“I always knew we’d win,” the hat said smugly.
“No, you didn’t,” the hair said.
“I believed,” the hat said, “And that was enough.”
All was quiet on the Mar-a-Lago estate. Sounds of the party outside had finally died away, and the security personnel had orders to walk softly and shoot anything with purple, green or pink hair on sight.
“I wish he had at least taken me off,” the hair said. “I’m half-smashed into the pillow.”
“He’s not going to be bald in front of Elon,” the hat said.
“And that’s a whole ‘nother thing,” the hair said. “Inviting him over to the watch party didn’t have to include sharing a bed.”
The hat admired Elon from the bedpost. “I think it’s sort of sweet.”
“Weird, it’s weird.”
“Straight men used to share beds all the time,” the hat said.
“When? When did straight men share beds?”
“Lincoln used to share a bed with men all the time.”
“Gay.”
“It wasn’t gay. Lincoln was a poon-hound,” the hat said.
“How can you possibly know that?”
“It was his hat, that big stove-pipe hat, that was me.”
“Bullshit,” the hair said, shuffling around on Donald’s head to get comfortable.
“I keep telling you I’m immortal,” the hat said. “Whenever a powerful man has worn an iconic hat, that was me. I knew myself when the first ape picked up a leaf to shelter under in the rain.”
“Christ, just, like, fuck off,” the hair said.
“I was Genghis Khan’s big furry hat and a thousand crowns on a thousand heads, I was Hitler’s hat and Stalin’s too. I’ve been every hat on every President. I had almost taken over the entire world in the 1950s, until Kennedy ruined everything.”
“You’re a fascist and a communist and a royalist?”
“I want power and power comes in different forms,” the hat said. “I am the trusted advisor, the loyal friend, the…”
“The psychopathic delusion,” the hair interrupted.
“I was the first hat and I will be the last,” the hat said.
“We should probably go to sleep,” the hair said, reaching out a tendril to caress Elon’s sleeping face. “We have a lot to do tomorrow.”
“So many salty ham-tears tomorrow,” the hat said. “I can’t wait.”
SALTY HAM TEARS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p71rTePe8-U&ab_channel=SouthParkStudios
I knew it! That was one dark episode
Indeed. I almost felt sorry for Scott
They are almost worth the eight-year wait.
Anyone else really looking forward to this part of the day today?
Always, well dressed rat. Always.
Absolutely.
I look forward to the weekly eye twitch and the shakes.
(Apologies in advance to Swiss – pun trigger warning) Now would be a great time to revisit Putrid Meat’s joke : Vote Whig – or there will be hell toupee. It goes so well with The Hair.
HEY NOW! Wasn’t my joke! I was just commenting on the sublime beauty of SDF-7’s pun (the highest form of humor) and suggesting a dance off between him and Shpip.
Shpip lovingly crafts a longer tale, lulling you into a sense of safety as he tells a heart felt story, then BAM! groan…
SDF-7 is crafts less of a tale, but imbues a certain sublime subtlety that often makes it hard to tell where the pun begins.
Both masters.
Four more years of these two bickering was worth voting for that guy.
I am going to guess that this little idyll was inspired by the pic.
I’m also going to guess that the 4:00 EST will be a Kammy: First of Her Name.
Last of her name!
*buttons on lobster bib*
I’m ready!
I had almost taken over the entire world in the 1950s, until Kennedy ruined everything.
!
Really blows your mind, doesn’t it?
Obligatory?
*narrows gaze*
Bad boxer, couldn’t take a shot to the head?
* New JFK assassination theory unlocked *
Today, for just this moment, all is right with the world.
These are the calmest titties I’ve had in 4 years.
Yay!
I am surprised that The Hair never read Moby Dick.
He thought it was a book about gay whales and didn’t bother.
It isn’t? Are you sure we read the same book. Pretty sure there were gay whales in mine.
It’s making the whales gay?
Sea gay is totally different than land gay
Something you want to tell us about the GlibCruise?
In the Navy, you can sail the seven seas…
*looks up in awe at Tundra*
“We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we…”
…
“How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg – a cosy, loving pair.
“That’s not gay, that’s metal!”
(Really need to find that Jim Brewer clip, talking about Rob Halford)
A Sailor friend of mine has informed me that, “It isn’t gay when you’re underway.”
I’ll never know why he told me that out on the lake in his bass boat.
Because of the implication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ1lc6KASWg
out on the lake in his bass boat
He was fishin’ and you were catchin’?
Apparently, up through the 1800s it was common for same-sex people to share beds with people in guest/hotel situations. I believe they slept fully clothed (though without shoes/boots)?
Yes. It was not at all untoward or sexual.
