Only in my pain, did I find my will. Only in my chaos, did I learn to be still. Only in my fear, did I find my might. Only in my darkness, did I see my light.
I'm kind of 😡 that some accounts I rely on to have accurate data jumped on the rumor mill yesterday. It caused me to waste a bunch of time writing irrelevant tweets.
From now on, posting rumors gets you hit with the naughty stick. Unless you like it, in which case you won't.
2/2 It seems like there were some unanticipated shifts in demographics that contributed. The question is, "Why?" All the people calling for massive changes to the Democratic platform need to be quiet until we know which parts need to be changed or have updated messaging applied.
1/2 Please ignore the opinion threads and whatever narrative emerges over the next few days. Wait for the post-election surveys & polls to tell us what went wrong--e.g., why Harris outperformed Biden in certain counties and underperformed him in others with similar demographics.
@SubjectNo1 Yeah, I'm not concerned about her chances at this moment. I'm actually liking the numbers in Nevada & the Blue Wall states, although obviously that could change.
I would just love to see MAGA get a crushing defeat so that the nation can move on.
@raymondafoss@officejjsmart Oh yeah I think people's memories of what happened to Hillary are way too fresh to draw early conclusions 😂. Intellectually, I truly believe Harris will win. Emotionally, I have a surge of anxiety every time the feeds on several sites I follow update.
@raymondafoss@officejjsmart It kind of held in the sense that AFAIK Democrats are winning the early vote by mail. However, Republicans voted in much larger numbers than before, both by mail and in person (where possible). That makes this a unicorn year, as Jon Alston calls it.
@VoterScumbag@whstancil Good advice, and I'll take it! I'm going to go teach my boys how to shoot their pellet guns. I've been promising to teach them gun safety. (Yes, I'm a liberal, gay woman, former military, who owns guns and shoots.)
This nice, Republican, Texas man is obviously wrong about who he just voted for. All the pollsters and pundits told me that focusing on threats to democracy was a losing strategy, and that reproductive rights weren't important to people.
@irgarner I'm an independent, but I'll gladly register as Democrat if that means I get to be post-human. That's kind of my goal. Bree mind + robot body for the win.
@Cryptadamist You're probably right, but I think we have to consider the possibility that it's all about the money. The problem isn't that Rogan and Musk are dumb (they aren't), and it's not that they're rich. It's that there will never be enough. Not enough money, not enough power.