99% sure it’s the verb for putting clothes pegs on the washing line.

That’s a nice thought on a spectacularly shit day. I hope Alt me is still BBQing with my neighbours like it’s 2016.

“Sure we’re all fucked, but at least by not voting I defended the white man’s natural right to rule! We were never gonna vote for an uppity black woman who’s better than the alternative by every conceivable measure, and the Democratic party failed us for not acknowledging that. If we ever get elections again, maybe they’ll have learned their lesson!” - non-voting racist sexist “democrats” in the USA

If you do pop up north, be ready for a battle here too.

Long read, but excellent info. tl;dr - The IDU and the Manning Centre (now called the “Strong and Free Network” run the right up here.

completely alienating [non-voters] now will not help the cause

So we just keep being nice to the braindead traitors who can’t be arsed to get up off the couch and vote so we all don’t live in Nazi World? Because they just haven’t heard the right argument yet, or they just need a wee bit more cajoling, maybe a cookie next time.

idc if it’s existential malaise over the world burning up, or just that they get enough civic participation from their social media Feed. idc about their endless reasons for not showing up (I’ve heard them all up here in Ontario where less than 1/2 the eligible voters turned up, and they’re all nonsense about how it’s someone else’s fault. They feel no shame about it: they’ve been thoroughly convinced that they’re too good/smart to vote).

You keep on with not alienating the braindead lumps. You’ll find them endlessly commentating online, blaming The Woman for Doing It Wrong. Because Kamala didn’t personally bring them tendies they decided their country should be governed AGAIN by a White Supremacist Rapist Incontinent Felon who’s owned by frothy fundies who want to burn the witch.

Every abstaining vote was a vote for Trump. They just wanted to be able to say Wasn’t Me.

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People are saying the wound-up violent douchecanoe was reportedly overheard saying, “Lineup?! NO! ME first! FIRST!”

Unless the voters are dumb enough

Over 1/2 the eligible voters in Ontario couldn’t even be arsed to show up to the last election. We’re so, SO dumb.

That, and they know none of them will see effective penalties for voter intimidation and coercion. Maybe a fine. Maybe a year in jail. Maybe both.

In a just world, these donors would get a year for every employee who took the survey. Just to serve as a deterrent to other multi-millionaire bosses. More likely they’ll weasel out of anything but lawyers fees and a statement on their website.

I think you got the right place.

Lovely idea. What a gift for the next people who move in.

I’m kinda tempted to let runners take over the yard next spring just to do this.

The rest of the ballot is full of things […] like local representatives, education leaders, district judges etc.

Maybe OT, but I’ve been watching a lot of voting advice on twitter, reddit, etc this year, and whenever someone mentions how important it is to get educated about your local options on the ballot, they get a flood of comments accusing them of encouraging people to abstain from voting or to vote 3rd party. It appears to be one limb of an aggressive anti-vote apathy or disinfo campaign.

early vote ballot drop-offs are burning

omfjc… Thanks for the heads up. Link for anyone else who blinked and missed this on Monday.

Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.

jfc… racist humour is always so stupid and lazy.

Hinchcliffe also referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and made a remark about Black people who “carved watermelons” instead of pumpkins for Halloween.

A politician having trash like this warm the crowd for them should be shocking.

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So far I’ve only heard about this one boss, so CT still has time to get in front of it. If they don’t go beyond “we’re shocked and looking into it” I’ll be the second to join your boycott though.

Even just to renew their brand image, wouldn’t now be a great time for the CT corporation to come out publicly against hiring outside of the country; make it policy? Could even put together a happy workforce montage advert with a “we’re hiring local” voiceover to publicize the change.

imo the source of the problem is the TFW program itself.

Defense for programs that enable debt bondage and human trafficking hasn’t changed much since the early 1900s either: agriculture would collapse, industry in general would be in ruins, it’s a lot of money to Them, local workers are too lazy, and “if you don’t want to go back to slavery, this is the best we can do.”

We can do better than what the guys in this news bit describe.

She says Jan 6 was about “love” directly in the face of a woman whose life she previously threatened on that day. But she has to say it, because that’s what the cult told her last.

“Nothing done wrong at all,” Trump said.

"There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns.

“And when I say we, these are people that walked down - this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love.”

These individuals need deprogrammers, not debate.

I’m turning into a fan of the Lincoln Project’s work. Does the heart good to see conservatives working against the worst the country has to offer.

Anyone else think this is a direct reaction to Dave Bautista calling him a whiny little bitch? Masculinity by proxy/osmosis??? The fuck is this…

"Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women,” Trump said. “This is a guy that was all man.” […]

“When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said with a laugh. “I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”

Whole thing was a good read. Thanks for linking it.

So there are eligible voters in the USA literally afraid to try voting in case they’re jailed for it. It’s not just confusion.

Fear also drives reluctance. In the face of confusing eligibility regulations, people who are trying to put a criminal conviction behind them often don’t want to risk making a mistake that could send them back to prison. In Florida, several people faced that exact possibility in 2022, after an office set up by Gov. Ron DeSantis began arresting voters who allegedly cast ballots while ineligible to do so.

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For example, in Nebraska, the bill legislators passed this year changed state law to allow anyone with a felony conviction to register to vote upon completion of their sentence. This modified a 2005 law that automatically restored voting rights for people with felony convictions but required a two-year waiting period upon completion of a sentence.

But then a non-binding opinion by Attorney General Mike Hilgers suggested that not only this year’s law but also the prior 2005 law were unconstitutional, creating a significant cloud of uncertainty for impacted people until this week’s state Supreme Court ruling.

“We were getting lots of calls from people, ‘I’m not going to bother. It worries me too much, and I’m not going to go back to prison,’” said Smith, with Civic Nebraska.