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Monday November 02, 20
03:55 PM
In other totally-not-a-slide-into-fascism news, peaceful protestors who had a permit to march were teargassed on the way to vote.
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.
Protestors with a permit teargassed on the way to vote.
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @04:16PM (1 child)
FBI investigating after Trump supporters surround Biden campaign bus in Texas [cbsnews.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @09:14PM
So many GOP attempts to steal your vote so little time!
Federal judge rejects Texas Republicans' bid to toss 127,000 drive-thru ballots [nbcnews.com]
They are no longer even a little shy about how much they hate Democracy!
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by khallow on Monday November 02 2020, @04:28PM (53 children)
And going to vote? I thought election day was tomorrow?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @04:55PM (10 children)
As I understand it, it was a "Souls to the Polls" event. It's a bunch of black people. Voting. While I gather that can be rather terrifying to Republicans, it is what most of us ordinary folk consider peaceful.
Many states have early voting. In my home state of New Mexico, for example, you may go to your county clerk’s office beginning the 28th day before the election and vote and many counties in the state have expanded early voting beginning on the third Saturday before the election. [state.nm.us] Have you seriously not noticed the wall-to-wall news coverage of early voting the last few weeks? Really?!?
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Monday November 02 2020, @05:23PM (6 children)
Understandable.
He's in a lockdown somewhere in Yellowstone. The bears there didn't care enough to inform him he can vote earlier and he likely thought the smoke messages on the mountains top are just from the fires in California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @05:26PM (5 children)
We have our own massive fires here in the Rockies thankyouverymuch!!
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday November 02 2020, @05:28PM (2 children)
You had Antifa visiting you too? Shouldav called Runaway with his guns. (very large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @05:37PM
Security guard faces second-degree murder charge in fatal shooting at Denver protests [nbcnews.com]
We could use fewer guys with guns at the protests here.
And yes, I think it is likely to be considered self-defense. But, nobody would be dead right now if that fuckwit had left his gun at home.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @06:49PM
Runaway only has the one gun. And the slide may have rusted solid.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 02 2020, @05:33PM
Seriously speaking, I'm sad to hear it.
Stay safe, take care. Even if you're not in immediate danger from fires, smoke for 2-3 day all the time is nasty enough (I tell you this as one who had the experience for week+ last Jan in Melbourne).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @12:45AM
Hello fren,
Massive fires and "Rockies" [twitter.com] are the forces of truaninonashufodoprezure?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 02 2020, @05:58PM (2 children)
I see North Carolina has early voting through October 31 [ncvoter.org], the date of the protest.
But since there was voting there rather than just a protest outside a future polling place, that means that laws on buffer zones outside North Carolina polling places apply - nothing within 50 feet. The Washington Post photo with the rather unprofessional police officers spraying pepper spray shows the protestors fairly close to the entrance of a building (I'd say within 50 feet). If this building is a polling place, then they are too close.
Needless to say, I need more than your say-so that something untoward happened here.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @08:32PM
According to the caption it's not the polling place.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 03 2020, @12:05AM
Wow. Unprofessional. Not brutal?
The photo at the top of this piece shows something untoward happening. [theguardian.com]
It also shows what liars the police are:
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @05:05PM (21 children)
As peaceful as when the Trumpers blocked some traffic [nbcnewyork.com]
Notice how interrupting traffic while black results in teargas but interruptinc traffic while white doesn't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @05:23PM (2 children)
In new orleans there were protestors that blocked the traffic. The police asked them to leave and when they refused the police said "Ok, we are going home for dinner then. Have fun hanging out in the middle of the highway" and laughed their asses off at them as they drove away. After the police left the protestors got bored and wandered off.
Basically you have to use reverse psychology on them like 5 year olds.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @05:30PM (1 child)
I wasn't aware of that incident. I assume you're talking about blocking I-10 back in June.
It doesn't support my hypothesis but it does make me happy to see.
Apparently, protestors blocked an overpass for a couple hours peacefully. The cops showed up, took a knee for a bit, then left.
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @07:28PM
Haha, no.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 02 2020, @08:26PM (17 children)
Re the Trump Train:
So at worst, you might say that the Trump Train constituted a "rolling roadblock". At worst.
Re the "counterprotest":
So, the counterprotesters were actually blocking roadways?
Gotta make up your mind here. Is blocking a roadway a public safety issue, or not? What constitutes "blockage" anyway?
