UN US Midterm Elections 2018 Megathread - Blue Wave or Red Tsunami? Because you know we need one.

Weppers · Nov 4, 2018

Goofy Logic said:
What's your take on xkcd's challengers map? Seems like an awful lot of blue on it.

It just clicked for me. Every blue name on that map is a position currently held by a Republican.

So, yeah. A whole lotta blue.

Stock Image Photographer · Nov 4, 2018

It's HK-47 said:
"What if women were objectified to the point where their entire argument could only be summarized as, "You no get snoo-snoo."

I'd laugh and say it's hilarious that whoever wrote this assumed that every woman alive was anti-Trump and determined to blackmail people with their vaginas. Next question.

I know this is late as fuck but I actually read through this article and I feel the need to express how terrible it really is.

The article spends about six sentences on the premise that’s in the headline, just saying that female sexual pleasure is political and that women shouldn’t be having “service sex” to satisfy the patriarchy or some shit. The rest of the article then veers off into batshit crazy female-supremacist territory and tries to make the case that all sex should be entirely focused on female pleasure and what a perfect world that would create. There’s also some notes thrown in about how traditional family structures are oppressive and misogynist because women are more likely to lose interest in their partner sexually as time goes on and relationships become more solidified than men are, so in addition to everything else the author is also advocating for open relationships/cucking.

Maxliam · Nov 4, 2018

millais said:
Last week I drove a ~200 mile stretch of I-30 between DFW Metroplex and Austin, and all of the 20 or so highway billboard election ads I saw in the rural counties along the way were for Ted Cruz. Not a single one explicitly for Democrats, just a few generic "Go Vote on Election Day" billboards. And in suburban/urban areas like DFW Metroplex and Austin, those small campaign signs at street intersections are about equal in the proportion of Ted vs O'Rourke. Lawn signs in suburban areas depends on the neighborhood, in some lower income areas the O'Rourke signs outnumber Ted's, in the high income areas where wealthy liberals are predominantly located, it's still about 50/50.

As someone who is in Austin, believe me there are quite a bit of conservative people who live here as well. We just tend not to be so loud.

The other thing people don't seem to understand about Texas is that most of its population isn't in the cities, it's in the vast rural area that goes Republican. If you want to win as a Democrat here in Texas in a statewide election, you need to be pro-gun and against open borders. Beto fails on both sides of it. He will get Cali transplant votes and liberals who aren't affected by his idiotic policies. People who like owning guns and having lower taxes will not be pulling the lever for him.

I will be shocked if he wins. I mean it would be an even bigger upset than Trump beating Hillary.

Though conservatives won't take to the streets and cry a fit about it. Nor will they need therapy animals, play doh, and coloring books to cope with the face our side lost this round.

Stock Image Photographer said:
I know this is late as fuck but I actually read through this article and I feel the need to express how terrible it really is.

The article spends about six sentences on the premise that’s in the headline, just saying that female sexual pleasure is political and that women shouldn’t be having “service sex” to satisfy the patriarchy or some shit. The rest of the article then veers off into batshit crazy female-supremacist territory and tries to make the case that all sex should be entirely focused on female pleasure and what a perfect world that would create. There’s also some notes thrown in about how traditional family structures are oppressive and misogynist because women are more likely to lose interest in their partner sexually as time goes on and relationships become more solidified than men are, so in addition to everything else the author is also advocating for open relationships/cucking.

Damn it....why does an article like that exist in No-Nut November? Who doesn't want to live in a gynarchy as a slave to dangerhairs? Welp...time to fap!

Rabidcolombian · Nov 4, 2018

Didn't know where else to write this -

But I just went on a conservative Youtuber livestream and found out that chat won't allow you to post The American flag emoji. Is anyone else having this problem? Others in that same chat couldn't do it either

misterduckford · Nov 4, 2018

Rabidcolombian said:
Didn't know where else to write this -

But I just went on a conservative Youtuber livestream and found out that chat won't allow you to post The American flag emoji. Is anyone else having this problem? Others in that same chat couldn't do it either

Yeah. It happens on all the different rallies, as well. YouTube is actively filtering it out. Fucked up, isn't it?

RP 520 · Nov 4, 2018

misterduckford said:
Yeah. It happens on all the different rallies, as well. YouTube is actively filtering it out. Fucked up, isn't it?

Twitter is suspending conservative accounts recently too (not 'conservative' like Alex Jones types) for retweeting something a leftist account posted or in one case joking that Democrats day to go to the polls is November 7th.

It's HK-47 · Nov 4, 2018

misterduckford said:
Yeah. It happens on all the different rallies, as well. YouTube is actively filtering it out. Fucked up, isn't it?

It doesn't surprise me too much considering that this study was making the rounds through Twitter the other day at a breakneck speed. It's from 2011, so it's not exactly brand-spanking new, but the sheer amount of attention the study was getting from "the wrong people" leaves me unsurprised that the occasional code monkey here and there would start trying to rip flags out of anything they could find.

It's only 28 pages long, so if you have a spare couple of minutes I'd give it a leafing-through. It's actually pretty interesting.

Gingervitis · Nov 4, 2018

Can we talk about how Ted Cruz stands like a Danganronpa character?

Regret · Nov 4, 2018

It's HK-47 said:
It doesn't surprise me too much considering that this study was making the rounds through Twitter the other day at a breakneck speed. It's from 2011, so it's not exactly brand-spanking new, but the sheer amount of attention the study was getting from "the wrong people" leaves me unsurprised that the occasional code monkey here and there would start trying to rip flags out of anything they could find.

It's only 28 pages long, so if you have a spare couple of minutes I'd give it a leafing-through. It's actually pretty interesting.

