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ballots filled out, ballots placed in drop box in front of county courthouse, "I Voted" stickers not yet applied to anything -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 23:27 3
- I got an email my ballot was mailed. Should be here in 3-5 days. Can't wait to vote and turn it in. -- nm - jnine Oct 5, 00:02
- Should have mine in a few days. County is mailing them out this week. - Meg Oct 4, 23:41 1
  - I was happy to use the drop box. Mail from Boise is supposed to be overnight and last month I got two letters from Boise that took a week to arrive - crash davis Oct 4, 23:48
happy birthday, plp!! :) - -- nm - i.b.! Oct 4, 23:07 3
- indeed -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 23:25
- Happy Birthday Pete! -- nm - Max Oct 4, 23:22
- *****HUG***** -- nm - PumpkinheadPete Oct 4, 23:09
Uh oh, now 2020 is trying to ruin sex toys -- (link) - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 22:34 5
- when did sex toys stop having a self contained power source, and being less mobile? -- nm - PumpkinheadPete Oct 4, 22:50
- sure, sure, but does it sing Elvis? -- nm - Max Oct 4, 22:42
- 🎵Never gonna give you up🎵 -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 22:36
- sentient marital aid? -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 22:35 1
  - Yes, upgraded from the previous semi-sentient generation. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 22:40
Gotta be honest ... this brittlestar ad speaks to me. (I, too, forgot to remove my winter tires this "March") -- (link*) - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 22:25
Carolina Panthers, “Sweet Caroline” celebration - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 4, 22:10
Jamal Adams—caught smoking weed (sorta) -- (link) - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 4, 21:45
oh boy -- (link) - ty97 Oct 4, 21:36 13
- voting reform is the first thing I want a Dem administration and congress to address. -- nm - Max Oct 4, 22:07 2
  - since the floor is open for nominations, I nominate pandemic -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 22:09 1
    - The honourable nominatrix from Idaho raises a good point -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 22:18
- 2020, when the US doesn't even pretend to be a real democracy anymore. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 4, 21:48
- Is there a way for a person to know their ballot got rejected? -- nm - New, Better David Oct 4, 21:39 8
  - depends on the individual state...46 states have some sort of tracking system, of those 46, a lot let you know if they were accepted or rejected -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 21:46 4
    - I thought it was 46, but Newsweek says 39 and District of Columbia...list inside - crash davis Oct 4, 21:55 3
      - So you can do it in sophisticated states like Idaho and Tennessee, but not in a hill billy state like New York or Illinois -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 21:57 2
        
        *flexes* We high class, ain't we, Crash? -- nm - New, Better David Oct 4, 22:04 1
        
        sho nuf! -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 22:09
  - I don't think you're allowed to re-vote if your ballot got rejected, if that's what you're thinking - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 21:45 1
    - I did read that some states - maybe California - will contact you if there's a problem with your signature, and allow you to to prove identity. -- nm - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 4, 22:09
  - I think they must, given that they know if the rejected ballot belongs to an African-American or not. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 21:44
Claudia Conway announced on tik tok that she tests positive (didn't Kellyanne quit the WH, announced in august she was leaving to spend time with fam) -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 4, 21:19 4
- Child endangerment. Lock her up! -- nm - Qale Oct 4, 21:35 3
  - That poor girl! Hasn't she suffered enough?! -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 21:42 2
    - No. TiK ToKking should be a crime. Or something. - Qale Oct 4, 21:47 1
      - Wait, Claudia is why Trump is targeting TikTok? -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 23:12
