Vote is in! First time there was a line to vote on the 2nd day of early voting since we moved here 6 years ago. Lots of electioneering over some hyper local issues outside the zone.
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Sorry about the link.
The quote about sewage, then why is she voting for trump.
It would have been great if he was trying to feed his family making fries while customers yell at him for not enough salt or too much salt while his 20 year old manager berates him for taking too long, using the wrong size bag, and putting one to many ketchups in the bag, while changing his hours a day before so he canāt get to his second job or miss his Tuesday night class at the community college.
Yeah, he can relate.
āMr. President, please donāt let the U.S. become Brazil, my native Brazil, please,ā Andrejczyk pleaded.
āWeāre gonna make it better than ever, ok?ā Trump said, shaking her hand while continuing to greet the crowd through the drive-thru window.
The Pennsylvania resident, who moved to the U.S. from Brazil 26 years ago, was asked about the remark in an interview on āThe Storyā Monday.
āI am very grateful for this country. I love this country,ā she continued. āAnd I donāt want to see this country become the corrupt sewage that Brazil is at this moment, where politicians do whatever they want with no accountability to the people.ā
āI canāt believe I shook Donald Trumpās hand,ā she said. āIām not going to wash my hands for the next couple of days. He was very genuine. Heās a genuine man.ā
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The horror.
Also, asking this guy to prevent US to become Brazil, the irony is lost on these people.
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Robert Reich, asking the essential question of our time:
tl;dr =
ETA:
Absolutely with you and I canāt believe it either.
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The simplest answer is, it isnāt.
Between the rightward bias of polling that systemically targets the elderly and credulous and a media environment that is pushing the horse race narrative to either bolster T**** for corporate interests or just to drive more eyeballs to their service, Iād say this is the election with the greatest difference between perception and reality.
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Thatās entirel possible, probably even likely!
At the same time, I fret about sexism, and racism, and how all too many Americans seem to have the memory of a memetic goldfishā¦
Oh, well! There seems to be plenty of early voters, and thatās always a good thing.
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Two things can be simultaneously true; that the corporate media benefits from and facilitates the āhorse raceā narrative and that the race is uncomfortably close.
Remember, in 2016 the media was criticized for understating how close the race was, which is why TFGās victory took so many by surprise.
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Except they didnāt understate it. The 2016 race shifted 20 points over a weekend.
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Polling then and now has been murky at best. We really wonāt know how close the race is until itās over, and in the meantime thereās no advantage in getting overconfident. Fight for every vote.
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The 2016 race shifted 20 points over a weekend.
Ah right! I thinkā¦ My goldfish memory is trying to remember whyā¦ James Comey, maybe? Buttery emails again? 
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Thereās just as much danger in despair. Maybe more.
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āDespairā would be āwe canāt win.ā Thatās not what Iām saying at all. Iām saying we canāt afford to act like weāve already won.
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I know a LOT of people who despair that this race is even close. It shouldnāt be. So maybe it isnāt?
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I do think that there is gaming of the polls going on as well, probably from some partisan pollsters, but also from people who end up getting polled.
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We know the polls are wrong. We just wonāt definitively know how wrong or in which direction until all the votes are counted.
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When polls were showing Minnesota, which hasnāt voted Republican since 1972, as even, we certainly know in which direction the polls are biased.
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Trump keeps using Polymarket as evidence heās winning.
I googled, weird whatās going on in that world but also meaningless, I think.
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