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Just had an interesting conversation with wife. Her: Hey Wednesday I need you to pick our son up Me: ok but be home by 4 because I am going to Chili’s for some internet friends. Her: You are mee

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A conversation with my wife: ”We have to go to Chili’s when Kamala wins.” ”…Why?” ”Because that’s what Surly is doing.” ”We have to go to Chili’s because of Surly.” “Yes.”

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11 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

The perfect political ad doesn’t exis…..

 

10/10 no notes, would have been a 20/10 if they got Aubrey Plaza to be the chick 

 

This is a post from the guy (boricualbc) who said after the rally that he was making a "special project" of Hinchcliffe.  He's doing his part, for sure.

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1 minute ago, quigley said:

She'll do

I'm trying to figure out a smooth way to shoehorn in that yesterday I learned that there's a Vaglick Drive near Beaumont but my aimless attempts to shoehorn jokes have previously failed, so I'll just state the fact.

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2 minutes ago, Chopper said:

I'm trying to figure out a smooth way to shoehorn in that yesterday I learned that there's a Vaglick Drive near Beaumont but my aimless attempts to shoehorn jokes have previously failed, so I'll just state the fact.

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Yeah, going to be a no from me dawg, I want no part of licking any Vag anywhere near Beaumont...

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From Robert Reich's Substack:

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From Robert Reich, Substack

These are the most stressful and nerve-wracking days I can recall. I vacillate between optimism and fear, hope and dread.

You?

I don’t recall an election in which the two candidates represent such opposite poles of the American character.

Harris is the rule of law; Trump, lawlessness. Harris, inclusion; Trump, exclusion. Harris, decency; Trump, loathsomeness. Harris, the American Dream; Trump, the American nightmare.

Harris wants the best for the country; Trump wants the best only for himself.

I don’t need to go on. You know all this. The question is why doesn’t everyone else? That almost half of America appears willing to vote for Trump is itself shocking.

I write this short missive to you every day (sometimes more than once a day) because I want to fortify you. Not just with facts, analysis, and logic, but also with reminders of our shared morality.

I want to reassure you about the common good.

A large part of that common good consists of our concern for something larger than personal wealth, power, or advantage over others — in other words, the opposite of Trump.

The common good is what we owe one another as members of the same society. These duties create a set of relationships that give us a civilized way of living together.

But the common good has been under assault in two ways.

First, it’s been under assault by people with great wealth who have been using their wealth to corrupt our democracy and spew cynicism about the whole project of self-government.

These people include Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, and Tim Mellon.

Let me also add two powerful people whose cowardice has been reprehensible: Jeff Bezos, who won’t allow his Washington Post to endorse Kamala Harris because he’s afraid of angering Donald Trump. And Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank, who never misses an opportunity to comment on public issues but has gone silent when it comes to the dangers posed by Trump.

Worse yet, hugely wealthy people like them have rigged the American political and economic system to their own benefit. They have siphoned off a significant part of the gains of the economy.

The median wage for the bottom 90 percent of Americans has risen just 15 percent in real terms over the last forty years. Over the same years, the stock market has risen 5000 percent. In the 1960s, CEO pay was 20 times the typical worker’s pay. Today, it’s 320 times.

Second, the common good has been under assault by people who have been exploiting Americans’ fears of others to build their political power. The “others” include immigrants, people of color, gay people, trans people, secularists, even women.

The perpetrators include Donald Trump, JD Vance, and much of the current Republican Party, which has become a cesspool of bigotry and lies.

There’s an important relationship between these two threats to the common good.

A major reason so many Americans are willing to follow Trump and blow up the system is they feel they have nothing to lose.

For years they’ve worked hard and followed the rules but have gotten nowhere. They’ve become frustrated, anxious, and angry. Trump, Vance, and the Republican Party have tapped into these feelings and channeled them into hate of “them” — as if immigrants, people of color, gay and trans people, secularists, and women are responsible for what has happened to white working class men.

Both threats to the common good are inviting brutality. They are undermining decency. They are corroding our shared morality.

In these ways, Trump and his sycophants and funders have elevated the dark side of the American psyche. They have normalized viciousness in America.

Since Trump came on the scene in 2015, hate crimes have soared. America has become even more polarized. Average Americans say and do things to people they disagree with that in a different time would have been unthinkable.

Defeating Trump and Vance tomorrow (or however long it takes for the election to be decided) is only the first step.

The next step is to hold Trump accountable for his criminality.

