Republicans win control of US Senate

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06 Nov 2024, 4:42 am

It does not look good for the senate and Trump may have actually won the persidency.....like its looking grim, sorry rest of the world idk I thought kamala could do it...but...well idk.


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06 Nov 2024, 4:50 am

I actually thought Kamala would win, right until the last week or so, when doubts started multiplying. I think key for me was seeing the huge crowds early voting. That is seldom good news for an incumbent.

The true believers among the Trump base are very energized and excited, I can tell you that. However, they are not the majority of Trump voters. Your average Trump voter probably has some reservations, just as your average Kamala supporter has some.

I am not at all surprised that he won Pennsylvania and Georgia, as I have visited both those regions recently. I am not as enthusiastic, because I am older and don't believe a lot of stuff in politics, but I chose Trump, and hope that he brings in some good minds from the Right.

Remember 2016-2020, that is a good roadmap. The economy was good, there was peace in the world. Perhaps he can do something to fix some of the damage since then. He is tough, and a good leader has to be tough, because there are some mean numbers out there in the foreign countries.

It is sad that some here do not like police officers. They put their lives on the line for us each and every day. It is one of the toughest jobs around. If somebody beat me up, who would do anything about it? The only one that might do anything would be a police officer. If somebody broke into my home, the only person that might help would be a police officer.

If there were no police, a new order would enforce order, like they have in Mexico, the gangs. They have a different policy altogether about the use of force. We are so lucky to live here in America with a professional police force that is not bought out by the cartels. (Or if they are, I don't know about it, ha ha.)

The only thing you have to do to get along with police is obey the law, so that they do not have any interest in you. The other thing is to just be nice and treat them like a human being. Look at them in the eyes, not the uniform. There is a real live human being under the uniform. It has fears and hopes and beliefs. Sometimes the human gets grumpy, other times happy, sometimes sleepy.

Maybe in the future, we will have robot-police. Will that be better? Or will it be worse?


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06 Nov 2024, 4:59 am

Gentleman Argentum wrote:
Remember 2016-2020, that is a good roadmap. The economy was good, there was peace in the world. Perhaps he can do something to fix some of the damage since then. He is tough, and a good leader has to be tough, because there are some mean numbers out there in the foreign countries.


You are ignoring the bungled response to COVID, shooting tear gas at protesters to do a photoshoot with an upside-down Bible, and a litany of other things.

Gentleman Argentum wrote:
It is sad that some here do not like police officers. They put their lives on the line for us each and every day.


Tell the parents of the Uvalde kids.

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The only thing you have to do to get along with police is obey the law, so that they do not have any interest in you.


Some laws are unjust. Also, try driving while black.



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06 Nov 2024, 9:24 am

Gentleman Argentum wrote:
It is sad that some here do not like police officers. They put their lives on the line for us each and every day. It is one of the toughest jobs around. If somebody beat me up, who would do anything about it? The only one that might do anything would be a police officer. If somebody broke into my home, the only person that might help would be a police officer.

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The other thing is to just be nice and treat them like a human being. Look at them in the eyes, not the uniform. There is a real live human being under the uniform. It has fears and hopes and beliefs. Sometimes the human gets grumpy, other times happy, sometimes sleepy.


Thank you so much for saying this. :heart:



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06 Nov 2024, 9:54 am

America is officially cooked. :skull:



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06 Nov 2024, 2:11 pm

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Specifically, would I meet Sweden's requirements for immigration?

sorry to break it to you Tim, but Sweden requires tested fluency in swedish, plus there are means requirements [be rich and well-educated]. also no diseases. nobody else need bother apply.



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06 Nov 2024, 2:12 pm

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America is officially cooked. :skull:

screwed, blued, tattooed.



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06 Nov 2024, 2:14 pm

even if the orange menage doesn't live to the end of his term, somebody many MANY times more evil waits in the wings- VANCE.



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06 Nov 2024, 2:21 pm

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I'd be stocking up on non perishable supplies considering there's a lot more Republicans with guns and a mandate to start hunting democrats.


a mandate to hunt democrats? do you have a source, because that's legitimate insane behavior.



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06 Nov 2024, 3:13 pm

"The enemy within" + fascist with gun and presidential pardon.

How many years has the target list been growing?



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06 Nov 2024, 3:54 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
Specifically, would I meet Sweden's requirements for immigration?

sorry to break it to you Tim, but Sweden requires tested fluency in swedish, plus there are means requirements [be rich and well-educated]. also no diseases. nobody else need bother apply.


Sorry to say, but at the moment Sweden is only taking in white European refugees. Maybe if you join the military you can get stationed in Sweden. If I remember correct they are establishing a NATO base here in Sweden.

Last week, few parties suggested that we should changes the law for non-citizen. The suggestion was to limit the right to free speech. For example, if you're a refugee and spread propaganda for Hamas or celebrate them in general it would lead to deportation.
Scary times we live in.


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06 Nov 2024, 3:56 pm

Have I got it right? Have the Republican party control of every institution of power? - President, Senate, House and Supreme Court.


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06 Nov 2024, 4:44 pm

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Have I got it right? Have the Republican party control of every institution of power? - President, Senate, House and Supreme Court.

House has not been called as of this writing.


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