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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2020-11-03 08:05 pm

Lockdown Update Day 231


Also these two stories:

Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train

Vladimir Marugov murder: Russian 'Sausage King' killed in sauna with a crossbow


Corona News:

Belgium's COVID-19 health care collapse: 'It will happen in 10 days'
More than 300,000 of Belgium's 11 million people have COVID-19 right now. The president of Belgium's medical union tells DW how desperate and precarious the country's health system has become.

I wonder what our forecast is...

Financial Times: Boris Johnson’s mistakes in the pandemic are depressingly familiar
From Brexit to Covid, the UK prime minister has insisted on only seeing what he wants to see






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US election stuff:




An Incomplete History of White Election Violence

Often when I post something anti-Trump, someone says “Biden is just as bad” or challenges me to explain why I prefer him. Okay.

The New Yorker: Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose
The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.

And finally:

no title

Mine is: If Biden wins The transgenders will Desecrate The Suburbs. :)



I Voted, For Tamir Rice
The young victim of a Cleveland policeman’s bullet would have been old enough to vote this Election Day, so keep him and others without a voice in mind as we use our voices in their stead



GOOD LUCK AMERICA!!

ETA:
(Whole thread here)
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[personal profile] beer_good_foamy 2020-11-03 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
If Joe Biden wins, witches will kill your 401K.

Well, there's my plot bunny for the last [community profile] buffyversebingo entry: "Willow hacks bankers' pension accounts to pay for the Slayer organisation."
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[personal profile] sea_thoughts 2020-11-04 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
If Biden wins, left-wing facists (sic) overthrow Thomas Jefferson. :') It almost made sense.