All of us who drive have sat in traffic for uncountable hours. When is it a crime? When is it not a crime? Does it all come down to political party affiliation, or do you have some more objective criteria?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @08:34PM (15 children)
I would say that inconveniencing people should basically never be a crime.
But of course, I haven't spent the last couple months using that crime of inconvenience to justify running down lefties with cars.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 02 2020, @08:45PM (13 children)
Most, but not all, righties have learned to not play in the streets. I suppose it makes people's groins tingle to walk fifty abreast down the street, right up until they are hit by a car.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @12:46AM (10 children)
it's called civil disobedience and it's a very American thing to do. This country was founded by people who routinely engaged in civil disobedience like the Boston Tea Party. Perhaps you should go back and read how the colonists rebelled against British rule.
Hitting protesters with cars sounds a lot like the murder of Heather Heyer. It should be noted that both the Unite the Right rally and the counterprotesters marched in the streets of Charlottesville. Although it didn't involve a car, Bloody Sunday was an ambush of peaceful civil rights protesters.
There's a long history of marching in the streets, going back at least to the Selma to Montgomery marches. The intent is to get attention and for the protests to be inconvenient [washingtonpost.com] while not physically damaging anything. After Bloody Sunday, the marches were explicitly permitted by a federal court order issued by Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., who ruled that the rights of the protesters were protected by the first amendment [latimes.com].
Those rights have since been scaled back, essentially allowing the government to designate free speech zones while preventing any sort of demonstrations in other areas. The effect is to minimize the impact of protests by confining them to less visible areas.
During this past week, a bill has been introduced in Nebraska that would make it a felony to block roads while protesting [omaha.com]. But conservatives are outraged when they're told to move to free speech zones [aclu.org].
If you truly care about liberty, anyone should be free to protest on public property when they want to, provided they're not damaging the property. This means that both liberal and conservative protesters should be free to protest in this manner. Protesters shouldn't need a government permit to exercise their speech on public property, even when it's inconvenient for others. Protesters shouldn't be allowed to block emergency vehicles but should otherwise be free to exercise their freedoms of speech and expression on public property. They shouldn't need to demand a permit from the government; the first amendment is the only permit they should need.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @01:46AM (9 children)
If you have a PERMIT, as Unite the Right had, then it becomes LEGAL to march down a street. At that point, you are not impeding traffic, because traffic has been shut down, so that you may march. Please tell me that you understand that crucial bit of data.
Protesters who shut down interstate highways, especially, should be mowed down like bowling pins. Major highways, ditto. You want to mill around down at the courthouse, in front of the police station, and crap like that, I'll give you some measure of respect - unless I'm headed to an emergency of my own. How 'bout those silly rat bastards who mocked the expectant mother, on her way to the hospital - I think that was in Houston.
Uhhhhh - free speech zone? That zone extends to wherever my feet are planted, thank you very much. Same goes for you - you may speak any damned place you choose to speak. Just don't block the traffic, you idiot. Blocking traffic is not "civil disobedience", it is an infringement on the rights of others. Get your ass on the sidewalk, or the bike lane, or parking lanes, and leave travel lanes the hell alone. That ambulance that wants to go by may well be on it's way to rescue one of your own fucking mates!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:39AM (8 children)
Unless, of course, that traffic is a Biden/Harris campaign bus, in which case you're completely okay with it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:51AM (7 children)
The Biden bus was not stopped. It may have been somewhat impeded, in that it couldn't go as fast as the driver wanted to go. But the bus continued it's journey without interruption, despite some asshole in a little white car crashing into a Trump pickup truck.
Why don't some of you pull your heads out of your asses? What you saw in the Biden bus video does not compare in any way to fuckwits completely stopping traffic on the interstate highway. Antifa halted at least one person who was on her way to the hospital, and they just didn't give a shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @07:17AM (6 children)
Interstate highways have a minimum speed limit of 40 mph. The Biden bus was forced to slow to 20 mph, which most certainly violates the law. The bottom line is that you have different standards for breaking the law to obstruct traffic. It's apparently completely okay when your side does it but it's terribly wrong when the other side does it.
As for the collision, the Biden bus and the white SUV were both attempting to change into the rightmost lane. It appears that a black Trump truck in the rightmost lane sped up to block the white SUV from changing lanes, forcibly pushing it back into the center lane. Some camera angles of the incident show a much larger gap initially between the rear of the Biden bus and the trailing Trump truck. The driver of the white SUV may not have expected the black Truck to accelerate.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @03:11PM (5 children)
Correction: Someone associated with the Biden campaign said that the bus was forced to slow down to 20 mph. The clips that I have seen of the bus all show the bus rolling at speeds in excess of 40 mph.
