Good morning one and all to another exhilarating day!
Democrats Spend over $2.1 Billion Trying to Stop Donald Trump
Hundreds of NY Times Staffers Go on Strike As Election Day Looms
Washington, DC Businesses Barricade Windows Ahead Of Election Day
David Axelrod Looks Spooked as He Admits Support May Not Materialize For Harris on Election day
No matter the final vote, this election’s biggest loser may be the legacy news media
Dixville Notch Midnight Vote Kicks Off Election Day With Trump-Harris Tie
French Journalist Claims Medical Report Proves Olympic Boxer Who Took Gold In Women’s Division A Man
First-time homebuyers are older than ever before
With that being all I got for today, I’m going to throw out my election day predictions. Barring anything crazy like a nuclear attack or a targeted version of Maricopa County 2022, Trump will win the popular vote, over 300 electoral college votes, and will win at least one surprise state (most likely NH or Minnesota, maybe even Maine). You can mock me mercilessly if I am wrong, but the numbers have not materialized for Kamala and everything not only still sucks, but is getting worse. 2 billion dollars and free media propaganda has not overcome everything sucking and Trump building a solid coalition that appeals to most of America. But, regardless of what is to come, enjoy the ride.
PSA: ignore exit polls. They are notoriously shit.
I voted for exit 126.
Fool! Exit 13!
I cannot believe what I am seeing here… Exit 42 was on the ballot people!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, once again, Swiss is full of holes.
As long as y’all aren’t voting for Final Exit.
They should have contracted it out to the Russians. They swung an election with only $150,000 worth of Facebook ads.
True — I was thinking of it more like “Democrats spend over $2.1 billion to control slush funds of over $8 trillion a year”. Looking at it that way — that’s one hell of a return.
Morning all.
That’s a good way of looking at it.
FYI, Glibs email isn’t working this morning. Was going to send you writer submission guidelines but can’t do that at the moment. I’ll continue trying throughout the morning. But definitely work on your article. Thanks.
Will do, thanks. (Barring work I actually get paid for, of course).
This is how I’ve always thought about it.
Obviously only so much of that is really up for grabs, but I’ve always been amazed that MORE money isn’t being funneled into politics.
dArk MONeyz!$@!!!!
It’s Money of Color, shitlord!
I always think of that phrase set to the tune of Cher’s “Dark Lady”.
I still can’t understand how she got away with “Half Breed” and “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves.”
She’s half Armenian and half European.
:. Half Breed.
And nothing of value was lost.
We would also accept the “Oh no…. anyway…” meme picture.
Heh heh, Dixville, heh heh.
I haven’t checked a map — but bonus points if it is next to Beaver Cleft.
Here in Oregon, whenever I get lost in Beaverton, I head down to Coos Bay.
The freeway sign stolen more times than any other.
https://live.staticflickr.com/1/1251385_b699b838cf_b.jpg
I suspect this was stolen more often:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-changes-420-mile-marker-sign-ward-heists-n8051
I’m thinking it’s this one
https://signsbyjake.com/product/wisconsin-bong-recreation-area-sign/?srsltid=AfmBOoqtveWklgJl0i-a9-hUEIK7PJZcHzbCY2omLZ9NOv32vpjK-ems
Highway 69 was changed to 569 here.
High St signs still get stolen.
Until I looked at the numbers, I was going to say I was skewing the number up, but apparently I bought young.
We were first time home buyers at 38ish but we were also in different places, coming off previous relationships, so it made sense to save and make sure we were in a stable place to purchase.
I was 38, albeit in a HCOL area.
36 for me, but my wife was a homeowner at 25 or so.
We joke that she had a condo and I had a kiddo, same cost.
I was 39 but that was coming off a long military period with a lot of moves, etc.
Same, 38 but a young 38.
I had to wait until the divorce was finally finalized for the final time.
30 in 2003, and most of the people I worked with were in much younger than that.
My wife and I were 28 when we bought our first starter house in the late 80’s. Paid $55K for a 3 bdrm, 2 bath slab home with radiant heat. Today they call these homes mid-century modern’s. My son bought his first house last year at age 28. He got royally porked on the price along with a high intest rate. I tried telling him to wait but he was tired of apartment living.
I would have assumed I was substantially older than the average having purchased this place at 36. I guess I’m less of a piece of shit loser than I thought. Or everybody else is a bigger piece of shit loser than I thought. The numbers may be skewed by the number of millennials living at home longer, and eschewing ownership for renting because they were all going to be digital nomad influencers, until their 40s starting creeping up.
I was 34. I figured that was at the upper end of the curve for first time.
I was also 36 when I bought my first home. Not married, no kids, no rush to get out of a rental.
My rent was getting stupid high.
My required mortgage payment was half of what the rent was going to be, for a house I owned with an additional bedroom.
Heh. My thoughts exactly. How is a bum like me ahead of the game?
” I guess I’m less of a piece of shit loser than I thought. Or everybody else is a bigger piece of shit loser than I thought.”
Why not both?
I was 28. But it was at the bottom of the housing collapse in Arizona. Starter homes were going for $80k.
I think I was 29. Paid around $90K (I think, it was a long time ago) in Richmond VA.
Ba doom kkksssh!
I was 25. Dallas hadn’t started getting hot yet. Sadly, if I wanted to buy that house again, it would be almost as much of a stretch financially now as it was back then. The house has increased 2.5x since we bought it in 2013. Our income has grown about the same amount.
28.9K, 4 BR, 2 BA, brand new, brick (1975), outside the city
I was 30 and paid $66k for 4 Bd/2 Ba in a nice Tucson neighborhood.
We were 48 when we bought our first and only house.
Bought my first at 24.
Another glorious Election Day I get to ‘ignore’ at work. They will not have anything political on TV. Not even sports. Last place it was always a channel with folk flippin’ homes. I’ll be around later to snuff out what’s goin’ and what’s good. The NYT workers going on strike, “over a hundred” of like-minded tech folk, may realize their jobs aren’t too important.
Peace y’all and hope you can take it in without any added ruckus, other than the internal sort we all have building up inside.
“I’ll be around later to snuff out what’s goin’”
I thought they already had a guy come in for that last week.
Word is Elon wants to dump a large portion of FedGov workers. 2 year severance package…Ill be first in line.
At this point, I’d happily say give out an 8 year severance package — as long as we actually cull Departments and pare back those that remain, it’d be a bargain in the long run. Just keeping the existing crowd from gaming overtime for maxing out their pension in the last year or two might be significant savings.
gaming overtime for maxing out their pension
Federal retirement doesn’t get that sweet
dealopportunity to fuck over the tax payers. Not that FERS isn’t wasteful, but it ain’t near as good/awful as some state plans.Looking at you, CALPERS.
Yeah ours is based on top-three so a lot of FedGov migrate to DC, Cali and Houston in their last years to pad that.
See the thing is, in the highly improbably event Trump wins, survives to be inaugurated, creates a cabinet position for Musk, and isn’t tied up in court with challenges to the appointment until his term is over, Musk is going to come in just like Trump did during his first term thinking that his private sector experience translates over into government, and is going to find himself sorely disappointed. If they did manage to pull it off though, I’d like to think things like ATC would be low on the agenda. “Firefighters first” is the ploy they use when they want to scare people into thinking any cut in the rate of growth of the federal budget is going to result in a loss of services. An actual reformer looking to pare down the bureaucracy is going to be looking at non-essential shit first.
Possibly. Elon would not fall into the trap of accepting managers from existing staff, or taking recommendations for staff. That was a massive blunder on Trump’s part.
One of the things I have always thought, and it was brought into bright relief with Trump’s first term, was that the only thing separating a “successful” early term vs. someone like his, was how much positive media coverage they get.
In other words, Obama was just as incompetent in his first 90 days as Trump, only the media was spending that whole time sucking him off as opposed to being the Resistance (r) and making shit up.
A lot of shit they say they want to be accomplished just needs to be run in front of SCOTUS asap.
Most of the deep state is unconstitutional AF and now is the time to get an official say so.
I’ve heard speculation that the DOGE could be privately funded. Keeping it non-official, or semi-official (ie, commission, not dept) would insulate them from a lot of lawsuits, etc. Nothing to stop a private think-tank from making recommendations, or a president from implementing those recommendations.
The nightmare scenario is that they manage to pare down the government during Trump’s term, then a blue wave where the dems control congress and re-establish bureaus, positions, etc. That way we’re stuck supporting early-out former bureaucrats, as well as paying for newly-created ones.
The left wants to play that game with CFPB, NLRB, etc.
Sure…we’ll play along.
The Clinton transition team was self-admittedly a bunch of children that didn’t know what they were doing. But they bravely stepped up and figured it out, according to those same people.
