If there is anything we can be sure about based on the last four years, is the Orange Man thrives on chaos. So I will simply sit back and enjoy the show. If you’re anything like me you probably avoided news as best you can throughout the day and immerse yourself in your work.
I myself just caused a kerfluffle involving out of network denials. Am I contributing to the rising cost of health care? Most likely. Suckers.
Otherwise I’ve pretty well kept myself wicked drunk the remaining part of the day.
This is my review of Four Loko Hard Seltzer:
Four Loko…
”Ssgt Sharpshooter, so what plans do you have for the weekend.”
”Sir, I’m on standby this weekend, so I’m probably going to take the Four Loko Challenge.”
”As long as you don’t get caught with weed.”
Silly First Sergeant didn’t have any idea what I was talking about.
Four Loko got a bad rap in military circles during the Gilded Age Obama Administration due to an incident where college students at a house party took the challenge and several wound up hospitalized.
A number of them were women, so hospital staff thought they were given date rape drugs…
Nope:
Authorities at the time said they did not believe incident was a result of heavy drinking, but that someone had surreptitiously slipped drugs, possibly date rape drugs, into people’s drinks.
Police today said there was no evidence of drugs found, only the energy drink.
“Perhaps even more disturbing,” said Chief Steve Rittereiser was that students were drinking beer and vodka in addition to Four Loko.
Four Loko has since taken caffeine out of their formula.
The FDA ruling “should be the nail in the coffin of these dangerous and toxic drinks,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has pushed the Obama administration to ban the beverages, said Tuesday.
Federal regulators would not confirm Schumer’s announcement that a ban was imminent, but Four Loko’s statement suggests the company believed it had little choice but to reformulate its drinks.
Oh Chuck, I am reminded ten years later you’re still a statist piece of shit…
Like most every other version of Four Loko this prety much gets you wasted. Some quick math. A 23oz can at 12% abv….23oz≈680mL …680/750=90%. Carry the one…look are nearly drinking a standard bottle of wine in one sitting. Lets be real, nobody shares this with a friend. Drinking four in a 90 minute absolute insanity. This tastes like carbonated Everclear.
Also…it helps create a buffer with reality. I didn’t do the challenge either, I still had to drive.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmOyY1-WMAEuXEN.jpg
LOL
HA HA HA!
Excellent.
Ah, the Four Loko ban (or ban fake out, whatever). Was it snobbish classism or was it helicopter parenting?
¿Por qué no los dos?
It’s because people haven’t been putting booze in coffee since coffee.
I do have some difficulty finding it a certain distance from a school.
Yeah. Classy people do %liquor% and Coke, or Irish Coffees. Not some low class shite in a can.
Classy people drop a bump of cocaine into a double shot of Wild Turkey. I call it the Steve Vai cocktail.
This guy investigated the Four Loko challenge.
It no longer contains caffeine? Then I can do that. I’m allergic to caffeine, but am strong like Bull when it comes to alcohol tolerance.
“I’m allergic to caffeine”
Sorry.
Meh, haven’t had it in any larger doses than a candy bar for almost 20 years. I still can’t sleep.
Me neither. That’s why I need coffee.
You have my thoughts and prayers.
I’m insensitive to it, and I don’t consume a lot to begin with: not every day.
“so hospital staff thought they were given date rape drugs”
With Trump and therefore Betsy DeVoss gone, those stories will be back. Also, terrorist attacks, school shootings, drone strikes, etc.
If you classify FourLoko as a date rape drug, then it’s true. Legislation forthcoming.
Ugh. That may be the single worst aspect of a Biden win. Some NEA hack will be put in charge of the DoEd and all DeVos has done will be undone. And, unlike how they did for Obama, I doubt the courts will find that executive prerogatives transcend elections this time.
1 in Four Lokos will be sexually assaulted in college. The others will just be raped.
Yo, SP, if you’re watching – I put in a new post for your consideration.
I wrote up a cross stitching/Etsy post this morning, since a few people said they’d read it. I’ll cogitate on it a while before posting it.
::clubbed thumbs up::
While I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout no cross-stitchin’, the Etsy portion will likely tweak my interest — I’ve always been fascinated by online commerce systems, and the different ways they get implemented.
what is the point of announcing it here? It will probably be notices in the dashboard before the comments
Also the title is not sufficiently revealing of the contents
I also emailed her.
Belt and suspenders, bro. Its semi-topical, unlike my usual quasi-open post cocktail recipes.
Which reminds me, I’ve got a new cocktail recipe to post.
“I also emailed her.”
Way to assume my gender, dude.
(Also, thanks for the post!)
Your gender is your business.
My assumptions are mine.
Stay in your lane!
weird. I just post it and at some unspecified time in the future it gets published
“I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873
HAT! HAT! HAT!
LOL (ok, marginal chuckle) reply.
TwitterNews is on the case – whew!
I just got a text from a lefty friend with half a dozen smiley faces in a row (not gloating, but assuming that I agree). Do I just ignore it? My attitude towards debating with the stubborn or willfully deaf is “Forget it, Jake.”
I would ignore it.
“Yeah, Biden as president is gonna be fucking hilarious!”
For a couple years, tops. Team Blue is already spinning up a path to a President Cackling Shrew.
when in doubt send a dick pic
Dick Cheney? Dick Nixon? Dick Vitale?
He added only “(sorry it wasn’t Jo)” so I guess he has an inkling. Would rather have her than Biden, ’tis true.
(Hey GT, I think I mixed up you and Kristen: my apologies. She’s the pug lady, not you, right? Eh, all you many libertarian women look alike anyway.)
Ignore it, just like I’m ignoring the shallow celebrations of “MY GUY WON!” on Facebook.
Logically, I’d leave it. BUt…
“I can’t wait for them to impeach him and we can have a real President in place. 11 years of Harris should teach these assholes a lesson.”
Glenn Greenwald continues to be on fire:
“The motives for concocting this Wagnerian fantasy about coups, dictatorship, concentration camps and civil war are numerous. ”
One motive is to get the vote counters to cheat in good conscience. I mean who wouldn’t do anything to stop literally Hitler?
The real danger of this is that is crying wolf. What if, as the Democrats push farther towards socialism, and there farther towards failure, the people rally behind an actual fascist strongman to fix the system? Who will listen then?
Yes, I would take a Pinochet over a Castro, but this is America. We should be better than that.
What are the odds that the dems over reach and implode in spectacular fashion? We already have AOC on the twatter threatening to make lists and another crazy cunte threatening that no one who voted for Trump or supported him will ever work in this country again.
Shit like that seems ill advised when you’re pissing off half the country, but it seems that’s what they’re going to go with.
That’s kind of what you have to go with a coup. Otherwise it doesn’t work.
