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14 minutes ago, TeeDubya said:

20 minute wait here in Tulsa to vote in person.  Oklahoma has early voting really clamped down.  Only four days and only two sites.  Two hour wait times were common.

Biggest turnout the precinct workers have ever seen, they ran out of "I voted" stickers at 10:30am.  He said there was already a line to vote when they opened at 7am.

Several olds, but a lot of younger voters, more than I've ever seen, and some smoking hot, blue-wearing women.  Mrs. TeeDubya was with me, so I wasn't going ask if they needed their ballot box stuffed.

I wanted to vote early, but just could not afford to wait 2-3 hours at the one early voting location last week.  I figured that it would be much quicker to wait until today and go vote at my local polling station in Glenpool.  Still had a 1 hour wait in line today. 

Turnout is nuts. 

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10 minutes ago, GenXer said:

Better late than never. But it’s astounding that people whose career is based on promoting the morality of humankind, truth, selflessness, and watching out for that anti-christ haven’t wholly rejected trumpism from the beginning.

You and me both brother.  My cousin's husband is an SBC preacher way out in West Texas.  I've been trying to convert him for years.  Whenever I bring up any of the many varied and problematic outright contradictions of tfg, his pat response is "God works in mysterious ways, still voting for tfg." On occasion I'll get "He may yet be redeemed."  It's very difficult to argue with "God" and come out on top.  So maybe my conversation rate is closer to 2/4.  Still, it hasn't been for lack of trying. 

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Evangelical southern Christianity has not just aligned with, but USED "RELIGION" TO SUPPORT the following things:

Slavery

Jim Crow

Anti-miscegenation laws

Segregation

Banning women from the pulpit

Trumpism

 

If there's a "WRONG FUCKING SIDE OF HISTORY" Hall of Fame, evangelical southern Christianity gets its own fucking wing.

I have made this observation to my SBC peers more than once.  They really get uncomfortable when I do.  And I relish it.

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3 minutes ago, Chopper said:

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"You! on the motorcycle!....You two girls!"

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

You and me both brother.  My cousin's husband is an SBC preacher way out in West Texas.  I've been trying to convert him for years.  Whenever I bring up any of the many varied and problematic outright contradictions of tfg, his pat response is "God works in mysterious ways, still voting for tfg." On occasion I'll get "He may yet be redeemed."  It's very difficult to argue with "God" and come out on top.  So maybe my conversation rate is closer to 2/4.  Still, it hasn't been for lack of trying. 

Sure, but wait until he is redeemed to vote for him.

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1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

Seriously. I was thinking about this yesterday. If Trump loses a close one, he should probably start interviewing bodyguards. But Mamala's winning this thing bigly.

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

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Just read that Georgia is expect 1.2m as a baseline for today, instead of the ceiling 

Not surprised, I project a total of between 5.4 million and 5.7 million in the prediction thread and went with 5.7.  Basically, I think we will get between those.  Gwinnett County (Metro Atlanta Dem stronghold) was 30k over before noon today.  

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5 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

You and me both brother.  My cousin's husband is an SBC preacher way out in West Texas.  I've been trying to convert him for years.  Whenever I bring up any of the many varied and problematic outright contradictions of tfg, his pat response is "God works in mysterious ways, still voting for tfg." On occasion I'll get "He may yet be redeemed."  It's very difficult to argue with "God" and come out on top.  So maybe my conversation rate is closer to 2/4.  Still, it hasn't been for lack of trying. 

Yet they expect people to believe in a sky santa that has shown zero evidence of existence because faith. Meanwhile, countless examples of anti-christian behavior by dotard gets a pass because mysterious ways.

Religion is a garbage ass waste of time.

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My wife’s ex-husband (a cop), his parents, and my FIL are all stalwart Rs. All voted D for the first time ever without any coaxing. Supposedly it was out of consideration for the two daughters/granddaughters.