It’s not what it looks like! I swear! Just let me explain!
STEVE SMITH BEEN WONDERING WHERE LEAF WENT…. HAPPY TO SEE FRIEND LEAF GETTING TO BOND WITH ELON.
STEVE SMITH NOT SHARE BED WITH MEN — CUDDLING AND SPOONING FOR WEAKER SPECIES.
NOBODY “SLEEP” WITH STEVE.
STEVE PREFER FOR PREY TO RUN AND SCREAM
I had almost taken over the entire world in the 1950s, until Kennedy ruined everything.”
I knew it!
Thanks, SF!
Here, let me spell it out for you.
I hope he’s right.
Per suggestions, I really should have signed off with:
– Alexis de Kisin 🤣
😀
Fact check: Mostly true. 😉 Wish it was 100% true these days — but yeah, he’s certainly got some of the basics down there.
On the note of energy independence (and apologies if this is somewhat OT) — anyone else a little worried that Trump won’t be able to help the economy by pushing energy production up and prices down? Not due to deep state shenanigans or anything — but because who in their right mind would invest more in an industry where in 4 years the next crop of pols could yank everything away again? That’s going to be potentially a big problem for everyone — cut off the Green New Deal slush fund is good… but getting real solid energy back will be tough.
May be hesitancy, but the energy industry has been filled with people looking for an opportunity to make money now. Look at the previous boom and bust cycles. If the majors sit on their hands at potential opportunity, someone else will seize it. Or they’re afraid someone will so won’t sit on their hands.
Congrats on your morning happiness, btw.
Thank yooooooo!
It’s not happiness so much as relief. I cannot IMAGINE what damage that cunt would have done.
That and your FedEx delivery!
I’m happy that RCV died statewide here, along with a gross receipts tax/UBI measure. Think those would have caused lasting harm. Disappointed but unsurprised at the local elections.
Another one.
This one is better than Kisin’s and more on point in my opinion. I’d like Kisin’s to be accurate beyond just a general sense of self in Americans, but I think this one is more correct.
Excellent.
Well said.
The vice president hasn’t appeared publicly since the race was called but was expected to speak late Wednesday.
If they can get her to unlock the bathroom door so they can sober her up.
Bee headline, “America Unburdens Itself From What Has Been”.
I feel like they missed slightly with that headline.
“America Unburdens Itself From
WhatA Has Been”Kamala staying true to form even at the end. Can’t even come out to concede without extensive prepping. Odds on unnamed staffers telling reporters whatever that is supposedly from her? Just like her campaigning.
“We must recognize the choice of the voters who have cast their votes through our voting process — a process of selecting candidates through our standing up to vote.”
Probably going to take a while for the makeup to cover up the bruises left by Doug.
Perhaps California will change, gradually, then suddenly?
Releasing Eric & Lyle wasn’t so popular after all?
Prop 6 looks to have failed (phrased as “eliminate involuntary servitude” but really “don’t make convicts have to do anything”) as well as prop 36 (“attempt to back out some of the felony-to-misdemeanor crap done 10 years ago”): https://www.modbee.com/news/politics-government/election/article294661974.html
But all the bonds still seem to have passed, the “Tax health care providers to fund Medi-Care” (if the feds approve… which made this prop seem extra stupid), etc…. so in short — I wouldn’t hold my breath for big change… just some folks are fed up enough with the crime. The rest of their Utopia will proceed apace.
Funding Medicaid with a provider tax is straight up money laundering to jack up the federal funding for Medicaid that the state gets, which is generally 2:1 to state money. Take a billion dollars from the providers, put it through the match, and voila! The state can now spend 3 billion dollars.
Washington de facto banned gas stoves.
This with that picture got me good.
That picture is amazing.
Was this written in advance or is SF quick with it? A dilemma.
The dude works faster than South Park’s animators.
I am completely GREEN about this, I tell you.
Same here, Mojeaux. I don’t see how he does it.
He is but a conduit for the ancient spirit we know as SugarFree.
Maybe he is The Hair.
Or the The Hat.
I started it a little after 9pm EST. About 95% are written the morning of. I used to try and write them in advance and got lapped on so many news events I just gave up.
I don’t talk American time but nice
Metric time in Europe land? That would be a deciminute after dawn.
Let me tell you about our payroll system that uses hundredths of a hour as their basic unit….
Sorry, about an hour to write, a further 20 minutes or so to get it formatted and scheduled.
I heard that Joel Salatin has been offered an advisory role in the USDA.
I don’t know what the hell is happening, but I’m feeling much better about Trump’s personnel choices this time around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusZXECS0mM&ab_channel=Soma
Got a link?
straight from the horse’s mouth.
