The Politics Thread

[Soapsuds]

My parents voted early. They usually vote on election day but they were supercharged this year..Lol.

[xtr]

Did they have to wait in a long lines?. One of the reasons that I didn't early vote this year (and my dad didn't either) Is because the early voting place in our town is usually pretty packed. It's more packed than a lot of the polling places here. Including the old polling place, I usually vote at. I live in NC and read there were long lines at lot of early voting places here.

 

I don't want any parts of a long line lol (if they can be avoided).

[Taoboi]

Yeah that doesn't sound good, @xtr Congrats on voting.

[Soapsuds]

My parents went when the lines weren't long. The first day they went the lines were very long so they went on another day.

[xtr]

 

Thanks taoboi. 

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I'm glad they didn't have to stand in the line for too long. It can help that early voting goes on for a bit. I believe it went to like October 31st here in NC.

Edited November 3, 2020 by xtr

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[Gray Bunny]

I voted in person this morning. I'm in Dane County in Madison WI and got in line around 7:25am and was done by around 8:15ish. No craziness, just normalcy. Everyone masked up and 6 ft. apart.  We're gonna flip Wisconsin back to blue

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[I Am A Swede]

Good luck to everyone who's voting today or have voted already.  

I think the whole world is waiting anxiously on the results. I know I am.

 

[Khan]

No matter what happens tonight, or whenever a winner is declared, I know I will never again look at this country without thinking about the past four years, or all the attempts to disenfranchise POC from what is supposed to be a free and fair election for all.  My love for and naivete about my country, if I ever had it, is gone forever.

Edited November 3, 2020 by Khan

[Fevuh]

This is how I feel also.  I work for a large international corporation and it's embarrassing.  Coworkers in other countries don't understand what is wrong with us.  And I have no answers because there are no answers.  The general feeling in this country and negativity has been Cheeto fanning discrimination and hate for 4 years.  And he knows who's voting for him.  Just the complete dismissal of Science and any empathy.  

 

Even if he loses, he's probably going to launch a media company so that he can continue to pretend to be a Dictator and tell his followers what they want to hear.  He'll fan the flames from there instead of the Oval Office.  

[marceline]

 

That's not going to be possible now that Deutsche Bank is cutting him loose. All his creditors are going to start calling in his $421 million of debt. Not to mention, NY AG Tish James is just waiting for him to be a private citizen again so she can hit him with state charges. I could see him going into exile in Russia or Saudi Arabia but he's not really valuable to them anymore.

[DRW50]

I lost most of that in 2002 and 2003, but I agree with you. Right now I am just hoping we even make it one more day, then another, and then another. I just hope of Trump loses (which is a big if), people do not forget that Trump was not an aberration - he is the face of a party that hates us and hates this country, and wants us dead. 

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[Fevuh]

I think I posted before - but I know people in NY that ran in certain circles with Ivanka and crew - and they haven't returned their calls in a couple years.  Likewise, not everything is happy in Sunny Florida.  A lot of people in his community are tired of the Secret Service presence on his trips down there, and here in Northern VA - I'm 2 miles from his golf course where someone flipped him off.  He can win 4 more years but when this is over, their family name has been sullied, and the Republicans know they can never go back but no one will stand up to him.  I think in the end, this could do damage to the Republican party for decades to come, so I guess great for them that they sucked up the Supreme Court.  They'll need it.