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shame on an IGA posted:Tallies from Iowa finally starting to firm up, 4,000 mi² recieved Cat-2 hurricane force winds destroying roughly 250,000,000 bushels or fourteen billion pounds of corn That’s enough to feed every person on the planet for a day and a half, or, in other words, a little under half of a percent of world food demands (if the corn weren’t destined for animal feed and there were no food waste).
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Doc Hawkins posted:I'll give you this, you're providing a good example of what I meant: a narrative of inevitable happy victory is one that brings people to the polls. The theory that complacency makes people not bother to vote is BS, Americans love a winner and enjoy joining bandwagons. Unless it's for someone they don't like, in which case they sulk and stay home. Just a quick thing because I'm likely doing a poo poo job at defense - all the swing states (besides Texas) are no-excuse absentee already, so unless they figure out how to *completely* shut down the mail, most of the voter suppression poo poo they're doing won't work. And even if they shut down the mail, that will end up obliterating the rural, Republican areas more. You're right about Democratic defense though. There are an absolute shitpile of Democratic lawsuits ongoing, but that's about it. Way too much trust in the system, then they get Air Bud dunked on while whining about the rules. Hot Karl Marx posted:This thread is reading exactly like 2016 and its going to end with the same results The funny thing is that this is the prevailing view in the country! The polls are drastically different, Biden by a lot, but that same majority of people thinks that Trump is going to win.
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I think there is the fatal error of not calculating people really hated Hilary Clinton and are pretty meh about Joe. People now hate Trump even more so the 80k votes across 5 states is likely not going to happen even with the suppression. I think it’s going to say the senate and kick the cab, but Trump is in a shittier position that he was in 2016 and doesn’t have 30 years of propaganda behind his opponent.
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Aug 21, 2020 13:29
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This is why you look at polling averages instead of just one poll: https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1295164179037466625?s=19 There are five major national polls. Two have shown tightening (the CNN one being swingy as all hell), three have not. The CNN one is the only poll going from Biden 10+ to Biden by 4 and back and forth. We're not at Biden+12 like a few months ago, but we're not at Biden +4 either. Plus, there's a reason why both Biden and Trump have promoted the hell out of that poll! Both sides (lol) want the narrative that it's close!
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sharknado slashfic posted:I took this thread out of my bookmarks for my sanity, but I read it every night before I go to bed. One more reason to hate you alcoholism. https://i.imgur.com/1Ofz1O8.gifv Sleep better tonight, sharknado.
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Now if you REALLY want to be concerned about election poo poo instead of poll junk: https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1296627473342517248?s=19 Now he was lying his bronzer off the whole time, but the question of "what if he's not?" is what people are figuring out right now. The expiration of the consent decree banning RNC poll intimidation poo poo is causing this - though there are laws in place (lol again) banning military and civilian police at polling places. The RNC is talking about using off-duty police and other fuckers for the poll watching garbage. Edit: ok enough doom poo poo, here's NBC's QAnon reporter with a new, sudden addition to her family https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1296797277646880768?s=19 Edit2: gently caress IT, DOOM https://twitter.com/gdimeweather/status/1296785147015168003?s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I think there is the fatal error of not calculating people really hated Hilary Clinton and are pretty meh about Joe. People now hate Trump even more so the 80k votes across 5 states is likely not going to happen even with the suppression. I think it’s going to say the senate and kick the cab, but Trump is in a shittier position that he was in 2016 and doesn’t have 30 years of propaganda behind his opponent. I dunno if you're up on current events but theres more than 30 years of Biden being a shitter that the Trump can run on. Conservatives wildly love their candidate, Democrats don't. We're doing 2016 all over again, on purpose.
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Dude's lying his dick off this morning: https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1296803768214921217?s=19 https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1296804929437421568?s=19 https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1296807490374578176?s=19
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Proud Christian Mom posted:I dunno if you're up on current events but theres more than 30 years of Biden being a shitter that the Trump can run on. Lots of Dems love Biden/Harris, which is why Biden crushed Sanders among democratic voters in the primaries. Those voters just aren't posting on a dead comedy forum.