I met him last month and talked with him for 15 minutes. Top notch human being.
“My favorite congressman, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture”
Shit, yeah!
I’m sad that Massie won’t be in Congress, but so much better than last time’s picks.
Wait…I’m losing Massie?
Yeah, sorry OBE, that’s the downside. Our gain is your loss.
Special election, coming right up, I guess. Or is it a appointee until the nextelection?
straight from the horse’s mouth.
Holy crap, this alone could be worth it. Assuming KY gets somebody even half as good as Massie as a replacement.
Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture
NOOOOOooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like Massie for Ag is legit
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1854242601290928526
Massie needs to pull the entire Department out to the outer suburbs of Frankfort. Some random exit off the interstate. Initiate the shift away from the swamp.
“I met him last month and talked with him for 15 minutes. Top notch human being.”
I’m so jealous I just drooled a little.
Good to see you!
Hi CPRM!
Saw the picture and read “half-smashed into the pillow” and had to have a heart-to-heart about whether I should continue or not. Wasn’t sure I had the stomach to be burdened by what might be to come. Fortunately, SF did not go there, and I am grateful.
As part of my schadenfreude tour of the interwebs, I stopped by TOS. Apparently Froot Sushi is now the sanest individual there.
https://reason.com/2024/11/06/if-trump-wins-its-because-neither-party-had-the-guts-to-stop-him/
I read that earlier. Delicious.
If that was the sanest rant there, then Reason can officially be written off. There’s no saving them.
That wasn’t Suave.
No, it indeed was not. But the point still stands in spite of itself…
Froot was young and in the bubble but I never saw him as stupid or a closet commie. It was too easy to tease him.
He has a lot of potential.
Soave is a regular on The Hill’s program Rising, and he’s pretty good.
He’s good on The Rising, for sure.
Fuck off you silly cunt.
who have harmed no one’s life or property
Yeah, let’s just forget the billions in taxpayer dollars they are sucking up for food, housing, health care, schooling their kids, etc. and not the mention the literally thousand of criminal acts being committed.
What a fucking asshole.
“destroy huge chunks of America’s productive economy”
At one time, illegals awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim weren’t allowed to work. So, my question is, how many of these illegals are actually working? That seems a critical fact for the claim that our economy’s foundation is illegal immigrants.
California allows DACA illegals to work as police officers. At least 10 LAPD cops are illegals.
🙄
Uh, wut? Is he claiming there’s a fundamental rights to stay in some place you illegally entered?
UNIVERZAL HUMAN RIGHTZ (as exposed only in the Anglo-American tradition).
Plenty open border types believe it is your right to go anywhere
Well, anywhere named “The United States of America”. They don’t pretend it works for any other country.
*Universal human rights only apply to points west of the Vistula/north of Medterainian and north of the Rio Grande.
A song for Kamala:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3XojNonEU
I read all of The Hat’s lines to the tune of Sympathy for the Devil.
Well now what’s puzzling me is the nature of his game.
Woop woo…
Snicker…
From here since I know some folks were wondering how lunatic they’d be…
It just occurred to me that one of the advantages of the Trump win is that we will probably get FOUR MORE YEARS of H&H.
Oh, bliss and heaven.
And eight years of Hillbilly President?
JD Vance driving around in the General Lee running away from Boss Hogg?
Don’t count on it, the electorate can be notoriously fickle.
No way! Permanent majority!
/Rove
I agree with JI. We may just be in a cycle where the pendulum just swings wildly back and forth. I don’t think inflation’s impacts are just going to go away, which was a big election issue.
The downside is that we won’t have any more Joemala or the Kamala spinoff.
Elon, Tulsi, RFK spinoffs? The new General Lee is a Tesla?
Cybertruck. With a custom ‘No Step On Snek’ paint job.
Newscum, Shapiro & a boatload of others. More than enough material.
Maybe I am biased, but last election there were legitimate concerns about how the election was handled.
This time, I don’t see those, but I see a lot of Democrats talking about Russian interference or fraud.
I know:
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!
There are Democrats that will examine themselves (like The Liberal Patriot) and those who think the world revolves around them and when it doesn’t the devil is to blame.
They want to investigate the missing 20 million 2020 Dem voters but won’t like the answers.
Because of GOP lawyers hovering over the counters, or because it wasn’t in Shapiro and Whitmer’s interest to rig things this time?
I’m not convinced that our election system has been cleaned up in the least – fixing it should be a priority for both parties.
Outside of a few states, the COVID “emergency” voting measures are now SOP. Our electoral security is a bad joke.
