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trenchfoot

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Here's a pretty good read on the integrity of our vote counting and certification processes along with the preparations being made to mitigate the efforts by Trump and the Republican party to cast suspicion and doubt on the processes by which we choose our leaders.

 
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iRONic

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I just emailed that to myself, thanks. We are headed out to a Little Feat concert in about an hour but I'm gonna take that bad bitch tomorrow.
Replying to the idiot: Goddamnit! I missed three, deport my ass.
 

iRONic

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Where? Damn, I just recently saw a PBS concert of them. I would have loved to see them live. The Waiting For Columbus album is an excellent live concert recording.

Wanita, my sweet casita what are you up tooooo....

My mom and her ex-husband went and saw Little Feat and Melissa Ethridge back in 1989.

Had no idea they were still a going concern!
They've been touring constantly for over four decades. Only three original members are still alive though but they do a damn good job playing all their well-known songs.

They were at The Palace in Louisville last night. A smaller theater that holds about 25 hundred people.

I saw them three times back in the 80s also. They're pretty much a niche band now. If you know them and they come to your area you'll go see them!
 

DarthKyrie

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They've been touring constantly for over four decades. Only three original members are still alive though but they do a damn good job playing all their well-known songs.

They were at The Palace in Louisville last night. A smaller theater that holds about 25 hundred people.

I saw them three times back in the 80s also. They're pretty much a niche band now. If you know them and they come to your area you'll go see them!
I would like to see them; I enjoyed their music as a kid.
 

Indus

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I turn fifty in a little over a month, so you're not that old.

I'm just behind you.

BTW if you ever feel old.. go to an overseas resort like Cebu or Bali.. for 2 weeks everyday you can have 20 year olds on your arm and still have the time of your life and still have money to spare. And it'll make you wonder.. why you even waste your life in a shithole like America!

One piece of advice if you do take my advice to go overseas: always RENT, never BUY!
 
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manly

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What happens if Trump wins? Will the left start rioting like we did see with BLM protests in 2020? One of the possible outcomes is Trump getting the EC votes to become the 47th President of the US. Not happy about it, but I have to be realistic at this point. I though Harris would be building a bigger lead by now and that isn't happening. The polls could be BS but I hate to depend on that. Everyone has been building Trump up as a Fascist dictator and the end of US democracy if he is elected. Some of the same language is being used by the other side if Harris wins. Is violent resistance justified if Trump wins? Or if the Democrats lose in 2024 do they focus on 2026 and 2028?

Trump Takes Narrow Lead Over Harris in Closing Weeks of Race
I can only speak for myself, but I'm not planning on becoming an insurrectionist. Most people just aren't violent, "blow it all up" types.
 

nakedfrog

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Bruh, I’m 66. And I say this with all seriousness, I must've been one of the youngest motherfuckers at that show last night. I turned to my wife and commented about it… she laughed. “Yeah, you ARE an old fuck.”
The only reason I know of Little Feat is because I jammed with boomers for the better part of a decade 👀
Three of them have since passed...
I can only speak for myself, but I'm not planning on becoming an insurrectionist. Most people just aren't violent, "blow it all up" types.
I wouldn't anticipate a violent response if Trump wins through legitimate means (IE, clear victory through the EC). If it's awarded to him by SCOTUS or other monkey business... it gets murkier. But in all, it would probably depend on how things play out, if he actually deploys the NG, etc.
 

hal2kilo

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Bruh, I’m 66. And I say this with all seriousness, I must've been one of the youngest motherfuckers at that show last night. I turned to my wife and commented about it… she laughed. “Yeah, you ARE an old fuck.”
I'm 70 so I probably would fit right in.
 
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iRONic

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Do you have long white hair in a ponytail and wear tie-dye? Hell, we're so far off topic now here's the set list from last night. Pretty much the Waiting For Columbus album:

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hal2kilo

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Do you have long white hair in a ponytail and wear tie-dye? Hell, we're so far off topic now here's the set list from last night. Pretty much the Waiting For Columbus album:

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No. During the pandemic I grew my hair back out, ponytail, bald head and all, but I couldn't stand all the maintenance, Back to number 2 all over.
 

DarthKyrie

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No. During the pandemic I grew my hair back out, ponytail, bald head and all, but I couldn't stand all the maintenance, Back to number 2 all over.

I've been rockin a ponytail for the past 12 years or so after having had a shaved head since I was 13, I have gotten sick of the maintenance myself.
 
