Official BearInsider Election Day Thread

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In reply to Haloski • 8:36a, 11/7/24
Haloski said:
Amen, brother.

Fortunately, the guy that oversaw a 40.43% growth in our national debt during his previous four years in office sure seems like the right person to responsibly and safely handle this situation. I'm so glad we didn't choose from any other alternatives on the conservative side. He's the right guy for this one.

LET'S GET THIS!

MAGA!


A majority of the population saw through this smear because they realize a once in a lifetime pandemic ripped up the US towards the end of Trump's term. Every country in the world grew their national debt to help its citizens while their economies were shut down.
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In reply to oski003 • 9:22a, 11/7/24
oski003 said:
Haloski said:
Amen, brother.

Fortunately, the guy that oversaw a 40.43% growth in our national debt during his previous four years in office sure seems like the right person to responsibly and safely handle this situation. I'm so glad we didn't choose from any other alternatives on the conservative side. He's the right guy for this one.

LET'S GET THIS!

MAGA!



A majority of the population saw through this smear because they realize a once in a lifetime pandemic ripped up the US towards the end of Trump's term. Every country in the world grew their national debt to help its citizens while their economies were shut down.


What I'm saying is, he's the guy to fix this!

To your point, remove the effects of COVID and average out the other years: only on track to grow the national debt by a mere 4.5ish trillion in four years. I see what you're saying and I gotta say: you're right! I gave you a like in support!

Conservatives chose their candidate well, just as Libs chose the right person for them.

He's got this! I have faith in him to fix this and so should you.

MAGA!
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10:55a, 11/7/24
Meanwhile, Maricopa County, Arizona is still counting ballots. What a joke!
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11:13a, 11/7/24


Congratulations to the Rasmussen Poll for their accurate numbers again in this election. But look at the abysmal numbers from CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post.
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In reply to bear2034 • 11:50a, 11/7/24
bear2034 said:


Congratulations to the Rasmussen Poll for their accurate numbers again in this election. But look at the abysmal numbers from CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post.
Thank you for sharing this. We need to remember it. (I remembered that one guy on X was full of ****, couldn't have been more wrong in 2020)
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12:23p, 11/7/24
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12:53p, 11/7/24



More Republicans live in California than any other state.
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In reply to bear2034 • 12:55p, 11/7/24
bear2034 said:

Racist, misogynist Californians rejecting Kamala because of her skin color and V
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In reply to bear2034 • 12:58p, 11/7/24
bear2034 said:



More Republicans live in California than any other state.


Is California going to break away from the US and declare war on Russia?
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In reply to tequila4kapp • 1:14p, 11/7/24
tequila4kapp said:
bear2034 said:


Congratulations to the Rasmussen Poll for their accurate numbers again in this election. But look at the abysmal numbers from CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post.
Thank you for sharing this. We need to remember it. (I remembered that one guy on X was full of ****, couldn't have been more wrong in 2020)
The thing about these polls is that they are "most accurate" when Trump is on the ballot. In midterms they have been bad.

Not that it matters much if you're looking at aggregates of polls, which had this pegged as roughly a 50/50 race and it winding up around 51/49 means they were collectively pretty accurate.
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In reply to bear2034 • 1:22p, 11/7/24
bear2034 said:

Even your Democrat friends voted for Trump.

All my friends are Democrats and none of them voted for Trump. I will say this: If I had a friend who voted for Trump, he would still be my friend.

Anybody calling this election a "landslide" doesn't know what the term means. If you want to call it a "clean sweep" or something like that, fine. What was the popular vote, 51%-47%? Both houses of Congress are fairly evenly split. That's not a landslide, no matter who says it is.
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In reply to oski003 • 1:22p, 11/7/24
oski003 said:
bear2034 said:

More Republicans live in California than any other state.
Is California going to break away from the US and declare war on Russia?

California might break away and declare war on Donald Trump.
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In reply to Big C • 1:23p, 11/7/24
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bear2034 said:
Even your Democrat friends voted for Trump.
All my friends are Democrats and none of them voted for Trump.
That's what they say....
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In reply to bear2034 • 1:28p, 11/7/24
bear2034 said:

Even your Democrat friends voted for Trump.
I don't doubt some did, Harris was not the best candidate and Walz didn't help much

VOTE BLUE
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In reply to MinotStateBeav • 1:31p, 11/7/24
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DiabloWags said:
Don't forget the $75 BILLION in TARIFFS that will cost the average American family $2,500 a year.
I'm more worried that we're paying a Trillion in interest payments on our 35 Trillion in debt.
Mango Man is great at increasing the debt

VOTE BLUE
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In reply to Big C • 1:53p, 11/7/24
Big C said:
bear2034 said:

Even your Democrat friends voted for Trump.

All my friends are Democrats and none of them voted for Trump. I will say this: If I had a friend who voted for Trump, he would still be my friend.

Anybody calling this election a "landslide" doesn't know what the term means. If you want to call it a "clean sweep" or something like that, fine. What was the popular vote, 51%-47%? Both houses of Congress are fairly evenly split. That's not a landslide, no matter who says it is.
Elections have gotten so close in recent years that people have forgotten what an actual "landslide" is.

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In reply to sycasey • 2:02p, 11/7/24

Interesting to look at the distribution of electors from back in 1984 and compare it to today. NY used to be a fair amount bigger in population than Texas.
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In reply to Big C • 2:50p, 11/7/24
Big C said:
bear2034 said:

Even your Democrat friends voted for Trump.

