I know you are all stressed out, but you should be like Steve:
It’s Tuesday night, so it is game night for me and my World of Warcraft Dorks, and I won’t even be able to check the news until 11pm or so. And that’s ok.
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lahke
Is this a recent picture? I thought you had him shaved down. Or was it just the eradication of selected matted bits?
Either way, he seems to have forgiven you.
sab
I was wrong about where step-daughter voted. She voted down her street at the public library. Her eight year old daughter went along and was thrilled. She got to check out books and take them home! Her public school won’t let her take them home.
They have been living there a year. Her mom should have already taken her there.
Spanky
I spent the day prepping and priming a stretch of siding. I’m too old for this shit, but the day flew by and I’ll probably sleep like a rock. And the wall looks much better.
anon
@sab:
MisterDancer
Tired, Boss. The election is on top of…a few things, as I discussed with my Therapist. :|
But as I wrote this AM, we just keep holdin’ up!
twbrandt (formerly tom)
I am avoiding the news and concentrating on the things that make life worth living.
sab
Our Mouf, who looks like a small Steve, coughed up a couple of hairballs on my comforter last night, right next to my face. His first and last night in bed with me.
sab
@anon: Nope. Afraid they will never see them again.
MomSense
Not sure how this happened but next couple hours will be spent with spreadsheets cell phones and coffee. There’s a group of us because there are a lot of towns in this state. Holy hell.
Anonymous At Work
Waiting for Adam’s nightly Ukraine recap and then lights out for 24-48 hours. It helps that I am in South Florida, so the light being out might not be an option…
zhena gogolia
@MomSense: I was just nice to the lady who called us here in CT. Assured her we voted for her candidate and we hope she wins.
sab
Isn’t Kornacki a verb now? That makes me chuckle evilly.
eachother
@anon:
My HS library had you put your books on a table. They did not allow homework to be done in the library??? True. And as irrational as memorizing the periodic element chart requirement in chemistry. Same HS.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
Gotta love the vols who chase down every vote.
zhena gogolia
@MomSense: Her opponent sent flyers with pictures of white women in danger (strangers’ hands over their mouths, etc.). What that has to do with being a state senator, I’m not sure. But he’s a former cop! So vote for him to be safe!
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
OH MY! Former cop isn’t going to do a damn thing about crime. I wish journalists would learn to ask follow up questions.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
Just got home from having the doc look at my knee (inflammation + pain + insomnia + heating pad = 2nd degree burn, yay!)
Going to find something to watch other than news.
trollhattan
@lahke: One of Cole’s fingers is in that bed, under Steve.
Seems fair, when you think about it.
Raven
EMERGENCY!!!!!!!Send me money!!!!!!
Dangerman
I think I have had 3 naps. Raining in SoCal.
Anyone have a list of poll closings and races that might get called at those times? I’m assuming the interesting races are gonna be to close to call so maybe closing times won’t matter much. Still, there are always some surprises. I recall being shocked when Cantor (sp?) got beat.
eclare
@MomSense: I was rant-texting to a friend earlier today about how reporters don’t ask follow up questions! It is infuriating!
Ivan X
I voted in person and everything, and it felt pretty good. Polling place was pretty deserted, but perhaps to be expected mid-day on the working class side of a small city in the pouring rain. I was ultra lazy this year, I just used a flyer that the Santa Barbara Democratic Party stuck in my door (thank you, canvasser!) to tell me who to vote for. Unfortunately they didn’t include judges so I left those blank, which made me feel like I hadn’t really done my citizen job, but, frankly, I felt better about potentially witholding my vote from a good and fair judge than potentially giving one to a wackazoid nutjob. Which, unfortunately, seems to be the choice these days. I thanked the poll workers for volunteering and I said a couple of silent fuck you’s to various Republicans as I circled in the other bubble. I’m wearing my I VOTED sticker even though I’m at home and not going anywhere. God bless America.
sab
Cleveland is now debating whether to use stimulus money to refurbish or to demolish old houses. Average cost is $50,000 v $10,000.
This doesn’t seem like a fair contrast. $ 50,000 to refurbish, and you have a refurbished house. $10,000 to demolish and you have a vacant lot. One of these things is not like the other. House v vacant lot. And the debate is all 50 k v 10 k. To me it’s house v lot. What does it cost to build a new house in Cleveland (100k or more? ) and will it ever happen? Or just a bunch of vacant lots.
