Weekly Politics Thread
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RCA2CE@reddit
Is someone actually voting for this guy?
JoeNooner@reddit
The funniest political post of all-time:
dfwtexn@reddit
If you had the PTO to spend, do you take Election day and maybe the Monday before? I'm considering it and the reason is I don't like the sound of all the rhetoric. Both sides.
ins0ma_@reddit
Voting Day should be a national holiday. Making voting compulsory, as Australia has done, would also strengthen our democracy.
HPIndifferenceCraft@reddit
National holiday, one day to vote. In-person voting unless you’re in the military and stationed overseas. Paper ballots only. Voter ID. Free transportation to-and-from voting centers for those who need it. Monitor vote counting.
These asks should not be controversial in a first world nation.
ins0ma_@reddit
Mail in voting has been tremendously successful, with zero issues. We have it in my state. All citizens should have the option to mail it in, as you said in this day and age there are definitely better ways to do things.
With mail in ballots in Oregon, we also get an info packet that describes candidates and their policy positions, so it’s possible to research who you’re voting for with minimal effort.
A_Roomba_Ate_My_Feet@reddit
We have it in Colorado as well (mail in voting by default) and it is great. I'd hate to go back to standing in line and also occasionally realizing you forgot to research about some particular proposition (instead of studying up on them with the actual ballot while sipping coffee as I'd do with mail in voting).
BettyX@reddit
Mail in voting is more secure, why? It is triple-checked by different workers versus in-person voting there are zero checks other than maybe showing your ID. Mail in basically has checks and balances.
Grunge4U@reddit
I'm in Colorado and it's a great system. It looks like we'll have rank file voting as a bill on our ballet this year which would make our system even better.
BettyX@reddit
Mail in voting actually leaves a paper trail, you know that right?
ins0ma_@reddit
You’re being downvoted because abuse you seem to have a problem with things like mail in voting, and what you’re suggesting sounds suspiciously like what right wing fanatics are on about with voter ID and in person voting.
Step into the 21st century and vote from the safety and comfort of your own home. What’s wrong with that?
Tex_Watson@reddit
This is absolutely impossible with how many people there are today vs how many poll workers there are.
HPIndifferenceCraft@reddit
Correct. Poll workers should be increased. Along with the people providing transportation. Along with the people necessary to implement a voter ID program.
Tex_Watson@reddit
Have fun with your fantasy.
HPIndifferenceCraft@reddit
Again correct. It will remain a fantasy because the amount of corruption in our government is insane.
I was simply stating what we, as a proper civilization, should expect.
Appreciate your downvotes, Tex. Like I said previously, it’s very telling.
IAdvocate@reddit
Yeah when Trump got in the corruption went through the roof. Hopefully he loses so the corruption doesn't go out of control again.
Tex_Watson@reddit
lmao, everything you're saying is ridiculous, that's why you're being downvoted.
HPIndifferenceCraft@reddit
Okay.
Grunge4U@reddit
I agree with making election day a national holiday but not with in person voting. Every state should follow the Colorado model and expand on it by automatically registering people on their 18th birthday when they get a drivers license and include rank file voting. Every citizen of age should be sent a mail in ballet. We should make it as easy as possible to vote. When everyone votes good things happen, when voters are suppressed bad things happen.
Zaphod1620@reddit
Veterans Day is literally a few days after voting day. Not only would it make sense to have elections that day, it's also fitting.
The only catch might be to make the observed holiday on a weekday rather than always on Nov. 11th. Nov. 11th is Veterans Day only because it used to be Armistice Day, celebrating the end of WWI, which isn't really relevant to the holiday anymore.
Grunge4U@reddit
Kamala enters this week up 2.9% in the polls which is down a little again from her 3.2% lead last week. Kamala is up in 5 of the 7 swing states but within the margin of error in 3 of those, Trump is up by less than a point in Arizona and Georgia which is within the margin of error. The election is still very much a tossup and will most likely be that way until the end. The debate should make a difference but I don't know if it will. The bar is set so low for Trump that he could tell 300 lies, be completely incoherent and crap his depends on stage and still the media would focus on 1 fact that Harris got wrong in Wednesdays headlines. No one can afford to sit this one out.