Start with mandatory in office, 5 days a week. Then revert the dress code to 1985 standards. Make the fuckers punch an actual time clock. Sea of cubes in a giant warehouse, shitty internet connection. Call it the Pasture.
Productive folks get work from home, good internet in the office, flexible dress code. Less productive are put out to Pasture.
I expect the bureaucracy will slow roll a second attempt at schedule F.
Same with illegals on welfare. “Enjoy your last check and last month of free rent. Call this number for a free ride home.”
Operation Wetback II, illegal boogaloo (boyz)
Make it voluntary until such and such a date. After that, terminations, no severance pay
So we’re still pretending Congress is going along with this eh?
See Pat’s reply above… it is just as applicable here.
Like a PG&E transmission line — we’re overdue for some culling of dead wood in several industries (no, NSA – I mean the companies/orgs, not the people from this mortal coil… stand down you little weasels…)
I said it once and I will say it again: Money gets funneled to CNN and major newspapers from the federal government to keep them afloat. Pull the damn plug!
I have an election related question: will Kamala be the first whore-American president, or do others count as such?
We have a long line of whore presidents Pie.
All politicians are whores.
You mean, when Biden resigns next week, elevating her to the Presidency until January?
Interesting speculation. I don’t think he will. I think that his (Dr Jill’s) anger over being forced off the ticket will prevent that happening. If she tries to force him out this late in the game it will look like a coup, and raise questions about why she didn’t do that before.
All politicians are part hooker.
I thought that was more of a general issue.
That’s insulting to hookers.
Hooking is thier admirable side.
I thought that was more of a general issue.
I’ll grant you that.
I think Edith Wilson and Eleanor Roosevelt have already held that title.
It’s too bad we don’t yet have the technology to examine the chromosomal composition of the human genome, or we could just find out if there’s an XX, XY or 1 in 10,000 mutation in there.
From the bit I read they’re claiming the latter
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/5-alpha-reductase-deficiency/
Technically male but infertile with various developmental issues.
The journalist claims he’s a regular old XY with the standard equipment.
Since I don’t think they have released actual records/test results, I’m assuming that’s why.
Brave and stunning punches.
Pretty sure we knew about his condition months ago. Or maybe it was just speculation at the time but yeah the Olympics don’t give a shit.
They did, and if it wasn’t a dude, a real quick 23 and me would shut up the haters real quick.
Instead, they hid behind “doctors” from Algeria.
At this point given the obvious manifestation of “Vote Blue, no matter who!” I really want them to just anoint a literal Turd Sandwich next cycle. See how far the programming goes.
No need for a candidate. They can appoint someone after the election.
Isn’t that what they did with Whorris?
Some people think that if their candidate loses it is going to be really bad. Some say it is going to be fine either way. I think there are insufficient black pilled people these days: it will be really bad regardless.
No, Pie, some people here have overdosed on black pills.
^this.
I don’t think there are going to be any wins for libertarian folks this election either way, but it also(hopefully) won’t be as important an election as the black pillers think.
I don’t think black pillers belive the election to be important. If doom is inevitable, no election is important.
What are you trying to say?
whom are you asking?
Harris vowed to shut down Twitter, that’s pretty bad.
I do miss the days of elections not mattering much. Bush v. Gore – who cares?
Since our actual rulers are the faceless agency bureaucrats, I think those days are here (again?).
Obama/Romney was the real what’s the difference?
When McCain debated Obama I could not tell their policy positions apart.
With Harris, she has no policies she’ll admit to, just horrifying things she’s said in the past.
OMG Gore would have been so f%@%$#@ insufferable.
And the Green New Deal horseshit would have been kickstarted years earlier.
Obama put black people in chains, unlike Romney.
Because Romney was busy putting women in binders.
Sure Gore would have been terrible. Worse than Bush who doubled spending and started 2 forever wars?
Bush also planted the seeds for the Ukraine war when he announced the Ukraine would be joining NATO – much to the surprise of everyone including the Ukrainians. The Uke leadership back then was sane and said “hell no”. That’s why we had to color revolution them 6 years later.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E20/957890
NO PRICE GOUGING is the only apparent thing she has supported of late.
And OMB.
The Rogan endorsement is pretty crazy… I think the left’s free speech stuff and going after political opponents must have spooked him.
“his show with more than 18 million listeners,”
I mean, maybe, but he also got like 60 million views for Trump in YouTube alone.
Rogan is pretty upset about YouTube not showing his interview with Trump in the search results.
Yeah, ten videos popped up ahead of his when you search for ‘Trump Rogan’.
I listened to most of it via YouTube. Trump comes off as very normal in the interview. Almost likable.
Yeah, ten videos popped up ahead of his when you search for ‘Trump Rogan’.
Yes, they are definitely fucking with it (or built into their algorithm. If I search “trump rogan”, the full interview doesn’t pop up until the 20th ‘recommendation’. In a second fresh search, it didn’t show up at all.
“vance rogan” – 5th video
“fetterman rogan” – 2nd video
“musk rogan” – 3rd video
It must be baked into their algorithm. They can’t honestly think that someone who types in “trump rogan” and doesn’t see the full interview is going to be like, oh well, guess it doesn’t exist, I’ll just take this msnbc report as a faithful representation and go cut off my penis and enroll my son on the women’s swim team. Of course baked into the algorithm is worse than specific manipulation of one video and probably much more effective given most peoples thought process.
Is it crazy? I listened to the Musk podcast already and he doesn’t make the endorsement on his show, only on X.
Crazy=I’m surprised he didn’t want to be seen as not politically aligned, especially with someone who will result in him being put even more in the crosshairs. Rogan also had lots of not right wing sensibilities (but so does Trump), so it was surprising to me to see him endorse a Republican.
Joe Rogan Endorses Trump – I blame Elon Musk. Anyway both should go to jail if Kami wins.
She will absolutely get that rolling on Day One.
The honest Dems say it openly.
Herself even has openly said she will set upon the government to destroy X under the guise of ‘misinformation’
I look forward to watching Russians walking on Mars and Titan after they chase Elon there.
You misspelled Argentinians.
Washington, DC Businesses Barricade Windows Ahead Of Election Day – why? Smashing windows seems like a good way to stimulate the economy.
I seen what you did there.
Was it kind of a phalluscy?
Can’t possibly imagine why…. Such a lovely slope there — and I’m sure there’s a similar one for cars and other big ticket items. Just keep bumping up the population, ever-increasing the regulations and what “must be included” like $40k of solar panels and letting your investor friends with direct lines to the money printers going brrrrrr buy up real estate for investment.
This is fine.
I wish they included average home size of the houses sold.
Everyone leaves that variable out. It’s almost conspicuous. At the same time home have increased in size, family size has reduced.
I’d be curious about that as well. As a counterpoint, you have the rise of the tiny houses movement, and (locally) quite a few smaller townhouses and condos being put into areas that used to be commercial/apartment buildings.
2 beds, 1 bath, 750 square feet here. My opulence is almost vulgar.
What, you don’t need 6k square feet to raise one autist?
I’ve noticed browsing around Google Maps that newer housing developments really pack ’em in. Especially in the south and west. You don’t see that here in the NE much.
I wonder what is up with that.
@ZWAK – and a Suburban to shuttle him around in.
The best I could find is this:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDSQUFEEYYUS
But it only has the past 5 years which show a reduction in size. I know new construction homes have more than doubled in size since 1950, but hard to translate that into an average size sold.
@rhywun
‘Especially in the south and west. You don’t see that here in the NE much.’
There are a couple of factors. There are just way more people to pack in than when most housing was built in the North East and mid West.
But! Developers need to for more stuff in than older developments had to. In Florida we need to preserve wetlands, build storm water ponds, parks, schools, etc. when building new developments. This squeezes margins and so the remaining land needs to be put to it’s highest use, which is housing. You also see in Florida that all new homes are multistory. The old ones are all ranches.
Developable land near to where people want to live is more dear than ever as the state and feds are protecting more and more acres every year and the easy to build sites were developed long ago. This all drives prices up and the need to fit more units on smaller acreages up.
When I was first leaving NV in 2008, they were just in the process of amending the building regs in Vegas so they could build new SFH closer together. IIRC, they were reducing the space between buildings from 8 to 5 feet. At that point it’s a fucking condo/rowhouse by any other name. By the time I returned in 2013, they were building developments under the new standard out on the very outskirts of the city. By the time I left again last year, the new developments had sprawled out so far that Pahrump was a good 15 minutes closer to “the city.” I don’t understand how that appeals to anyone. Especially since every new development there comes with a pretty hefty HOA fee. You’re effectively living in a condo, effectively paying condominium fee, but having to also shoulder all of the costs of single family homeownership on top of it.