So maybe the issue is whether to fix up current housing stock, or flatten much of your city. Didn’t Detroit try that?
Ohio Mom
I woke up today convinced I was on the downside of my case of Covid (ending day 3 tonight) but by noon I was tuckered out. So I lied in bed and doom scrolled inbetween looking at decorating sites. Wasn’t the best use of my time.
wmd
@MomSense: I posted in the previous thread – just finished GoTV calls to people that had said they’d remind 3 friends to vote. Over 35 of the people had confirmed that their friends had voted, 8 had done additional Get Out the Vote work including walking neighborhoods. One person said she’d sent 500 spanish language postcards to latino voters in Colorado.
Very uplifting shift. Getting to tell people their efforts make a difference and is appreciated feels really good.
Tom Levenson
I’m completely a wreck. Overdetermined as to cause, but the election is making me even more mental than usual.
Trying to lose myself in mindless TV.
Not working that well so far.
My parents lived through worse, and got through to better. That’s what I’m hanging my hat on.
sab
@Ohio Mom: Bed rest when you are ill is almost always the best use of your time.
Ivan X
@Ohio Mom: Awww. Feel better. We love you here.
ETA: Have some chicken soup like my bubbe would have wanted.
Baud
@Tom Levenson:
I always feel guilty and ashamed for being anxious.
sab
@eachother: My former HS punished us if we wanted to study instead of going to the pep rallies.
zhena gogolia
@Ohio Mom: I hope you feel better soon. The people I know who’ve had it recently say the fatigue hangs on for a while.
Jerzy Russian
@Ivan X: For the state-wide judges (in California), I think Newsom nominated or appointed nearly all of them, so I voted yes for those.
eachother
Earlier thread.
Tony Jay taking what you say about the election with me tonight.
one more Sign outing in support of a really good person.
Then a celebration of effort and accomplishment at Dem headquarters later.
Spanky
@Raven: I assume that’s a reference to the same texts I’m getting. Or is there a real problem?
Tim C.
You are doing some A+ modeling tonight John.
Also, Shadowlands was a poop-show, Hoping Dragonflight is better.
brendancalling
Eating pho for good luck, going on a sort of date after?
Scheduling has been a real bitch. She’s an artist and has been in the middle of an installation so it’s been really hard to nail down a time.
As for the election? I did my part. No matter what happens, I didn’t sit on the sidelines or do just the bare minimum of voting. So let’s see.
Back to my pho, which I’m eating for luck.
eclare
@Ohio Mom: Just take care of yourself and don’t feel guilty about resting.
geg6
@Tom Levenson:
This is me. Super stressful time IRL plus this damn election has me a mess. My plan is mindless tv tonight on HGTV. It’s Good Bones night and I really enjoy the Two Chicks and a Hammer crew. Currently watching the Antiques Roadshow I recorded last night. Love the Kino brothers.
Sister Golden Bear
I’m a wreck, not only about the election — I terrified about it may mean for queer and trans people in some states — but I’m also waiting to hear about a potential job offer.
I got laid off three months ago, and tech hiring can take a long time. If this one doesn’t come through, given the holiday hiring slowdown it may be January before picks up again, and the market is gonna be flooded between the Twitter and (upcoming) Facebook layoffs. Thankfully, I’ve got retirement savings to dig into, but that’s a bit of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Isua
I’m not letting myself read the news, I had a mouthful of tequila, and I’m skipping cub scouts since I’m probably coming down with something. I’m gonna read fanfic and a book my husband gave me about geology, and pat the dog, and I cleaned the guinea pig cage. I sent twenty bucks to Four Directions earlier, and have donated at many of the matched drives. (Thank you to WaterGirl for organizing so much!) I am telling myself I did what I personally can do. My two local “I’m a republican bc my dad was” people are voting for Warnock because even they recognize that Walker is a disaster. I will hope they help. And I’m getting more tequila.
Baud
@Sister Golden Bear:
Double 🤞 for you.
Avalune
I’m watching coverage because I apparently hate myself but I’m about to hit the mute button and read and/or play some Harvestella or some such.
