wtf

I still like to say how glad I am to not be living in America but shit is definitely getting weird here too

Lots of Nazis and Slave owners were "nice people". Evil is often banal. Just because some white guy smiles and is polite to customers at work, doesn't mean he wouldn't support Jim Crow, or help put is neighbors on a train car to genocide.

COVID has made leaving the USA nearly impossible.

Good luck out there today people

Big line even in my little neighborhood here today. A bit surprised, most of these are older folks that live around here, figured they’d have done absentee by now

Will have to try again later, didn’t have time to do the line. Wonder if it’ll die down by like middle afternoon that sweetspot b/w lunchour and the rushour

i don't own a vehicle but i'm not too keen on walking lately cause people have been driving all around town shooting pedestrians and bicyclists with paintballs. usually just happens around halloween but it started way earlier this year. my neighbor said they got her and had her crawling away on her knees. tom got got once-he started his phone-call with I GOT SHOT and my heart dropped to my belly button. i've heard some people have been seriously injured from getting hit in the eyes and face and junk. i worry for tommy when he rides his bike.

my worst fear come true. i grew up in a neighborhood with gang violence and i guess i was taught to fear random violence cause i heard stories about gang initiations and whatnot. when i got to be a tween and teen, i would sometimes brace my back to be shot if a vehicle was riding up behind me too fast or too slow.

gonna get some groceries soon (not a doomsday stock-up, but we need bread and junk) from the only store within a mile radius because it got looted when shit when down last time. good thing we can walk down some alleys part of the way.

got a school down the block that's a polling place. interested to see the crowds there as it's never ever crowded during any election.

one should avoid the alleys. they are a trap.

Wait, but you're white

All A are B
Not all B are A

I think you meant to say 'allies'.

just because honksters like m1a0 use 'karen' as insult and anoint themselves as allies (y'all make up your own nicknames, too, amirite?) doesn't mean they wouldn't enthusiastically vote for milquetoast racists and tell marginalized people how they should vote and behave.

yep yep yep

I think it’s actually quite clever how Trump sowed the seeds of doubt prior to the election. If he loses, he can protect his fragile ego by sticking to his claims of election fraud. He will claim to his dying day that he actually won, and that the election was stolen from him. “See! I told you so!”

Do not go gentle into that good night, Donald

can you explain to us all how trans people are not marginalized? I'm sure everyone would like to understand how your behavior happens to intersect so often in here with what I hear transphobes, TERFs and trump supporters say every day.

Days until Republicans start caring about the deficit: 77

Teehee. I was making a corny joke. Wasn't being serious or trying to make a statement.

Glad to have kicked off another yo soy milkshake of arguments, though.

yo soy milkshake

Brings all the roes to the yard.

Trump booked the wrong Four Seasons
https://mobile.twitter.com/_RichardH...773132803?s=19

What if Trump and his appointees refuse to leave office?

Trump's administration is refusing to cooperate with the transition process. Republicans in congress are backing Trump. The electoral college votes on 12/14. I suspect things will start falling apart for Trump after that date. But I'm worried that the Biden team will have no coordination with the outgoing administration prior to Jan 20.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b64c88d40422d1

This is something to be mindful of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector, but is extremely rare in US history. Of course these aren't random events, so the rarity is perhaps irrelevant, but the power required to stage such an event rests largely with state governors as I understand it. None of the governors of the relevant swing states would be on board with such a blatant power grab.

And that's not even getting into the fact that deep down, Democrats and Republicans prioritize propagating the system which keeps them in power while keeping out third parties. The SCOTUS is already signaling that they won't overturn the ACA, because guess what? Without that carrot to dangle in front of their people, attention turns toward the true master, which is the system itself, rather than the Democratic wing of the party. How do you mobilize the base once abortion is banned and the ACA is gone? You know who benefits from the ACA? The health insurance industry. Not to trivialize the 10+ million who gained insurance because of it, but remember that it was modeled after Romneycare, the archetypal vulture capitalist robber barron of Bain Capital. (nice semiotics on that company, JFC)

All of this is to say that such a blatant subversion of the electoral process would shake faith in both D's and R's, and neither side really wants that. Although I'm sure some of the Trump cultists in power truly do want it, and the populist masses disenfranchised by neoliberalism who have been duped by the Trump cult MOST DEFINITELY want it.

