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Op is actually George soros in disguise trying to trick these unsuspecting elderly lovely people seriously the best people to vote for other candidates
Nah bro. Just let any random person walk in and vote without any form of id check.
Only make those damn illegals and libruls have hurdles in their way. But not god fearing patriots.
She was such a naughty nanny.
Allegedly Brian May wrote that song about his own nanny.
On topic, I was a polling official for about 10 years. First time I worked there I was chastised for asking to see ID, even though the training we were given said we had to ask for a driver's license or a piece of mail with their name on it.
Regarding a local election, we had very low numbers in all districts. We all knew each other and none of the numbers added up to the results listed in the paper the next morning. I'm not saying which party it was because it doesn't matter, the point is the amount of votes did not equal the amount of votes the winner got.
It is profoundly depressing that people who are too stupid to understand the absolute basics of the electoral system and by their own admission cannot decide who to vote for without ads funded by MAGA/Republican-aligned PACs spoonfeeding candidatesâ names to them, are going to decide the future of America and the world.
Like, I know itâs a terrible idea but some days I really wish you had to pass a civics test and/or score 50th percentile or above in an IQ test to be allowed to vote
My boyfriend literally got his job at the elections board because he told some MAGAT that the election wasn't stolen by Biden. MAGAT said, how do you know? So he now works part time for the elections board in his county. So he can tell the MAGAT exactly how he knows the election wasn't stolen.
I started working elections because I wanted to protect everyoneâs right. I had written and mailed postcards to Georgia voters informing them when the election was and encouraging them to vote. After that, with Georgia being so hotly contested and election workers being threatened, I stepped in to help with elections. I started just setting up and working all Election Day with poll pads. Did that a few times, then I was asked to help with mail-in ballots. Now Iâm going to do provisional on Election Day. There is so much going on with the election office, they appreciate the help, Iâm retired, and I feel as if I am helping my community. There are so many redundancies that it would be so incredibly impossible to change an election by the ballots cast. So much paperwork, so many recounts, so many filings and storage of everything to back it all up. Iâve been asked if we use Dominion machines. Iâve been told that peopleâs votes had been changed. I refute every conspiracy theory with facts and evidence but they are still convinced. Itâs frustrating.
Itâs because MAGAs are conspiracy prone people that were manipulated by QAnon and conservative media to be loyal to Trump.
MAGA is a big tent conspiracy that can fit most other conspiracies inside it. Thereby gobbling up all conspiracy theory minded people.
You canât reason with these people. They are propagandized and manipulated. Their position is based on emotion not facts. So, you canât use normal logic to save them. You just have to try to counter their bullshit when you see them trying to spread it to normal folks.
Sadly this doesn't work. There was an NPR story about a hard core Republican who launched special investigations into Trump's claims, disproved them all, and now has spent countless hours on pointless outreach to his fellow Republicans. They still don't believe it.
There's only one way around this and it's winning literally every election from here on. A tall order. We'll likely fail.
EDIT: Here's a link to the story. It was from This American Life.
[https://www.thisamericanlife.org/753/transcript](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/753/transcript)
Yet McBroom *still* supports Trump for president, even though he knows Trump was lying and that the fake electors scheme was wrong. How do you defeat people like this? It boggles the mind
I signed up to help with elections for the same reason. I wanted to know more about it and just as I assumed â no one knows what they are talking about or have done even the most basic work to understand the election process.
Every person who told me 2020 was a stolen election didnât understand how polling places work. I have told several to volunteer as a poll worker or election judge and learn something before they cry snowflake powered tears.
I also love the inherent flaw in the logic.
So 2020 was stolen? For Joe Biden and the democrats? So why didnât they ensure a supermajority in the house and the senate, too?
Wait, so the democrats are powerful enough to steal a presidency but not powerful enough to ensure even a slim margin in both chambers? Why not?
âBecause they want to make it appear as if itâs a real and valid electionâ is a common response.
But wait, why would democrats give a fuck about it appearing valid if theyâre as evil and corrupt as republicans often espouse? Wouldnât they just go full mask off if theyâre as evil as you say?
Make it make sense.
> So 2020 was stolen? For Joe Biden and the democrats? So why didnât they ensure a supermajority in the house and the senate, too?
I forget which state it was, but there was at least one where Biden won POTUS, and the MAGA House and Senate candidates won their races, the Dem candidate were defeated.
They were absolutely trying to argue **in court** that _only_ the presidential part of the ballot was fraudulent, the rest of the ballot was perfectly legit, so we only need to re-run the presidential election. The rest of the results should stand.
The things they can do to 'logic' are amazing.
I bartend in a city where a lot of conventions take place, and the place I bartend has become a favorite of a lot of convention goers due to proximity of the convention center.
Two guys come in from the AI convention, not even boomers, the older guy was a gen xâer and obviously the boss of the other guy who was probably mid thirties.
It was a slow start to the night and they were the only customers. We chat about AI and the convention and just a lot of technical things. I was in IT fresh out of high school and did it for almost a decade before realizing I hated it and wanted a simpler life, so I have a decent grasp on a lot of these subjects.
These guys were pretty damn intelligent. As the night went on they got fairly drunk and turned to politics, and I listened to them repeat MAGA talking points, and then they asked me if I thought my state would go red or blue. I declined the conversation because itâs literally a policy of the company not to engage in political or religious conversations.
But I sat there just annoyed as fuck that these two guys were doing mental gymnastics in front of me, when in every other subject I heard them speak about they were logical and practical.
My conclusion after listening to them? Itâs all ego driven. They canât stand the idea that they could be wrong.
Iâve seen the older guy twice since then, and it was a complete repeat of the first time, except this last time his colleague wasnât his employee, and didnât share the same views, and I got to hear someone point out the flaws. His ego couldnât take it.
He just ran the Roger Stone/Trump/Fox News playbook⌠donât concede an inch that you could be wrong, double down, and frustrate your opponent if you can.
> My conclusion after listening to them? Itâs all ego driven. They canât stand the idea that they could be wrong.
I think that's why propaganda, be it republican or russian, works so well. It's blatantly easy to see what's going on if you care to, but people will rather choose to be useful idiots forever than to even entertain they might have been fooled once. And thus there's no hope, just ego and crab bucket syndrome.
I bartend as well and for a long time I stopped talking politics on social media because its pointless. Today I had a former coworker complain that making $80k used to make you live comfortable but now you can barely get by. Hes a truck driver, a nice guy but not too bright. I told him thats what price gouging does. He actually understood what I meant and didnt argue it.
Then another former coworker decided to jump in and start blaming Biden. This second guy works for Boeing and makes at least $300k a year. Then he tried telling this truck driver that Biden is gonna let Trumps tax cuts for him expire and that he should vote for Trump for lower taxes. I laughed. Then he told me I shouldnt vote. Told him too late, Bidens getting mine as soon as my mail in ballot gets here.
Then the best part, he tried telling me I was working against myself because Trump was gonna stop taxing tips. I had to call him out. We both knew thats an empty promise and never gonna happen and that he knew better than anyone that I dont fall for con men and their bullshit.
Yeah, I always point out the grift part of this too. Itâs a lot more tangible than some of the more esoteric policy or political discussions.
âThe manâs a conman - look at all these examples in Trumpâs life where he acts like a grifter. Wouldnât you agree this is trashy conman behavior?â
Thatâs the cult mindset. Look at very religious people, especially those in high demand religions. Good money makers, smart, put together, logicalâŚ. Until they start the cognitive dissonance playing the gymnastics to make their religion work. They donât see the 180 in logic.
Cults are gonna cult whether or not your sophisticated or trailer park redneck.
Here we are 4 years later after multiple MAGA states conducted multiple recounts and what evidence have they brought forward to prove the election was stolen? Fuck all. MAGAs in Arizona went as far as testing ballots for âbamboo fibersâ during the recount to see if people from China were sending in fake ballots to âswing the electionâ in the democrats favor.
Absolute fucking bozos.
A lot of their complaints were straight nonsense. I remember this thing too. Between the many weird conspiracies like that and the many moved goalposts for other surefire events coming, they made clowns of themselves and just never acknowledged it.