Dan B
@Tom Levenson: My mother graduated to the Great Depression. My father started college during the Depression. He avoided the draft in WWII because of an open draining sinus infection due to the Spanish Flu – open infection for 40 years. They lived through tough times. I lived through the rabidly anti-gay 50’s and 60’s and then AIDS. But this election has terrible portent. But I believe the right has overplayed their hand.
rikyrah
Steve is an entire mood. :)
Steeplejack
Got home a while ago after a grand afternoon out doing errands and finishing up with margs and nachos at a Mexican restaurant. I’m reading in bed now and thinking about a bit of a doze until later in the evening. Might be able to handle the MSNBC crowd when things are a bit clearer.
thruppence
Stress napping much of the day, maybe I’ll watch something much more peaceful and relaxing than this election, like The Northman.
twbrandt (formerly tom)
@Sister Golden Bear: I hope the offer comes through!
SuzieC
Record breaking turnout in Columbus/Franklin Co., a blue colossus in Ohio.
eclare
@Sister Golden Bear: Best of luck with the potential job! That and the election are a lot of stress.
Shana
15 minutes until my polling place closes. I opened at 6 was here from 11-3 and now from 6 to closing. More D voters than last year I think. Fwiw
Tazj
I will probably spend time bouncing around the tv channels, watching the hockey game, HGTV, Hallmark and whatever else can distract me. I’ll have to go pick my son up from practice later and I have dishes and laundry to do.
I’ll also keep repeating to myself that I can’t control what happens and don’t need to be stressed out. This is the first day I’ve felt like myself since I had surgery last week.
BC in Illinois
I am spending the day avoiding the news. I’ll tune in about 10 pm Central Time and see where I want to go from there.
My way of keeping myself away from the news this morning was to look at a class paper for a local Ethiopian seminary graduate student. English is his fourth or fifth language. His papers don’t need much in the way of copy editing. I just smooth out the subject-verb agreements, insert “the” and take out “the” [e.g., “the humankind”] as English requires – – that sort of thing. His wife finished her MA a year or so ago. He has a year to go on his PhD. It’s fascinating stuff to work with. I’m learning more and more about the history and mission of the Ethiopian Lutheran Church. So that took my mind off of anything else, which was good.
I don’t know how much I will watch tonight, or even how often I will check in on liveblogs or Twitter. I just want to know how things work out. (But I also want to know if violence breaks out.) If it takes a few days to sort out, that’s too bad, but I can live with it. I just dread finding out how the organized newspeople will cover it.
What I want is a live blog by Wonkette and Alexandra Petri.
Dan B
@Sister Golden Bear: May we dodge the worst.
BTW did you notice that Musk is reinstating several transphobes, homophobes, and a guy who goes beyond misogyny. He says women are the source of all evil.
Ohio Mom
@Ivan X: We had homemade chicken soup for lunch! Ohio Dad doctored up some frozen stock that had been buried in the freezer. Did it help, well it didn’t hurt.
@sab: I meant doom scrolling was not a good use of my time. Lounging in bed, that’s one step away from napping, which is always good.
And also, I thought Cleveland was smarter than tearing down old houses that could be saved (some might be beyond help but not most I bet).
Cincinnati has had several programs to rehab abandoned old houses, the current incarnation is run by the quasi governmental Port Authority.
Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be an established homeowner in a working class neighborhood where the Port is trying to raise property values in a rehabbing blitz. Nobody wants to live among abandoned buildings but I don’t know how they like the prospect of their neighborhood gentrifying around them either.
i suspect a lot of housing issues could be improved with better housing g laws and programs out of Columbus, hahaha. Like that’s going to happen.
Steeplejack
@sab:
A great show on HGTV is Bargain Block, where two guys buy crap houses in Detroit l and renovate them for eventual sale around $100K. Exactly the situation you’re talking about.
Baud
I will sign off shortly until tomorrow. Good luck to us.
HeleninEire
Damn. I was planning on bingeing The Crown to distract myself but it doesn’t start until tomorrow.
tobie
Cheri Beasley came to my phonebank and she was cheerful, so I’m resolved to be in a good mood.
Planetjanet
I am standing at the poll handing out sample ballots. The mood is good and turnout is great.
Layer8Problem
@Baud: Good night and good luck.
JPL
@HeleninEire: Annika is really good. It’s on PBS which you can watch on Passport. Since I do Amazon Prime days I had enough points to finish the series.
Eyeroller
My first election night alone for nearly three decades. Nevada not looking good according to latest I saw from Ralston, who was so positive earlier for the Senate. (A relative lives in Henderson.) Very poor turnout in Clark County today. Depressing. Other races may be more positive. I am an older white woman and will probably not be affected personally by the results, but I would like to think I care about the impact on others. Environmental policy, my main concern, may be somewhat irrelevant since “Nature bats last.”
