"There's no question about it. It's close here in North Carolina," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."
  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    179·
    2 months ago

    It’s close and Team Trump are working hard to exploit that. They have legal teams working around the clock finding ways to ratfuck this election.

    Fucking vote like your life depends on it, because if you’re like me, it literally does.

    The changes Trump wants to make will make me lose access to my healthcare and succumb to my cancer. My medications are $18k+ a month without insurance.

    I don’t even really like Harris, but I like being alive.

    I know, Palestinian kids like being alive, too, but we’ve made fuck-all headway on that issue in a year, and as sad as it is to say, Trump would just help Netanyahu wipe Palestine off the map, so Harris is the only realistic choice I’ve got. I have cancer, it’s not like I can personally swoop in and save Gaza. Sorry.

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        46·
        2 months ago

        Cheers, mate. It’s a contentious issue and I can understand people feeling all kinds of ways about like they’re voting to support a genocide. I feel that way, too… but I’m also keenly aware how much worse Trump and Republicans are on the same issue.

        • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          stay safe and you do you. its one of the fundamental rights we are trying to protect - the right for each of us to be safe from these weirdos in our own minds and bodies.

          it helps that our priorities appear to align.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    decent messaging from a suprisingly progressive and quality southern governor.

    I am in this general area. if NCs votes go to kamala it really is over - trump had better be on a flight to russia.

    I was in NC when Obama took the state in 2008 so I saw the state vibe. this go around friends there tell me, while not as “joyful” as for obama, the “blue NC vote” seems pretty resolute in showing up.

    so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Reyali@lemm.ee
      22·
      2 months ago

      I was in NC and remember the energy in 2008 (tbf, I was in college so my bubble was definitely all-in for Obama).

      I was also in NC in 2012 when the state voted to pass Amendment 1, making gay marriage illegal in the state’s constitution. Everyone I knew was against it, but because that was true for them too, no one could imagine it passing and so they didn’t even bother to vote. 35% turnout with 61% voting for bigotry.

      All that to say, if you’re in North Carolina, go fucking vote. It doesn’t matter if your district is gerrymandered to hell and there’s no chance of it going blue; don’t let that make you apathetic. Your vote matters for how the state assigns its electoral college votes!

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        Even if the district is gerrymandered ya can still cockblock on statewide elections, gerrymandering is rather meaningless if they cant do anything with it.

    • Trev625@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’m over in AL and I wish that my state was even on the road toward dragging our state forward. Maybe someday we can kick Kay Ivey to the curb and get a governor like NC.

      • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I think he’s the type of executive any state would want. he’s an ideal “for the now” governor and I am personally thankful we had him while I was in NC. I know others who will miss him also.

        edit to say: I have family in AL who I dont talk with because of <insert shitty political opinion here>. I wish you the best AL and you personally, trev.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      2 months ago

      No, not directly, but if Trump loses NC’s electoral votes, it will be very difficult for him to get to 270. It may be the most R-leaning state of all the toss-ups, so if he loses that he’ll need to make up ground in the other states that are not as friendly to him.