Go for broke!

Witty Rejoinder said:

Go for broke!

I went for Broke once.

The bridge was out.

Me and motorcycle-racing:

Piston broke.

Ian said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Go for broke!

I went for Broke once.

The bridge was out.

‘Go for broke’ was the motto of the US 442nd Reg. Combat Team, made up of Japanese-American volunteers.

Their ranks included Daniel Inouye. You can read more about the 442nd and Daniel Inouye here. Even allowing for the hyperbole, it’s gob-smacking.

The US needs someone like him as Pres, not the Troll Doll.

Duhh forgot to include the link:

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/inouye.html

captain_spalding said:

Ian said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Go for broke!

I went for Broke once.

The bridge was out.

‘Go for broke’ was the motto of the US 442nd Reg. Combat Team, made up of Japanese-American volunteers.

Their ranks included Daniel Inouye. You can read more about the 442nd and Daniel Inouye here. Even allowing for the hyperbole, it’s gob-smacking.

The US needs someone like him as Pres, not the Troll Doll.

Just read Daniel Inouye’s wiki page. Quite impressive.

whipperin’, smell like stink weed or whatever is

kettle boiling

grabs one of buffy’s biscuits

The elections are fake.

It’s all fake news.

The media is the enemy of the people,

All fake reporting,

Bad.

May as well put this here.

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2018/11/05/patriots-constitution-militia-reports-new-mexico-border/1891773002/

And this:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/5/1810051/-When-did-we-turn-into-such-a-nation-of-weak-willed-chickensh-ts?detail=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1ynQ9ol4lXQ-jWWgt47SottyTfACCsSiVjqDEcdtFWcQrjGuL66bhs-0Y

My sister has already voted. She did a pre-poll (or whatever you call it in the USA). We urged her to vote often and she said she would like to…

kii – my sister may be heading back to live in Texas again. Her eldest daughter, with whom she lives (along with the grandchild, it’s a grandmother/mother/daughter household) apparently has a good job offer in Texas. So they may be trekking back there.

Tau.Neutrino said:

The elections are fake.

It’s all fake news.

The media is the enemy of the people,

All fake reporting,

Bad.

http://observers.france24.com/en/20180105-fake-images-racist-stereotypes-migrants?fbclid=IwAR3tB1d_mzL-uhlruPmqou09lMd5vT92ImFjthD111JtZG8olvVcsNWh8Hw

buffy said:

My sister has already voted. She did a pre-poll (or whatever you call it in the USA). We urged her to vote often and she said she would like to…

kii – my sister may be heading back to live in Texas again. Her eldest daughter, with whom she lives (along with the grandchild, it’s a grandmother/mother/daughter household) apparently has a good job offer in Texas. So they may be trekking back there.

Ah, Texas.

kii said:

May as well put this here.

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2018/11/05/patriots-constitution-militia-reports-new-mexico-border/1891773002/

And this:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/5/1810051/-When-did-we-turn-into-such-a-nation-of-weak-willed-chickensh-ts?detail=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1ynQ9ol4lXQ-jWWgt47SottyTfACCsSiVjqDEcdtFWcQrjGuL66bhs-0Y

You’d better put up the one from yesterday, where I denied the photo was me by saying “I don’t like guns”.

when do they start counting?

party_pants said:

when do they start counting?

After people have voted. I presume 7pm US EST which will be 11am AEDT Wednesday.

party_pants said:

when do they start counting?

https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/?fbclid=IwAR0i8WpmoUXZW-BzsCHC-kgaH9idb8Nr_1o0iYSdA_IZESi2wAXFi-uZs7Q

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

when do they start counting?

After people have voted.

Are you sure about that…

poikilotherm said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

when do they start counting?

After people have voted.

Are you sure about that…

In the USSR they counted before the election.

Tamb said:

poikilotherm said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

After people have voted.

Are you sure about that…

In the USSR they counted before the election.

In Russia, vote counts you!

Here’s a state-by-state breakdown of when polls close:

10:00am AEDT (6:00pm Washington DC): Indiana, Kentucky 11:00am AEDT (7:00pm Washington DC): South Carolina; Florida; Virginia; New Hampshire; Vermont; Georgia (except Atlanta where polls close an hour later) 11:30am AEDT (7:30pm Washington DC): West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina 12 midday AEDT (8:00pm Washington DC): Alabama; Texas; Connecticut; Massachusetts; Delaware; Illinois; Maine; Maryland; Mississippi; Missouri; New Jersey; Oklahoma; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Tennessee; Kansas; Michigan 12:30pm AEDT (8:30pm Washington DC): Arkansas 1:00pm AEDT (9:00pm Washington DC): Arizona; Colorado; Louisiana; Minnesota; Nebraska; New Mexico; New York; South Dakota; North Dakota; Wisconsin; Wyoming; Washington 2:00pm AEDT (10:00pm Washington DC): Iowa; Montana; Nevada; Utah; Idaho

As the polls close, we’ll start seeing exit polls along with early tallies.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-06/us-midterm-elections-when-will-we-know-the-result/10456492

One can only hope.

It’s not looking great..

4m ago 01:55
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis loses reelection bid

Emily Holden reports for the Guardian:

Kim Davis – the county clerk in Kentucky who famously denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples – has lost to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr.

