So heās basically admitted itās all #fakenews? My god the hypocrisy of these people is just without limit.
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Better than rocks at least
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This isnāt Trump exactlyā¦ but the Ontario election is happening this week and fucking hell our version of Trump is really close to winning and I want to vomit. Any advice for how to survive the next 4 days without having a heart attack?
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OMG LOL. Great balls of fire!
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A hot bath and a good book?
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And a nice cup of tea.
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And again and again and again and again.
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For the last couple of weeks, Iāve been running Beacon Toy on my phone, broadcasting the URL for https://notdoug.com
I donāt have another working Android device to test with, so I have no idea how effective it is in hitting peopleās phones. (The protocol is broadcast only without a receipt acknowledgement handshake.) With the Bluetooth level on high, I might be carving a 60ā radius circle as I drive/walk. Itās probably a Bluetooth in the wilderness.
Before the election, I might come into Toronto and ride around on the subway for a while with a Pi running an open access point wifi that serves only an anti-Doug website. The new subway trains are long metal tubes with a captive audience of hundreds of data-starved people, and changing trains could hit many thousands.
I tried a small test of that during the last Federal election, but I didnāt get any good data due to the lack of a real-time clock messing up the log files.
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So this is precisely the opposite of what you are asking for, but three weeks ago I predicted to a friend that the NDP would win the popular vote and the PCs would win a majority government*.
Right now Eric Grenierās** poll tracker has NDP at 36.4% vs PC 34.7% while he still gives the PCs over a 50% chance of a majority. Somehow I might end up being right and we might have the absolute stupidest election in the history of elections.
* One party wins popular vote, other wins control of the government; I know this happens sometimes in the US but there are three reasons it would be exceptional in Ontario. First, because we donāt have a separate executive branch so if you win the legislature you also win the executive automatically. Second, there are three parties - winning a āminorityā government (the most seats but not more than half) when you win the popular vote seems plausible, but a āmajorityā is grotesque. Third, we are not gerrymandered.
** Canadaās Nate Silver.
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Just think on how much fun we could have with a minority NDP or PC government with the Libs and 1 Green holding the balance.
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If anyone wins a minority Iām not going to be too fussed about it. But if the PCs win a majority of the seats without winning the largest share of the popular vote, I donāt know what option weāll have other than revolution.
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Iām hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. If only NFLD didnāt have all that damn weather!
Also, its hilarious to me that after living in the house I own for 10 years Elections Canada seems to have just forgotten we exist. We never did get voter cards for the last federal election, even tho I checked the database and they had us in there. And we still donāt have our cards as of today. Yes I know I donāt need them, but cāmon! I need to do advanced polling cuz Iām busy on the 7th but man its gonna be hassle to do without the damn cards!
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Iām apparently entitled to citizenship in Scotland, but obviously right now thatās a Brexit clusterfuck. (Itās also a very long way to go)
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ROTFLMAO
My countyās representative who is one of the earliest trumpkins is now scared that if congress wonāt do a thing about immigration, the dairy farmers over in Lyndonville & Batavia are going to vote his ass out 
Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., stands apart from the other signers in many ways: He occupies a safe Republican seat and was among Trumpās earliest supporters in Congress. But his western New York district is home to hundreds of dairy farms that rely on immigrant labor.
āRight now, my dairy farmers are saying to Republicans: Youāve got the House, the Senate, the White House, and youāve got to give us a legal workforce, and I agree with that,ā he said.
Collins, who favors a conservative immigration bill that would set up an agricultural guest worker program, acknowledged that the House may never be able to pass a bill. āBut then those of us can go home and say we did our best,ā he added. āI fought for you and Iām willing to go against leadership to fight for you, and thatās all you can expect out of me.ā
The other big products our farmers produce? Onions, wheat, corn and soybean.
So not only is he starting to get worried about Trumpās actions on migrant farm workers, but heās starting to get worried about what happens to the wheat & soybean markets if Trump starts a trade war with China
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I forgot to reply back to that story with the news video about NRA members with the groupās stickers on their cars being targeted by gun thieves http://www.wbtv.com/clip/14371218/thieves-targeting-nra-members
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Same. MrPants could get his Scottish passport if he wanted and I could get a UK oneā¦ but really, do we want to? LOL
Sorry for the Canadian derail, but you closed the Canadian thread! Sheesh! 
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A prime example of this countryās toxic relationship with celebrity
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