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Protestors with a permit teargassed on the way to vote.

Journal by DeathMonkey

In other totally-not-a-slide-into-fascism news, peaceful protestors who had a permit to march were teargassed on the way to vote.

Peaceful march to the polls in North Carolina is met with police pepper spray and arrests, causing outcry on eve of election

They have elections in all those shithole dictatorial countries too. They just make sure the wrong people don't vote.

The participants in Saturday’s “I Am Change” march had intended to conclude at an early-voting site to emphasize turnout in the final days of the presidential campaign. Those plans were thrown into disarray when law-enforcement officers in riot gear and gas masks insisted demonstrators move off the street and clear county property, despite a permit authorizing their presence.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @05:15PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @05:15PM (#1072025)

    In quite a few states, early voter turnout has already passed 2016 total turnout.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @05:17PM (5 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday November 02 2020, @05:17PM (#1072028) Journal

    Oh yeah, I think they're starting to see the writing on the wall!

    Bunker Bitch builds an 'un-scalable' fence around the White House [vice.com]

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 02 2020, @07:39PM (3 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 02 2020, @07:39PM (#1072101) Journal

      the writing on the wall

      Vandalism!

      No worries though. Just build another wall.

      Trumpty Dumpty can't build a wall
      Trumpty Dumpty had a great fall
      All Kim Jong's horses
      And all Putin's men
      Couldn't put Trumpty together again

      No matter what kind of fences they build around the white house, if Trump loses the election, he will automatically stop being president on Jan 20. Walls or no walls. And there is enough force to come in and forcibly remove him.

      I just worry about the "scorched earth" policies he will enact during the nearly three months he has after he loses. Telling his cult like supporters to block traffic will be the tip of the iceberg.

      And then again, he could win. Which means twelve more years of scorched earth.

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      If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.

      • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 02 2020, @08:32PM (2 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 02 2020, @08:32PM (#1072134) Homepage Journal

        Which means twelve more years of scorched earth.

        I'm more into the 'Four Score and Seven' plus another seventy. We need more eloquence when measuring time.

        “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

        Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

        But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

        Dems just don't do eloquence!

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        Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:47PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:47PM (#1072145)

          >> ...The world will little note nor long remember what we say here...

          Wrong on both counts. Ain't it just like a Republican.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:49PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:49PM (#1072146)

          Dems just don't do eloquence!

          Frankly, neither do Republicans these days.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @11:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @11:25PM (#1072230)

      Un-scalable from the outside or the inside?