Sooo tired, and I didn't actually even lead a tour today. Just sat around and waited for the one to finish so I could help close up. - 👻MonsterMeg💀 Oct 4, 20:59
Jesus, Bobby. Have some self-respect. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 20:52 [youtube] 1
- he loves making comedies -- nm - Remlik Oct 4, 20:53
Survivor players, I swear that I'm sure Yahoo said my pick of the Rams was accepted. However, they say I made no pick. So I wish you the best -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 20:47
I’m not paying enough attention... is the Masked Singer audience actually in the studio? -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 20:42
and with that, Philly vaults into the division lead -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 20:40
Trump asked for volunteers for his motorcade -- (link) - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 4, 20:39 8
- One of the comments -- (link) - .👀 Oct 4, 20:42
- Related question. What happens if a significant portion of the secret service gets COVID? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 4, 20:40 6
  - They pull agents from FBI, Marshalls, Diplomatic Protection Service, hell Jack Dawson has a gun for his job -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 4, 21:24 2
    - Miss Google says there are 3200 special agents 1200 uniformed and a couple thousand support, clerical staff -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 4, 21:26 1
      - So you’re saying there’s a chance? -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 21:30
  - It is probably a great time to take up counterfeiting as agents get shifted around - crash davis Oct 4, 20:56 1
    - they should have a fantastic health plan since taking a bullet and enduring other nefarious shit is a job requirement -- nm* - PumpkinheadPete Oct 4, 21:39
  - The President has to go into the bunker and can’t come out until we have enough agents for his detail. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 20:53
Today was ok - JD Oct 4, 20:39
So the barrett nomination thing was on Sep 26, right? -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 20:30
I'm really enjoying Fargo, may be the best since S1 (or at least as good as S3 ..so far) -- nm - mud Oct 4, 20:12
So what causes QB regression? Not coming fully back from an injury? Head in the wrong space? I'd love to hear your ideas -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 19:58 7
- That O-line is shot to sh$t—lost two LT...WR depth is a joke. He’s struggling, but it’s like trying to win a NASCAR race with a school bus 🚌 -- nm - Flav/Shower Inspector 👩 🚿 🔪 🩸 Oct 4, 21:48
- Mental / Maturity, Quality of Competition, Injury, Age, Talent around them -- (edited) - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 4, 20:10
- head in the wrong space is explaing as if 5years old a tramautic brain injury -- nm - ⏲👻 Oct 4, 20:00 2
  - The moment I hit enter on the regression post, Wentz threw a 42 yd touchdown. I guess he showed me. -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 20:05 1
    - Heh. I was going to suggest that it could be something like receivers not making miracle catches that they made the year before - JD Oct 4, 20:07
- You work really hard to become the man and then you don’t work as hard once you are the man. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 4, 20:00 1
  - But to my way of thinking, if you want to be the man, you have to keep proving it over and over. If you stop,,,well that is just lame -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 20:02
Mick Fleetwood just joined TikTok -- (link) - 🎃 Bud S. Pumpkins 🎃 Oct 4, 19:57 4
- Love it - Epiphany Oct 4, 20:10
- I'm not a religious person but I pray to God that we never milkshake duck @420doggface208 -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 20:01 1
  - I've been thinking the same -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 20:21
- This meme is the anti-2020. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:58
*that moment you suddenly wonder "Wait... did I do my taxes?"* -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:51 4
- I think the new law is once you've had $750 withheld, you don't have to worry about doing them -- nm - crash davis Oct 4, 20:13
- whoa now you got me wondering -- nm - mud Oct 4, 19:59 2
