The Official 2024 Presidential Thread

[busymom]

Nov 8, 2024 21:31:40 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Nov 8, 2024 21:08:23 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

I was reading all the comments regarding other countries posters here could potentially move to, because of where they or their spouses came from, or parents on either side. It kind of made me sad, not so much because I am looking to move to another country, but because I don’t even know what country my family came from, just a probable continent. 

That's heavy.
I dont think white people considerthat very often.

It's privilege to throw up your hands, to think you can weather this without issue - while also listing all the bad things you expect to come. To leave all together.

I'm not judging anyone. I have a dog in this fight. Just today scgal has said I'm a neglectful parent that my husband and child are playing dress up, and fucking nuts. Ryan was more subtle but to use his phrase - we all know what he meant. And there are millions of people who agree with them and who I believe will hurt my child and family. I need people to stick around.

     Just remember that some people are complete a$$holes & aren't worthy to be listened to.  DH & I had a major issue with a FORMER friend of his who insisted that money shouldn't go to educating students with special needs, knowing full well that our youngest is in that category, and couldn't even be shamed for insulting our kid in that way.  (I mean really, did he expect all disabled kids to be refused an education & just exist at home?)  Don't waste any energy with people who think that hateful way.  Just cut them out of your lives.  I've seen karma hit more than one person who dismissed certain people, until suddenly a member of their family is in the same category that they belittled.  

[Opti]

I don't know if anyone else read this article, but reading it made me consider that perhaps the ground game of Harris's campaign was lacking. I know I did not receive any calls asking me how I was voting or asking me to vote. For densely populated areas with underfunded people I can see how this could translate to low turnout.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lack-of-respect-philly-s-dem-chair-rips-harris-and-says-biden-probably-should-ve-been-nominee/ar-AA1tDCMb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=e63ca00fa41748bbb9f6ad284d2ddb3b&ei=10

The Inquirer reported that Harris’ performance in Philadelphia was the lowest by a Democratic presidential candidate in the city in the last two decades.

Issues in Philly—where Democratic voter turnout was a flop—went beyond just the candidates themselves, however. Brady told his local paper that spending was a problem, too, with Harris’ team shelling out about “half” of what previous get-out-to-vote campaigns in the city did.

The 79-year-old ex-lawmaker, who’s led Philly’s Democratic Party since 1988, also criticized Harris for her lack of relationship with party leaders in the city—the largest in what was overwhelmingly viewed as the election’s most-important swing state.

“They never dealt with us,” Brady told the Inquirer of Harris’ campaign. “They didn’t show us any respect. I never talked to the lady and she’s the candidate.”

Brady said both Joe Biden and Barack Obama met with him and other local ward leaders when they campaigned in previous elections, which he said “means something.”

[raeoflyte]

Nov 8, 2024 23:57:46 GMT -5 busymom said:

Nov 8, 2024 21:31:40 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

That's heavy.
I dont think white people considerthat very often.

It's privilege to throw up your hands, to think you can weather this without issue - while also listing all the bad things you expect to come. To leave all together.

I'm not judging anyone. I have a dog in this fight. Just today scgal has said I'm a neglectful parent that my husband and child are playing dress up, and fucking nuts. Ryan was more subtle but to use his phrase - we all know what he meant. And there are millions of people who agree with them and who I believe will hurt my child and family. I need people to stick around.

     Just remember that some people are complete a$$holes & aren't worthy to be listened to.  DH & I had a major issue with a FORMER friend of his who insisted that money shouldn't go to educating students with special needs, knowing full well that our youngest is in that category, and couldn't even be shamed for insulting our kid in that way.  (I mean really, did he expect all disabled kids to be refused an education & just exist at home?)  Don't waste any energy with people who think that hateful way.  Just cut them out of your lives.  I've seen karma hit more than one person who dismissed certain people, until suddenly a member of their family is in the same category that they belittled.  

I'm very confident in how I'm raising my kids and the insults are laughable. But a hateful presidential campaign won based on it. It's not the individuals. It's the movement that concerns me.

In some ways I appreciate those 2 for reminding that they're out there. Like rats when you see one out during the day you have a lot more you don't see. I had forgotten to even look or take precautions.

