Poll of the Day > Them Mid Term Elections

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It will be red at first and then the mail-in ballots will be counted and then they will call that fake, so just be ready for that.

Yellow posted...

I went voting today and there were a lot of women.

Antifa in wigs.

Yellow posted...

It will be red at first and then the mail-in ballots will be counted and then they will call that fake

They already started that preemptively.

keyblader1985 posted...

They already started that preemptively.

Trump started it in 2015, really.

was pretty chill at the polling place we went to, wasn't hardly anyone there, either, which i'm not sure is a good or bad thing.

my state typically runs red except for the major cities, like usual, and it's mainly chicago keeping the state blue overall

Hard_Light posted...

was pretty chill at the polling place we went to, wasn't hardly anyone there, either, which i'm not sure is a good or bad thing.

my state typically runs red except for the major cities, like usual, and it's mainly chicago keeping the state blue overall

I'm proud of my area for consistently not being insane. There was a Republican and a Democrat handing out papers for their candidates and it looked like they were friends. Other areas of the country lose their shit but in my area people generally respect a peaceful attitude.

Yellow posted...

There was a Republican and a Democrat handing out papers for their candidates and it looked like they were friends.

i mean, my best friend is a trumplican, so it is certainly possible

Yellow posted...

It will be red at first and then the mail-in ballots will be counted

It would be funny if that happened again

Metalsonic66 posted...

It would be funny if that happened again

Until the violence starts

Zareth posted...

Until the violence starts

Seems like that's inevitable regardless

Metalsonic66 posted...

It would be funny if that happened again

It will probably be to a lesser extent because of the lawsuits and the fact that they're probably going to do pretty well this time around (people are just going to look at inflation and blame the dems), but that won't stop it all the same.

Zareth posted...

Until the violence starts

to be fair, the last time there was an election in the united states, an ex president told his people to attack the capitol and fuckin kill everyone, so there is precedence

Just voted about half and hour ago. That line was long

LinkPizza posted...

Just voted about half and hour ago. That line was long

It's crazy how different it is place to place. When I lived in a rural area outside the city, it generally took about 60 to 90 minutes. Now that I live in the city I walk in and out in three minutes.

Hard_Light posted...

to be fair, the last time there was an election in the united states, an ex president told his people to attack the capitol and fuckin kill everyone, so there is precedence

I don't remember that speech.

Yeah Rev, we know you aren't the brightest bulb in the box

Zareth posted...

Yeah Rev, we know you aren't the brightest bulb in the box

Show me where those exact words were used in any speech.

Show me where he said those exact words were used in the speech

Zareth posted...

Show me where he said those exact words were used in the speech

It's helly.

Hard_Light posted...

so there is precedence

*precedent



Revelation34 posted...

It's helly.

Is that who that is? I was wondering which of the usual suspects' alt account that was.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

*precedent

*Presidents

Dems are massively overperforming thus far.

I voted. I'm sick as a dog atm and nearly passed out waiting in line multiple times. It sucked. People who oppose absentee ballots are scum.

Results so far have been surprisingly not atrocious.

Revelation34 posted...

I don't remember that speech.

we know

and we've been through this where i posted the exact line in his speech, verbatim, where he says to march to the capitol if pence doesn't say he won and then you vanished from that topic

do you want to relive that, rev

do you

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Is that who that is? I was wondering which of the usual suspects' alt account that was.

not like it's a secret, it's a fairly old account by my standards that i have used multiple times before and that the regulars know

it's also a destiny reference, fyi

it's not like i've ever tried to hide who i am, because that's stupid

Arizona elections are going the way I wanted for the most part. I'm really excited.

crazy how this small-scale minor election is getting so much coverage but no one is talking about Gene Wilder

JigsawTDCII posted...

crazy how this small-scale minor election is getting so much coverage but no one is talking about Gene Wilder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIqq4xOSMA

Hard_Light posted...

not like it's a secret, it's a fairly old account by my standards that i have used multiple times before and that the regulars know

it's also a destiny reference, fyi

it's not like i've ever tried to hide who i am, because that's stupid

Never said you did. It's just that alts always seem to show up on a fairly regular basis, so I rarely exert all that much effort trying to figure out who they are or remembering whether or not someone used that alt before. So whenever I see a low-karma account appear out of nowhere - and especially if they seem to know things that imply they've been around for a while - I tend to wonder who it is.

I just want to live in a world where everyone has to put their main identity in their signature on every new account so I don't have to put in the mental effort of solving a new mystery every couple weeks.

my signature follow a fairly consistent formatting too, i just don't have one on this account

also my posting style is not easily recreated given how many people have tried

Republicans are frothing at the mouth because young people had the fucking gall to vote in their own self interests. And now they are demanding the voting age be raised to 21. Too bad for them the constiution guarantees the voting age is 18, and there's pretty much no way that's ever going to change.

Surely!

Hard_Light posted...

we know

and we've been through this where i posted the exact line in his speech, verbatim, where he says to march to the capitol if pence doesn't say he won and then you vanished from that topic

do you want to relive that, rev

do you

That is not at all what you said.

papercup posted...