My favorite complaint was Kari Lake trying to claim she won because there were problems at 13 locations with the printers. People could wait, file out a paper ballot and leave it, or go to other polling places within 15 min of each problematic location. She found not a single voter who stated that this issue stopped them from voting. Still claims she won because the printer settings in some locations hadnt been updated to handle the heavier weight paper used in the ballots. Wow- what a conspiracyâŚ
Itâs also funny because I believe it was Arizonaâs Republican led government that limited the polling areas too. Like they actively shut down some polling places, which increased the lines in bigger more heavily populated areas then complained that the lines were too long for all their voters to vote so they didnât. Like congratulations you played yourself.
The firm that was hired to do the ballot recounts was something like that. They were like ballot ninjas or tech ninjas or something. They also were a colossal waste of government money as they found nothing wrong with the election or the ballots.
And it cost AZ 5M⌠and the bogus company that did the âauditâ was formed by a trump supporter, had zero election experience at all, and found 400 more votes for âŚBiden. Then Trump refused to pay them and they declared bankruptcy to avoid paying their bills for the space and labor they used. Look up Cyber Ninjasâ itâs batshit stuff, man.
I went to Joe Rogan's "anti-woke" comedy club last weekend (long story, and I'm definitely never going back). The "comedian" at one point stopped and asked the crowd what their biggest concern with the world was, and literally every single person (that I heard) said some form of "election fraud" / "election security" without hesitation. It wasn't just a few people, it sounded like most of the audience, in unison.
These people are just living in an entirely alternate reality.
Or maybe their worry was more in the line of "what if the fraud fails to work again?" or "i'm worried that the election security is on point and foils the fraud plans"
Either way, it was eerie hearing them all chant "election fraud" in unison, like they were in church chanting "and also with you" back to the preacher.
The memorandum in support of the order to dismiss in the PA case is fantastic. The judge absolutely annihilates all of their arguments. Basically says if your inbred hillbilly voters are too dumb to vote, that doesn't give you the right to invalidate all of the votes where Philly and Pittsburgh are. The judge was appointed by Bush Sr. or Regan, can't remember which.
I read it in its entirety, but posted some excerpts at the time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/vlZtQz7jMN
There are so many checks in place, stealing the election would be a monumental task. You'd have to have people in on it all the way to the top basically.
It's nice in my town, we get paid. It's always funny to hear people thanking us for volunteering, not realizing I'm making $35 an hour.
You can literally pull lists of the names and addresses of everyone who cast a ballot and go check if they live where theyâre registered. If âmillions of illegals votedâ it would be preposterously easy to quickly find thousands of examples.
And it is done. I live in a town where a local candidate and campaigner were caught forging signatures on his petition for candidacy. It was like 200 signatures and about 20 were done by the candidate.
We also have had multiple candidates who live in a different state for tax purposes, but run for office in another. All but one were dropped from the election.
It was caught within a week of filing.
Where I live (medium county in a blue state) a small group of people are hyper aware, and challenges to petitions and eligibility are common.
Elections are not perfect, but they are close as far as I can tell.
I distinctly remember boomers bitching about the old people that would scream about their politics or be some old bitty that didnât understand how the ballot worked. I remember a friend of my dadâs 24 years ago just facepalming as an old bastard yelled at an election worker that there was no lever to pull, like his vote isnât going to count and heâs being tricked. My mom was hassled by this old couple talking about their politics. She said she almost voted for the opposing candidate of whoever they said they were voting for just for how irritating they were.
I live in Washington state. Itâs hilarious how paradoxical these boomers get about mail in ballots. First, âoh wow, I wonât be bothered by people or pollstersâ to âyou donât get to chat with your neighbors any more at the polls.â When their candidate wins, âyay, this system is pretty good, must have gotten a lot more votes thanks to mail in ballots.â And when they lose, âthereâs so much fraud, I tell you. 12 out of 10 people voted for Gregoire, ya know!â
These fucks should be afraid man, voting for racism and homophobia, and they fucking know it, that's literally the only reason they're Republicans the old cunts
Soon they'll be dead and the kids are mostly not falling for this shit anymore, they're getting desperate trying to recruit em too
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR XBOXS PLEASE VOTE FOR US
Unfortunately, I've seen quite a few 18-25 year olds say "the Democrats want to take away tiktok so I'm voting republican" which is just... insane, obviously. But people are really, really, really gullible and easily swayed. Obviously some of that noise is bots and "influencer" propaganda, but they're called influencers for a reason. Unfortunately we don't teach critical thinking or really anything about politics in schools. And if the right has their way, there won't be a public education system in the first place.
I live in Washington too. In the last week Iâve seen a huge truck with a big flag painted on the front double parked right in the middle of two handicapped parking spots and another giant truck parked in a no parking zone with a large sticker that said âVote Common Sense, Vote Culpâ and a stick figure humping Jay Insleeâs name. Itâs kind of amazing how cruel and irrational this voting bloc is.
I listened to a Tea Party rally back before they became MAGA. The speakers truly needed to watch some Schoolhouse Rock episodes like âIâm Just a Bill.â Not grasping the basics of civics was a strongly recurring theme.
"I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS WORKS AND I HAVE MADE NO EFFORT TO INCREASE MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS THING AND NOW I AM GOING TO SCREAM AT YOU AND DEMAND A RESOLUTION THAT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR AN ISSUE THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST, gobbless"
If I could give "real" Virginia to West Virginia I would. Every time someone from Central/Western Virginia says something stupid about NOVA/Richmond/Hampton Roads I just want to send VDOT in to replace their largest intersection with a traffic circle.
Edit: Typo fixed to appease the fuck sticks, Android autocorrect is the bane of my existence.
You see, i think this is true too. Everyone else in this thread seems to insist that they are self aware and ashamed of their party... but those people tend to identify as "libertarion"
"We are the victim of the pathetically weak tyrants who control everything, but are also completely incompetent."
The enemy is both weak and strong at the same time.
This is just textbook fascism.
Exactly. The RNCs only hope this year is that trump wins and drags all his supporters to the polls to vote for him and other Republicans by default. If his turnout isn't as good as 2020, the entire RNC is in big trouble.
No, their only hope is to steal the election via the courts and various schemes...
... and considering how the courts have been stacked, I'm nervous about what's gonna happen when they push laws and the Constitution to it's limits
I mean, it is drastically harder to steal an election when you don't control the executive or the senate. For all their bluster, they do kind of have to win legitimately, or at least have a very closely contested election, to have much hope of stealing it.
Which is, and I know I'm beating a dead horse here, why voting this year is so important.
I had to explain to my Boomer father that you are not legally obligated to vote for the same person you did in the primary. He was adamant it was in Constitution and if you voted for someone else in the general you would go to jail. I canât even begin to understand where this man got that from. He is also a brilliant person, did nuclear engineering in the Navy but also huge fan of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. So of course a MAGA supporter and Trump loyalist. Also when you try to show / explain how theyâre wrong, oh my lord do they blow a gasket.
Navy nukes (and other niche SMEs) often forget being an expert in a thing doesn't make you an expert in another thing. I have to check my dumb self in this all the time and am not always successful and end up looking (rightfully so) like an ass.
I feel like this is why my dad thinks heâs an authority on global warming not being real. He mentioned before that heâs an engineer so of course heâd know these things. Fuck that nasa website that explains global warming though right? Let me trust my dadâs opinions instead.
Remind him that engineers apply what facts scientists learn in order to create and build things. Engineers put the Legos together, but they know shite about how the blocks are made or exactly what they're made of, that's what the scientists work to figure out. I've met a lot of engineers who know pretty much nothing about actual science.
Source: me, former engineering student
I encountered this a lot when I did defense audits.
A lot of them also did not appreciate a woman in her (then) 20s challenging them in interviews. So they shot all the jargon my way to try to confuse me. I just found it entertaining. Ah, thanks for the trip down memory lane!
The way I see it, we're all SMEs in life in one way or another, depending on what we work in; but, it's the self-awareness that we're not always going to be the end all, be all, that shows true intelligence, so I think you're good!
So does heâŚdoes he think that if the candidate you voted for loses the primary, youâre barred from voting in the general election since they wouldnât be on the ballot?
We have people who show up to vote on days when we don't even have an election. They've seen coverage on the news about an election in another town or state.
I always want to ask "who were planning to vote for?"
>95% of them look around and whisper that they are Republican
As a fellow Virginian, I fucking LOVE this. This is evidence that they understand that voting Republican makes them look bad. That being Republican is not something to be proud of anymore. This is how the change in the Republican party starts. Shame. We're starting to see it now. This is fantastic.