If so, then we must castigate every police officer who fails to write hundreds, even thousands, of tickets every rush hour morning when the traffic slows below 40 mph.
Perhaps. And, you're saying that you don't? Face it, you're up in arms because a bus was slowed down a little bit. But you have not one word of sympathy for the woman who was on her way to the hospital, and was forced to sit in traffic for a half hour or more when YOUR SIDE completely closed an interstate.
A little honesty on your side would be a good thing. If, in fact, you were honest, then maybe you could claim the high ground here. Now, kindly fuck off. I'm really not into drama, and I'm not voting to give you an award. America's got talent, but you aren't that talent.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @05:18PM (4 children)
The hypocrisy and dishonesty from you is absolutely incredible.
The fact is, I'm not bothered by Trump supporters slowing the bus. And the collision was probably the result of the white SUV trying to stay right behind the bus and two cars trying to fill the same gap behind the bus as it changed lanes. I doubt the collision was an attempt at expressing political views.
In regard to blocking emergency vehicles, both you and the other AC have misrepresented my position, where I explicitly said [soylentnews.org]:
You lied when you claimed I didn't care about emergency vehicles being blocked. But we should acknowledge that protests like the Trump Train or the gridlock around Michigan's capitol could also block emergency vehicles, yet conservatives were okay with those protests. Emergency vehicles should always have the right of way. But you're being disingenuous and misrepresenting what I've already said.
Aside from your dishonesty, my objections are that:
People shouldn't need to engage in permits for exercising their first amendment rights. When it comes to marching in the streets, it would be a good idea to notify the authorities to make sure it's done safely, but the permission of the authorities should not be required. In the present day, the government would most certainly refuse to grant a permit for a similar march like the Selma to Montgomery marches. Permits have been used as a tool to silence protests by moving them to a location where they wouldn't be visible or inconvenient.
For that matter, modern protests are usually very tame compared with the methods used by colonists rebelling against British rule. Riots and looting were part of the American Revolution. That is a pretty good description of dumping British East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor. The Slave Insurrection of 1741 involved burning numerous buildings in New York, including the governor's house. The right often justifies the need to own guns as protection from tyranny. However, actually using those guns in such a manner would constitute a violent act of civil disobedience.
Some of the actions taken during civil disobedience are illegal. But that doesn't justify the use of deadly force unless it's to protect someone else from killing or seriously injuring another person. That means you don't get to drive your car into a group of nonviolent protesters blocking the streets, something you claimed you would do earlier in this thread. If a person is accelerating toward a group of protesters with the intent of mowing them down, it should be legal for people to shoot at the car's tires or even at the driver to prevent this from occurring. You don't get to run down protesters just because their civil disobedience is inconvenient for you.
I don't intend to reply to you again because you've shown you won't debate honestly.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @05:48PM (3 children)
No, I don't see that I've been "dishonest" anywhere. Perhaps if you used a registered nickname on SN, I wouldn't have misinterpreted your position on any particular issue.
Thank you for that - it goes a long way toward explaining your position. And, the constitution backs that up - there's really not much to argue there. But, we must keep in mind that emergencies happen when there are no official emergency vehicles around. If Joe has severely injured himself, and his wife is driving him to the ER in the family car, that is an emergency. Impeding Joe's progress should be punishable. So, long story short, you DO NOT have any right to shut down a street, unless you have coordinated with officials. Said coordination would probably include detour signs and police traffic direction, which would route Joe down a couple side streets, so that he arrives at the ER in a timely manner.
Agreed, in principal. But, then you get into local laws. Some jurisdictions are more constitutional than others. Want to stage a demonstration, you just go to City Hall and file the paperwork, and there you go - you have a demonstration. Other places are less constitutional in their approach, and presume to grant or deny permission for your demonstration.
You've gone to City Hall and filed your paperwork? City Hall denies permission? Well, you belong in court. City Hall has no right to deny permission for your right to assemble. Challenge that authority, request an emergency injunction from the judge for your own demonstration, then follow up with a suit to establish that City Hall is over stepping it's authority.