Stuff like that only makes me want to push back against it, and it's doubtful I'm alone in that sentiment.

Edit: Like this, for example.

yeahweknow · Nov 4, 2018

King n Yellow said:
Twitter is suspending conservative accounts recently too (not 'conservative' like Alex Jones types) for retweeting something a leftist account posted or in one case joking that Democrats day to go to the polls is November 7th.

thats what they get for trying to hack the election

millais · Nov 4, 2018

Gingervitis said:
Can we talk about how Ted Cruz stands like a Danganronpa character?
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It's Ted's power stance, good for blocking paths and summoning armies of skeleton delegates... skelegates, if you will.

PS1gamenwatch · Nov 4, 2018

Gingervitis said:
Can we talk about how Ted Cruz stands like a Danganronpa character?
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ICametoLurk · Nov 5, 2018

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millais · Nov 5, 2018

Just stay home and de-stress on election day by consuming your favorite multimedia product and comfort food. No need to expose yourself to any external sources of stress that might trigger a breakdown. Everything will turn out ok, don't worry and don't think about it!

Kiwi Lime Pie · Nov 5, 2018

Corypheus said:
Is it a public vs private thing?

I'm not sure. In my final year of high school, it seemed like there was an option to register for the draft in conjunction with submitting one's initial college financial aid application. I received a form letter back saying I couldn't register as early as I did, but my application would be held until I could be registered and processed then. Now, it's probably far more easier and convenient to register thanks to the internet; and, it looks like registrations can now be accepted from males as young as 17 years, 3 months.

frozenrunner said:
What is it that Dems have against anonymity?

Funny thing is, the Democrats here have endorsed a state constitutional amendment that - among other things - supposedly guarantees a secret ballot.
:thinking:

It's HK-47 · Nov 5, 2018

It's HK-47 said:
Hence why I said that the DHS has been bracing down to deal with this for a year, now. The media was so busy celebrating the fact that they got Trump's PACEI taken off the table that they didn't even care to notice that it became fused into the framework for the Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force (DBFTF), rather than just being disbanded entirely, like the media had assumed.

See? They're not fucking around this time.

Actually, I kinda' want to prattle on this a bit more.

The reason that the PACEI and then it's movement into the DBFTF was such a big deal at the time is because it was the first time that election fraud was being handled at a federal level, where historically election fraud had always been treated as a local issue. Trump started a "voter fraud" panel, everybody screamed about it, and then he disbanded it. Almost immediately afterwards, everyone stopped paying it any attention at all, and that's exactly what I was hoping would happen.

Voting fraud was handed off to the DHS, FBI, and all of these other federal agencies while no one was paying attention. Those same agencies have been cleaning up and hunting down all of the voting fraud that went on in the 2016 election, so now they know what was done, how it was done, and who was doing it. They were waiting this time, and snared the Democratic Party of Georgia the second it happened.

Remember the media sucking its own dick over how the PACEI didn't really find any fraud? There's plenty of different kinds of voting fraud, and ways to facilitate mass voting fraud, such as making use of the massive swathe of "ghost voters", or tampering with the state's voter registration systems. Gotta' close race coming up in the elections? Not to worry, a couple thousand newly-registered Democrats can appear out of thin air from the Ghost list, and then you can file all these people through the doors to vote as proxies for a dead man.

There's several places in the country where the number of registered voters now exceeds the voting age population of those areas. Everyone knew it was being done, but voter fraud was a local state matter, so the locals would pile in (If they even fucking bothered), find nothing, and everyone shrugged and just went back to what they were doing. That's not happening this time. Election integrity is being treated as a matter of national security, so it's being handled at the federal level now, not the local level.

That "ghost voter" crap isn't going to cut it, anymore.

Black4STA · Nov 5, 2018

So, one day to election. Remarkably little has changed as far as predicting the outcome goes. Polls, enthusiasm and conventional wisdom are still heavily on the side of Democrats.
There would need to be a much larger, and much more systematic (all over the nation) polling error for Republicans than in 2016 to keep the House. Furthermore, considering Republicans have the most favorable Senate map of all time for any party in any election, the fact that they're looking to keep at about the number they have now is truly a terrible performance.

Willing to be proven wrong, and we'll all know very soon, but nothing has really changed, and I've been predicting this for more than a year..

QI 541 · Nov 5, 2018

Nate Silver predicted the Democrats will take the house, the universe will somehow conspire to prove him wrong again.

Hatoful Dandy · Nov 5, 2018

millais said:
It's Ted's power stance, good for blocking paths and summoning armies of skeleton delegates... skelegates, if you will.

"NOW LOOK AT MY SKELETONS...BITCH!"

It's HK-47 · Nov 5, 2018

Black4STA said:
Polls, enthusiasm and conventional wisdom are still heavily on the side of Democrats.

The polls heavily over-sample Democrats to the point where some of them are labeling bonus democrats as Independents to boost the numbers higher, enthusiasm is so low that even the Extra Special President Barack Obama can barely fill a tool shed for his rallies, and what fucking conventional wisdom? Do you honestly believe that after this two-year-long shit-fit that the Democratic party has been throwing, no amount of the general public has taken a look at it and gone, "You know what, Red doesn't sound so bad this year."

That's one seriously defeatist attitude you've got there, buddy.

UN US Midterm Elections 2018 Megathread - Blue Wave or Red Tsunami? Because you know we need one.

Weppers

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Maxliam

You all disgust me.

Rabidcolombian

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misterduckford

Fine day for tacos.

RP 520

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Gingervitis

Regret

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millais

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Black4STA

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