What are the odds that the dems over reach…
110%
Give the Dems an inch and they try to take a mile, give the Reps a mile and they try to take an inch. It’s just their MO.
Jay-sus, all the knucklheads driving around here, blowing their horns like they won the Super Bowl.
Correction – a Super Bowl win doesn’t get this sort of reaction.
My own wife is getting caught up in it and is pissy that I pointed out that we’re looking at weeks of legal challenges – as we would have if Trump was declared a winner.
“Why do you always have to be so negative?”
“Why do you always have to be so negative?”- Well, you’re the one that has to live with her, but we all know the answer is ‘because I’m not a crazy person.’
My husband doesn’t believe the vote tally is on the up-and-up (neither do I) but he’s taken it further and he’s bought the whole line of Qanon. Satanic pedophilia, baby eating, etc. He has lost his mind.
We both voted for Trump, but the hubby has become a paranoid conspiracy whack job over the course of the year.
I’m hoping some distance from the election will get him to become normal again. Otherwise I might have to hold a pillow down over his face.
It’s been quite a chore living with someone whose opinion used to be respectable but who has lost his mind since then.
QAnon and the way it didn’t work out should be self-discrediting. Maybe get him on some Prozac or something.
This is a guy who told me Wednesday to come home from work early Friday so we could see a stand-up comedian he’d bought tickets for.
We got to the door of the venue and they found his name on the list of reservations—-for tonight, Saturday. So last night we just came back home. I didn’t hassle him about it.
I don’t know if he’s losing his marbles or just his give-a-shit.
Oh dear.
I still don’t know what Qanon is exactly. Sounds like teenage boys trolling.
(There’s a comedy venue open in SD Co.? cool!)
It’s a 4Chan larp referring to a supposed intelligence insider and white hat that has an inside track. “Q” refers to the level of security clearance but a Q clearance is the Dept of Energy who wouldn’t know that stuff anyway. It’s a prima facie farce.
“It’s a 4Chan larp referring to a supposed intelligence insider and white hat that has an inside track”
Yep. Its like pro wrestling. The fun is in pretending its really real.
“Q Clearance” was also an excellent political-comic-spy novel from the middle ’80s. I found it in the free bookshelf in a motel back when I was in high school.
I don’t remember who wrote it, but I do remember that it had a White House speechwriter with a delusional feminist wife and a brain-dead commie daughter, lesbian charter deep-sea fishing, and some poor bastard having vice grips attached to his testicles. The whole thing was amazingly funny and well ahead of it’s time.
Holy hell, I just looked it up, and it was written by Peter Benchley.
Just when you thought it was safe to proclaim Jaws the best movie ever!
I had to explain to mine that the idea that DHS was running a gigantic sting operation with watermarked ballots was laughable on its face; the plot of an adventure novel. Do I believe there’s tons of corruption in government, and that some of the assholes in power attempted to stage a coup? Yes! Do I have faith that anyone will be caught or face the consequences? Not really.
Yeah, both sides can get nuts, it’s a function of the ‘tribal’ brain I can not comprehend.
‘because I’m not a crazy person.’
An accurate assessment but one best not said out loud, for the sake of marital peace.
She’ll go back to ignoring politics soon enough.
“Because life is pain and misery,” probably isn’t the right answer.
The first noble truth of the Buddha that.
Whoah! We just had quite a downpour (North San Diego County) with hail and thunder!
Didn’t last long, but it was intense.
The weather patterns here are very different from what I’m used to from the plains.
Central VA can get every season in the course of a week.
The Front Range in Colorado, would like you to hold his beer.
There is no fall or spring, just a nasty fight between summer and winter.
I’m wearing shorts and sweating today. I was shoveling snow off the driveway 7 days ago.
Pass. I had a bad experience with Four Loko.
Someone is driving around the Starbucks parking lot honking their horn nonstop and yelling, “Biden won! Woo! Woo!”
In a econobox with a big dent in the driver’s door.
Me to wife: “I wonder how … recent … that dent is.”
I would have yelled back, “You know Biden wants to take your car away, right?”
But he’ll give them a shiny new electric car, for free! Who doesn’t want that?
Yeah, right after the rainbows and the electricity-shitting unicorns.
I read that as Four Loko Hand Sanitizer.
@Pie
I picked up that Romanian red blend today.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/J3Bdc-jVRe–2aOvE-dhjg.yNSRCUxiMBp-obFviT3_gt
I know the vineyard that is probably their cheapest blend. The top one is called Cuvee IX
They make decent wines though slightly overpriced
That cost about 20 lei round these parts all though i has the name “Domnul de Roua”
while roua is dew, I am not sure if prince is an accurate tranlation of domn… Domn can just mean the same as the englis “sir” as in a sort of honorific for a man. It was also used sometimes for the rulers of Moldova and Wallachia so I suppose prince could work.
They are from the Dragasani area. It is strange that is the wine they export, probably for the cheap market… Negru de Dragasani is the flagship grape of the region
I appreciate the background info. Thank you.
I think it was $13.99.
so basically triple price… for such a cheap one probably to be expected the fixed part of buying transporting etc is the same
Something is missing from that picture.
A puddle of vomit?
One of these things is not like the others.
Dude, 4 Loko Puke is def in the cards.
steak? vintage plates? 😉
the steak the gun or both?
The weaponry, apparently Romanian wine isn’t worth defending.
at 20 lei a bottle certainly not
Claussen hearty garlic deli-style sandwich slices ?
A dog with laser eyes?
Republicans Crush 2020 Everywhere BUT the Presidency, Apparently | The Silver Lining Anomaly
Google manipulation…
U.S. elections
The AP has called the Presidential race for Joe Biden. See more on Google.
And?
NY Times did state on election night that only the Media can call the presidency. Not the individual SoS or election commission or electors
electors
Unless I am completely wrong, Senile Joe is deteriorating fast. The next two months should be fun with that and litigation over the election. But I do wonder what will happen with the electoral vote *if* senile Joe becomes too apparently senile to hide.
They’ll keep him mostly hidden, like they have been doing.
Best case scenario is that the dems get clobbered in the 2022 midterms and have accomplished nothing outside of executive orders.
Then guess what? We impeach that motherfucker! See how that works, lefty dumbfucks? Cocaine Mitch said every democrat president gets impeached from this point on. #BelieveCocaineMitch
He would just hide. He doesn’t have to be there when the electors vote.
And then intensive prep to say the oath of office.
Man, could you imagine the lulz if he says, “I, Joe, umm…”
The AP is the
abattoirarbiter of all reality in the US. A little thing called ‘THE 1ST AMENDMENT’! You Trumptards are so dumb! Talking about wild dogs stealing Mexican babies! Talking about a ‘right to life’?! WTF does that even mean?! #RushunInterferonz!Four Loko….gah never did that challenge in the military…ours was Edward 40s-hands.