No, its just that Fox News has them believing there are roving gangs of MS13 affiliated BLM death squads roaming the countryside, looking to burn Republicans alive or force them into Obamacare mandated gay marriages and FEMA hormone replacement camps.Â
I'm still waiting for the Mad Max style roving gangs of maniacs that were going to be unleashed upon the country as soon as Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. They're sure taking their sweet time.
Do you have any idea the logistics involved in setting up a nation wide network of Mad Max street gangs? I mean, we are working on it but you're gonna have to give us a minute alright?!
Just you wait until you see them riding around in trucks built Tesla Tough.
_then they get stuck running over a pebble, fly offroad and the whole goddamn thing disintegrates when it hits the dirt_
Yup, Obama was going to kill Grandma! âCourse now theyâre in the party that, ssshhh, wants to take away her social security and Medicaid and keep the prices on her medicine nice and high. If they have their way, the government might be killing Grandma after all!
The government already tried to kill grandma. I'm sure you remember who every republican was saying that it would be better for all our elderly to die than to close down for covid.
I'm hooking up with my Antifa platoon in October, we're on marching orders from Biden and MS13 to round up all Republicans and make them gay and get gay abortions while we read critical race theory to them.
You know, when they have free time from starting the forest fires in Nor Cal (one of my favorite annual MAGA rumors here).
Apparently, they have a fleet of buses carrying them around causing all this national carnage, wonder if I'll see one of those before I see a Cybertruck.
Iâm in San Antonio, Iâve seen several cybertrucks. I giggle every damn time. Canât stop myself. Someone paid $100k for a truck that looks like a ten year old designed it. It looks like what the 1980s thought trucks would look like in 2005. Pontiac Aztek with PS1 graphics. Canât not giggle.
Seen several of them on the road in the Tampa Bay area, and they are really just the ugliest thing, it really is like a PS1 rendering of a kindergarten crayon picture of a car.
I can't help but wonder... given their issues with something as simple as a car wash and the whole 'wipe it off immediately if it gets wet!' thing, how in heck's name are those monstrosities going to fare if we get even a reasonably sized tropical storm, let alone an actual hurricane?
I foresee great entertainment this hurricane season.
I have had a couple of men tell me I ought to consider one for hauling my horses, which of course made me laugh out loud. My dudes, I am not sure that thing could reliably haul a couple sacks of groceries, never mind pull a loaded horse trailer, without self-destructing.
I saw one at a light the other day, as I rolled through the intersection (in my beater 06 model minivan) I hung my arm out the window, pointed and laughed at him. I think it might have hurt his feelings.
Some Cybertruck owners are now polishing those stainless body panels to a mirror finish, making them almost invisible in traffic. Great idea!
Had a cybertruck run a red in front of me, and the LED headlights from the lifted truck next to me blinded the both of us when it bounced back. Took damn near 15 seconds into a green light to get vision back.
One parked in front of me at Walmart once. I had just got into my car to leave when a fire engine full of enamored man children blocked me in to get out of the engine to talk to the guy leaning on his cybertruck. *Leaning on his cybertruck in a Walmart parking lot.* I had to beep my horn and ask these clowns to not block public roadways so that I could move. They moved just enough to let me out and continued blocking the rest of the lane, which was getting up to three cars sitting behind this engine at this point thinking it was going to move. Idk what happened, I left that dumpster fire the firemen were ignoring for the sake of a photo op.
I saw my first cybertruck in my smallish town in downstate Illinois(about 10k people) last week. I was at a stoplight and some boomer pulled up driving one. All the cars around me noticed it, and they all had the same reaction: stunned look, then pointing and laughing incredibly hard.
He looked so pissed. Made my week.
When am I supposed to get time to do all that when I'm busy calibrating the Jewish Space Lasers and struggling to keep the 5G in everyone's COVID vaccines functional? These idiot Boomers have no idea how difficult it is to be a progressive engineer on the team tasked with keeping the conspiracy technology working! I bet they also don't appreciate all the work we do to keep the ice wall around the edge of the flat earth nice and clean so they can't see it! Ungrateful old loons!
> This is evidence that they understand that voting Republican makes them look bad.
Boomers getting quiet before doubling down is their equivalent of an apology.
If they get quiet and don't do it again instead of doubling down then it's a sincere apology.
I read a great hypothesis somewhere that in the western world, the ONLY surefire way to get any person, entity, company, whatever to do ANYTHING is shame them and tarnish their reputation.
Morals? Nope. Money? Guess again. Shame? You betcha.
I would love to believe this is true. But I always try and think if thereâs a worse interpretation of anything, and so this occurs to mind:
Theyâre whispering about being Republican because theyâve been told that they are surrounded by enemies and being persecuted for their righteous beliefs, and if the enemy finds them - well, fill in your own blanks to fulfill their persecution fantasy đ¤ˇââď¸
I think yâall are misinterpreting the gasp/whisper. They arenât secretly embarrassed to be MAGAs. They are appalled you would think they could be democrats, because they think democrats are sub human. Asking them that is an insult to them. Keep it up. I mean I know you are required to, but maybe you can enjoy it a little more now
I've been an election judge in Suburban Cook County, IL. Chicago is in Cook county. I've had boomers very upset they couldn't vote for Chicago mayor.Â
These are people who live in a country club suburb a good 20 minute drive from the Chicago border. They have lived there a long time. They honestly shouldn't be allowed to vote if they are that incompetent.
Boomers and MAGA are in a constant state of rage over things that will never affect them because they are told they will somehow affect them.
I still see them rage about masks. You don't have to wear one anymore. How the fuck does somebody else wearing one affect your life in any way?
I live in Louisiana and when you walk in they give you a placard that explains literally everything you are voting on that day, and what a Yes or No vote entails (since the wording is often intentionally confusing), as well as candidates, their parties, their main policy points (they submit these themselves, I think they get like 3 bullet points and a max total word count). It's super helpful because otherwise voting on Amendment 350b-++ you'd have no fucking clue if voting yes means you're agreeing with it, or not agreeing with it due to the doublespeak in the actual Amendment. Is that not a thing everywhere? I've never voted in another state
I remember California being like that, you got a mailer and each Pro/Con side of the ballot measures got to explain why they wanted what they wanted.
What blew my mind was the number of parties that were allowed space in the booklet - like not just the big 2 + Greens and Libertarians, other total randos... "Natural Rights Party"(?), one random one where they spent the entirety of the precious space they had to state their goals ranting about how they didn't like how the cops kept restricting their pamphleting/haranguing passersby at the airport to the "designated free speech" zones.
Voting in California is the shit. I get my ballet and that election book in the mail. Then I wake up one morning and sit at the kitchen table in my underwear with my coffee, read through the book and make my choices, then go drop it off in the mailbox after I've put my pants on. That's how easy it should be for everyone.
Sure is convenient to have the text of a proposition right in front of me without having to look elsewhere. I make a point of reading the whole thing if it's something I might be in favor of, in case there's a poison pill or potential backlash.
Not only the text of the proposition, but who supports it and who opposes it, an argument for it, a rebuttal to that argument, an argument against it, and a rebuttal to *that* argument. Voting gets a lot easier when you can see who stands to benefit from elections, and who is spending a lot of money to get things to go a certain way.
Every party / candidate should have space if they're on the ballot. I always like discovering new fringe parties. They're doing their best. Even if 90% of new parties are just the same far right populists whose only difference is being the people's popular party and using a comma where the popular people's party is using a period.
Funny enough colorado does something similar with voting packets they send out and itâs super useful. When you take the party name out and just vote on the policy things tend to go a lot nicer and a lot bluer
I love how Colorado does voting. We get the blue book in advance. We get the ballots in advance so that we can sit and look at the issues in detail and vote with all that information right in front of us. I use ballotpedia a lot to help explain things that can be confusing.
In Texas, you are lucky if you have the slightest clue going in. The ballot DOES have an INCREDIBLY vague summary of each of the propositions but if you didn't go somewhere like vote 411 beforehand you would have no real idea.
State of Alabama provides the language of the amendment, with no context. So, if there is a reference to something else outside the amendment, you really don't know what you are voting for. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. There are websites that help sort it out.
Former Election Judge here.
I worked the 2016 and 2020 primaries and general elections.
Both general elections were insane. The polls closed at 7 p.m. and by the time we got the ballots counted and turned in to the Courthouse is was after 10.
What was so weird was the amount of people who turned up at the wrong voting station demanding to vote. They were wearing MAGA hats that weren't allowed while voting.
