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Why I will not be voting this November....

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by ETC(SS), Oct 29, 2024.

  1. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    I would have happily voted in person, but absentee voting volume necessitated my voting.....absentee.

    I would SEEM that both sides now KNOW the wisdom of banking votes 'left of bang.'

    also....
    According to recent Census Bureau data, approximately 37.7% of Americans aged 25 and older have a bachelor's degree or higher.
    Take that for what it's worth....but MY key take-away (based on my 'mere' public school education) is that 37.7% is less than 50%.

    If you KNOW why that's relevant, then you know.
    If not?
    Well.....perhaps there really IS a difference between education and wisdom.
     
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    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    <MEGA SIGH>

    There are two kinds of people in the world: (1) those who divide people into two groups, and; (2) those who don't:
    1. Two groups - me and everyone else
    2. No groups - our species
    Bob Wilson
     
  3. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    ...ding ding!
    Robert for the win!

    Me?
    I learned YET another lesson about 'il ne faut jamais dire jamais...'

    (I said I'd never vote absentee while I was working the polls)
     
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    I've always thought this comic was an appropriate characterization of individuals who felt they were a cut above the average bear:



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  5. Mr.Vanvandenburg

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    What some people in Czechoslovakia, and other countries around, did to Germans after WW2, was barbaric. Keep prodding at women, they are people too, they will respond. They have free speech, too. They will start the countdown, just like me, to when the thing leaves or is removed. I just started right out of the gate. It will happen, tick tock ya know, it doesn’t stop.
     
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    To be pure about it, yes. But can’t talk about my 12 volt and battery monitors all the time.
     
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    Because some of us, (actually millions) were watching the totals in certain states before bed with 98% votes in, and the polls closed in turn to 100k-150,000k more votes at 3am mysteriously when the cut off time should have been the end of it. If that happened in a tight race THIS TIME where Trmp pulled ahead, the left would lose their minds and scream even louder.
     
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    bisco cookie crumbler

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    trumpers were at the state capitol yesterday demanding that the governor allow the state police to round up illegals for the feds to send to the ovens, err, i mean deportation.
     
  9. Mr.Vanvandenburg

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    It works that way all the time since people started voting after independence. Votes are always cast before cut off time, no exceptions. You just refuse to be honest about it I guess. Everyone knows votes are cast, then transported from many locations to be counted, and you know it too. Some are mailed from military from overseas and the postmark assures the vote was cast by close of election day. You believe something that nonsense because it a cult, plain and simple. That’s how cults work. Very dangerous things. Honestly I can’t believe you fell for that line about votes came in late so I won. Nonsense, total nonsense.

    2020 was not a tight race, President Biden/Harris won by a landslide. More than the winner in 2016. Maybe ts feel better saying it was a tight race. It wasn’t. President Biden/Harris 306 electoral votes, over 81 million popular votes.
     
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    Yeah the “because I would have done that” response doesn’t apply here.
    So…
    Probably not, the left has had about 1% of the comments post election 2024 this time that the right had in 2020. Engagement in the main social media platforms is way down post election.
    Democrats being the boring party of level headedness aren’t the same terrible humans that a good 10-15% of the other guys are. They simply aren’t going to give you the amount of drama you crave when they experience an election or policy loss.

    One thing that is actually interesting is that Googles number #1 / #2 search request around midnight election night in red states was
    A variation on “How do I change who I voted for”. It’s been searched for 10 million+ times.

    There has also interestingly been a lot of google searches and right wing rage about “who pays for tarriffs”. Certain folks are experiencing a lot of very public regret after discovering what tarriffs do. It’s somewhat comical watching the stupid short videos of someone discovering what a tarriff is for the first time and their reaction.
     
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    if i could do that, i'd move to vegas :p
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    There are deadlines to cast a ballot, but none for counting them. If it takes days, say from some state having hand counting only, then it takes days.
     
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    It’s ridiculous what he has done to them with his nonsense. I don’t think my area has finished counting every contest today. His theory that he was cheated is absolute nonsense. Those are people’s cast on time votes he was trying to throw out.
    History will not be kind to this era.
     
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    And the left is saying Trump stole 2024 ...lol You guys are a joke. (And no not a Trmp fan, he's too liberal).
     
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    Sure better than WW3 and complete economic collapse the other way around. ( He's still too liberal for me )..
     
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    History wasn't kind to you last week was it? I love to see both sides lose because you're so addicted to cult of personality on both sides.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Or weeks?
    Or Months?
    My my.

    HOW the mighty have fallen...AND risen!

    Florida used to be the BUTT of every elections joke.
    NOW the third most populated state in the country (and rising!) pretty much has all of their races called.
    So do most of the rest of the US states. ;)

    GLAD BTW that you concur with the US courts that ballots have to be cast on a certain date!
    https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-rejects-mississippi-law-late-arriving-mail-in-ballots-2024-10-25/
    (Expect a federal court conflict and a ruling by the Supremes on this!)

    Maybe when votes stop trickling in 3...4....5 days after an election, perhaps not-so-well run US states might catch up with the rest of the herd....
     
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    History was fine last week, the Constitution still is in charge. Harris conceded and congratulated. You can’t get over that the thing didn’t concede or congratulate and still won’t based on nonsense.
     
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    Harris conceded and congratulated, President Biden invited thing to WH. Class act, because they are patriots who know what America is.
     
  20. Mr.Vanvandenburg

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    On time legal votes are still trickling in, you know calling a race is not at the final number.