All my friends are Democrats and none of them voted for Trump. I will say this: If I had a friend who voted for Trump, he would still be my friend.

Anybody calling this election a "landslide" doesn't know what the term means. If you want to call it a "clean sweep" or something like that, fine. What was the popular vote, 51%-47%? Both houses of Congress are fairly evenly split. That's not a landslide, no matter who says it is.
None of your friends admitted they voted for Trump, but quite possibly some of them did.

The Tom Bradley effect is certainly at play here, particularly in California where openly supporting Trump is not well received in "polite circles".
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2:56p, 11/7/24
RFK Jr. had over 600,000 votes, as much as Jill Stein.
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In reply to bear2034 • 3:54p, 11/7/24
bear2034 said:
oski003 said:
bear2034 said:

More Republicans live in California than any other state.
Is California going to break away from the US and declare war on Russia?

California might break away and declare war on Donald Trump.


Peace is "bizarre and potentially dangerous" for Gavin Newsom- literally Orwell.
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In reply to bear2034 • 9:38p, 11/7/24
bear2034 said:



More Republicans live in California than any other state.
That didn't seem possible so I looked it up. Florida and Texas both had over 6 million votes for Trump; he got 4.2 million in CA. That's just a proxy for the number of republicans, but a difference that large looks dispositive to me.
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In reply to chazzed • 4:41a, 11/8/24
chazzed said:
Congrats! You're gonna lose your Social Security, but at least you helped Elon Musk add another $100 billion to his fortune.
This is nonsense on social security or you are funny
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In reply to Goobear • 5:01a, 11/8/24
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chazzed said:
Congrats! You're gonna lose your Social Security, but at least you helped Elon Musk add another $100 billion to his fortune.
This is nonsense on social security or you are funny
The absolute easiest change to SS would be to eliminate the cap on income that is subjected to SS while simultaneously capping the dollar amount one can receive from SS. I don't know one very wealthy person who is counting on SS for anything.
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In reply to 82gradDLSdad • 6:27a, 11/8/24
" I don't know one very wealthy person who is counting on SS for anything"

Which is why the Republicans will have no problem screwing it up. It would not hurt any constituents they actually care about.

And, do it right, and some of their favorite constituents get even wealthier. Win win.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
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In reply to 82gradDLSdad • 6:33a, 11/8/24
82gradDLSdad said:
Goobear said:
chazzed said:
Congrats! You're gonna lose your Social Security, but at least you helped Elon Musk add another $100 billion to his fortune.
This is nonsense on social security or you are funny
The absolute easiest change to SS would be to eliminate the cap on income that is subjected to SS while simultaneously capping the dollar amount one can receive from SS. I don't know one very wealthy person who is counting on SS for anything.
Is there a legit policy reason any income is excluded from SS tax? Tax it all.
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In reply to tequila4kapp • 6:36a, 11/8/24
Because conservatives who pretend to be Christians don't want to give up any of their money to help others.

The Republican motto is: "We got ours, everyone else can fu@& off! MAGA!!!!!"
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
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In reply to tequila4kapp • 6:37a, 11/8/24
tequila4kapp said:
82gradDLSdad said:
Goobear said:
chazzed said:
Congrats! You're gonna lose your Social Security, but at least you helped Elon Musk add another $100 billion to his fortune.
This is nonsense on social security or you are funny
The absolute easiest change to SS would be to eliminate the cap on income that is subjected to SS while simultaneously capping the dollar amount one can receive from SS. I don't know one very wealthy person who is counting on SS for anything.
Is there a legit policy reason any income is excluded from SS tax? Tax it all.
Exactly.
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In reply to AunBear89 • 6:39a, 11/8/24
Right. It's all one sided. If only Dems were the only party. It'd be an ongoing party in this country. Half of us our idiots.
Do I have it right? Uh, I mean left?
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In reply to 82gradDLSdad • 6:51a, 11/8/24
Didn't say anything of the sort. I was specifically addressing your question about SS and why some Republicans want to screw with it.

Yes - Democrats suck, too. In fact: American voters as a whole suck because they keep nominating sucky candidates for national office. It's always been a question of which side sucks less.
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In reply to harebear • 7:58a, 11/8/24
harebear said:
those questions are largely posed in D favorable way. What is happening today isn't the only meaningful measure. Crime, inflation and the border had prolonged periods of substantial problems. People remember the full 4 years, not just yesterday
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In reply to harebear • 8:01a, 11/8/24
harebear said:
If only super smart, well educated, well informed people would vote we'd all be better off. I'll remind my democrat BIL college dropout that Nordstrom really should have found a smarter guy to be CMO. They'd be better off too.
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In reply to harebear • 8:01a, 11/8/24
harebear said:
I really question the sincerity and integrity of liberal elites. Aside from the stock market being at all-time highs, the other three categories conveniently disregard increased crime, inflation and immigration over the entirety of Biden's term - not just the last few months. The electorate is not as stupid as liberals seem to think they are.
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In reply to harebear • 9:17a, 11/8/24
What a great idea. But let's expand the survey to include questions about...
- BLM issues like how many unarmed black people are killed each year by police
- the virulence of Covid, the effectiveness of the vaccines
- climate change, pick a metric any metric
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9:38a, 11/8/24

Waiting for Arizona votes to come in is like waiting for your laundry to get done.
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