As for random violent acts this election cycle? How about the left be honest, and admit that the left is rioting. Portland, St. Louis, and Kenosha are prime examples of violence. I'm sick of the "fiery but mostly peaceful" bullshit from the left. Violence is violence. Stop spinning bullshit as "peaceful protests". Those are the lies.
All the talk about a boogaloo, or a revolution, or a coup, comes from the left. The left needs to make up it's mind whether it wants an armed confrontation, or it wants peaceful dialogue.
You speak of hypocrisy, but you don't seem to see that damned near all the hypocrisy is coming from the left?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @07:01PM (2 children)
YOU were the first to start calling for civil war 2.0 to protect your grandchildren from the darkies.
Not surprising you're a hypocritical lying turd yet again. Go fuck yourself you nazi collaborator (your admission not my accusation), your constant shitposting to minimize the right's fascism is pathetic. Get a life wanker.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @07:10PM (1 child)
That is a lie. Go back and re-read what you thought you have read. I have promised that IF the left pushes for a civil war, it's going to be far uglier than they can imagine. The right won't just roll over after the left waves a gun around.
Reading comprehension - try it.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2020, @08:33PM
Nice revisionism you hack.
Own your own shit for once, and if you regret your own words THEN ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG AND APOLOGIZE!
Don't worry, I know you are incapable.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @10:10AM (1 child)
Trumpies blocking public thoroughfares to slow down emergency vehicles so that Trump voters with the Covid-19 can't make it to intensive care in time, which lowers health care costs for everyone. A Public service, actually.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @03:14PM
Had to give you a funny mod for that one. The really funny part is - those people who hate Boomers should be praying that Covid-19 sweeps the nation coast-to-coast then sweeps back again, taking all the Boomers out of the picture.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:46PM
Actually, I must disagree. And if they become too much of an inconvenience then they should expect to hear about it from me. Other consequences are also possible. Don't be an asshole. Stay out of the way. Shoo!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:42PM
Actually, I hate rolling roadblocks. Especially on my morning commute. The only lower form of life are those who would use rolling road blocks as a form of voter intimidation. Stay to the right, assholes!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @05:15PM (6 children)
In quite a few states, early voter turnout has already passed 2016 total turnout.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @05:17PM (5 children)
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)
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.
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)
I'm more into the 'Four Score and Seven' plus another seventy. We need more eloquence when measuring time.
Dems just don't do eloquence!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:47PM
>> ...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
Frankly, neither do Republicans these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @11:25PM
Un-scalable from the outside or the inside?
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 02 2020, @06:08PM (10 children)
I've not yet seen anything that looked un-peaceful, TBH. On the other hand, "fiery but mostly peaceful" has become a thing in the past few months. Almost anything is possible, including the "protesters" being armed with AK-47s and grenade launchers.
I voted in person last week. Most polling places are open for early voting. The number of people who have already voted already equaled ~2/3 of all votes recorded in 2016 Saturday evening.
Few people want to stand in line for hours on voting day, just to bring home the flu, a cold, covid, and some strange jungle rot.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @06:23PM (6 children)
Sir, exactly what the hell are you getting up to while waiting in line to vote? Enquiring minds want to know. And, if we should ever meet in line while waiting to vote,...I want you to keep your hands to yourself at all times. Just so you know.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 02 2020, @06:48PM (2 children)
It's the immigrants and the zombies, the dead and the undead, constantly sloughing off bits of flesh everywhere they go. The larger gobbets are easy to spot, and avoid. It's the little bitty chunks that are deadly. Who touched that door before you opened it?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @06:52PM
Recent Trump rally attendees, shedding the Covid-19 everywhere they go?
(Score: 1, Redundant) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @01:04AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @11:31PM
He just likes to teach dogs to whistle while he waits.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 03 2020, @06:35PM (1 child)
Waiting. It's just that since he looks a bit brown he gets the ten-hour line.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @09:34PM
My town's just shy of half brown. We had places that you could put a line if such a need occurred but no actual lines were present. Not even a single person.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 03 2020, @08:31PM (2 children)
"Strange jungle rot?" What the fuck, are you having 'Nam flashbacks you didn't earn, just like the president?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @08:59PM (1 child)
I take it then, that you have zero experience with any flesh eating diseases, or even disfiguring diseases, that might be brought back from South America, Africa, Asia, or some island in the tropics. Never seen it for yourself, so it doesn't exist, right?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 04 2020, @09:43AM
You would be *amazed* what I've run across in the course of jobs that ostensibly involve "shuttling medicine from A to B after putting it in vial C."