Rhy: In my area of the south the packed in neighborhoods seem driven by retirees from up north who don’t want much yard. There are a lot of them though, I’d rather live in a singlewide on five acres than in a house in a neighborhood like that.
Towns in the Northeast and in my neck of the woods in SC resist the developers by not putting in sewer and water lines. If you have to have a well and septic on the same property, that’s at least an acre.
I’d rather live in a singlewide on five acres than in a house in a neighborhood like that.
You and me both. My dad retired onto 2.5 acres in the smoky mountains. The only problem is that he’s 5 hours away from the nearest family, which will be a pain as he ages. We’re trying to convince him to move closer to us.
Part of it is that the home value needs to be 4x the value of the lot. As land has shot through the roof in my area, there are only so many ways to make the home more valuable. Either put in solid gold toilets or have the home consume more and more of the lot. Guess which one appeals to buyers?
You can do an aerobic system with a smaller field, but it’s still going to require a bigger lot than most developers are wanting to target, and costs a lot more.
One of the places I made an offer on over in the Tyler turned out to have had conventional septic on a lot undersized for it. The field wasn’t draining properly, and the municipality required aerobic as a replacement. Would have run about 20% of the asking price to fix. Even if a crappy home inspection is money well spent.
@Lack – Yeah, more people & less available land due to regs is what I figured.
There is a right-ish planning pundit who claims that all those packed in houses are evidence of some sort of “high density” advantage. He frequently cites the example that the LA area is “higher-density” than the NYC area. Completely ignores the uses that the land is actually put to. Outer LA is oceans of packed in houses with not much else. Outer NYC is mostly older towns with established downtows and such. Anyway that guy is an idiot. I forget his name.
I’ll probably be booed, but density is the answer (or more specifically reduced red tape). Spreading everyone out so that they can have a patch of grass in front of and behind their house that they rarely use increases costs now and maintenance costs down the line.
There is no “solution,” per se. In a natural market, developers would target the dominant preferences of the local population and build accordingly. “Density” is a solution to a made up problem; namely, an artificial shortage of housing due to regulatory burdens, and an artificial surplus of money due to central bank policy, with the result of more dollars chasing a fixed supply of housing stock. Curing the illness would be preferable to treating the symptoms.
I don’t think a true market solution can be arrived at until all the regulation is dropped – which will never, ever happen.
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Is that a general rule? I’ve never seen anything along that listing anywhere I’ve looked…
In terms of buying land out west, I’ve only seen “no mobile homes” not that the house has to be worth XX% of the land price.
That’s true. I think denser housing/living would be the outcome in a freer market, but I am wrong a lot. More accurate to say we have no idea what would be built if we have been unburdened by what has been.
If a single–family house, try to find one old enough (’70s?) not to have communal mailboxes.
don’t understand how that appeals to anyone.
No other choice. “At least you’ll be building equity by owning your townhouse instead of just renting”
The most ridiculous I saw recently was 3+ story houses that were garage width (the first floor) shotgun shack with almost no separation between the houses. Basically row houses with enough air gap to not require actual fireproofing.
@fish
“Is that a general rule? I’ve never seen anything along that listing anywhere I’ve looked…
In terms of buying land out west, I’ve only seen “no mobile homes” not that the house has to be worth XX% of the land price.”
For the developer to be profitable, that’s what they target. I’ve never heard that rule of thumb, but anecdotally seems to be true. An empty single lot here is around 50-100k and homes are typically around 3-400k.
I guess that might make sense for a development. I was thinking more about random plots of empty land that might have “covenants” with the surrounding acreage.
“…density is the answer (or more specifically reduced red tape). Spreading everyone out so that they can have a patch of grass in front of and behind their house that they rarely use increases costs now and maintenance costs down the line.”
Why? What people “want” is very different than what they “need”, especially when need is determined by someone else. Many people here in these very comments want more acreage than home, while only a few want less. When you look at traditional development of cities, you have packed inner areas, and more spread out suburbs, which is a result of people aging and having additional kids. It is only recently where you see large tracts of houses packed together in distant suburbs, which is more of a factor of the cost of development/land than anything else, and still people would rather have a large house than an apartment. Look at cities and towns with low regulations for building such as Phoenix and Reno, and you see that people would rather drive an hour to work than live in a cramped home.
“French Journalist Claims Medical Report Proves Olympic Boxer Who Took Gold In Women’s Division A Man”
Revealing that a Muslim man likes to beat women isn’t exactly big news.
move on it was totally months ago
I don’t really blame the guy that much, he has chromosomal and resulting physical abnormalities that led to him being raised as a female so I can cut him a bit of slack. Those supposedly sober-minded but morally weak individuals who allowed it and encouraged it, the various rules commissions and whatnot, deserve the blame.
“he has chromosomal and resulting physical abnormalities”
Does he? I haven’t seen anything verifiable to back up that claim.
lolsnort
No matter the final vote, this election’s biggest loser may be the legacy news media – unless podcasts and twitter are banned post election.
First time homebuyers? I was in way-mart yesterday and noticed that every single employee was over 40, most were over 50. My guess is they are coming out of retirement so they can keep the lights on and feed themselves.
What the Dems have done is turn every single policy into disaster. Their economic policies are disasters committed deliberately and with malice.
What kind of fucked up person votes for that?
The person that is getting dollars shoved into their pockets by said policies
I see that at the supermarket. I’d guess over half the workers are retirement age. Old folks stocking shelves. WTF?
Scares the shit out of me.
They’re all immigrants and kids here. It was very refreshing to see that your average person is doing well enough that they don’t need to work at the grocery store in their dotage OR prime working years.
Or they’re reliable and essentially lock out young idiots with facial carvings from getting openings.
I wasn’t going to bring up all the native born hobos…
Good morning!
I cannot wait until Thursday when we get to kick off the 2028 election season!
Thursday? We started last year.
That will have to wait. Virginia has state elections in 2025.
So, continuing the interesting (to me) discussion started by Suthen on the dedthred, another book I recommend is Entrepreneurs of the Old West, which has another example similar to my “crotchety hermit who owns the mountain pass”. A group of merchants managed to negotiate passage through the lands of the notoriously difficult to work with Black Feet Tribe, who owned land through with the shortest route to New Mexico ran.
Not government agents; merchants who were looking to make a profit.
Unfortunately, one of the members of the convoy was part of a rival tribe, and he attacked (and possibly killed; I don’t remember) one or more of the Black Feet Tribe.
In the vein of ‘only a moral people’ culture certainly plays a large part in this. The primitive mentality of honor cultures and its collective guilt aspect is at the root of a lot of these problems that we, or many people, seem to be blind to.
Also, keeping separate the notions of heredity property ownership and hereditary rule over others is a good example of midwits being unable to distinguish between superficially similar but substantially different concepts. It is possible to have private ownership and freedom of movement co-exist.
In other words – people are stupid.
Thanks for the wild Laura Ingalls Wilder sighting!
Do you remember when Pa went to Royal and Almanzo’s store and pulled a cork and got wheat out of their false wall? He also paid them.
That’s exactly what I was thinking of.
Also, I look forward to writing this week’s column in which I prove the superiority of cold* SCICNCE!
*It is awfully cold… in space.
The column about fusion will be done pretty soon, right?
Can’t imagine why the black pills are common round these parts…
I do not think anyone honest can believe election like in the US are secure. Here there is no early voting, no mail votes, id needed for voting, and the results are generally known next day in most if not all European countries.
also stop using the color red for the Republicans, and blue for the Democrats. In Europe, red means left-wing.
It did here as well for a long time, particularly during the Cold War, and the red/blue divide for partisan vote maps on television was actually reversed, with Democrats being red and Republicans being blue. The modern red = Republican, blue = Democrat standard wasn’t solidified until Bush/Gore in 2000.
but why?
The Dems have always been closet commies/slavers. That was becoming too obvious circa Bush vs Gore so the MSM flipped the colors.
And. your take on the voting is correct. Our ‘democracy’ is a farce. The Dems are a hair’s breadth away from outright getting rid of voting because it is too dangerous.
Dems were butthurt about being called commies, so the networks would alternate each election. Dunno why Reagan changed their minds.
The red/blue wasn’t consistent back in my yoot.
It was like that in the US up until around 2000 when the Dems’ control of all the institutions was nearing completion.
It was customary to switch the red/blue between the parties every election until 2000, when the prolonged Bush v Gore dispute kept the color codes pretty high-profile for months instead of a few days and made them part of the party ID. Before then, nobody used them to refer to the parties outside of the election season. I don’t really recall seeing them at all except right around Election Day.
^^this.
