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Post by niftiness on Sept 27, 2024 14:32:09 GMT -5
I declare that I am the first person to vote in the 2024 presidential election. got my mail-in ballots on XX-YY-ZZZZ, filled it out immediately and put right in the mailbox. I can track my ballot thru my state's web site. can I prove I was the first? absolutely not. can anyone else prove I wasn't? absolutely not. are there people ready to pounce on me over who they assume i voted for? sadly and absolutely YES! if you haven't registered to vote, pretty sure you still have a few days to get that done.
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Sept 28, 2024 8:47:06 GMT -5
Post by SafeInSanity on Sept 28, 2024 8:47:06 GMT -5
Let me guess? .. you voted for Kamala because she is a black woman? π€
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Sept 28, 2024 11:51:54 GMT -5
Post by niftiness on Sept 28, 2024 11:51:54 GMT -5
Let me guess? .. you voted for Kamala because she is a black woman? π€ how did you come to that incorrect conclusion?
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Post by SafeInSanity on Sept 28, 2024 17:42:45 GMT -5
Let me guess? .. you voted for Kamala because she is a black woman? π€ how did you come to that incorrect conclusion? Just a wild guess π
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Sept 28, 2024 18:49:31 GMT -5
Post by niftiness on Sept 28, 2024 18:49:31 GMT -5
SafeInSanity , my grandmother never talked politics... that I can remember. at election times, my dad and uncle would playfully badger her about who she voted for. she would adamantly tell them it was none of their business... though every body knew she was registered Democrat. she voted for whoever the Democrat was on the ballot. I doubt she knew any more about what candidates stood for than what people TOLD her. the only time I remember her not voting for the Democrat was Kennedy... and that was because he was Catholic. I think she truly thought he would force Catholicism on the nation if elected. that was the same stupidity that was being passed around my 6th grade class.
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Post by SafeInSanity on Sept 28, 2024 21:54:47 GMT -5
SafeInSanity , my grandmother never talked politics... that I can remember. at election times, my dad and uncle would playfully badger her about who she voted for. she would adamantly tell them it was none of their business... though every body knew she was registered Democrat. she voted for whoever the Democrat was on the ballot. I doubt she knew any more about what candidates stood for than what people TOLD her. the only time I remember her not voting for the Democrat was Kennedy... and that was because he was Catholic. I think she truly thought he would force Catholicism on the nation if elected. that was the same stupidity that was being c=passed around my 6th grade class. I agree. We all have the right to vote for whoever we want to and it is nobody's business unless we make it so.
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Post by morticia on Sept 29, 2024 8:02:20 GMT -5
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Post by gibby on Oct 6, 2024 2:07:19 GMT -5
niftiness, well done. I have voted in every single election , being a woman I feel I owe it to the women who sacrificed so much to get us the vote. I do change like the wind though in who I vote for, I look purely at the policies. Having said that it makes no difference in the UK because as soon as they get in they ditch all their election promises and do the opposite!
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Oct 6, 2024 2:36:28 GMT -5
Post by niftiness on Oct 6, 2024 2:36:28 GMT -5
niftiness , well done. I have voted in every single election , being a woman I feel I owe it to the women who sacrificed so much to get us the vote. I do change like the wind though in who I vote for, I look purely at the policies. Having said that it makes no difference in the UK because as soon as they get in they ditch all their election promises and do the opposite! I don't think it's so much that they ditch their promises, but that they know all along what their odds are of actually doing them. I think anyone who thinks the person/people they vote for will actually be able to accomplish what they've promised... well, a bit delusional.
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Oct 6, 2024 6:27:20 GMT -5
Post by SafeInSanity on Oct 6, 2024 6:27:20 GMT -5
niftiness , well done. I have voted in every single election , being a woman I feel I owe it to the women who sacrificed so much to get us the vote. I do change like the wind though in who I vote for, I look purely at the policies. Having said that it makes no difference in the UK because as soon as they get in they ditch all their election promises and do the opposite! I don't think it's so much that they ditch their promises, but that they know all along what their odds are of actually doing them. I think anyone who thinks the person/people they vote for will actually be able to accomplish what they've promised... well, a bit delusional. Unless you've seen it with your own two eyes like Trump! But then again he isn't a career politician like the rest of the swampy bunch.
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Oct 6, 2024 11:58:31 GMT -5
Post by gibby on Oct 6, 2024 11:58:31 GMT -5
niftiness , well done. I have voted in every single election , being a woman I feel I owe it to the women who sacrificed so much to get us the vote. I do change like the wind though in who I vote for, I look purely at the policies. Having said that it makes no difference in the UK because as soon as they get in they ditch all their election promises and do the opposite! I don't think it's so much that they ditch their promises, but that they know all along what their odds are of actually doing them. I think anyone who thinks the person/people they vote for will actually be able to accomplish what they've promised... well, a bit delusional. the labour party said they would not scrap the winter fuel allowance, first thing they did when they got in was scrap it, and it wasnt something they had to accomplish it was a false promise. people are not delusional , it is delusional to think that people who actually expect people to tell the truth are delisional. I for one have integrity, it should be demanded of policitians by all decent people.
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Oct 6, 2024 13:58:21 GMT -5
Post by kerri on Oct 6, 2024 13:58:21 GMT -5
niftiness , well done. I have voted in every single election , being a woman I feel I owe it to the women who sacrificed so much to get us the vote. I do change like the wind though in who I vote for, I look purely at the policies. Having said that it makes no difference in the UK because as soon as they get in they ditch all their election promises and do the opposite! I agree, gibby. In the United States, Susan B Anthony was arrested because she voted in an election when it was illegal for women to vote. She knew it would not happen in her lifetime. But she kept on, for the women who came after her. "On November 5, 1872, American civil rights activist Susan B. Anthony voted in a presidential election. (She voted for the incumbent, Republican Ulysses S. Grant.) At that time, women were not allowed to vote. Two weeks later, Anthony was arrested, and eventually fined $100 for voting illegally. βI shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty,β she saidβand she never did. It was more than 40 years before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States. On November 2, 1920, more than 8 million American women voted." And, of course, most politicians don't keep their promises.
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Oct 6, 2024 14:03:16 GMT -5
Post by niftiness on Oct 6, 2024 14:03:16 GMT -5
I don't think it's so much that they ditch their promises, but that they know all along what their odds are of actually doing them. I think anyone who thinks the person/people they vote for will actually be able to accomplish what they've promised... well, a bit delusional. the labour party said they would not scrap the winter fuel allowance, first thing they did when they got in was scrap it, and it wasnt something they had to accomplish it was a false promise. people are not delusional , it is delusional to think that people who actually expect people to tell the truth are delisional. I for one have integrity, it should be demanded of policitians by all decent people. a little clarification... I'm not a total cynic. I don't think politicians PLAN to fail to keep their promises. I think a lot of political promises fail to kept for other reasons.
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