[scgal]

Nov 8, 2024 19:21:23 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

Nov 8, 2024 19:01:32 GMT -5 scgal said:

like I said if I break the rules. Have I? I'm not trolling anyone I put out my take just like everyone else I will also call bullshit just like others do. Or is it my view is so different from yours you'll ban me

But your views are mostly based on false info and when you are called out on it you call bs on everyone here. Are you too dense to see the truth? You rarely can support any of the crap you post. It is called trolling when someone continues to disagree with people and cannot support their opinion. You bring no value to any conservation. TROLL

Why try to give you a fact to support an opinion when being called out as using false info faux news. The ones who call me out are really just small minded, and fearful. Most on this board think Trump is racist when they give some sort of example. They are making assumptions there is absolutely no proof just their opinion. They think Trump was responsible for J6. The proof they offer is not proof but assumptions so please save your proving your facts for the others. 

[pulmonarymd]

Nov 9, 2024 9:34:45 GMT -5 scgal said:

Nov 8, 2024 19:21:23 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

But your views are mostly based on false info and when you are called out on it you call bs on everyone here. Are you too dense to see the truth? You rarely can support any of the crap you post. It is called trolling when someone continues to disagree with people and cannot support their opinion. You bring no value to any conservation. TROLL

Why try to give you a fact to support an opinion when being called out as using false info faux news. The ones who call me out are really just small minded, and fearful. Most on this board think Trump is racist when they give some sort of example. They are making assumptions there is absolutely no proof just their opinion. They think Trump was responsible for J6. The proof they offer is not proof but assumptions so please save your proving your facts for the others. 

Look at what Trump has said about the Central Park 5. But you will excuse him again because he doesn't come out and say it in a way you comprehend. Your reading comprehension sucks.

[scgal]

Nov 9, 2024 0:39:27 GMT -5 Opti said:

I don't know if anyone else read this article, but reading it made me consider that perhaps the ground game of Harris's campaign was lacking. I know I did not receive any calls asking me how I was voting or asking me to vote. For densely populated areas with underfunded people I can see how this could translate to low turnout.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lack-of-respect-philly-s-dem-chair-rips-harris-and-says-biden-probably-should-ve-been-nominee/ar-AA1tDCMb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=e63ca00fa41748bbb9f6ad284d2ddb3b&ei=10

The Inquirer reported that Harris’ performance in Philadelphia was the lowest by a Democratic presidential candidate in the city in the last two decades.

Issues in Philly—where Democratic voter turnout was a flop—went beyond just the candidates themselves, however. Brady told his local paper that spending was a problem, too, with Harris’ team shelling out about “half” of what previous get-out-to-vote campaigns in the city did.

The 79-year-old ex-lawmaker, who’s led Philly’s Democratic Party since 1988, also criticized Harris for her lack of relationship with party leaders in the city—the largest in what was overwhelmingly viewed as the election’s most-important swing state.

“They never dealt with us,” Brady told the Inquirer of Harris’ campaign. “They didn’t show us any respect. I never talked to the lady and she’s the candidate.”

Brady said both Joe Biden and Barack Obama met with him and other local ward leaders when they campaigned in previous elections, which he said “means something.”

The article shows just one of the mistakes her campaign made. The Taylor Swift enforcement was going to get the young vote. Posters here was drooling all over themselves talking about her connecting with the younger crowd. Well where were they? they didn't show up. They just didn't connect with her. Plain and simple most of the country just do not connect with the ideals of the dem party. 

[moon/Laura]

Nov 9, 2024 9:34:45 GMT -5 scgal said:

Nov 8, 2024 19:21:23 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

But your views are mostly based on false info and when you are called out on it you call bs on everyone here. Are you too dense to see the truth? You rarely can support any of the crap you post. It is called trolling when someone continues to disagree with people and cannot support their opinion. You bring no value to any conservation. TROLL

Why try to give you a fact to support an opinion when being called out as using false info faux news. The ones who call me out are really just small minded, and fearful. Most on this board think Trump is racist when they give some sort of example. They are making assumptions there is absolutely no proof just their opinion. They think Trump was responsible for J6. The proof they offer is not proof but assumptions so please save your proving your facts for the others. 

He *IS* racist. That's clear to anyone who isn't racist themselves. You can claim you're not but anyone who has supported the razor wire used to keep people out, or the fucking wall (i.e. you) is racist.

