Prickly City by Scott Stantis for November 03, 2020

The message he should have been pushing for weeks now.

yes, because of course come 12am Nov 4th the secret murder squads are going to come out and sweep the losing party’s supporters to the mass graves. Just like in 2016….oh wait…human apathy for the win.

Stantis provides anxiety, stomach aches, paralysis, space travel, etc. for most of election season. Now, all of a sudden, he has discovered The Solution.

Not your finest six weeks, Stantis.

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Didja just now notice the 235,000 covid deaths thanks to Trump?

Stantis stole that from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic virtual Convention!

I’ve lived through enough Presidential elections to say that not much actually changes from one term to the next. Every once in a while something big happens, most of the time that’s outside the office itself and has more to do with response.That being said, exercise your democratic right and vote. As you do so, consider how that person will react when the excrement hits the rotating oscillator.

VOTE! (will the republicans let me?)

Prayer for the day.

Omniscient Father in Heaven, we give thanks that you have brought us through another election in our country. We pray you would fill all those in leadership roles with your compassion, wisdom, and resolve to make sacrifices, and right decisions for the common good of man. Let our leaders be guided by your holy spirit, and not by selfish ambition, pride, or greed. Give them grace and humility, yet strength of character, and commitment to promote your will throughout the world. May they ever be aware that you are our creator, our savior, and our redeemer; and without you no real peace, no real joy, and no true victory is achievable. Change our hearts, O God, and make us better people. Amen

My wife and I were in line at 6:25 at the polls this morning. There were 5 couples ahead of us. All done! Voted blue top to bottom. We did our part.

Polls are opening across the US today for Election Day. But around 100 million Americans had already voted, an unprecedented shift that is projected to be part of a record voter turnout.

This year’s early voters represent a huge increase from 2016. In that contest almost 139 million people voted, with a around a third of the votes cast ahead of Election Day.

Some 99.7 million votes had been cast as of 1. a.m. ET on Tuesday, according to the US Elections Project. Those early votes are equal to 72.3% of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election.

This is made up of more than 35 million early in-person votes, and almost 64 million returned mail-in ballots.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/election-day-polls-open-around-100-million-americans-voted-early-2020-11

Repug’s strategy is to delay the mail, intimidate voters, exclude voters, refuse ballots, and use the courts (w/newly packed SCOTUS) to steal the election

Dem’s strategy is to just vote.

I remember, when Stantis was relevant.

The Interpreter: Democracy reform in America? The big taboo about American politics after Tuesday. In the United States, it was not until the 1960s that it became seen as unpatriotic and politically extreme to revisit those rules. The last supporters of segregation, mostly in the Senate, opposed changes that would have curbed the special privileges granted white southerners under 18th- and 19th-century compromises meant to avert the physical breakup of the union. In 1969, shortly after Gallup found that 80 percent of Americans supported replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote, and the House voted overwhelmingly to do just that, a handful of southern Senators killed the measure. If root-and-branch democracy reform for the United States feels strange or wrong, it’s worth asking yourself why. It’s not because there is something sacred about the rules, which were regularly retooled from the moment of the country’s founding up through World War II.

Heavily condensed, apologies to Ms. Taub. Personally, I think there are advantages to the presidential model if it can be made Trump-proof. Since Republicans have destroyed their party, the Democratic party’s coalition of factions functions kind of like a parliamentary system itself. We got along fine without a second party for a few decades after the Federalist party died.

The vast majority of people have no idea who Jerome Powell is, yet he has more power over our daily lives than any elected politician has ever had.

We should discourage; not encourage the MAGA’s to vote.

VOTE

For some reason, I feel like watching, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” today.

VOTE!!

If you don’t, you are trusting me to pick our next leaders.

I thought this strip’s theme to oppose all the division. If you truly believe your life depends on voting, you need to move to another country.

Already voted! Be not afraid…

This made me relax and sigh. Remember when policy nerds made government actually work?

The Quiet Architect of Biden’s Plan to Rescue the Economy — Ben Harris is not a household name, even in economics. But he helped develop a package of tax and spending increases that has not spooked Wall Street. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/business/biden-economist.html

No “sorta” about it.

We’ve had four years of “bull in the china shop.”

Not much left to eat off of anymore except the floor.

Tables and dishes are all gone.

Texans, don’t let yourselves be intimidated by morons in black pickups. If you still haven’t voted, get out there now!

Took care of that 2 weeks ago. Now it’s just bourbon and Xanax and Colbert’s election special. Or something on Disney +. Haven’t decided.

Robin Hood, do I have permission to use your prayer?