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Bird in a Blender posted:Bonus points for the fine being less than the bribe. We really need to up punishments for politicians for all election violations. It's a loving travesty that someone can get elected to office while breaking every election law along the way, and they don't even lose their seat when they're caught. He had to pay it back though? At least, I thought I read that.
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If Illinois wants to remain competitive it's got to up it's corruption game. Not declaring money received from a foreign government is old man stuff. Gaetz used campaign funds to move an under aged girl across state lines for sex. If we're to remain competitive against Florida we need to start electing random guys from Xbox Live.
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/HeatherCherone/status/1378089960075620353 He knows which way the winds blowing. Unions about to make a big comeback and well, look what happened to Quinn.
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A billionaire governor doesn't need to stand up to an unpopular mayor no matter what state they're in. Pritzker just didn't want to sign it while CTU was still supporting Madigan. Edit: He didn't sign the Black Caucus Legislative Agenda bills until this week. He sure as poo poo wasn't going to sign a bill for the people who called Chris Welch a serial groper before that. The X-man cometh fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Stealing/modifying a link from the COVID thread, but drat if Central IL isn't suddenly becoming really dumb about this: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/illinois Edit: Scroll down to see the 7-day moving average for new cases I thought we had been doing so well, too 
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Zarin posted:Stealing/modifying a link from the COVID thread, but drat if Central IL isn't suddenly becoming really dumb about this: I get the evil eye for wearing a mask, in the middle of Peoria. It's wonderful.
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Kinda far flung "suburb" (it's... on the Metra UP-NW line OK) I live in is pretty good with the mask stuff. Worst we get here is dumbfucks not wearing their mask over their nose it sounds like a really minor thing to get mad over but after a year of this poo poo my patience has been depleted to almost nothing
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Zarin posted:Stealing/modifying a link from the COVID thread, but drat if Central IL isn't suddenly becoming really dumb about this: But you see there's vaccines available now so the virus is already over. Never mind how they aren't universally available, it's been a year, aren't you tiiiiiiired of lockdowns??? Open 'er up. Masks are still the norm at, like, grocery stores I shop at. But a few no-makers here and there, not to mention abundant loving nose pokers.... I'm frankly sick of everybody's poo poo now. I'm just glad my wife and I managed to dodge it as well as we have. Pfizer 2nd dose is in 2 days.
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Post poste posted:I get the evil eye for wearing a mask, in the middle of Peoria. It's wonderful. I've mostly just been to Sam's Club and . . . Lowe's, I guess. I saw the door lady at Sam's give an old guy a mask and he was clearly unhappy about it but he put it on and kept it on. (Funny, too, because he was starting to pull his cloth one out of his pocket, then just took the disposable one she gave him) dwarf74 posted:Masks are still the norm at, like, grocery stores I shop at. But a few no-makers here and there, not to mention abundant loving nose pokers.... THE DICKNOSERS  I might have waited longer on the vaccine but I'm moving to northern IL at the end of the month, so I figured I'm going to be interacting with far more people than I'm comfortable with. Second jab is on Saturday. I was hoping maybe I'd cut a bit off the tail end of the second vaccine wait-time and see some people before I left, but with our numbers suddenly jumping to be the worst in the state I'm not so sure.
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dwarf74 posted:Oh we were. Yeah, my family and I have continued to hunker down at home but definitely feels like everyone is pretending that we're at 100% vaccination rate already or something. I got my second shot literally about 5 minutes ago, but my wife hasn't gotten one yet so we're hoping to get her in as soon as possible. But the kids still can't get vaccinated so we're still going to play things safe for the time being until COVID rates go way, way down and vaccination rates go way, way up. I'm trying really hard not to be annoyed with people over the drive to open everything up. I wish it was unseasonably cold right now instead of pushing 80 degrees, maybe then people wouldn't be chomping at the bit so much.
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I'm getting tired of the spring crop of solicitors banging on my door to sell me roof repairs or pest control or lawn maintenance with zero masks. Like, you can 100% gently caress off with that. Even if I was interested in such services you can guarantee I'm not getting it from you if you can't respect my safety even a little. It's horrible that the new cases per day are about equivalent to how they were in October when everyone started taking poo poo seriously, but now that we're down from the massive spike in January all these fucknuts think the problem is solved.
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I complained before about the awful choices for candidates in my local elections when I saw several were just republican vs "independent" (also a republican). But since it's election day I thought I'd google some candidates to find the least awful one, but at least one race is between a guy who retweets the Trump failsons, and a cop whose twitter bio is "Husband-Father of 5-Catholic-MAGA Republican-Patriot". The county republican group putting out an endorsement list has honestly been helpful in figuring out who not to vote for (they endorsed the cop).
