"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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My mother lives in White River Junction, VT , right on the border with NH . I got this email from her this morning:
Vermont and NH are merely a river apart. There is no grocery shopping available to me where I live in Vermont except a small boutique grocery that has steep prices. So I go one mile across the Connecticut River to the supermarkets right there.
This morning, the stores were MOBBED. There must have been a hundred people in BJ’s, all pushing overflowing carts. The lines at the registers were 20 people deep! The store manager was baffled — and so was I! Then my BFF Betsy sent this email. Now I know why.
[My daughter] says that Vermont is now telling people that only work and groceries are considered essential reasons to travel to NH. A woman in Hartford needed to go to NH to buy shoes for her daughter, whose only shoes had come apart. She called the state to check and was told that wasn’t essential and she wasn’t allowed to go.
Come on, people. Don’t fuck this up again.
sony1492
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 11:53 |
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Once somthing like this propagates on Facebook its game over for buying toiletpaper
Just Jeepin'
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 11:54 |
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Name one thing we haven’t f ucked up this year.
WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 11:56 |
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My wife’s hospital now has the same number of COVID inpatients that it did back in April.
Welcome to wave 2.
Jb boin
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 11:56 |
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Deep l ines of 20 peoples... in BJ’s... that are overflowing... are a good reason to panic !
Sorry, too many acronyms made it confusing.
Is the panic due to COVID or the election?
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 11:56 |
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Indo Mie Mi Goreng is literally that good.
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> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 11:58 |
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Hey, a majority of America thinks there will be civil unrest on Wednesday... if you accept that premise, this seems like rational economic behavior.
As somebody pointed out last night, Rodeo Drive and Park Avenue are boarded up in plywood this weekend and into next week. If everybody really thought the challenger was going to bring “Peace and Tranquility” why would they do that?
HammerheadFistpunch
> Just Jeepin'
11/01/2020 at 11:58 |
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Working in sweatpants
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> Jb boin
11/01/2020 at 11:58 |
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Yes.
ranwhenparked
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 11:59 |
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Yes, and some of the news media has picked up on it, so it's going to start happening everywhere soon
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Just Jeepin'
> HammerheadFistpunch
11/01/2020 at 11:59 |
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Judging by the number of people who’ve been caught on Zoom performing dubious acts...
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:01 |
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At of people are worried about post election rioting. I’m guessing this is a result of people getting ready to shelter in place.
Or people getting riot supplies.
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WilliamsSW
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/01/2020 at 12:02 |
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It’s because the INCUMBENT has been fanning the flames.
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ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:02 |
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Texas as a whole is all kinds of fucked up, with positives more than half way back to the worst of the summer. However, the vast majority of that is from El Paso, where they just instituted a two-week lockdown . Houston and Dallas are also getting bad again (I think). Fortunately, Travis County (Austin) is holding steady at levels just above where we were during the spring lockdown. I guess the masks everybody is wearing are working. Whoda thunk?
facw
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:03 |
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Sure why not. The pandemic does continue to get worse after all, and maybe people are hoarding for the election?
Current status at the grocery stores here isn’t too bad, though we still aren’t right on paper towels (they are available, but selection is very limited compared to normal. My primary grocery store only has their store brand)
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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:03 |
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I’m my area it’s much much worse than it was the spring. it started spiking here when tourist came up for fall, and schools opened. Plus people piling into crowded bars once Football started...
DipodomysDeserti
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:05 |
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They will be soon with people sending emails like this around.
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ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:05 |
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What kills me is that he constantly warns of rioting and chaos if Biden wins. Don’t we have that already under his administration?
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> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:06 |
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ttyymmnn
> facw
11/01/2020 at 12:06 |
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My wife and I will make our weekly Sunday trip to the grocery store today, and maybe Costco. I’ll see what’s going on.
