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Posted
3 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Anyone watch the Univision thing last night?

Got to hear questions from "undecided" voters like this

 

isn't basically everything that "Make america great again" woman complaining about a state issue, not a federal one?

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

This is why I don’t think the election is as close as they’re trying to tell us

Shes not shedding huge numbers of black voters like the polling subsamples say

Shes not doing any worse with Latino voters nationwide than Biden

She’s doing roughly the same as Biden did with young voters 

She’s killing Trump in the burbs - doing better than Biden

She’s doing better with women and college educated voters than Biden did

It doesn’t square up 

I don't think it's going to be close, either, but it might be.

I know I sound like a broken record, but I really don't feel like dealing with another popular vote win/EC loss. Mainly because I don't trust the Democratic Party to push for reform.

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Posted (edited)
4 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

isn't basically everything that "Make america great again" woman complaining about a state issue, not a federal one?

This is going to sound insensitive, but I guarantee there's a metric fuckton she's omitting from her sob story. In the Social Security Disability application process (which to be fair to her, is a federal thing) it only takes months to get an initial decision. That should be faster, but if it's taking years, it's probably because there are jobs she could be doing with reasonable accommodations, which means she has been denied and is drawing out her appeals.

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26 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Usually with Dotard quotes, I can sorta piece together what he's trying to say, because I pay way too much attention to all of this. But I have no idea what he is talking about here.

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Posted
Just now, chainsaw said:

This is going to sound insensitive, but I guarantee there's a metric fuckton she's omitting from her sob story. In the Social Security Disability application process (which to be fair to her, is a federal thing) it only takes months to get an initial decision. That should be faster, but if it's taking years, it's probably because there are jobs she could be doing with reasonable accommodations.

Also, in my experience, the general public is absolutely terrible at being able to fill out even simple forms correctly.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Usually with Dotard quotes, I can sorta piece together what he's trying to say, because I pay way too much attention to all of this. But I have no idea what he is talking about here.

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Well, you see, they're leaving Milwaukee. And it's very sad, and simple. And not like Elon Musk going to the moon. And it reminds him of Biden and the eight circles.

Not really sure why you're confused.

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Posted
14 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Anyone watch the Univision thing last night?

Got to hear questions from "undecided" voters like this

 

How did a homeless woman that lives in Deltona, FL get to Vegas for this town hall?

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Posted
3 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

Also, in my experience, the general public is absolutely terrible at being able to fill out even simple forms correctly.

True, but there's absolutely no shortage of help available at the social security building. Those poor people are there to literally hold your hand through the process. It's an agency that almost exclusively deals with old and frail people.

1 minute ago, royiv said:

How did a homeless woman that lives in Deltona, FL get to Vegas for this town hall?

Indeed GIF

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Posted
52 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I see the traditional pre-election pant wetting has begun.

 

To be fair, most of the piss on my pants is from the newborn who just can't seem to keep it in the diaper.

Posted
35 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I want him to lose so badly.  But then after Harris wins, I want him to host a weekly podcast to which I will subscribe.

I can't stand listening to his queefing, farting voice.  I have to basically read all Trump communications.

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7 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Usually with Dotard quotes, I can sorta piece together what he's trying to say, because I pay way too much attention to all of this. But I have no idea what he is talking about here.

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he is equating/comparing 1) the circles painted on a the landing pads that Space X rockets returning to earth landed on to 2) the circles painted in fields for social distancing at Biden rallies during the 2020 election.

What that has to do with Milwaukee at the beginning and him losing bigly in 2020 and being abused by other counties at the end, i have no idea.

......and to that matter what is the relevance of the similarity in the circles in the Elon/Biden comparison in the first place.

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back to @Bozo_Casanova 's comment about Democrats needing to be better at messaging on the economy. I don't know what else they can do. They are actually putting programs into place to support and bolster the working and middle class. They have been better for the economy every single presidency going back to Carter. I don't think there is anything more they can do other than outright lie like the Republicans.

