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DavidMerrick from Ottawa, ON Since: Jun, 2018
#337226: Nov 3rd 2020 at 10:59:24 AM

Fluffy ice.

EDIT: just my luck this should be a pagetopper.

Edited by DavidMerrick on Nov 3rd 2020 at 1:59:40 PM

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#337227: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:02:32 AM

That story about being attacked by Qanon sounds pretty wild. I honestly can't tell if it's true or made up.

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#337228: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:02:56 AM

Whenever it snows in Florida, the people look up and wonder, "Whose cocaine is falling from the sky?"

Cast my ballot. Took about half an hour after the polls opened. It's in God's hands now.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#337229: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:05:35 AM

Its not remotely made up. I've seen this happen in RL myself.

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#337230: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:05:46 AM

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MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
#337231: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:09:12 AM

I can promise you that QAnon people will be acting aggressive in at least one of the polling locations. Be weird otherwise. It's only a question of determining where and to whom.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#337232: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:09:13 AM

Did people film it? I feel the press should be out there reporting those things.

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#337233: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:12:14 AM

I don't know what the lines are looking like today or in other places, but we were at the ballots on Friday. My friend's mail-in ballot conspicuously never arrived so I took her down to vote in person.

We were in and out in about half an hour too. I had to wait outside chatting with a poll worker since I'd already voted, but the biggest thing I noticed was how vacant the place was. Three white men trickled into the ballots over the course of that half hour. Literally only one person came out before she did.

Colorado has a pretty good system of mail-in voting and Coloradans have a pretty high level of confidence in it, so I shouldn't be surprised that an in-person polling place was a ghost town. Still, at least in our state, if Republicans are counting on a huge rush of conservative voters crowding out the polls to win the election, I feel like they're going to be disappointed.

Between beloved ex-governor John Hickenlooper (D) running to steal Cory Gardner's (R-CO) Senate seat and the general desire to replace Trump with Biden in a state so left-leaning that we won a state trifecta for Democrats in 2018, I expect Colorado to be a lock for Biden. And from what I saw on Friday, I don't think a miraculous surge of in-person Republican voters to save Trump and Gardner is going to happen here.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:13:32 AM

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#337234: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:15:28 AM

My sister got some of it on camera so she's putting in a call to one of the hotlines. Drove by some of the local polling places a little bit ago and thankfully things are quieted down now.

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#337235: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:34:04 AM

A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania by Republicans falls into the latter category. The lawsuit alleges that Montgomery County has been reaching out to voters who submitted their ballots by mail and giving them the opportunity to fix mistakes they made on the ballots. That’s not what all counties are doing, so the Republicans are claiming that this procedure is a violation of the equal protection clause. And they’re asking both for the county to stop contacting voters to fix their ballots and for the ballots that were already fixed to be thrown out.

Legal scholars like election law expert Rick Hasen seem skeptical of these claims. But as he notes, this lawsuit could also be a harbinger of Republicans’ strategy if the margin is close in a state like Pennsylvania, since at that point the fight could shift to a focus on which individual ballots should be counted.

FFS, they're trying to use equal protection to mean "lowest common denominator".

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#337236: Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:51:16 AM

Fort Bend County,Texas hits 70%voter turnout.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#337237: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:02:16 PM

Qanon intimidating voters after 70% of the 2016 electorate voted early is another sign they're morons.

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#337238: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:05:07 PM

Remembered to go out and vote today. I voted straight Democrat. There was literally only one annoying guy outside with a giant Trump flag, so it wasn't too bad.

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#337239: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:10:27 PM

'Trump,' 'MAGA' graffiti defaces Jewish cemetery in Michigan

A Jewish cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was vandalized with pro-Trump graffiti that was discovered the same day the president visited the city for his final campaign rally of the 2020 election.

Grand Rapids police said the incident is under investigation. It is unknown when the vandalism occurred, and there are currently no suspects, police said.

"Six headstones in the cemetery were spray painted with 'Trump' and/or 'MAGA,'" Grand Rapids Sgt. Dan Adams told NBC News in an email Tuesday.

The Anti-Defamation League's chapter in Michigan posted a tweet Monday with images of gravestones with "TRUMP" and "MAGA" scrawled in red paint.

The cemetery belongs to Congregation Ahavas Israel in Grand Rapids, according to the congregation's rabbi, David J. B. Krishef.

Krishef said in an email that it is unknown if the vandalism was anti-Semitic.

"There were no other words or symbols painted that would clearly indicate that it was an anti-Semitic attack," Krishef wrote. "It may just have been opportunistic vandalism against a cemetery which is isolated and hard to see from the road, on Halloween weekend, not an attack against the Jewish community."

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#337240: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:10:49 PM

Notable fact: It is illegal to advertise politics at polls.

But no one enforces the law anymore.

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#337241: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:12:22 PM

Voted early in the morning. No MAGA hats where i was, thankfully.

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#337242: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:12:56 PM

[up][up][up]"Not Anti-Semitic". Yeah, sure. The people allied with literal Nazis vandalizing a Jewish cemetery isn't Anti-Semitic, pull the other one.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Nov 3rd 2020 at 1:14:01 PM

Resileafs I actually wanted to be Resileaf Since: Jan, 2019
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#337243: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:13:47 PM

[up]To be fair, Nazis supporting Trump is weird.

They are after all supporting someone who has done more for Israel than most presidents.

Edited by Resileafs on Nov 3rd 2020 at 3:14:41 PM

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#337244: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:14:08 PM

They do here. The lady behind me with a Trump shirt had to cover it up when she entered the library where we were voting.

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#337245: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:16:33 PM

[up][up] Support for Israel isn't necessarily conflicting with antisemitism.

The religious right supports Isreal ''because of antisemitism'' - the idea is that Israel will rebuild the Temple at which point Jesus will descend from Heaven and wipe them off the face of the earth.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Nov 3rd 2020 at 9:16:44 PM

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#337246: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:17:01 PM

[up][up][up]These days, there's a lot of Nazis and other anti-Semites who have a huge hard-on for Israel. Despite the meme that "the Jews" are secretly ruling the world, they love Israel for being a fascist ethnostate who don't take any "politically correct" shit from Arabs and aren't afraid to be open about settling in conquered territory.

[up]And that.

Edited by Ramidel on Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:17:40 AM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#337247: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:17:43 PM

They are after all supporting someone who has done more for Israel than most presidents.

I shit you not that the white supremacists in my region are big Israel supporters for:

1. The fact it removes Jews from America 2. They kill a lot of Muslims.

...

I swear to God.

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Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#337248: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:17:55 PM

While Trump is undeniably racist, I actually wouldn't say he is necessarily anti-semitic. He is more focused on Muslims and Blacks.

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#337249: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:19:20 PM

[up] Considering his comments letting Jews manage his money...

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Nov 3rd 2020 at 9:19:29 PM

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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#337250: Nov 3rd 2020 at 12:20:30 PM

Didn't he also like retweet anti-semitic imagery or am I thinking of someone else?


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