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ttyymmnn
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/01/2020 at 12:08 |
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Well, she’s not entirely wrong, though it might be better if she kept her mouth shut right now. You can bet that Trump won’t concede on Wednesday morning if he loses. Of course, we probably won’t know who won until Christmas.
Kiltedpadre
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:10 |
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Well, good thing I installed that bidet.
Thankfully I haven’t seen panic buying here yet, but if this news hits Facebook I’m sure it’ll happen. I think we’ll be in for a really weird time until we have a definitive winner of the presidential race too.
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WilliamsSW
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
11/01/2020 at 12:10 |
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Yeah, I get the impression Wisconsin is worse than Illinois, but my area seems to be catching up.
Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:11 |
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https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus-georgia-covid-dashboard/jvoLBozRtBSVSNQDDAuZxH/
I’m worried as I’m seeing the very beginnings of another upwards trend and increasingly lax mask wearing.
Dead_Elvis, Inc.
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:12 |
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My mother lives in White River Junction, NH, right on the border with VT.
This made me chuckle. Last I checked, WRJ was still on the better side of the river, not in New Hampshire.
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WilliamsSW
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/01/2020 at 12:12 |
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She’s not the challenger, and I’m not aware of Biden supporters trying to kidnap any governors or blockading his opponent.
onlytwowheels
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:13 |
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Maine set multiple single day and 7 day average records this week. On Friday the news reported that the governor was considering announcing new restrictions this weekend. Bars and tasting rooms were scheduled to open 11/2, which seems like a terrible idea at this point.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:16 |
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Yeah, but there was no reason for people to do it back then. Also, I’m guessing your wife’s hospital has learned a thing or two over the last few months.
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WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
11/01/2020 at 12:20 |
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Correct on both counts - they know how to treat it better than they did, which will improve outcomes. It still creates some capacity issues though.
And yeah, stockpiling was dumb then, but human nature hasn’t changed...
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ttyymmnn
> Dead_Elvis, Inc.
11/01/2020 at 12:26 |
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Yeah, I got that backwards.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:26 |
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Just an FYI, but those guys in MI were not Trump supporters.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.detroitnews.com/amp/6060368002
And people who I’m guessing aren’t Trump supporters have been blockading highways down here.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/3628749001
nermal
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:26 |
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The latest I have read is that there is now a 37% chance that PA decides the election. There is also potential for Trump to be up by over 20 points on Tuesday, but still lose the state a week later
after all of the mail in ballots are counted. The state won’t start counting anything until Tuesday, and several counties won’t count mail ins un
til Wednesday.
This is coming from 538.
Mail in ballots in PA will be accepted as long as they are received by Friday, and do not need a post mark or matching signature to the voter registration. These two tidbits
open
up the possibility for fraud bigly. Note that this was put in place by the Ds, then
appealed by the Rs all the way
up to SCOTUS,
who voted 4-4 to allow it.
Best case there is a landslide that is called early on Tuesday and one of the old farts concedes. Worst case the election is decided by PA by a small number of votes a week later, neither old fart concedes,
and all manner of shit-fuckery ensues.
Personally I’m not concerned about the virus, nor about rioting by rednecks
in the Pennsyltuckey portion of the state. Pittsburgh where I am
and Philly may be fuct though. As such, I already have enough food
to not leave home for several
weeks, enough TP to attend a 10 cent wing night every day from now until March, and worst case will be ready to
skip town. Hopefully it
doesn’t come to that.
For Sweden
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:27 |
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That may also just be typical New Hampshire/Vermont Prepper behavior
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ttyymmnn
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/01/2020 at 12:27 |
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Mask-wearing in Austin has been very widespread for the most part. That might have something to do with Austin being a highly educated, blue city. Not saying anything, just saying.
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ttyymmnn
> onlytwowheels
11/01/2020 at 12:29 |
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I would think that it’s got to be more than just bars, but those are places where people congregate in close proximity, drink, get loud, and don’t wear a mask. I haven’t been to a bar in years, let alone during the pandemic.
