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Should be a wild four years.

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Watch NJ's NE counties in particular for wacky events.
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This is from the '24 Presidential election, and that deep blue in the upper right is Essex County. That one, Union, Hudson, etc. have their own voter fraud shenanigans, especially late at night. I wouldn't put it past Mercer (where Trenton is) or Camden County either.
 
Lmao, I live here, but that's 100% something I'd need to see in order to believe.

I do think this race is completely tight, very excited, it's the exact opposite of NYC where it's all doom and gloom. And by very exciting, I know I'm going to be too scared to look at the TV and hunker in the thread as it goes on.
Imagine being in Virginia. The Republicans have put foreword the most charmless black kween to ever live. She can't even be assed to make herself look presentable, let alone do tik tok video's owning the libs with based black woman talking points. Youngkin put her foreword to prove the Virginia Republicans are totally not racist, and they are getting dunked on by a bitch that is literally a CIA Asset that glows from space and if you were to have a picture next to the definition of "Upper middle class white Karen" her face would be the definition.

People are despairing over Mamdani taking over New York City, but I think Spanberger getting Virginia is going to be a real flashpoint. She's going to win, but 3/4ths of the State are going to flat refuse to obey her. Virginia has old roots, and if some carpet bagging governor elected by feds thinks she's going to run things she's got another think coming. Its going to be what Mcauliff dealt with for his potential gun ban on steroids. She's going to enact policy in the capital and most of the State will tell her she is free to enact it it if she is willing to send men with guns to go kill people. No guarantee on success mind you, or the survival of her men with guns.

And even with that antipathy, she's probably going to get elected because of how strong the demographic replacement in northern Virginia has been.
 
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I'd use picture examples for each, but frankly I can only stomach so much, and they'd likely turn out blurry.

But anyways, anyone else find it odd that the left is now larping as child saving freedom fighters in the last few months, despite just a few years ago saying that Sound of Freedom was a Far Right/QAnon movie, that the whole schtick with Epstein was "just a conspiracy and he totes just killed himself", and in general, slowly but surely greasing the slippery slope from "we just want to get married" to trying to see if they can legalize pedophilia in the span of a few years.
 
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Imagine being in Virginia. The Republicans have put foreword the most charmless black kween to ever live. She can't even be assed to make herself look presentable, let alone do tik tok video's owning the libs with based black woman talking points. Youngkin put her foreword to prove the Virginia Republicans are totally not racist, and they are getting dunked on by a bitch that is literally a CIA Asset that glows from space and if you were to have a picture next to the definition of "Upper middle class white Karen" her face would be the definition.

People are despairing over Mamdani taking over New York City, but I think Spanberger getting Virginia is going to be a real flashpoint. She's going to win, but 3/4ths of the State are going to flat refuse to obey her. Virginia has old roots, and if some carpet bagging governor elected by feds thinks she's going to run things she's got another think coming. Its going to be what Mcauliff dealt with for his potential gun ban on steroids. She's going to enact policy in the capital and most of the State will tell her she is free to enact it it if she is willing to send men with guns to go kill people. No guarantee on success mind you, or the survival of her men with guns.

And even with that antipathy, she's probably going to get elected because of how strong the demographic replacement in northern Virginia has been.
she'll probably win but there is a real chance that Virginia elects a republican AG. that would temper her powers for the term.
 
she'll probably win but there is a real chance that Virginia elects a republican AG. that would temper her powers for the term.
Honestly I think it will make things worse. Virginia isn't just another State in the Union. Its the capital State. The vast bulk of federal power that is not in DC is in Virginia, to include the department of defense, the Marine Corps HQ, the Armies National Capital Area Command, the CIA, and on and on, including all the workers and officials who work in DC. Very little is actually in Maryland because Maryland sucks. Its been run by Democrats and the Baltimore machine for a century and has all the attending problems such long term democratic party control has on a State that Illinois deals with. Nobody wants to live or work there, not even federal agencies or their rank and file workers.

The vast bulk of Federal power on the east coast is in Virginia, and Virginia itself is demographically split between the immediate DC Metro area and everywhere else. If Spanberger wins, this is going to bring California and Illinois style democratic party politics right to the doorstep of the Federal Government. Sparks are going to fly, and if Spanberger thinks she can try and run the state like Newsome or Pritzker to try and own the orange man, violence is going to happen. Its also going to happen in a place the Federal Government absolutely cannot ignore.
 
I haven't seen any traffic about it, so here goes....

Looks like the Obamacare/ACA subsidies are no more. Today was re-up day and my $70/month plan skyrocketed to $600/month.

