Hold On To Your Butts: Tuesday Open Thread

LATE ADDITION: One our own lost her husband earlier today. She has had the courage and kindness to share their journey over the past months in our comments section. You have supported them through these hard days, and made sure they knew we were with them. This is the best of our website- our community. Spare a thought for GumbyGirl in the midst of tonight’s chaos.

 

Whelp, here we are. Four years of anticipation, anxiety and effort, crammed into one night.

That’s right: the Olympics kicks off in…

Wait, what?

Didn’t we just do this?

Fuuuck….

Fine. By the time you read this, polls will have started closing. Millions of complete fucking idiots will cast their votes for a brain-rotted rapist. His following of idiots and fascists (and both!) are openly enjoying the prospect of inflicting massive human suffering on innocent children and executing their political opponents.

Our best hope is that people with any amount of decency slightly outnumber them.

Normally I would apologize for my bluntness and making some of you feel bad for your political choices. But the only modification, disclaimer or softening I offer tonight is that my views are my own, and do not represent the official position of DoorFliesOpen, nor necessarily those of any other owner or author.

Feel free to cuss me out in the comments. Hopefully the madness gripping you and your party breaks like a fever.

There were some NFL trades today. The only one I care about was WR Jonathan Mingo going from Carolina to Dallas for a fourth rounder. On balance, Dallas paid more for Mingo than they got for Amari Cooper. That makes me happy.

 

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NotShogunButShogun

bk109

Wait, I just read the actual post…
Thoughts and prayers to GumbyGirl 🙁

NotShogunButShogun

You enjoy what you birthed. This gets carried to term.

Doktor Zymm

I do think they could have messaged differently. Trump basically makes the argument that he’ll make things better for you by hurting some people you don’t even know. Most people are willing to hurt random, far away people for personal gain, they just don’t want to be reminded that it’s a shitty thing to do. If you point out that it’s shitty they aren’t going to change their mind, they’re just going to get defensive. If you can provide a convincing alternative that provides just as much gain, or even more gain, and by the way you can get it without being shitty, then obviously people will go for that. But we just told people not to be shitty.

NotShogunButShogun

America: You think we’d Do the Right Thing?
World: Why didn’t you?

Doktor Zymm

Eh, the rest of the world isn’t doing the right thing either for the most part

bk109

So, uh, guys, you good in there? Not doing something or someone you’ll regret in the morning?

Sharkbait

I started drafting Fridays post. I sent it to someone to proofread it/evaluate it since If the post goes live as is, it’s gonna piss off some family members. I need the restraint right now

bk109

I was going to say – “Well, you can at least drink yourself into a pleasant stupor”, but … election day and the day after aren’t public holidays over in the US, right? Then again – showing up “exacerbated” may actually be socially acceptable today

Sharkbait

That’s putting it mildly. It’s more of a venting/rage post at family that voted Trump. Even though it’s in the Northeast so it shouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, it’s calling them out on the principles they directly voted for and saying some not nice things about them.

bk109

Eh, as someone whose got an unpopular outsiders’ POV (I’m not pro either candidate) … uh, “just don’t go too overboard”, ’cause it’s a pity to ruin relations with family over a (to my knowledge) irrelevant votes (at least, again, based on my understanding on how your electoral system is structured).
… Unless you hate them by default, in that case “lock and load”

Unsurprised

I don’t give a shit either way.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

I open with the disclaimer that I have never voted for a winning candidate.

Crunching the preliminary calculus, Harris flopped in most states even the ones she won. Her performance in NYC was the worst by a Democrat since Dukakis, and while I can’t find the exact tweets Trump won Starr County, Texas (the most Hispanic county in the country and the first time a Republican won there since the 1890s). Even in states like New Jersey the race was far closer in a state Biden dominated 4 years ago.

So the Democrats are right back where they were in 2016 except this defeat is going to be even worse as Trump is projected to take the popular vote. Polls are useless and you can’t take any demographic for granted anymore.

Dunstan

Alright, there’s no point in me staying up to see if they call it for Trump in an hour or five hours.

fleshwound_NPG

the good news: nobody will EVER listen to nancy pelosi about anything again after this

Unsurprised

False. Her stock picks will still magically all be winners.

Redshirt

This is what we get for putting our faith in the Democratic Party.

Gatoraids

the official party of the Prevent Defense

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I don’t think it’s worth pinning blame for the results of this election on Kamala Harris, or the Democratic Party. I don’t think there’s anything they could have done differently, or better, that would have changed things. The simple fact is that America *chose* Donald Trump, for reasons that are completely unfathomable to me but apparently make sense to enough voters that he was able to win the election. Harris ran an excellent campaign, and he ran a terrible one, and in the end none of it mattered, because we are a deeply disturbed nation that has plunged straight back down the path it chose in 2016.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The hardest thing about this for me is that all the factors that should predict electoral success – favorability, fundraising, volunteer activity, enthusiasm – ended up meaning nothing. Josh Marshall over at TPM talks about how there’s a danger that people will simply withdraw from the struggle to demand and build a better government for themselves, but after tonight, it’s very hard to see what the point of engaging is. None of that stuff moves the needle with my countrymen. It was all just a waste of time and effort.

fleshwound_NPG

you wanna move the needle? you want racist hoosiers to vote for a black man? take away their wallets 2008-style

hey, whaddya know, guess what is likely gonna happen in about 4 years or so…

Unsurprised

Harris is the only person you can blame because it all rested on her to win the election. Voters didn’t owe her anything, and she and her surrogates spent the entire campaign telling critically important parts of her base to eat shit.

fleshwound_NPG

hopefully, they learn their lesson to NEVER nominate someone that has DIRECT ties to a problematic, controversial old grab ass ex/current president (bill clinton, joe biden)

obama did not have that (biden was not president yet)

fleshwound_NPG

kerry did not have this problem either, but the gop were smart enough to start a war pre-election.

two, even!

Sharkbait

Cool. I can’t even be on a steady LSD diet for the next 4(ish) years

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Gatoraids

can move to Oregon

Sharkbait

Oddly enough, one of Mrs. Sharkbait’s best friends moved from Honolulu to Oregon for her husband’s job. There’s a not zero chance I’ll be there at some point soon

2Pack

Condolences Gumby Girl.
Say not in grief he is no more
But live in thankfulness that he was