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gently caress ALL THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT THE ELECTION CLICK ME AND GO TO 0:06 https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1296807765076312070?s=19
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facialimpediment posted:That's more or less the Trump campaign strategy, but there's a serious problem with it. If you try to decrease votes for the other side, there's the very real threat of blowback. A lot of the voter suppression poo poo they're trying to pull is just making people even more determined to vote, even people that might not have considered voting before. That's how you get BLM rallies in the middle of the deep south after gassing Lafayette Square. Uuuuhhhh.... that don't look good. William Gibson the SF author has an argument that the apocalypse isn't going to be one thing, it's going to be a "jackpot" of a thousand disasters all hitting at more or less the same time, and I gotta say that's looking pretty plausible right now.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:I dunno if you're up on current events but theres more than 30 years of Biden being a shitter that the Trump can run on. Just looking at the attack ads, they are generic Democrats ruin everything bullshit that would have run with Bernie or any democrat. I still am on active duty and deal with a lot of hardcore conservatives. Mentioning Hillary Clinton to this day still get a rabid response to Benghazi or her emails. Biden gets lukewarm, well I just don’t my taxes raised reactions. GOP is fueled by hate, and they haven’t turned it on Biden yet, which won’t increase turn out for them. I agree Biden’s not a good candidate for progressive movements that we need in the country, but he’s no where near as hated as Clinton. 30 years of center right politics gets thrown out for he was friends with Obama and GOP are grasping at straws like he’s a cocaine addict and other nutty bullshit that isn’t sticking.
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Notahippie posted:Uuuuhhhh.... that don't look good. That's usually how it goes
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1296818793566568456?s=20 What the first tweet says and what the video says do not seem to match. The video appears to be a denial by the postmaster general, not a confirmation. Am I just bad at reading twitter?
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I’m in St. Croix flying TD13 which is now TS Laura. It’s still pretty messy and 5 days is a long time for something to change. It’ll all depend on how much time is spends over warm water and if it skirts around Hispaniola and Cuba, which it looks like it will. TD14 they really thought was just going to run across Mexico and be done but it turned hard North and here we are.
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piL posted:What the first tweet says and what the video says do not seem to match. The video appears to be a denial by the postmaster general, not a confirmation. Am I just bad at reading twitter? The PMG is stating that he's not going to put the sorting machines back. He's claiming they need the space for package processing and they don't need the sorting machines for flat mail pieces. Completely the opposite of what the rank-and-file is saying. Then, Sen. Rosen got the PMG to admit that he had no study data or any actual planning for the effects of what he did. He just figured he would do it, it would work, and he'd be a legend. Wonder Free posted:I’m in St. Croix flying TD13 which is now TS Laura. It’s still pretty messy and 5 days is a long time for something to change. It’ll all depend on how much time is spends over warm water and if it skirts around Hispaniola and Cuba, which it looks like it will. Most updated forecast: https://twitter.com/wxbrad/status/1296824121075138561?s=19 If y'all are in the south, get supplies now.
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So much of this poo poo has been like this: (R) Senator: Mr. DeJoy, did you kill the mail? DeJoy: No. (R) Senator: Well, thank you for your time, and I'm sorry you have to go through this. It's a terrible political hit job by the Democrats.
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Wonder Free posted:I’m in St. Croix flying TD13 which is now TS Laura. It’s still pretty messy and 5 days is a long time for something to change. It’ll all depend on how much time is spends over warm water and if it skirts around Hispaniola and Cuba, which it looks like it will. Have there ever been two simultaneous TDs/hurricanes in the gulf like this before? What happens if they get close? How do these things interact?
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I just... https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1296820737521717248 "We stole all your money, but you're too dumb to realize it, even if we say it out loud to your faces"
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Torrannor posted:I just... I have no good way of hearing the audio on this for the next 10 hours. Is that actually a direct quote?