+1 Vegas Days and Cobra Kai.
Heh haven’t watched that yet but that scene is awesome
#Beercules
Am I contributing to the rising cost of health care? Most likely. Suckers.
*Fistbumps mexican sharpshooter*
*fistbumps RC Dean*
If this sham election stands, one party rule is immediate and inevitable. The next midterm will be the first where a party who has the white house takes complete control of both houses. They test ran this election fixing in CA in 2018. It worked and they now consider it par for the course. Only the Supremes can save us.
Sexist and…racist I assume.
I’m concerned that someone is going to take a shot and Biden and/or Harris. That will give them all the ammo they need for a real political crackdown.
And the FBI/DOJ will be let completely off their leash.
at Biden
How did liberty / R-dom have relative success in CA this year then (3 R seats and No on most everything)?
The eye was on a different prize. They got exactly what they wanted. Next time (’22) they’ll take both houses. After that, veto proof majorities. They have patience. If CA had been monolithic, it would cast doubt on PA, MI, GA, etc. Maybe I’m a “Q” crackpot, but all of this seems obvious to me.
If they cheated like they did and it stands they’ll cheat again and again. I mean, why the hell would they not do just that?
Why, it’s like there’s an Iron Law for that!
Mail in ballots forever is what they’ll do. Then let’s add in some illegal alien voters too and it’s all fair and square.
The Voting Rights Act of 2021.
-Mail in voting for all federal elections
-Universal and automatic voter registration
-Election Day a federal holiday
-Tax credit for voting
-Voting age lowered to 16
-Felons rights restored
-Voting to run from September 1st to November 15th every year.
Republicans cry foul, the media calls them racists, they cave with their tails between their legs because there is nothing worse than being called racist. However, they manage to fight a rearguard action of hiring a Federal Election Security Force to monitor the polls, which will cost billions of dollars a year and will be staffed by public sector union members in good standing.
Supremes cannot save us. Because the dems are going t pack the courts.
Then they’re going to get blamed for every fucking thing that goes wrong for the next 4 years and a lot of their remaining voters are going to turn on them. Most likely, Latino and blacks are going to abandon them by a degree they can not even yet imagine.
They’re going to reap the whirlwind is that they’re going to do.
Pride cometh before the fall.
I’m pondering how I can secure a future for my kids. They’re growing into a declining America with ever more vindictive and violent politics and disappearing freedom of thought.
Have them keep in good physical shape so they are eligible to colonize Mars in SpaceX’s Libertarian settlement, outside Earth governments’ jurisdiction.
Yeah, and the democrats of the USA will spend 100 trillion dollars if they have to, to send a government oversight committee to make sure the Martians are obeying and paying their taxes.
If the Martians are smart, the arriving ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’ critters will all be dumped into the extinct crater of Olympus Mons and sealed up for eternity.
Encourage eventual emigration to one of the Nordic nations or Eastern Europe maybe. They seem to have their shit together for the most part and if the elections aren’t sorted out this is going to be an enormous banana republic. Russia has fairer elections than this one was.
If this election stands nothing else will matter. It’s so plainly corrupt.
Who’s getting blamed by who now?
I mean, you know the media is going to blame every bad thing in the next 4 years on Trump’s legacy, right? Trump will own the shitty economy from here on out, just like the last four years were actually Obama’s economy, and 2008-2016 was Bush’s economy.
Complete Dem control is no barrier to Repubs catching the blame. Look at the one-party states and cities now.
If Emmanuel Goldstein didn’t exist, they’d create him.
Well, they can keep saying whatever they want to, but half the county isn’t going to accept it.
See California where they’re still blaming the state GOP for their problems after two decades of complete control
Are they still blaming backwards satanic lyrics too?
There are lots of people evidently unhappy about the Leftie agenda; otherwise you wouldn’t have such high numbers for Trump despite the terrible media spin (or blackout, depending) he’s had to battle.
But there is no one organizing force with those people, largely because they are individuals not usually prone to groupthink as preached by woke TV etc.
So is there a way to keep the “shy voters” from giving up? Some way to get the group to use its numbers as a strength against the leftie takeover of media, school, etc.?
It’s hard to organize a large group of people who basically want the government to butt out, because aside from that, the group’s individuals have little in common. Lefties want group thinkers, and they’ve set up entire institutions to pump out more just like them.
There was a lot of people who floated over to florida in makeshift rafts, too. What’s scary is that this stuff never moves back. Once they learn how to fix an election, they do it harder next time.
They piloted this scheme in the 2004 Washington Governors election. First time they did mail in ballots. On the third recount, enough Democrat votes were “discovered” to give the Den the win. A Den county had some preposterous participation rate way over 100%. A Republican hasn’t won a state-wide election since.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Washington_gubernatorial_election
All the media has to do is publicly point to which states are close so that the DNC could halt overnight counting (previously unheard of) and resume in the morning with a target count in mind.
No need for a paper trail; just publicly tell everyone that the Dems beef PA, GA, MI, and AZ. The true believer useful minions of the party will deliver.
I think you’re right and a good underling doesn’t need to be told what to do. Maybe they were so slipshod with their fraud that it’ll be easily identifiable but I’m not counting on that.
But there is no one organizing force with those people
Well, they were organized by the Republican Party, more or less.
But the question is, with an electoral system that has been corrupted at key strategic points (urban centers in swing states), what difference would it make?
Assuming the Dems sweep the field, this election accelerated things by four years. If the Repubs manage to pull out a win in the Presidential election somehow, and keep the Senate, then . . . this election delayed things by four years.
There is no easy exit. The only way out is through.
Here in Ohio, there’s already been scheduled protests, and a group pushing for a telephone campaign into the FBI and DOJ.
I have zero expectation that it’ll do any good, but I do believe that it’ll spin up into a Tea Party like group who has a pretty intense dislike of the establishment Republicans (blame DeWine for that one).
John Kasich kicks a pebble and says, “I though I wa one of the cool kids.”
Man, you Ohioians sure can pick’em.
That’s how shitty Strickland was. He took over after Taft got caught in one of the dumbest political scandals.
I would take anyone Ohio picks over the permanent terror of creatures like Cuomo, Schumer, and whoever is playing the role of Schumer Jr. that year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/kamala-harris.html
“Kamala Harris Makes History as First Woman and Woman of Color as Vice President”
Assholes all of the way down.
Local rag had her as “first black and first asian”, which is handy
I honestly would rather have Hillary.
Yes. Hillary had her own agenda, getting rich. Harris only has the party’s agenda, getting permanent power.
True believers are the worst.
I’ll take Hillary over Biden any day of the week.
Maybe we get Hillary in 2024 after Biden can no longer change his own adult diapers.
#metoo
And you know Harris won’t STFU like a proper VP should for as long as Biden can pretend to be running the show.
