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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 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
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.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".
Fort Bend County,Texas hits 70%voter turnout.
'Trump,' 'MAGA' graffiti defaces Jewish cemetery in Michigan
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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Support for Israel isn't necessarily conflicting with antisemitism.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Nov 3rd 2020 at 9:16:44 PM
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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.
And that.
Edited by Ramidel on Nov 3rd 2020 at 11:17:40 AM
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.
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I swear to God.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.

Fluffy ice.
EDIT: just my luck this should be a pagetopper.
Edited by DavidMerrick on Nov 3rd 2020 at 1:59:40 PM