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MtnMan

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I like to think that given the outright attack on anyone that is not white, male, straight, and evangelical by Trump and MAGA can only ensure Trump's defeat at the polls. He knows it, MAGA knows it, and it is going to get real ugly, real fast next week. I feel pretty confident on how people will actually vote, and how Trump and MAGA will react.

It's not a political party where the losers say, "well fuck" and go on with their lives. It is a cult, and there is no other way to frame it. And within that cult are even more extreme cults like the 3%'ers.

 
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Moonbeam

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I'm 70 so I probably would fit right in.
Wow, you strike me as one of those old people who has actually grown wise maybe in part because of age rather than like so many who claim not to have been born yesterday but act more like they were born today.
 

DarthKyrie

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I like to think that given the outright attack on anyone that is not white, male, straight, and evangelical by Trump and MAGA can only ensure Trump's defeat at the polls. He knows it, MAGA knows it, and it is going to get real ugly, real fast next week. I feel pretty confident on how people will actually vote, and how Trump and MAGA will react.

It's not a political party where the losers say, "well fuck" and go on with their lives. It is a cult, and there is no other way to frame it. And within that cult are even more extreme cults like the 3%'ers.

My neighbor is 1 of those people who is talking about getting violent if Rump isn't elected. The latest polling out of New Hampshire has Harris ahead here but he will insist that Rump was cheated.
 
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Moonbeam

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I wanted to say that while I grew up programmed like the best of us to catastrophize about the future that anything good that might happen is a foreboder of doom, I still can't bring myself to panic over a Trump win because if he can't outright win a second time after being cheated once, he was just born to lose and I only like successul cheaters. If Democrats can cheat and win twice I'm going to support them. Fuck that crybaby basket case.
 

trenchfoot

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My neighbor is 1 of those people who is talking about getting violent if Rump isn't elected. The latest polling out of New Hampshire has Harris ahead here but he will insist that Rump was cheated.

That neighbor is exercising his right to live in an alternate reality where he and Trump have been victimized by illegal immigrants, liberal commies and the ever threatening yet nebulously unexplainable "Establishment" that they keep referring to but cannot provide proof of how it's hurting them, just like how Trump's election got stolen from him based purely on the "feels" that got drilled into their heads by the actual loser who refuses to admit it.

They will deny reality to keep living in a made up hoax world where not only did Trump get robbed, they all got robbed of their inalienable right to be the racist nationalistic throwback anti-constitutional anti-democratic "patriots" that should exclusively be the determinants of our nation's future. It's their nation you see, everyone else is here because we've been given permission by them even though the rest of us aren't "real Americans". They and they alone are the rightful heirs to the riches and benefits everyone else contributed into and that's just the way it's supposed to be.

Or so they say.
 

iRONic

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My neighbor is 1 of those people who is talking about getting violent if Rump isn't elected. The latest polling out of New Hampshire has Harris ahead here but he will insist that Rump was cheated.
Keep you and your fam safe, mang.
 

trenchfoot

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We already know what will happen


Roll over and take it libtards

So with all of that tough talk, I assume that fella is going to be the "tip of the spear, edge of the knife, crack of my ass" leading the assault on the commie liberals at every street corner and alley they can get at. Yeah, sure. Fucking arm chair corporate money donor "revolutionary" leading the charge from behind his desk more likely. Why get his $5k custom made designer suit soiled when he can simply rile up some well propagandized racist patriotic thug militia looking for a cause and a rep to do his wet work.

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Stokely

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Keep you and your fam safe, mang.

yeah, that kind of thing is why my wife doesn't want yard signs, and I won't put bumper stickers on my car.

I'd be careful discussing politics with maga zealots. A lot of these people are literally frothing crazy, and even the fat old ones can carry guns, or take note of where you live. It's not like anything productive can possibly come from any discussion with them. My experience in maga-land has taught me that much. Not a one of them wants a reasonable discussion. They want a clay pigeon they can vent their Fox-induced spleen on. Just stay neutral and far away from them. I do this at all my gigs, our audiences are mostly uneducated white older magas. The ones I talk to (regulars) are nice to me, but they have no clue about my politics and I wouldn't tell them if they asked.

I'm on FB for one thing, my neighborhood's page--it's useful and mostly stays completely away from politics. I'm still careful what I post there, and come to think of it my current avatar would get me marked by a couple of the Trump weirdos here...gonna change it before I post there again, which is rare anyway. One has been flying a black-covered upside down flag since 2020, and has an 8 foot Trump banner in his garage (which he leaves open of course). Fricking loon, and to complete the stereotype he's always out practicing kick boxing and mma in his driveway. Glad he's way around the block.