Recurring theme for Scott Adams. Our election system is designed to be rigged and too confusing to identify all the fraud.
If Republicans win, clean elections has to be a legislative priority. No mail-ins, no early voting – tough shit if you can’t make it. And paper ballots only.
Sorta like our tax code isn’t?
I’m not a big fan but he’s right on that, if easily addressed issues that’d ensure a transparent and fair system aren’t addressed there’s a reason.
No exceptions for absentee ballots of any kind.
The WSJ and Team Red would like another word with you.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/you-can-trust-the-vote-count-election-2024-georgia-utah-republican-officials-1d5130bb?st=YSPbJV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They absolutely need to stop pretending that signatures mean anything whatsoever.
My signature depends on which hand I feel like using that day. (I grew up left-handed, went right-handed).
Yeah and I believe any marking made by your hand as intended to authenticate a document is considered your signature anyway. Scribbling “X” is perfectly legal.
Correct. So are signature stamps.
As a middle-aged lady, I believe having to run my air conditioning on Nov 5 just to not sweat like a hog at the fair is unacceptable and I will be voting accordingly.
Isn’t is in the 50s and raining in Franklin now?
No clue. I woke up sweating, set my thermostat to 63, and the AC kicked on. RVs can get stuffy, but dayum.
Just checked my weather app. It’s 60 degrees, and the overnight low was…60 degrees.
Today it appears is the last throughs of warm temps for us and the steady downward trend to winter will march on. Luckily we just finished with the new seals around all the doors and new windows over the summer. We’ve noticed a significant regulation of temps in the house and have had AC and/or heater not running now for weeks.
We are in the open-windows in the morning, closed the rest of day phase of autumn. Soon to be followed by open in the afternoon, closed rest of the day. Eventually we’ll have to turn on the heat or fire up the stove.
We got walloped here last night and the temperature went down by 15 degrees. It’s not wonderfully chill, but I’ll take it.
Dipped to the low 50s here, which is the first sub-60 temp we’ve seen all year. Might be able to sleep without having to put the AC on today if it stays overcast. If it clears up, my bedroom has a nice eastern exposure with side-by-side windows, so even though it’ll likely only be in the 70s outside, I’ll have to have the AC on to sleep.
Vote out Gaia, Father Christmas for dictator.
Alright, in and out of the polling place in six minutes and that includes taking a whiz on the way out. Not bad.
I doubt the poor volunteer trying to hand you the sticker appreciated the whiz, though…
I mean, c’mon. Put a little effort into these euphemisms.
*Sung to “Pass the Duchy”
No pee pee poo poo in the voting booth
No pee pee poo poo in the voting booth
That is so wrong!
Reminds me of Singapore….signs for “Please don’t urinate here” in the elevators.
Was the whiz taken in the voting booth?
Directly onto the ballot.
Huh, I though Whiz would have driven there, not be voided out.
My old school was my former polling place (now one of many countywide “voting centers”). It was amusing to go into the girls’ again.
My favorite for amusement was a residential garage. My favorite for convenience was a library that was 750 feet from my house.
Yes for the garage! Some time (20C) ago. Très intime.
My wish list: First day in office, Trump calls joint Congress and demands a declaration of war for every shithole country we have our troops in that isn’t on a NATO base. Force Congress to play by the rules. Second day in office, refuse to spend any money until Congress delivers a budget, within individual bills for each and every agency.
This fucking acid I am on right now is the shit!
Stop paying NGOs. All of them.
NGOs are just end runs around the constitution and other legal restrictions on government. They must be smashed.
Stinky gets it. They are an insultingly obvious cut-out so the government can do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly.
And, of course, many simple-minded libertarians go along because “muh private organization!”
I see them as somewhat analogous to the Five Eyes spying system and the information sharing between the members, a brazen workaround that ensures abuse.
Yes Stinky!
NGO means non-governmental organization. So NO governmental money.
Going to Hell in a Bucket (but at least I’m enjoying the ride) – Grateful Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Bs4xhDyxw
One of my favorite Dead tunes there, solid choice for Erection Day.
Ship of Fools? US Blues? Looks Like Rain?
Wait, I got it.
Perfect
Good piece…but I’m not copy/pasting while the formatting is still broke.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/its-time-to-reclaim-the-west-from-federal-control/
Finely engineered Swiss-made suicide pod malfunctions, kills user:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/shes-still-alive-sarco-suicide-pod-user-found-strangulation-marks-boss-custody/
suicide pods is totes evidence we are living in Sci-Fi times
end result is still the same…
Sounds more like “dude strangles woman, uses suicide pod as alibi.” Nitrogen asphyxiation damn sure doesn’t cause strangulation marks.
Sounds like they had to go into backup mode, and use the manual system.
? It reads like she was strangled.
“Suicide booth tech support, what seems to be the problem?”
“Well, I pushed the button a while ago, but I’m still alive.”
“We’ll get a tech down there shortly to take care of that.”
I agree with Banjos, assuming the powers that be give up and let him have it. Part of me thinks they will steal it openly and dare anyone to question it. I guess we will see.
I’ll be the asshole and say I think you’re both thoroughly delusional. No Republican has won the popular vote since GWB in 2004 (thank you for that correction the other day, whoever that was), and prior to that it was Reagan. Even if Trump ekes out a win in PA, MI and/or WI, it’s going to be the same razor thin margins as in 2016 when he lost the popular vote by ~2%, and it’ll give him about the same electoral margin as 2016, even if he gets NV.
Then again, I do stand to pocket a couple hundred bucks if Harris wins the popular vote by the same margin as every Democratic candidate for the last 20 years, so I’m not entirely neutral.
It is very in poor taste of you people to schedule elections on a Tuesday as election days are drinking days but one should not drink on Tuesdays
We cast off the shackles of the British empire so that we could drink on any day we damn well feel like it.
I think around here today is a unofficial day off so….drinking day.
We have a few of those. Opening of hunting seasons…voting days….
Today’s the daaaaaaaay!
Well. Today’s the beginning of the next 3 months of arguing and lawfare. No matter who wins, we lose.
3 months? We are still squabbling about 2020
More like 2016.
That’s the spirit!
I agree with Banjos, assuming the powers that be give up and let him have it. Part of me thinks they will steal it openly and dare anyone to question it. I guess we will see.
The headlines are full of “Trump is preparing to steal the election” which will allow them to say “See, we told you so” if he wins.
A clear popular vote win would be a nice combo (kinda like 2004).
Yep
And if the shenanigans are obvious and people raise hell they lay the ground for branding them election deniers. It’s all about introducing ambiguity and muddying the waters.
Happy Election Day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I&pp=ygUSZXZlIG9mIGRlc3RydWN0aW9u
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5aKwrsYIM&pp=ygUUYXJjYWRpYSBlbGVjdGlvbiBkYXk%3D
Francisco Oliveira is a hair prosthesis specialist. He creates and styles hair additions that go much beyond a simple wig, especially for kids who experienced accidents or serious illness
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1853801248903839993
Fun fact.
There’s a lake in Finland called Neitokainen whose shape is very similar to the geographic shape of Finland.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1853788083663094226
Voted at 8:45 AM. Straight (R). Half an hour wait in line, but an hour earlier it was an hour long line. Surprised, as I think PA already had about 50% early voting.
Maybe those low propensity voters that Trump’s counting on are showing up.
That was first voting. What about second voting? And elevenses ?
Some people are waiting to vote later this week.
Only 50%? I would have thought Penn would be at 213% by now.
They only start heading for that percentage until after the polls are closed and they know the size of the deficit they have to overcome.
Vote for the Party Party
Exceedingly rare — a useful article from Slate
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/election-results-when-polls-close-trump-harris-2024.html
“the NY Times tech staff Guild proposed a ban on scented products in break rooms, unlimited break time, and accommodations for pet bereavement, as well as mandatory trigger warnings in company meetings discussing events in the news.”
At least they are focusing on the important stuff
You can mock me mercilessly if I am wrong
Even better, I’ll take cash from your husband. That’s like a Jewish orgasm.
Vintage portable computer from 1987
Compaq Portable |l model 2660,
https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1853786450736681302
The moment a two year old Brown bear is released back into the wild after rehabilitation in Armenia
https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1853774914492223867
That bear is pissed, now.
Went to the polls at about 0630. Eight election workers, two voters (including me). Zero wait, obviously. Machines worked fine, took and tabulated my ballot with no issue.
Got chatted up by our former mayor who offered me several extra “I voted” stickers since she thought my crack about The Chicago Way was actually pretty funny.
Do you still have classes to make up after this?
Never managed to make my early voting in VA – still stuck on base in Norfolk…hopefully not for too much longer…turned in my rental yesterday so no way to get back to my county even if I cared enough.