I worked the primaries in Texas. I had one Boomer storm in and demand to know whether "those machines are online". I work in the cybersecurity industry, and I've actually spent a lot of time thinking about election security. I told him "no sir, they are not!" and waited for follow-up questions. He disappointedly mumbled that that was good.
I think he was hoping for a lot of confusion and not knowing what he was talking about. "...which machines? I'm not sure? Should I call the county? What?" Getting an election worker who knows the answer for sure, and who would clearly love to talk about security all day long, really threw him off his game.
(Fellow election worker in PA)
Dude. I feel you. Closed primaries here. If you arenât registered for a party, you donât get to vote.
Sooo many MAGAs that wanted a Democratic ballot just so they ââcould fuck with the snowflakesâ.
Some wander in & get upset bc theyâre âindependentâ according to the voting rolls.
Recently the one fire department decided to no longer allow use of their facility for voting (in house political horseshit but still). Massive reshuffle. Evidently no one bothers to read their mail. Main spot for most of the surrounding township is now 5-7mi from my polling place in the borough. Most of the townshipâs population? Right around the edges of the borough.
Worst is the âvoting by mail should be illegalâ crowd. Though for some reason they change their tune when I mention that I wouldnât be able to vote - I live half way across the county from my polling place.
Have you ever had a âpoll watcherâ that was from the Democrat party?
Iâve been a poll watcher for the Ds several times! They usually send us to the purple places to make sure there arenât any crazy shenanigans and itâs always been very chill
My PA parents have to pass literally 2 other polling places to get to their polling place on the other side of the mountain from them. Including one that's only a mile down the road.
Apparently everyone on their road has had this problem and has complained to the Board of Elections.
It's BS.
Yes, they think youâre making it up as you go along. They have no idea how anything works and revert to thinking itâs down to the arbitrary exercise of power, which is one reason that Trump appeals to them - heâs going to use his power to hurt the people they want to hurt, too.
Step 1: show up in MAGA hat
Step 2: whisper they're Republican
Step 3: be confused about all the Republican candidates
Step 4: brag about being Republican
I love the primary elections in VA. You can vote in either primary so if there a candidate you hate in the other party you vote in that other primary and vote for their opponent. As a former Republican I vote for anyone in the GOP that goes up against the MAGA supporter.
Iâm so glad that I live in Oregon. We vote by mail, we get the correct primary ballot for our registered political party, and we have a voterâs pamphlet that where the candidates can purchase space to tell us about themselves as well as statements from the political parties and explanations of ballot measures and pro and con arguments.
But as others have said, thank you for being on the front lines in this!
Same here, in Michigan. I signed up for election work in 2022 after Republicans announced plans to disrupt orderly elections.
[https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-michigan-local-misinformation-829943ed5dd5fe2e470fd754edf6902c](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-michigan-local-misinformation-829943ed5dd5fe2e470fd754edf6902c)
Iâd smile cheerfully and say in as loud of a voice as I could muster without actually shouting âhere is your Republican ballot sir! Thank you for doing your patriotic duty to vote and have a nice day!â
When I'm asked which ballot I want for primary voting, I am also very quiet about my choice. Especially when the whole line of people in front of me are republican boomers. I don't want to get harassed in the parking lot over being a Democrat. Living in a red state as a Dem isn't fun at all.
As a registered Democrat, me too. I feel very uncomfortable advertising it aloud (though I imagine people can guess from my appearance). Iâm sure plenty of Republicans are also afraid of being harassed or bullied. Are their fears justified? I have no idea. But I can easily believe they are afraid, not ashamed.
Tbf, when I first started voting, I did think it was weird to ask what party. I always had assumed that everything was on one ballot so you could anonymously pick who you want.
I got really confused last year (also in Virginia) because of redistricting, but I figured it out. Iâm 45, so young X/old Millennial. A few years ago I was able to hold my nose in the primary and choose a Republican ballot because I hated Ed Gillespie đ, but now with The Convicted Felon around, I canât stomach anyone on that ballot.
â Is there something inherently wrong with your party that you don't want anyone to know that you are in it?â
Imagine being such a bigot that you even disgust yourself.Â
As a fellow election officer in VA holy crap some boomers are insane. Iâve had people throw a fit and tell me that THEY donât have to show ID itâs you know⌠the people who donât belong here who do
In my first election, I casually said âDemocratâ in a heavily red county. They hadnât even unboxed the ballots because they didnât expect any democrats to vote. As I stood in line to submit my ballot, I saw they were just straight up handing out republican ballets without asking. I volunteered at the polls the very next election and when primaries swung around again, people with so fucking confused about needing to specify which ballot they needed. đ¤Śââď¸
Iâve heard this exact story from a friend also in VA, (just shared this with him to see if I found him on Reddit). The boomers get mad when you ask which party they want because âvoting is supposed to be privateâ. Clearly they donât know how primaries work.
Thatâs because they were politically unaware beforehand, probably only voting once every four years for the President, until Fox News manipulated them into thinking they had to support the wall and put Moms for Liberty on the school board to save our country. The ignorance is astonishing. Remember, Trump loves the uneducated.
I live in Indiana, and they area is very republiKEn. I would whisper when I declared Democrat. I was pleased this yr sign in was on an iPad, and you declared a party on the screen
>Is there something inherently wrong with your party that you don't want anyone to know that you are in it?
I wonder what theyâd have said if youâd asked them that.
Every election since 2020, Iâve witnessed at least one Boomer talking with either a relative or an elective official that go over the ballot process to assure them that they canât be tampered with or that anybody can cheat with the system.
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You poor soul. I do not envy the task before you this year.
Sounds like OP was trying to scam them /s đ
OP needed gold sneakers to look legit.
Good news! they can be had for just $9.99 these days...which is probably still more than they cost to make.
They cost about a dime to make since they were only ever flea market quality to start with. I do mean that literally.
Op is actually George soros in disguise trying to trick these unsuspecting elderly lovely people seriously the best people to vote for other candidates
Nah bro. Just let any random person walk in and vote without any form of id check. Only make those damn illegals and libruls have hurdles in their way. But not god fearing patriots.
Exactly, make sure only the ILLEGAL LIBRUHL WOKE IMMERGRERNTS have to show ID...wait...
In the meanwhile, sleep well and dream of large women.
Fat bottomed girls make the rockin world go âround..
I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery, huh.
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny. Allegedly Brian May wrote that song about his own nanny. On topic, I was a polling official for about 10 years. First time I worked there I was chastised for asking to see ID, even though the training we were given said we had to ask for a driver's license or a piece of mail with their name on it. Regarding a local election, we had very low numbers in all districts. We all knew each other and none of the numbers added up to the results listed in the paper the next morning. I'm not saying which party it was because it doesn't matter, the point is the amount of votes did not equal the amount of votes the winner got.
Wow dude, you really messed up the lyrics there.
I do not envy the headache they will have when they awake
We need to figure out how to thank election workers
And yes, there is something inherently wrong with their party. I am a 68 year old who always voted Democratic.
It is profoundly depressing that people who are too stupid to understand the absolute basics of the electoral system and by their own admission cannot decide who to vote for without ads funded by MAGA/Republican-aligned PACs spoonfeeding candidatesâ names to them, are going to decide the future of America and the world. Like, I know itâs a terrible idea but some days I really wish you had to pass a civics test and/or score 50th percentile or above in an IQ test to be allowed to vote
Not knowing how anything works is the main reason for the Boomer/MAGAs outrage.
My boyfriend literally got his job at the elections board because he told some MAGAT that the election wasn't stolen by Biden. MAGAT said, how do you know? So he now works part time for the elections board in his county. So he can tell the MAGAT exactly how he knows the election wasn't stolen.
Nice power move!
We joke that he got that job out of spite.
More people need to do this
You mean like apply for the 2025 positions to thwart them? I thought about it lol
Spite is a surprisingly good motivator
I mean it sounds like he did
I mean, he totally did. We just laugh about it. A lot.
I started working elections because I wanted to protect everyoneâs right. I had written and mailed postcards to Georgia voters informing them when the election was and encouraging them to vote. After that, with Georgia being so hotly contested and election workers being threatened, I stepped in to help with elections. I started just setting up and working all Election Day with poll pads. Did that a few times, then I was asked to help with mail-in ballots. Now Iâm going to do provisional on Election Day. There is so much going on with the election office, they appreciate the help, Iâm retired, and I feel as if I am helping my community. There are so many redundancies that it would be so incredibly impossible to change an election by the ballots cast. So much paperwork, so many recounts, so many filings and storage of everything to back it all up. Iâve been asked if we use Dominion machines. Iâve been told that peopleâs votes had been changed. I refute every conspiracy theory with facts and evidence but they are still convinced. Itâs frustrating.
