It is indeed a real thing, but if it makes you feel better, they also have this one:
They had one with the rainbow guy kicking the confederate guy, but it seems to be gone now.
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I swear- Trump is a loaded gun to our head, and Clinton is the empty promise that we wonāt get hurt if we just cooperate.
This isnāt an election, itās a hostage situation.
Johnson, incidentally, is the guy thatās ājust waiting for him to let his guard downā.
Sure, heās gonna be the first to die, but you know, at least he tried. You have to admire his pluck.
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It gets better:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/donald-trump-write-in-ballots/index.html
Trump kicked off his rally here on Sunday by encouraging his supporters to āmake sureā their ballots are properly counted, saying that he is a āskeptical personā when it comes to the stateās largely vote-by-mail process. He then encouraged his supporters to get a ānew ballotā in person at a local polling location.
āTheyāll give you a ballot, a new ballot. Theyāll void your old ballot, they will give you a new ballot. And you can go out and make sure it gets in,ā Trump said.
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bob damn it allā¦
well I mailed my ballot in last week.
why do i have this nagging feeling that even Hillary winning is going to suck with all the sour grapes from the trump supporters.
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At least people that insist voter fraud is a real thing now have something they can point to.
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can we have them barred from voting in the future for being dumber than a sack of hammers?
ETA seriously because what the fuck is to stop them from just taking in the mail in ballot to the polling place if they are worried about tampering in the mail?
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Iām going to quote my cousin Joy, who is well named.
āDonāt borrow trouble. If what you fear comes to pass, having feared its coming will only have made your distress have lasted longer. If what you fear does not come to pass, you will have suffered for nothing.ā
Be of good cheer, my friend; you have freed yourself from the concerns and cares around you, by making your decision. What will come to pass will come, and you have done what you thought honorable and right; that is cause for celebration, not distress!
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I am actually generally hopeful for the future, but man the stupid has been out in such force this cycle that it just makes me sad more than anything.
But growing up in Missouri and spending a few years in small town Missouri even though it was a college town I know what kind of crazy the fringe supporters have and the last 20+ years of right wing talk radio have done a lot to help fan the flames. So lets just say I have reasonable fears based in a real world I lived in at one time that they may not quietly accept a Trump defeat but I also donāt expect it to be widespread either.
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Apparently Peter Thiel came up with this gem during an interview with the National Press Club about why he was supporting Trump:
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Well, thatās dumber than a sack of dumb things. Why would a live ballot be any safer from rigging than a postal one? Itās not like you get to watch your ballot all the way from the polling station to the vote-counters. If the fix were in in Colorado they (whoever ātheyā are) would be applying it at the highest level, not screwing around with individual ballot papers, Iād assume.
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I donāt believe very many in these forums are giving many of the GOPās candidateās supporters particularly high marks for intelligence. The inability to think an action through to a logical conclusion seems to be present in those who think the candidateās casual attitude toward nuclear weapons isnāt even a little bit problematic.
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Fixed that for you.
If we donāt stop deep-sea oil drilling, itāll do as much damage as a couple of small nukes, but the perpetrators will profit from it.
Yet the major candidates are both pro-petroleum.
If we continue to re-license nuclear power plants that are well past their design lifetime, sitting on critical watersheds next to densely populated areas, itāll do as much damage as a couple of dirty bombs, but Excelon will get a taxpayer funded bailout.
Yet the major candidates are not going to shut those plants down.
The US populace is fussing about how much they should water their plants while their houses are on fireā¦ not spectacularly smart.
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I donāt want to vote for either the GOPās or the DNCās candidate, but social democrats donāt have a party to vote for in the US and Iām probably going to get stuck voting for someone I donāt want or like in order to keep a bloody maniac away from the nuclear launch codes.
And no, the Green Party is not a sufficient substitution for a proper social democrat party.
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You have my sympathies! I totally understand.
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Finally voted, good luck America.
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Should I mention that in Texas there were still Trump people I heard talking about voter fraud standing at the entrance to the parking lot to the voting center?
This is probably the last place they have to worry about a DNC surprise but there they are with American flags and red trucker hats, at least one obviously drunk on a Monday morning.
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Anyone else looking forward to regular ads with their morning news broadcast?
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And evening news broadcast, and nightly newscast, and sportsball telecastsā¦
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Just finished a New York magazine article from 2 days ago: The GOPās Age of Authoritarianism Has Only Just Begun. The following passage in the middle of the article actually made me stop in incredulity:
Consider the following statements that have been made as this campaign comes to a close. āThe election is rigged,ā Mississippiās Republican governor Phil Bryant has declared, arguing that since blue states have more people, āall you have to do is win those particularly large states. You can forget about flyover country. That doesnāt seem fair to me at all.ā Pat Buchanan has gone further, noting that, since politicians ārig the system through mass immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is never again able to elect one of its own,ā it was only natural and fair that āit is the Āpopulist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal democracy to save the America they love.ā
Theyāre saying this due to their frustration that someone born in Illinois (flyover country) is about to trounce someone born in NYC.
This is a level of willful ignorance that astounds me.
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