  - It's the 2020 equivalent of waking up in the middle of the night after having one of those "it's the final exam and I never went to class!" nightmares -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 20:02 1
    - :-] -- nm - mud Oct 4, 20:13
Bah, SpellTower won't let me play "Saxual". -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 19:39 2
- Ditto for "Saxula". These are words that need to exist, preferably as B-movies. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 19:41 1
  - I think I saw the movie Saxual Feeling on Cinemax in the 80s. Well the scrambled version anyways -- nm - JD Oct 4, 19:44
That Free Guy not-trailer is great and obviously means it's about to leave the 2020 release schedule. -- nm - Tim Oct 4, 19:37 4
- wasn't that a 2019 release originally? -- nm - mud Oct 4, 19:47 2
  - was initially July 4th weekend this year. -- nm - Tim Oct 4, 19:48 1
    - In some alternate reality that's not a hellscape. -- nm - New, Better David Oct 4, 23:52
- Yuuuuup. -- nm - New, Better David Oct 4, 19:39
I'm not sure how Hugh Jackman promoting R.M. Williams shoes ends up on Ryan Reynolds' YouTube channel, but... ladies... this one's for you. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:35 [youtube] 3
- "My word is my bond." -- nm - Max Oct 4, 20:38
- Ha! -- nm - Epiphany Oct 4, 20:14
- Reynolds has been giving him grief about it, but hasn't offered up any nude footage of his own. -- nm - .👀 Oct 4, 19:55
Trailer to "Marvel's 616", a documentary series coming to Disney+ in November. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:29 [youtube]
Funko poll. how many do you own? I have about a dozen. -- (pic) - PumpkinheadPete Oct 4, 19:27 [Attachment] 11
- Zero. I don’t even think I’d a Neverending Story set of them. -- nm - Qale Oct 4, 21:38
- 1 Bearded Captain America -- nm - Epiphany Oct 4, 20:16
- zero. -- nm - znufrii needs to update his handle Oct 4, 20:10
- 50-60 -- nm - Krusty The Anarchist Oct 4, 20:10
- zero...apparently i collect coffee cups -- (link) - ⏲👻 Oct 4, 19:59 1
  - NICE -- nm - PumpkinheadPete Oct 4, 20:10
- I had about 200 when I quit and dumped my collection. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:56 1
  - (I kept about 12-15) -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:56
- I have one Funko enamel pin, Supergirl. -- nm - .👀 Oct 4, 19:53
- 4. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 4, 19:48
- 349. alot of Stranger Things, IT, Spiderman for the kids; then LOTR Venomized, Zombie and cosmic Marvel plus evil Batmen and Sherlock -- nm* - Beaker Oct 4, 19:35
In case we missed it earlier this weekend, trailer to Zemcekis's The Witches with Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:25 [youtube]
Cool. HBO Max cut a "modern trailer" for Training Day. -- (link) - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:21 [youtube]
Ditto on mixing up Slattery/Whitford -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 4, 19:06 1
- smh -- nm - mud Oct 4, 19:34
Jimmy Butler ate his Wheaties this morning. 40 point triple double -- nm - 🧛‍♀️slayformojo💀 Oct 4, 19:05
OK friends on Patreon... I cut 90 minutes from the recording. The end result is pretty tight. But man... let's not do that again. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:04 14
- I have a Patreon suggestion. An uncut version or barely edited version of the stuff that fails to make the final edit - JD Oct 4, 19:37 9
  - I'm considering it, although so far I assure you that you haven't missed anything. There's also some stuff we'll never be able to publish. - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:42 3
    - Have you listened to SinCasts? There's 'nothing' that they missed there either. It's just usually fun stuff that had nothing to do with the actual - JD Oct 4, 19:51 2
      - One of this week's edits... - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:53 1
        
        8-) That Firefly edit is the stuff that makes the SinCast after the show portion of podcast It's stuff like that makes me surprised when they 'end' - JD Oct 4, 20:01
  - We've discussed adding some extra cuts on Patreon. -- nm - New, Better David Oct 4, 19:41
  - Oh..and I think that you could totally put a tier on that. I know a single point is impossible to make a trend from but I'd pay more than I'm - JD Oct 4, 19:40
  - "so should we cut the 20 minutes where we shout profanities at the people on ST?" -- nm - Tim Oct 4, 19:38 2
    - That’s your bonus tier right there! - spamlet Oct 4, 22:15