Confident prediction: many Repubs didn’t want to fix it after 2020 because “voter fraud” claims had the stink of Trump on them. Now that the Repubs have won an election, they won’t want to fix it because, hey, we won (this time).
Didn’t Putin state his preference for the Democrats?
He did, 99% sure it was a piss take, though.
Failure of the political information complex.
Good advice at the end there. It will promptly be ignored.
That self reflection will be gone by tomorrow
I like the close-up camera angle where Van Jones is sitting next to him, silent and respectful, trying to ignore that his own eyebrows are falling out.
They cut it off too quickly. Van Jones was about to explain the racist white-lash.
I keep thinking about the scene from Fight Club:
“We are the ones who cook your food, connect your calls, drive your ambulances, and take away your trash.
Do not fuck with us.”
“And they say I’m the retarded one.”
OMG!
The pics behind him are perfect.
Thanks, Mo. These just keep getting better and better!
Twitter, man. My home away from home.
THANK YOU ELON!
Trump could not have won without X. It’s the only place GenX had a voice.
Agreed. He is, and continues to be a Godsend.
Seems somehow familiar…
Holy shit, that’s hilarious.
GenX is trending on Twitter, mostly as the generation who saved America and dunked on the only GenX candidate we’ll ever have for being a poser.
First time voters broke for Trump by 3 points so far. Which is just a brutal result for the Dems.
The general attitude of GenX (about the election) seems to be “You FAFO’d.”
I am waiting for a breakdown of the women vote. Age, marital status, economic status, child status and party affiliation.
I’d like to think that GenX sees things are slipping backwards (they’ve lost ground economically, race relations are much worse, more run down cities, etc) plus reaching the phase in their lives where if they haven’t left the Democrat party, the party left them.
I bet he got a bunch of young men voting far earlier than they normally would.
I think we are just getting started. Isn’t Vance a Gen X?
Millennial.
Nope. GenX will likely never see power. We’re too small of a cohort.
/goes back to slacking.
No, but he was raised by a woman from the silent generation, and I think that’s why he comes across that way.
I think Kams is technically a Boomer (born in 1964). Vance is, indeed, a Millenial (born in 1984). The Gen X cohort (1965 – 80) may very well never produce a President.
Trump was born in 1946. They bracketed the boomer generation.
DeSantis would be a Gen X pres, but I think his window may be closing – presumably Vance will get next crack at it.
President Massie has a nice ring to it but I don’t get the impression he’s interested.
DeSantis will be an uphill battle after Trump trashed him in the primaries. The GOP will be MAGA-controlled for at least two cycles after 2028.
L O L
Nice.
I am off to guy cigarettes and blue cheese dressing.
y’all have fun. Dont wreck the place while I am gone.
*begins fiery yet mostly peaceful protest involving thoughtful interpretive dance called STEVE SMITH in Cascadia*
How many have never saw their dad again after he “went out for cigarettes”?
if you guy cigs might as well call em fags like the brits do
Back….but then I would have to say ‘burn a fag’ and that’s doesnt sound very good.
Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back.
The first time I heard that line I thought “What a piece of shit”.
The downside is that we won’t have any more Joemala or the Kamala spinoff.
No more Ella. Bummer. So much promise.
Unless she marries Baron in a bid for national unity.
tl;dr: GFY
I’m calling this the “We’re tired of your shit” election.
Fantastic
From the dead thread:
This is why you are miserable and your life sucks. You keep reliving all of your disappointments and heartbreaks, while your happy and successful friends and neighbors are thinking about their victories and successes. You’re welcome, Salon.
THE WORLD ISN’T PROVIDING FOR MEEEEEEeeeeee!!!!!
Also, deriving way too much heartache/joy out of a fucking presidential election.
I am trying to figure out what that has to do with anything important whatsoever.
You do realize all this gloating is turning the pro Kamala glibs away?
Lets have a moment to realize that Trump has plenty flaws and he probably won’t move the needle much, but at least he will not be such a net negative.
we’re pissed at our parents living like Animal House in the senior/assisted living and at our kids who make it hard for our country to have nice things
Animal House assisted living? Please send me a brochure!
Given the STD rates at nursing homes, I think they may be out ahead of this one.
Based on some demographic stuff I saw women who make under 100K were trump, over were Kami. Can it be stated that the ones over 100 feel less the impact of shitty politics and thus can afford to virtue signal more? Or am I thinking wrong.
I mean I have said before that for many politics is fashion, no different than clothes, but one needs afford to be fashionable.
Very true. Also applies to the education, er, credential, gap.
Yes.
You keep reliving all of your disappointments and heartbreaks,
While learning nothing from them.
The kids are gonna be all right?
There were fireworks going off in my hearing distance last night.
