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Almost 10% more of the voters decided to sit out the most impactful election of my 60+ year lifetime? With the parties spending a combined $billion to get out the vote? And they don't even have to leave home? Sure...

89% of the value of stocks is owned by 10%. They may have a 401K, but it'll be decades before they cash in. After working about 10 years, I moved over my retirement account when I changed companies. It was worth a few thousand $$$ (that was the '80s) Chump change. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html#:~:text=The wealthiest 10% of American households now own,to the latest data from the Federal Reserve. The people I worry about are the starter families that don't have a portfolio or home equity and probably never will. The ones being crushed by high prices and credit card debt. The ones that aren't financially comfortable enough to have kids... Inflation may have been tamed, but the new normal is killing ordinary families.

I wouldn't trust them not to "accidentally" program in Mar-a-Lago.

As bad as it is, Kamala was saying "Hold my beer, You ain't seen nothin' yet".

Pollster Frank Luntz said Wednesday on CNN that he was “shocked” by former President Donald Trump’s surge among Latino voters, based on exit polls released after election day. “Most important is the Latino — the Hispanic vote. I was shocked to find out that Trump actually won a majority of male Latinos. Turns out, Latinos have a sense of humor, and they're generally conservative. Edit: Oops. Here's my link: https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/06/frank-luntz-reveals-shocked-exit-poll-numbers-donald-trump-elections-2024/

If the OP's new to Thailand, I'd suggest going to the local computer market and walking around to see what's available 2nd hand (the prices he posted look like new prices). If you're accustomed to "back home" where everything on offer is brand new and in a box, you may be in for a pleasant surprise. You can find a 2nd hand, tested and/or refurbished laptop or desktop, sometimes at a great price. Even better deals to be had on monitors and such. Easy to find a nice 24" monitor for around $50. Look for the shops that have stacks of the same kind of used stuff, because they probably got it from a company that's upgrading, and not from someone selling off their lemon. I'd suggest going to https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ and printing out a page of the CPU speeds to make sure you're not buying an old slug. Then wander around the computer markets...

It would be a shame to throw the baby out with the bathwater. They just need to stay the hell away from gender and grooming and equity and woke. A good update to the program would be to go from teaching the kids how to start a safe campfire in a storm, to teaching kids to connect to the interweb in a power outage.

Had Biden stayed in the basement (and at the beach) and not done the debate, he'd have won. Trump wasn't running against Biden, nor Harris. He was running against the Dem Machinery. Which includes the MSM.

Here's a puzzler.... Trump actually got fewer votes in 2024 than in 2020 (72.6 million vs 74.2 million) Harris got 67.9 Million in 2024 vs Biden at 81.2 million in 2020. That's 13 million Dem votes missing. That's lighting the conspiracy theorists on fire. But it's only really being discussed on "unapproved sources". Me? I'm just glad the RNC hired thousands of roving attorneys and enlisted over a hundred thousand poll watchers. Nobody's going to convince me that 15 million fewer real, legal voters showed up or mailed in in 2024 than in 2020 (during the social distancing pandemic). Edit: Of course, we'll see as the final tallies trickle in. But it doesn't look like enough to square things off.

"Move to Canada" is surging on Google. I don't have the heart to tell them... Of course, I do follow Viva Frei and Pollievre...

If I was Trump, I'd take a long nap. He's earned it.

My view also. Although those who misused their power should be held to account. That's the problem. If only one side does it, and they don't get slapped for it (and bigly), they'll do it again next chance they get. And again. There need to be consequences.

Plus, I don't think they carried 85" big screens during the last round. It's about time for an upgrade.

They're too arrogant to leave such important decisions to the voters. They know what's best for us, after all. I'm still forecasting dirty tricks before Inauguration day.

Yes we are. She's just not the one. They should have drafted Big Mike. Or gotten Condie Rice to switch sides, if it had to be a woman of color.

51 of them, at least.

There's a few of them that need to be there. The rest need to be home with loved ones. The sooner, the better.

Almost feels like we should do a GoFundMe to buy some meds for our lefty friends here on AN. I'd hate to lose some of them to the syndrome.

There's a sentencing hearing on Nov 26. No telling what they'll do... We're in uncharted waters, and I wouldn't put anything past them, or below them. If When there are riots, count on the usual suspects to stump for bail. Like they did during the Summer of Love (and mostly peaceful arson and looting).

The guy who cut staff at Twitter by 80% and still made it a better platform than it was?

That would be enough for me to keep my kids as far away from that organization as I could.

Before or after the lawfare dirty tricks are used up? I don't believe for a minute that the Dem Elite will let this stand. And they better hurry, because they're losing the Senate. So no hijinks after Inauguration without turning a lot of RINOs.

With those crazy eyes, there may be a future for her in the US Congress.

Yeah. The lefties will be out looting and burning and scoring big screen TVs, any minute now. Like they did after HRC got handed the L. But probably an order of magnitude worse. "The syndrome" hadn't hit yet in 2016.

Down ballot voting isn't too ginger peachy keen for the left. From the AP. Here's the link, but it's reatime so may change... https://apnews.com/live/senate-house-election-updates-11-5-2024#00000192-ff6b-df8c-a7fb-ff6b46690000