Right?? Trump’s success so far is making me sick. What a country. What a world. That fascist, sexist, racist fuck is doing this well. 
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Especially since Harris county is very large geographically and has the highest population in Texas by a very large margin.
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Hawley! This state suuuuuucks. 
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MI is light red, and James is leading Marlinga.
I don’t watch the major news outlets, but I don’t watch Newsmax or the My Pillow network; though the outlets from which I do get news are liberal and fearful. I’ve tried to reduce the amount of anxious “what if?”-ing and the dire predictions of what things will could turn out to be like.
I’m still scared. For me, for all of us. We’ve all been through enough hell, and I’m just counting the past eight years. What will we do? I mean, it would be nice if other nations invited us to emigrate to them, but I don’t know if that’s even been done since…um, the 17th century (someone correct me on this pls). The other countries would take advantage of the explusion of the Jews from, say, Germany; no taxes for 10 years if they became, say, French citizens (though France has had its expulsions, and correct me on that too, i don’t feel like looking it up.).
gack.
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When I was a small child my mother was a poll worker, and the polling place was the cafeteria of the junior high school. I have fond memories of playing by myself over in a corner, propelling myself around on the dollies that they used for the crates of milk cartons. The handles of the dollies were made of hollow metal tubing, and I remember one having the upright tubes but not the crossbar/handle, and I was able to blow across the tube to make noises like blowing across the mouth of a pop bottle. Voting is fun!
My polling place here in Mpls is an affordable-housing high-rise, in a meeting room on the second floor.
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How are things looking in the Cities?
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Still can’t tell how I should feel about this…
It does look like we won’t hear a result tonight. Even though I do expect Tromp to declare himself president the king tonight.
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I moved to Israel in August 2023. My daughter and I were living in an AirBnB while we figured out the next step.
The first tasks upon immigrating are getting the official paperwork, getting a bank account, and getting set up in the healthcare system. It took us about 4 weeks to get all that done, as all those tasks in Israel have to be done in person.
The next thing to do was to enroll in Hebrew school (ulpan), which is one of the free benefits immigrants have. Immigrants (olim) get 5 months of free Hebrew school (25 hrs a week) and then an additional 5 months of lessons at a discounted rate.
There’s a long holiday period in Israel in early fall. It starts with Rosh Hoshanah, the Jewish New Year, and ends with Simchat Torah, the festival celebrating the Torah. It’s similar to how we start winter holidays at Thanksgiving and wind up on New Year’s.
When we got done getting all our paperwork, we were ready to go into Hebrew school, but those wouldn’t start until the holidays were over. We located the schools to study at but weren’t even officially enrolled because, again, things are different in Israel, so we were waiting for them to reopen so we could sign up. We lined up an apartment close to the schools where we could be while we were studying.
October 7 was Simchat Torah, the last holiday in the holiday season.
When the war broke out, the start of our Hebrew schools were delayed indefinitely.
Meantime, my daughter’s anxiety was through the roof, we were dealing with alerts going off, rumors that terrorists were roaming the streets and going to go to our doors and kill us. And everyone suddenly became an expert on the Middle East, predicting that the war would be over in a week, or years.
Netanyahu said the war would go on for over a year. The embassy advised us to leave. We decided to follow that advice.
Before moving to Israel, we sold most of our stuff except our most personal items. We stashed almost all of it into a storage unit there before we left because we were only allowed to carry 2 suitcases each. Most of it isn’t stuff we use every day, but it’s really hard not to have it. We just have some clothes that we keep re-wearing.
Since we’d sold our car and initially didn’t know whether we might return to Israel, a client of mine offered us use of her lake trailer here in Florida. It’s furnished and has all the kitchen stuff, etc. We didn’t need to get locked into a long term lease. This is where we still are.
It’s been a VERY slow transition because moving to Israel ate up all our money. We would have had a stipend there, but we forfeited those when we left and can’t get them back. If it weren’t for my GoFundMe and my friends and family being so generous, I wouldn’t have been able to eat some weeks. It’s been rough. Plus, my daughter has been sick through it all - she just got her gallbladder out, which helped, but she’s still not well. I’m starting to figure out some job/business contracts though.
We decided to stay here, but we do still have our citizenship in Israel if we ever decide to go back. It’s was really hard to have our lives on hold for 2 years while we were planning the move, then go through the transition in Israel, then go through yet another unexpected transition here. There’s just so much of putting my life on hold I can take. So, now I live in Florida with neighbors who post crap on Facebook about boys wearing girl’s underwear instead of where I was trying to go, and I’m busted broke without a lot to show for it. But, I have amazing friends, and I never would have known how much they all loved me if I hadn’t had to go through this. I have a roof over my head. Sometime in the future I’ll get back to Israel and maybe live there part time.
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I real hate how the news channels hand T**** a bunch of electoral votes up front and ignore that Harris has a huge chunk of electoral votes coming from the West Coast.
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Rain all day. Overcast and dreary.
Do you mean the election results? I’m not paying attention at this point. Just catching up on threads here. I don’t want to know about the election until everything’s in 
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AP called NC for Trump. What the fuck is wrong with this country. The blue wall has become more critical than ever now.
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A wise plan.
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Goddamn how is this even possible. I know there’s still a good chance here but that it’s even this close is just unfathomable to me.
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Fucking hell and now Rs have 50 senate seats. I know this was expected, but still, fuck.
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Narrator: And they were never heard from again. And this is the danger of election night…
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I’m sorry to hear that. What a time to be alive.
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I fucking hate this
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I’m terribly scared. I can’t imagine surviving another 4 years of Trump.
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