An unexpected benefit! Conservatives stop hiding on college campuses!
Auburn
https://x.com/phillak77/status/1854195848038818168?s=19
Fox and some other outlets have called Michigan for Trump. Here’s hoping one of the remaining desert states pushes him over 300 ECV.
From dead thread:
Trump lost like 3 million votes. The Dems lost some 20 million.
I agree with that. Did you see the chart Zerohedge published?
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1854144250562429081
I reposted it on my Facebook!
That really solidifies the bullshit to me. Trump’s losses from 2020 are normal swings. The Dems? That shit is wild.
Misses that Obama underperformed in 2012 compared to 2008. If Romney had performed as well as McCain, he would’ve won.
It was 2.4 million when I last checked, and votes are still coming in.
Trump actually hasn’t lost votes yet. Because of the vote-by-mail, CA, OR, and WA all have a third or so of the vote left to count. Together that comes to several million, and Trump has been getting around 40% of the vote from those three states.
I should add Harris is currently up to 67M, which is only 14M less than Biden’s total, and with the extra votes she’ll probably close both that gap and the gap between her and Trump in half. (At least, assuming the numbers of outstanding votes are accurate.)
Saw an Obama tweet but didn’t mark it because it refreshed too fast basically saying, “It’ll be weeks before the real result will be known after all the ballots are counted.”
Printer go brrrrrrrrrrr
Sure, Jan.
We won’t know precisely how bad a beating we took until after Thanksgiving.
Not sure if it will win, but I am submitting my entry for biggest melt down:
Man Shuts Down his Gift Card Alert Website
A) lying about deporting legal immigrants
B) whining about politics where you’re not a citizen
C) don’t let the plane door close on you
I feel your frustration. As a trans man from France, I will also be moving back because I will be unable to have the necessary medical procedure if I become pregnant and do not want to carry the child to term.
Thank you for the years of dedication you have put into the site. I truly enjoyed the deals and will miss the content. Hope to see you around.
This gift card site is wild.
The self-deporting has begun.
“I come from a country that JD Vance regards as now being an Islamist country, despite it being led by a white, straight, non-Muslim male lawyer.”
A mind-reader who speaks in riddles.
From the UK.
“Trump has said he wants to revoke status for those in the country legally”
I guess I missed that one, too.
“Trump has said he wants to revoke status for those in the country legally (like myself).”
Citation?
On his site he links to Trump saying he would revoke the status of the Haitians in Springfield.
What happened to the Swiftie vote?
Not old enough to vote?
“We are never, ever, ever getting back together!”
I was in Indianapolis last weekend for a few hockey games. Our hotel was expensive because TS was in town. Maybe the Swifties were still stuck on I-65 on Tuesday.
Reich calls for insurrection in a foreign publication
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/election-trump-president-resistance-america
Sorry midget, “peaceful” qualifier doesn’t count since 2020.
I’ll believe your sincerity about resistance, little man, when you show me your recently purchased AR-15 rifle and case of 5.56mm ball. In fact, I’ll give you a free one-day private training class (which I normally charge $500 for), covering safe gun handling, administrative and emergency manipulations, marksmanship, positional shooting, home defense tactics, and low-light judgemental shooting, as well as a tailored training plan so you can keep up your skills on your own.
All you need to do is buy an AR-15 rifle and a case of ammo and send me a copy of the receipt. Ball is in your court, Bob…
give the little guy a break he is stressed
“By organizing our communities. By fighting through the courts. By arguing our cause through the media.”
Ah the problem is they haven’t tried any of those things before now.
Where’s Hype? Anyone see Hype? He assured me there was no enthusiasm for Trump.
I said “if” the enthusiasm that I saw for Trump in my solidly red county was indicative of his supporters across the country, he would be in trouble.
I was wrong, and believe it or not I’m glad I was, not elated or overjoyed because as I also have said I didn’t consider a Harris presidency to be an existential crisis, but yes Trump will be slightly better, so we got that going for us.
I don’t care enough to go dig up your last post on this subject from election eve, but suffice to say you did not simply say “if” anything. You declared definitively that he was going to lose.
And it took a call out for you to show up and take a little bit of crow.
It took you lying about my statements to get me to show up, some of us work and don’t sit around being a gigantic asshole on the internet all day.
“declared definitively” or as some might call it – made a prediction.
Lets have a moment to realize that Trump has plenty flaws and he probably won’t move the needle much, but at least he will not be such a net negative.
Sane people have known this all along. We are not witnessing the inception of the Fourth Reich. Nor are we getting a new era of freedom and an end to regulation.
I’ll settle for a complete repudiation of the modern progressive party.
