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I posted this on another thread somewhere, but I forget which one.

I work for a large biotech company here in Ohio that is paying for COVID tests for it's employees. I took the free COVID antibody test last week and found out that I had contracted COVID sometime within the last 4-6 months without even knowing it. I never showed any symptoms, nor did anyone else in my family and friends group. I guess I'm in the lucky majority of people who get COVID and are asymptomatic. 

Realistically, it's highly unlikely the Browns are making it to the playoffs via the divisional championship route. And with the wins by Miami and LA Raiders today, the wildcard picture is looking a bit crowded.

Browns are going to have to play lights out on the back 9 of this season to earn a wildcard berth.

After 2016, it's was years of "Russia interfered in our election!" or "we can't trust the results of the election due to Putin!" etc...

Now, in 2020, our election system is suddenly Russian proof?

🤔

On 11/7/2020 at 1:27 PM, tiamat63 said:

Regardless of how you feel about her, it is kind of a big deal still.    Shows America IS a land of promise, no?

Actually, looking at the background and track record of Harris, I think she taints the ideal of being potentially the first woman President. 

12 hours ago, TexasAg1969 said:

30+ years on psychiatric diagnostic/treatment teams that included Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychiatric Nurses and Clinical Social Workers with those teams meeting daily to discuss cases in great depth. I had the education and license to be a full participant. No boast since you asked and I am answering your question.

Medice, cura te ipsum.

If I was still a Democrat, I'd be very wary of rubbing this election in people's faces. Trump and Trump voters have been doing that since 2016 and it probably cost them this election. But, you also have to remember that a Trump presidency came about from a flippant and dismissive attitude perpetrated by Democrats and those on the left in the 8 years of the Obama administration. 

Interesting side note: 

My job is being pretty cool and are paying for their employees to get routine Covid-19 screenings, free of charge. On a lark, I took the COVID antibody test that they're offering:

Looks like I had COVID-19 sometime within the past 4 months and recovered from it without knowing it. I never got sick and never showed any symptoms, so I'm incredibly lucky on that end. I'm still going to wear my mask when out in public and still follow reasonable social distancing practices, but it's nice to know that I got lucky in this first wave of Covid-19 and that I possibly have some amount of immunological protection going forward.

10 hours ago, Westside Steve said:

Fox finally called it.

Rest in peace America it was nice knowing you.

😉

WSS

Actually, I think that this election isn't as huge a loss for Republicans as it appears on the surface. Trump has probably lost the presidency, but Democrats have definitely lost huge across the board:

- Big losses for Democrats in the House of Representatives and minimal gains at best in the Senate. Biden may have won the Presidency, but he'll have a harder time jamming through woke Leftist agenda with the GOP checking him in Congress.

-Big losses in state gubernatorial and legislatures across the country.

-Traditionally blue areas flipping red for the first time in decades. While Democratic strongholds in urban areas remained strong, the Democrats lost alot of ground in quasi-urban suburbs.

-Largest percentage of minority votes for GOP in over 60 years; 18% of the national black vote and up to 36% of the national Latino vote went to Trump and the GOP.

-Movements founded by disaffected liberals such as the #Walkawy movement and the #Blexit movement will only get stronger due to the tainted aura of this election and the inevitable crackdown by MSM and Big Tech of dissenting opinions not towing the woke leftist ideology.

Trump didn't lose this election so much due to his policies as much as his shitty personality. I'd wager many Biden votes were due to simply not liking Trump rather than supporting Democrats' policies. Going forward, the Republicans need to cultivate candidates with similar policy positions as Trump, but also have personalities easier to digest as well. 2022 and 2024 are just around the corner, and with Democrats seeming to solidify their support of woke leftism, I'd say there's plenty of opportunity for the GOP to gain ground for the future. Woke leftism is by it's very nature a reductionist ideology: the woke members of today are the disaffected voters of tomorrow as the the leftist ideology eats its own and more and more people are shunned for not supporting whatever "inclusive" ideology is the the flavor of the day. If Republicans operate under a "big tent platform", they'll grow by leaps and bounds in the next few years.

So, this type of rhetoric coming from Leftists isn't disconcerting at all:

So did I come from some Mandela effect alternative universe where Gore spent over a month contesting the results of the 2000 election in courts all the way up to the Supreme Court, and didn't get nearly the grief that Trump is for doing the same thing now, or is this a different reality?

1 hour ago, The Gipper said:

Baker's team is  5-3 and would be in the playoffs, much of which is based on an offense that he is the leader of. 

That is all I need to know. 

That's because our schedule has been softer than mammie's titties so far. The only two elite teams we've played so far - the Ravens and the Steelers - have blown us out of the fucking water. 

I can give Baker a pass for being saddled with clueless hue and freddie his first few years, and the 'rona this year, but the dude definitely needs to step it up against the good teams in this league if he wants to keep his job.

1 hour ago, D Bone said:

I have been working on my bike and have gotten even more frustrated, but now for a different reason.

I admit, I realize that humans make decisions based off of emotions and even though I don't admire it, I do recognize it as one of humanity's infinite number of flaws (myself included), and based off of that I now I turn to my frustration to Trump....

