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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#148526: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:35:24 PM

Its size is such that anyone with normal sized hands just engulfs it.

LogoP Party Crasher from the Land of Deep Blue Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Party Crasher
#148527: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:36:18 PM

[up]x5 More on this: "No, John Podesta didn’t drink bodily fluids at a secret Satanist dinner."

edited 4th Nov '16 3:46:18 PM by LogoP

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#148528: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:36:47 PM

ABC is saying right now that Hillary is at 47% and Trump is at 43%.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#148529: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:37:00 PM

@ theLibrarian Oh Satan is a really cool guy, he possessed all those presidents and never pushed the nuke button.

edited 4th Nov '16 3:37:20 PM by AngelusNox

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Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#148531: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:41:28 PM

Redundant at this point, but a quarter of millennials are undecided or abstaining, and Daveed Diggs exists in a perpetual state of sassy awesomeness. LAFAYETTE!

Mr. Jefferson welcome home!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#148532: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:43:22 PM

@Adric, a four point lead at this point (especially if its holding in the swing states) is probably the best we can hope for.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#148533: Nov 4th 2016 at 3:47:36 PM

Re: egging houses: May have been unrelated to the signs. Halloween happened over the weekend and unfortunately there's always some group of Those Kids who seek to live out the "Trick" part of "Trick or Treat".

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#148534: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:10:18 PM

So, apparently Joe Miller is Alaska's Libertarian candidate for Senate this year.

For those who are just joining us, he was the surprise Republican candidate in 2010, due to a primary that was so out-of-touch with the people of Alaska that we rallied to send Lisa Murkowski back to Washington by write-in. He's an obnoxious Tea Partier of the worst sort who thinks that East Germany is a good example to follow in border control, and he opposes same-sex marriage (in contrast to the national Libertarian platform). He also supports Trump over Johnson.

This is what my ex-party has become: a haven for the guys too fascist for the Republican Party. Le sigh.

edited 4th Nov '16 4:14:07 PM by Ramidel

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#148535: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:13:42 PM

Egging houses and wrecking signs is a shitty thing to do. But pulling a firearm in response to that is a completely different level of unacceptable.

edited 4th Nov '16 4:13:49 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
FalconX5 Nerdy glasses guy from Northwest Indiana Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Nerdy glasses guy
#148536: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:18:47 PM

Voted yesterday. Many Democrats ran unopposed in my area.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#148537: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:23:07 PM

There's an asshole a town over who's had a cherrypicker sitting in his yard so he can have its arm extended over the road with a lit-up Trump sign for months now.

Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#148538: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:27:52 PM

[up] I Am Not A Lawyer, but the bit about having the arm extended over the road has got to violate any number of safety ordinances.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#148539: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:37:08 PM

Along my daily commute to work, there's a guy who used to have a big plywood sign on his front lawn that said: "Stop the Traitor in the White House!" (referring to Obama.)

He took it down several months ago, but I haven't seen any Trump campaign signs replacing it on his front lawn. (I'm presuming he's a Republican, but Even Evil Has Standards, apparently...)

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ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#148540: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:43:20 PM

Have a guy 5 minutes down the road with a "God Bless America" sign at the end of driveway. For the last 7 years, he had tacked another sign on it with "Impeach Obama". Took it down this year, and have not seen anything Trump/Pence nearby; contrast to several sections of road near my house plastered with them. Standards, I guess. Well, I hope.

edited 4th Nov '16 4:43:46 PM by ViperMagnum357

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#148541: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:52:01 PM

Someone in my neighborhood has a big Trump flag in their yard (yes, not a sign, a flag), which is strange, considering that I'm pretty sure that such displays aren't allowed in my neighborhood.

My mom told me that apparently one of his friends stole it as a prank, causing him to freak out about it on Facebook. His friend revealed that he had stole it, and the guy apologized for said freak-out. Don't know how extreme his reaction was - might have been something as mundane as "Holy crap, someone stole my flag!" to...well, the short of stuff we usually think of when we picture Trump supporters.

Oh God! Natural light!
Nerevarine Since: Mar, 2016
#148542: Nov 4th 2016 at 4:57:35 PM

Not sure if somebody posted about this yet (you people post at 100 mph), but the NY Times made an Oregon Trail-style game about voting and voter suppression. You can play as either a white man in California, a latino woman in Texas, or a black man in Wisconsin and the game is different for each one.

As a game, it's pretty shallow and the events are the same each time for the same character. And I feel it's too ham-fisted to be taken as anything other than propaganda, by which I mean it won't convince anyone who didn't already agree with its message (plus I think there would be a line even in California). Still, I thought it was interesting enough to bring up.

As for here in Provo (Utah), I've seen only a couple of Trump signs outside of campus and one of them was vandalized. I think most people here are voting for Mc Mullin, but I'm less sure about the rest of the state.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#148543: Nov 4th 2016 at 5:01:16 PM

I don't think we've had any signs vandalized where I live.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#148544: Nov 4th 2016 at 5:09:46 PM

Man, if somebody put up Trump shit in my neighborhood, that'd be gone before you can say "vandalism". Fucking Trumplings.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#148546: Nov 4th 2016 at 5:37:55 PM

The most pro-Trump anything I've seen on my end is a couple of people who were maybe wearing "Make America Great Again" hats. I couldn't get a good look either time, so I'm not even certain that's what they were.

i'm tired, my friend
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#148547: Nov 4th 2016 at 5:48:36 PM

I've seen some Trump signs, but those are usually on the side of the road near public property. People in my neighborhood don't seem to be big on putting political signs of any kind in their yards.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#148548: Nov 4th 2016 at 6:00:46 PM

I've seen way too many Trump signs and bumper stickers. One of my friends has even been wearing his Trump Pence hat to college.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#148549: Nov 4th 2016 at 6:40:02 PM

How come y'all friends?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#148550: Nov 4th 2016 at 6:45:07 PM

Well he's not in my face about his politics, so there's that. Plus we do a lot of jokes involving Sponge Bob and stuff.

The part of Florida I live in is pretty conservative, so I usually just try to shut up about politics. I usually fail.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

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