WhiplashMotorbreath@reddit
You mean the same polls that had hillary winning by double digits. those polls.
BettyX@reddit
That is a total lie. If a poll did have her up within double digits it was an outlier. Most polls had her within the margin of error. Are you confusing the media hyping up a very small lead with the actual polls???
Reality.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/national-polls/
Frosty_Smile8801@reddit
well i dont think the head of the fbi is gonna be holding some sabatoge presser a week before the election this time so they might be more accurrate.
WhiplashMotorbreath@reddit
Ooff, you are a trusting soul. bless your littl heart.
ghostintheL3switch@reddit
What would it take to repeal the 2nd Amendment? I don't mean just the legal requirements, but what conditions would need to be in place for such a movement to get a foothold?
In_The_End_63@reddit
If you take away our guns, only MAGAs will have guns. Aha! The Framers were not dumb.
BettyX@reddit
Oh yes, totally, so true. Only MAGA has guns, not liberals, never, not a single one has guns. Nope, it's so factual and true. We are totally scared of guns and ahve zero idea how to use a gun. We only have waterguns for fun times and I plan on using my knitting needles for defense.
HPIndifferenceCraft@reddit
For one thing, we‘d need to get deathly serious about closing the border.
Because, if the 2nd Amendment gets repealed and every gun presently in circulation somehow manages to get confiscated, guess what becomes the item most smuggled over the southern border and into the hands of criminals?
Did ya guess guns, bubba? If so, you get a star for the day.
And since y’all clearly love open borders, that conversation will never be had. And, because of that, I don’t want to hear anyone’s thoughts on repealing 2A. It’s a nonstarter.
Jiirbo@reddit
Even though I don't share your view, I respect your right to have it, fellow American 😊.
I get why the down votes are coming in but I think it is unfortunate. This is one reason why I think we are now a country of people who are categorize each other as either share my belief or "f*&k you!" And yes that is a gross generalization but the lack of discussion (instead of yelling) between different points of view has divided us in my opinion. There are likely things we agree on, but in the current environment it is unlikely I will ever find out.
Let's try though, what is your opinion on ice cream? Do you have a favorite? I usually go for a chocolate ice cream with some peanut butter in it... 🥰
HPIndifferenceCraft@reddit
Thank you. Same. And I 100% agree with you that our society has become siloed and tribal, and we treat each other like garbage because of that. There really no need for that.
Ice cream. I love it. I don’t usually eat it, because of teeth sensitivity and general avoidance of dairy. But my favorite growing up was strawberry. As an adult, it’s Cherry Garcia.
Jiirbo@reddit
I also don’t have it often but my reason is due to the calories 🤣. Best to you 🇺🇸
Crot_Chmaster@reddit
The only way it would happen is if the US ended up a totalitarian, dictatorial regime. So, likely a bonafide fascistic communist dystopian nightmare.
Because getting a fundamental human right revoked by the government is kinda difficult.
Pegasus0527@reddit
Make sure your families vote!
PMMEBITCOINPLZ@reddit
It will be interesting to see if any of the “family value” voters care if Laura Loomed starts showing with Trump’s love child.
Or if she doesn’t.
Unlucky_Profit_776@reddit
I think it's hysterical that us election day happens upon Guy Fawkes day this year
In_The_End_63@reddit
Hey I have some spare fireworks. Gah!
Unlucky_Profit_776@reddit
Ok let's go to the tunnel under parliament! :)
BanDelayEnt@reddit
Politics is show business for ugly people.
Crot_Chmaster@reddit
Stupid, talentless ugly people.
Survive1014@reddit
If you support Donald Trump... YOU are the problem.
RCA2CE@reddit
Trump during the moment of silence for the 9/11 victims this morning. Nobody can possibly believe this man loves America.
BanDelayEnt@reddit
He was looking up to God, since his Christian faith is the most important thing in his life. (/s just in case)
RCA2CE@reddit
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-3zGAjiL9S/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Never going back... Can't go back.