    - fuck Nick Fudge! -- nm - Boooooooooker Oct 4, 19:39
- any Funko talk? -- nm - Beaker Oct 4, 19:08 1
  - I cut it. I cut everything! And I'll cut you if you keep shooting off that smart mouth of yours! - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:26
- whoops. -- nm - Tim Oct 4, 19:05 1
  - Hey. Everyone told you to talk more. -- nm - Dano Oct 4, 19:09
Wait... (I've been editing the podcast for the last 6 hours) Trump got in a car and paraded around to wave at well wishers like some kind of dictator? -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:00 4
- In a hermetically sealed car, so he probably gave it to the secret service agents that had to go with him. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 4, 19:15 1
  - "You're already sick, Phil! You should drive!" "Sorry, Steve. You drew the short straw." -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:30
- He’s probably on a mission to give it as many as he can. Misery loves company -- nm - The real Pippy Oct 4, 19:06
- clown car -- nm - Boooooooooker Oct 4, 19:00
In 96, when Clinton was cake-walking to the finish line vs Dole, Dole made a lot of stops in the last week to salvage downballot people. - Will Hunting 🧠’s Oct 4, 18:58 21
- The House is currently +5-10 D, while I haven't seen anyone go ahead and say, yeah the Democrats are definitely taking the Senate yet. - Tim Oct 4, 19:04 8
  - My House district is rated as a toss up. Since the redistributing in PA my district would probably be considered a swing district that leans a bit Red -- nm - Dano Oct 4, 19:17 1
    - My district is Likely D (One of the few districts represented by a Democrat but won by Trump in 2016) - Tim Oct 4, 19:28
  - The Economist is saying the same as 538, they published this week. -- (link) - Marlowe Oct 4, 19:14
  - A year ago I thought the Dems taking the Senate was a pipe dream so it being an actual possibility is nice. -- nm - ty97 Oct 4, 19:12 2
    - A couple days after the midterms I made rankings and was pretty close. -- (link) - Tim Oct 4, 19:16 [Backboard] 1
      - I'm toying with the idea of having my election contest have a maximum score of 0. -- nm - Reagen Oct 4, 19:19
  - 538's Senate projections currently are giving Dems close to a 2 out of 3 chance of winning control. -- (link) - znufrii needs to update his handle Oct 4, 19:05 1
    - Seems they're really bullish on Iowa, which would be 51 provided they do get the main four in play. - Tim Oct 4, 19:09
- It sounds like Harrison wiped the floor with Graham last night at their debate. -- nm - Reagen Oct 4, 19:03 2
  - the screen was glorious -- nm - Beaker Oct 4, 19:08
  - With props. -- nm - Graveman ⚰️💀 Oct 4, 19:05
- And then we damn well better add 5 seats to SCOTUS and get cases going on voting rights, redistricting, unions, healthcare, etc -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 4, 19:03 1
  - Get shit done in the first 2 years in case voters lose their fucking minds and elect Republicans again. -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 4, 19:07
- Republicans would be smart to RUN from Trump right now. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 19:03 5
  - Although, TBH, at this point they could avoid him at just a brisk walk. -- nm - 🧹 Broom 🧹 Oct 4, 22:41
  - they won't. the 40% that comes out to vote are going to vote for the GOP. -- nm - Remlik Oct 4, 19:14
  - I think it would be a smart move to do that if you've got eyes on 2024. But they fear a mean tweet. -- nm - Tim Oct 4, 19:05 2
    - they took away his phone! Now's the chance! -- nm - Reagen Oct 4, 19:07 1
      - The one rule he's ever followed: "Turn off your phone in the hospital" -- nm - 🕸 TWuG 🚀 Oct 4, 19:08
- Not to mention state houses in a redistricting year. -- nm - znufrii needs to update his handle Oct 4, 18:59
Dinner = Air-fried salmon, spanish rice, and asparagus. Most satisfactory - with a nice IPA on the side. -- (pic) - Meg Oct 4, 18:52 [Attachment]
FWIW, one pollster is seeing a shift -- (link) - Reagen Oct 4, 18:50 4
- When did John Zogby start showing up on 538? They've got some Rasmussen type numbers. -- nm - New, Better David Oct 4, 18:58 2
  - I thought we done buried him years ago? -- nm - spamlet Oct 4, 22:16
  - June-ish? -- nm - Reagen Oct 4, 19:01
- oh no - ty97 Oct 4, 18:54
clown car. -- nm - Boooooooooker Oct 4, 18:49

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