Sunday Reads: Voting Observations
Posted: October 25, 2020 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: 2020 Elections, Biden Harris 2020, COVID19, morning reads |11 Comments
“I secured my vote.” What a ridiculous thing to put on a voting sticker in Georgia…where secure and vote are two words that just don’t go well together.
And let me say, there is a new type of voter intimidation. The no mask wearing kind. Out of the say ten to fifteen people at my early voting site in Habersham County…only one was wearing a mask. ( And you can bet your ass I went to them.) I’m not trusting my vote to some tRumper who is obviously making a point by refusing to wear a mask during a pandemic! The message was loud and clear.
It is so fucking disgusting. #MaskUpAndVote
This next video made me cry:
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Innit that wonderful.
The link to the Rick Fleming tote is here.
And you can find more about Sage Studio at:
https://www.sagestudioatx.com/
Here are a few things for this morning:
This next video also made me cry, but for a different reason.
On the first day of early voting in Red Hook, @NYPD76Pct officers confronted community activists handing out PPE in front of an early polling site & then seized it. This is unacceptable, the NYPD must issue clear guidelines & not escalate situations at the polls. pic.twitter.com/vcB5Am9IXa
— Carlos Menchaca 萬齊家 (@NYCCouncil38) October 24, 2020
View this post on InstagramTouch choice, America. #vote #fleshcavernturkeythroat #lockhimup #thedailydon
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View this post on InstagramThis cartoon from @daveostowdraws is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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View this post on InstagramThis is deeply disturbing, friends. ⠀ Read more through the link in my bio.
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We all need a laugh.
View this post on InstagramA cartoon by @RozChast. #NewYorkerCartoons
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View this post on InstagramThe human form can only contain demonic possession for so long before rotting.
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A few other updates and news stories:
Yesterday's record-shattering day of new COVID-19 cases was just the beginning. What the next few months will look like, how we got here, and what you can do to prepare—
“We’re not even near the peak,” said @WmHaseltine. “It’s going to get a lot worse.” https://t.co/JeTAKhc1k6
— Olivia Messer 🌻 (@OliviaMesser) October 24, 2020
"That's all I hear about now. Turn on TV, 'Covid, Covid, Covid Covid Covid.' A plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don't talk about it. 'Covid Covid Covid Covid.' By the way, on November 4th, you won't hear about it anymore … 'please don't go and vote, Covid!'" — Trump pic.twitter.com/1bh7x2RSTy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 24, 2020
Surreal photos of today’s destruction of the ‘murder hornet’ nest found in Washington State 😱 https://t.co/W5qNjnIEWU
— Natasha Daly (@natashaldaly) October 24, 2020
Of course. Let it cost her seat. https://t.co/tEJzHeLQjk
— Wajahat "Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic" Ali (@WajahatAli) October 24, 2020
deeply cruel https://t.co/xTdc96d6NB
— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) October 25, 2020
I’m supposed to have compassion for this person? Don’t get me started. https://t.co/5Z5D7kEVV2
— pizzmoe™ #WearAMask #BidenHarris2020 #VOTE (@pizzmoe) October 25, 2020
On that note, I’ll end it there.
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Thanks for the updates, I especially liked the one about the hornets because I wondered how they would deal with them and I am so tired of thinking about this election.
Yeah that was amazing!
The nest was finally found just a few days ago, and I read they were going to destroy it Saturday. I hope that it was the only nest. If the hornets are free to multiply it’s good-bye to honeybee pollination and most of the fruits and vegetables we like.
The entomologists say it’s like there are a few more nests, all in that region. Plus, with this nifty radio transmitter method to track the little monsters to their lairs, the exterminators will likely get them all before the queens can reproduce. So there’s hope.
Not surprised there’d be a few more nests around. However the Ag field scientists caught at least 4 hornets at different times and tried to attach transmitters. Only 1 stayed on the hornet all the way back to its nest. They tried glue and dental floss ties. Apparently the hornets chewed through the dental floss.
I’m sure the BC folks are doing their best too with finding and exterminating these vicious insects.
Can we hopefully say it is almost over? The Trump Circus that came to town unexpectedly is finally drawing in on “closing night”? Can we say with any conviction that the end is really near?
I certainly hope so but I won’t sleep until the finale is assured on November 3rd. This guy and his “insane posse” are too corrupt and thirsty for power to accept the outcome if it does not go their way.
Only a complete outpouring of the voting public can bring this travesty to a halt. Only then can the message be sent loud and clear that enough is enough of this lawlessness and criminality that illustrates the Trump administration so we must all do our part and GOTV!
He needs to go! He and those who have enabled him for 4 years need to be sent packing with an edict of never to be heard from again!
If not we can expect even worse than what we have already experienced.
America,do your duty. Restore us to some form of “normal” before we all fall off the cliff forever.
VOTE HIM OUT!!!
I want to see him in an orange jumpsuit in a mug shot
Minus his makeup and hair styling.
I’ve almost completely lost sympathy for all the young people out there partying like it’s 2019, and completely lost it for all the anti-mask maggats who get this thing. They’re a burden on the front-line health care workers and now the rest of us have to worry about getting in for treatment for regular reasons.
My maggat brother’s wife was hospitalized Thursday and diagnosed with MS. Luckily the hospital was not crowded. Her case may not be severe, and I am thankful for that but if she needs treatment at the peak of this next outbreak and can’t get in…..I’m going to have trouble sympathizing. Her saving grace is she’s Australian and doesn’t vote although they are both maggats.
Senate Dems taking over floor all night to protest Phoney Barrett- can watch here
https://www.c-span.org/video/?477226-1/senate-limits-debate-30-hours-judge-barrett-confirmation-final-vote-expected-monday-evening&live
I love the mind-body problem cartoon!