Davis, a Republican, lost to Caudill by about 700 votes.

Caudill in the Democratic primary defeated David Ermold, who is gay and was refused a marriage license by Davis in 2015. Davis spent days in jail for denying the couples. She changed her affiliation to Republican from Democrat after she gained national notoriety.

Caudill also ran against Davis in the primary for Rowan County Clerk in 2014, narrowly losing.

sarahs mum said:

4m ago 01:55
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis loses reelection bid

Emily Holden reports for the Guardian:

Kim Davis – the county clerk in Kentucky who famously denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples – has lost to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr.

Davis, a Republican, lost to Caudill by about 700 votes.

Caudill in the Democratic primary defeated David Ermold, who is gay and was refused a marriage license by Davis in 2015. Davis spent days in jail for denying the couples. She changed her affiliation to Republican from Democrat after she gained national notoriety.

Caudill also ran against Davis in the primary for Rowan County Clerk in 2014, narrowly losing.

Yeah, that’s a happy thing.

With about a quarter of the seats decided the Dems are up 2 seats in the House and down 1 seat in the Senate.
Early days though.

Peak Warming Man said:

With about a quarter of the seats decided the Dems are up 2 seats in the House and down 1 seat in the Senate.
Early days though.

Aren’t the yanks going to have a civil war some time soon

CNN are calling the senate for the repubs and are suggesting that the democrats may even go backwards.

Republicans control Senate. Could build on numbers.

https://youtu.be/OA_CndlBu0g

CNN has called the house for the dems.

:)

CNN has called the house for the dems.

:)

sibeen said:

CNN has called the house for the dems.

:)

and the senate?

roughbarked said:

sibeen said:

CNN has called the house for the dems.

:)

and the senate?

The awfuls have it.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

sibeen said:

CNN has called the house for the dems.

:)

and the senate?

The awfuls have it.

So business as usual then.

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060022696703070208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060022696703070208&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2018%2Fnov%2F06%2Fus-midterms-elections-2018-latest-live-polls-news-updates-donald-trump-republicans-democrats

What’s the house function as in murican politics? Seems the blue team won that one, whatever it is.

poikilotherm said:

What’s the house function as in murican politics? Seems the blue team won that one, whatever it is.

similar to here.. the upper house and the senate.

There’s a female Democrat for NM governor. That’s something.

Also a female native American from NM to congress. Another one from kansas.

Gay male governor for colorado.

Gun massacres everywhere and nil presidential assassinations since the Kennedy’s.

“Black Republican transgender blind lesbian atheist with one leg closing in on Mayoral race”

I’ve upset pwm.

Oh well.

kii said:

I’ve upset pwm.

Oh well.

He hasn’t got a green card. Ignore him.

roughbarked said:

Gun massacres everywhere and nil presidential assassinations since the Kennedy’s.

I suppose those that would kill a president support Trump

kii said:

Also a female native American from NM to congress. Another one from kansas.

Gay male governor for colorado.

Is that true ?

Some of these incumbents in the lower house have been there for fifty years. Same in the senate. Have become part of the furniture.

No new people coming in, old ideas, slow, inefficient, unproductive, wasteful of taxpayers money and over bloated etc.

.

Watching Planet America the senate is the one you want to control, it gives you the committees and the purse strings.

AwesomeO said:

Watching Planet America the senate is the one you want to control, it gives you the committees and the purse strings.

They both have different roles but both houses pretty much share the power. House commitees are not in any way less powerful than senate ones. The one area where the senate matters more is in making appointments like judges and ambassadors. Did ‘Planet America’ say they control spending?

Witty Rejoinder said:

AwesomeO said:

Watching Planet America the senate is the one you want to control, it gives you the committees and the purse strings.

They both have different roles but both houses pretty much share the power. House commitees are not in any way less powerful than senate ones. The one area where the senate matters more is in making appointments like judges and ambassadors. Did ‘Planet America’ say they control spending?

Approves budgets.

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

“There’s only been 5 times in the last 105 years that an incumbent President has won seats in the Senate in the off year election. Mr. Trump has magic about him. This guy has magic coming out of his ears. He is an astonishing vote getter & campaigner. The Republicans are………
10:27 PM – 6 Nov 2018

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

….unbelievably lucky to have him and I’m just awed at how well they’ve done. It’s all the Trump magic – Trump is the magic man. Incredible, he’s got the entire media against him, attacking him every day, and he pulls out these enormous wins.” Ben Stein, “The Capitalist Code”
10:37 PM – 6 Nov 2018

sarahs mum said:

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

“There’s only been 5 times in the last 105 years that an incumbent President has won seats in the Senate in the off year election. Mr. Trump has magic about him. This guy has magic coming out of his ears. He is an astonishing vote getter & campaigner. The Republicans are………
10:27 PM – 6 Nov 2018

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

….unbelievably lucky to have him and I’m just awed at how well they’ve done. It’s all the Trump magic – Trump is the magic man. Incredible, he’s got the entire media against him, attacking him every day, and he pulls out these enormous shits and plays scat games with them.” Ben Stein, “The Capitalist Code”
10:37 PM – 6 Nov 2018