First class of the day is at 0820. And it’s a bit warmer today so the girls were in short shorts.
I thought voting in New York does not matter.
Local elections do.
what are the stakes?
Property taxes and several different layers of regulation.
Property taxes – if it is for a good cause like education those should definitely be increased
Went to the polls at about 0630. Eight election workers, two voters (including me). Zero wait, obviously. – all the students were busy revising before class
They give you a sticker, you give them a sticker book?
Lecture on democracy
The last two presidential elections have raised serious questions about the strength of American democracy and, unfortunately, Tuesday’s election may deepen these concerns. Central to this issue is the electoral college, which allows Americans to elect their president indirectly through state-appointed electors. Though the electoral college has stirred controversy for more than 200 years, Donald Trump’s 2016 victory – despite losing the popular vote by 3 million – intensified the sense that the system undermines democratic principles. It would be gut-wrenching to see the unhinged, vengeful and power-hungry Mr Trump win because of the electoral college’s antidemocratic result.
Yet that might happen. Post-civil war, four presidents – all Republicans – have lost the popular vote yet won the White House via the electoral college. Mr Trump’s 2024 campaign has seemed intent on repeating this feat or creating enough chaos to push the election to the House of Representatives, where Republican delegations are likely to prevail. His strategy relies on divisive rhetoric, marked by inflammatory and often discriminatory themes. Rather than bridging divides, he aims to deepen them – seeking an electoral college win by rallying his most fervent supporters.
Fascinating. What does your king say?
Uh..that is the only way to win. I know they know that, but FFS.
“the electoral college has stirred controversy for more than 200 years”
Has it? I don’t recall whining about it until the left started reliably winning the popular vote.
There was that pesky election back in 1800.
“His strategy relies on divisive rhetoric, marked by inflammatory and often discriminatory themes.”
How is this a strategy for winning the electoral college?
Since watching the electronic count decrease for Trump by 100k votes on live tv in VA for 2020, I’ve thought voting is just theater. The counts will be manipulated either electronically or by pausing counting to manufacture enough ballots. No such thing as margin of fraud when you can delete or add a hundred thousand votes with a button.
SSD prediction: Kamala will be declared the winner… after several days of “counting” if needed.
Since watching the electronic count decrease for Trump by 100k votes on live tv in VA for 2020, I’ve thought voting is just theater.
I’m inclined to agree, but I don’t feel that there are any other non-violent avenues left to express my displeasure at the left’s dismantling of our society.
I have done my shameful business and voted, in and out in ~ 5 minutes.
Mostly “write-in: None of the above” and “No” to the state ballot questions.
I waffled but finally went Trump/Vance – my vote doesn’t matter in MA but the outside chance of a popular vote win is too delicious to pass up on – it would (hopefully) shut everyone up about eliminating the Electoral College for a while.
The old biddie was take aback when I waved off the sticker – “You’re the first refusal today”. I passed on sharing my thoughts (“That’s depressing”) or giving her my best Bill Burr (“What am I, 6? ‘Ohhh, a sticker!'”).
I used to refer to going #2 as evacuating, but from now on whenever I go to the toilet I shall refer to it as Voting.
In that case I voted X2 this morning without ever leaving home
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
Halloween Party Gravy Fountain
https://x.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1851027808677462340
too much non meat
That should be BBQ sauce, not gravy.
Agreed. Also way too many roast potatoes.
Totally forgot today is Guy Fawkes Day
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November
Also, let’s pretend the movie doesn’t exist, but…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
Penny for the guy!
The movie was necessary to prove that Natalie Portman is a smokeshow even with a buzz cut.
Seconded
“Remember, remember…”?
Oh, and 🎇 🎆 .
Because we need some humor today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1gk3x5p/oc_i_present_you_my_hometown/
Meh, I think Larry at AMMONYC can that buffed out.
I took the sticker from the nice election worker. My granddaughter likes stickers and she can’t read yet anyway.
Much like the poll worker who handed it out.
I took mine, too. No need to unnecessarily aggravate one of my neighbors over a sticker. It’s currently stuck to one of my daughter’s barbies.
She’s doing an election in barbie land, complete with each person getting to vote up to 10 times. I havent asked how the dead barbies voted yet, but there was some mild controversy when one of the teenaged female dolls “accidentally” voted yes on the abortion amendment.
In Romania they put the sticker on the ID card, they don’t even ask. You can peel it off after.
I snuck past the sticker table when the old lady wasn’t looking.
Put the sticker on the toilet on the way out
The great American realignment
[insert the shopworn Heinlein quotation]
‘social conservatives’ for after birth abortions and men in the women’s room?
What exactly are they fighting anymore then?
ARRRGGGG!!!!
I figured I’d use some of my accumulating audible credits to get something to fill the silence working remote, but I forgot that the software I use to download and convert my audiobooks to a usable format (OpenAudible) has its repository on my NAS – which is still out of service until the replacement RAM arrives!
I could reconfigure it to use some other spot, but then I’d have to swap it back once I fix everything. Which should be this evening if the tracking is correct.
How big is the repo? If it’s not ridiculous you could just clone it from the source to your local computer in the meantime. Or just download the binary.
The backup of the local repository is 135GB.
It’s not the executable, it’s the .aac and .aax files.
I am an idiot.
I have the complete repository in the backup. I can just change the path. It’s not like I can’t synch the backup of the repository back to the NAS when that’s back online.
Here is my annual voting song.
https://youtu.be/R2I2mK_3_ns
Nice! I may save that one.
This is my election song.
https://youtu.be/YYtBF1OVciU
One for KK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Yy6c0Tlvk&ab_channel=DJNovyChannel
You both used much more positive songs.
Here is a flashback to a less stupid and more hopeful time. Remember it’s happening.
https://youtu.be/q7Ol-YDS4Jc
Unrelated to the election (I think?) I woke up in pissed-off mood, which is out of character.
Trying not to snap at anyone at work.
For days like that…I usually refer to this *NSFW – bad language*
Yesssss! Let it flow through you!
/Anger can be power
🎶 Anger is an energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA
The Clash – Clampdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lt4O-EHNnw
I guess Brittney Mahomes’s liking-a-Trump-post was not an accident. Mama Mahomes was showing off her MAGA hat. Of all the people in the freaking world I thought would be Trumpsters, it would NOT have been the Mahomes.
I’mma go take a shower, go vote, and then bury my head until tomorrow. Months ago, I was determind not to bother, but we’ve got Josh Hawley and transing kids* (under the banner of abortion) on the ballot, so here I go. *Thanks, Trashy for pointing out that it was a transing kids bill as much as/more than an abortion bill.
Josh Hawley
That was the race I was most tempted to vote libertarian on. I find both the candidates insufferable.
You weren’t here for Claire McCaskill. Trust me, it’s an upgrade.
“I’mma go take a shower, go vote,”
I usually shower after I vote.
Speaking of bizarre authoritarian fantasies
Her message has been consistent, but Kamala Harris has in the closing days of the presidential race dropped two notable words from her stump speech: Donald Trump.
The former president’s name was again absent from the vice president’s speeches on Monday night in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where she promised voters a clean break from the discord of the Trump era in American politics.
“We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics that has been driven by fear and division,” Harris said in her campaign finale. “We are done with that. We’re done. We’re exhausted with it.”
——-
In the final speeches of her short but dramatic, 107-day campaign, Harris again offered voters the promise of a kinder, more compassionate country. Trump’s “enemies list,” she insisted, was poised to be supplanted by her “to-do list.” Speaking from the “Rocky” steps in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, she ticked off policy proposals, headlined by an ambitious plan to expand home health care for seniors, and gave a neatly polished review of her biography, but mostly focused on vibes.
Bad ones, in particular, that she promised to excise.
“America is ready for a fresh start,” Harris said. “Ready for a new way forward where we see our fellow American, not as an enemy, but as a neighbor.”
Or else.
Is she planning to disappear Donald Trump and put his supporters to the sword as a sign of her devotion to a new, more inclusive and open American dream?
We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page
said the sitting vice president.
The fact the de facto incumbent is running on “change” and everyone is going along with it is wild.
There has been a lot of noise about Trump being disqualified, a convicted felon etc.
There have also been rumblings to that effect aboutTrump supporters.
Many on the left fantasize about getting rid of Trump and his supporters. If it weren’t for the 2A I have a sneaking suspicion we would be full-on with the purges.
I voted, busy already but not a big line.
Proudly wearing my “I voted sticker”. Just kidding. I didn’t have the heart to decline it from the nice church lady so I tossed it when I got home.
Voted “yes” on the amendment only allowing U.S. citizens to vote in SC elections. “No” on the higher sales tax to fix roads – fuck you cut spending.
