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Old Freak Nasty

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  1. It seems like the candidates and the campaign didn't matter at all. If the GQP had run anyone other than Trump it wouldn't even be this close. If the Dem's ran anyone, assume it would have to be a male, probably a white male. Buttigieg? Newsome? Shapiro? We have a deep bench, but not one of white straight guys. Maybe the post-mortem will prove out sticking with Biden was our best shot. But would anyone here have been okay with that? If @Zonahorn is correct, Harris can still squeak by with PA/MI/AZ and we have 4 more years to stave off the cliff. Otherwise I think we are in for President Vance within a year of inauguration and it'll be worse than it ever was under Trump.
  2. We already have property in another country we can move into and have permanent residency and employment that is country agnostic. If we had time, that might not have been where we choose to go, but it will do. Worse than anything to me, the GQP is going to enact a full on war on education infrastructure in this country. The only hold outs to their ideology is people with college degrees. They aren't going to stand for that anymore. I'm not putting my kids through the GQP controlled education system. No fucking way.
  3. It seemed like more people voted against Harris than voted against Trump. This is the country we live in. I'm leaving the country. I don't think my wife is as scared as I am but it will crystalize in the next couple of months for her.
  4. Assuming MI and PA (because if you can't assume that there is no point) you need AZ or WI. Given how the suburban counties have voted and that the WI WOW counties are basically Montgomery Co, I'd not really count on that. It's AZ or bust.
  5. She needs 77% of the Atlanta metro to pull ahead. I'd say that's pretty unlikely...
  6. Why is Harris losing vote share in heavily black rural NC counties compared to Biden? That's strange.
  7. We need to get more of them to graduate college. There's no such thing as the Hispanic vote.
  8. Seems like Harris is outkicking the coverage in PA and OH. I don't know how to read GA.
  9. Toxic masculinity: Go fuck off. Women are taking this country over, starting tonight. And whether those idiot bros realize it or not, they'll make the country better for them too.
  10. If NC and GA get called before 1am I can actually get some sleep tonight. I don't expect NC personally, though.
  11. I am an American Indian, born in rural Pennsylvania while my dad attended Penn State for graduate school in the 70s. He was accepted by all on campus, but encountered plenty of racism when outside of it, going to get groceries or go to a restaurant. My dad played national level basketball in India (not a particularly impressive achievement in the 1960-70s) but it did give him the crack in the door to make friendships with non-Indian people around State College. It had fast become his first love in India and he was amazed at the access he’d have to courts once he moved here. He played basically any time he wasn’t studying and he credits it as THE reason he survived the first few years alone while my mom was still in India before he could get a job and sponsor her to come over. He made friends, met families, ate midwest heartland home cooked food, started drinking socially, went bowling, played golf, and experienced so many other American cultural institutions because of the connections basketball provided him. More importantly, after my mom was able to move, this support system provided a lifeline which if she hadn’t had I’m not sure I’d have ever been born here. Strangers to her (not my dad) would take her grocery shopping. They’d invite her over for tea and sit and watch American soap operas for hours without saying a word to each other. Because they couldn’t! They’d go for walks and my mom slowly learned some phrases and in a couple years she was a fairly competent speaker. She overcame her embarrassment of sharing Indian food (the strong flavors, the smell, etc) and invited friends for dinner. She said they sometimes barely ate any of it but they always smiled and were grateful for the invite. She got a job shelving products at the local grocery store. There she encountered the ugly head of racism every day. But she always went back, day after day, held her head up and did her work. At first, co-workers started dropping the veil of hatred, then some regular customers. She learned that only intimate social exchanges change minds, but that they do! My parents raised me informed by these experiences. They wanted me to be an American Indian, with both feet firmly planted in both cultures. My dad passed on his love of basketball (and sport in general) to me. But I was made sure to love cricket as well. Since my earliest memories, we celebrated Christmas. We also celebrated Diwali. There were no temples around growing up so we learned religion at home with my parents. My parents always tried to make connections with other parents at school. A lot of times the parents sneered, my mom would still feel most comfortable wearing Indian clothes so she’d often come to the bus stop and that stopped a lot of other moms from having conversations with her. But she also made friends by reaching out. Our home became where my friends congregated after school, most likely because my mom always kept the pantry stocked with Twinkies, cookies, ice cream, chips, and soda or whatever else she needed to buy to bribe my “friends”. Because of all this, I’ve always felt like I’ve known who I am and I have grown up to have great admiration for my country and proud to be an American. As I’ve become more self-aware that America’s diversity is its strength after college, each year goes by and I know that greatness is in this country. America is great because we have African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latin-Americans, AND the Americans that have been here for hundreds of years. This is my America. Our America. The America we love. I don’t really know why I’m writing this post today and if it makes any sense. But it’s helping calm my nerves today. I don’t want my love and faith in this nation to be broken tonight. Being American is my identity. I don’t know if it will be at the end of this election. There can be two seemingly incongruous things about this nation we hold dear: 46% of the country is happy to be lead into a fascist, racist, misogynistic, dictatorial regime whose policies largely mirror those of the Taliban. It’s also true that we are on the precipice of electing a Black and Indian woman as our Madame President. To close, on this past October 12, Hindus celebrated Dussehra. I’ll spare the detail of the reason for the celebration but it represents the victory of good over evil. Today, I will celebrate Dussehra again. To my Surly brothers and sisters, I wish for all of us a Happy Dussehra tonight. I'll see you all at Chili's tomorrow.