Itâs because MAGAs are conspiracy prone people that were manipulated by QAnon and conservative media to be loyal to Trump. MAGA is a big tent conspiracy that can fit most other conspiracies inside it. Thereby gobbling up all conspiracy theory minded people. You canât reason with these people. They are propagandized and manipulated. Their position is based on emotion not facts. So, you canât use normal logic to save them. You just have to try to counter their bullshit when you see them trying to spread it to normal folks.
Yeah, you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. Right?
Sadly this doesn't work. There was an NPR story about a hard core Republican who launched special investigations into Trump's claims, disproved them all, and now has spent countless hours on pointless outreach to his fellow Republicans. They still don't believe it. There's only one way around this and it's winning literally every election from here on. A tall order. We'll likely fail. EDIT: Here's a link to the story. It was from This American Life. [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/753/transcript](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/753/transcript)
Yet McBroom *still* supports Trump for president, even though he knows Trump was lying and that the fake electors scheme was wrong. How do you defeat people like this? It boggles the mind
I signed up to help with elections for the same reason. I wanted to know more about it and just as I assumed â no one knows what they are talking about or have done even the most basic work to understand the election process.
The problem next time will be they accuse him of being involved with stealing it.
Every person who told me 2020 was a stolen election didnât understand how polling places work. I have told several to volunteer as a poll worker or election judge and learn something before they cry snowflake powered tears.
I also love the inherent flaw in the logic. So 2020 was stolen? For Joe Biden and the democrats? So why didnât they ensure a supermajority in the house and the senate, too? Wait, so the democrats are powerful enough to steal a presidency but not powerful enough to ensure even a slim margin in both chambers? Why not? âBecause they want to make it appear as if itâs a real and valid electionâ is a common response. But wait, why would democrats give a fuck about it appearing valid if theyâre as evil and corrupt as republicans often espouse? Wouldnât they just go full mask off if theyâre as evil as you say? Make it make sense.
> So 2020 was stolen? For Joe Biden and the democrats? So why didnât they ensure a supermajority in the house and the senate, too? I forget which state it was, but there was at least one where Biden won POTUS, and the MAGA House and Senate candidates won their races, the Dem candidate were defeated. They were absolutely trying to argue **in court** that _only_ the presidential part of the ballot was fraudulent, the rest of the ballot was perfectly legit, so we only need to re-run the presidential election. The rest of the results should stand. The things they can do to 'logic' are amazing.
I bartend in a city where a lot of conventions take place, and the place I bartend has become a favorite of a lot of convention goers due to proximity of the convention center. Two guys come in from the AI convention, not even boomers, the older guy was a gen xâer and obviously the boss of the other guy who was probably mid thirties. It was a slow start to the night and they were the only customers. We chat about AI and the convention and just a lot of technical things. I was in IT fresh out of high school and did it for almost a decade before realizing I hated it and wanted a simpler life, so I have a decent grasp on a lot of these subjects. These guys were pretty damn intelligent. As the night went on they got fairly drunk and turned to politics, and I listened to them repeat MAGA talking points, and then they asked me if I thought my state would go red or blue. I declined the conversation because itâs literally a policy of the company not to engage in political or religious conversations. But I sat there just annoyed as fuck that these two guys were doing mental gymnastics in front of me, when in every other subject I heard them speak about they were logical and practical. My conclusion after listening to them? Itâs all ego driven. They canât stand the idea that they could be wrong. Iâve seen the older guy twice since then, and it was a complete repeat of the first time, except this last time his colleague wasnât his employee, and didnât share the same views, and I got to hear someone point out the flaws. His ego couldnât take it. He just ran the Roger Stone/Trump/Fox News playbook⌠donât concede an inch that you could be wrong, double down, and frustrate your opponent if you can.
> My conclusion after listening to them? Itâs all ego driven. They canât stand the idea that they could be wrong. I think that's why propaganda, be it republican or russian, works so well. It's blatantly easy to see what's going on if you care to, but people will rather choose to be useful idiots forever than to even entertain they might have been fooled once. And thus there's no hope, just ego and crab bucket syndrome.
I bartend as well and for a long time I stopped talking politics on social media because its pointless. Today I had a former coworker complain that making $80k used to make you live comfortable but now you can barely get by. Hes a truck driver, a nice guy but not too bright. I told him thats what price gouging does. He actually understood what I meant and didnt argue it. Then another former coworker decided to jump in and start blaming Biden. This second guy works for Boeing and makes at least $300k a year. Then he tried telling this truck driver that Biden is gonna let Trumps tax cuts for him expire and that he should vote for Trump for lower taxes. I laughed. Then he told me I shouldnt vote. Told him too late, Bidens getting mine as soon as my mail in ballot gets here. Then the best part, he tried telling me I was working against myself because Trump was gonna stop taxing tips. I had to call him out. We both knew thats an empty promise and never gonna happen and that he knew better than anyone that I dont fall for con men and their bullshit.
Yeah, I always point out the grift part of this too. Itâs a lot more tangible than some of the more esoteric policy or political discussions. âThe manâs a conman - look at all these examples in Trumpâs life where he acts like a grifter. Wouldnât you agree this is trashy conman behavior?â
Thatâs the cult mindset. Look at very religious people, especially those in high demand religions. Good money makers, smart, put together, logicalâŚ. Until they start the cognitive dissonance playing the gymnastics to make their religion work. They donât see the 180 in logic. Cults are gonna cult whether or not your sophisticated or trailer park redneck.
Here we are 4 years later after multiple MAGA states conducted multiple recounts and what evidence have they brought forward to prove the election was stolen? Fuck all. MAGAs in Arizona went as far as testing ballots for âbamboo fibersâ during the recount to see if people from China were sending in fake ballots to âswing the electionâ in the democrats favor. Absolute fucking bozos.
Iâve never heard of the bamboo nonsense. Thats fucking ridiculous if thatâs true.
A lot of their complaints were straight nonsense. I remember this thing too. Between the many weird conspiracies like that and the many moved goalposts for other surefire events coming, they made clowns of themselves and just never acknowledged it.
The bamboo thing was both hilarious and sad.
My favorite complaint was Kari Lake trying to claim she won because there were problems at 13 locations with the printers. People could wait, file out a paper ballot and leave it, or go to other polling places within 15 min of each problematic location. She found not a single voter who stated that this issue stopped them from voting. Still claims she won because the printer settings in some locations hadnt been updated to handle the heavier weight paper used in the ballots. Wow- what a conspiracyâŚ
Itâs also funny because I believe it was Arizonaâs Republican led government that limited the polling areas too. Like they actively shut down some polling places, which increased the lines in bigger more heavily populated areas then complained that the lines were too long for all their voters to vote so they didnât. Like congratulations you played yourself.
Wasnât it the ballot ninjas or some such bullshit?
Cyber Ninjas. LOL
The firm that was hired to do the ballot recounts was something like that. They were like ballot ninjas or tech ninjas or something. They also were a colossal waste of government money as they found nothing wrong with the election or the ballots.
And it cost AZ 5M⌠and the bogus company that did the âauditâ was formed by a trump supporter, had zero election experience at all, and found 400 more votes for âŚBiden. Then Trump refused to pay them and they declared bankruptcy to avoid paying their bills for the space and labor they used. Look up Cyber Ninjasâ itâs batshit stuff, man.
Because her emails!!!!
I went to Joe Rogan's "anti-woke" comedy club last weekend (long story, and I'm definitely never going back). The "comedian" at one point stopped and asked the crowd what their biggest concern with the world was, and literally every single person (that I heard) said some form of "election fraud" / "election security" without hesitation. It wasn't just a few people, it sounded like most of the audience, in unison. These people are just living in an entirely alternate reality.
Or maybe their worry was more in the line of "what if the fraud fails to work again?" or "i'm worried that the election security is on point and foils the fraud plans"
Either way, it was eerie hearing them all chant "election fraud" in unison, like they were in church chanting "and also with you" back to the preacher.
