GDT: 11/3/20, Election Day, Donald J. Trump vs. Joseph R. Biden

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sturg33 said:
What do the super not racist board lefties think was behind the most racist president ever significantly gaining share in minorities?

Whats the prevailing theories as to why?
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they spent a ton on ads targeting minorities even if they couldnt get them to vote for Trump they could discourage them from voting for Biden..... or Hillary. In 2016 they targeted 700k black people in Florida with negative ads about Hillary related to race. Perception matters far more than reality. I kept seeing Trump ads featuring black people all over youtube.
 
Jaw said:
I have told my wife to start checking the Native American race box on my kids' forms though.
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My wife didn't know her ancestry until a few years ago. She was adopted as an infant. It turns out she is 25% native American. We were able to use the DNA data to identify her biological father, who is of Mexican ancestry. And this year our son is applying to colleges. We have been tempted to check off Native American on his applications but feel it would represent an abuse of the system. Interestingly enough, even though they have grown up in families that do not identify as Hispanic, both my wife and son are adamant that this is part of their identity. At first, I thought it was some sort of joke but then realized it wasnt. To me being Hispanic is a cultural construct. But not to them.

My two older kids are from my first marriage. Their mother is of Chinese ancestry (born in California). When they were young I asked my older son what his sister was and he said she is Chinese. I asked him what he was. He said American. He was about 5 at the time but I think he still feels the same way.
 
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Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.

A steady stream of Republican complaints in Milwaukee was putting the recount far behind schedule, county clerk George Christenson said. He said many Trump observers were breaking rules by constantly interrupting vote counters with questions and comments.

“That’s unacceptable,” he said. He said some of the Trump observers “clearly don’t know what they are doing.”

Tim Posnanski, a county election commissioner, told his fellow commissioners there appeared to be two Trump representatives at some tables where tabulators were counting ballots, violating rules that call for one observer from each campaign per table. Posnanski said some Trump representatives seemed to be posing as independents.

At one recount table, a Trump observer objected to every ballot that tabulators pulled from a bag simply because they were folded, election officials told the panel.

Posnanski called it “prima facie evidence of bad faith by the Trump campaign.”

https://apnews.com/article/election...in-elections-dcb7da95578fc7289122c6d372575a9b

bad faith indeed
 
nsacpi said:
My wife didn't know her ancestry until a few years ago. She was adopted as an infant. It turns out she is 25% native American. We were able to use the DNA data to identify her biological father, who is of Mexican ancestry. And this year our son is applying to colleges. We have been tempted to check off Native American on his applications but feel it would represent an abuse of the system. Interestingly enough, even though they have grown up in families that do not identify as Hispanic, both my wife and son are adamant that this is part of their identity. At first, I thought it was some sort of joke but then realized it wasnt. To me being Hispanic is a cultural construct. But not to them.

My two older kids are from my first marriage. Their mother is of Chinese ancestry (born in California). When they were young I asked my older son what his sister was and he said she is Chinese. I asked him what he was. He said American. He was about 5 at the time but I think he still feels the same way.
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It's interesting that people see it differently. Valid arguments can be made for basing race off of appearance or culture I suppose. My grandmother was half Cherokee and looked full blooded. My youngest and I show more of my Scots-Irish background. My eldest looks more indian than I do, thanks to getting some of my wife's Mediterranean skin tone on top of whatever came from me.

Culturally I've passed on the stories that were passed on to me, along with the sense that government can be as necessary, useful, and untrustworthy as fire or a gun. I think that sense of family history is important. My eldest has always soaked up every word and will remember them long after I'm gone. My youngest couldn't care less. Regardless, I can check the box without any guilt and one day it may help make up for somewhat humble beginnings. Besides, who would dare question it in an age of self defined identification?
 
Jaw said:
It's interesting that people see it differently. Valid arguments can be made for basing race off of appearance or culture I suppose. My grandmother was half Cherokee and looked full blooded. My youngest and I show more of my Scots-Irish background. My eldest looks more indian than I do, thanks to getting some of my wife's Mediterranean skin tone on top of whatever came from me.

Culturally I've passed on the stories that were passed on to me, along with the sense that government can be as necessary, useful, and untrustworthy as fire or a gun. I think that sense of family history is important. My eldest has always soaked up every word and will remember them long after I'm gone. My youngest couldn't care less. Regardless, I can check the box without any guilt and one day it may help make up for somewhat humble beginnings. Besides, who would dare question it in an age of self defined identification?
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I'm an immigrant from a racially admixed family (fancy way of saying a mutt). My sister had a perpetual tan, but I have a bit more of the Irish side. Up until about 10 years ago, I only cared about fitting in as an American and never really thought about where I came from and family history. Two things changed that. One was the pragmatic, selfish realization that my mother wouldn't be around forever to cook my favorites. So I started spending more time learning her recipes and talking about the old country with her. And my kids have wanted to learn too.

The other thing that changed my attitude toward the past was my daughter had a summer internship with Ancestry DNA five or six years ago. Well, she bought me and other family members a kit with her employee discount. And that kind of launched me on a pretty involved investigation. The only branch of the family that I grew up with and knew about was my maternal grandmothers side. I still don't "know" the other 3 sides as people. But I have built my tree and have a "theoretical" construct of them.
 
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thethe said:
You can feel it. The left is not going to handle this well. It will be key for the trump administration in their second term to swiftly root out the violent element of the peaceful protests that are too come. Good thing they assembled so much intel during the fake George Floyd protests.

It’s all going down
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Seriously

Seek help
 
Where's Dominion?

Guys just going to ignore the obvious because you don't like the orange man eh?
 
I’m shocked that with lawyers like this

He’s losing all his cases


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If all this fraud talk somehow leads to Dems winning control of the Senate I'll go into an absolute rage. This had gone too far a couple of oil changes ago.
 
I love everything from the cult/q anon etc etc

Is always “just wait and see”

Always waiting to see

Never show any real proof lol
 
Jaw said:
If all this fraud talk somehow leads to Dems winning control of the Senate I'll go into an absolute rage. This had gone too far a couple of oil changes ago.
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I love the stories of people saying there is no reason to vote cause it’s all fake

Lol

Hope they are true to their word.

Please cult, don’t come vote in the senate runoff lol
 
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