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R.I.P. gator

derek_tiger
(PS> my apologies for the length of this... as usual when someone has a knack for great writing, once I started I just kept the flow going)

As one of the elders & first creators of this august group of gentlemen, let us now hang our heads and remember the good times we had with bama_gator. He was a grand ol’ guy in his day. Some envied him (but they were his relatives). He certainly wasn’t perfect — no angel at all... stinkin' spuat fan to the end. But he did his best to keep us tickled at the occasional show of wit & humor and did his best to overcome the faulty genetics passed down to him.

Today he is no more … his light extinguished by the Trumpitis disease which ate him from the inside out. He abandoned his own decades long principles... sold out to a raving group of RINOs who also suffered from Trumpitis and offered empty promises from those self-dealing politicians and corrupt special interests that wantonly prostitute themselves.

I’ve watched it happen as an interested bystander, and I’m just as guilty as anyone viewing his downfall w/o offering the money needed for psychiatric help. I feel a pang of grief that I didn't do more when his mental demise was clearer than the vacant look in dementia Joe's thousand-yard stare. I mistakenly thought logic & reason (along with my Xboard brethren that had been together for decades) might somehow help him on the road to recovery, alas… not to be. He slowly devolved before our very eyes.

We sat by while he became a petulant and narcissistic buffoon with a fifth-grade vocabulary, a wife-beater’s temperament with a loose grasp on truth and knowledge; turning into a lying, duplicitous and conniving chameleon, our hopes were dashed that he could be cured of his OMB syndrome via our caring and loving posts of encouragement.

Scrutinizing just how much of a loser liberal he became was remarkable! Worthy of a double-blind, placebo-controlled study to show how a self-proclaimed conservative can actually morph into a woke, preferred pronoun ‘expand the nanny state’ has-been once infected with the hatred of all things Trump.

Gator teetering on the edge of sanity was like watching a train wreck in slow motion… we couldn’t help ourselves from looking all the while incredulous that a once, seemingly normal man could waste away before our very eyes.

Once the midnight to 3:00am rants started, we knew it was just a matter of time. The hypocrisy and self-righteous indignation… using terms like ‘wait for it’, ‘predicated’, ‘… as I said’ led down the path for him to actually vote for a party that is completely inept at economics and is steering America toward a socialism where no one works, and everyone has their hand out. Utter doom and destruction of this once great nation be dammed… at least ‘Trumpsky’ is out of office.

But that wasn’t enough to cure gator of this regrettable disorder. OMB-syndrome did not give up its hold on the small portion of gray matter that existed in his tiny cerebrum, and he left us before his time.

Lastly, the poet A.E. Housman once wrote:

Now you will not swell the rout, of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran, and the name died before the man.

Sadly, gator’s name has died before the man. However, we gather one last time to offer our respect to what we remember as a decent if not flawed fellow…


R.I.P gator.... we'll miss you.
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Polls and stuff...

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The final survey from Atlas Intel shows Trump is ahead in all swing states by 1 point to 6.5 points, with the pollster saying he has “significant margins” over Harris in Nevada and Arizona.

A model produced by poll analyst Nate Silver, who used to operate the FiveThirtyEight website, has given Trump a 53.8 percent chance of winning over Harris’s 45.8 percent.

Silver, at the same time, has accused some pollsters of putting their “finger on the scale” and lying to keep the presidential race close in polls, according to a podcast interview last week.

While Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan don’t report by party affiliation, four other battleground states do.

In Arizona, registered Republicans are ahead of registered Democrats by about 180,000 votes, while unaffiliated voters make up about 26.7 percent of the total votes cast, the tracker shows. The state only has mail-in ballots, not early in-person voting.

In Nevada, Republicans have a 40,000-vote lead in the early-vote total, buoyed by a strong in-person vote showing, the data show.

Days after early voting opened in North Carolina, registered Republicans took a slight lead over Democrats and have maintained the advantage as of Sunday, according to the tracker. GOP voters currently have a 42,000-vote lead over Democrats in that state.

While only 1.7 million people have voted early in Pennsylvania, Democrats have a 400,000-ballot lead over Republicans, the tracker shows. Pennsylvania, which has about 9 million registered voters, only reports mail-in ballots.

Polls
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