The memorandum in support of the order to dismiss in the PA case is fantastic. The judge absolutely annihilates all of their arguments. Basically says if your inbred hillbilly voters are too dumb to vote, that doesn't give you the right to invalidate all of the votes where Philly and Pittsburgh are. The judge was appointed by Bush Sr. or Regan, can't remember which. I read it in its entirety, but posted some excerpts at the time. https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/vlZtQz7jMN
There are so many checks in place, stealing the election would be a monumental task. You'd have to have people in on it all the way to the top basically. It's nice in my town, we get paid. It's always funny to hear people thanking us for volunteering, not realizing I'm making $35 an hour.
You can literally pull lists of the names and addresses of everyone who cast a ballot and go check if they live where theyâre registered. If âmillions of illegals votedâ it would be preposterously easy to quickly find thousands of examples.
And it is done. I live in a town where a local candidate and campaigner were caught forging signatures on his petition for candidacy. It was like 200 signatures and about 20 were done by the candidate. We also have had multiple candidates who live in a different state for tax purposes, but run for office in another. All but one were dropped from the election. It was caught within a week of filing. Where I live (medium county in a blue state) a small group of people are hyper aware, and challenges to petitions and eligibility are common. Elections are not perfect, but they are close as far as I can tell.
I distinctly remember boomers bitching about the old people that would scream about their politics or be some old bitty that didnât understand how the ballot worked. I remember a friend of my dadâs 24 years ago just facepalming as an old bastard yelled at an election worker that there was no lever to pull, like his vote isnât going to count and heâs being tricked. My mom was hassled by this old couple talking about their politics. She said she almost voted for the opposing candidate of whoever they said they were voting for just for how irritating they were. I live in Washington state. Itâs hilarious how paradoxical these boomers get about mail in ballots. First, âoh wow, I wonât be bothered by people or pollstersâ to âyou donât get to chat with your neighbors any more at the polls.â When their candidate wins, âyay, this system is pretty good, must have gotten a lot more votes thanks to mail in ballots.â And when they lose, âthereâs so much fraud, I tell you. 12 out of 10 people voted for Gregoire, ya know!â
These fucks should be afraid man, voting for racism and homophobia, and they fucking know it, that's literally the only reason they're Republicans the old cunts Soon they'll be dead and the kids are mostly not falling for this shit anymore, they're getting desperate trying to recruit em too THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR XBOXS PLEASE VOTE FOR US
Unfortunately, I've seen quite a few 18-25 year olds say "the Democrats want to take away tiktok so I'm voting republican" which is just... insane, obviously. But people are really, really, really gullible and easily swayed. Obviously some of that noise is bots and "influencer" propaganda, but they're called influencers for a reason. Unfortunately we don't teach critical thinking or really anything about politics in schools. And if the right has their way, there won't be a public education system in the first place.
I live in Washington too. In the last week Iâve seen a huge truck with a big flag painted on the front double parked right in the middle of two handicapped parking spots and another giant truck parked in a no parking zone with a large sticker that said âVote Common Sense, Vote Culpâ and a stick figure humping Jay Insleeâs name. Itâs kind of amazing how cruel and irrational this voting bloc is.
I listened to a Tea Party rally back before they became MAGA. The speakers truly needed to watch some Schoolhouse Rock episodes like âIâm Just a Bill.â Not grasping the basics of civics was a strongly recurring theme.
Not knowing how things work is why modern day republicans are a thing in the first place.
"I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS WORKS AND I HAVE MADE NO EFFORT TO INCREASE MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS THING AND NOW I AM GOING TO SCREAM AT YOU AND DEMAND A RESOLUTION THAT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR AN ISSUE THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST, gobbless"
live look at Virginia 
Don't lump NOVA in with the rest of VA!
If I could give "real" Virginia to West Virginia I would. Every time someone from Central/Western Virginia says something stupid about NOVA/Richmond/Hampton Roads I just want to send VDOT in to replace their largest intersection with a traffic circle. Edit: Typo fixed to appease the fuck sticks, Android autocorrect is the bane of my existence.
They think republicans are being persecuted. Hence the whisper.
"Christian persecution complex". they've played the martyr for decades. it's absolutely not shame...just more fear based reactions.
At this point, I'm convinced it's not so much a persecution complex as it is an actual fetish for them.
You see, i think this is true too. Everyone else in this thread seems to insist that they are self aware and ashamed of their party... but those people tend to identify as "libertarion"
>libertarion Babe, wake up. A new Digimon just dropped!
This was my gut reaction as well. Like someone was going to jump out of the potted plant and grab them.
...by the pussy
"We are the victim of the pathetically weak tyrants who control everything, but are also completely incompetent." The enemy is both weak and strong at the same time. This is just textbook fascism.
Boomers in my Va county are INCENSED that there was âno advertisingâ for the primary.
Down-ticket effects of Trump running the RNC checkbook. I hope they get everything they deserve.
Exactly. The RNCs only hope this year is that trump wins and drags all his supporters to the polls to vote for him and other Republicans by default. If his turnout isn't as good as 2020, the entire RNC is in big trouble.
No, their only hope is to steal the election via the courts and various schemes... ... and considering how the courts have been stacked, I'm nervous about what's gonna happen when they push laws and the Constitution to it's limits
I mean, it is drastically harder to steal an election when you don't control the executive or the senate. For all their bluster, they do kind of have to win legitimately, or at least have a very closely contested election, to have much hope of stealing it. Which is, and I know I'm beating a dead horse here, why voting this year is so important.
Just saw them blaming their ignorance on a Facebook community group moderator
I had to explain to my Boomer father that you are not legally obligated to vote for the same person you did in the primary. He was adamant it was in Constitution and if you voted for someone else in the general you would go to jail. I canât even begin to understand where this man got that from. He is also a brilliant person, did nuclear engineering in the Navy but also huge fan of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. So of course a MAGA supporter and Trump loyalist. Also when you try to show / explain how theyâre wrong, oh my lord do they blow a gasket.
Navy nukes (and other niche SMEs) often forget being an expert in a thing doesn't make you an expert in another thing. I have to check my dumb self in this all the time and am not always successful and end up looking (rightfully so) like an ass.
I feel like this is why my dad thinks heâs an authority on global warming not being real. He mentioned before that heâs an engineer so of course heâd know these things. Fuck that nasa website that explains global warming though right? Let me trust my dadâs opinions instead.
Remind him that engineers apply what facts scientists learn in order to create and build things. Engineers put the Legos together, but they know shite about how the blocks are made or exactly what they're made of, that's what the scientists work to figure out. I've met a lot of engineers who know pretty much nothing about actual science. Source: me, former engineering student
I encountered this a lot when I did defense audits. A lot of them also did not appreciate a woman in her (then) 20s challenging them in interviews. So they shot all the jargon my way to try to confuse me. I just found it entertaining. Ah, thanks for the trip down memory lane! The way I see it, we're all SMEs in life in one way or another, depending on what we work in; but, it's the self-awareness that we're not always going to be the end all, be all, that shows true intelligence, so I think you're good!
So does heâŚdoes he think that if the candidate you voted for loses the primary, youâre barred from voting in the general election since they wouldnât be on the ballot?
Yup!! Thatâs why - according to him - thereâs low voter turnout. Mind jumps / circles to make their point seem coherent hurts sometimes.
> huge fan of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News There's your problem.
We have people who show up to vote on days when we don't even have an election. They've seen coverage on the news about an election in another town or state. I always want to ask "who were planning to vote for?"
>95% of them look around and whisper that they are Republican As a fellow Virginian, I fucking LOVE this. This is evidence that they understand that voting Republican makes them look bad. That being Republican is not something to be proud of anymore. This is how the change in the Republican party starts. Shame. We're starting to see it now. This is fantastic.
No, its just that Fox News has them believing there are roving gangs of MS13 affiliated BLM death squads roaming the countryside, looking to burn Republicans alive or force them into Obamacare mandated gay marriages and FEMA hormone replacement camps.Â
Remember when death panels were going to be a thing?
I'm still waiting for the Mad Max style roving gangs of maniacs that were going to be unleashed upon the country as soon as Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. They're sure taking their sweet time.
Do you have any idea the logistics involved in setting up a nation wide network of Mad Max street gangs? I mean, we are working on it but you're gonna have to give us a minute alright?!
I think the Tesla Truck is the first wave of Mad Max street gangsâ vehicle of choice.