We’re celebrating the candidate that had zero appeal in our own primary! It’s fantastic!
Did she even win any delegates in the primary?
Did the inauguration date get moved up?
American women are the most oppressed people on Earth. It is known.
Another “maybe the virus isn’t so bad after all” article:
Queen Elizabeth has never worn a face mask in public for this possible reason, royal author claims
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-never-worn-face-mask-public-this-possible-reason
The vid can’t go away until all us trumpets get locked down good and hard for our own good. Then they declare victory by doing nothing.
Yep, they’re going to do at least three months and it’ll be as strict as they can make it.
I think they’ll do interstate travel bans with checkpoints. Don’t plan on going anywhere for a while.
They’re going to sow the seeds of divisiveness and they won’t escape the blowback. Count on the next administration being the worst clusterfuck you’ve ever witnessed.
There was no blue wave. There was cheating, and there is no mandate and a blatant attempt to create one will backfire.
I wonder what’ll happen to the red states that balk. Do they send in the feds, cut off the funds, or just let it go?
They won’t let it go. Like I’ve been saying, they have no self control.
They’re probably going to cause violence unless they finally decide to just back off and leave the rednecks be. But right now, I can’t think of even one of them smart enough to do that.
She wore a “face mask” in WWII when she was a young princess helping out during the London bombing raids. Of course, that was protection against possible gas attack.
My guess is that Queen Liz has witnessed enough true hardship that she understands the relative importance of the two types of masks and the two very different circumstances.
Man, I can’t wait to watch the media suck Kamala’s dick for the next 4-8 years and pretend her incompetent attempts at pandering and bursts of inappropriate laughter place her among the greatest orators in history.
Willie Brown agrees.
Im thinking of a suckseed joke, but once again I got nuthin’….
“Greatest oral-what?” says Willie…
Republicans are very happy to accept defeat, especially when there’s a few crumbs for them to latch onto. You know who else knows this?
If they can hold the Senate, the party will be absolutely thrilled with this outcome.
Nick Sarwark?
I’m going to to ahead and blame the part of this that wasn’t the dem’s cheating squarely where it belongs.
Trump’s biggest problem is that he sucks really bad at surrounding himself with the worst possible people.
And I do not even need more than 2 examples of that to prove my point: Sessions and Barr.
WTF even was he thinking? I mean you can overlook him bringing in that garden gnome drug warrior Sessions. But he gets rid of him and what does he do? He brings in Barr, one of the worst examples of a Bush era establishment RINO.
That’s my rant for now. I
Droopy Dog definitely fucked him, that’s for sure. Not releasing the Durham report prior to the election, regardless of what it does or doesn’t say, so people could take it into account when voting was borderline criminal. Even some kind of summary would have been nice.
I think Barr would have been a far better original choice than Sessions. He may be buddies with Mueller and the gang, but he wouldn’t have gone along with or allowed himself to be railroaded into recusing himself for the fake collusion investigation. He’s old school: It may be a game, but you play hard for your own team.
Sessions’ appointment was a reward for his early support and it wasn’t too bad a pick from Trump’s standpoint. Sessions was a concession to the party establishment and the social conservatives and Trump needed their support to some degree. It’s not his fault Sessions turned out to be an ineffectual weasel who was scared of his own shadow (and don’t get me wrong, I hate the guy but the pick kind of made sense).
He might want to be excited now, Biteme and Camela might be able to get them potheads after all, I mean for their own good.
You can’t pick AG that way. You need somebody who is loyal, or considers it their job to be.
I don’t think he was exactly spoiled for choice. His appointees have to be confirmed by the Senate, and they have to be at least somewhat acceptable to the professional bureaucrats or else nothing gets done.
Yet the democrats will be able to select Keith Ellison and nothing will happen, he’ll just glide right on in.
It’s not called “the swamp” for nothing.
Yeah, someone here (you?) has theorized a couple or more times that he had far less choice than you might imagine.
I’ve said it before, but others have made the argument better than I did.
Well, it’s always easier to prevent fucked up shit than it is to cure it in court. You win 100 percent of the fights you avoid. Trump should have gone on offense BEFORE the election. It’s not like it wasn’t obvious they were going to cheat. Biden’s only campaign declaration was that he was going to win, despite sleeping through the whole campaign.
^This, he had been tweeting about the probable election theft for months, then had no boots on the ground when they finally did it. It doesn’t make sense to me at all how it was handled.
Apart from Georgia, the states that ended up mattering all have Democrats in charge of their executive branches.
And Georgia was decided by greater Atlanta, a city controlled by Dems and well known for machine politics and corruption.
Trump should have gone on offense BEFORE the election. It’s not like it wasn’t obvious they were going to cheat.
Trump did that four years ago, and the establishment had the vapors. “You mean Trump’s not going to accept the results of the election we all know Hillary is going to win?” And then Trump won, and the establishment immediately refused to accept the results, hence the Steele dossier and every piece of bullshit that followed.
Hell, remember the media suggesting Trump electors should vote for Hillary because she won the popular vote.
Yes, that’s why he had nothing to lose by enforcing voter security this time. It’s like having a jealous girlfriend. She’s gonna make you suffer so much, you’ll wish you had cheated on her, just so you got something out of it.
I don’t even like country music, but I think this is my new favorite country music song.
When it rains it pours
I especially like the shit eating grin on his face when he tries to raise up his head from the hangover, lol.
10/10 will likely share
Yeah, that’s a great song. It’s weird because I had never heard it before and I was up pretty much all night drinking and was drunk. And that’s after I quit drinking. Imagine how drunk I would have been if I was still drinking?
Anyway, someone who I know sent me that last night, I mean the wee hours of this morning, and I cannot remember who the fuck it was.
But, great tune, that is a classic for sure. I think I already have all the lyrics memorized. And I don’t have to see my ex-mother-in-law anymore. LOL!
That’s not bad. I usually avoid any country music made after around 1980 or so.
It grows on you, blackjack. It grew on me most of the night last night.
That’s not country that’s pop with a redneck accent.
I don’t care what it is, I like it. I like the redneck accent also.
Yeah, that’s a bit harsh. It’s not like he’s singing about drinking a soda in his Toyoda.
Like Chyna flu and rioting, what can he do about it federally?
The dems openly hate federalism, except when it works for them, like sanctuary states.
But they really hate it, they want a national state, period. We don’t need to experiment any longer, we’ve already found that communism is the perfect solution.
No argument. Trump was the worst candidate except for all the others.
Trump is the best president we’ve had in my lifetime. That’s not saying much. All the rest were slavers through and through.
With the exception of Carter. I think Carter is actually a good guy, but he’s weak, ineffective, and drank the happy why can’t we all just get along juice to the point it resulted in permanent brain damage.
