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1 minute ago, marioandsonic said:

 

Is curbside voting illegal?  What's the issue?

It was an option put in place by the county, and the argument is supposed to be that only state legislatures can set rules for voting. Throwing out 100,000 votes that have already been cast based on this is obviously absurd (as he explains further down in the thread, the Texas SCOTUS already upheld curbside voting and this is only getting traction now through federal courts), but with a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS advantage they figure they can get away with it and they're just gonna go for it.

Birx cedes White House turf to Atlas while hitting the road to spread her public health gospel

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Dr. Deborah Birx emerged from a meeting at the White House one day in late summer with a new resolution: Never again would she sit in a meeting with Dr. Scott Atlas and listen to him pontificate on the pandemic.

Birx has basically invented a new job for herself where she just travels directly to affected states since the White House is no longer listening to her at all

Very straightforwardly an attempt at stealing the election. I don't know what else you could possibly say about it.

Like every 6 hours there's a new decision like this now. I'm not gonna make it through the next five days. I can't deal with this shit. And the election might not even be decided in five days! It probably won't be!

Not the Space Force!

The Florida mail in vote will come in quickly, I believe, so if Biden gets an upset win in Florida or Texas, then I think it'll still be over on election night with no drama. But if Biden absolutely needs PA or WI and SCOTUS finds any pretext to just stop counting votes there I think they'll take it.

34 minutes ago, ort said:

Yay, the court is now 2/3 filled with judges put in place by presidents who didn't win a majority of votes and approved by a congress that represents less than half of the country pushing an agenda supported by way less than half of the country...

 

USA USA USA

1/3 of the court is also alums from Bush's legal team during Bush v. Gore

I'm convinced now that Biden has to win by big margins in all of the important battleground states or else they actually will steal the election with SCOTUS's help

Jesus fucking Christ, one of the absolute grimmest things I've ever seen

The NFC East is a crime against humanity

I've always figured "open up everything but protect the vulenerable" has basically synonymous with, "I don't personally know anyone in a high-risk group" since the beginning.

Non-zero chance the Vice President is gonna have COVID on election day

No one can possibly defend this shit on the merits. It's just a matter of whether suppressing these votes is more likely to help your preferred outcome.

I see a lot of the classic, "Trump finally strikes new, more Presidential tone" takes are out on Twitter. Meanwhile, here's what actual voters thought.

1 hour ago, Chairslinger said:

 

 

Maybe a dumb question, but I am curious. Since you got it anyway, why not recover, take the job, and count on the antibodies? Seems like the worst the place can do to you it already did to you.

 

My apologies if I am missing some super obvious with the current understanding of the virus. I know there is some proof you can be reinfected, but sounds like it's very rare and the proof of it is not even really definitive yet.

Even in the best of circumstances I would've gotten bad vibes from the place. The workspace I would've been in was like this drab little loft above a production floor with four people in it who didn't even really have cubes to themselves, just desks against a wall, and a bunch of random shit strewn about in the room. The dollar amount they'd have to offer me to work there would be pretty high.

45 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Have you let them know? About covid or declining? Or both? 

 

I imagine that would be a fun conversation. 

 

Glad to hear you're ok.

I'd already let them know I was declining before I tested positive. The CDC site says to just let get a hold of close contacts within 48 hours of your first symptoms, and the interview was well outside of that, so I see no reason to go above and beyond that because based on what I saw they're absolutely not gonna go above and beyond in self-isolating or anything.

10 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Any clue how you got it?

Yeah, actually. I got an offer for an in-person interview, which I really should have just said no to outright, but I had reason to believe that they were gonna offer me more money than I'm making which they did but uh... yeah, the mask enforcement there was clearly uh, lax, and the office basically felt like one giant plume of aerosols. It was easily the most high risk place I've been in since March. Suffice to say, I'm not gonna work there.

Welp, I got it. I woke up with a fever on Monday and my positive test came back today. It's been an exceptionally mild case, fortunately. Have not really had a cough at all.  Mostly just fatigue once the fever went away, which it did within a day. Seems like I got lucky.

Fox News apparently just stalking Biden now

3 hours ago, Jason said:

Turns out the Beach Boys are chuds. 

 

 

♪ I wish we all could be California chuds ♪

Good luck North Dakota

Taking all the drop off boxes away didn't work. Greg Abbott's gonna have to invent some new voting obstacles in a hurry.

Uh, yeah, the conspiracy theorists who believe that several prominent people have been secretly replaced by holograms are not gonna concern themselves too much with how ballot rules work.