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ttyymmnn
> nermal
11/01/2020 at 12:30 |
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NYT reported Biden up by 6 points in PA. This was the same paper that was reporting that Hilary would win. Actually, they were running a “percent chance of victory” for Hilary, and it was super high in the weeks before the election, then just kept shrinking until it got to, presumably, zero. I guess we’ll just have to see. Four years ago I took a Xanax and went to bed. Not sure what I’ll do this year.
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> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:36 |
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Atlanta has a very high percentage of mask wearers and Gatech in particular has probably 90% on campus property and nearly 100% inside buildings. The frat houses have probably less than 1% but they’ve all had it at this point. My friend joined a frat and got it within a few days at the beginning of the semester. But my goodness I went to a HS friend’s H alloween party and I and my roommate (same HS) were the only ones wearing a mask! If the suburbs took this seriously at the beginning we’d not still be dealing with this on such a widespread level.
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> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:40 |
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“under any circumstances”? That’s over the top.
Used to be that the former presidents and the losers had the good sense to just be quiet. Nobody’s heard incendiary language from Bush or Romney have they? Meanwhile, on the other side of the ledger...
Man, from the “sore loser” party? Everything from an impeachment-everybody-knew-was-a-fail to a political-hit-job-dossier paid for by the woman pictured above to character assassination of a minivan-driving-mom-of-seven (who apparently is a sleeper agent for the war on women).
We’ll find out Tuesday, but my guess is that the consensus view of the country is being worn- out by violent- over-reaction to every single thing that’s happened in the last four year. Nobody thinks riots will erupt if Biden wins... why is that?
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WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
11/01/2020 at 12:41 |
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At least one had Trump signs in his yard, and it was the lack of reaction by Trump afterward that was most telling.
And the other link didn’t involve attempting to run the actual candidate off the road.
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nermal
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:44 |
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The issues specific to PA are that even if Biden wins the state, it won’t be until after all of the mail-ins are counted, which can take up to a week. The in-person vote reported Tuesday is expected to skew bigly to Trump, with the mail-in going to Biden, and the total to be quite close once everything is added up.
Add in how close the election in whole is expected to be, the potential for fraud, and the nature of the two contenders, and things could get quite spicy.
Thus the need to stockpile TP.
Tekamul
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:46 |
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It’s going to happen. And it will be worse come Wednesday when post election violence begins.
Everywhere is pee king, including NH and VT. We're officially hunkered down, expecting not to go anywhere for a while.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:52 |
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Not sure if the sign cancels out the “I want to hang this motherfucker [Trump]” post.
Yeah, blockading political rallies is a bit 2016.
Textured Soy Protein
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:54 |
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Covid’s getting worse everywhere. My wife is a contact tracer here in Maryland so we can somewhat gauge the caseload by how many shifts her organization releases or if they try to get people to sign up for more shifts. E ven though we’re doing well relative to many other states, she’s going to have a busy week this week.
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> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:54 |
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At one point I thought this was an Onion piece...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/26/usa.martinkettle1
sore losers to the end
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onlytwowheels
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 12:55 |
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I would imagine that travel restrictions we be put in place again but some how I feel that the new restriction may be held off until mid- week.
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WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
11/01/2020 at 12:57 |
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There’s no shortage of shitty behavior on the left, for sure. And the Michigan guys are just insane either way. But one candidate has all but encouraged it and I’m sick and tired of his narcissistic act. Fuck him.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 12:57 |
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There needs to be a reckoning as far as hospital administration goes when we’r e finally through with this. There’s no excuses for not having capacity issues ironed out by now. We’ve known this was coming for quite a while now.
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> Dead_Elvis, Inc.
11/01/2020 at 12:57 |
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thanks. i wondered about that
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DipodomysDeserti
> For Sweden
11/01/2020 at 13:02 |
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Yeah, don’t they have to hoard TP just for winter?
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Textured Soy Protein
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 13:02 |
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Hmm and I wonder why this whole situation in PA is challenging .