  12. I'd like for mega-donor and corporate sponsorship of politicians to be banned. Then I'd be fine with being bludgeoned by fundraising texts by politicians every hour.
  13. I don't know what you mean. It was the bestest economy. No one had better tariffs. We had so many white jobs. Some would call it the perfect economy.
  14. I thought I had read an article somewhere a year or so ago about the effects of natural disasters on voting patterns and that there was no correlation to any shift.
  15. Seems like we are in spitting distance of picking off the Senate seat. That would be a great outcome considering what the state has become since the 2018 election.
  16. There was also no Fox News 100 years ago. What's happening now is a systemic two pronged assault on a functional democracy. Destroying educational attainment and critical thinking skills coupled with focus group tested non-stop propaganda. The combination of the two has broken morality for 45% of the electorate.
  17. Is this specific to national polling? When the same firms conduct swing state polls are they using similar methodology prone to the same under-representation? This seems to point to an ass kicking which I can't get myself to believe yet.
  18. Do they not realize that to have any chance to excise Trump they need to vote FOR Harris? He needs to be beaten so badly that even the GQP will dump him. Sitting out doesn't really run up the margins needed for the party to summon the courage to overthrow dear leader. But of course logic doesn't reign even amongst the educated elites in the GQP.
  19. This seems like the absolutely best case scenario if if Trump gets 90% vote share of the undecideds. A good reminder that even given the trainwreck of his campaign, he can win. We all need to vote early so election day shenanigans cannot happen. People turned away, a shooting at a voting location early in the day that scares urban voters from standing in long lines, etc.
  20. The only time the GQP asks or demands for accountability of it's own members is when evidence mounts of his/her elect-ability loser stench. Fuck all these people but I'll have my popcorn ready when the tables turn on Trump as he finds himself on the way to prison and Trump napalms any last sign of the party trying to move on with his idiot MAGAts in tow. We need to all push Harris across the finish line so we can bear witness to the self-immolation of the GQP.
  21. Since Haitians is code for non-white, it might affect Usha's kids. I only say might in terms of before the election. They will eventually feel the hate.
  22. I'm not sure how the numbers would work out, but wouldn't any statistical model give Trump a significant chance at PV victory? The raw numbers for the 2020 election was 51.8 to 46.8 percent. Texas was almost a flip of that result, 52.06 to 46.48 percent. I'd believe the soundness of a model that formulated Harris had a 40% chance of winning Texas, even if I also know that there's no chance in hell of it happening. Same for the general. It's not like the polls or actual results are indicating a 20 point pummeling (they should, but alas).
  23. Generally I agree, but I'd say in North Carolina this is probably the favored outcome at this point in time. If Harris nabs NC, she's going to win the whole enchilada of swing states and put Florida within spitting distance. Texas, of course, will remain stupid.
  24. Dick Cheney is the second most vile and evil American politician ever by a good margin and he's saying he is voting for a Democrat black woman over the only piece of shit who has managed to usurp him from his rightful place at the top of that list. That is something.
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