My late husband used to “console” me by pointing out that (complex) life on earth has maybe 500 million or so years left.
RaflW
Still fielding the occasional text question from Delaware County, PA. But as we get down to just over an hour till the lines get ‘sealed’ (or whatever they do at 8pm), I think the textbanking is about done.
Having that to do today (and texting other states last Thurs thru Sun) helped me manage election anxiety.
Thinking now of getting off the couch to cook dinner. Curry chicken, rice and broccoli. But the curry will be the easy way, Costco heat-n-eat, and ‘pasta method’ brown rice, my go to when away from my Zojiruhsi.
WaterGirl
@Raven: What’s that about?
Steeplejack
@thruppence:
A friend just watched that and said it is very good.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
I’m feeling better now that the hookers and blow have arrived
suzanne
Hot yoga starts in four minutes, and ends when the polls close.
JPL
@Eyeroller: Fingers crossed though. It’s still early.
Skepticat
I knew I’d be stressed by the election, but now I’m watching yet another hurricane draw a bead on my island in The Bahamas—just as I began to make arrangements to start rebuilding after Dorian. At my age and with our new normal weather, that might not be one of my better decisions. It kind of looks as though tomorrow is going to be an especially miserable day on more than one front. However, I’ll be having lunch with a longtime friend who last Friday drove himself to the hospital while he had a heart rate of 20 and now has a pacemaker and a real, actual pulse. It’s good he had the procedure before the election; I may need one after. Cross your paws, y’all.
sab
@Eyeroller: Are you in Clark County? I used to live there 20 years ago.
Dan B
@Ohio Mom: I was in architecture at UC and spent time sketching old buildings and amazing old houses around Cincinnati. It was the third biggest city in America in 1850 so there is a lot from the Hog Butcher to the World money. Many of the great homes were abandoned then. Sad. There are some here in Seattle and almost all are now multi million dollar homes now. Different trajectories for different regions.
Miki
Holding up ok, considering. Alexa is playing WBGO (highly recommended jazz station out of Newark). Gonna cook up some air fryer mushrooms and crinkle fries (not together) to munch on for supper – go ahead and judge. The libations are limited to an ok sav Blanc from a box tonight – I’ll crack open a nice red late tomorrow if there’s a reason (which there will be, somewhere).
In between watching Season 7 of Shetland I’m going to draft an announcement? request? invitation? to be sent to my circle of friends asking for contributions to a Go Fund Me for my niece. She was helping her Dad cut down a tree and fell 25+ feet and broke her back and is now paralyzed from T10 down (paraplegic). She’s a single mom with 3 kids, top-of-her-class diesel mechanic who had a great job working for John Deere which, obviously, she can’t do now. Lots of changes for this strong lady …. Kind of gives me some perspective.
Last night was the political stress night for me (ending DST doesn’t help). Haven’t uselessly tossed and turned from that much anxiety for a very long time. I usually turn on The BBC Through The Night to put me back to sleep but not tonight. WBGO is my bed buddy tonight.
Thanks to all who can stay plugged in tonight. I’ll be reading your stuff tomorrow.
Ohio Mom
@sab: As long as you are here, next next week there is a great online autism conference out of OCALI in Columbus (Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence disability, IIRC, it’s one of those acronyms no one remembers what it stands for).
It’s online and on-demand — you can watch in real time or up to weeks later at your convenience. Only $50 and there are sessions on all ages and topics — behavior, long term financial planning, IEPs, the works.
Here’s a link to their impossibly organized website: https://conference.ocali.org/session-sorter
MisterDancer
@Baud: Same here — I just grabbed a bunch of fun-looking fanfics to load on my ereader. I will soon turn off everything Internet-bound until early tomorrow AM.
No matter what the vote is, I shall still rise upon the morrow.
eclare
@Miki: OMG I am so sorry for your niece.
Eyeroller
@sab: i’m on the the other side of the country in Virginia (very close to Geminid), but I have a relative who lives in Henderson.
JaySinWA
@sab:
Famous lost words. (sic)
rikyrah
@Sister Golden Bear:
Crossing fingers for you :)
Brachiator
I see that I have to turn off news notifications. Various services insist of giving me hints and last minute poll results.