[thyme4change]

Nov 9, 2024 0:39:27 GMT -5 Opti said:

I don't know if anyone else read this article, but reading it made me consider that perhaps the ground game of Harris's campaign was lacking. I know I did not receive any calls asking me how I was voting or asking me to vote. For densely populated areas with underfunded people I can see how this could translate to low turnout.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lack-of-respect-philly-s-dem-chair-rips-harris-and-says-biden-probably-should-ve-been-nominee/ar-AA1tDCMb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=e63ca00fa41748bbb9f6ad284d2ddb3b&ei=10

The Inquirer reported that Harris’ performance in Philadelphia was the lowest by a Democratic presidential candidate in the city in the last two decades.

Issues in Philly—where Democratic voter turnout was a flop—went beyond just the candidates themselves, however. Brady told his local paper that spending was a problem, too, with Harris’ team shelling out about “half” of what previous get-out-to-vote campaigns in the city did.

The 79-year-old ex-lawmaker, who’s led Philly’s Democratic Party since 1988, also criticized Harris for her lack of relationship with party leaders in the city—the largest in what was overwhelmingly viewed as the election’s most-important swing state.

“They never dealt with us,” Brady told the Inquirer of Harris’ campaign. “They didn’t show us any respect. I never talked to the lady and she’s the candidate.”

Brady said both Joe Biden and Barack Obama met with him and other local ward leaders when they campaigned in previous elections, which he said “means something.”

I got a minimum of six calls or texts per day - every day from the week before mail in ballots and early voting started until voting ended. Before that I got at least one per day, but often multiple. We also got at least 5 door knockers since September, including one on Sunday just making sure my daughter turned in her ballot. I was wearing a Harris shirt - we had a great convo with the guy. All that, and AZ wasn’t even that close. I wonder why they were weak in PA. She only had like 90 days to campaign, with not much warning. I am sure mistakes were made.

But, I have decided it boils down to misogyny. Trump won AZ by a lot, and so did Rueben Gallego. Who wants that pair? Someone who wants as few women in government as possible. Sinema won against another woman. Mark Kelly beat a woman. Clinton was problematic- but if she were a he, I bet the outcome would have been different. Men don’t trust women. Some women hate women. I guess a couple thousand years of misogyny will continue on. The fact that women got this close give Project 2025 momentum. All those women haters will do whatever they can to halt any forward progress. So, what does a progressive want - do we keep putting women up until we finally break through while handing the Presidency to festering diseased penises for a few decades, or do we just step back from feminism so we can win. Maybe the GOP will suck it up and break that barrier for us. I don’t think we will have another black president for 30 years - minimum.

[pulmonarymd]

Nov 9, 2024 10:08:17 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Nov 9, 2024 9:34:45 GMT -5 scgal said:

Why try to give you a fact to support an opinion when being called out as using false info faux news. The ones who call me out are really just small minded, and fearful. Most on this board think Trump is racist when they give some sort of example. They are making assumptions there is absolutely no proof just their opinion. They think Trump was responsible for J6. The proof they offer is not proof but assumptions so please save your proving your facts for the others. 

He *IS* racist. That's clear to anyone who isn't racist themselves. You can claim you're not but anyone who has supported the razor wire used to keep people out, or the fucking wall (i.e. you) is racist.

Not to mention separating families. Still haven't reunited all those children with their parents. But the party of life doesn't care because they weren't white

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Nov 9, 2024 10:08:17 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Nov 9, 2024 9:34:45 GMT -5 scgal said:

Why try to give you a fact to support an opinion when being called out as using false info faux news. The ones who call me out are really just small minded, and fearful. Most on this board think Trump is racist when they give some sort of example. They are making assumptions there is absolutely no proof just their opinion. They think Trump was responsible for J6. The proof they offer is not proof but assumptions so please save your proving your facts for the others. 

He *IS* racist. That's clear to anyone who isn't racist themselves. You can claim you're not but anyone who has supported the razor wire used to keep people out, or the fucking wall (i.e. you) is racist.

Or takes put a full page spread calking for the death penalty for five wrongly convicted teenagers.

Then decades later doubles down on it AGAIN.

Or stands on a national stage claiming immigrants are eating pets.

Calls COVID "Kung flu" and the "COVID-19" and doubles down on that despite reports that him doing that has sent hate crime levels against the Asian community into record highs.

Nah none of that is racist! He's just speaking his truth and what his voters want to hear! 🤢

My God if my grandma knew how to use a computer I'd swear scgal was her.