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borkencode posted:I complained before about the awful choices for candidates in my local elections when I saw several were just republican vs "independent" (also a republican). But since it's election day I thought I'd google some candidates to find the least awful one, but at least one race is between a guy who retweets the Trump failsons, and a cop whose twitter bio is "Husband-Father of 5-Catholic-MAGA Republican-Patriot". The county republican group putting out an endorsement list has honestly been helpful in figuring out who not to vote for (they endorsed the cop). Better than my town where the mayor race is between three flavors of ex-cop. And almost all the other positions are unopposed with no write-in.
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borkencode posted:I complained before about the awful choices for candidates in my local elections when I saw several were just republican vs "independent" (also a republican). But since it's election day I thought I'd google some candidates to find the least awful one, but at least one race is between a guy who retweets the Trump failsons, and a cop whose twitter bio is "Husband-Father of 5-Catholic-MAGA Republican-Patriot". The county republican group putting out an endorsement list has honestly been helpful in figuring out who not to vote for (they endorsed the cop). This is basically what I did as well. Our local township came down to "Independents" who were life-long GOP until they got coup'd by a surprise in-person caucus in December by the full MAGA lunatics. Aside from one library board person I don't think there was a single candidate that I actually voted for rather than voting against the rest of the slate.
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I get my second dose in two days also. My S/O gets theirs on May 1st, which will be a major relief for both of us. But the amount of people who are just being stupid and dangerous for no reason other than they want to is disturbing. I had to cut ties with someone completely the other day after they sent me a bunch of pictures doing stuff in public with no one wearing a mask. I remarked about it and got a "Oh you are one of those people." response. They knew that I am super high risk and haven't left my place almost at all in over a year. Their response was "Well just stay in your house forever then  " I have discussed it with my S/O and others and we all kinda feel like a reason why people lack the empathy and concern over COVID is that no real big name died from it. You had a lot of well known people get it and recover fine so in the minds of the public it is a "well it isn't THAT bad" sorta mindset. Trump probably fueled that a lot too. If you think back to AIDS you really didn't get a turn around in the public until you had very famous people from all walks of life dying like Freddie Mercury, Anthony Perkins, Arthur Ashe, Robert Reed, Easy E and of course the campaigns by people like Ryan White and Magic Johnson.
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Djarum posted:I have discussed it with my S/O and others and we all kinda feel like a reason why people lack the empathy and concern over COVID is that no real big name died from it. You had a lot of well known people get it and recover fine so in the minds of the public it is a "well it isn't THAT bad" sorta mindset. Trump probably fueled that a lot too. Insert obligatory Herman Cain joke here.
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When I was growing up in the AIDS epidemic we took it seriously because there was a nonstop unified message that you will die if you get it so never ever have sex. It was endorsed by the fundies because they loving love abstinence, and at that point it was a "gay man's disease" which also helped their narrative. The message with COVID for the first year was nonstop "NBD" and we're paying the price.
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My central IL county now has a record number of Covid19 hospitalizations. Yay. https://twitter.com/WGLTNews/status/1379505299577581577?s=19
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My suburban Chicago area district had a democrat running for every local position (there was one unopposed republican though). I didn't even know there was going to be an election until I saw some signs up near my polling place a few weeks ago. The turnaround time on a mail-in ballot was thankfully short, I asked for one like on the 30th and they sent it out like the day after that. The real hard thing with local elections is who to pick for like school boards and stuff. The one in our area had a lot of challengers, and as far as I can tell a lot of people just hated the current board, but I don't know enough about it to know if it's legitimate or not. That and like parks commissioner, there's 4 names and I'm supposed to pick 3. But they all just say "I want to serve the community in an open and inclusive way and make our parks beautiful for all or residents" or something similar. They don't say the quiet part loud so I have no idea who to vote for. I should probably just go to the local council meetings, or whatever they're called, and calmly demand full socialism now, more buses, and higher apartment buildings with more affordable rents.
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Djarum posted:My S/O gets theirs on May 1st, which will be a major relief for both of us. When did they make an appointment? I don't have any underlying conditions and I'm early 30s so I've just been waiting for whenever they move availability to the general population, which is like next week or something. The result is I'll probably have to get an appointment pretty far out which will kind of suck.
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Eeyo posted:My suburban Chicago area district had a democrat running for every local position (there was one unopposed republican though). I didn't even know there was going to be an election until I saw some signs up near my polling place a few weeks ago. The turnaround time on a mail-in ballot was thankfully short, I asked for one like on the 30th and they sent it out like the day after that. Look around to see if there are county/city/township political orgs/parties with candidate endorsement lists. That can help sort through "non-partisan" races. Or search the candidates' facebook page. Could tell really quick who was a solid NO based on their photos of where they were on 1/6!