The US supreme court has rejected a last-minute plea from Pennsylvania Republicans to overturn a three-day extension of the absentee ballot deadline, a hugely consequential ruling in one of the most closely watched swing states in the presidential election.
The state usually requires ballots to arrive by 8pm on election night in order to count. But last month, the Pennsylvania supreme court extended that deadline by three days for ballots postmarked by election day, a move likely to allow thousands of late-arriving ballots to count.
Pennsylvania Republicans asked the US supreme court to halt that ruling pending appeal, but it declined to do so last week, deadlocking 4-4 and offering no explanation for its decision. The Pennsylvania Republican party then asked the court to expedite the case, which the court again declined to do on Wednesday.
Seven out of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties will wait to count mail-in ballots until the day after the election, according to local officials, potentially delaying when media organizations will be able to project a winner in the state.
Pennsylvania allows for counties to begin processing mail-in ballots the morning of Election Day, but officials in Beaver, Cumberland, Franklin, Greene, Juniata, Mercer and Montour — all counties which voted for Donald Trump in 2016 — said that concerns over staffing and resources led them to delay when they will count mail ballots.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 13:10 |
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Yeah, he definitely hasn’t helped
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WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
11/01/2020 at 13:11 |
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Agree, though I don’t really know how easy it is to add capacity. In my mind, that means rooms, nurses, doctors and equipment. None of which is an instant fix. And of course the profit motive makes them reticent to make the investment, which is problematic.
Hospital stays should be shorter this time on average which will help.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/01/2020 at 13:14 |
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Next week is likely to have anything ranging from riots to insurrection, on top of the increasing pandemic activity that is likely to result in draconian lockdowns. It’s also likely that there will be heavy voter intimidation/suppression efforts from thugs of varying and often unclear affiliation next week, which has the potential to make the situation even worse. There is a lot pointing toward further violence.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 13:31 |
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and its
one
two
three
what are we hoarding
four
and its five
six
seven
open up the pearly gates
aint got time to wonder why
whoopee we’re all gonna die
BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
> nermal
11/01/2020 at 13:32 |
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I’m just west of Philly and it’s odd here. Just counting yard signs and stuff, it seems like an even split. Lots of folks showed up to the rally in Reading yesterday. I’m voting in person because I didn’t trust the mail system, but I’m expecting huge lines.
Anyway, you’re right. We’re going to be to this election what FL was to 2000.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Tekamul
11/01/2020 at 13:38 |
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I doubt it’ll wait for Wednesday. Expect tomorrow and/or Tuesday. There will be a big voter suppression/intimidation effort and riots. I give a 25% chance at this point that the insurrection act will be invoked before the end of this week.
Cash Rewards
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/01/2020 at 13:53 |
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Trump has stated that he won't concede, and gave a "we'll see" for a peaceable transition of power. Why the fuck should Biden do different?
Nick Has an Exocet
> facw
11/01/2020 at 14:37 |
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My parents in MA stocked up. They wanted to be ready for anything, post
-election. They're republicans.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 15:22 |
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My sister works covid units at the largest hospital here. She was able to pick up lots of extra hours during our first wave on account of her laid off coworkers making more money sitting at home than what they were being paid. They have a brand new hospital which has been over capacity since last October. I teach quite a few MDs kids and many were sent home during the middle of the pandemic since they couldn’t perform elective surgeries. Most hospitals are run at the margins to maximize profits, regardless of the impacts to public health.
cluelessk
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 15:32 |
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My girlfriend spent all weekend trying to get me to worry about how much toilet paper we had. Media causing panic instead of understanding.
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WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
11/01/2020 at 15:34 |
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Yeah, they have some oversight in terms of service to the community, but at the end it’s about profit. That’s a problem.
Chariotoflove
> nermal
11/01/2020 at 15:59 |
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I will never really understand the impassioned arguments against having to prove that a vote recorded came from the person who cast it, especially since fraud has been a real thing in our history. You have to prove your identity for every other thing in society, but when required to do so for voting, suddenly it threatens your constitutional rights.