Republicans are frothing at the mouth because young people had the fucking gall to vote in their own self interests. And now they are demanding the voting age be raised to 21. Too bad for them the constitution guarantees the voting age is 18, and there's pretty much no way that's ever going to change.

Its weird. Even if they got the voting age changed, who says itll be enough to get more of their votes. And wont the ones who they made not old enough be old enough by the next election? And if they changed it and still got less votes, would they try to raise it again?

The red wave was more like the GOP spotting in their panties

Theyre just being sore losers. Theyre also complaining that not all of their people got a chance to vote. Yes. Seriously. Republicans crying foul at people NOT voting. Its clearly a ploy to fake enough votes to win, and thank God it wont work.

After the 2020 election my conservative family members and friends would not shut up about how the election was stolen, and we need a civil war or the country to break up, or this that and the other thing.

After this election, silence. Not a single one of them has said a thing about this election. They know they fucked up by supporting Trump and his cronies.

papercup posted...

After the 2020 election my conservative family members and friends would not shut up about how the election was stolen, and we need a civil war or the country to break up, or this that and the other thing.

After this election, silence. Not a single one of them has said a thing about this election. They know they fucked up by supporting Trump and his cronies.

Ideally they would realize they need to tone it down. The other option is to use the supreme court to unleash the power of gerrymandering, and then we can keep going down this rabbit hole until something really ugly happens.

Yellow posted...

Ideally they would realize they need to tone it down.

Ideally, but we've seen basically exactly that with Canada's conservative party: O'Toole made some efforts to be more moderate and win over some of the Liberal voters (noting that the Liberal party here is a left-leaning moderate party, with the NDP being the more solidly left-wing one, but it's not like the US Democrats are exactly far-left), but that ended up not working because the Liberal voters weren't particularly interested in voting Conservative and the more extreme right-wingers jumped ship for the PPC. O'Toole has since been ousted as party leader and his replacement is leaning much harder into the flimsy populist rhetoric that modern conservatives seem to want.

LinkPizza posted...

Its weird. Even if they got the voting age changed, who says itll be enough to get more of their votes. And wont the ones who they made not old enough be old enough by the next election? And if they changed it and still got less votes, would they try to raise it again?

I'd say, sure: raise the minimum to 21, in exchange from capping voting at age 65.

adjl posted...

Trump started it in 2015, really.

democrats did it way back against bush.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

democrats did it way back against bush.

The 2000 election came down to a difference of literally 500 votes and specific inaccuracies were identified that warranted further investigation. Wanting to recount that is very, very different from proclaiming from the start of the campaign "the only way I can lose is if they cheat" and maintaining that rhetoric even after winning (as a means of explaining losing the popular vote), throughout an entire presidential term, and throughout the entirety and aftermath of another round of campaigning that resulted in a loss, especially when the actual margins of defeat were orders of magnitude larger than 500 votes and all subsequent investigations revealed either no errors/foul play or errors/foul play that only benefited the GOP.

I'm sure you think you're being very clever with your "both sides" rebuttal, but the situations really are not comparable in the slightest. Trump's behaviour for the entire time he has been in the political eye has been nothing more than a spoiled brat propping up his ego so he doesn't have to face the fact that he lost legitimately, even when faced with the fact that perpetuating that lie has single-handedly driven numerous mentally ill people to violence.

adjl posted...

I'm sure you think you're being very clever with your "both sides" rebuttal, but the situations really are not comparable in the slightest. Trump's behaviour for the entire time he has been in the political eye has been nothing more than a spoiled brat propping up his ego so he doesn't have to face the fact that he lost legitimately, even when faced with the fact that perpetuating that lie has single-handedly driven numerous mentally ill people to violence.

That, and there WERE (verified) counting irregularities and suspicions, never mind the very to-this-day controversial decision of the Supreme Court to come in and stop the recount (it's not clear if the SC even has the authority to do that, but this country treats the SC's orders as gospel).

Compare this to the 2020 election, verified as the safest and secure on record, and which was exhaustively review as the counting occurred. What voter fraud occurred was insignificantly small...and was done almost entirely by Republicans. Apples to oranges as it gets.

The older I get and the more people I interact with, I'm pretty confident that not everyone should be allowed to vote.

MrCool812 posted...

The older I get and the more people I interact with, I'm pretty confident that not everyone should be allowed to vote.

Probably almost nobody is actually educated to the point that their vote is as informed as it should be. That, and even if you are informed, you're likely still voting for a phony professional liar and terrible human being

OhhhJa posted...

Probably almost nobody is actually educated to the point that their vote is as informed as it should be. That, and even if you are informed, you're likely still voting for a phony professional liar and terrible human being

Only if you vote Republican.

Arcturusisnow posted...

Only if you vote Republican.

naw hes actually right here, i always vote dem and im not fooling myself that the dem party isnt full of pieces of shit

Arcturusisnow posted...

Only if you vote Republican.

This is blatantly false. ALL politicians are bad.

I definitely think that being a politician is one of those things that mostly attracts sociopaths