Clinton, Bush, and Obama were all like the worst thing that could possibly go wrong for our county.
And Trump actually tried to diffuse the shit show in the middle east, and now that’s over, it’s going to go straight back to forever war clusterfuck.
I wonder how many red staters will be volunteering to get sent to Syria to take pot shots at the Russians. Maybe they’ll have to reinstitute a draft.
“Maybe they’ll have to reinstitute a draft.”
I’m sure the party of peace already have that in mind.
Cant let all those good defense contracts and graft go to waste, can they ?
He adhered much more to the Constitution than those 3, despite a hazy understanding of it.
Trump’s disinterest in governing was his best attribute
Yes, please, give me a leader who’s just content to leave people alone.
So I just looked at my LinkedIn profile and noticed my background image had changed to some generic gray crap, so I hit the button to change it.
I can either upload my own photo or I can select one of their pre-made backgrounds.
Their backgrounds are:
* cartoon images illustrating “my home office”, “juggling work and family”, and “work life balance”
* two Black Lives Matter backgrounds
* two Amplify Black Voices backgrounds
* “Black Owned Business”
* “Stand for Justice”
* five LGBTQ/Pride backgrounds
* and finally, one BLM+LGBTQ Solidarity background with a raised Antifa fist.
Seriously, WTF.
…which is why I look at my linkedin maybe 3-4 times annually.
Leave it as the generic grey crap it is.
Make your own: “juggling work and dipsomania” theme. (j/k: not meaning you personally, just speaking of the Glibs generally)
Mine is still the custom photo I chose. But holy shit, you’re right about the “suggested” backgrounds. L. O. L.
Cynical me hopes it a way to screen out the idiots.
Just closed my LinkedIn account.
Feels just fine.
Thinking ’bout Facebook next, although there’s a lot of family in Europe on there …
I would but it might come in handy if my new job doesn’t pan out for some reason.
Ditched FB a couple years ago.
Linkedin is a terrible site. Nothing but spam and bad recruiters. Seems like every week I get at least one “start your own company” message
So have you started your own company?
#4 PROFIT!!!
I think if LinkedIn remained autonomous and didnt sell out to MicroSquish, they may have remained less shitty. But like nearly every product microsoft acquires, it rapidly becomes shit. (Lookin @ you, Skype).
Hell, even Homer knows.
What don’t you like about Skype?
The TOS they updated a couple years ago.
https://mashable.com/2018/03/27/microsoft-new-tos-offensive-language/
I understand it a private company providing a free service, and (like Twatter) they make make any rules they want. Likewise, Im free to use another service. Ive been pretty happy with google DUO, despite their blatant data-mining. Caveat Emptor and all that.
Oh, I vaguely remember that. I never heard of it being applied though, at least not heavy-handedly like FB or Tw.
I’m job hunting right now so I’m using it all the time. Once I get a new job I’ll go back to ignoring it.
Yeah, this. Whenever I rarely go in I see all my friends and coworkers posting crap. Weirdoes.
Bring on the nuclear pardons: Ulbricht, Snowden, even Assange. …
That won’t happen until the court stuff has played out to one conclusion or the other.
True.
That would be glorious.
Hi, Preet!
HMMM? I wonder?
Here’s a visual aid.
That’s crazy.
If my books at work looked like this elections outcomes I’d be in jail.
People are celebrating Joe Biden becoming president. Just filing this one away when someone accuses libertarians of juvenile political views.
Politics in virtually every country in the world is a ceaseless battle between bad guys and bad guys, and the team sportsification of politics does more to obscure this than any other thing.
I’m actually looking forward to Biden’s attempt at passing a nationwide mask mandate. It might be the best chance to get it slapped down everywhere by having it wind up in court. Otherwise we’re stuck with it for decades.
Roberts will find a way to uphold it. 🙁
Barrett had some kind of pro mask ruling this year as well. The Supremes aren’t going to save us on that one.
I’m not sure why you guys are worrying about a fucking mask mandate. It’s hardly even enforceable.
What we need to worry about is unconstitutional travel restrictions , forced vaccinations, and forced quarantine of individuals separating them from their family and friends.
They’re going to try all of that.
The mask mandate is easily enforceable. You enforce it as they currently do: threaten businesses with enforcing it themselves or else.
What worries me about the mask mandate is exactly that attitude: because it seems so trivial, that’s what’s gonna keep it around for decades. Decades of not being able to walk into a business without a mask. Because it’s no big deal, just like taking your shoes off at the airport or going through metal detectors at sporting events.
It’s not enforceable. People do it because it’s not really affecting their going about their life. So most people do it.
I see people here EVERY FUCKING TIME I am out and about blatantly ignoring it and no one does a fucking thing about it.
Now, try that nationally and you’re going to get a lot of resistance just because you’re pissing people off, you’re pushing it soo far.
I hate to tell the democrats this, but they are no longer the party of the cool kids. And people are noticing it, like Trump getting more minority votes than anyone ever and even with their cheating.
Look, fat- its for your own good. And if you can’t realize that an comply, we’ll do it for you!
Forced vaccination is already decided a hundred years ago. Roll up your sleeve.
I’m going to save me by ignoring it. Likewise with any other patently unconstitutional act.
But how are you going to go the grocery store or a restaurant or the gym or any other business?
Look I’d be happy to ignore it right now, but I can’t. Every place I walk into requires it, and yeah they enforce it. Every one.
And I wouldn’t rule out the Australia type shit where eventually they lead people away in cuffs. We are the minority, most people want this shit.
Fuck penaltax.
He won’t even try to pretend anymore, he’ll be a solid blue vote.
The new swing voter will be Gorsuch.
So not much really changed at the SCOTUS.
He’ll do way more than that. He’ll try to enact interstate travel bans and enforce it like martial law.
What are the chances of this no happening? Zero.
Because if he doesn’t do it, blue state exodus is going to be massive, thereby taking away their tax base.
Must Narrative Harder
Epidemiologists and medical experts are warning that the dynamics of this phase of the pandemic are different from what the country experienced in the spring and summer. Whereas earlier in the pandemic, the virus was spreading in certain parts of the country, it’s now spreading rapidly in nearly every community across the country, Christine Peterson, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa, said in a phone interview.
“It’s going to be bad and I think it’s going to be bad in a different way, because instead of having these pictures of morgue trucks and densely populated areas with a lot of patients, this is going to be lots of smaller places,” she said. “So it’s going to be harder to see the obvious impact because it’s so spread out in these really small town hospitals, but they’re really going to be struggling.”
——-Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and director of the Brown Lifespan Center for Digital Health, said in an interview with CNBC that “the worst days of the pandemic are almost certainly still ahead of us.”