It's more your choice of words that I wonder about. This isn't a tropical nation even if the Deep South feels like it sometime. So what sort of "jungle rot" are we speaking of here, and how would one logically expect to be exposed to it...?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @07:24PM
Classic asshole conservative, assuming some wrong doing before being angry. Funny how conservatives getting fucked with always get support first, even when they are the guilty party!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 02 2020, @07:30PM
Did you know there is this thing called "early voting" ?
My family voted a couple weeks ago. It was quiet. Convenient. Not too long of lines. Everyone following protocol of masks, hand sanitizer, etc. Everyone polite. Calm.
Tomorrow? We will be hunkered down in safety. Sadfully we can't do what we did last time. In 2016, we voted early and made sure we were in Walt Disney World on election day, because it is a good safe space. Princesses and fairies. Colorful parades. Loud music. Lots of fun rides. Especially Mission Space (orange).
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @05:19PM (13 children)
Stores across the country in republican-dense areas are boarding up in fear of riots when Trump loses.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @05:23PM
Denver warns downtown businesses to prepare for Election Day unrest as shops board up their windows [denverpost.com]
Downtown Denver isn't exactly Republican-Dense but we're preparing too.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @06:16PM
They probably remember all the riots that happened when Obama won.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @06:39PM (1 child)
I'm preparing to shelter in place again for about a week. When the cops are booger boys and only the FBI is interested in preserving the Constitutional order, we're in for a world of shit. Record gun and ammo sales. Well if men have to run around killing each other in an orgy of violence, making themselves a minority again, maybe it'll be fun to watch from my balcony.
Though if I'd been thinking I should have made myself an armored smoking enclosure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @06:53PM
Red-legs. They will be mopped up quickly enough.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday November 02 2020, @07:41PM (8 children)
Yes, because when Trump loses, the left wing liberals will be out burning everything.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:08PM (7 children)
Don't you know that Trump has done more for blacks than any other President? He's like a woke superhero!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday November 02 2020, @08:22PM (5 children)
I have heard Trump say that. In fact, Trump will always say he has done more for ${X} than any other president. Yet the blacks seem to overwhelmingly disagree for some odd reason? I can't imagine why. /sarcasm
I'm still trying to figure out the meaning of "woke". I keep seeing that. I've recently figured out what "my bad" means.
Trump has the highest approval rating! He approves of himself so much!
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, @08:41PM (4 children)
Because - none of these people are black. Biden said so, so it must be so.
Hmmm - the list is obviously not very inclusive, I don't see Kim Klacik on that page.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 03 2020, @12:26AM (2 children)
This is an actual quote from the guy who is the president of your country:
Defend that, go on, I dare you.
(Score: 1) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @01:14AM (1 child)
He didn't count Taiwan? [whitehouse.gov]
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 03 2020, @02:10AM
Not in this particular world, no.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @10:18AM
Says "Black Runaway". You know, blackface is no longer socially acceptable, even for Halloween, you racist piece of shit asshole hillbilly cornholing doofus!!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @08:25PM
Everyone says so, and look, just last week I had a black mother, strong woman, cries as she thanked me and just handed me this beautiful baby. I kissed it on the cheek and she started sobbing. Even a strong black mother was brought to tears by how much I've done for those people!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Monday November 02 2020, @09:04PM (1 child)
Here's a good article [theguardian.com] about the current dangers of fascism all around the world, including the USA.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @03:57AM
And here's a nice soundtrack while you are reading,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7GCw02_5Pw [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 02 2020, @09:13PM (15 children)
Is it just me or does anyone else think DM would be singing an entirely different tune if a bunch of Trump supporting protesters were marching towards a polling place?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @09:48PM
His partisanship and hypocrisy are off the charts. He never ever admits that anything leftist is even slightly evil, stupid, demented, or wrong. (exception incoming?) He never admits that anything pro-Trump could ever be OK at all. It's a spotless record of partisanship.