[scgal]

Nov 9, 2024 10:08:17 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Nov 9, 2024 9:34:45 GMT -5 scgal said:

Why try to give you a fact to support an opinion when being called out as using false info faux news. The ones who call me out are really just small minded, and fearful. Most on this board think Trump is racist when they give some sort of example. They are making assumptions there is absolutely no proof just their opinion. They think Trump was responsible for J6. The proof they offer is not proof but assumptions so please save your proving your facts for the others. 

He *IS* racist. That's clear to anyone who isn't racist themselves. You can claim you're not but anyone who has supported the razor wire used to keep people out, or the fucking wall (i.e. you) is racist.

Please explain to me why the wall is racist? It is a border wall so saying to keep brown people out cannot be used. So please explain why.

[pulmonarymd]

Maybe because it doesn't work? Because more people are here illegally because they overstayed their visa? Because more people fly in?

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Nov 9, 2024 9:34:45 GMT -5 scgal said:

Nov 8, 2024 19:21:23 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

But your views are mostly based on false info and when you are called out on it you call bs on everyone here. Are you too dense to see the truth? You rarely can support any of the crap you post. It is called trolling when someone continues to disagree with people and cannot support their opinion. You bring no value to any conservation. TROLL

Why try to give you a fact to support an opinion when being called out as using false info faux news. The ones who call me out are really just small minded, and fearful. Most on this board think Trump is racist when they give some sort of example. They are making assumptions there is absolutely no proof just their opinion. They think Trump was responsible for J6. The proof they offer is not proof but assumptions so please save your proving your facts for the others. 

 So your opinion is worth more in an argument then fact? Do you understand that opinion is just how you interpret an event while fact is hearing and seeing (in person or video) the person do/say things? We aren't small minded or fearful. We waste our time giving you verifiable facts when you come back with childish replies. 

[moon/Laura]

Nov 9, 2024 10:25:37 GMT -5 scgal said:

Nov 9, 2024 10:08:17 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

He *IS* racist. That's clear to anyone who isn't racist themselves. You can claim you're not but anyone who has supported the razor wire used to keep people out, or the fucking wall (i.e. you) is racist.

Please explain to me why the wall is racist? It is a border wall so saying to keep brown people out cannot be used. So please explain why.

Oh give me a break. If the border had white people on the other side the wall would never have even been brought up.

[busymom]

Nov 9, 2024 10:25:37 GMT -5 scgal said:

Nov 9, 2024 10:08:17 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

He *IS* racist. That's clear to anyone who isn't racist themselves. You can claim you're not but anyone who has supported the razor wire used to keep people out, or the fucking wall (i.e. you) is racist.

Please explain to me why the wall is racist? It is a border wall so saying to keep brown people out cannot be used. So please explain why.

      That's easy.  There has been no talk about putting up a wall between the US and Canada.  And we DO get people sneaking into the US through Canada.  But, nobody cares because people assume those coming in through Canada are white.  Stories of people freezing to death while walking across the border during the Winter do make the news here.  No, they weren't white.  Still, no talk about a wall along the Canadian border.   

[happyhoix]

Nov 9, 2024 9:52:39 GMT -5 scgal said:

Nov 9, 2024 0:39:27 GMT -5 Opti said:

I don't know if anyone else read this article, but reading it made me consider that perhaps the ground game of Harris's campaign was lacking. I know I did not receive any calls asking me how I was voting or asking me to vote. For densely populated areas with underfunded people I can see how this could translate to low turnout.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lack-of-respect-philly-s-dem-chair-rips-harris-and-says-biden-probably-should-ve-been-nominee/ar-AA1tDCMb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=e63ca00fa41748bbb9f6ad284d2ddb3b&ei=10

The Inquirer reported that Harris’ performance in Philadelphia was the lowest by a Democratic presidential candidate in the city in the last two decades.

Issues in Philly—where Democratic voter turnout was a flop—went beyond just the candidates themselves, however. Brady told his local paper that spending was a problem, too, with Harris’ team shelling out about “half” of what previous get-out-to-vote campaigns in the city did.

The 79-year-old ex-lawmaker, who’s led Philly’s Democratic Party since 1988, also criticized Harris for her lack of relationship with party leaders in the city—the largest in what was overwhelmingly viewed as the election’s most-important swing state.

“They never dealt with us,” Brady told the Inquirer of Harris’ campaign. “They didn’t show us any respect. I never talked to the lady and she’s the candidate.”