I was thinking that if I get really bored, I may try to get a ballot initiative going for the next election. Four words:
“Fuck you. Cut spending.”
I bet I could get enough signatures to qualify.
Our sticker has a cartoon crawfish on it so I am keeping it, not wearing it.
Just voted. showed ID, signed my name, voted. Workers were about half and half black and white, wife and I were the only white people voting at that moment.
Noticed that the Socialist Worker’s Party candidate is named Fruit. You cant make this stuff up. What’s with that? There seems to be an inordinate number of public figures whose names are…what do you call that? Like a Mr. Malaprop name…a character whose name hints at their character? There is a word for that.
There is a word for that. – I think it is multiple words. “nominative determinism” is two words and sort of fits.
Thank you.
“Workers were about half and half black and white…”
Like so?
You were there?! Dude, you aren’t supposed to bring phones in the polling place and definitely not taking photos.
Well we’ve had a vegetable in the White House for four years.
“Workers were about half and half black and white”
Mulatto poll workers in Louisiana sounds . . . about right.
I drove past my purported voting place on my way into work. The only sign was for a dance and bingo night. There were sufficiently many cars in the parking lot to let me know it’s the right place.
Robert A. Heinlein’s Crazy Years.
https://orangeraisin.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/robert-a-heinleins-crazy-years/
” So many casual killings in public streets and public parks and public transports that most lawful citizens avoided going out after dark…
Public school teachers and state university professors who taught that patriotism was an obsolete concept, that marriage was an obsolete concept, that sin was an obsolete concept, that politeness was an obsolete concept – that the United States itself was an obsolete concept…
Cocaine and heroin called “recreational drugs”, felony theft called “joyriding” … felonious assault by gangs called “muggings”, and the reaction to all these crimes was “boys will be boys”, so scold them and put them on probation but don’t ruin their lives by treating them as criminals…
Millions of women who found it more rewarding to have babies out of wedlock than it would be to get married or to go to work…”
I think the boys will be boys only works for non-white boys
There is a term for that also – demoralization.
lol True.
I can accept “the reformation in sexual morals that progressives are now working to lock in: open homosexuality, gender fluidity, ‘sex work’ as a respected career” – except when the “progressives” target all that stuff at children. I wonder what Heinlein would say about that.
I wonder what Heinlein would say about that. – likely “ephebophilia is not pedophilia”
Ugh. my FWB just texted me to ask if I voted for Kammy.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
“It’s a SECRET ballot!”
“Wait, was that today?”
You are an engineer. Engineers don’t get FWB.
She was planning to stop by tomorrow while her kid is in Hebrew school. We’ll see if that happens.
Did you let her know you’re in New York, so it doesn’t actually matter who you voted for?
I actually did. I also told her that I was raised such that asking that question was extremely rude, and she apologized.
Sounds like she earned some spankings.
With apologies for the source:
For lack of a better descriptor that would be easily understood by anyone who isn’t a navel gazing would-be political philosopher, I identified myself as a libertarian to the young lady I was seeing off and on until recently. She asked me if I leaned more Republican or Democrat. Being sure to note the false dichotomy, I said I’d more often than not vote Republican if I had to select from only those two choices. She responded with “Ugh. I don’t really care, I just hate Donald Trump.” I said “I honestly have no idea how he inspires such strong feelings from people, either for or against.”
Two things people hate most: Truth and responsibility. Even evil people want to think they are good people. That gut reaction of fear and loathing people show for trump is actually evidence that the guy is genuinely who he appears to be and believes that what he says is true. He generally is right. Thus the hatred.
Virtue signaller: “I beleive in positive rights!”
Truth guy: “That is the bs rationalization of a criminal.”
Virtue signaller: “I fucking hate you”
My favorite line for the I hate Donald Trump crowd is, “like the song says, there is a thin line between love and hate. There are many things shared between Trump lovers and haters. I am fairly ambivalent about him, but highly dislike the general direction of the Dem party.”
“I thought this arrangement meant I could fuck without having to listen to you.”
Team Blue is running ads implying that husbands are trying to control wives’ votes while at the same time saying it’s OK for women to hector their male partner to vote a certain way and dump them if they don’t.
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
And these people try to claim the moral high ground. The whole movement is demonic.
That must be some of that voter intimidation we’ve heard about.
I’m not voting. Not only is MA set up so that one office in the state government has the power to arbitrarily decide who or what initiative ‘won’ an election, but the ballot was a shit show of evil bastards or stupid initiatives.
I’m going about my normal Tuesday routine with a clear conscience.
Having moved to a small town last year, I declined to register so as to minimize my chances of being called for jury duty. I’ve never voted for a winning presidential candidate anyway, and only one winning representative. I’m confident the erstwhile republic of Texas will get along OK without my civic contribution. I’m sure Harris/Walz can count on my vote in Nevada, though.
“Did you vote?
“No”
“Why not, you should, you know”
“It would just cancel out your vote and you’re my friend. I didn’t want to do that”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker also addressed a crowd that watched Gov. Tim Walz, the vice presidential nominee, follow Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in Detroit, where he delivered a pointed message to male voters.
“I want you to think about the women in your life that you love,” he said. “Their lives are at stake in this election.”
Winfrey, in Philadelphia, described a similarly dire outcome if Trump prevailed on Tuesday.
“If we don’t show up tomorrow,” she said, “it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.”
Party of hope love and reconciliation.
Wearing an “I voted” sticker is harmless. Like getting a sucker at the bank.
I did ask for a lollypop instead of a sticker. It got a chuckle out of the poll lady.
We had our choice of two. I got one with an eagle on it.
I should ask for the one in Vietnamese.
I am not confrontational so I just take the sticker and walk out. Toss it when I get home.
Civic duty, my foot. Stay home rather than just guess. This isn’t the SATs.
I was issued a new credit card due to bureaucracy. It appears to have cleared my history for fraud protection resulting in alerts for long running activities. What did it flag? Not groceries, gas, or retail. It was my recurring charitable donations to Pacific Legal Foundation and St Jude. I’m expecting IJ to hit next.
NYT remains true to form:
It’s not about the squirrel, you stupid bint. It’s about people kicking down the door, holding the occupants hostage, and destroying their property – and not being punished for it.
You don’t understand what an unlicensed squirrel could do to a city.
Squirrel Dies; Women and Children Hardest Hit
Republican squirrels pounce?
I suspect my kitten is Republican too.
Want to know how to piss away your self-ownership? One seatbelt law, one environmental regulation, one sin tax, one euthanized squirrel at a time. That’s how.
In England they want everyone to register their chickens with the government. Every individual chicken and re-register every year.
There is no rule, regulation, law no matter how minute or intrusive for which someone cant make some kind of justification. There is no way to rule innocent men.
“Gradually, then suddenly.”
Republicans Pounce on Dead Squirrel
2020 script has been pulled forward. *sigh*
Come from behind victory
Early vote returns in U.S. battleground states may not be a good indicator of whether Democratic candidate Kamala Harris or Republican rival Donald Trump will win, experts say, thanks to vote counting rules and quirks in several key states.
In the 2020 election, some states showed a “red mirage,” in which Trump was leading on election night, before a “blue shift” saw Democrat Joe Biden overtake him as mail-in ballots favored by more Democratic voters were counted.
Experts had accurately predicted it would happen but Trump still used the shift to amplify his false claims that the election was stolen.
The hand is quicker than the eye.
“quirks” 🙄
“false claims”
If only Joe had been able to outright institute a ministry of truth.
“Blue Shift” has been a thing since before the 2020 election, and I’m convinced it is a sign that fraud on a smaller scale has been going on for some time now. The Dems have been playing a long game, establishing “blue shift” as an expected and reasonable thing, preparing the ground for a point when they can plausibly commit massive fraud. Like today.
She was planning to stop by tomorrow while her kid is in Hebrew school. We’ll see if that happens.
Murmur “I voted for Trump’ in her ear, and let her buck.
Prediction if Trump wins. The House will immediately file articles of impeachment based on the felony conviction and other lawfare cases against Trump. Possibly, he will be in jail during the time between the election and his inauguration.
He won’t.
In the unlikely event the tally is in his favor in 3-4 weeks after the counting, re-counting, and court cases are resolved, my prediction is the IC finally sacks up and puts a pro on the job, plugs Trump, Vance is charged with conspiracy under some legal construction even more whimsical than Bragg’s, alternate electors suddenly become a necessary salve for our wounded democracy instead of insurrectionist totalitarianism, Kammy gets installed, and nothing else happens.
But that’s all highly improbable compared to PA spending the next 2-3 weeks curing ballots until they get Harris over the line.
