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Veteran's Day

Here we are, another Veteran's Day and our election saga continues. The right is essentially saying black votes in cities are illegal. Meanwhile they haven't actually brought forward anything worthwhile in terms of actual evidence. Biden is doing a "keep calm and carry on" demeanor, and some people seem to like this (projects certainty, doesn't it?)... but man does it give me 2016 vibes of HRC and the Dems trying to be proper in front of a carnival barker and promptly losing. IOW they go low we go high only works in very rare circumstances and really doesn't in other ones.

But I think I'll side with policy and propaganda as mattering in this election. Leadership and other matters seem too ill-defined to matter. Seriously, I think many GOPers do believe that Trump has those very traits. 

Forgiveness is the key to that beginning.

The 75 million Americans who voted for Mr. Biden are not going to suddenly erase the 71 million Americans who voted for Mr. Trump. The 146 million people who voted all have some reconciling to do if we hope, as a country, to heal. For our own sake, for the sake of our children and for the sake of our nation, I couldn’t agree with Mr. Biden more strongly on this point. There’s no policy paper that can guide us in the work of forgiveness. Only a leader can do that.

 

And I'm not sure I agree with forgiving. Obama bent over backwards to forgive in 2008. Far too much forgiving, if you ask me, and all we got was austerity. We'll probably get that again and it will be the only thing that matters in the end.

 Your thoughts?

 

 

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How's the Right Coping? Not Well, Tommy Boy, Not Well

 Because the dumb goes hard in the paint. It appears that for now at least the likes of Fox News has lowered their screaming for Trump (cut off his press sec's tripe but continuing to fuel the flames in other ways). But there's plenty of dumb out there on the right. The MSM, with it's right of center bias tried to pull some "listen to the other side" bullshit again. When HRC had more votes than Trump there was hardly a peep about listening to her people, was there?

[1] As usual our own left-leaning sites were good on this as were the likes of LRB. Probably best to stick with them. Al Jazeera had a curious take on that one that was problematic to say the least.

 

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Biden, President Elect

He won. But it would appear that many on the right are buying into electoral shenanigans being the reason they (outside of Mitt Romney) lost. This besides the fact that it was the GOP who, very obviously and very openly tried to steal the election, is still banging the drums with their initial attempt.Well you have the current situation. They tried to steal an election, barely failed and are screaming voter fraud (and if any ballots came late it was because they purposely slowed them down). It's all they have, tbf. One would be smart not to listen to them but with SCOTUS filled with hacks, who knows what will happen. I find it interesting that many on the right are pointing to 2000 (a stolen election if ever there was one) as a point of hope. 
So I think Biden probably won by far more than is indicated but we might never know how much of a landslide it was (see that even in Fl there are mail in ballots slowed down that didn't come in time and weren't counted). 
Which brings me to my next issue: the circular firing squad of the center left and left. First everyone is making assumptions based on bad data so we should wait a little. But the center left's need to punch down at AOC is some sad shit. Just like the MSM's need to say "listen to repubs" when it's never listen to the left, even when we win the popular vote. So no, fuck the repubs who are screaming about deficits already. 
Also, there's the matter of those mail in ballots the GOP tried to stop so that they could steal the election. Can someone do a full count. Again, I'm guessing we'll see that the election was in fact a landslide. Peace ya'll
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On & on & on

On and on it goes. The trends are good for Biden, but we have the POTUS screaming like a child that the votes are being counted. So far it appears that no one is taking him too seriously, though I wonder how far they want to take it. Note, btw, that the GOP actually stopped PA from counting mail in ballots early and right now they are all in on complaining that they are being counted late. Nevertheless, they have so far tried to steal the election and failed. Stay tuned for more info. 
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Welp

No need to chicken little this out, but still looking good for Biden. Looks like Trump is trying to stop legit votes (In addition to him already slowing down the post office to make sure votes don't come in on time) from being counted. Looks like we're in Trump trying to pull a coup territory. Get ready everyone. No need to take this lying down. We'll have to call reps and take to the streets if they steal this election (and remember with Trump everything is projection so when he talks stealing, he's talking himself)
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It's happening. If you haven't, get out and VOTE!

Yeah, gonna be a landslide or a nerve-wracking night.  Which one do you think?

 

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GOTV because Y'all Qaeda, White ISIS is at it again trying to bring back Jim Crow.

Here is your motivation to GOTV.
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GOTV

First thing you can do is tell everyone you know (friends, family, old friends) to make sure they vote. Suppose you should leave out the right wingers who are trying to destroy the nation as is. Once you've done that, get out there and make sure randos are gonna vote too. 

So here are those links yet again (and another link on what the best way to go about it. Basically get good at one thing for one candidate and do that. Better than switching tasks, right?):

So here, try to do something rather than doomscroll, as remember, doing a denial of services attack against us all is part of Trump's plan. So don't fret, act: The Senate is also important, so Actblue is place you can donate. 

Swing Left has a virtual phone bank you can participate in (and some other ways like donations etc). 
Resistance Labs is where you can text to get out the vote. 
Vote Forward is a way to do postcards to help improve voter turnout. (last day to mail out letters was last week, mail them out if you haven't!)
Princeton Election Consortium has a list of races where your money will make the most difference. They have Senate races by "power" (where your money, and ostensibly your time, goes the furthest). Currently the most important states are: MT>KS>AR>SC>ME. So see if you can do something or spend some $ there. 
Here's the one for the Presidential race. Currently, the states where you can have the most influence are: AR>NV>PA>NC>AR>GA. So give those a try. Note that this is a little different from 538's polls which show the closest states being: PA, NC, OH, FL, GA, IA, TX, AR, WI. So If you spend your time or money there, that's fine too. 
And one for redistricting, if you're interested.  Also, if you need to make a plan: here.  Or one thing you can do. 

Of course this doesn't mean that our work is over even if the Dems win (there will still be work to do), but it's a good first step. Let me know if I've missed something.
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'member how I said it was mainly right wingers starting shit?

And yeah, there are different stories in different cities (some places had other coordinating non-protestors looting etc). Here is some more news about that.
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Quick Note on this Kickstarter

Just so you know, a couple days left to help fund this kickstarter documentary about the tech that brought us the current dystopia that we have. Extremely important for everyone to check it out and try and see what's going on and, more importantly, if we can change directions and create a better world (and no tech-fanboi, I, but it can be used in better ways, right?). Check it out and share it where you can!
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