Brady said both Joe Biden and Barack Obama met with him and other local ward leaders when they campaigned in previous elections, which he said “means something.”

The article shows just one of the mistakes her campaign made. The Taylor Swift enforcement was going to get the young vote. Posters here was drooling all over themselves talking about her connecting with the younger crowd. Well where were they? they didn't show up. They just didn't connect with her. Plain and simple most of the country just do not connect with the ideals of the dem party. 

Wrong. Plain and simple most of the country voted with their wallets. Trump promised the middle class they would be rolling in money. Harris did not focus enough on how good the Biden economy is, compared with the rest of the world. Nearly everyone else had /is having a post Covid recession. We did not. Economists rated Harris’ economy policies better than Trumps, for lowering debt and helping the middle class - but the Dems did not broadcast that well, and it couldn’t cut through the Trump lies. 

Do not for a minute think the young adults are all MAGA advocates. Sure, some percentage of them are the young skin head racists that think Trump ‘gets’ them, but most of them are drowning in student loans, struggling to get by, thinking they will never be able to afford to own a home.  

This has nothing to do with the country ‘failing to connect with the ideals of the dem party’. If Trump can’t lower interest rates and prices they’ll leave him like rats leaving a leaky ship in the midterms.

[seriousthistime]

Yeah, I'm waiting to see how he will help out his supporters by reducing the price of groceries and rent.

[dondubble]

Nov 9, 2024 11:53:54 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Nov 9, 2024 9:52:39 GMT -5 scgal said:

The article shows just one of the mistakes her campaign made. The Taylor Swift enforcement was going to get the young vote. Posters here was drooling all over themselves talking about her connecting with the younger crowd. Well where were they? they didn't show up. They just didn't connect with her. Plain and simple most of the country just do not connect with the ideals of the dem party. 

Wrong. Plain and simple most of the country voted with their wallets. Trump promised the middle class they would be rolling in money. Harris did not focus enough on how good the Biden economy is, compared with the rest of the world. Nearly everyone else had /is having a post Covid recession. We did not. Economists rated Harris’ economy policies better than Trumps, for lowering debt and helping the middle class - but the Dems did not broadcast that well, and it couldn’t cut through the Trump lies. 

Do not for a minute think the young adults are all MAGA advocates. Sure, some percentage of them are the young skin head racists that think Trump ‘gets’ them, but most of them are drowning in student loans, struggling to get by, thinking they will never be able to afford to own a home.  

This has nothing to do with the country ‘failing to connect with the ideals of the dem party’. If Trump can’t lower interest rates and prices they’ll leave him like rats leaving a leaky ship in the midterms.

I wish she had specifically addressed all the various causes of the inflation spike. Instead she let Trump just blame Biden. She could have explained the FED policy on rates and how it worked to bring inflation down to the point there is now rate easing. And lastly some education on the very positive economic indicators, traditional and historical benchmarks that would have enabled her to say the Trump was lying about the strength of the economy.

[busymom]

It's too bad that so many people in the US basically sold their vote for the promise of cheaper groceries.  It's gonna bite them.  Bigly.  

[pulmonarymd]

Wouldn’t have helped. People want simple answers. The reality is these are complex problems. So when the answer isn’t simple, they look for someone to blame. Trump excels at finding scapegoats. He has done it all his life.

What COVID has shown me is how stupid and gullible we as a nation are. Trump understands that better and is craven enough to play to it. Not sure how we get out of this. Hopefully, the Republicans will be unable to find someone as good at that when he is gone, and things may be more normal

[pooks]

I know no one wants to hear it, but I am at the let it burn phase.  I know a lot of good people will get hurt, but the D's have been insulating Maga from their bad choices.  I am ready for the R's to fully act on project 2025.  The only way out now is through.  


I have also stopped all donations within my 70% MAGA state and told the charities, I no longer want to be contacted.  I have shut off all media, I will come back in 4 years.  For now, I will read books and train my dog.  

I realize this is white straight privilege, but I can't deal with people right now.  I am not sure how bad this will be for me and mine, but I think we can manage 4 years.  

[Opti]

I do think many voters voted for the illusion that things will be cheaper when Trump is in office. Oddly enough it appears a good portion of his gains in votes were from Hispanic, Asian and those who identified as other.

www.nbclosangeles.com/decision-2024/2024-voter-turnout-election-demographics-trump-harris/3554587/?os=io....sxj9oul9no_journeystrue&ref=app

What changed for Trump between the 2020 and 2024 elections?

