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Legitimate question: How old are these "newer, older" voters? Are we talking about the elderly or people aged 40+ or older? Because if we're talking about the latter, couldn't these be professionals/immigrants who've recently relocated to the booming Atlanta metropolitan area?

Being a proud son of the Hiberno-Norman House of Burgh, aka Clanricarde, I couldn't care less what you Germanic mongrel dogs think.

I'm going to blame Alex Jones and Austin's gullible Info Wars bumper sticker bros for attracting these fucking assholes like this nasally prick along with Rogan and Elon.

I visited New Mexico for 20 minutes the other day, and as a result, I'm a little high today, so forgive me if my hypothesis is a little off. It seems like BamaATL is saying that a lot of these newer, older voters are in large, historically Democratic counties. If it holds true that the core counties of larger metropolitan areas trend Democratic AND also are the places where both domestic and international migrants often go to when they move to a growing state (like Georgia), then isn't it possible that these new voters happen to also be new registrants of people who've moved there in the past four years?

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How the hell is Russia going to scrape together 400 interpreters and 1,200 senior officers to babysit the 12,000 North Koreans? ‘What the f**k to do with them?’ Russian soldiers heard condemning North Korean recruits in intercepted audio Russian soldiers have been heard raising concerns about how North Korean soldiers will be commanded and provided with ammunition and military kit, leaked intercepts obtained by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine and released on Friday show. The Russian soldiers talk disdainfully about the incoming North Korean soldiers, codenamed the “K Battalion,” at one point referring to them as “the f**king Chinese.” In the same extract, a serviceman describes another who has been tasked to “meet people.” “And he’s like standing there with his eyes out, like… f**k,” the soldier says. “He came here and says what the f**k to do with them.” The audio was intercepted from encrypted Russian transmission channels on the night of October 23, according to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence. Ukraine’s analysis of the intercepts revealed that North Korean troop movements were planned for the morning of October 24, in the area of Postoyalye Dvory field camp in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukraine launched a surprise incursion earlier this year. The intercepts also reveal plans to have one interpreter and three senior officers for every 30 North Korean men, which the Russian soldiers are heard in the audio condemning. “The only thing I don’t understand is that there [should be] three senior officers for 30 people. Where do we get them? We’ll have to pull them out,” one Russian serviceman says. “I’m f***ing telling you, there are 77 battalion commanders coming in tomorrow, there are commanders, deputy commanders and so on,” a serviceman says in another extract. The interepted audio follows a Thursday announcement from Ukraine’s military intelligence service that a group of North Korean soldiers have been spotted in Russia’s Kursk region, an area that borders Ukraine and has seen ongoing military operations. In a post on its official Telegram account, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said some North Korean troops, who had received training in Russia’s far east, have made their way to the western Russian region, where Ukraine has maintained a foothold since launching an incursion in August. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that he received a report on the deployment of North Korean military personnel from Ukraine’s commander-in-chief. “According to intelligence, on October 27-28, Russia will deploy its first North Korean troops in combat zones. This is a clear step in Russia’s escalation that matters, unlike all the disinformation circulating in Kazan these days,” Zelensky said, criticizing the BRICS summit staged by Russian President Vladimir Putin this week in the southwestern Russian city of Kazan. The Kremlin had initially dismissed allegations of North Korean troop deployments, but on Thursday at the BRICS summit, Putin did not deny that Pyongyang had sent soldiers to the country. North Korea said on Friday that any troop deployment to Russia to aid the war in Ukraine would conform with international law, state media reported, without explicitly confirming such presence. North Korea had previously dismissed such reports. “The actual involvement of North Korea in combat should be met not with a blind eye and confused comments, but with tangible pressure on both Moscow and Pyongyang to comply with the UN Charter and to punish escalation,” Zelensky added.

Yeah, it was a real fucking gut punch.

It's all Greek to me.

Ja, und „weniger“ auch.

The only thing I can think of that may have shifted voting intentions to the right would be people freaking out about the trans shit with the onslaught of ads over the last month. A week or so ago, I came across a quote from the head of the Human Rights Campaign saying that it seems to be affecting suburban mothers of school-aged children. If that ends up being the tipping point, it'll make me sick to my stomach but would essentially be the same bullshit scare/hate tactic that worked for the GOP in 2004 when they made a huge stink about gay marriage, putting it on the ballot in places like Ohio. As a liberal arts major, I feel somewhat obligated to rectify this egregious grammatical error.

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If anyone else is interested, here's the original survey with the various policy questions and responses, along with demographic and party breakouts. It is looooong.

Do they list and rank the policies in that Xitter thread or provide a link to it? If so, do you mind posting that info? I'd love to see what it says.

Yep, they're both getting pretty dang close. In 2020, we saw Williamson and Tarrant counties finally make the move to blue. I'm very anxious to see if Collin (I think it does) and Denton (less certain) do the same. I did some calculations a little while back and said that once Tarrant, Collin, and Denton are all firmly with the good guys, that's when Texas can legitimately be considered a swing state. Here's how the DFW vote went in 2020: And this is how they changed from 2016 to 2020.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/trump-harris-donors-zip-code-map/?itid=mr_2

I'd love to see some kind of historical comparisons, like 2022, 2020, 2018, etc., but check out Collin and Denton counties.

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You could've said, "Stop fighting for your life, Ted! Please, just rest in peace." I don't know, however, if that would've put you on an entirely different shitty list.

Again, we don't have context for the "stopping the wars" statement, so your interpretation may well have been his intent. But we also have the context of his prior statements in other venues where he has repeatedly referenced stopping "the (hot) wars" in reference to Ukraine and Gaza. In either case, he's lying because a) he started the trade wars, and b) the Russia/Ukraine war was actually being fought the entire time while he was in office. Moreover, Israel and Hamas had a "war" in 2018. Look, I'll let this go, because we've already (both of us) likely put more thought and care into our posts than he did in his speech in front of thousands. That is unless he was trying to trick the audience by intentionally conflating the two topics.

"I stopped the wars...with France." We don't know what he said before making that statement (granted), but it sounds like he's talking about actual wars. We know that's long been a talking point from him and his supporters: "He kept the peace. There were no wars during his admin." That's demonstrably not true, a lie if you will. Then, he brings up France, which was clearly a seamless transition to "trade wars." Well, obviously, that's a different kind of "war." And, yes, there was an effort by the French government to begin putting tariffs on US imports (I honestly have no idea how that turned out), but their proposal was in response to him initiating that trade war by imposing tariffs on European imports into the US. So, again, he made a false statement--another lie. Now, the trick here is interpreting what he meant versus what his crowd understood by those two lies. I guess it's not a lie if he believed either of those two things (Costanza). So, you could say the Xitter post was actually being generous by saying he's senile. On the other hand, Trump may have been intentionally confusing the two types of wars for the purpose of deceiving his audience. I guess that's worse. Do you think the attendees could discern the difference?

@Stros121 First off, thank you for your civility and participation. I'd like to discuss your concerns regarding DEI. Before getting into the nitty-gritty, I'd like us to start with a common understanding of what we're discussing. Can you please, in your own words, define DEI to the best of your ability and explain how it might affect you personally or your line of work in the construction industry?