I'm currently unemployed, as I was taking care of my elderly mother (who recently passed) and, ironically, can't really hold down a full-time job due to health issues that requires frequent call-outs. As such, it looks like I'll be uninsured come January 1. And since I do have a raft of health issues that involves periodic hospitalization and a literal handful of prescription pills, I'm basically screwed at the game of life. And I'm way too young to apply for anything like Medicare.

I knew a day like this might come, but had no idea it'd be here so soon, as my mother died VERY unexpectedly. It's been so recent that I'm still in shock and still cry on occasion. Combine that with losing my insurance and there's really nowhere for me to go.

Oh, and my state is looking to completely get rid of SNAP, so there's no relief there, either.

I wish I had invested in something decent in my teens/early twenties.
 
As long as there is pizza on Grubhub, Football on TV, the AC is working, and Beer in the Fridge; your average American couldn't give a shit other then maybe mutter a few indifferent words and then go back to watching football.
What is the point of the discourse, if this is all that matters to the "voting masses" on one side, and on the other side its just "they look like me, and they believe in government gibs". Whats the plan there?
 
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I'd use picture examples for each, but frankly I can only stomach so much, and they'd likely turn out blurry.

But anyways, anyone else find it odd that the left is now larping as child saving freedom fighters in the last few months, despite just a few years ago saying that Sound of Freedom was a Far Right/QAnon movie, that the whole schtick with Epstein was "just a conspiracy and he totes just killed himself", and in general, slowly but surely greasing the slippery slope from "we just want to get married" to trying to see if they can legalize pedophilia in the span of a few years.
Thumbnails nigger, have you heard of them?
 
I haven't seen any traffic about it, so here goes....

Looks like the Obamacare/ACA subsidies are no more. Today was re-up day and my $70/month plan skyrocketed to $600/month.

I'm currently unemployed, as I was taking care of my elderly mother (who recently passed) and, ironically, can't really hold down a full-time job due to health issues that requires frequent call-outs. As such, it looks like I'll be uninsured come January 1. And since I do have a raft of health issues that involves periodic hospitalization and a literal handful of prescription pills, I'm basically screwed at the game of life. And I'm way too young to apply for anything like Medicare.

I knew a day like this might come, but had no idea it'd be here so soon, as my mother died VERY unexpectedly. It's been so recent that I'm still in shock and still cry on occasion. Combine that with losing my insurance and there's really nowhere for me to go.

Oh, and my state is looking to completely get rid of SNAP, so there's no relief there, either.

I wish I had invested in something decent in my teens/early twenties.
They did not get rid of all ACA credit, just the extras given from Biden with Covid. At the same time, premiums have increased on the marketplace drastically. I imagine they'll end up compromising on ACA credits but it won't make up for the massive premium increases for the most part.
 
Imagine being in Virginia. The Republicans have put foreword the most charmless black kween to ever live. She can't even be assed to make herself look presentable, let alone do tik tok video's owning the libs with based black woman talking points. Youngkin put her foreword to prove the Virginia Republicans are totally not racist, and they are getting dunked on by a bitch that is literally a CIA Asset that glows from space and if you were to have a picture next to the definition of "Upper middle class white Karen" her face would be the definition.

People are despairing over Mamdani taking over New York City, but I think Spanberger getting Virginia is going to be a real flashpoint. She's going to win, but 3/4ths of the State are going to flat refuse to obey her. Virginia has old roots, and if some carpet bagging governor elected by feds thinks she's going to run things she's got another think coming. Its going to be what Mcauliff dealt with for his potential gun ban on steroids. She's going to enact policy in the capital and most of the State will tell her she is free to enact it it if she is willing to send men with guns to go kill people. No guarantee on success mind you, or the survival of her men with guns.

And even with that antipathy, she's probably going to get elected because of how strong the demographic replacement in northern Virginia has been.
Reminder that the VAGOP disbanded a local party because it was too conservative.
 
I haven't seen any traffic about it, so here goes....

Looks like the Obamacare/ACA subsidies are no more. Today was re-up day and my $70/month plan skyrocketed to $600/month.

I'm currently unemployed, as I was taking care of my elderly mother (who recently passed) and, ironically, can't really hold down a full-time job due to health issues that requires frequent call-outs. As such, it looks like I'll be uninsured come January 1. And since I do have a raft of health issues that involves periodic hospitalization and a literal handful of prescription pills, I'm basically screwed at the game of life. And I'm way too young to apply for anything like Medicare.