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"Welcome back, this is Steven K. Bannon! We're off the coast of St Tropez in southern France in the med on the million dollar yacht of Brian Kolfage and uh, Brian Kolfage, he took all that money from Build The Wall. No, we're actually in Sundland Park, NM" is the direct quote
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CainFortea posted:I have no good way of hearing the audio on this for the next 10 hours. Is that actually a direct quote? "We're on a million dollar yacht of Brian Colfage, and, uh, Brian...he took all that money from 'Build the Wall'...no, we're actually (...)"
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facialimpediment posted:The PMG is stating that he's not going to put the sorting machines back. He's claiming they need the space for package processing and they don't need the sorting machines for flat mail pieces. Completely the opposite of what the rank-and-file is saying. I wasn't talking about those, I was talking about the first part directly linked. quote:Postmaster General Louis DeJoy confirms he's still significantly curtailing extra trips to deliver mail and overtime pay I think im just uncomfortable with twitter and congressional hearings. The lack of context and immediacy of reporting obscures things and incentivises congress members to look tough instead of searching for the deep systemic problems. Hearing that, I immediately had questions I have to go research to see whether it's a dunk such as: Is the PMG permitted to overcommit funds? If PMG did overcommit, would the federal employees be paid? What is the process of requesting emergency funding for the Post Office? Have changes to USC affected any of these processes in a way that pulled control from the PMG's hands? What are legislative and executive roles in ensuring direction and funding is provided to the post office? I can't know if that tweet was a dunk without knowing all of that, I dont have time to research it before work, but a lot of opinions will be formed without knowing any of that. For the part that you referenced, I think that part is a lot more clear as a failing, provided the rank and file and data agree that sorting is more valuable than the equipment being used to replace it. Which seems likely.
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shame on an IGA posted:"Welcome back, this is Steven K. Bannon! We're off the coast of St Tropez in southern France in the med on the million dollar yacht of Brian Kolfage and uh, Brian Kolfage, he took all that money from Build The Wall. No, we're actually in Sundland Park, NM" is the direct quote Thanks to both of you. I mean, people have been saying poo poo out loud for a while now and no one cares.
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Notahippie posted:Uuuuhhhh.... that don't look good. Richard Paul Russo portrays it as kind of a frog boiling thing where things just steadily but slowly get worse and worse until we find ourselves living with a terminally diseased society, devastated coastlines and poison rain without remembering how we got there. I think that one’s my pet favorite.
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Fallom posted:Richard Paul Russo portrays it as kind of a frog boiling thing where things just steadily but slowly get worse and worse until we find ourselves living with a terminally diseased society, devastated coastlines and poison rain without remembering how we got there. I think that one’s my pet favorite. Unfortunately, we're already living in that degraded state relative to even the 70s or 80s. This sort of degraded period will followed by some much more dynamic changes. There is only so much buffer in the system (be it faith in institutions, slack economic capacity, shared feeling of community/citizenship) and once we blow through enough buffers, the system is going to need to simplify dramatically across some dimensions in order to continue. That could be a collapse like the Civil War, or Britain losing its colonies, or an economic one like the fall of the Western Roman empire where the population drops by >50% over a generation.
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Don't worry guys I'm sure the rich will stick around to right the ship they've invested so much in
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Loden Taylor posted:Have there ever been two simultaneous TDs/hurricanes in the gulf like this before? What happens if they get close? How do these things interact? In the Gulf, I’m not sure. I’ve never seen it in such a small area but usually there’s a few in the busy season that do weird stuff to each other in the Atlantic. Their interaction is described by the Fujiwhara Effect. They can weaken each other with wind shear but sometimes they can steer each other or merge in weird ways. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwhara_effect
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I hate you You can be my chief engineer, you're just not allowed to actually touch anything.
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Godholio posted:You can be my chief engineer, you're just not allowed to actually touch anything. Let's amend that to not being on the boat and still collecting fat stacks and ill agree
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