Trump says that he loves this country, but why then did he let his gigantic, arrogant ego possibly cost him an election? Had he stopped the divisive rhetoric leading up to November 3rd, he just might have swayed enough undecided voters to win 1 or 2 of the states that everyone knew was a jump ball leading up to election day.

The "proud boys" comments. The "great job Texas" comments..... all of the nasty comments usually said with a smirk on his face that got his little cheeto hard and further stroked his giant ego as he saw his legions of supporters cheering and high 5ing. 

^ Had he loved America enough to tone it down and sound like a fucking professional, he might have gotten enough undecided voters to win. He wouldn't have lost cal and Steve, and he wouldn't have gained Woody or Horta, but he would've gained a lot more Mrs. D Bones....

My wife HATES Trump. Hates. I watched her agonize for 3 days over who she was going to vote for, and in the end she reluctantly voted for Trump. How many more middle of the road, undecided voters would Trump have gotten if he would have just shut his fat fucking mouth? How many?? We all know his team told him this, but he simply could not care less and could not control himself.

For a man who claims to love America so much, he sure didn't have the fortitude to show it. 

Excellent points.

I'm in my mid 30s now, and I've voted Democrat in almost every election since I turned 18 (voted Gary Johnson in 2016). This election, I voted Trump and a straight Republican ticket. I didn't vote for Trump because I like the man; he's actually kind of a scumbag. I voted Republican because of how far the liberals have been consumed by woke leftist ideology. The riots and the Democrats non-response to them played a big part in my decision, as well as MSM carrying water for the Democrats and Big Tech censorship.

It's a shame Tulsi got screwed out of the Democratic debates, because I definitely would've voted for her in the general election.

4 hours ago, Neo said:

If Trump really believes he's this great president who has done all these great things and the people love him, why doesn't he just stand aside and let the voters speak for him? Don't come at me with this fraud BS because if he is really as great as he thinks he is then it shouldn't haven't even been close. I know popular votes don't elect a president but Biden is destroying Trump in the popular vote. Yes I kind of did "vote against Trump" but this is an example of what I voted against. Him throwing a tantrum because the election isn't going his way and he still may wind up as president. Think about that.

Actually, I think the fact that this election is this close (projected to be the closest vote in US history) means that Trump isn't the second coming of Hitler than many people are making him out to be.

I think the more interesting side of this story emerges when you look at who voted for Trump and other races besides the presidential one have played out so far. Republicans have made significant gains across the board: from gaining seats in the House, flipping or nearly flipping former heavily Democratic areas, gaining significant portions of the black, latino and other minorities vote, etc. 

Biden may very well end up winning this election, but Democrats would be fools to think that this election wasn't a referendum on their courting of woke/progressive/Leftist ideology.

2020 Election "pollsters":

Different state, similar circumstances:

https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1324093784452403202

Over 23,000 votes. All for Biden; ZERO votes for Trump or 3rd party candidates.

Maybe I should ask Biden for the Powerball numbers; he's having an amazing run of luck.

22 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

 

Let's look at it another way 

 

I'm smart enough to coordinate large scale voter fraud in the biggest election ever when everyone is looking for it...

... why would I make it so obvious that Joe schmoe at his computer can call me out on it? Why not spread those votes out?

 

 

 

 

Or, just a crazy thought, the little tally ticker on Google's page isn't absolutely perfect, mail in votes are still be counted that are already mainly pro Biden to begin with, AND they're coming from a city that's incredibly pro Dem. All leading to a big spike as votes are batched in. 

Doesn't it seem a little odd to you that this big spike would happen for one candidate only, though? Biden gains 138k+ votes all in one go at 6am and not a single one of those votes is for the other candidates?

6 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

Oh God not you too...

 

It's called "counting the ballots from Detroit"...

So you're saying out of all those 138k votes, not a SINGLE vote for Trump or a 3rd party candidate? Out of a city and metro area of 3.7 million people?

I guess it's not a statistical impossibility for me to hit the Powerball and simultaneously get struck by lightning while getting sucked off by a Playboy playmate either, but...

So the results last night were showing Trump leading in Michigan. Then, overnight, 138k+ mail in ballots were counted: ALL for Joe Biden. Not a single one of those votes were for Trump or even a 3rd party candidate.

Seems legit.

Got to admit, this is a real disappointing head-scratcher to me. Especially with how porous our defense has been over the last 3-4 games, I'm pretty disappointed that we didn't make any moves to shore it up.

My vote is for Robert the Bruce, of the 3 Floyds Brewery party.

I'm pretty ambivalent about the whole election. Then again, I'm also quite drunk at the moment so 🤷‍♂️

I was getting flashbacks to Greg Little and Braylon Edwards watching all these dropped passes. Not a good day.

Getting to the playoffs and advancing in the playoffs are two different things. We can get to the playoffs without beating "good" teams like the Steelers and the Ravens. But once we make it, you know they're going to be there too, and we have to be able to get through them in order to advance. Whether or not we can do that remains to be seen.