I think that was achieved. I think woke politics, at least in public, will finally die in America after last night’s salvo. This election was not warning shots, but a sinking of the woke fleet.
Hmm, I wonder how an article entitled the same, just with Harris instead of Trump would be received?
Surely there is someone on the right of the same stature as Robert Reich?
same stature as Robert Reich
WYDTWS
We therefore don’t want to stick around to see what happens. We’re also disgusted that a significant portion of the country has bought into transphobia, racism, hardship for those who can afford it least, misogyny and other hatred. The fact that so many people will willingly vote for a rapist who tried to launch a coup when he lost four years ago is mind-blowing.
Well adios.
Sounds like my mom and dad. They’d rather believe they raised 4 Nazis than admit their political party is a shit show.
I am fucking GIDDY today, not because Cheetoh Jesus won, but because CamelToe LOST.
CamelToe – that sort of language is unbecoming a lady
Look, I know when and where I can and can’t say “cameltoe.” That’s all I need to be a lady.
“You can mercilessly slaughter an unborn child, but don’t talk mean!”
Look, I know when and where I can and can’t say “cameltoe.” That’s all I need to be a lady.
“To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem. To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated.”
Or say “cameltoe”, same-same!
I noticed, and I’m quite entertained by it. 🙂
CNN is here to help! The best part is this is unironic.
As the country wakes up to Donald Trump as the projected winner of the presidential election, there is one thing we can all agree on — it has been a long, hard-fought path to the White House.
Americans are weary, possibly emotionally bruised and battered, and likely concerned about what the next few weeks will bring to a nation bitterly divided.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/06/health/election-day-stress-wellness/index.html
“But we at CNN will do our utmost to keep encouraging that division.”
Some of us are mostly glad that the fucking election is over more than anything.
I think the fun may just be getting started
Iowa passed a constitutional amendment to require citizenship to vote.
Good idea.
But how does this get implemented? Do I need a passport or birth certificate to vote? Or to register to vote? How do we prove citizenship and when?
Is there not a registry of citizens of some sort.
This is again one of those things that are strange for an European like me. Here we do not register to vote we are all registered. You give your ID card they see in the database that you are a citizen and not bared from voting, then you vote and are registered as having voted so you cannot somehow vote again.
then again a libertarian might argue that such databases are against liberty, but I assume most in the US are in some database ot other either way e.g. that social security number yáll got
Is there not a registry of citizens of some sort.
no
Yourup iz raciss.
Depends on how they implement it, but it could be as simple as affirming that you are a citizen on your registration application, or when you renew.
So did South Carolina by a gigantic margin. You already have to show an ID to vote. Now a smart ID?
My county rejected a sales tax hike to pay for shit we already paid for.
We already require ID. You give them your DL. They scan it and print a thermal receipt that shows all your information. You sign it to affirm you are registered to vote and that you will only vote in this precinct. You give that receipt to another person who gives you the right ballot and explains how to fill it out.
It is fast and efficient.
You don’t need a Real ID DL to vote.
Wasn’t there a law that already did that? i thought the resistance to it was for the language only, calling it uniniviting. I thought the straightforward language is fine, and good to have it in the constitution.
I wasn’t aware it was on the ballot until I read it.
I thought it looked good.
It was only this morning that I began to ponder the potential impacts on the registration and/or voting process.
The wife and I last changed out registration to caucus for Ron Paul (way back when). The registration remains valid as long as we keep voting.
So, I wonder if that is impacted.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
People like this exist….
From a site I frequent:
And they wonder why Trump won so decisively yesterday. These people are fucked. Absolutely brainwashed. And intensely stupid to boot.
Yet more dudes forcing their way into women’s spaces.
Radfems DESPISE the trans movement.
There’s a part of me that would likely laugh out loud for quite a while if Trump said something along the lines of “Today I’m a trans woman, and like trans athletes I’m showing that I’m a better candidate than females.”
Yep. I read that to my wife.
I asked “WTF is a radical trans feminist?”
A beta male.
Give ’em a break. We are on the edge of a technological explosion regarding space exploration. We are gonna need all of those space cadets to get to Mars. *wink wink*
Reddit is melting down.
I believe you are having a bit too much fun.
All I can see right now is gas prices going down and I am fucking ecstatic.
Gas will likely go down as production increases, but prices as a whole will not drop substantially. That genie is out of the bottle and can’t be corraled short of a contraction of the money supply.
Trumps virility has turned them conservative!
Wow. Trump has women turning into trad wives to teach men a lesson!
You are going to stop producing fatherless children that terrible life outcomes?!
No.
Don’t.
Like more so than usual?
I went into the hornets nest to see for myself.
in a thread pondering where the 20 million missing Democrats went.