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Chariotoflove
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/01/2020 at 16:06 |
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Pence had it right. They have been trying to overturn the last election for almost four years now. I’ve heard so many otherwise intelligent people utter the nonsensical phrase “not my president”, and claim that he was illegitimate because he didn’t win the national popular vote.
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Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 16:08 |
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My grocery was packed yesterday. No panic or hoarding, just normal shopping, but much more of it than normal.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 16:08 |
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Our hospitals are handling it much better than in places that supposedly had much better healthcare systems than us. I’m just done with the “shut everything down until hospitals can catch up” rhetoric that still seems to be popular. This thing ain’t going away, and we shouldn’t freak out just because infection rates are going up. Just don’t run your hospitals like New York or Italy and we’ll manage.
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ttyymmnn
> Chariotoflove
11/01/2020 at 16:12 |
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We went to HEB and Costco today and every was quite normal.
Gerry197
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 16:55 |
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Not anymore, not after this Ninja piece, we are all going to go panic shopping now! You’ll see, tomorrow there will be like 1 extra person in the store.
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WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
11/01/2020 at 17:03 |
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Between the fact that we have a better idea on how it spreads and how to treat it, plus the public’s lack of appetite for shutdowns, I don’t see it happening again. But people need to be smarter about masks and distancing, too.
interstate366, now In The Industry
> Chariotoflove
11/01/2020 at 17:05 |
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Halloween, weekend, end of the month all in one.
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DipodomysDeserti
> WilliamsSW
11/01/2020 at 17:09 |
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I think at some point we need to become comfortable living with this, just like we have every other virus that has become endemic. Not living a sedentary life and eating healthy seems to be much more effective at fighting this than wearing a mask or social distancing (the virus seems to come back regardless of what lockdown measures are implemented ) . Obviously some people will be more susceptible regardless, but that’s how it is with everything.
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Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 17:17 |
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I put it down to a nice day, Halloween holiday, good day to get the shopping in.
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Chariotoflove
> interstate366, now In The Industry
11/01/2020 at 17:17 |
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And a nice day on top of it. My thoughts as well.
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> interstate366, now In The Industry
11/01/2020 at 17:28 |
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full moon
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> nermal
11/01/2020 at 17:32 |
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Mail in ballots in PA will be accepted as long as they are received by Friday, and do not need a post mark or matching signature to the voter registration.
I don’t consider the people concerned about this to be too far out in the lunatic fringe. The states are free to develop their own rules—but there is national interest in “reducing tension” over ballot validity, not increasing it. Such an open-ended set of operating rules just screams for a challenge...
Sadly that dust-up in Florida in 2000 ends up being an ice cream social compared to this go-round...
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> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 17:33 |
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I do give John King credit the other day for running replays of his 2016 “it’s in the bag” predictions... much to his later chagrin. It’s going to be a tight finish-- and there will be lots of contention, sadly. We had 4 years to fix it, not make it worse.
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WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
11/01/2020 at 18:00 |
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I think that's unfortunately true. We have made progress in treatment though, and hopefully a vaccine will be here sooner rather than later.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Chariotoflove
11/01/2020 at 18:48 |
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Costco parking lot in Danville was FULL. Never seen that before, and no arsewipe.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 18:48 |
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Costco parking lot in Danville was FULL. Never seen that before, and no arsewipe.
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nermal
> Chariotoflove
11/01/2020 at 19:51 |
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The people that argue the loudest against voter ID are the same ones that threaten to move to Canada if their guy doesn’t win..... ummm.... wait what are Canada’s voter ID requirements? ummmmm..........
https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e
(The actual
answer is that it’
s a combo of
“racism of low expectations” and “just pick a side, then be a dick about it”).
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Chariotoflove
> nermal
11/01/2020 at 19:57 |
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Those seem like pretty accommodating requirements.