Harder to assassinate him in a jail cell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+ 1 Epstein
No, not really
Trump would be suicided during a camera malfunction.
Got our voting done. Mrs. TOK had an hour wait, mine was about 40 minutes. I had a moment of silence for Peanut the Squirrel before I filled out my ballot.
Since I have a throw-away-vote, P’Nut might just be my write in instead of Goldwater.
They aren’t counted if they’re not official write-in candidates; id est, no one is listening.
Ron Paul ’08, le purr, le sigh.
I checked Indiana law because a friend wrote me in for school board. Here, local and state elections require a person to file as a write-in candidate. That is not required for federal elections.
Good to know, Kevin.
Like Banjos, I have been predicting a Trump win for a while (since the day they got their precious mugshot). I think he may even squeak the popular vote, which I am very much rooting for as I want the “end the EC” idiocy to stop. I’m hoping for a Trump win as I may get a bit more of what I want to see, and I am very much hoping for a knock out drag down inter party fight in the Dems over the proggies leading them astray. Yes, I know it’s more likely they look elsewhere for blame, but the bigwigs that donate all the cash might have other things to say. Let’s see.
Lots of local stuff to vote on. The usual douchebags are trying to ban mountain lion hunting. Apparently the state euthanizing them when the population explodes is preferable to these nitwits than hunters taking a few. There is also a question regarding ranked choice voting and some fund the cops virtue signalling. And once again, the State is trying to end around the property tax rules.
I get that it’s cool not to vote, but some of this down ballot stuff affects me directly, so defensive voting makes sense to me anyway.
My question if Kammy wins: what’s the illegals tipping point? Can we really absorb millions more?
Can we really absorb millions more? – define absorb
Food, housing, medical, benefits, employment.
I know what the answer is, I’m just wondering what the ultimate number that speeds the collapse.
I say aim for an even hunnert mill
That depends on a lot on who you mean by “we.” If by “we” you mean NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Arlington, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, then certainly not. If, on the other hand, by “we” you mean the entire states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, then “we” can handle it no problem.
Either way expect the cost of housing to shoot up even more.
How does that follow? It’s not the space, it’s the tax base. Who the fuck should pay?
Perhaps a /sarc tag was needed. What I meant is, so long as the policymakers don’t have to deal with it in their enclaves, we can absorb as many immigrants as exist. See: NYC shitting the bed over having to accommodate the number of “migrants” that a US-Mexico border state typically handles in a month.
California is of course way ahead of Rocky Mountain California in this issue, mountain lion hunting has been banned here for fifteen years or more. As easily was predicted the population has soared and they have been losing their fear of humans. A teenager was killed last year in the Sierras by one. But it makes the Sierra Club and other enviros happy so it will never be rescinded. Always forward comrade, always forward.
Tedious, isn’t it? The wolves that the dipshits “reintroduced” are loving the all-youcan-eat buffet that is the CO ranching industry.
I’d like to think that when the apex predators start chewing up family pets or children that these shitheads will see the light.
But I know better.
Cops have been shooting dogs and flashbanging babies for years now.
Oh, you were referring to wolves and mountain lions.
My question if Kammy wins: what’s the illegals tipping point? Can we really absorb millions more?
Total immigrant population at 25%? 30%? Something like that. At that point, there’s no shared culture or values, so it’ll be an even lower trust society than we have now.
Well eventually there will be a shared culture, it just won’t be one that has been in place for a couple centuries.
Reverse Texas.
Sorry, Tejas.
Funny how the stock chart trends down as the info from FERC leaks out before the official announcement.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/nuclear-energys-ai-boom-blew-a-fuseheres-what-could-happen-next-aecb9724?st=L8D5Wg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
MSNBC trying its best to make this a thing:
All while finding hidden apostrophes.
They have wanted to have somebody check out how this was going to work in English speaking markets.
“Suzuki’s electric SUV also features an AWD “ALLGRIP-e” system for off-road capabilities and added performance.”
https://electrek.co/2024/11/04/suzuki-unveils-first-electric-suv-re-badged-toyota/
342 miles if it’s being towed, maybe.
All gripe?
¿El Chevy que no va?
Hour and half wait to vote this morning and I was in line just before the polls opened.
Big turn out.
*affixes I voted sticker to dealer license plate surround*
That discussion of the license plate surround was hilarious. I have these on my vehicles:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YZFM2FQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
Highly recommended.
I added their side loading one and some anti theft screws to my Amazon shopping list after Trashy shamed me yesterday.
The dealer one is starting to show it’s age anyway.
My plates are bolted directly to the front bumper and trunk lid at the designated threaded points in the high quality ballistic ABS plastic. The hell do you need a plate surround for?
Pat – On wife’s white car they look better and I wanted something there so the plate didn’t directly contact the paint and rub through.
Tesla before they cheaped out gave me a nice stainless steel frame for the rear. It’s the only place on the car that says “Model 3”. I kept it as I considered it “part” of the intended design of the car.
Do you have any two screw only mountings? My rear one is that way and wondering if it would flop. Otherwise you’ve sold me.
Gustave, you can get a 2 screw bracket that provides a four screw mount for the plate. That’s what I did on the front bumper of my daughter’s Outback.
I kinda like when a used car has the old dealer sticker on it. Especially if the deal is half way across the country.
My Ranger has a sticker from some dealership in AR, I left it on. Right next to “my other ride is your mom” sticker
In the interest of full disclosure I drive a 2006 Hyundai Elantra whose paint I wouldn’t have cared about even before the topcoat failed well over a decade ago (it was peeling and starting to go when I bought the thing; needs repainting presently).
I did not know drilling holes in the front bumper was considered blasphemy by Mustang owners. When I bought my 17′ GT I asked the salesman where the bracket was for the front plate. He told me they will only drill holes in the front bumper of Mustang’s by request. I took his advice and bought a no drill front plate bracket.
https://ccmustangbrackets.com/
I made the dealer remove all of their stickers, plates, and surrounds before picking up my wife’s car. They put a dealer plate surround on it after the first “free” service and my wife ripped the service manager a new asshole.
1. Chutzpah on dealer service department
2. Kudos on your wife noticing. No way my wife would notice until I came home and said WTF?
Reading on a local Reddit where the service dept trashed their current frames (vintage from a former dealership that belonged to the driver’s family). Apparently some dealerships think it’s perfectly ok to do that shit.
She is the service manager’s worst nightmare. She still holds a grudge against Mazda for a infotainment system update issue. The service manager told her her issues were not real problems and she must have been unfamiliar with using it. “it’s fine we when check it”
She called the service manger every day the issue happened and documented it via video. They eventually discovered that they fuxxed up the system update and then provided free oil change service for 5 years.
Palantir Technologies Inc is up 20%. Does this mean Kami wins and moar war, or that Trump wins cause Thiel is a Trup guy ?
Just to be clear: it is Kami not Kammy, because she is a goddess.
You misspelled Kali.
Kali is my NAS.
Hopefully it reincarnates.
I use Open Media Vault. I would have taken you for a TrueNAS man.
It’s an ubuntu server which runs PiHole and Samba, it manages the RAID array in software. (Gasp! Shock!)
Ha, nice. That’s almost my exact setup as well. OMV, Debian base, software RAID encrypted LVM. Samba and NFS shares, and containers for Pi-Hole and qbittorrent.
Kali?
https://www.amazon.com/Song-Kali-Dan-Simmons/dp/031286583X
Anyone else read this one?
I liked it a lot.
I did, Ron. Good book.
From Johnstown, PA. All the flash drives on the ballot counting machines need to be replaced in Cambria county. They’re not counting the votes. Source Dave Luciew:
https://x.com/JohnLuciew/status/1853788874067099948
Damn bad luck
They use only the highest quality Chinese made flash memory!
Cum se spune “kibitz” (idiș) in romana?
well I dunno pălăvrăgi probably… talking unimportant random things…
Come se dice “autistic”?
you got it in one
Come se dice “frequent and unsolicited commentary from an unimportant country”?
Cum at fi sa iti bagi o drujba ruginita in cur. It is a rough translation.
“What would it be like to stick a rusty chainsaw in your ass”
You say the cutest things.
Here to help
Constellation Energy stock (CEG) fell 12.5% Monday amid a broader decline in nuclear power stocks following the US government’s rejection of another Big Tech nuclear power agreement late Friday.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected a proposal from a grid operator, PJM, to ramp up the amount of power supplied through the grid from Talen Energy (TLN) to an Amazon (AMZN) artificial intelligence data center. Talen said in a statement on Sunday it believes the FERC “erred” in its ruling, adding the company is “evaluating our options, with a focus on commercial solutions.”
