2025 & 2026 Elections

[superrific]

Generally “left the board” means a poster just stops posting and/or visiting the site. How would one even go about eliminating their username and deleting their posts? And why would one do that?

1. Paine knows that I've seen his full name. He posted a substack link, and when I opened it, it briefly threw up a message box saying, "So-and-so sent you this gift link." I told him truthfully that I didn't catch the last name, that I averted my gaze and only processed that it started with and E. But there's no way for him to be sure of that. It's possible that he worried about talking too much on a board that wasn't fully anonymous.

2. Deleting a user name and the posts is something one might to do to assure others that you've left. IIRC he said he was engaged. Maybe his fiancee was thinking he spends too much time here, and he said he would cut down, and then yesterday he spent hours, got caught and then deleted the account.

3. It's also something you can do if you don't have the willpower to stay away. It's like if you are trying to quit smoking, you probably want to throw out the box of Marlboros you bought last week.

 

[CFordUNC]

Fuckkkkkkkk. I hope he comes back. Absolutely, positively loved his being part of community. Learned a ton from his posts.

@Paine come back when you’re ready brother! This place ain’t the same without you.

 

[CFordUNC]

How the hell do we lose such great community members like Paine while keeping around total pieces of shit like the Buckhead “lawyer” or the mentally insane loser who creates 79 aliases every week?

 

[superrific]

How the hell do we lose such great community members like Paine while keeping around total pieces of shit like the Buckhead “lawyer” or the mentally insane loser who creates 79 aliases every week?

Paine likely has a life. Buckhead lawyer, not so much.

 

[CFordUNC]

Paine likely has a life. Buckhead lawyer, not so much.

super I’m just proactively putting this out here in case it’s ever needed, don’t you leave us, either!

 

[superrific]

super I’m just proactively putting this out here in case it’s ever needed, don’t you leave us, either!

I don't have a life, so no worries about that. But this place ain't always good for mental health.

 

[farce©]

I don't have a life, so no worries about that. But this place ain't always good for mental health.

Yeah, on the original ZZL I took several extended breaks. Once for the best part of a year, and others for a few months. Sometimes I was just too busy and other times I was just fed up.

Now that I'm retired I have more time for foolishness! And thanks particularly to nycfan, this place winds up being a pretty damn good news aggregator.

 

[CFordUNC]

I don't have a life, so no worries about that. But this place ain't always good for mental health.

Hey, just know you are loved and appreciated here, my man

 

[4thgenheel]

I believe he left the board which is terribly unfortunate.

what?!

nooooo say it ain't so @Paine you're one of the best posters we've got here.

 

[superrific]

So now that Coop is in the race for the Senate seat, we don't have to sweat this one, do we? Should be a Lean Dem seat?

 

[CFordUNC]

So now that Coop is in the race for the Senate seat, we don't have to sweat this one, do we? Should be a Lean Dem seat?

Should be, since the “least batshit insane” candidate that the Republicans can probably run is Lara Trump.

 

[Kingpin]

So now that Coop is in the race for the Senate seat, we don't have to sweat this one, do we? Should be a Lean Dem seat?

I’ll sweat every election until the final results are in.

 

[heelwithnoname]

^ these days we have to sweat for months even after the final results are in.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

^ these days we have to sweat for months even after the final results are in.

Yeah, if a Republican candidate in any state loses by even 5% or more I now fully expect them to refuse to concede and to loudly announce that the election was somehow rigged against them with rampant vote fraud and to demand recounts and court interventions and all the rest. They all now take their cue from Dear Leader. The only elections that are now legitimate and honest are the ones in which they win. If they lose it's solely because it was stolen from them because, as we all know, Democrats could never win fair elections anywhere.

 

[Icky Mettle]

So now that Coop is in the race for the Senate seat, we don't have to sweat this one, do we? Should be a Lean Dem seat?

This is NC. I don’t think there is such a thing as a “Lean Dem” US Senate seat here.

 

[rodoheel]

So now that Coop is in the race for the Senate seat, we don't have to sweat this one, do we? Should be a Lean Dem seat?

I think it’s the best candidate Dems could have for sure. But as I’ve said it will all depend on what people think about the Trump admin next October/November.

 

[ZenMode]

DNC chair dismisses Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to condemn ‘intifada’ chants: ‘We are a big tent party’​

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin brushed off concerns from Jewish Democrats on Wednesday about New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada.”

Martin, elected to lead the DNC in February, suggested that his party welcomes users of the chant associated with violent uprisings against Israel, in an interview with PBS.

“You know, there’s no candidate in this party that I agree 100% of the time with, to be honest with you,” Martin said, when asked by “PBS NewsHour” host Amna Nawaz about Mamdani’s repeated defense of the rallying cry for anti-Israel protesters.

DNC chair dismisses Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to condemn ‘intifada’ chants: ‘We are a big tent party’

Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada” concerns some Democrats.

nypost.com