She said maintaining a strong health-care workforce will be a real challenge in the months ahead. The country still has a limited supply of personal protective equipment like masks and medical gowns that protect health workers against infection, she said. Not to mention, doctors and nurses are increasingly exhausted by the relentless surge of new Covid-19 patients, she added.
“Whereas in those early phases, we were able to direct some extra resources to the places that were hardest hit, now, we are watching it spread everywhere so that every American is at risk but also every hospital and every health-care system is getting stressed out,” she said.
Only you can save us, Uncle Joe!
Work your magic. Dispel the evil curse which has beset us. Exorcise Trump’s America.
It’s bullshit. It’s the cold and flu season.
There’s no virus in the history of humankind and never will be, that can kill more people than communism. Ponder that shit, sheeples.
I see the narrative has now been set. Biden wins. Country Ecstatic. Even though nothing has been certified yet.
On a non-political note, there is a cat nursing kittens on my deck. There are two kittens that appear to be about 2 months old (I assume the others that should’ve been in the litter didn’t make it…). Idk how they got over’through the fence or how long they have been there. But my cats are observing through the window intently.
And someone that is a spitting image of Napoleon Dynamite just skateboarded by my house. Today is weird.
The kittens might be a little less than 2 months old, hard to judge since I haven’t seen a 2 month old since I got my petite, tuxedo pattern, female feline.
#VoteForPedro
I’ll take Hillary over Biden any day of the week.
Word. Also over Commie-la. Her Shrillness is a mendacious cunte, but she is at least cognizant. And other countries should know not to fuck with her*.
*requisite caveat that she can be bought, of course…
Hillary or Biden?
Tough choice, but I might go Biden.
Harris, though? Beelzebub gets my nod.
Hillary advocated a policy in Syria that would have absolutely led to war with Russia so I’d prefer Biden. We still might be lucky enough to get that though.
That was the moment media corruption terrified me. She nonchalantly talked up enforcing a no fly zone against Russia and no one in the media said a word against it.
If you don’t think Biden will do worse, you’re kidding yourself. The guy is in no way sentient most of the time, he’ll accept the worst bullshit calls from his ‘experts’ that you could even dream up. You wonder how many military complex guys in NOVA want to not bomb Iran? None of them.
It won’t be Iran. Iran might actually have a nuke. Venzuela maybe? Or go back to the 90s where it was endless UN and NATO peacekeeping.
USA is off to rescue the Kurds!
Cant they’re all already dead.
Oh shit, I just realized what’s going to happen.
Shortly after he takes office, in the spirit of unity and coming together and forgiveness and all that crap, Biden’s going to pardon Trump for all his various crimes that he committed while in office. After that everyone can just assume that Trump was obviously guilty of everything they want to accuse him of, since nothing will be investigated and shown to be total bullshit.
Interesting play. He might do it, because various Dem AG’s are lined up to jail him for things he did before he took office. Which the pardon won’t affect, but meaningless optics are the best optics, amirite?
I have some tenderloin marinating in lime juice and sherry with garlic, which I will cook with artichoke hearts and olives and capers and serve over pasta. I am going to drink some whiskey and find a stupid silly feel good movie to watch, drink some more whisky. Then cook dinner and watch another happy movie. I am probably not going to be around here the rest of the day. This is not meant as criticism or disapproval of anyone else. I am just choosing, as far as I can manage, to fight the spiral into rage and misery that has been dragging at me all week. Whatever is coming is coming whether I spend today railing about it or not. All I can possibly affect today is my personal mood.
Jarflax speaks wisdom.
Pussy. Real men wallow in their misery.
CancelledJaeflax is right. Its not the end of the world.Maybe in a month when they finish with the lawsuits, but not right now.
Have a good time!
Enjoy the day!
I just ordered about 5 lbs of grass fed Ribeye.
I hope someone is going to cook that for me, I’m busy.
Heh, Trump was playing golf today. I don’t know if he’s whistling past the graveyard but he doesn’t seem too concerned.
He’s probably not too worried. He’s a billionaire with a super model wife. If he doesn’t have to play president for another 4 years, he can just fuck with them full time. And his support is not going away, it’s going to be stronger than ever.
And please, everyone stop with the ‘he’s going to jail and all that’. You want to start trouble, all his more militant fans will show up armed to the teeth. Let sleeping dogs lie, or if you can’t, prepare for the worst.
You can blatantly cheat in an election and get away with it, apparently, but be careful what you wish for because that shit is coming back to haunt you.
So to lighten the mode, for those who like classic cars, last night I stumbled across a webseries done by Charles Phoenix (I KNOW) called Joyride which covers some cars from 1948 – 1962. Season 2, Episode 1 may be a high point for rare and old car fans.
In the coming commie utopia, we all get 1930s classics with their original bumpers taped on by duct tape. Paradise.
Damn it people! I provided you a link that will lead to watching an actual TUCKER getting started!
Fine, I watched it… meh. I remember the movie and the car is cool* but I’m not a car guy so I’m going to pass on the rest of the series.
*kind of, I liked most of the exterior details but those levers and knobs inside are ugly.
My wife and I are not talking right now, because we went into a couple of stores and I refused to wear a mask. In the second place I went with the Medical Exemption via the American Disabilities Act, and they ordered me to put on a mask, and I had to tell the manager twice that I was leaving (and thus not putting on a fucking mask to leave their store and not do business with them.)
And my wife lost her shit as soon as we got out the door, because she wanted a nice day shopping together and I wanted a nice day not being ordered to put on a fucking mask by a store manager about half my age. Totally did not have my back.
So, day ruined. Half hour drive home in silence. Welcome to masks
foreverfor the next four years.Look at the music link I left upthread. Maybe that will make you feel better.
Thanks for that awesome song. I thought I didn’t like country music – turns out I don’t like bad country music.
All new country is bad country. That was pop with a redneck accent, that’s why it was good!
Meh, Willies still putting out album, Ray Wylie, too, then you got Chris Stapleton ,Jamey Johnson, Corb Lund, The Bottle Rockets, the old 97’s, the Gourds, plenty of good country still being made.
Just admit that you hate the guy because he’s a fat redneck ginger, Hyperbole, we’re onto you.
Well yeah, and the lack of fiddles or steel guitars in his “country” music. Also I forgot to mention Tyler Childers, Jesse Dayton, Chris Knight….
Not all……citation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp6JfX7HxZ4
There is tons of good new country being produced, see Hyperbole for more.
The store manager is an idiot who risked his job.
It’s in Texas. Some people here conceal carry. He risks losing more than his job, if he keeps pulling that shit.
Sorry your wife wouldn’t back you up. The mandatory face panty nonsense puts me in such a towering rage – even seeing it on other people – that my husband just does the grocery shopping for us. My kids are continuing ‘virtual’ school because the two days a week they do propose to allow the kids back in class, the school requires mandatory masking at all times, except when eating lunch. No thanks.