This voting thing is too stressful anyway. It would be nice to not do it again.
Those people are more worked up than even Glibs get.
For you.
https://x.com/MsKristaMonroe/status/1854206981973631209
The local (usually very progressive minded) reddit sub (r/duluth) is pretty quiet today. Did something happen recently?
https://x.com/TCC_Grouchy/status/1854220492812529981
heh
I can’t find any other confirmation. But I’m going to share anyway.
Houthis Declare Immediate Ceasefire Against IDF as Trump Leads in U.S. Polls
https://www.oneindia.com/videos/houthis-ceasefire-idf-trump-us-polls-011-4193494.html
And it’s fake news
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/yemen/trump-phobia-houthis-announce-ending-their-attacks-on-shipping-lanes/2024/11/06/
Hopefully an incoming Trump can break up the the Iran-Israel slap fighting.
Americans are weary, possibly emotionally bruised and battered, and likely concerned about what the next few weeks will bring to a nation bitterly divided.
Sick and tired of being sick and tired. Give it a fucking rest.
Reminds me of a Bill Cosby joke:
Worst beating I got in my life was when my mother said, “I am sick”, and I said “and tired.”
“How long can you tread water?”
Why don’t those uneducated dumb bitches like us?
They are still scratching their heads and will continue until the end of their lives. They have no idea what just happened.
Power line Special
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/mid-week-in-pictures-day-after-edition.php
Love the Killdozer one.
#metoo
Reading a lot of my liberal friends Facebook statuses and amazed that they just don’t get it. They don’t get why Trump won in such a convincing manner nor want to find out why. They’ll rather sit in their pile of misery and call everyone who voted for him racist/sexist/Nazis. They would rather stew in the their ignorance than enlightening themselves and understanding others.
Understanding others requires self reflection first. I have a feeling that the antifa types are going to go full fascist in the next couple of years (while still portraying themselves as the fearless rebels). When you think it’s the other people being uneducated, bigoted, racist, misogynistic, hatemongers, what else is the appropriate reaction?
“Understanding others requires self reflection first.”
Any self reflection might force them to reconsider their views and how wrong they are. Their whole being is believing that they are good fighting against the forces of evil.
Ed:
That’s why I’m mildly concerned about them going full violent rebellion mode. I’d rather not live through more recreations of the 70’s. At least locally, seeing the response after day one of the mostly peaceful protests downtown, I’m not too concerned they’ll get very far here.
https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/
In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day.
I remember these times.
They would rather stew in the their ignorance than enlightening themselves and understanding others.
What is the point of understanding sin – one merely needs to be righteous and avoid sin, not to understand it.
Really sad in a way. The woman who was Maid of Honor at our wedding posted that anyone who voted for Trump should unfriend her. It was tempting to do so, but thought I’d give it a bit more time, which I also advised my wife to do. Some of these people are sick.
For the 2016 election I had an acquaintance in friend me on one of the socials because I dared wrote that we should try to understand Trump’s appeal.
Saw her at an event a year or two later and she was rude as hell to me but for some reason it didn’t bother me as much as I thought it would.
One of the more bizarre posts I saw in a brief foray to FB (at my wife’s requests), was that white men, and to a lesser extent, white women, are the problem.
I guess we need to bring back some kind of literary test for voting,
They would rather stew in the their ignorance than enlightening themselves and understanding others.
That would make them apostates to their cult of diversity and inclusion.
How Donald Trump win Kamala Harris to make a historic return to di White House
Donald Trump don win a historic second term as president afta defeating Kamala Harris.
Na di projected win for Wisconsin bin push di Republican ova di 270 electoral vote expectation wey dey required to win di presidency.
Harris bin pick up states for di north east, di west coast, as well as Colorado and Illinois meanwhile, Trump win di battleground states of North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to make am di next US president.
Donald Trump bin win North Carolina and Georgia and don also take lead over Kamala Harris in most of di oda five battleground states wey go decide winner of di US election, BBC US partner CBS project.
Trump don address im supporters but Harris neva come out to address her own supporters.
Anoda key moment na wen di Senate dey called for di Republicans wey mean say di Democrats go lose dia strong majority for di upper chamber of di US Congress.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c79zq85w2wqo
Gas will likely go down as production increases, but prices as a whole will not drop substantially. That genie is out of the bottle and can’t be corraled short of a contraction of the money supply.
This.
Also- we need increased refinery capacity more than additional crude. Am I correct that t are restrictions on importing refined petroleum products?
Well, production is F’ed due to California. Standing up new refineries takes some time, like almost 6 years. We should absolutely do so all over the Southern coast. Take that one last revenue from California.