In all the arguments I’ve ever heard about disenfranchisement, I’ve never seen a credible argument that requiring some kind of ID is a hardship. Also, don’t you need to be registered before you can vote anyway?
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ttyymmnn
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
11/01/2020 at 20:00 |
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We went to grocery and Costco today. Normal crowds. Bought TP. There was a limit 1 on Charmin, but no limit on Kirkland.
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nermal
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/01/2020 at 20:18 |
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How difficult would it be for Russia or China to acquire a PA ballot, print up a few thousand copies and mark them for their preferred candidate , then have one of their people in the US deliver them to the appropriate place ? Same for the DNC or RNC. Or a a small coalition of prominent rapers. Voter registrations for PA are available directly from the state for $20. You can literally get a list of every registered voter in the state, along with all of the info you’d need to enter on a fraudu lent ballot and where to deliver it, by filling out an online form and paying $20. We’re not talking eLiTe HaX0R or Mission Impossible shit here .
For all of the talk about the importance of the securing the election , the one in PA is anything but .
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> ttyymmnn
11/01/2020 at 20:26 |
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Costco bjs or any supermarket on a weekend sounds like hell
I n my state multiple areas are regressing with restrictions dilute to the larger case counts. It’s given the spike of cases it’s seems pretty likely. I’m trying to stock up on all the random. Condiments etc that I got caught off gauge and didn’t have.
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nermal
> Chariotoflove
11/01/2020 at 20:42 |
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Every argument I’ve seen against voter ID boils down to that it disproportionately affects poor, non-white people, who predominantly vote for the Ds. This is b ecause there is paperwork required to get an ID, and it costs money and time and takes effort to drive to the DMV.
This argument implies that a ll of those poor, non-white people (and their juicy D votes) are too incompetent and lazy and poor to make sure they have a valid ID, thus will just skip voting altogether if it’s required. It also ignores the fact that most of them probably already have one anyways. Thus, “racism of low expectations”.
Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com
> nermal
11/01/2020 at 22:39 |
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I’m a very firm believer that they NEED to reform this, it’s fucking ridiculous. It should ONLY be option number one (photo ID) and also checked to a Social Insurance Number https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/sin.html
Reason:
I need TWO government issued photo IDs to do my marine licenses at Transport Canada or else they give me the heave-ho (and I’m not kidding, I’ve watched them kick people to the curb that travelled 5h one way
from the interior and forgot them). Also any that Transport Canada has issued me doesn’t count; not my discharge book or the security license or anything.
The feds have sent voter cards to people that aren’t allowed to vote. There’s an older article on the CBC where they sent a US citizen one who has a place in Alta but never registered to vote, isn’t dual citizen or even permanent resident.
People want to make it seem like there’s no issue with mail in voting and fraud
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However
you have no precedent of something this scale, it’s NOT comparable to
Absentee voting of past.
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Chariotoflove
> nermal
11/01/2020 at 22:40 |
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Exactly my thoughts. Those people already have drivers licenses etc. Like everyone else, they make the time for the things that are important to them. So those arguments are ridiculous on their face.
PS9
> ttyymmnn
11/02/2020 at 09:42 |
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Stocking up incase the country goes full thunderdome on Tuesday?
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> ttyymmnn
11/02/2020 at 09:43 |
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I love that your mom has a BFF and refers to her as such.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> ttyymmnn
11/02/2020 at 09:46 |
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If I ever find them again, I’m goi ng to start hoarding the thick latex gloves you can buy at auto parts store.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> ttyymmnn
11/02/2020 at 09:48 |
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My wife went to Costco on Friday and said the paper products and cleaning items were pretty low on inventory. So I think it’s probably starting again. Once more people get a whiff that it’s happening it’ll be mass panic buying again.
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> nermal
11/02/2020 at 09:55 |
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Note that this was put in place by the Ds, then appealed by the Rs all the way up to SCOTUS, who voted 4-4 to allow it.