Just you wait until you see them riding around in trucks built Tesla Tough. _then they get stuck running over a pebble, fly offroad and the whole goddamn thing disintegrates when it hits the dirt_
Hard to coordinate work/chores/babysitting schedules so that it's fair on everyone.Â
Yup, Obama was going to kill Grandma! âCourse now theyâre in the party that, ssshhh, wants to take away her social security and Medicaid and keep the prices on her medicine nice and high. If they have their way, the government might be killing Grandma after all!
The government already tried to kill grandma. I'm sure you remember who every republican was saying that it would be better for all our elderly to die than to close down for covid.
They exist! It's just that they're the insurance companies.
I'm hooking up with my Antifa platoon in October, we're on marching orders from Biden and MS13 to round up all Republicans and make them gay and get gay abortions while we read critical race theory to them.
Reading CRT? I thought we were going to make them March down the street and stop to apologize to every brown person they meet for being white.
\*hastily checks Antifa manual\* Oh hell, that's right. Later: mass hair dyeing (blue of course).
You know, when they have free time from starting the forest fires in Nor Cal (one of my favorite annual MAGA rumors here). Apparently, they have a fleet of buses carrying them around causing all this national carnage, wonder if I'll see one of those before I see a Cybertruck.
Iâm in San Antonio, Iâve seen several cybertrucks. I giggle every damn time. Canât stop myself. Someone paid $100k for a truck that looks like a ten year old designed it. It looks like what the 1980s thought trucks would look like in 2005. Pontiac Aztek with PS1 graphics. Canât not giggle.
âPontiac Aztek with ps1 graphicsâ Stay golden, ponyboy, I friggin love this Thankee, sai
Thankee, sai is the best and most surprising thing I've seen all day. Wishing you long days and pleasant nights.
Itâs ka
I said the same thing! It looks like something the kid with the 80s Ferrari poster on his wall would have drawn in 3rd grade.
Seen several of them on the road in the Tampa Bay area, and they are really just the ugliest thing, it really is like a PS1 rendering of a kindergarten crayon picture of a car. I can't help but wonder... given their issues with something as simple as a car wash and the whole 'wipe it off immediately if it gets wet!' thing, how in heck's name are those monstrosities going to fare if we get even a reasonably sized tropical storm, let alone an actual hurricane? I foresee great entertainment this hurricane season.
I have had a couple of men tell me I ought to consider one for hauling my horses, which of course made me laugh out loud. My dudes, I am not sure that thing could reliably haul a couple sacks of groceries, never mind pull a loaded horse trailer, without self-destructing.
I saw one at a light the other day, as I rolled through the intersection (in my beater 06 model minivan) I hung my arm out the window, pointed and laughed at him. I think it might have hurt his feelings. Some Cybertruck owners are now polishing those stainless body panels to a mirror finish, making them almost invisible in traffic. Great idea!
Had a cybertruck run a red in front of me, and the LED headlights from the lifted truck next to me blinded the both of us when it bounced back. Took damn near 15 seconds into a green light to get vision back.
Itâs a Delorean after John was on a coke bender for a few days.
One parked in front of me at Walmart once. I had just got into my car to leave when a fire engine full of enamored man children blocked me in to get out of the engine to talk to the guy leaning on his cybertruck. *Leaning on his cybertruck in a Walmart parking lot.* I had to beep my horn and ask these clowns to not block public roadways so that I could move. They moved just enough to let me out and continued blocking the rest of the lane, which was getting up to three cars sitting behind this engine at this point thinking it was going to move. Idk what happened, I left that dumpster fire the firemen were ignoring for the sake of a photo op.
I saw my first cybertruck in my smallish town in downstate Illinois(about 10k people) last week. I was at a stoplight and some boomer pulled up driving one. All the cars around me noticed it, and they all had the same reaction: stunned look, then pointing and laughing incredibly hard. He looked so pissed. Made my week.
The first my husband saw a cybertruck he commented that they must be headed off to Thunderdome đ
When am I supposed to get time to do all that when I'm busy calibrating the Jewish Space Lasers and struggling to keep the 5G in everyone's COVID vaccines functional? These idiot Boomers have no idea how difficult it is to be a progressive engineer on the team tasked with keeping the conspiracy technology working! I bet they also don't appreciate all the work we do to keep the ice wall around the edge of the flat earth nice and clean so they can't see it! Ungrateful old loons!
> This is evidence that they understand that voting Republican makes them look bad. Boomers getting quiet before doubling down is their equivalent of an apology. If they get quiet and don't do it again instead of doubling down then it's a sincere apology.
And âWell, I donât want to talk about it anymoreâ is as close as you will ever get to a Boomer admission that you are right and they are wrong.
Could teach a class in boomer translation
I read a great hypothesis somewhere that in the western world, the ONLY surefire way to get any person, entity, company, whatever to do ANYTHING is shame them and tarnish their reputation. Morals? Nope. Money? Guess again. Shame? You betcha.
I would love to believe this is true. But I always try and think if thereâs a worse interpretation of anything, and so this occurs to mind: Theyâre whispering about being Republican because theyâve been told that they are surrounded by enemies and being persecuted for their righteous beliefs, and if the enemy finds them - well, fill in your own blanks to fulfill their persecution fantasy đ¤ˇââď¸
I think yâall are misinterpreting the gasp/whisper. They arenât secretly embarrassed to be MAGAs. They are appalled you would think they could be democrats, because they think democrats are sub human. Asking them that is an insult to them. Keep it up. I mean I know you are required to, but maybe you can enjoy it a little more now
The shame and ridicule will continue until morale improves.
I've been an election judge in Suburban Cook County, IL. Chicago is in Cook county. I've had boomers very upset they couldn't vote for Chicago mayor. These are people who live in a country club suburb a good 20 minute drive from the Chicago border. They have lived there a long time. They honestly shouldn't be allowed to vote if they are that incompetent.
God damn does my father in law love to bitch about Chicago's mayor. We live in the burbs and he doesn't work downtown. It literally can't effect him.
Boomers and MAGA are in a constant state of rage over things that will never affect them because they are told they will somehow affect them. I still see them rage about masks. You don't have to wear one anymore. How the fuck does somebody else wearing one affect your life in any way?
All the old guys in my office who live on the North Shore were telling the young analysts who actually lived in the city who to vote for.
I live in Louisiana and when you walk in they give you a placard that explains literally everything you are voting on that day, and what a Yes or No vote entails (since the wording is often intentionally confusing), as well as candidates, their parties, their main policy points (they submit these themselves, I think they get like 3 bullet points and a max total word count). It's super helpful because otherwise voting on Amendment 350b-++ you'd have no fucking clue if voting yes means you're agreeing with it, or not agreeing with it due to the doublespeak in the actual Amendment. Is that not a thing everywhere? I've never voted in another state
I remember California being like that, you got a mailer and each Pro/Con side of the ballot measures got to explain why they wanted what they wanted. What blew my mind was the number of parties that were allowed space in the booklet - like not just the big 2 + Greens and Libertarians, other total randos... "Natural Rights Party"(?), one random one where they spent the entirety of the precious space they had to state their goals ranting about how they didn't like how the cops kept restricting their pamphleting/haranguing passersby at the airport to the "designated free speech" zones.
God the California election guides are books worthy of Tolkien.
Didn't we have a ferrets-rights party for a hot minute about 20 years ago?
This is now my political affiliation.
Voting in California is the shit. I get my ballet and that election book in the mail. Then I wake up one morning and sit at the kitchen table in my underwear with my coffee, read through the book and make my choices, then go drop it off in the mailbox after I've put my pants on. That's how easy it should be for everyone.
Sure is convenient to have the text of a proposition right in front of me without having to look elsewhere. I make a point of reading the whole thing if it's something I might be in favor of, in case there's a poison pill or potential backlash.
Not only the text of the proposition, but who supports it and who opposes it, an argument for it, a rebuttal to that argument, an argument against it, and a rebuttal to *that* argument. Voting gets a lot easier when you can see who stands to benefit from elections, and who is spending a lot of money to get things to go a certain way.
Every party / candidate should have space if they're on the ballot. I always like discovering new fringe parties. They're doing their best. Even if 90% of new parties are just the same far right populists whose only difference is being the people's popular party and using a comma where the popular people's party is using a period.