Seriously, even when they aren’t enforcing it at a store, the share of people who are wearing them never fails to kill any good mood I have. It’s like living in some scifi dystopia and I hate it. So I hide at home to avoid it.
I live near the People’s Republic of Austin. I will go into a crowded grocery store and literally be the only one defying the EO’s of the fucking (D) mayor and (R) governor. They might as well print Biden 2020 on the masks, because it’s compelled political speech.
Anyone who thinks only Democrat governors can be tyrannical authoritarians – it’s only a matter of degree between the parties.
that my husband just does the grocery shopping for us
#Metoo
Delivery FTW.
Fuck masks. They are psychological protection solely. I too fear we will be forced to wear them for fucking years, it really depresses the shit out of me. Here in SF, 95% of people are wearing them as they walk around. I see people walking by at ten o’clock at nite wearing them with no one else anywhere nearby. I won’t get allowed into stores here without one so I will pull up my minimally compliant neck gaiter that does jack shit for the time in the store and then remove it the second I cross the threshold. The CDC were saying that masks don’t do anything against contagious respiratory illnesses not that long ago. Studies since the 1940’s have never shown any real benefit. The Danish large scale COVID mask study is still being repressed by the scientific and media powers that be.
I took a long walk today, around two hours with stops and rests. No effing way am I going to wear that shit outside & be able to get proper exercise. Compelled to wear it in the supermarket, and the thing comes off on my way out the door because already it’s getting difficult to breathe. In a place where it is always humid like where I live… no. Just no.
“If the mask goes up, the zipper comes down. I gotta breath somehow.”
Stolen.
Rough spot to be in, and one, I imagine, I would dealing with if I didn’t just take a page from Lazarus Long. “Whenever the locals rub blue mud in their navels, I rub blue mud in mine just as solemnly.” seems like the only way to sane. It’s insane, and therefore impossible to argue with the true believers. The social scolds have won. Emotion has trumped reason, and all we can do is pray that, somehow, things aren’t going to suck as much as we all know they will suck.
Not my monkey, not my circus. Social battles are for the young.
In the meantime I’l enjoy every day that I can afford to drive, enjoy any day where I’m not forced to confess my sins, and just make a mental checklist to never trust a mouth diaper advocate on any issue whatsoever in the future.
Amazon’s package tracker is less than worthless. Tried to time it so that I could be home to sign for a package… an hour ago, there were 4 stops left. 45 minutes ago, there were 2 stops left. 30 minutes ago, there was 1 stop left. Currently I’m the next stop and the guy is driving the opposite direction from my house.
Completely useless as a tracker
Would’ve worked great if it were biden votes. They will arrive at 3 a.m. and be dropped at the back door in an unmarked container.
I love seeing “Your package is the next stop!” to see the dot stay at a nearby store for 30-45 minutes.
So the Teamsters finally got to them ?
You know what would really be a “breakthrough” in race relation? If a black person won an election and nobody cared.
Seriously, even when they aren’t enforcing it at a store, the share of people who are wearing them never fails to kill any good mood I have. It’s like living in some scifi dystopia and I hate it. So I hide at home to avoid it.
#METOO
I don’t have kids. I don’t even like kids. But it infuriates me to see a little kid wearing a mask. WTF, people?
Yep. This.
Not that I wouldn’t be hiding at home anyhow…
When we told the 8 year old that he would have to wear a mask at (public) school he started crying. So we got him some Fortnite masks and some dinosaur masks so at least he could express himself. Then we put him in a private school after the hybrid model turned into a complete shitshow. No masks for him anymore. Those kids that have to wear them all the time are going to be fucked up.
If I could find a private school in the area that was back full time and didn’t demand masks, I’d jump on it. We’re working to move out of state to a place with a less authoritarian governor.
I hear you. SC is still mostly alright. Even with the mask mandate the kids only had to wear them going in and of the building. Honestly though, he’s like a different kid since the move. He looks forward to school, there isn’t any homework unless he doesn’t finish something in class or has a specific project that takes a few days. Which is interesting to me, and I think applicable to a lot of parents… My wife wanted to get him tested for for ADHD and as much as I would love a steady supply of Adderall, 8 year olds don’t have ADHD, they’re fucking 8 year olds and they are hardwired to explore everything around them and collect stuff (its true, have some boys). So we take him out of public school and now he is in a Lutheran private school where he gets to move at his pace, which turns out for some subjects is really fucking fast (math, science) and a little slow for others (history). And he works and enjoys it.
It sucks. Even though I know the panicdemic is BS there is nothing i can do when everything is closed to help my kids’ development.
We opted out of preschool bc they opted for an hour less than normal and only using the playground. So it was expensive supervised recess. My nieces and a couple kids of the street are my kids only interaction with other kids.
We are doing a preschool home school curriculum but that is difficult too as our library is so onerous and limiting as to be essentially closed.
Playgrounds only opened in mid september
There was one family that played with my kids the whole lockdown, so my kids at least got that. My kids aren’t angels but according to my wife’s mom groups all those kids are absolute terrors according to the moms
I just my gun club’s monthly newsletter.
There are pictures of an event involving a Boy Scout troop the club is involved with. All the kids are wearing masks. Fuck.
Fuck.
I just called the election for myself. As legit a call as NYT.
Even the NY Post is in on the game. They seriously think Trump is going to give up. ?♂️
At the risk of drugs falling out of my ass, I’m sharing this link about two newly elected “liberty-leaning” Republican US Representatives.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/libertarian-leaning-republicans-make-small-gains-in-congress?fbclid=IwAR3fFa6s5Od9v5M221MMAruMAZY0hrfoTF7CeefL8-sVvvbKq–UUyLTyXM
Both happen to be women. One displaced an incumbent Donkey.
Is ‘liberty-leaning’ the new political bisexual?
liberty leaning == fascist
Like it’s always been.
I, for one, welcome our new libertarian-leaning bisexual overlords.
You started off as a tight-end, and now you’re a wide-receiver.
Phrasing?
Hanging open like mouth of tired dog?
I don’t think Katie Hill was “liberty leaning”, was she?
She was libertine leaning.
It’s been code for libertarians who choose the Republican Party as the most likely way to get elected since the founding of “The Republican Liberty Caucus”.
They have genuine hope of educating and then converting Republican voters into libertarian thinkers and voters. They had to wait until the older social conservative issues subsided but now might be their time.
I especially love the liberty-leaning Republicans because they have optimism with their pragmatism. They stand *FOR* certain ideals instead of just slaying strawmen.
And Liberty leaning folks still can love the flag and believe God’s hand was involved in founding the USA. Or not. Doesn’t matter if we all agree about it or not; disagreements are allowed as long as no one’s rights are infringed. Point is, as the Dems get crazier and more Marxist and call opponents racists, sexists, and low-information, the good old boy blue collar guys are leaving the Donks. These formerly loyal Dem voters don’t believe they owe reparations just because they are white.