What?!? What the hell is different from Wisconsin’s case that they ruled 5-3 against allowing votes to be counted that arrived after Nov 3 as long as they were postmarked by Nov 3 at the latest?
Apparently it was because of who made the initial rulings? How does that even matter?
In the Pennsylvania case, Roberts sided with the liberals. He wrote Monday that he voted the other way in the Wisconsin case because the lower court ruling came from a federal judge, not a state court, as it did in the Pennsylvania case.
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ttyymmnn
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/02/2020 at 09:59 |
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My mother is 80 years old and has recently discovered how to put GIFs in her emails.
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> ttyymmnn
11/02/2020 at 10:01 |
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LOL - my mom’s about the same age, and boy howdy, does she love emojis...
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/02/2020 at 10:07 |
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Nobody thinks riots will erupt if Biden wins... why is that?
I absolutely do think the MAGA cult will riot if Trump loses. They already are doing shit like this
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/01/biden-harris-bus-highway-texas-trump-train
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/523937-trump-fans-block-traffic-on-new-york-bridge
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-supporters-spend-weekend-clogging-blue-state-highways
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-barrs-lock-up-biden
https://au.news.yahoo.com/aussie-woman-shares-trump-supporters-disturbing-threat-115421919.html
Nothing I’ve seen tells me that the MAGA cult will accept any results they don’t like. We’ve already been hearing for months about all the fraud that’s supposedly going to happen even though voting fraud has been proven to be fairly uncommon time and time again.
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nermal
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
11/02/2020 at 10:27 |
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I see it as SCOTUS being consistent in both rulings, in that they said “no” to appeals in each state . The appeals themselves just happened to be on opposite sides of the issue. It wasn’t a ruling for or against counting ballots as much as it was two consistent rulings against changing the way ballots were counted so close to the election date .
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> nermal
11/02/2020 at 10:55 |
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That makes more sense than what is attributed to Robert’s change of opinion in the article I was reading. Funny how the court is only consistent due to a singular person on the court. The seven other justices changed stances in each case as to whether the appeal was allowed or not.
ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> nermal
11/02/2020 at 13:27 |
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Yeah PA has the potential to be very close and to be a mess...which could lead to all kinds of social unrest, especially given how one particular old man is likely to behave.
I’m just hoping for a quick and clear result in someplace like FL that just closes the door and we can all just move on from there.
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ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> Textured Soy Protein
11/02/2020 at 13:28 |
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“ We promise the convenience this creates in opening a door for a legal battle is certainly not a factor!”
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ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> Chariotoflove
11/02/2020 at 13:33 |
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From the other side of the aisle I agree with you on the principle, pretty basic requirement anywhere else in the world.
But then we also have the situation of certain groups trying to push for specific types of ID, making those harder for certain demographics to obtain (I’m sure you’ve visited an urban DMV) , etc etc. If there’s a large national push to get everyone in the country a voter ID card (and while we’re at it, to make it equally convenient for all to vote based on availability of polling centers, etc.) I think you, I, and many others would be all for it.
Yet here we are with two groups of idiots refusing to yield an inch to the other, because the other idiot is equally ridiculous about the other side of the coin.
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ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
11/02/2020 at 13:39 |
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Oh come on, man.
On one side we have a private citizen suggesting that one of the candidates not concede under any condition...until the results are abundantly clear - whether it be by the end of a legal process, the EC votes being cast, or hopefully very very clear results in certain states that close out the competition. What’s unfair about this?
On the other hand you have the current sitting president not willing to say whether he’s on board with a peaceful transition of power IF HE LOSES.
You’re focusing your energy on the wrong place, simply based on your political preferences.
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Chariotoflove
> ZHP Sparky, the 5th
11/02/2020 at 13:49 |
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I did a little searching, but I didn’t get a definitive answer. Don’t you have to be registered to vote? And don’t you have to give some kind of positive ID to register?