Back to a few podcasts. And if I am still up later I may try to catch the early stream of Andor on Disney Plus. Good stuff.
artem1s
@Ohio Mom:
yea, you’d probably lose that bet. Cleveland was a bell weather for the 2008 housing crash. The flippers started here back as early as 2001. They would buy up vacant and abandoned houses from the city’s landbank, and then refinance them over and over again thru the quicky loan places and then they defaulted on the loans. None of the money went into fixing up the houses. The county still has thousands of houses in the landbank from that crash.
It’s already started again. There are consortiums of out of state buyers who own hundreds of houses in the city that they got cheap after the last crash. The one next door, the out of state owner has re-financed it at least twice. The last time for 45K more – the money isn’t going into that house, that’s for sure. The flippers have been doing this all over the city – the consortium members are selling them to each other for inflated amounts. Once they sell all the fines and delinquent taxes go away and they start all over again. Some of them they don’t ever care if they collect rent – the one next door has been half vacant for most of the time they’ve owned it. In a year or two they’ll walk away and the city will have to deal with all of them again. Unless the rehab program is tightly administered (it won’t be) and only available to owner occupied (probably not) I would bet most of the houses will be back in the land bank by 2026.
Also $50K will hardly make a dent in what has to happen to make these houses livable. That will barely cover a new roof and make sure the thing isn’t going to fall down or worse, spontaneously combust from old wiring.
Ruckus
@Tom Levenson:
I am old enough that the only common vaccine available was smallpox. I know 4 people who had polio, 2 of them friends moms, both had iron lungs in their front rooms, (they could get through the front doors but could not go down the hall and turn into a bedroom). One was a girl in my class, the 4th is a current neighbor my age who grew up in a neighboring town. Four people within a 5 mile range, and those were just the ones I know of.
We all had all the other childhood diseases, chicken pox, measles, rubella, hell, here’s a list: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/forgot-14-diseases.html
OK, just got an emergency warning on my phone, we are subject to flash flooding in this area. It is raining reasonably hard and we haven’t seen rain in months, they are expecting an inch tonight, snow down to 4000 ft. I haven’t seen rain like this in LA in decades. The street in front of my house has water almost half way across. The last time I’ve seen rain like this in LA was in 1968 which is the last time I saw the LA river absolutely full. And this is just in a few minutes. I’ve been in storms in the middle of the Atlantic with 45-50 foot seas and it didn’t rain this hard.
HeleninEire
@JPL: I turned on HGTV. I’ll go back and forth between that and Food Network.
geg6
@Steeplejack:
I love that show! One of the best on the channel. I loved the early episodes where they lived in each house as they renovated, moving their stuff from house to house in an old shopping cart. I’m glad they finally bought a house for themselves though.
Miki
@eclare: Thank you. This woman has worked really hard to get her life together for her kids and herself and really made it happen. She has a good support system and has a stellar attitude but she’s not super woman. She set a goal for herself to be home from the rehab hospital in time to get her house in order for everyone’s favorite holiday, Halloween – and she did it! Next up is getting ready to get certified to use hand controls in a car so she can continue her independence. She wants to go back to some sort of work ASAP.
Geminid
@Eyeroller: Nice moon tonight, huh?
(Waving from Amicus, on the ridge between Swift Run and the Yoga studio)
gene108
@Miki:
If you want to blow your fundraising goals out of the water, have a front pager link to the GoFundMe page for her in a post.
Brachiator
I think that reporting polling results should be banned a week before national elections and no winner projections should be made before polls close on the West Coast.
And voting day should be a national holiday.
Ksmiami
@Dan B: glad I left Twitter- they can enjoy their sausage party circle jerk.
RaflW
@gene108: I’d chip in
@Miki: My thoughts go to you and your niece. And I don’t have to wait for the amazing WG to post to add my gift.
Delk
headline in today’s Chicago Sun Times :
Before realizing the red glow was his neighbor’s house on fire, Logan Square man thought “oh blood moon. Cool. ‘
Geminid
@Brachiator: Israeli election law prohibits publishing polls during the last 3 days before an election. Also, there’s no campaigning allowed the day before the election.
I guess the 1st amendment would prevent such strictures here.
Miki
@gene108: ❤️
Miki
@RaflW: ❤️. We’re still putting it together, but I’ll let you know when we are ready to lift off.
eclare
@Miki: Your niece sounds amazing, and there have been many quality of life improvements for disabled people in the past few decades. But it still must be such a shock. May she continue to rock on.
