Both candidates are similar and run by other people. I think they will let Trump win so they can crash the economy and play some other games to blame the Republicans so the Dems will win next time. They want to stir up trouble and that is an easy way to do it. Just keep everything as chaotic and fear mongering as possible.

My mom thinks the world will end of Trump gets in, but it didn't happen last time. She says my bf (his family has always been in America - they are from Texas and have been from the same area for as long as they can track back) who is Hispanic will get deported. Uhm he didn't get deported last time.

It's all his to keep the common people too riled up to band together to go after the real problems.

I'm in AZ and they cheat like crazy every election. Ballot printers stop working or misprint in known Republican areas, they hand out sharpies knowing the reader can't read them, etc. I wanted to volunteer to be a poll watcher but my bf heard the last election they were being threatened and doesn't want me to get hurt.

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope she can overcome it with exposure to faces.

I refused to wear a mask (except when required for my blood work and even then it was literally a gauze thing I made that didn't impact my breathing) and I had a hard time talking to or looking at people wearing masks. It's always been hard for me. I need to see faces for people to be 'real', if that makes any sense. I could see why she'd be freaked out by people in masks.

That interviewer should be ashamed of himself. The eye rolls and dismissive head movements are absolutely not professional. I guess there's a reason I haven't watched anything mainstream in decades. I had assumed this was going to be one of the interviewers that doesn't constantly attack with garbage.

Yeah. Three cats were vaxxed when they arrived - fixed, so I assume at least rabies. The two youngest are not and will not be. They are my only two with normal poops. It could be that they are young but we will see.

I had a great vet in Reno tell me horror stories of vaccine reactions in cats when she had clients insist on vaccination. All pets get the same amount whether they are a kitten or a mastiff.

I was forcibly put on zoloft and heard voices. I knew what changed and asked if I could go off the meds. Of course, I was told no and placed on more meds and told that since I knew they were auditory hallucinations it was fine.

I would think no one was threatening to commit him if he stopped using them. I can't imagine an audiologist would just say to keep using them.

They are mandating it at my job. Even though I got a religious exemption the last time around, I have to "attest" that I know I'm harming others by not getting it and that I will wear a mask when around co-workers, although my exemption still stands. I haven't signed the crap yet. I'm waiting to see if they will threaten to "replace" me, again.

They have electronic registries in most (maybe all) states. Originally just for kids, then they added olds, now they have added the covid shots.

Look up Moth in the Iron Lung by Forrest Maready. If you don't want to buy it or read it, he's got some documentaries floating around summarizing how DDT and other chemicals caused polio.

Edit: found his YouTube https://m.youtube.com/@forrest-maready/videos

Surprised they haven't zapped him yet. Probably because he doesn't upload frequently anymore.

My mom feeds the crows hoping for a ring :) Birds are super smart.

When I lived in Reno, NV, I used to walk around a lake twice a day. I took bird seed and duck feed with me and fed the swan and some of the geese (and pigeons if the geese weren't around). The swan started swimming the lake next to me as I walked. Anytime a stranger would get to close to me he'd start flapping and kinda standing up in the water scaring them off. It was awesome. I loved my swan friend.

Same with check in at the MGM in Reno. I was in line at the Circus Circus last night and a bunch of people were saying it was a couple hour wait to get a room over there.

Healthcare IT. I work with insanely brainwashed people.

I was talking to one today who is sick as a dog. She had to get steroids from her doc this morning. I don't know how they don't see the pattern.

It's the largest number I've heard. A few idiots I work with are up to that number and looking forward to the Halloween booster and RSV shots.

Oh god. He would frighten me. All the plastic surgery makes him look non human and the rood rage...

I actually had a sniffy, coughy colleague say that to me on a call today.

The problem is that they will be angry at the unvaxxed. We might be attacked just out of jealousy for making the right decision.

Right! I've seen some weird, creepy people in my life. They could even just say - "meh it was some dude who looked like he was coming down off something." But absolutely no one on the plane claims to have seen the guy other than people saying "some guy in a hoodie" and they may just be attention whores and not be people from the plane.

I really wish someone had filmed the guy she was complaining about.

My colleagues, apparently. I have one who is actually giddy about the old person RSV vaccine. She gets every vaccine available. She is intelligent, just gullible as all hell.

They are discussing it at the healthcare system, one of the largest in the US, that I work at, too. They want the mask mandates back and our covid tracking dashboards.

Yeah. They are talking about reinstating our covid dashboard for the healthcare system I work for. They are trying to ramp up the panic again. It seems to be working on the people I work with.

I'm being forced into the office on Wednesday so that my idiot Indian boss can 'meet me in person' (he's going to be disappointed that I'm just a frumpy middle aged white woman who doesn't show off her bobs) which is stupid in and of itself and every is saying we need to 'mask up'.

Sooooo dumb. I'll take my mask made out of panty hose like material just in case they really push it. My boss already dislikes me because I don't suck up like the rest of the team so I should probably pretend to go along with the garbage.

That was something my bf and I talked about during the height of the hysteria. We are in a huge apartment complex (with plenty of parties 24x7 becaise apparently we were the only ones who continued to work) . We didn't see ambulances constantly, or hear the guys yelling 'bring out your dead!'

From now on I will imagine these idiots as having a rotting face where the mask is covering. Thank you! It will hopefully keep me from rolling my eyes, sighing, etc.