RCA2CE@reddit
Know what was crazy about the debate? ABC guessed Trump was gonna talk about eating cats and dogs and took the initiative in advance to call the city manager of Springfield before the debate. They were ready for a level of crazy I didn't even know was a thing... well done ABC
Frosty_Smile8801@reddit
I told my mother about the story circulating online. she didnt think it was true even though she lives 5 min or so from there. by not true i mean that jd or trump were making a thing over it. her jaw hit the floor when trump started on his little rant.
funny thing is she dont give a shit about folks eating geese or cats. in fact she would 100% encourage the slaughter of geese, they are assholes. She reminded me we had duck at grandmas more than once and we have fried up our share of rabbit in squirrle in the kitchen. She also reminded me that we dont have outside cats and nobody has around here 60 years and the haitians are kind of new to the ares. Who was eating the stray cats before them?
WhiplashMotorbreath@reddit
The WHO " new boss, same as the old boss"
The oval office is just the USA'S marketing dept. Congree needs the nersing home members to be gone to change anything.
RCA2CE@reddit
Outrageous-Buy734@reddit
Politics is the business of manipulation. If you find yourself reacting negatively to that statement or disbelieving it, then you're a victim of that manipulation.
Tex_Watson@reddit
/r/im14andthisisdeep
Outrageous-Buy734@reddit
Except I'm pushing 50 and made a statement based on nearly 30 years of dealing directly with Congress.
Tex_Watson@reddit
https://i.giphy.com/a3zqvrH40Cdhu.webp
Dangerous-Style7199@reddit
So...been doing some reading and chatting with folks involved in politics down here in Florida. No one is really predicting or seeing any unusually negative economic indicators besides the threat of a republican-driven government shutdown. The politicians who currently have jobs in Washington can't see any reason why they should behave so foolishly as to grant Cheetolini his wish, but the depths of their sycophancy has yet to disappoint.
09/10's debate should be fun and cringey to watch. Kamala's camp is being publicly cautious, but I bet privately they are worried about staining her suit with his stench. I think Trump's political 09/11 will occur with an "October Surprise" from Jack Smith that makes Jim Comey look like the little bitch he is. And those Gen Xers supporting the Mango Mussolini have revealed themselves to be the posers they always were and Trump continues to model for them. Real Gen X has entered the chat.
The "Inside Baseball" chatter is that Florida's GOP is imploding. State GOPs across the nation are falling apart, and the Trumps have a gift for making money disappear. By Election Day, the GOP as a whole should have completely imploded. What we are seeing from MSM (yes, including FOX, OAN, et al) and current polling outlets is that they are obsolete and in there death throes. The run for president became a sprint.
A multinational, black woman married to a white, Jewish divorcee with kids is exactly what I expected from the nation's first Gen X president. I expected nothing less from a generation that impacted culture, entertainment, tech, et al like ours. Now, people are seeing how we are changing elections and politics. The nation is just beginning to witness what happens when the "Ignored Generation" takes the wheel. We won't be in charge long. There aren't that many of us. But know this...
We came here to chew gum and kick ass. We have just run out of gum.
-res ipsa loquitur
wormil@reddit
I'm losing my best friend to politics. We've been best friends for over 50 years and have often had differences of opinion, but we talked it out, and sometimes he changed my mind, and sometimes I changed his. I like to believe we were positive influences for one another. In recent years he's become addicted to politics and about 8 months ago his politics suddenly did a 180, about the time he started listening to a certain very popular podcaster, you can guess which one (I'm not bashing the dude, it's just what happened). Such a sudden shift was weird, but he also became haughty and condescending if I challenge or disagree with him. He started using phrases like, "you've drank the kool-aid," and throwing everything I say back at me, instead of talking it out like we have for decades. I tried to have a discussion about it, but he hurls insults, and he's never been like that. I got mad and told him off, hoping it might shake him out of it, but he seemed to enjoy it. I tried to explain it's his behavior that is the problem but he redirects that into an argument about this conspiracy nonsense. I've given him reputable sources as counterpoints to his conspiracy and alternate history nonsense but he ignores them. He's not getting along with his family either. Out of the blue, he started in on me the other night and I told I won't talk to him and stopped responding. It's very sad. I've seen this happen to men in my parent's generation, and I'm afraid there is nothing to be done.