Up here in Bar Harbor there is one Trump sign for every 100 Harris sign it seems (Trump got less than 25% of the vote here last time). I was in Cumberland last weekend and it was the same; Harris signs vastly outnumbered Trump. And the really wild thing is I was in Houlton a couple weekends ago and saw more Harris signs there as well. Of course in the sticks where my dad lives there are Trump signs everywhere and people have been stealing Harris signs that he’s been putting out.
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2024 Elections: One Last Chance for Democracy
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Up here in Bar Harbor there is one Trump sign for every 100 Harris sign it seems (Trump got less than 25% of the vote here last time). I was in Cumberland last weekend and it was the same; Harris signs vastly outnumbered Trump. And the really wild thing is I was in Houlton a couple weekends ago and saw more Harris signs there as well. Of course in the sticks where my dad lives there are Trump signs everywhere and people have been stealing Harris signs that he’s been putting out.
I'm going to do my best to go radio silent today. My favorite comfort show isn't on Tuesdays which bothers me. I'll have to watch something else to take my mind off of things. And we won't wake up tomorrow with a winner, I don't think. I'm so stressed. This is going to be a trying week.
ScoobyDoo
NPC
I can tell him. It was in Halifax, NS during WWI.
MichVandal
Well-known member
What? That was just a massive, horrible, explosion. Not a nuclear blast. The first known nuclear reaction was in 1919.
The Manhattan team used the data from that explosion to estimate the power of the atomic bomb, but other than that, it had nothing to do with nuclear energy.
My understanding is that was what set things in motion for nuclear energy/weapons.
ScoobyDoo
NPC
Beautiful performance by Lady Gaga last night at the Kamala Harris rally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-TdDl4Fb8
That women can sing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-TdDl4Fb8
That women can sing.
aparch
Well-known member
You want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing? Then go outside, turn around three times and spit. What the hell's the matter with you?
unofan
Well-known member
Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.
MichVandal
Well-known member
Ah, no. That took place after the small footnote that was E = mc^2 (1905) and then the experiment in 1919 where it showed that fusion was a controlled possibility. Which then took another 20 years until fission actually happened under controlled circumstances (which wasn't really understood at the time).
Once all of that lined up, then nuclear energy was a full go.
Huge explosions were always a desired thing for war (just ask Alfred Nobel). So that one event didn't trigger anything- it was always wanted. That event was the largest explosion until July 1945, so it was used as a model for the '45 explosion.
100% agree. Halifax did produce a mushroom cloud - but mushroom clouds have been depicted in artwork going back to the 1700s. Halifax was not a new type of explosion, just a particularly large one. Crediting it with anything to do with the development of nuclear weapons would be like saying Ben Franklin's kite experiments led to the transistor.
Soros paid off God to take out his wrath on Trumpers. Duh!!!!
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
****ing magnets, how do they work?
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
I am hopeful, and because I am me, a little worried but the two things stop me from going over the edge:
1) It is out of our hands. We did all we could. Thousands of people in every state (even here I saw it and personally had it happen) knocking on doors and phone banking. Hundreds of millions on ads and billboards. Social Media campaigns, a billion rallies and well...Trump not exactly fighting like a champion. Everyone who wants to know what is going on knows, and he doesn't even hide the awful things he is planning to do. Democracy is literally in our hands. There is nothing that could have been done that we didn't do.
2) If we show up, we win. This election is about turnout, and there is more of us than there is of them. (how many more is unknown) When we are motivated things go our way, they know this and that is why they are scared. We control our destiny.
When you and I were fighting back in the summer because of Biden and whether he should drop out my only real reservation with Biden sticking around was if we were going to go down I wanted to go down fighting and I was not sure he could fight. If it was going to be close would he have the stamina to do 4 rallies a day in 3 states and all that jazz. I am still not a fan of how it all went down but I told my SO when Joy Ann Reid let it slip that the Congressional Black Caucus was worried about the California Delegation trying to usurp Biden and Harris that if Biden gets replaced she is the one who I want on the ticket. My SO was adamant that this country would never vote for a woman let alone a woman of color. I said (and I have been proven right thank God) if a change has to happen and if we truly believe Democracy is on the line I want to go down swinging. If this country is worth saving then the best person will win because we won't let them lose...not with everything that is on the line. And honestly We The People havent disappointed. Its weird, because I know how divided we are and I know all the reasons to be worried and angry and scared and filled with rage (all things I have felt since August) but truly, and I never say stuff like this, I am actually friggin proud of what I have seen this cycle from the people. (not the media) People I know who never vote Dem (some of whom rarely vote because Minnesota is a lock) actively voting for her and talking about it. (DGF yes he is voting for Harris) My neighborhood is not huge on signs and legit every day when I take my 3 mile walk I see at least one new Harris sign. I have never seen anything like it even in 2020 when people were motivated we maybe had 5-10 total in the surrounding burbs...I bet its at least 3-4 times that this time. When I voted early on Friday there was a line and 10 booths full with 3 poll workers signing people in...there wasn't even a line during COVID when there was 1 worker. Saturday when the SO voted same thing. My SO's mother grew up in a part of Chicago that is well...not exactly known for its love of diversity. She isn't outwardly racist (she is rather outwardly misogynistic sometimes because she spent years working in male dominated businesses like banking) but its there (her family definitely is) and yet she is not only super optimistic she is having a party tonight watch with her friends and is wearing a Harris shirt! I am seeing enthusiasm I don't normally see, and I am seeing hope in the way we saw it in '08. I am not saying that will be the outcome, but every time I get worried something reminds me that things aren't as bad as we think they are. If they were they wouldn't be so scared. If Trump is a stone cold lock (like my senility ridden father seems to think) then why are the Sovereign Citizens in Republicanstan, MN threatening the courthouse if the county turns Blue? If they can win big, why do they feel the need to rig it? If we are weak and ready to die, why are they yelling at the refs about how unfair everything is?
Just remember, they are more scared than we are, because if it doesn't work this time it might take decades to have this type of chance. They are pulling every dirty trick in the book, and for once, it seems that the people are seeing it for what it is. Plus, and I cannot stress this enough, Women can save us from ourselves this time.
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
Is that normal?