He could be a character in a fake interview for the Babylon Bee.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2020, @10:19PM (1 child)
Probably just you and a few other Trump supporters. As for me, I have no problem with a bunch of Trump supporters marching to the polls if they are coming to cast their votes. It's when those "protesters" attempt to discourage, or otherwise intimidate, others casting their ballots that I get a bit irritated. You do believe in allowing people the right to vote, yes?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:25PM
Calling rabid haters of Trump on their insane bullshit is not even sort of the same as supporting Trump. Thank you, please come again.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 02 2020, @10:34PM (4 children)
See, I'm one of those crazy Democrats. We're the ones who WANT people to vote. So no, I am opposed to teargassing Trump supporters on their way to vote.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @03:39AM
Yaaaa, these dumb fucks just took too much Viagrah. It is like normal Viagra, but with a trailing dose of hate.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:28PM (2 children)
Yep, non-citizens, felons, dead people, entirely made up people... Or were you talking about people who are actually eligible to vote? In that case, you're full of shit. Nobody wants anyone to vote unless they're going to vote how they think they should.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 03 2020, @06:16PM (1 child)
Trump had the power of the entire Federal Branch of the United States of America try to find evidence of those people and they came up with jack shit.
Member of Trump's voter fraud commission says lack of evidence 'reveals a troubling bias' [nbcnews.com]
Put up or shut the fuck up.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @09:39PM
Dude, two separate instances of organized voter fraud by Dems are currently being prosecuted. That I heard about. And I don't even sort of follow political news. 99% of what catches my attention is brought up by you lot or The Roomie.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @12:48AM (6 children)
Not just you. I would expect him to be all "The fashists are intimidating voters!!1!" if these were Trump supporters.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @03:36AM (5 children)
Trumpers are doing that, sitting outside polling places with weapons and harassing people by trying to run them off the road and then trying to fight them.
So hilarious how badly you fuckwits have been brainwashed. Or super sad how many of you fuckwits just roll with the fascism cause "them people bad!"
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:01AM (4 children)
> sitting outside polling places with weapons and harassing people ...
Fake news or maybe a Russian troll? Nothing like that is happening here, I've been by the town hall several times during advance voting and there was a nice peaceful line waiting to vote. Did it myself, voted on Sunday, no hassles, just friendly people and great election workers (some are volunteers).
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:29PM (1 child)
Garden variety lies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @07:10PM
Woops you got fact checked again =)
If we take your typical rightwing approach you will now be crying about censorship! Or would that only be if SN added a link to the fact checking comment at the top of yours? That would be censorship right? Not like you would hold SN to lesser standards than Twitter riiiiight?
Goddamn I love seing you fall on your face =) I'll sort out the morality of it later, or just enjoy a little bit of the dark side you rightwingers love so much.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 03 2020, @06:32PM (1 child)
Trump spokesperson says armed guards outside St. Pete polling place were not hired by campaign [wfla.com]
Security company that sought armed election security in Minnesota appears in court [fox9.com]
Police called on armed man standing outside Colorado ballot box [9news.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 03 2020, @09:43PM
Yep, that sure is some nationwide, organized campaign of voter suppression you've exposed there. Trump keeps on at that rate he might end up keeping a hundred or two Biden votes from being cast before his operatives are arrested.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Subsentient on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:06AM (3 children)
Democracy is dying. America's people have forgotten the nation's principles.
It was doomed from the start. Our species is too inferior to manage its biases and baser instincts for the good of the populace.
The parties have polarized. What used to be civil debate and disagreement has now become a nauseating holy war on both sides.
I suppose much of it is religion and secularism warring against each other. When half the population believes in logically unethical principles that are declared correct by their evil god, it's difficult to save those people.
I have a natural propensity to want to compromise, bridge the divides, not take sides, be on everyone's good side. That's why I only read news from the most unbiased sources I can find, right now BBC and Reuters. But, it's becoming clear to me that, right now, at this moment in time, the Republicans are the morally debased in this war. It might not be logically correct, but my heart views this as a struggle between mercy and callous selfishness.
My fellow liberals, please, don't stoop to their levels. We must be the better of the two. History will judge us for how we behave in the near future.
I genuinely hope I don't live to see the worst of what's to come.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Tuesday November 03 2020, @04:09AM (2 children)
When I joined The Satanic Temple a year ago, it was partly out of jest. But, now, witnessing what religion and its cancer of the mind has done, and what happens when you try to enforce the ethically depraved principles of "God", I have truly become a deep supporter of The Satanic Temple and their principles.
Hail Satan.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @10:21AM (1 child)
Hail, Runaway!
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @07:13PM
He may be Satan's operative here on SN, but no way is he the big man. For one thing he wouldn't be so terrified all the time. Nah, Runaway is just a boot licker cosplaying a tough guy.