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TASER BALLS
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TASER BALLS 420 85.89%
TASER BALLS 69 14.11%
Total: 489 votes
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C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Trump will endorse literally anyone who gives him enough money and placates his ego

I more mean that he'll poo poo on any establishment GOPer who he thinks was disloyal to him. See Jeff Sessions in his Senate bid in AL, where he lost to Tommy loving Tuberville because Trump poo poo-talked him relentlessly.

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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Schnorkles posted:

There's 1.5m outstanding absentee ballots that are, at minimum, 75-25 dem. You can do the math.

source ur pundit quotes plz

PsychoInternetHawk
Apr 4, 2011

Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
Grimey Drawer

Tom Gorman posted:

was just talking to a buddy of mine and I asked him who he'd run in 2024 if he was in charge of the DNC

"gently caress, I dunno. If they wanna win they need to run somebody like The Rock. Or somebody like him. They need a loudmouth pro wrestler to go on TV and say crazy poo poo and make huge promises."

and I sat there for about 10 seconds and arrived at the conclusion that he's totally fuckin right

If the GOP is smart they'll recognize blood in the water and start looking for a candidate who can peel minority votes away from the dems while maintaining their base

I was thinking about it earlier and someone who can redirect the GOPs racist tendencies elsewhere (probably using thinly-veiled antisemitism) while advocating for economic redistribution and keeping the religious social conservatism would definitely clean up in 2024

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
A lot of those outstanding votes are in the absolute bluest counties as well

So there's a good chance they're even more dem favorable.

Tainen
Jan 23, 2004

Schnorkles posted:

There's 1.5m outstanding absentee ballots that are, at minimum, 75-25 dem. You can do the math.

what makes these ballots so outstanding?

TDepressionEarl
Oct 28, 2010


I'm trying to win the World Cup
but I'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps playing Argentina onside


Bideo James posted:

EARTH HAS 4 TRUMPs SIMULTANEOUSLY EACH ROTATION. YOU ERRONEOUSLY MEASURE TRUMP IN ONE CORNER

TRUMP BODY 4 TRUMP TIME EQUALS 4 TRUMP MOBILITY.
YOUR IGNORANCE OF TRUMP CUBE IS DEMONIC.

SPACETIME FORCE DEFEND TUMP TEMPORAL TRAPEZOID

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe

Admiral Ray posted:

idk mostly he's whining on twitter. courts don't take cases just because someone said "this is illegal!" on the internet

He does have an army of lawyers though who are ready to go at the drop of a hat.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016


Owned

Bideo James
Oct 21, 2020

you'll have to ask someone else about the size of her cans

Schnorkles posted:

There's 1.5m outstanding absentee ballots that are, at minimum, 75-25 dem. You can do the math.

so..............a 50/50 chance woah!!!!!!!!!!! MATH RULES

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



DryGoods posted:

whose handwriting?

Hope Hicks, noted Schnorkles write-in campaign supporter

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003

Schnorkles posted:

everyone, literally everyone: yeah trump's margin isn't big enough in PA

c-spam: SHJOW ME YTHJE GODDAMN RECEIPTS SCHNORKLAS

theyve been more right than you have up until this point

KaptainKrunk
Feb 6, 2006


that plane is back?

shameful

Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

Bideo James posted:

so..............a 50/50 chance woah!!!!!!!!!!! MATH RULES

i loving love science

kaleedity
Feb 27, 2016



euphronius posted:

the third one is correct

well mostly on the Covid part. people hated the lockdowns

they hate the lockdowns and covid but the politicians aren't as popular as burning down the police precinct

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Tainen posted:

what makes these ballots so outstanding?