They want to believe the Republican lies. They don't hold them accountable. They never benefit for them. They are idiots. So I don't think Democrats should waste any time trying to persuade idiots who continue to vote against their own self-interests over and over again because they feel better about being able to be a racist and a misogynist  and hate other people. Fuck those people. Let's build a coalition with everyone else. It has been working great for the Democrats for every election since 2016. 

Kamala is going to roll Trump. We have all maxed out and are volunteering so I am not taking it lightly. But this is going to be ugly for him.

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Posted
13 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

Also, in my experience, the general public is absolutely terrible at being able to fill out even simple forms correctly.

gotta wonder why so many people give up on absentee/mail in ballots... gotta fill out a form.

 

yes, i know that is the point. re: GOP.

Posted
47 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

So, kids, are well all mentally prepared for another we clearly won but actually lost presidential election? 

NYT Pitchbot:

Harris Wins With 330 Electoral Votes:  Why That’s Bad for Harris and Democrats 

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Posted
39 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

I was telling someone the other day that the shit Trump did when he first took office where he tear gassed the protestors at the church live on tv then walked over and held up the bible would have been the political scandal of the entire century for any other president. With trump, the majority of people have completely forgotten it, including the person I was talking to who had no recollection at all about it.

Counter point: It made their collective dicks hard.

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Just now, yoladu said:

gotta wonder why so many people give up on absentee/mail in ballots... gotta fill out a form.

 

yes, i know that is the point. re: GOP.

Yeah, in software, its well known that every extra bit of effort you ask of the end user drastically reduces the amount of people who will complete the task. It's actually at the heart of that whole google sideloading issue that went to court recently, where Epic could show with hard numbers the amount of users they would be blocked from reaching by simply making sideloading opt-in instead of opt-out. Literally any barrier, no matter how seemingly small, sheds a lot of people when extrapolated to the whole population. There really is no such thing as a small obstacle.

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Posted

 

While amusing and fun to laugh at, doTARd's failure to speak coherently isn't changing anybody's mind. 

 

32 minutes ago, Js1 said:

This is why I don’t think the election is as close as they’re trying to tell us

Shes not shedding huge numbers of black voters like the polling subsamples say

Shes not doing any worse with Latino voters nationwide than Biden

She’s doing roughly the same as Biden did with young voters 

She’s killing Trump in the burbs - doing better than Biden

She’s doing better with women and college educated voters than Biden did

It doesn’t square up 

 

I just heard a story on NPR yesterday (I think it was yesterday) that said she is not doing well with black males under 50. 

 

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8 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I just heard a story on NPR yesterday (I think it was yesterday) that said she is not doing well with black males under 50. 

 

Pancho just posted something that says otherwise.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

162k -> 189k

Mad lib time!

I find it weirdly __________ that Democrats might lock up PA before most Texans have a chance to even cast a ballot.

amusing, fascinating, infuriating

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Just now, berlinerbaer said:

Mad lib time!

I find it weirdly borderline __________ that Democrats might lock up PA before most Texans have a chance to even cast a ballot.

amusing, fascinating, infuriating

erotic

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Posted
3 hours ago, South Austin said:

When there were no coffee filters to wipe our ass, we used sand.

Bah! You had it lucky. Why, we had to reuse the sand - and back then there were 16 months in a year.

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Posted
13 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I just heard a story on NPR yesterday (I think it was yesterday) that said she is not doing well with black males under 50. 

 

And they were basing that on?  The polling subsamples?  Or did they have some orthogonal data?

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Posted
Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

And they were basing that on?  The polling subsamples?  Or did they have some orthogonal data?

And why is it nobody ever mentions Trump not doing well with women, suburban voters, etc. 

It is such one-sided bullshit and people are tired of it. 

To wit - since September 30, there have been roughly 60 state and national polls that have been published:

33 non-partisan polls
26 GOP-aligned polls
1 Dem-aligned poll

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

And why is it nobody ever mentions Trump not doing well with women, suburban voters, etc. 

It is such one-sided bullshit and people are tired of it. 

To wit - since September 30, there have been roughly 60 state and national polls that have been published:

33 non-partisan polls
26 GOP-aligned polls
1 Dem-aligned poll

Nate Silver: "Well the Dems are losing because they could be publishing their own bullshit polls!" 