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Still, red tape plagues the industry. Nuclear projects have been subject to stringent regulations in response to high-profile global nuclear meltdowns at Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and Fukushima in 2011.
On average, it takes the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 80 months to approve nuclear plant construction in the US, according to research cited by Canaccord Genuity.
The FERC said in its filing Friday that it rejected the Amazon nuclear power agreement due in part to concerns that it could threaten the reliability of the power grid and raise energy costs for the public.
Yeah, that must be it.
Makes good sense. Additional supply tends to drive up prices and reduce reliability in every other industry, after all.
will win at least one surprise state (most likely NH or Minnesota, maybe even Maine).
I can go either way on NH.
No idea on MN.
Maine allocates electoral college votes by congressional district with two for statewide. Every prediction I’ve seen has said Trump will get one from Maine for the more Republican congressional district, CD-2. There is exactly zero chance he gets the statewide two votes or the CD-1 vote.
Adding my thoughts to the questions about the security of “our election system” upthread:
We do not have an “election system.” We have fifty different election systems, and several subsystems inside those 50, based on geography and the demographics of the people who live there. That will always cause people to question the integrity of elections. And no, I’m not calling for a national system, with the fedgov being able to dictate how states handle their elections.* I’m just pointing out that we are set up different than most places. Also, I think many of the problems we have are caused by the partisan management of our state systems, with many state SoS positions being elected. I’m not sure that’s a way to ensure election integrity. It’s akin to thew people in city councils being the ones who sit across the negotiating table from the pubsec unions who donated a ton of money to their campaigns the year before. It’s flawed when partisans have the ability to set up/manage the electoral systems in ways that are designed to help their party gain more control rather than ensure a fee and fair election that can be monitored by anybody who wants to.
*What I am calling for is for people who engage in electoral malfeasance to be charged, prosecuted, convicted, then strung up on lampposts outside poling locations for all to see.
Individual states yet somehow we all eventually adopted the Australian ballot. It’s possible to move the herd.
Fair enough, sloopy. And there is the Constitutional issue (I know, I know), which is kind of a mess. State legislatures choose the times, places, and manner of holding elections for the House and the Senate, subject to Congress’ authority to amend state regulations.
For federal elections, I would like to see
Voter registration expires after two years and must be renewed.
Only citizens are allowed to vote and must show ID.
Ballots can be printed in English only
Only absentee ballots can be mailed in, and must be picked up in person with a show of ID and a sworn affidavit
Paper ballots only, and when counted are stamped in some way. A recount gets another, separate stamp.
I could go for two or three days for voting (Monday and maybe the Sunday before Election Day), but a national holiday and one day for voting would be better.
It would be hard to add, but “Any ballots not tallied by [insert time here] on [insert date here] are null and void” as a Constitutional amendment forcing States to get their shit in order.
RAW EGG NATIONALIST
@Babygravy9
India sends Dharma power to Trump!
https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1853793971966705809
Well, that cinches it. Kamala cant beat that.
My prediction of Trump wins (and maybe if he doesn’t): Joe issues pardons for Trump, Hunter, Kamala and Nancy.
Several new bacteria have been discovered with the smallest known genomes to date – just 359 genes!
Their genomes are so small they can’t even metabolise carbohydrates, instead relying on breaking down arginine, which provides a tiny amount of energy.
https://x.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1853731312286257442
Oh boy
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1gk3x5p/oc_i_present_you_my_hometown/
That’s gonna leave a mark.
I posted that up thread for a bit of levity needed today.
Who could have seen it coming?
Dammit, I missed that.
Was wondering what was going to happen. Then bam.
Gustave – Take a look at my Kanye post below….
Job one
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has closed a probe into 411,000 Ford (F.N), opens new tab SUVs and pickup trucks over a potentially defective engine that could lose power without warning.
In July 2022, the U.S. auto safety regulator opened its investigation into Ford Bronco vehicles equipped with 2.7L EcoBoost engines over concerns of a faulty valvetrain.
The probe was expanded later to include other models including the Ford Edge, F-150, Explorer and Lincoln Aviator and Nautilus vehicles with 2.7L or 3.0L EcoBoost engines from the 2021 and 2022 model years.
Under normal driving conditions and without warning, vehicles may lose power and be unable to restart due to a faulty valve. NHTSA said it had 1,066 unique vehicle reports of the issue.
In August, Ford recalled 90,000 vehicles after the automaker determined not all valves produced were defective, and that most failures occurred in vehicles that had been in use for a short time.
Ford’s recall fix includes a dealer inspection and a test to determine if the vehicle has not met a minimum usage level to identify if it was equipped with defective valves.
“If it hasn’t failed by now, it’s probably okay.”
Presumably that’s a variable valve timing issue.
We were watching free TV on the Roku channel yesterday, and there was a commercial with an elderly gentleman talking about immigration. Turns out immigrants are a net plus for the economy, and that includes illegal immigrants! And anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Try as we might, we can’t seem to get a relaxing night of mindless TV.
Kanye living up to expectations on many levels here.
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/celebrities/2024/11/04/6729238fe2704e482a8b45e0.html
I have to say, Kamala is a lot more talented than we give her credit for. She’s somehow losing votes of Jews AND Muslims. She might have also finally opened the eyes of minorities, who to some degree have realized the Dems have been taking advantage of them this whole time.
The internet is a thing now. Pro-Israel in PA, Pro-Hamas in MI might not work so well.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/02/us-news/harris-campaign-uses-different-messages-on-israel-hamas-war-to-jewish-arab-american-voters/
For us sure, these people will blissfully wish away any inconsistencies encountered.
The Trump campaign should have run those ads in the “wrong” markets. Preferably back-to-back.
Ford said the engine valves cracked and fell into the combustion chamber of the engine causing catastrophic engine damage and said the issue was due to valves that exceeded the designed specification for hardness, were brittle, and more likely to break, citing the supplier’s manufacturing processes, according to the NHTSA statement.
WTF? “valve” = fuel injector? Did the cylinder then fill with fuel, lock up solid and bend the rod?
https://www.aa1car.com/library/ford_engine_valve_failure.htm#google_vignette
Stem breaks, the keepers fall off the valve drops into the cylinder.
‘Too much grief and no joy’: This couple plans to return to the US after their dream life in France became a ‘nightmare’
https://www.cnn.com/travel/us-couple-dream-life-france-became-nightmare/index.html
TLDR – SF DINK couple unhappy with the socialist paradise they picked for their retirement. Loved this bit:
Before leaving the US, the couple made the decision to hold onto their rent-controlled apartment, which Joanna had lived in for over 40 years, in San Francisco, just in case things didn’t go to plan.
So they can keep the rent-controlled rate on an apartment that isn’t their residence?
Charitably, I assume they hadn’t yet officially changed their residency and elected to keep it while doing so.
Of course reality may very likely be different. It most certainly is in NYC where rent control wiped out the middle classes in the city.
What could possibly go wrong?
Despite the bump, homeowners are still being pretty cautious.
They are sitting on a little over $17 trillion in total equity collectively. Roughly $11 trillion of that is tappable, meaning homeowners could borrow on it as long as 20% equity would remain in the home, as most lenders require. The average homeowner now has $319,000 of equity in their home, of which $207,000 is tappable.
Kamalanomics, here we come.
Spend spend spend!
It’s now considered conservative to not HELOC the house? I’m at a lost for words.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/10/21/meta-lays-off-employees-amid-grubgate/
Meta is so desperate to cut people, they’ve started firing thieves.
The Bee coming in hot
“New York Authorities Announce Peanut The Squirrel Died Of COVID” – Not bad, 7/10 just because of how far away from COVID we are; though it is NY
“Diddy’s Ex-Girlfriend Urges Americans To Trust Her Judgment” – 8/10; J-Lo urging for people to trust her is just asking to get a whole lotta ass in their face
“Sad: Thousands Of Women Left Standing Clueless In Voting Booths After Husbands Fail To Tell Them Who To Vote For” – 10/10, now excuse me while I go tell Mrs OBE what to vote for.
I’d love to know who wrote the ballot language for Ohio Issue 1. Probably the Republican Sec State’s office, because it reads like an argument to vote against the issue.
“Repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly three quarters of Ohio electors participating in statewide elections in 2015 and 2018, and eliminate the longstanding ability of Ohio citizens to hold their representatives accountable for establishing fair state legislative and congressional districts.”
The issue nominally creates a bipartisan commission to draw districts that is supposed to be insulated from politics (by making it nearly impossible to remove a commissioner). Since the R’s have owned the state house for decades, not surprising they would object to a plan to strip the legislature of districting powers.
Stem breaks, the keepers fall off the valve drops into the cylinder.
Valve, as in valve. Haha, duh. Overthinking things today, I guess.