Any waiter who agrees to work for Donald Trump is a dumb waiter.
Any job would be better. Even installing tiny elevators for food and such, in people’s houses.
I would think that it was likely faked if they had indeed spelled it that way, but the chyron spelled Hitler’s first name correctly (Adolf Hitler), so no reason to suspect fakery on that account.
And the arugula, dude, the arugula! O Og, what have we unleashed upon ourselves?!
I came here six hours ago to post the following, and just getting to it now after catching up on all the Trumpy threads here:
I think this is worth noting here: Peter Greenberger, former director of political advertising at Google and Twitter, now thinks Trump should be muzzled on Twitter and Facebook, because he is being just too destructive.
On behalf of Joe Biden, I approve this message.
“If Crazy Joe becomes president, it’s not even conceivable,” he told a rally crowd in Janesville, Wis., over the weekend. “Running against him, it puts such pressure because I’m running against the worst in the history,” he said.
“If I lose, I will have lost to the worst candidate, the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. If I lose, what do I do? I’d rather run against somebody who’s extraordinarily talented, at least, this way I can go and lead my life.”
I chortled when I read this, a genuine chortle. Look, I know he’s trying to keep on the narrative of being cheated out of the election, but if you take just one moment to consider this quote on its own merits, it’s doing such a wonderful job of setting up an election loss to “the worst candidate”. It’s so wonderfully selling himself short. It’s so good.
As a Canadian I am absolutely boggled at those sorts of lines. I don’t think I’ve ever had to wait more than 15 or 20 minutes to vote.
What you folks have to put up with is so bloody sad.
America would really benefit from Elections Canada. It is bizarre to me that the parties are trusted to be honest in minding the election. Can we send Elections Canada folks down to the states to run things, sorta like UN Peacekeepers?
Here too
Saturday was our last day of voting (polls were open for something like 3 weeks?)
Voted at a school about 400 meters from our house,
no queue, took about 2 minutes for me to be checked and have the ballot paper explained (we had elections and two referenda to vote on)
Went behind the screen, marked my ballot and out again.
I don’t get how voting can take 9 hours for some - that just seems like an epic fail
Yep. Same when I lived in Australia, a country where voting is compulsory and where you can therefore expect pretty close to 100 percent turnout. I think that maybe 10 minutes was the longest I ever waited. The US is lucky to break 60 percent turnout, and people wait for hours on end.
I’ve lived for extended periods in four English-speaking democracies (US, UK, Canada, and Australia). I’ve lived in all of those places except the UK under liberal governments and conservative governments, and I’ve known people in all of those countries with liberal politics and conservative politics. The United States is the only place I’ve lived where voting is often difficult, and it’s the only place with a significant constituency actively trying to make voting more difficult. It’s pretty fucking sad.
You’ve missed that one of our parties does not want people - well, to be fair, certain people - to vote?
The long wait is a feature not a bug for them.
It’s intentional.
And it’s a fairly recent development. I’ve never had to wait in line to vote (and I’ve been voting since McGovern), but I live in a state where the state government is not engaged in suppression.
I’ve had to wait in line to vote once – the first time I ever voted. It was the 1984 general election, and I was living in a dorm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our polling place was in the basement of one of the dorm cafeterias; my roommate and I got into line to vote after dinner (so, sometime around 6pm). The polls closed at 8, but as 8pm approached, we weren’t even inside the building yet. A poll worker came through the line, and let us know that, as long as we were in line before 8, we had the right to vote. We finally voted around 8:30, so that was 2 1/2 hours in line, but I think it was a matter of them not expecting as many students to vote as actually did.
Other than that experience, I have never had to wait for more than 5 minutes to vote; but, like you, I’ve never lived in a state or an area where there were attempts being made at voter suppression.
Same here - I think the absolute longest I’ve ever waited was 15 minutes, if that much. But, again, not in an area of heavy voter suppression.
My state has gradually imposed greater ID requirements, which is a burden to some but not in my particular case. If you can cross that hurdle you’re good.
Except for early voting there have been some multi-hour lines this time around, especially at first, but that’s because they set up sites based on prior election use, which was sparse. They have since opened and expanded the hours for these sites so waiting times have dropped significantly over the last week.
Trump’s people have apparently been burning through his campaign war chest way too fast and stupidly.
I’ll bet the monkeys would prefer the flamethrowers to those damned typewriters people keep trying to get them to use.
I’ll bet Trump is most pissed about the fact there won’t be anything for him to steal after the election.
I commented a few weeks ago – when the founders of We Build the Wall were getting indicted for fraud – how frequently Republican donations seem to stick to the fingers of the organizers.
Nothing new here.
In other words, the loot-and-pillage the country and government crowd have also looted and pillaged Trump’s war chest. This is surprising because…? Not.
My favorite part of the campaign spending story was it buying $1.5 million worth of television advertising in the District of Columbia. Just so a certain individual would see the ads and be cheered up.