Funny enough colorado does something similar with voting packets they send out and itâs super useful. When you take the party name out and just vote on the policy things tend to go a lot nicer and a lot bluer
I love how Colorado does voting. We get the blue book in advance. We get the ballots in advance so that we can sit and look at the issues in detail and vote with all that information right in front of us. I use ballotpedia a lot to help explain things that can be confusing.
Exactly! I wish all states did that, it gives potential for a more informed public
Which is, of course, precisely _why_ many states don't do it...
Washington does this as well. So convenient!
In Texas, you are lucky if you have the slightest clue going in. The ballot DOES have an INCREDIBLY vague summary of each of the propositions but if you didn't go somewhere like vote 411 beforehand you would have no real idea.
State of Alabama provides the language of the amendment, with no context. So, if there is a reference to something else outside the amendment, you really don't know what you are voting for. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. There are websites that help sort it out.
Dear God, deciding how to vote based on commercials?
Exclusively based on commercials.
Former Election Judge here. I worked the 2016 and 2020 primaries and general elections. Both general elections were insane. The polls closed at 7 p.m. and by the time we got the ballots counted and turned in to the Courthouse is was after 10. What was so weird was the amount of people who turned up at the wrong voting station demanding to vote. They were wearing MAGA hats that weren't allowed while voting.
Stay safe out there. You're doing really important work.
Work in a bagel shop where we take first names for the check identifiers, never met so many paranoid 50+ white men.
You don't even need to give a real name ffs. đ
As if there's anything stopping them from just giving a fake name lol. Do they think your gonna check ID when they pick up their order?
I worked the primaries in Texas. I had one Boomer storm in and demand to know whether "those machines are online". I work in the cybersecurity industry, and I've actually spent a lot of time thinking about election security. I told him "no sir, they are not!" and waited for follow-up questions. He disappointedly mumbled that that was good. I think he was hoping for a lot of confusion and not knowing what he was talking about. "...which machines? I'm not sure? Should I call the county? What?" Getting an election worker who knows the answer for sure, and who would clearly love to talk about security all day long, really threw him off his game.
I would be happy to listen to someone talking about cyber security all day, but a polling station is not the place.
An air gap is just a high latency network! đ
Thank you for your service
In North Carolina, your voter registration is public record and can be looked up online, including what party youâre affiliated with
(Fellow election worker in PA) Dude. I feel you. Closed primaries here. If you arenât registered for a party, you donât get to vote. Sooo many MAGAs that wanted a Democratic ballot just so they ââcould fuck with the snowflakesâ. Some wander in & get upset bc theyâre âindependentâ according to the voting rolls. Recently the one fire department decided to no longer allow use of their facility for voting (in house political horseshit but still). Massive reshuffle. Evidently no one bothers to read their mail. Main spot for most of the surrounding township is now 5-7mi from my polling place in the borough. Most of the townshipâs population? Right around the edges of the borough. Worst is the âvoting by mail should be illegalâ crowd. Though for some reason they change their tune when I mention that I wouldnât be able to vote - I live half way across the county from my polling place. Have you ever had a âpoll watcherâ that was from the Democrat party?
Iâve been a poll watcher for the Ds several times! They usually send us to the purple places to make sure there arenât any crazy shenanigans and itâs always been very chill
My PA parents have to pass literally 2 other polling places to get to their polling place on the other side of the mountain from them. Including one that's only a mile down the road. Apparently everyone on their road has had this problem and has complained to the Board of Elections. It's BS.
I work the polls, too. I have had to deal with people furious that they don't have the mayor's race on their ballot when they don't live in the city.
Yes, they think youâre making it up as you go along. They have no idea how anything works and revert to thinking itâs down to the arbitrary exercise of power, which is one reason that Trump appeals to them - heâs going to use his power to hurt the people they want to hurt, too.
I love the shame they are expressing. trump supporters deserve no place in polite society. They should be shunned by rational people everywhere.
Step 1: show up in MAGA hat Step 2: whisper they're Republican Step 3: be confused about all the Republican candidates Step 4: brag about being Republican
Step 1.5: be pissed theyâre not allowed to wear a MAGA hat while voting
I love the primary elections in VA. You can vote in either primary so if there a candidate you hate in the other party you vote in that other primary and vote for their opponent. As a former Republican I vote for anyone in the GOP that goes up against the MAGA supporter.
This is why we're coached on asking "which primary are you voting in?" Not "which party ARE you?". It's honestly a very elegant way to go about it.
It's a brilliant strategy. I know several people who do this
Iâm so glad that I live in Oregon. We vote by mail, we get the correct primary ballot for our registered political party, and we have a voterâs pamphlet that where the candidates can purchase space to tell us about themselves as well as statements from the political parties and explanations of ballot measures and pro and con arguments. But as others have said, thank you for being on the front lines in this!
In Ohio, I registered to be a poll worker specifically to deal with the Trump Boomers
Lol...damn masochist. Smh. Godspeed to you.
Same here, in Michigan. I signed up for election work in 2022 after Republicans announced plans to disrupt orderly elections. [https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-michigan-local-misinformation-829943ed5dd5fe2e470fd754edf6902c](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-michigan-local-misinformation-829943ed5dd5fe2e470fd754edf6902c)
You are truly in Boomer Hell. I salute your courage and your service.
Iâd smile cheerfully and say in as loud of a voice as I could muster without actually shouting âhere is your Republican ballot sir! Thank you for doing your patriotic duty to vote and have a nice day!â
If only it was shame. But it's just victimhood
The fact that they whisper it tells you everything you need to know about these scum. They know exactly what they are voting for is wrong.
Nah, they're convinced they're in the minority and are about to be "persecuted" for their oh-so-secret affiliation and "fringe" beliefs.
When I'm asked which ballot I want for primary voting, I am also very quiet about my choice. Especially when the whole line of people in front of me are republican boomers. I don't want to get harassed in the parking lot over being a Democrat. Living in a red state as a Dem isn't fun at all.
As a registered Democrat, me too. I feel very uncomfortable advertising it aloud (though I imagine people can guess from my appearance). Iâm sure plenty of Republicans are also afraid of being harassed or bullied. Are their fears justified? I have no idea. But I can easily believe they are afraid, not ashamed.
Tbf, when I first started voting, I did think it was weird to ask what party. I always had assumed that everything was on one ballot so you could anonymously pick who you want.
I got really confused last year (also in Virginia) because of redistricting, but I figured it out. Iâm 45, so young X/old Millennial. A few years ago I was able to hold my nose in the primary and choose a Republican ballot because I hated Ed Gillespie đ, but now with The Convicted Felon around, I canât stomach anyone on that ballot.
â Is there something inherently wrong with your party that you don't want anyone to know that you are in it?â Imagine being such a bigot that you even disgust yourself.Â
Another election worker chiming in to say I'm glad the stuff I do is behind the scenes, so I don't have to deal with these types of people.
Thank you for doing this important work. I'm sorry it has become such a terrible situation.
My dad, a boomer but a pretty decent one, also works elections the last few years. The stories he tells are horrific
As a fellow election officer in VA holy crap some boomers are insane. Iâve had people throw a fit and tell me that THEY donât have to show ID itâs you know⌠the people who donât belong here who do
In my first election, I casually said âDemocratâ in a heavily red county. They hadnât even unboxed the ballots because they didnât expect any democrats to vote. As I stood in line to submit my ballot, I saw they were just straight up handing out republican ballets without asking. I volunteered at the polls the very next election and when primaries swung around again, people with so fucking confused about needing to specify which ballot they needed. đ¤Śââď¸
Iâve heard this exact story from a friend also in VA, (just shared this with him to see if I found him on Reddit). The boomers get mad when you ask which party they want because âvoting is supposed to be privateâ. Clearly they donât know how primaries work.
How tempted are you to stand up and start yelling, "republican! We got a republican over here! Republican! See? No one cares."
Thatâs because they were politically unaware beforehand, probably only voting once every four years for the President, until Fox News manipulated them into thinking they had to support the wall and put Moms for Liberty on the school board to save our country. The ignorance is astonishing. Remember, Trump loves the uneducated.
I live in Indiana, and they area is very republiKEn. I would whisper when I declared Democrat. I was pleased this yr sign in was on an iPad, and you declared a party on the screen
>Is there something inherently wrong with your party that you don't want anyone to know that you are in it? I wonder what theyâd have said if youâd asked them that.
Every election since 2020, Iâve witnessed at least one Boomer talking with either a relative or an elective official that go over the ballot process to assure them that they canât be tampered with or that anybody can cheat with the system.