NBC News, in conjunction with a consortium of news organizations, conducted exit polls across 10 key states both at polling locations and over the phone. Those states are Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

Below is a look at some of NBC News' findings from its exit polls in the last two presidential races with a breakdown of voting across gender, race, age and more for Trump, Harris and Biden.

[andi9899]

Have you guys gone to your voting site to see if your ballot were counted. Mine shows no advance or provisional ballot. I vote in person in advance at the main election office in my area.

[moon/Laura]

Nov 9, 2024 12:54:03 GMT -5 pooks said:

I know no one wants to hear it, but I am at the let it burn phase.  I know a lot of good people will get hurt, but the D's have been insulating Maga from their bad choices.  I am ready for the R's to fully act on project 2025.  The only way out now is through.  


I have also stopped all donations within my 70% MAGA state and told the charities, I no longer want to be contacted.  I have shut off all media, I will come back in 4 years.  For now, I will read books and train my dog.  

I realize this is white straight privilege, but I can't deal with people right now.  I am not sure how bad this will be for me and mine, but I think we can manage 4 years.  

I'm kinda right there with you. It's gonna suck ass, big time. But I want the people that voted for that piece of shit to suffer majorly, so they see what they've done. Of course, none of them will actually admit that they were wrong.....

[seriousthistime]

andi9899, yes, I voted early, in person. It was counted. 

[seriousthistime]

Nov 9, 2024 13:16:23 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Nov 9, 2024 12:54:03 GMT -5 pooks said:

I know no one wants to hear it, but I am at the let it burn phase.  I know a lot of good people will get hurt, but the D's have been insulating Maga from their bad choices.  I am ready for the R's to fully act on project 2025.  The only way out now is through.  


I have also stopped all donations within my 70% MAGA state and told the charities, I no longer want to be contacted.  I have shut off all media, I will come back in 4 years.  For now, I will read books and train my dog.  

I realize this is white straight privilege, but I can't deal with people right now.  I am not sure how bad this will be for me and mine, but I think we can manage 4 years.  

I'm kinda right there with you. It's gonna suck ass, big time. But I want the people that voted for that piece of shit to suffer majorly, so they see what they've done. Of course, none of them will actually admit that they were wrong.....

They've already said there will be some pain initially.  But if he blames the Dems for the problems he's trying to fix, and says better days are coming, they will believe his lies. 

There's research that shows the wealthy tend to donate to charities that do not ease the burden of the poor. They donate to the symphony, opera, their alma mater, etc.  And the amount they donate (and deduct from their taxes) can sit in a donor advised fund for years without being disbursed to a charity. There's a disconnect between charitable giving and the amount charities receive because of what still in donor advised funds. 

finance.yahoo.com/news/ultrawealthy-charities-helping-no-one-130100543.html

So far, other than watching and reading a bit of post-election quarter-backing, I'm in a news blackout. I'm relying on the phone notifications I receive from the various news sites I follow.  If something looks like it's going to be a trigger I just don't click on it.  If it's more neutral I can go directly to a particular story without having to scroll through all the other stuff. During the first Trump term I was only partially successful in avoiding the news.  There were just too many mornings I'd wake up and see he did something or other and get angry or upset.



 

[moon/Laura]

I rarely watch TV, and never the news. I'm currently on hiatus from IG, Threads, and Facebook. There will come a time when I feel like sharing photos again and sign back into Threads, but today is not that day. I guess I could sign back in to my nail account on IG - I really don't see news on that one at all - so at least I get info on the black friday sales I'm interested in. If I do view news, it's from a link here, for the most part. And this place, thanks to certain people who are willfully blind, makes me irritated enough that I also don't need outside sources making it worse.

[andi9899]

Nov 9, 2024 13:17:17 GMT -5 seriousthistime said:

andi9899, yes, I voted early, in person. It was counted. 

I'm going to have to check my dad's. He voted for the orange man. If his was counted and mine wasn't, it does make you wonder. It would make sense. Record early voting turnout and yet 14 mil less votes counted...

[greenthumb59]

You guys can tell if your vote was counted?  Wow - how?

[billisonboard]

Washington State-all by mail. My ballot was received, accepted, and added to stack for tabulation. I know the people who run the election and have no doubt that they count every vote they can acknowledge is legitimate. I have seen and heard how hard they work to ensure they capture all the votes.