RidinWithHarris
RidinWithHarris's JournalAt least I finally got enough motivation to replace my long-expired passport
I paid the extra money to get it processed in two weeks.
A Facebook ad reminded me to do this. Damn, their tracking algorithm has got me pegged.
I don't know if I will leave the country, but I want my options open.
I don't know if I can find a better life elsewhere, what countries will take me, or how to afford healthcare in another country since I'm too old to be taken in for my employment value, and obviously haven't been paying a lifetime of taxes into another country's socialized medicine system.
What I do know is I'm deeply ashamed to be a part of this country anymore.
Current vote totals are not final vote totals. Elections can easily be called with millions of votes still outstanding.
I keep seeing people express suspicion about voter turnout being so high, but that the total number of votes is fewer than 2020.
The totals are only CURRENTLY less than 2020. Final totals are not yet available, and millions of votes from, especially from non-swing states like California, are not yet counted.
We don't need to add misunderstandings and conspiracy theories to the current mess we're in.
Believe it: The American people are and were stupid and hateful and ignorant enough to put Trump back in power, no election rigging necessary.
I know he won't do it, but I so wish Biden would go full dictator before Trump does
Use his SCOTUS-granted king-like powers and just locked up Trump, the conservative Justices, a good portion of the Republican House and Senate, Elon Musk, etc., etc.
If we're going to live under a dictatorship, I'd prefer a more benevolent one.
It just isn't in Biden's nature to go that far, however. 😢
If we ever have a real election again, please shut the fuck up about the polls being rigged
Other than the obvious fake polls, the major pollsters were actually trying to get good numbers. Some might have fallen into "herding" behavior, but they weren't trying to do anything nefarious even if that happened, and if there was any error caused by herding, it was small.
They weren't selling number that clients asked them to provide.
The news services weren't requesting tight numbers to boost ratings.
The people on the news telling us it was a tight race weren't just saying that to boost ratings.
This race was, and still is, just as fucking close as we were being told. The polls, for all their flaws, pretty much painted the picture we're seeing right now.
If a pollster asks a Republican how important democracy is as an issue to them, I'm not sure how that turns out
Since Republicans are always projecting, they often cast Democrats as the supposed threat to democracy.
So you could get a Trump voter saying democracy is their top issue.
But how many Republicans would say that relative to Democrats? Some Republicans are openly disdainful of democracy. The ones deluded enough to think Trump is some great hope for freedom might still care more about "illegals" or who uses what bathroom.
I'm guessing that most poll respondents who rank democracy as an important issue are Democrats voting for Harris, or even Liz Cheney-like Republicans voting for Harris. But I'm not sure how it all balances out.
The early sign of a solid Harris win that I'll be looking for...
...is when enough results are in that Steve Kornacki (if you don't like him, tough!) starts comparing how Harris is doing vs. Trump to how Biden did against Trump in 2020, my optimistic guess is that we're going to start to see a solid pattern of Harris meeting or exceeding how Biden performed.
If there's a lot of that going on in multiple counties in multiple states, I think we can be confident Harris is on her way to victory even before any swing states are called.
Lawrence O'Donnell's advice about choosing optimism needs to be taken with a grain of salt
There is such a thing as excessive optimism. Optimism is best tempered by realism.
Similarly, Forgeard and Seligman’s (2012) review suggests that ‘unmitigated and unrealistic optimism’ may lead to a range of undesirable outcomes. Of course, it’s not healthy to always expect the worst-case scenario, but by nurturing realistic optimism, we can search for “positive experiences while acknowledging what we do not know and accepting what we cannot know” (Schneider, 2001, p. 253).
So, go ahead and practice optimism, but make sure it is balanced with a good dose of flexibility and realism.
Think the top of your news feed would look this normal if Harris had fellated a microphone stand the previous day?
Even at this extreme, the normalizing and sane-washing continues to the bitter end.
I've often wondered if Trump could drop his pants at a rally and still keep most of his supporters
And Christ-on-a-crutch, if he isn't edging awfully damn close to testing that proposition with simulated blow jobs.
Do you think women will outnumber men on election day too, not just in early voting?
That's what I'm hoping for, that what we're seeing is an overall higher motivation among women to vote, in general, not just a preference for early voting.
And perhaps among the men who are turning out to vote, more of them are the kind of men who care about women's rights.
I'm an older white male who definitely does not want those sadly typical of my own demographic group running things.
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