Third, we must contain the billionaires who are undermining American democracy. We must demand a tax on great wealth, more vigorous antitrust enforcement to break up monopolies, and true campaign finance reform.

Fourth, and hardest of all: We must ensure that Americans who have voted for Trump — whether out of anger, despair, bigotry, or delusion — are brought back into the realm of rationality and included in the nation’s future prosperity.

We must create means to achieve the American Dream that do not require a four-year college degree. We have to get big money out of our politics. Social media must filter out hateful disinformation.

The preamble to the Constitution of the United States opens with the phrase “We the people,” conveying a sense of shared interest and a desire “to promote the general welfare,” as the preamble goes on to say.

Which brings me back to tomorrow’s election.

I know you’re scared and stressed. So am I. Some of you may feel quite alone right now. You are not.

All I can say to reassure you is that time and again, Americans have opted for the common good.

We supported one another during the Great Depression. We were victorious over Hitler’s fascism and Soviet communism. We survived Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts, Richard Nixon’s crimes, Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam War, the horrors of 9/11, and George W. Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far, we have survived Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism.

The common good in America is still alive.

If we are true to our history and ideals, Kamala Harris will win, and we’ll get through the destruction Trump will again try to wreak on our democracy in the wake of his defeat, as we did before. And we will get on with the work of achieving broadly-shared prosperity and strengthening our democracy.

We the people will succeed.

 

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Look, I'm not a fan of it in terms I wish none of this stuff would happen. But if they riot again the easy solution is to Ashli Babbitt someone much more quickly this time. Once that happened they figured shit out real fast. I'm pretty confident this will happen on January 6th, 2025 because they're already designating it a national security event. The question is if they'll react accordingly in other locations on other dates.
If you want to attempt a coup then you are risking your life. Make that clear, and make it clear very early on. That's how this is handled quickly.
DC will be locked down tight. There will be no riots this time.
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I want to leave election day thread to be exclusively for results and after they start rolling in. 

Set it for 5PM central tomorrow because that's when the first votes will start getting released if it happens earlier we will open it accordingly. 

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I want to leave election day thread to be exclusively for results and after they start rolling in. 

Set it for 5PM central tomorrow because that's when the first votes will start getting released if it happens earlier we will open it accordingly. 

Do like we do with recruiting and have 1 thread for official called results and 1 thread for commentary? Assign @Js1 to be the poster to post the official results in that thread with special mod type privilege for this forum to post in a locked thread? 

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23 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

 

There should be snipers on every rooftop in every major city.

Shoot one or two in every place where they start wanting to play Grand Theft Capitol again. 

The rest of their nuts will shrivel right up and they'll go on back to their trailers.

Bitchasses.

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1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

This is the thing about cults.  They almost never survive beyond the vitality of their central figure.  Trump looks like a robot who's batteries are running out of juice.  He's not the firebrand he was 8, or even 4 years ago.  He's a tired old man that rambles, goes to bed early, and shits himself.  He's not cut out to lead an insurrection anymore.

No doubt.  And he would be coming off back to back losses.  Nobody likes to back a loser.  As annoying as it was, last time he had won and the rubes had believed he had not lost that election (yet).  

Anyways, I'm finally excited again.  Tomorrow can't get here soon enough.  Let's get this shit going - yes, a chili's reference.  LFG

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10 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

Not quite Chilli's but I did just achieve my lifelong dream of talking about the McRib with the international media (Reuters in this case) which I have to believe is a good omen. 

Why do you hate us?

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17 minutes ago, immamac said:

I want to leave election day thread to be exclusively for results and after they start rolling in. 

Set it for 5PM central tomorrow because that's when the first votes will start getting released if it happens earlier we will open it accordingly. 

 

Good call boss

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11 minutes ago, texasdago said:

To be fair, I just want y'all to know that those of you slumming at other Chili's will be looked down upon by those at the mothership...

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As for what to eat, here you go... Surly Approved Chili's Food Items

 

 

Diarrhea will unite us.

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14 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

Not quite Chilli's but I did just achieve my lifelong dream of talking about the McRib with the international media (Reuters in this case) which I have to believe is a good omen. 

Well it is Irish after all

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5 minutes ago, LTbear said:

Holy shit, how old is this video? If he was scheduled to appear at 10am isn't he legit three hours late now?

If he starts running behind then it will just compound throughout the day as he'll be late for every rally and people won't wait around for him.  Rallys 3 and 4 today will have fake news and 5 magats

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