Not done in sharpie

The Alpha Centauri
Feb 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvarmXmOJB

gov wolf saying some things

Next-Gen
Sep 22, 2004

Ted Nugent is the next generation in Joint Combat soldiers



Tainen posted:

what makes these ballots so outstanding?

because we threw them in a field


then set them on fire

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

Tom Gorman posted:

was just talking to a buddy of mine and I asked him who he'd run in 2024 if he was in charge of the DNC

"gently caress, I dunno. If they wanna win they need to run somebody like The Rock. Or somebody like him. They need a loudmouth pro wrestler to go on TV and say crazy poo poo and make huge promises."

and I sat there for about 10 seconds and arrived at the conclusion that he's totally fuckin right

I’d vote for Batista

Bideo James
Oct 21, 2020

you'll have to ask someone else about the size of her cans
data analysts will spend billions of hours together to make models and statistics only to be outdone by a coinflip

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Schnorkles posted:

everyone, literally everyone: yeah trump's margin isn't big enough in PA

c-spam: SHJOW ME YTHJE GODDAMN RECEIPTS SCHNORKLAS

can't believe schnork bought votes and kept the receipts smdh

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Admiral Ray posted:

idk mostly he's whining on twitter. courts don't take cases just because someone said "this is illegal!" on the internet
get a load of this guy

f#a#
Sep 6, 2004

I can't promise it will live up to the hype, but I tried my best.
ptu mtp

Tainen
Jan 23, 2004
lol I forgot that we had the banning of sex education on the ballot here in Washington and the loser of the Gov race is real upset it didn’t pass

https://twitter.com/jeremiahoshan/status/1324041311385612289?s=21

BAE OF PIGS
Nov 28, 2016

Tup

Schnorkles posted:

There's 1.5m outstanding absentee ballots that are, at minimum, 75-25 dem. You can do the math.

Lol, at a minimum? You sure?

2DCAT
Jun 25, 2015

pissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssss sssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssss

Gravy Boat 2k

Admiral Ray posted:

the first one is true too. uber and lyft absolutely dominated the messaging on prop 22 and sent out things like the "Progressive Voter Guide" that said prop 22 is good, actually.

It's hosed up and basically impossible to reverse... Voters are dumb as poo poo

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Schnorkles posted:

everyone, literally everyone: yeah trump's margin isn't big enough in PA

c-spam: SHJOW ME YTHJE GODDAMN RECEIPTS SCHNORKLAS



Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Harton posted:

I’d vote for Batista

A Mick Foley / Steve Austin ticket would be a winner

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

"Welcome to the JJ's Cyberia world. If you'd like to get ecstasy, just get on the dancefloor, and scrrream like this: TURUMPUMPPPPP!!!"

UFOTacoMan
Sep 22, 2005

Thanks easter bunny!
bok bok!

Bearjew posted:

i haven't watched Season 2 so thanks for the spoiler

there are so many other things to so, don't worry

Ice Phisherman
Apr 12, 2007

Swimming upstream
into the sunset



Schnorkles posted:

everyone, literally everyone: yeah trump's margin isn't big enough in PA

c-spam: SHJOW ME YTHJE GODDAMN RECEIPTS SCHNORKLAS

I respect your knowledge about polls. You know your poo poo. But polls are seriously overvalued. They're focused on by the elite because they lack the charisma to look at this world and enforce their will upon it with clear vision and leadership. Polls do not adequately describe reality when someone can whip together a crowd and impose their own will on reality through shared consensus. We're primed for that in America and the polls are not important to that process.

Polls are less and less important and less and less real every drat day.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

I'm shocked this is the only one so far. I would have predicted a dozen conspiracy theories by now.

DryGoods
Apr 26, 2014

Dogs, on the other hand, can connect with that pathos.
getting a lot of sheepish PM's about Biden's Grand Slam. i just want you to know, it's water under the bridge. you don't have to apologize to your old pal DryGoods. i understand

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008





https://twitter.com/JonaGiammalva/status/1324032458669453312

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Tainen posted:

lol I forgot that we had the banning of sex education on the ballot here in Washington and the loser of the Gov race is real upset it didn’t pass

https://twitter.com/jeremiahoshan/status/1324041311385612289?s=21

the jowls on that guy holy gently caress more like loren gulp

Raffles
Dec 7, 2004

waiting on joe Biden to heal this fractured land

Higgy
Jul 6, 2005



Grimey Drawer
don’t worry guys abuela got this

Glimm
Jul 27, 2005

Time is only gonna pass you by

Schnorkles posted:

everyone, literally everyone: yeah trump's margin isn't big enough in PA

c-spam: SHJOW ME YTHJE GODDAMN RECEIPTS SCHNORKLAS

wait what's the math here, it doesn't look like Biden is gonna win PA unless like 85% of the mail-ins go his way right? that seems unlikely (though close)