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I want to point out if you're a vet of any age the VA will give you the vaccine. The Edward Hines VA has more than enough shots and can't give them away fast enough. I'm not sure if it applies to anyone here but figured I would bring it up just in case.
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Eeyo posted:When did they make an appointment? I don't have any underlying conditions and I'm early 30s so I've just been waiting for whenever they move availability to the general population, which is like next week or something. The result is I'll probably have to get an appointment pretty far out which will kind of suck. She got her first dose Saturday and got her appointment on Friday. She is in higher ed so she became eligible finally. Once they open stuff up wide I hope at least that the people who have been waiting can get it quickly with increased supply. If you live in Chicago and have the option to travel I’d highly recommend doing so since you’ll have a MUCH easier time getting one and it opens spots for the people who don’t have the option to do so to get vaccinated.
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If you check places like Walgreens obsessively you can get appointments. Basically they get a set amount of doses every day and want to use them up more than make sure everyone is perfectly eligible. The list of conditions for 1B+ is relatively broad so if you got any health concerns at all you don't have to lie. You may have to go for a bit of a drive though. I got my shots up in Rockford and I live in Wheaton.
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limp_cheese posted:I want to point out if you're a vet of any age the VA will give you the vaccine. The Edward Hines VA has more than enough shots and can't give them away fast enough. They'll give it to their spouse or caregiver too.
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Djarum posted:She got her first dose Saturday and got her appointment on Friday. She is in higher ed so she became eligible finally. Oh haha I parsed your post as she was scheduled to get her 1st dose in May and I was thinking "poo poo, I'll really have to wait a while then". That makes more sense.
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Eeyo posted:My suburban Chicago area district had a democrat running for every local position (there was one unopposed republican though). I didn't even know there was going to be an election until I saw some signs up near my polling place a few weeks ago. The turnaround time on a mail-in ballot was thankfully short, I asked for one like on the 30th and they sent it out like the day after that. A lot school board seats are being challenged because the people sitting in them revealed themselves to be 'open'r up' chuds who didn't believe in science and pissed the teachers and parents who did right the hell off, or because they tried to be reasonable and keep schools closed/sports off and they were in chudlandia.
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Oracle posted:A lot school board seats are being challenged because the people sitting in them revealed themselves to be 'open'r up' chuds who didn't believe in science and pissed the teachers and parents who did right the hell off, or because they tried to be reasonable and keep schools closed/sports off and they were in chudlandia. We had one guy running for school board whose entire platform was "HOOOOOOAAAX openerup" bullshit. I was very happy to vote against his rear end.
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We managed to get two reasonable parents to run for spots on our school board and hopefully unseat some chud incumbents. Who knows, though. It's hard to get people to vote if it's just local elections. And anecdotally... my number of quarantined kids is now higher than it has been since January.
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Well, I voted, and now I need to figure out what a campaign treasurer's job is now that the race is over.  I just hope our local bigots and covid deniers don't get to take over our local government.
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dwarf74 posted:Well, I voted, and now I need to figure out what a campaign treasurer's job is now that the race is over. Welcome to Effingham County! Every position is chud elected and a lot of times, the primary becomes a race to the bottom of who can push the most foolish ideas.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Welcome to Effingham County!
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Welcome to Effingham County! How dare you say my calls for seceding from Chicago are foolish!!!
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dwarf74 posted:I just hope our local bigots and covid deniers don't get to take over our local government. My parents are still there, so I keep an eye on things from afar. Basically if Diane Benjamin likes a candidate, you can guarantee they’re a giant shitpile chud and vote accordingly.
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Niwrad posted:Walgreens appointments usually drop at either 6am or 7am. Walgreens' site updates every hour. A couple of weeks ago I logged in on my work PC and just kept a tab open on their page and kept refreshing it. The first time it said there were appointments available I answered all the questions only to get to the end to another, "Sorry - nothing available!" screen. I stayed there and kept on refreshing. Just after 11AM there was an appointment the next day at 1:30PM at a store about 15 minutes away (Rockford area). I was able to schedule my second shot at the same time which I'll get on the 20th.
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WescottF1 posted:Walgreens' site updates every hour. A couple of weeks ago I logged in on my work PC and just kept a tab open on their page and kept refreshing it. The first time it said there were appointments available I answered all the questions only to get to the end to another, "Sorry - nothing available!" screen. Cool. It was 6am or 7am a month ago I know. Maybe with more vaccines they have more open appointments (or cancellations).
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