Georgia Election Thread

I voted today for the first time in my new location. I had agonised over having to choose between two incumbents in a redrawn district running against each other — Lucy McBath and Carolyn Bourdeaux — but finally ended up voting for McBath. About to go check returns.

Yes, thanks. I had to leave a little early but it was inspiring.

P.s. Raffensperger and Cisneros are ahead . . .

another lurker here popping up to express gratitude for the temporary fix to Watergirl and Cole and all jackals.

almost embarrassing to admit how difficult last week was, only able to scan the regular crap internet news. I’ve really come to depend on the refined extract high-grade info-product here, both posts and comments.

every time today i read down to the bottom and see the balloon man and the text there, i read it as
“…the extended outrage at 365…”
Seems correct.

Thanks to all

@WaterGirl. Yeah. I kind of knew that. 😏

This is going to end in tears. I’m more and more convinced that his very sketchy secret lover is the driving force behind his weird constellation of beliefs. Can’t prove it, but…

@ SiubhanDuinne I hope you leave the conversation before you’re too aggravated to sleep. Unfortunately, not only can’t win this one, you’re spitting in the wind.

I’m really not looking forward to the moment everyone on the right tries to blame this on mental illness. Almost all of these shootings are by these loser young men who are angry and maladjusted. I would not be surprised if this one end up the same. None of that is a mental illness.

StringOnAStick May 24, 2022 at 10:29 PM
So, um, yeah. I’m thinking that he had a little more than a pistol and a rifle. This is nuts. Unfortunately, what this means is that the police will start to request rocket launchers for these situations, because fuck if anything else will change. Yay. More militarized police. Now blowing up the entire apartment block in no knock raids.

@stacib: As a general rule, I do refrain from engaging. But this event today … I dunno … it really put me over the edge. I feel the need to see my brother’s ridiculous justifications, and I am growly enough that I feel the need to lash out at him.

@siubhanduinne yes, you did. Who knows but it sounds similar to Sandy Hook because I believe the Sandy Hook guy killed his mom first and then went to school. I can’t imagine being the Sandy Hook or Columbine parents reliving this nightmare everytime a mass school shooting happens.

@SiubhanDuinne can you translate “ARWNJB”? I get the RWNJ (right-wing nut job) part, but not the rest.

TFG comes up a loser in Georgia as Kemp and Raffensberger are demolishing their primary challengers.

Although Sen./Rev. Warnock should take nothing for granted in his reelection bid, he IS fortunate to draw the flawed Herschel Walker as his Republican opponent in the Georgia Senate race. It reminds me a bit of the 2004 Illinois Senate race between Barack Obama and the carpetbagging Alan Keyes. Obama carried 70 percent of the vote and won all but 10 of the state’s 102 counties. Warnock may not come anywhere near Obama’s elevated performance, but he has to like where he starts the fall campaign.

Looks like Raffensperger will win. Also Carr will prevail as AG. Not a good night for Trump 😁

@WaterGirl. Not one thin dime!!! Why, it shouldn’t break the bank to double it, right?

@Will: did you hear / read the entirety of what Abrams actually said? I hope they ask her about this over and over. She is amazing when explaining her position. Maybe some folks in GA will start to understand being 1st in infant mortality is not a good thing.

@WaterGirl: I can enlarge; it’s the font color I’m struggling with. I wish there was an overcast choice between the two available options😉

@jackmac:
And that election is the original source of the Crazification Factor! The 27% who voted for Alan Keyes.

@Will:
Believe what you want, I think that’s bullshit. When I got started in politics the belief was very prevalent among Democrats that if you could figure out *just* the right way to say something, Republicans wouldn’t be able to attack you. (In fact, if you don’t slip, they’ll just make something up.) It led to being timid and sounding like they didn’t really stand for anything, and it wasn’t a way to win.
If you believe that one awkward statement can be turned into attack ads that will destroy a campaign, but the incredibly awful things Republicans say *intentionally* somehow won’t, you might as well give up. We’re very polarized; very few people are one attack ad away from switching sides. Turnout is all that matters, and the way you keep an attack from hurting your turnout is to brush it off and talk about what you want to talk about.

@ Watergirl – THANK YOU!! for the keyboard hint on how to increase letter size!! A couple months ago the font on my Yahoo email suddenly went SMALL, and I mean small for no reason I could see, and I have been struggling ever since to read it…THANK YOU FOR CTRL+ HINT.