The people who are fighting hardest to steal the election via William Barr are essentially carrying out a Hail Mary before Biden's camp gets in and sees where all the bodies are buried. It's not speculative at all to point out that multiple folks at the highest levels of the Trump administration are overtly involved in high crimes which have only avoided prosecution due to the fact that the executive branch enforces laws, and the POTUS is ultimately at the top of that pyramid.

Now this part is speculative, but watch closely for anyone who continues to fight hard for such a steal, as it's a good indicator that they're implicated in some way. Obviously the whole Trump family, Bill Barr, but also Mitch McConnell and his wife had those sweetheart deals in Kentucky (Google it) and has personally benefitted immensely through the Trump admin via means of questionable legality. Lindsay Graham is another. To them that 5% chance of actually pulling off a steal is worth the damage it would cause to the establishment because it means they avoid a lifetime mired in legal battles and possible prison time. They got Capone for tax fraud.

To answer your question, the smoothness of the transition is not of great consequence. The Constitution is quite explicit about the transfer of power, and there's no objective basis for overturning the election. There are other potential Hail Mary plays but all are so brazen and potentially tantamount to treason that their likelihood of occurance seems improbable to me. Again emphasizing that the true masters actually quite enjoy the current system and shaking it up is not in their interests. George W Bush is on board with the Biden camp.

I don't think the faithless electors will be the issue. I think they're going to try to ensure that somehow there won't be enough electors present on 12/14 to give Biden 270 votes. Until a State certifies it's vote, the electors remain unassigned. If either Pennsylvania or Nevada/Arizona certify a Biden win it's all over for the college. But if Trump is able to delay or muck up those state's certification through the courts, or through some kind of intervention by those states' GOP controlled governments, he would have an outside chance of throwing it to the House

Wow looks like u basically nailed it

Only off by a bit re Barr, but im sure if he could have found some pretext that would prevent later legal exposure for himself, he would have done it, hes such a lapdog

Trump did demand that he arrest Biden. Barr refused.

I was wrong about faithless electors, though. I wasn't up to speed on the recent SCOTUS ruling

Trump is rushing to put loyalists in control of the military so they don't throw him out on Jan 20.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/penta...b6f21920e01c3d

Your obsession with her is truly, truly bizarre.

i've got a problem with a person with all that privilege telling me how women and people of color should behave if they "really cared" about people of color

like, are you kidding me? and instead of grasping the problem, m1a0 wants 2 pretend i said transgender people aren't marginalized. that's quite a stretch.

The second week in November is trans visibility week. In most cities there are usually events to celebrate. There was supposed to be a march again this year in DC, but COVID stopped it, at least till 2021. I hope there's a march next year. Nov 20 we observe Trans Day of Remembrance. I think the usual events in DC are also cancelled this year. Unlike the march, which is defiant and empowering, on Nov 20 here in DC we usually gather in a church and read off the names of the Trans people in the US who were murdered this year. It's somber and gut wrenching. But we're the only ones who give a shit about all our dead family, and they deserve to have their names said out loud and to not be forgotten. So far this year the number killed exceeds 2019, and most of them are black or LatinX. I doubt any of us, regardless of race, manage to avoid some type of threat or violence, though. Every trans woman I know has been raped at some point. Half of us attempt suicide. Most of us have had to deal with domestic violence. Then there are the day to day little bits of violence. Like being fired from our jobs. Or our partners and family leaving us and cutting us out of their lives. Like people on the street or subway following us, threatening to assault us, or kill us. Or just spitting on us when we walk by. And then there is the ever present woke feminist who says things like stop telling me "how women should behave" cause of course we're not real women, right? And also, we didn't tell her how to behave in the first place.

My "marginalization" is more tolerable than what others deal with. I've only been raped once. My suicide attempt failed. Half my family says I am dead to them (but the other half is supportive), my spouse left me, and I lost my job when I came out. But I was able to find another employer and move on. I am incredibly lucky, though. I have health care, a job, I found someone who loves me, and no one has murdered me yet. Do the intersectional math yourselves, because I can't. I'm just happy to be alive.


I don't pretend to know anyone else's struggles. I only know my own.

Everything suddenly makes sense.

Oppression olympics!! Does MOAO get the silver? Do you get the gold? TUNE IN TONIGHT TO FIND OUT!!

imagine giving $40k to a politician

You'd certainly want some firm specifics on what you're getting for your money.

interesting conversation with Masha Gessen on Trump's attempt for an "autocratic breakthrough" in the wake of losing last week's election

17+ minutes? fuck's sake

just let me refresh netphoria for 20 minutes instead
thx
:(

Jfc are you outing yourself as a TERF