Treat Election Day Like A Blizzard is Coming

[FlyersFan]

Just a thought for the American posters 
(foreigners feel free to read, of course) ...

We are treating election day like a blizzard is coming.
Going to the grocery store and getting extra stuff to last a week or two.
Bottled water from Target good for a week or two.  
Refilled prescriptions so plenty of that at home.
Topping off the gas tanks in the cars.  Filling up.
Got plenty of candles and matches, and batteries for flashlights and radio.
If we still had the guns in the house we'd load the clips.
(sold them when my husband was diagnosed with Parkinsons)

I don't expect big stuff to go down ... but .... 
I think it's smart to be prepp'd up for election day.
You never know how this thing is going to go.
And considering how the left went nutz with the George Floyd riots ...
If Trump wins it will be a perfect excuse for certain segments of society
to go out and loot and cause destruction ... 

I'd say everyone should be prepp'd for disruptions for a few days,
if not for a week or two.

[Chiefsmom]

Really not bad advice.

I'm actually more concerned about when Trump does get back in office, January 15th I think.  Isn't that the day they (bought off) stalled the port strike?
I see them using that as one of the first things to try to damage his term.

[Maxmars]

My parents would think it crazy that we have come to a point where the losing side will do all kinds of bad mischief and even destruction just to "demonstrate" their displeasure...

Like how a child breaks something out of anger at not getting their way.

Begrudgingly, it's not a bad idea to make preparations... who knows what "plans" people are making for the day... should they lose.

I mean, we already know that no matter who wins, the politicians of the losing party (and their appointees) will orchestrate distinctly "unAmerican" efforts to operate directly against the winner and his or her plans... they have already shown us (over and over) that "It's normal for them and their ilk" to behave that way. 
(Hell, they even "set up" contingencies even before the election is decided... which says something... but I'm not gonna say it.)

[Byrd]

As an election judge, I'm getting stressed out about this election.  There's going to be a HUGE turnout.  I don't have enough clerks.  And I'm worried about free-range "poll watchers" who have appointed themselves monitors (we have a process in Texas if you want to become a poll watcher) and haven't bothered to actually go through the steps to be a real poll watcher.

I will be setting up my voting site with preparations on what to do if someone comes in with a gun or if there's a bomb threat.  I'll have to talk with the site (it's a senior citizens center) about fire escape routes and then let my clerks know about emergency procedures.

NOTHING may happen (likeliest scenario) - but I have to plan for the "just in case" option. 

I will be SO glad when the election is over.

[KTemplar]

Byrd, I feel lucky. We have police officers at my voting place (high school). I’m always happy to see them there.

I talk to people all day long 5-6 days a week and I can tell you this much. I’ve heard the word Revolution 3 times in the past month, they didn’t specify anything and I didn’t ask.

Most people whisper their feelings about this election like they are afraid to be cancelled.

The majority of people that talk about this tell me:

1:). They’ll be leaving Massachusetts

2.). If Kamala gets in they are retiring early because her proposed unrealized capital gains tax, and other tax increases are not sustainable and economically disastrous for anyone who works or owns anything.

3.). People are hungry and angry and will not continue to work so 45% of their pay can go to people who came here illegally and are driving better cars than them while not having ever contributed to the system.

4.). People will be moving to Red states.


I don’t really see any major civil unrest, just a quiet quitting of the system. People are Fed up!

[UltraBudgie]

This is good you are self-aware of the worry and using it for useful things, for example everyone should just normally have prepared household.  When worry becomes foreboding and non-useful, is useful to perhaps take a step back and do things like prepare your garden for the fall, can some tasty food, love your pets, etc., make the impotently significant worry into usefully significant motivation, love the process without becoming cynical or fearful.  Just some advice take it as you will.

[FlyersFan]

Most people whisper their feelings about this election like they are afraid to be cancelled.

"They" talk about the secret Trump vote.
The talking heads on TV talk about it all the time.
People who claim to be voting Democrat or who say they won't vote,
but in reality will be voting Trump.
"They" say it happened in past elections and will be happening this time too.
I post on another forum, and I see what I think are secret Trump voters ...
They claim Independent or Libertarian, but there are a whole lot of them,
more than you would expect.  So I think they are probably Trump voters.
Can't prove it ... but that's my guess.

[KTemplar]

FlyersFan, they are definitely voting Trump, quite a few have outright told me so. Most likely because they know I support President Trump! I’m not whispering about it lol!

My favorites are the ones who tell me they voted Democrat last time because they were lifelong Dems, but they are hurting so bad financially they regret it.

[KKLoco]

MAGA!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t care what the consequences are! We NEED it!

It ain’t possible to do 4 more years of this SHIT!

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

There will be no social breakdown because Trump will win and the election will be free and fair this time.

Real answer:

Because Trump wins by the small margins this time the democrats will demand recounts and then accept defeat. More 2000 than 2016.

There will be generalized protests of just not liking him, which go out of their way to be peaceful UNTIL Trump does the following things.

End Ukraine war in way favorable to Russia
Supports Israel in a way Biden was too afraid of Muslims to try. (Most likely to be violent)
Closes the border on day one.
Follows through with largest deportation offensive in US History.
Goes after LGB but mostly T protection by changing back Title IX - which effectively ends ideated gender in sports.
Bans pronouns and woke sex education practices.
Bans DEI and affirmative action.

And the lesser likely ones of:

Pulls out of NATO
Supports national abortion ban
Endorses Alito going after Obergefell v. Hedges

That first list is when the protests happen. Those are the triggers to cause them.

The silver lining may be "desensitization to protesting." The executive orders on day one are going to be a back-breaking straw that ends the facade of trying to act adult about Trump. And then it will overload people with too many EOs to be mad at.

Look for protests to be minor after election day, maybe isolated cases, but mostly despondent Gen Z (instead of millennials) bitching until he starts following through like he will.

I don't see it getting particularly dangerous until after Jan 25th