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Posted
1 hour ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

My dad wasn't paying attention to pat buchanans or any of that shit. He was putting himself through night school while working long days as a carpenter raising 3 kids and paying off his house. My dad didn't listen to politics radio, he was listening to the Eagles. He wasn't watching Fox News, he was playing baseball with his sons. Believe it or not, there's a percentage of the population who doesn't follow politics AT ALL because they do other shit. My dad grew up when the perception of democrats in the south were the same people enforcing Jim Crow. Then he went to Vietnam. And then he came back and basically never updated his political views again until Biden ran for office. I don't know how in the world that sounds unbelievable. It is precisely that my dad retired just as Biden was running in 2020 that he finally had time to sit down and pay attention. And he's adjusted his views accordingly. He said he was holding his nose in 2020, but now in 2024, he's full on flag-waving on board, putting his money where his mouth is. The republicans have Donald Trump to blame.

your dad sounds like a great guy and that speaks well of him.  But he totally failed some of the most basic citizenship duties. It is everyone’s absolute obligation to keep up with politics and make an informed vote. I understand this is America and more people pay attention to the Masked Singer then how cloture works, but that is how Democracy came close to failing.  

if enough good guys like your father ignored politics while he was living his life, then you wind up with our current situation.  No matter, he is on board now and saving the country in this election.   You are very fortunate. He’s also a smart and perceptive guy. Lots of people who don’t follow politics do the simplest thing and believe stupid shit that Trump says instead of checking out the underlying facts. I wish I could buy him a beer.

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Posted
4 hours ago, South Austin said:

When there were no coffee filters to wipe our ass, we used sand.

You used sand???

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Still better than the Roman poop sponge

The Romans cleaned their behinds with sea sponges attached to a stick, and the gutter supplied clean flowing water to dip the sponges in. This soft, gentle tool was called a tersorium, which literally meant “a wiping thing.”

A replica tersorium, or sponge attached to a stick A replica tersorium, or sponge attached to a stick D. Herdemerten via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0

The Romans liked to move their bowels in comfort. Whether they washed their hands after that is another story. Maybe they dipped their fingers into an amphora by the door. Maybe they didn’t. Maybe they did in some parts of the empire but not in others. Worse, the tersoria were probably reused and shared by all fellow butt-wipers who came and went throughout the day.

Spoiler

So, if one of the forica visitors had intestinal worms, all the others would carry them home, too. Without any knowledge of how diseases spread, the overall Roman toilet setup could hardly be called hygienic by modern standards.

 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

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How are you gonna pay for that?

Oh wait no, sorry - they just asked Kamala that again 

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Posted
6 minutes ago, locodos said:

Still better than the Roman poop sponge

The Romans cleaned their behinds with sea sponges attached to a stick, and the gutter supplied clean flowing water to dip the sponges in. This soft, gentle tool was called a tersorium, which literally meant “a wiping thing.”

A replica tersorium, or sponge attached to a stick A replica tersorium, or sponge attached to a stick D. Herdemerten via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0

The Romans liked to move their bowels in comfort. Whether they washed their hands after that is another story. Maybe they dipped their fingers into an amphora by the door. Maybe they didn’t. Maybe they did in some parts of the empire but not in others. Worse, the tersoria were probably reused and shared by all fellow butt-wipers who came and went throughout the day.

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So, if one of the forica visitors had intestinal worms, all the others would carry them home, too. Without any knowledge of how diseases spread, the overall Roman toilet setup could hardly be called hygienic by modern standards.

 

Found my new insult.  Thanks!

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Posted
7 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

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wait, did I miss something? how is there tax on loan interest?

tax on tips that no one reports?

tax on OT that he hates to give?

Cap on CC interest rates = raising credit requirements leading to most working and middle class people NOT being able to qualify for a credit card - plus this seems like some sort of misguided socialistic policy

tax cuts for the wealthy.

 

yeah that's a GREAT plan for the working and middle class! tell me again about how the Republicans are better at messaging this for the working and middle classes, cause I don't see it!

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