I knew a day like this might come, but had no idea it'd be here so soon, as my mother died VERY unexpectedly. It's been so recent that I'm still in shock and still cry on occasion. Combine that with losing my insurance and there's really nowhere for me to go.

Oh, and my state is looking to completely get rid of SNAP, so there's no relief there, either.

I wish I had invested in something decent in my teens/early twenties.
Sorry for ur lose bro.How in the world did insurance rates get so high?
 
^^^^ This right here.

As long as there is pizza on Grubhub, Football on TV, the AC is working, and Beer in the Fridge; your average American couldn't give a shit other then maybe mutter a few indifferent words and then go back to watching football.
Reminder that less than 10% of the population actively took sides in the war of independence.
 
Trump isn't worried about what leftists think. He's worried about whether 13 Republicans will join the Democrats in the Senate to remove him from office.
I agree this is an almost certain possibility in Trump's mind, though I'd like to note a lot of the American right's rage at the GOP comes from many of its members at the federal level being a bunch of useless wet rags who will cry about "That's against the rules! That's unconstitutional!" as the Dems stamp on the gas when they themselves are in power. Hey GOP, why don't YOU do the same thing when YOU'RE in charge and making laws? The opposition and their base already 110% thinks you're a proponent of Caesarism / a Fascist organization, trying to play moderate isn't going to change anyone's mind at this point. - The GOP at the federal level is full of so many limp-wristed losers that they are afraid of doing anything aside from adopting talking points the opposition had years ago while the Dems move in lockstep towards pushing cultural Marxist tripe on the populace.

Many GOP politicians are pro gay and pro immigration; they're fine with all of it as long as it's done slower and LEGALLY as long as we still get to Globalism. But don't you talk about LBJ's immigration act! Don't you suggest Joe McCarthy wasn't the devil! Haste makes waste of course, but at the same time decisive action must be taken by the Administration to reverse all of what Biden and every Establishment president has done; it has to get there eventually.
Too add to this, the scenario Lincoln was faced with in 1861 is explained with the proper 2026 context.

It is Febuary 1, 2026. Federal Agents in LA are beseiged by locals. They have arrested numerous illegals and are holding them pending deportation, but they can't get them out of the federal building due to mass protest. Instead of clearing the protestors away, the LAPD, acting on the orders of the California Governor, orders the federal officers to release the residents of California kidnapped by ICE. They have a court order, signed by a federal judge, saying the detainess are to be released.

Ice refuses.

The LAPD storms the federal building, and takes the federal agents as prisoners.

That was the situation Lincoln was facing when the South Carolina Militia stormed Fort Sumter. It went way beyond an argument over law and procedure and had crossed the line into outright force being applied by the local government against the United States.
When afluent, white Democrats live around blacks, they usually provide them with their own quarters.
I have grown to absolutely despise the Confederate apologia I have seen on the right even more than I used to - Yeah, how dare Lincoln not want the country he's running to be fractured. There is a massive hypocrisy among the e-right given how much they love the Confederacy while getting irate over Lincoln. Many of these sorts of people want all migrants to be deported when Lincoln (whom they hate) wanted to deport all former slaves to Liberia or Panama. They also are the types to want a rightist dictator in America - back then, Lincoln was your guy given his authoritarian streak. An idiot theater kid murdering him because the side they love so much lost put a stop to that.

Given this series of events, Caesarism beats Libertarianism - just look at the Lincoln Administration. I don't doubt it would beat Marxist Liberalism as well if Lincoln were there now instead of Trump. This "civil war" talk is generally silly given it would end very quickly considering how the left crowd is firmly in the "guns are pure evil" camp and how they try and fail to make a farm (CHAZ). Some "utopia", tent cities and failed crops in a rundown urban area.
 
I do think this race is completely tight, very excited, it's the exact opposite of NYC where it's all doom and gloom.
The easiest way to get over any bad feelings on the NYC election is to remember that the only other viable option was Cuomo.

Democracy may have been a mistake.
 
Sorry for ur lose bro.How in the world did insurance rates get so high?
I imagine that, if you work for a company of sufficient size and bargaining power, 2026 will largely be the same wrt insurance premiums (you might have to pay $20 or $30 more).

For those of us on ACA-based insurance, though, this is nothing short of an apocalypse.

Oh, that $600/month I mentioned was the lowest offered. There were other plans for $1000 and even $2000/month.

If anyone has any practical solutions to my situations (other than finding a tall building), I'd love to hear them. I'm not above posting a GoFundMe at this point.
 
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