Skepticat
@Brachiator:
YES!
eclare
@Brachiator: Yes to all.
sab
@Ohio Mom: Thank you!
PaulWartenberg
I’m focusing on NaNoWriMo writing and prepping for the incoming hurricane. Damn you, Climate Change.
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
@Spanky:
As far as I can remember, this is the first year that Dem candidates have continued pleading for money up to the moment the polls closed. I guess they must get a good enough response that it’s worth their while, but it’s royally pissing me off. Looking forward to tomorrow’s marathon of deleting emails.
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
Absolutely.
Miki
@eclare: She really is amazing! And an incredible mom as well.
sab
@Ohio Mom: Cleveland was worse. They were penalizing people trying to rehab. My stepdaughter and her husband bought a property at a tax auction. It was their home. And the city fined them for every boarded up window, etc, which sucked away money they were planning to use to buy new windows.
The city was trying to grow a landbank for development by ripping off their poorer residents. The whole program was vile. Why sell properties at auction if the city wants them for its own plans.
I hate former Mayor Jackson and his crew.
Barbara
@sab: State law makes a big difference. The fallout from predatory lending varied wildly based on State disclosure and lending regulations. Ohio was one of the worst.
Ohio Mom
@sab: I am going through the schedule very slowly. This session I think has your name on it:
Disability and Special Needs Planning Made Easy
Join us for an educational workshop for family members with loved ones of all ages with Autism or any other physical/cognitive disabilities/special needs. Topics covered in this workshop include guardianship and alternatives, wills, family trusts, special needs trusts, SSI, SSDI, Social Security retirement/survivor benefits, Medicaid/Medicare, ABLE accounts, budget planning, and lifestyle planning. This workshop will explain why these planning aspects are important to address and are designed to protect yourself, your family and/or your loved one’s current and future care and quality of life.
Because that is what you are going to end up being in charge of, given your skill set. Some of it you will need to know later but always a good time to get your feet wet.
sab
@Barbara: The predatory lenders bought the governor ( St. George Voinovich) and the legislature. Voinovich presided over the destruction of his own neighborhood ( Slavic Village.) But he got rich and retired to DC lobbying, so it was all good.
Cleveland tried to stop it with local government, but St George and the state legislature overrode them.
The Up and Up
The feline overload here is sleeping soundly on the couch also. In an odd looking position but they are snoring away contently. Is it ever okay to wake up a kitty? Most of the time no. Unless there is a fire … or bacon.
sab
@Ohio Mom: Again, Thank you!
eclare
@The Up and Up: For the number of times my cats have awakened me, it is always OK to wake up a kitty.
Kristine
@Sister Golden Bear: Best of luck! 🤞🍀
Ivan X
I think I’m gonna watch a chainsaw slasher movie to chill out.
Lyrebird
@Anonymous At Work: Here I was going to grumble that I may need to continue to boycott Florida, but since I have relations living there, that might not be an option…
Really not sure what to do.
Lyrebird
@Sister Golden Bear: GO GO!
I hope they pick you and that it’s a great job!
Kristine
@Brachiator:
Loving Andor. Definitely one of my favorite Star Wars stories.
Skepticat
Well, at least a longtime good friend just was elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. Remember the name Kim Driscoll; I hope you”ll be hearing it more before too long.
Chris Johnson
Wild watching this unfold from the earliest moments: the fascists are going NUTS trying to claim total victory before anything is known. Definitely preparing to unleash terrorism in the event of, y’know, actual votes being counted and them losing anywhere. Frustrating and predictable and daunting and pathetic and scary all at the same time.
I don’t believe for a second that their crying victory means a god-damned thing knowing that this is their tactic on several fronts: one, to do it just on general principles, and two, because Russia needs them to actually believe it and then get slammed to the ground and crushed.
That would be what Russia needs out of this: if they can’t actually pull off their ‘red wave’ (maybe in literal Florida they can in a real sense?) they have to be led to believe they are, and then have it yanked brutally away from them. To fuel their violence. So buckle up, everybody.
Yuck. Another ugly day of freedom.
StringOnAStick
Heading out to the weekly ukulele players group, that should take the rest of the evening. I’m feeling peaceful; I did more and contributed way, way more than I ever have before. I did my part.
danielx
Voted. Came home and took a nap, just woke up. That’s all I got.