. In my defense, slightly more important than who the Colts are going to draft as their new QB.

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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

CBS News showed some exit polling with some stats that hit me. They asked what were the most important issues to voters - and “the state of the democracy” was 30 something percent for both men and women and “immigration” was 13% for women and 16% for men.

In short, the exit polls showed that the immigration issue was half as important to people as the state of our democracy.  I know this is an unverified small bit of data, but if this holds true, it has huge implications.  

the short version would be that twice as many people are motivated by Harris’s big issue then are by Trump’s big issue

that cannot be good for the orange dip shit

GOP goobers think Biden stole the election and Kamala's going to do it again, so unfortunately, this issue doesn't cut as cleaning for Harris as we'd like to think.

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6 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

the short version would be that twice as many people are motivated by Harris’s big issue then are by Trump’s big issue

trump has spent the past week barely talking about the border/immigration. it was probably written in his speech but trump can't read, so there's that.

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Counterpoint: James Carville and others were raising the alarm a few days before but everybody ignored them - there were red flags for Hillary (none of which were present for Kamala).

James says that, unequivocally, Kamala will win. While that is not a guarantee of victory, I tend to believe the crazy ragin’ Cajun on presidential election demographics.

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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

James says that, unequivocally, Kamala will win. While that is not a guarantee of victory, I tend to believe the crazy ragin’ Cajun on presidential election demographics.

He’s like Nancy Pelosi, they are plugged in with more people in the know than we ever could imagine 

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Just now, Js1 said:

He’s like Nancy Pelosi, they are plugged in with more people in the know than we ever could imagine 

nobody knows shit about fuck

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

He’s like Nancy Pelosi, they are plugged in with more people in the know than we ever could imagine 

Pelosi needs a bad ass nickname.

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I finally got the MSNBC app to work on my phone with the cruise line Wi-Fi through my home cable service - so I get to listen to Rachel and the crew, and my boy steve karnaki.

I’m gruntled. 

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5 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

And that’s your opinion. Some of us are sick of the politics on both sides after the last few years.  Is it worse from the republicans, sure.  But both care more about being the opposite of the other nothing will ever get done in the near future. 

In this case, being the opposite of Trump means being quite normal, human even.

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2 hours ago, UTGrad98 said:

We knew pretty early on in 2016 things weren't going well. Like I remember by 8pm going oh fuck he is gonna win. 

 

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

I remember 2016 turning on a dime. I forget what states came in but it went from pretty much a coronation to “oh shit Trump just won”. Then Hillary conceded like an hour later. Good times.

 

2 hours ago, quigley said:

At like 8, there were FL counties that should've been deep blue that were pink. I said exactly that, "oh shit, Trump won."

It was Florida + the margin in Ohio. I remember it vividly.

I kept watching to see if she could pull out WI/MI/PA but I knew in my mind pretty early on.

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Well shit guys. Harris County was 55.6-43.2 for Biden in early voting. It was 51.3-47.4 for Harris. I know a shift is expected in terms of early versus election day voting but bottom line is that is too much of a shift considering that early is 75% of total votes. Gonna have to say that Harris almost certainly went redder this year.

Only slight positive is Allred was 53.0-44.8, but that ain't nearly enough. 

@Js1 you got any job openings for smart as fuck Longhorn assholes in Colorado?

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1 minute ago, Pods said:

@BamaATL How you feeling? What's still outstanding?

Basically Gwinett EV, which would in all likelihood have us about even, Clarke County (Athens), Chatamn (Savannah), and then the urban margins, which favor us.  Feeling ok.

Magic Number is now looking to be about 2.75 million (50% for either candidate)

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It’s anecdotal data, but there sure are a lot of out of state Texan college students who never received their absentee ballots. I know of two from my neighborhood that flew back just to vote and another who never received his ballot and when he called to check in it he was told that it was mailed so there was nothing that could be done.

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33 minutes ago, texas08 said:

Did this thread reopen for shots of hopium or what?

Well, I spent the last hour and a half sitting outside in this beautiful hill country weather sitting in my gazebo sipping Balvenie 12 looking through my telescope at the night's sky while smoking an A.F. Hemingway Masterpiece. Probably should have smoked some weed.

I am now perfectly buzzed and relaxed so I am ready to ruin a great evening by catching up on the election results. I figure we will not know shit about fuck until tomorrow but I am ready to take a peak.

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Well, I spent the last hour and a half sitting outside in this beautiful hill country weather sitting in my gazebo sipping Balvenie 12 looking through my telescope at the night's sky while smoking an A.F. Hemingway Masterpiece. Probably should have smoked some weed.
I am now perfectly buzzed and relaxed so I am ready to ruin a great evening by catching up on the election results. I figure we will not know shit about fuck until tomorrow but I am ready to take a peak.

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1 hour ago, BamaATL said:

Basically Gwinett EV, which would in all likelihood have us about even, Clarke County (Athens), Chatamn (Savannah), and then the urban margins, which favor us.  Feeling ok.

Magic Number is now looking to be about 2.75 million (50% for either candidate)

Fuck you

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53 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

It’s anecdotal data, but there sure are a lot of out of state Texan college students who never received their absentee ballots. I know of two from my neighborhood that flew back just to vote and another who never received his ballot and when he called to check in it he was told that it was mailed so there was nothing that could be done.

I know one in NYC that didn’t get her ballot until yesterday from Travis Cty. 

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6 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

James says that, unequivocally, Kamala will win. While that is not a guarantee of victory, I tend to believe the crazy ragin’ Cajun on presidential election demographics.

…..well, apparently, he is a crazy ragin’ Cajun! ….. nttawwt.

 

 

 

Posted
23 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

This.  Totally this for me.

I have felt like I want to puke all day so far, and it will only get worse.

I love my country.  I love it so much it hurts. It has given my family opportunity for generations.  It has been a place that is and always has been wildly imperfect yet, somehow, has found a way to improve over time.  As they say, "reformed, but always reforming."  We are a good country, and we have tried over time to become a great one.  It is a process, but one that - for most of my life - I believed we continued to move towards.  Yes, with failures, yes, with missteps, but overall heading in the right historical direction.

The past 15+ years have caused me to doubt that (Obama's election revealed how awful a huge swath of our country and fellow citizens are, and it has only gotten MUCH worse).  

I truly don't know who "we the people" are anymore.  I don't believe, like I once did, that we can and will find ways to be better.

I want to hope that we will.  But hope, in these times, is a precursor to disappointment.  And we've had a cascade of disappointments, shocking ones.  To my dying day, I will never forget those moments on January 6th when, driving through nowhere W. Texas, I heard them announce that the insurrectionists had broken through and were inside the Capitol.  As our phones started blowing up from friends all over the world asking us "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?"

I want to believe that we can be the nation I knew and believed in most of my life.  But I also know that we are the nation that had January 6th, and might have another one of those.

This feeling is like being in crisis with someone you deeply love.  Will she go off the deep end, turning her back on all the things that made her good, and leading you to the inevitable conclusion of "she's gone....this relationship isn't worth saving?"  Or will she find her way to reaffirm the best of who she is and can be, so you think "there she is....the person I love is still there?"  I feel like I would if I was sitting in my living room, waiting for her answer.  And yeah, I wanna puke.

I love her.  And she's been breaking my fucking heart.

This was our concern dude.  And here we are.

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