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Post by surfgirl on Oct 30, 2020 17:40:46 GMT
I am so ashamed of my state I don't even know what to think (other than about moving). The Texas GOP is trying in invalidate ALL ballots cast at the drive through voting sites in Harris county (Houston and surrounding areas). They're also removing the mask mandate at polling sites (voter suppression anyone? Can't vote via drive through, can't vote via mail-in, going to the polls exposes you to covid). It's just sickening. Girl, I cannot fathom how ANYone who says that they cares about their fellow human beings, who claims to be a 'good' follower of any particular group, or who espouses to not be a racist, can condone this blatant attempt to steal an election by supressing the rights of their fellow citizens to vote safely during a global pandemic. It is a travesty. It is criminal. It is evil incarnate. And anyone who supports Trump and his Senate cronies is guilty by association. I was willing, though reluctantly so, to give such citizens a pass for voting for a criminal once, but knowingly to do it again, and to willfully support voter supression and putting their fellow countrymen/women in harms way during a pandemic? I honestly think it's criminal negligence. Such people will meet karma one day, and it will not be pretty. And not for nothing, but all those who show up to the polls unmasked ought to be forced to sign a waiver saying that they waive their right to medical care if they get COVID. You wanted this? Fine. But don't waste the time of our front line emergency workers when you get sick because you wanted to 'take a stand' for some nonsensical BS about 'your right to put others at risk of a deadly disease'.
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Post by DotRen on Oct 30, 2020 20:52:29 GMT
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Post by lani on Oct 30, 2020 21:04:48 GMT
can condone this blatant attempt to steal an election by supressing the rights of their fellow citizens to vote safely during a global pandemic. Blatant is right. Fear and greed can justify anything, apparently. Meanwhile they get their knickers is a twist cause we might add judges to the SCOTUS. Republican state supreme courts have been doing it for years. But, no, it's apples and oranges, don'tcha know. I'm gonna get an ulcer before this is over.
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Post by DotRen on Oct 30, 2020 22:47:55 GMT
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Post by amyrs on Nov 1, 2020 9:37:49 GMT
I can hardly wait for election night November 3 for Arizona and North Carolina
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Post by DotRen on Nov 1, 2020 13:16:47 GMT
amyrs, I'm torn between wanting it to be over and Biden winning, and a genuine fear that he won't
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Post by DotRen on Nov 1, 2020 14:39:40 GMT
Need encouragement to vote?
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Post by lani on Nov 1, 2020 17:00:30 GMT
Waiting to exhale. I'm not sure when we will know how this all plays out.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 1, 2020 17:54:03 GMT
I'm not sure when we will know how this all plays out. Exactly. Even if Biden wins there are going to be lawsuits with Trump trying to push it to the Supreme Court.
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Post by birdgal on Nov 1, 2020 18:22:30 GMT
Is it me? Or, are we one of those spit hole countries now?
If we are who is coming to help us?
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Post by lani on Nov 1, 2020 19:08:16 GMT
birdgal, not yet, but stay tuned...
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Post by surfgirl on Nov 2, 2020 0:58:49 GMT
birdgal , not yet, but stay tuned... No Lani, I'm pretty sure we are already. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I'm probably the most traveled person on this entire forum board with my international work, and I can tell you with absolute certainty, that countries all over the globe are shocked at what's happened to this country. They all looked up to us, and now they see we're no better off than they are because we can also succumb to this sycophantic, racist behavior and thinking, just like so many other countries that 'murica thinks it's better than. Well, we're not better than anyone right now, we're pathetic. And even if Biden wins, the fact that there are so many cult followers of a man who spews hate and race baiting rhetoric on a daily basis, and who degrades women at every opportunity, and who lies/cheats/steals from regular hard working folks - that is a stain on our country that isn't going to go away. It's like post-Nazi Germany, which I still harbor negative feelings about. People in other countries are not going to forget this with a snap of the fingers because there are so many here willing to support hate.
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Post by nov21987 on Nov 2, 2020 2:38:36 GMT
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Post by amyrs on Nov 2, 2020 13:29:15 GMT
I hope Biden can win. It is very close in the states. I hoooe the early states like early states like North Carolina come out for Biden.
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Post by DotRen on Nov 2, 2020 13:31:06 GMT
I caught part of a news story about people never getting their mail-in ballots here in Texas. A lot of people. I still never got mine. Glad we early voted in person.
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