GET OUT: US politics November 2020

For anyone with time on their hands who's curious what ILX was saying on Election Day 2016:

Wow. Whoa. That is some group of people. Thousands. - US Election Day 2016

first post hall of fame

lol I'm not clicking that cursed link.

people joke that the USA should have international election observers, but apparently that's actually happening!?

Quiet in Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis. Observers from nonpartisan Nonviolent Peace Force have a snack table across the street (250 volunteers out today mostly in TC, say they'll deescalate if needed). Also ran into international election observers from https://t.co/3RsJtPRPNg pic.twitter.com/94WWyhq3kF

— Jon Collins (@JonSCollins) November 3, 2020

lol, clicked through and, surprise!, that 2016 thread was immediately triggering.

amateurist's posts in there still haunt my memory, as they were made right as we realized what was happening

i'm so glad someone besides me remembers "this will surprise many" - i really wanted that to become part of the ilx politics thread lingo, for example maybe as shorthand, for anytime someone pastes in dopey right-wing dumbass analysis for us to lol at

this may surprise many, but roger adultery posts among us

Deutsche Bank plans to cut ties with Trump after the election, Reuters reported, and could seize his assets if he can't pay back his debts

just wanna say that living in embarrassed penury would be a great substitute for him dying in prison

so embarrassed that people can see his penury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nALb4lEbSbA

that's my old apartment behind those poll monitors!! xxxxxp

So many haunting reassurances around 9pm in that 2016 thread

I have a vivid recollection of this, don't need to click and read.

I have dubbed my Negroni-less home a "Sotoville" in protest

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal)

I raise mine later in your honor.

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Election Day: Voting is underway across the US

might want to vote if you haven't already

SHIT that's this year?

sneaks up on you

like the president does

i don't have my ID, will socks suffice

Who wants Socks?

https://i0.wp.com/presidentialpetmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/clinton-and-socks-the-cat.jpg

i'm embarrassed to say i went on an image hunt for biden's dogs yesterday. i confirmed that i love them both. the pets are always the only innocent beings in the white house

otm

rumor has it the 18 minutes of deleted tape had Checkers saying some foul stuff

"Bo and Sunny Were Complicit" t-shirts available on Snorg.com

bill c looks v cute in that pic

the pets are always the only innocent beings in the white house

Sasha Obama was seven years old in 2008. What did she do, you heartless bastard?

She broke some crayons on purpose.

Okay then. Carry on.

Something to distract


https://boodyghouliani.com/

Thinking of Dr. Morbs and really wishing he could post on this thread today (and every day).

Same

Just realized that Dennis Perrin deleted his twitter account. All things must pass.

haha, so many of them saved only by ILX's paste-and-preserve function

guess I made it just in time

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets.

like some other lurkers, I'd like to let you guys know that each month's thread is the spine of my information gathering re: national and world affairs …I do not feel confident that I have much to add of any note in each thread, but in particular feel like Aimless has rather a lot of insight that I"d like to acknowledge.

My daughter was born more or less mid-point between election day '16 and inauguration. Since that time, she has had no knowledge of President Diarrhea, and it is my second most fervent hope that by the time of her fourth birthday in two months, I will know that any knowledge she will have of him and his hideous legacy will occur in the past tense.

My most fervent hope is that my second child, who will be born this Thursday, will enter a world in which his defeat is definitive.

Glad you posed.

posted even

I echo your fervent hope, veronica.

^^

In PA Montgomery County, the state’s largest suburban county, total turnout could reach nearly 90 percent of registered voters, up from roughly 77 percent in 2016, County Dem chairman Joe Foster told me

— Jarrett Renshaw (@JarrettRenshaw) November 3, 2020

that shout out was very sweet of you, vm

Also, hearing of some concerns about turnout numbers in Philadelphia, which is trending along 2016 lines.

— Jarrett Renshaw (@JarrettRenshaw) November 3, 2020

My daughter was born as the Obama years began, and I was glad of that, and thought we at least were going in the right direction. She was with my wife and me when we voted for Hillary. She was pretty young but we talked with her about how glad we were that we were about to have a woman as president for the first time. But really, by the time she was old enough to have any awareness of what a president is, Trump had happened, and he’s basically all she’s known. So I’m pissed about that for her, and looking forward to her getting a new president who is not the worst person in the world. I think I’ll be a lot less angry inside generally, too, once Trump is gone. Especially if Mitch gets downgraded to minority leader as well.

that was my situation in 2016. a kid about to turn 2, one on the way. seeing him sleeping in his crib at 3 AM after it had been called for Trump made me cry, just suddenly hit by the reality of the world I'd helped bring him into. I dunno what I'm gonna do if Trump wins again.

lol I just realize I said “born as the Obama years began” when in fact I meant as his second term began.

xpost same here. My son turned two a few days before Trump won. I was convinced he was going to get us into a nuclear war.

who has the concern abput PA turnout? Trump or Biden?

that would be very prodigious for a two-year-old xp