Calling the States

[jon-nyc]

I wrote the good folks at the Milwaukee City Wire an email.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc Nice! Let us know if they reply.

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Calling the States:

I do worry a bit that we could be moving into some dangerous territory.

Yes. Populism at its core is about undermining institutions. Why should we expect the institution of the ballot box to be immune from its effects?

[Klaus]

@Larry said in Calling the States:

I have no faith or confidence in America any more. And I don't have any desire to remain in it as it dies.

I thought only liberals announce to leave the country when their guy looses?

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm on my third country, and each time they get a little nuttier. No offence, but we all know it's true.

The next move might be with Elon Musk to Mars.

[jon-nyc]

When to expect more info:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/05/us/election-results?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#when-to-expect-new-information-today

Next couple hours should be interesting.

[Axtremus]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Calling the States:

I'm on my third country, and each time they get a little nuttier. No offence, but we all know it's true.

I'm starting to see a pattern ...
Maybe Phibes is the cause.

[Catseye3]

Here's another perspective, from my Daily Stoic newsletter (excerpted):

"It’s easy to sit here and say this has been a bad year. But is it really so bad? Is it 1865 bad? Winter of 1777 bad? Was it as bad as many of the years in Marcus Aurelius’s reign? The years at the end of Nero’s? How about 1919—when the world was mopping up after the Great War just as a pandemic was making landfall? Or '68, which had civil unrest, terrorist bombings and a major influenza outbreak on top?

"The Stoics would simply have pointed out those other examples to help you see that you still have options left. There is still room to maneuver. All is not lost.

"They’d want you to have some perspective and also to grasp this simple, black and white truth: Humanity will either survive this or we won’t. You will, or you won’t. Things looked dark in 180 AD, in 1777, in 1865, in 1919 and in 2009. But guess what? We made it through. We survived.

"This hasn’t been a bad year. It’s been a year. A year more like some and less like some others. But it is what it is. You don’t control what it has been, but you have some influence over where it’s going—there’s still a couple quarters left to play. So focus on that. Stay objective and don’t despair.

"It’ll get better…or as Marcus quips in Meditations, it won’t and you won't be around to worry about it anymore."

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Calling the States:

Dawn of the Voting Dead

[LuFins Dad]

@Axtremus said in Calling the States:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Calling the States:

I'm on my third country, and each time they get a little nuttier. No offence, but we all know it's true.

I'm starting to see a pattern ...
Maybe Phibes is the cause.

Ax, that maybe the most brilliant thing you have ever said!

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Calling the States:

@LuFins-Dad said in Calling the States:

Dawn of the Voting Dead

8555555

[jon-nyc]

PA absentee ballots. If the rate stays like this Biden wins the state by 100,000 votes.

[Larry]

@Klaus said in Calling the States:

@Larry said in Calling the States:

I have no faith or confidence in America any more. And I don't have any desire to remain in it as it dies.

I thought only liberals announce to leave the country when their guy looses?

It's LOSES , dammit. Not "looses".

[Larry]

We are watching the democrats steal an election.

[George K]

@jon-nyc excellent.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Larry said in Calling the States:

@Klaus said in Calling the States:

@Larry said in Calling the States:

I have no faith or confidence in America any more. And I don't have any desire to remain in it as it dies.

I thought only liberals announce to leave the country when their guy looses?

It's LOSES , dammit. Not "looses".

It's damn it, FFS.

[Larry]

Hahahaha

[Jolly]

It just takes a while to figure out how many votes were needed...

[bachophile]

Stop the count!

[Doctor Phibes]