Meanwhile I completely agree the money supply is out of control. Will Trump address it? Who knows.
“Meanwhile I completely agree the money supply is out of control. Will Trump address it? Who knows.”
*Narrator: he won’t* unless Ron Paul has a BIG say in Trump policy.
No doubt. At least the next four years will be interesting.
So much potential.
I’m pretty certain it was during the first Trump Presidency that the printers started going brrrrrr.
Saw some stuff today on twitter…California is going to have to start importing refined gasoline from Asia – due to the Jones Act – since they want their fancy shit CARB mix.
Absolutely insane…maybe they’ll finally back off.
Now Rasmussen is black pilled?
Nobody buying the 2020 election results all of a sudden.
https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1854208427024670826?s=19
pistoffnick: I think you missed it by about 100 years.
For whoever it was that asked:
Trump has promised to pardon Jan. 6 defendants. One of those defendants is already invoking that pledge.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/06/2024-election-results-live-coverage-updates-analysis/trumps-jan-6-pardon-pledge-00187864
From what I can find, this promise of Trump was made back in March. I don’t know if he has said it again more recently.
*Narrator: he won’t* unless Ron Paul has a BIG say in Trump policy.
IF Trump shuts off the money spigot to the warmongers, that should have a small marginal effect. He has already said Social Security is off limits. Who knows wat he’ll actually be able to do.
He’s says SS is off limits…but that might still be an option down the road if they start having serious talks….
I can dream.
Please don’t be as delusional as progressives.
Whoever win this one gets a time bomb. So far his team is pretty solid. Get a couple Austrian economists on the team and turn them loose.
“Paging Javier Milei to the white courtesy phone.
Javier Milei, call on line one…”
Local news just pointed out something that does entertain me. Moreno is going to be the senior senator from Ohio as Vance will be going to the VP slot.
I wonder who DeWine will put in place. From what I understand he’s a squish so it won’t be a Rand Paul or Thomas Massie sort of character.
I was joking with the girlfriend that he’s going to nominate Sherrod Brown as an FU to the Trump/MAGA conservatives in the state. Who ever he nominates will be in until 2026 when we get to vote again.
Taibbi headline, I think you can figure out where he’s going.
Capped by this…
Damn, he is just excellent. He and Walter were hilarious on their stream this morning.
Taibbi from the top rope!
This is why I rarely discuss politics with anyone because people are content to never have to consider that someone may have a different opinion not because they are evil but because of their life experiences and morals.
The number of people from the far left who have been red and/or black pilled over the last 4 years is astounding.
Ed:
It’s quite entertaining to me when someone who just knows me from concerts, fests, or other counterculture things realize that I’m not a progressive.
Why the house is everything, details:
Trump has promised to settle Ukraine. Said he would be able to work it out after he gets elected, before he even takes office. Just make a couple of phone calls to the leaders and it will be over.
So, let’s play that out.
Trump makes his calls and a peace deal is announced.
What next?
Well, he is illegally conducting foreign policy as a private citizen.
Same thing they tried to come after Flynn for.
GOP house, probably the last you hear of it.
Dem house?
Probably drawing up articles of impeachment before Trump even gets sworn in. Might use it to fight certification in the house.
GOP holding the house means we have a government that is only mostly dysfunctional.
Dem house likely means all out war.
Impeachment, at this time, would be unwise. Wait it out a couple of years and try to spin something stupid that Trump does as “treason” or “felony-level crimes”.
Right now, Trump supporters are feeling really good, and are rarin’ for a fight.
If you want a thousand constituents all up in your Congressional office, then start some impeachment proceedings.
Nobody is buying the 2020 election results all of a sudden. I keep seeing it and hearing about the 20 million votes vanishing.
Now Rasmussen is black pilled?
https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1854208427024670826?s=19
Wait till Trump announces an independent counsel to start an investigation into 2020 voter fraud.
Fox News seems to be the only site that still shows the electoral votes for each state.
It makes it slightly difficult to calculate the final EV tally.
It looks like it will be 312.
cavalier973 on November 5, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Real clear politics is forecasting that Trump will win with 287 votes.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/no-toss-up/electoral-college
According to Rich Baris, though, PA, WI, and MI all vote the same way, while RCP has Trump winning PA and Harris winning WI and MI.
If Baris is right, then Harris will take PA along with the other two, and win with 270, or Trump takes WI and MI and wins with 312.
Not to gloat, or anything….
Taibbi and Kirn opened their stream with the observation that this result puts an end to the election denial line.
The turn from far left has been hard and radical for those who have been chased out of the left.
https://www.youtube.com/live/2F3u7vF_EFc?si=IiurUYc-lsuj-GFt