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10 minutes ago, orange dream said:

ok, I know I missed it somewhere around page 1050-1100 of this thread but what is the origin of Chilis on Wednesday?

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First rule of Chili’s Club is we don’t talk about it.

 

 

I think I randomly said we should celebrate at Chili’s and it took off. 

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29 minutes ago, G650 said:

I've been pretty convinced for awhile now that the actual tale of the election will be how many Rs crossover.

Yep, I thought I knew of 9, but it’s going to be more like 6.

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11 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

You guys keep misspelling "butt" and yes there is one. 

Weird, I even squinted really hard, butt I can't see the boat. I guess it's like one of those dot graphics where you had to do tricks with your eyes to see the space shuttle, etc.

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State voting patterns have really been very stable relative to each other. The correlation between the 2016 and 2020 elections by state was 0.97. If Kamala does particularly well in Iowa, or in any other state, she's doing well everywhere. 

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

This.  Totally this for me.

I have felt like I want to puke all day so far, and it will only get worse.

I love my country.  I love it so much it hurts. It has given my family opportunity for generations.  It has been a place that is and always has been wildly imperfect yet, somehow, has found a way to improve over time.  As they say, "reformed, but always reforming."  We are a good country, and we have tried over time to become a great one.  It is a process, but one that - for most of my life - I believed we continued to move towards.  Yes, with failures, yes, with missteps, but overall heading in the right historical direction.

The past 15+ years have caused me to doubt that (Obama's election revealed how awful a huge swath of our country and fellow citizens are, and it has only gotten MUCH worse).  

I truly don't know who "we the people" are anymore.  I don't believe, like I once did, that we can and will find ways to be better.

I want to hope that we will.  But hope, in these times, is a precursor to disappointment.  And we've had a cascade of disappointments, shocking ones.  To my dying day, I will never forget those moments on January 6th when, driving through nowhere W. Texas, I heard them announce that the insurrectionists had broken through and were inside the Capitol.  As our phones started blowing up from friends all over the world asking us "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?"

I want to believe that we can be the nation I knew and believed in most of my life.  But I also know that we are the nation that had January 6th, and might have another one of those.

This feeling is like being in crisis with someone you deeply love.  Will she go off the deep end, turning her back on all the things that made her good, and leading you to the inevitable conclusion of "she's gone....this relationship isn't worth saving?"  Or will she find her way to reaffirm the best of who she is and can be, so you think "there she is....the person I love is still there?"  I feel like I would if I was sitting in my living room, waiting for her answer.  And yeah, I wanna puke.

I love her.  And she's been breaking my fucking heart.

blah blah blah... man up you pussy.

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1 hour ago, Helobious said:

Everyone despairing over a Trump victory (which I still believe will happen) try to relax. Know that basic human nature (incompetence, greed, corrruption) will at least partially derail whatever fucked up plans they have for the country. Always happens for the power-crazed and always will. 

It feels strange to say this, but good post @Helobious

1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

I'm the exact opposite. I have to watch the play by play or I'd be going mad.

I normally feel that way, but I had internalized Trump winning so completely by late June that I've been playing with house money since August. Besides it's THEY LIVE.  
It's election day and we are here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. 

40 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Trump campaign on CNN saying it won’t be called tonight 

They scared. I thought it was in the bag?

Wait until his surrogates start talking about a "blue mirage." He'll declare tonight by 10pm C regardless, I think. 

22 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

honestly this is a great tweet.

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37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Had an asshole opposing counsel who insisted that my witness authenticate 120 documents, one-by-one, in a deposition that had already run past 5:00 on December 23rd.

I still hate that fucker.

Gotta run that hourly rate.

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3 minutes ago, Chopper said:

State voting patterns have really been very stable relative to each other. The correlation between the 2016 and 2020 elections by state was 0.97. If Kamala does particularly well in Iowa, or in any other state, she's doing well everywhere. 

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I'm calling for a moratorium on all scatter plot charts and graphs

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