The Doom Thread: Gloom, Despair, Agony

I learned a very important lesson during the pandemic. A large segment of society will decide that wearing a mask is too much of an inconvenience to potentially save the lives of people around them, especially the most vulnerable.

Think of voting for the orange Hitler-loving felon as a virus. Many people will decide that voting for Kamala is too much of an inconvenience to potentially save the lives of people around them, especially the most vulnerable.

 

One of my brothers voted for Trump, I heard through the grapevine. I haven’t talked to him yet, but apparently he said both choices are awful/evil, so whatever. My SIL is not impressed. Neither am I. Just leave it blank if you don’t care! Clearly, a cop out statement for some actual reason he checked the Trump box.

My wife voted some all-female radical group for Pres. We are in Utah, and regardless what we vote, Trump can only do as bad as Mike Lee did, which is win by 10+pts. I asked if she at least didn’t vote for Jill Stein. She asked me why, and I joked that Jill is a Russian agent, and she lost it for about 3minutes straight, thinking I was dead serious. When the dust settled, I told her it was a joke but still serious that a vote for her is awful. Because she’s ineffective? No, because she is actually counterproductive, making things worse than if she wasn’t there at all.

Anyhow, my doom scale is much closer to a 9-10. All the copium posts actually leave me feeling more doom and dread, as it just makes me relive the trauma of 2016, when I couldn’t fathom Trump winning at all. I’m a complete wreck, and have zero hope that RSL will make it to game 3.

All is lost.

 

You can always take solace that the Sounders still have a chance to advance!

 

It would only be solace if both the sounders and Houston could be eliminated for the year, immediately.

 

Latter. But I agree, the distinction is academic. The result is the same.

 

Are we toast yet?

 

I actually think Harris has a good chance of winning this. I just don't think conservatism/libertarianism/centrism will allow things to improve during her time.

 

Well, the invisible hand of the free market is talking. And it's scared.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/11/01/business-boarding-up-near-white-house-election

 

It's not the only one.

 

Just a bunch of crumbs.

 

Is anyone else's stress level at 10 yet?

 

You should just start drinking that champagne now.

 

I'm going to contribute to this thread every time I have a nervous shit between now and 7pm EST tomorrow.

We're ********ed.

 

Inspire me, Hillary!

 

Doomed.

The lady who cuts my hair, who I've known for twenty years, migrated to the USA from Vietnam and has her own little barber shop. She told me that she was voting for Trump because she didn't think "that woman" would be tough on China (and yes, I know that being tough on China is a big deal to her).

I told her that on day one of a Trump administration the owner of the Hair Cuttery down the street might ask the authorities to deport her and her family and she might get rounded up, citizen paperwork or no citizen paperwork because she looks foreign and talks with a funny accent. She was a bit shocked, I think, because I'm an old grey-haired white dude. She wanted to make sure we could still be friendly since she is on the other side of a demonic democrat like myself.

I got some tacos today. Hispanic gentlemen in line talking to his buddies in Spanish, wearing a KNOCK-OFF Trump hat. Like, he had one custom made at an embrodery shop. A white hat with red TRUMP 2024 lettering. Part of me hopes he wears that to avoid getting yelled at by his supervisors. But really, some people are niave. "When Trump says he's going to round up 20 million immigrants, he doesn't mean ME?!! I'm not a criminal, and I have some paperwork."

 

My (now ex) partner said the same thing. I" have paperwork and can't be rounded up. And my kids were born here and I'm naturalized." I couldn't quite get through how little that matters when you're from Africa and look Mexican and pray to Allah and how you poisoned the American blood with her kids, according to these folk. She's voting Stein which, in Florida, probably doesn't matter but she didn't believe me. C'est la vie.

 

Maybe he's wearing the hat in hopes they won't round him up, only Harris-supporting Hispanics!

I suppose instead of helping mom move to France, I could have just bought her a MAGA hat to help her blend in . Of course, I'd have to glue it to her head, given how much she despises him.

 

Please flush.

And wash your hands for AT LEAST 20seconds after a shit.

 

Why am I voting for Kamala, again? I keep forgetting. And she really hasn’t made a strong case, or I am too drunk to remember. Even odds.