But even that window toward Liberty is closing if communications and media are manipulated in such a way to prevent free exchange of ideas.
I wonder what it would take to convert the blue collar vote bloc to GOP? Ending mandatory Union membership?
Persuading union bosses that even they are better off in a thriving economy?
The blue collar vote here in Cleveland did go for Trump. From the local rag:
Yeah, getting them was kind of a major goal of his.
Yeah, as I’ve mentioned before, this is the area where all the car plants are/were (they’re still limping along). FFS, there’s at least 2 UAW halls a couple minutes from my house.
So, what do you say when you have people from another country saying this is blatant election fraud? My SIL from Brazil is saying it is. This is a fucking joke, what other country allows you to vote with no ID or poof of citizenship?
Apparently, we have the most lax voter laws on the planet.
Along with the most lax immigration laws.
We have to stop this shit now, not later.
You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
Why? Because socialism on a scale larger than an immediate family unit requires coercion by threat of violence, or if they’re feeling sneaky, threat of job loss, public reputation assassination.
“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.”
Stealing that one.
My buddy who only lightly notices politics has commented on the obvious shenanigans going on down in the US with this election.
My wife texted on Election Day “The good thing about socialism is you only have to vote once”.
My son’s best friend is from China and was adopted by an American family, and he was watching the election and was very concerned about what was happening. It looked like fraud to him, but wanted to know if it was just some quirk in American elections that he didn’t understand. He’s very upset about it. He hates the Chinese government, gets very pissed at all the ass kissing of China by politicians and reporters who have no idea how things really work there, and expects better of his adoptive country.
He’s about to get an eyeful of what it’s really like here.
Also…it helps create a buffer with reality.
More so that regular booze?
Significantly quicker
I have a cellar full of wine and mead and belgian quads. If I want to drink that much alcohol in one sitting, I wouldn’t waste any fucking time or money on 4 loko
So it appears OMB is going to go for pressing this to the USSC. I like that because this cheating is so in your face it can lead to war in a few election cycles. So I am trying to game this out. First off, Trump will lose. Too much is stacked against him. The most likely scenario is that PA and WI can make it there. The “Blue Three” (BT) will vote to deny cert, no matter the facts. “Penaltax” will vote to deny cert because he just wants this to go away. Between Uncle Clarence, Alito and Trump 3. Cert is granted.
The arguments will be what many here have outlined. Bad ballots counted, voting after the fact, statistically highly improbable swings of voting patterns, unlawful ballot observer procedures, on and on. Trump will still lose 5-4. BT no way they will give OMB anything, peel off ACB because she won’t want her entire time on the SC to be defined by this. She gets there after hard lobbying from Penaltax who’ll throw her a bone. The four dissents will be legendary.
So what is the bone? Penaltax knows that every Trump voter knows the fix is in, he knows that a not insignificant percentage of HARRIS/biden voters know the fix is in- but are concerned for next time. Worse case scenario- Penalltax pens some fine words about a hard fought close campaign, we are all Americans blah blah blah and gets the BT to shut up and just sign on the opinion. HARRIS/biden win.
More optimum scenario relies on Penaltax knows the country is evenly split and never wants to see another presidential election get before the Supremes. He has to throw ACB a big bone if he ever wants to break his way in the future on a close legal principle. Roberts writes the decision and it is still 5-4. He blasts Wisconsin, but since there is no smoking gun allows the electoral votes be certified. He then invokes the VRA to appoint a judical overwatch to oversee the production of new voting standards by WI and PA NLT 2022. He disallows PA and orders them to use either re-vote, under judicial supervision IAW the VRA or have the legislature determine the award of the electoral votes by the statutory deadline- if they can’t PA can’t submit any EC votes. BHARRIS/biden win. The Dems realize that they won’t be permitted to steal another election(this blatantly) because the new PA and WI will become the approved gold standard for elections. GOP gets something because the Dems have reason to compromise on setting election standards. OMB gets to claim, correctly, that he lost some some EC votes to fraud. The dissents will probably be less interesting to read since they get something as well- and I think the vote would be 9-0 that the Supremes don’t want to deal with this.
Nahhhhhh. I am assuming adult like behavior on the part of politicians. I better go grab a drink.
It’s fucking 2020 and Trump’s president. Ain’t nobody predicting nothing here. I’ve seen more crazy assed shit this year than the whole rest of my life. I won’t be shocked if the Supremes give the win to Gary Johnson at this point.
Revote isn’t happening. Trump wins in such a scenario, Dem voters will feel victory was stolen from them. Biden wins again, Trumpers still feel it was stolen and Dem voters resent having to vote twice.
“ACB because she won’t want her entire time on the SC to be defined by this”
Or she’s the Iron Lady of American politics and she says “fuck it lets uphold the law and the truth come what may.”
Because this election breaks every single rule we know about American politics. Every single one. Presidents don’t win FL and OH and lose the election. The bellwether counties went Trump’s way. Voter enthusiasm was all his way. Hell, Trump ran better in the big urban areas then he did last time except in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philly, and Atlanta where somehow Biden was more popular than Obama. Republicans gained House seats and the polarity of the Senate didn’t change. They gained state legislative seats and they won an extra governorship. But somehow Basement Joe won?
They fucking cheated, on a massive scale, and if Trump and more importantly his 70 million voters have to suck it up and take it, then let’s just get this over with. Let’s call it a day, let’s have a nice clean National Divorce. Let the 11 states south of VA and East of Texas form the Gulf Republic of MAGAland.
The only VRA based Grand Compromise I would accept is having WI, MI, and PA have their election laws overwritten with Floridas, have a complete audit and purge of the voting rolls, and then have a revote under the new rules, with observers at every step of the process.
A compromise between cat piss and cows milk is not acceptable. For 60 years people have made jokes about Richard Daley and the cemeteries full of Democrats all over the country. Because it goes on, it always goes on, and the Republicans are supposed to wag their fingers and go “oh you lovable scamps! you cheeky ward heelers!” and concede that they start every race in a state with a blue machine city down 3 or 4 points.
This is the sanest take I’ve seen on this.
Went over to a gun shop I haven’t been to in a couple of years. When it first opened, it kind of a boutique Fudd place. Not much selection and seemed to aim at target shooting. The guy that ran and runs it is a former Olympic shooter. Anyways, wish I hadn’t written it off because he really seems to have expanded the scope of the shop. Of course not much left now. Did pick up a couple more pmags because why not.
Also, 40 more rounds of 5.56 at sporting good store today (2 box limit).
My 400 rounds of Win 308 shipped today.
So I got that going for me.