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IrezumiKiss said:
Heading out in an hour. Gonna get in some exy-cize afterwards and do some city strollin' to lunch. However, it's still Taco Tuesday above all else, so saving room for that later on. ;)

Only thing that sucks about today here is that it's all grey skies and showers until five or six. God picked a real good day to do a super soaker! :D

I'll peep the inevitable yap and squawk from the shut-in lifers here later. Happy voting and be safe, y'all. Ain't no sense to flip the country's shit towards the better if you ain't gonna be in it! :kiss:
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rain is the only reason i voted as early as i did. it was supposed to rain pretty much all day, but there was a window when i checked the weather shortly after waking up. i still got caught by the rain walking home. c'est la vie. anyway, definitely better than getting hit both ways.
 
I voted early, knocked it out! There was not a line where I lived.

I figured shitloads of people have DIED over the right to vote, it's not too much to ask for to get out and vote.

Too bad it isn't like a few other countries where folks are have to pay a fine if they do not exercise their right to vote.
 
I voted 3 weeks ago. Arte voted before work as per usual (we can walk to our polling place), and there was already a sizable line that had gotten even longer by the time she left. This is a very civically engaged, high-turnout area, so to see longer lines than usual is really noteworthy.

My condolences to those who live in states where the local powers that be are actively working to suppress the vote, Georgia apparently chief among them if today's headlines are any indication. We are in the middle of a self-perpetuating cycle of election shenanigans that only a massive wave can overcome.
 
Guess I been lucky...in all my years of voting, and I always vote...never had a line of more then 4 people in front of me..I live in a city that just doesn't have lineups for anything but Tim Hortons coffee
 
Wrong Element said:
...My condolences to those who live in states where the local powers that be are actively working to suppress the vote, Georgia apparently chief among them if today's headlines are any indication. We are in the middle of a self-perpetuating cycle of election shenanigans that only a massive wave can overcome.
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My condolences to those who live in states and cities where the professional politicians of the majority have intentionally disenfranchised the minority through carefully planned and deliberate gerrymandering (e.g., Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York).

There's no point to voting in those places. The outcome is predetermined.


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...There had been speculation for years about Johnson's relationship to that company [the "LBJ Company"]. Lady Bird had purchased one small radio station in 1943 for $17,500. Since then, thanks in part to a twenty-year-long string of strikingly favorable rulings by the Federal Communications Commission (which, among other aspects, had left Austin as one of the few metropolitan areas with only a single commercial television station), the company had burgeoned into a chain of immensely profitable radio and television stations the length of Texas, and by 1963 it owned as well 11,000 acres of ranchland and major shareholdings in nine Texas banks. Johnson had quieted the speculations by his unequivocal denials that there was any relationship. He had said, over and over, for twenty years, that the LBJ Company was entirely his wife's business and he had nothing to do with it; that, as he claimed in one of his many statements, "All that is owned by Mrs. Johnson....I don't have any interest in government-regulated industries and I never have had." But if Lyndon Johnson had no interest in the LBJ Company, why was it taking out insurance on his life? And, of course, his denials had omitted the salient fact. Texas was a community property state, and therefore since Lyndon Johnson had an interest— a half interest— in all the company's income, he had become rich. If Reynolds' statements became public, it would cast doubt on Johnson's claim that there was no connection between LBJ and the LBJ Company— and once that connection was established, the company's financial dealings would become a subject of journalistic inquiry. Johnson had arrived in Congress poor, and during his career had ostensibly had no source of income other than his government salary. He had been boasting to friends for years that he was a millionaire. By 1963, he, a man who had never held any job but his government positions— whose salary had never been more than $35,000 per year— was not merely a millionaire but a millionaire many times over...



..." 'Millionaire'— this was perhaps the first time that Johnson had ever been identified as such in print, at least in a national publication; he had perhaps never been identified in a national publication as a wealthy man, let alone a very wealthy man; for Life to do so, it must know something about his personal fortune that he had previously been able to keep hidden.

And, in fact, it did.

The magazine's investigative team had been working since the end of October [1963], and, during that time, say its leader, Associate Editor William Lambert, 'I began to pick up all these hints' about Lyndon Johnson, not merely about Johnson and his relationship with the newly rich Bobby Baker, but about Lyndon Johnson 'and the acquisition of his fortune.' Following up on hints, the team had found, in the words of Russell Sackett, one of its members and also an associate editor, that 'The deeper you got, the more serious they were; he was far richer than anyone had expected,' that he was, in fact, very rich indeed.

'I was very indignant,' Lambert said, and during the week of November 11 [1963], he had gone to the office of George P. Hunt, Life's managing editor, and said of Lyndon Johnson, 'This guy looks like a bandit to me.' Although 'bandit' is, of course, a synonym for 'robber' or 'thief,' Lambert didn't feel he was misusing the word. 'I felt that he had used public office to enhance his private wealth.' 'We're going to have to spend some money [to investigate]. I need some people, and a lot of time.' Johnson's entire financial picture should be looked into, he said. 'It was almost a net worth job, and you know that takes an enormous amount of time. I told Hunt, 'He's got a fortune, and he's been on the [public] payroll ever since he got out of college. And I don't know how he got it, but it's there.' By the time he went to see Hunt, Lambert was to recall, 'We knew he was a millionaire many times over."...​


-Robert A. Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power
New York, N.Y. 2012.​

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This is an excerpt from the fourth volume of Robert A. Caro's monumental biography of the 36th President of the U.S.

I have read each volume as it emerged. With each and every volume, I have been more and more sickened and disgusted by Caro's revelations of Johnson's profound dishonesty.

The inescapable fact is that Lyndon Baines Johnson was a crook, a liar, a cheat, a thief and a blackmailer.

He cheated in every single election he ever entered— beginning as a student at obscure Southwest Texas State Teachers College— and he never stopped.




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trysail said:
My condolences to those who live in states and cities where the professional politicians of the majority have intentionally disenfranchised the minority through carefully planned and deliberate gerrymandering (e.g., Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York). ​
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Actually, you mean this. It's mainly a Pub thing lately.
 
LTR was the first one to vote in her town at 6 this morning and there was already a line at that time. And it's a fairly small place.
 
I am heading out to vote shortly (on my lunch break). I drove by the polling station a bit earlier and the lines looked fairly normal. (Bay Area California). We don't really have any Evil Regime Members to overthrow (except Diane Feinstein LOL) so our whole cycle is pretty normal. We're liberal, we vote liberal, by about a 3:1 ratio here so there really isn't anything at risk and no propositions with a high degree of publicity. The sponsored liberals will pretty much win across the board for us.

Vote Early, Vote Often!
 
Paul_Chance said:
I am heading out to vote shortly (on my lunch break). I drove by the polling station a bit earlier and the lines looked fairly normal. (Bay Area California). We don't really have any Evil Regime Members to overthrow (except Diane Feinstein LOL) so our whole cycle is pretty normal. We're liberal, we vote liberal, by about a 3:1 ratio here so there really isn't anything at risk and no propositions with a high degree of publicity. The sponsored liberals will pretty much win across the board for us.

Vote Early, Vote Often!
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See....PC knows.

If you're not going to go support the (D)'s and you live in the bay/area north coast you're wasting your fuckin' time.
 
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