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

Ice Phisherman posted:

I think what's important here as well is that people are building identity around things like not wearing a mask or owning the libs or whatever is because the old America is dying and these identitarian movements are attempting whether intentional or not to create a new American identity because the old one no longer fits. America has went through several ideological changes over the years. From the founders to Jackson, from Jackson to Lincoln, from Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR, from FDR to Reagan. Each one of those periods is a distinct time and place in history that represented watershed moments. They were times where everything changed and with it, what it meant to be an American. Someone had to imagine these movements first. With leadership and will, impose their reality on the world by building consensus among the Americans of the time.

The period we're in right now has had a few off ramps that we could have created a left wing identity if we so chose. The Obama inauguration if he wasn't a shitlib for example was poised to change everything. Instead he put neoliberalism back on life support. Trump won, but he's too crass and stupid and lazy to build that new consensus that enough people will share in. Bernie came around and the dems correctly identified him as a threat to the current consensus, which is a kind of gilded age neoliberalism. Bernie not only would have won, but he was a threat that could have very well remade the nation and taken us back to the old FDR days with democratic socialism. Something that has maybe a generation before its eroded by capitalism and that's if it entrenches, but it would have given us a better chance to blunt climate change. He was sabotaged by the neoliberal elite because with their final, dying breaths before fascism takes hold, the libs will gently caress over the left. The elites don't want to give up any power and would prefer to live on a rotting corpse of a nation rather than live in a healthy one where they make less money.

The powers that be like this system even though its undergoing a social collapse and that collapse is right now and its ongoing and will continue until we produce a new identity that redefines what it means to be an American or we rot until we eventually balkanize. The neoliberal consensus wants to preserve the status quo, but that's not possible because few people actually believe anymore. The fash are seeking a new shared identity through fascism, which means violence and death, but I don't think that they have the gas to pull it off because Trump is too incompetent and the fascists are mostly pretty old. So if Trump wins, we continue to rot for another four years. This changes if we get president Biden because Biden will give them four years to consolidate and build a national consensus by pumping out a new charismatic strongman. One who likely won't be incompetent and lazy and stupid. And this is while Biden sabotages the left. Trump would only embolden the left and create more, especially if he successfully steals the election.

The problem is that the neoliberals continually smother not only any political movements, but any identitarian movements from the left and offer no new identity because they're basically incapable of creation of identity. It's just not in them. They're way, way too close to what most of us consider conservative and conservatives do not generate new ideas, nor can they take us backwards with fascism. All they know how to do is to manage the decline. The fash have a playbook for generating identity. It's lovely and ugly and horrible, but it works in generating national identity if not vigorously resisted. It's basically through a kind of blood sacrifice to murder those who they hate and violate their orthodoxy, thereby brute forcing a national identity. And my greatest fear is that Biden will win and give a new, competent, polished fascist time to emerge from the chaos that is the fascist movement. If Biden wins I'm 100% preparing to leave the country because I won't want to be here for what comes next because I have four years to get the gently caress out and move to somewhere sane, but the list is small because fascism tends to spread during these times because neoliberalism is a global phenomenon and fascism will feast on its corpse before they themselves become neoliberals again in future. Perhaps neoliberalism with newer, uglier characteristics, most likely made real by big data as we head deeper into a cyberpunk future.

As much as we hate Trump, we will hate Biden more and he will set the table for another fascist just like Obama set the table for Trump. And not only will you hate this unnamed fascist, but he will hate you and you'll be on the list of people to purge.

agreed

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



public opinion surveys not really working anymore seems like maybe not the greatest thing

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kaleedity
Feb 27, 2016



PsychoInternetHawk posted:

If the GOP is smart they'll recognize blood in the water and start looking for a candidate who can peel minority votes away from the dems while maintaining their base

I was thinking about it earlier and someone who can redirect the GOPs racist tendencies elsewhere (probably using thinly-veiled antisemitism) while advocating for economic redistribution and keeping the religious social conservatism would definitely clean up in 2024

lots of globalism in the republican strategy future

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