NationStates Jolt Archive

So, election day is Tuesday. We'll have one last spasm of campaign madness in the next couple of days, the final vote, a paroxysm of analyses of trends (which will interrupt TV programming, thus creating angst among the comatose) and then we'll be back to what passes for normal.

When it's over, what will you do?

I'll sink back into intellectual lethargy, and return to watching Bones and NCIS. I might even read a book for pleasure.

Even in the UK it's been mad. Heck, even our Student's Union bar is taking advantage of the 24/7 licencing laws to stay open all tuesday night. It's going to feel rather odd having economic doom and gloom filling all our news, as opposed to only half. I guess here we slowly move into European elections territory once Christmas is over - which should get into full swing now we've had Halloween. Elections really are Hotel California. Or NSG.

I'd like to say I'd sink back into intellectual lethargy, but I'm already there.

So, election day is Tuesday. We'll have one last spasm of campaign madness in the next couple of days, the final vote, a paroxysm of analyses of trends (which will interrupt TV programming, thus creating angst among the comatose) and then we'll be back to what passes for normal.

When it's over, what will you do?

I'll sink back into intellectual lethargy, and return to watching Bones and NCIS. I might even read a book for pleasure.

Same thing we do every night, Pinky.

TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Same thing we do every night, Pinky.

TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

If you think about it, Pinky and the Brain had a full 8 year run on the White House.

You've got a tall big-eared doof who spouts nonsensical phrases all the time as President, and the Vice President a big-headed dour bastard who's constantly plotting global domination.

I can't fucking wait.

Today alone I've seen a hundred thousand McCain popups on the web. I've had four Obama supporters--from four different organizations! FOUR!--knock on my door to remind me to vote. I've received calls on my cell phone from the parties of my previous county of residence reminding me to vote. I daren't turn on the TV or the radio, lest even that obliterate what is left of my mind that hasn't been taken over by this miserable campaign.

Fucking Ohio. I'm moving to Maine. No one will ever bother to campaign at me there.

With another one of my puppets in the White House (hardly matters which one, though the Obama model seems popular right now) I'll continue to secretly dominate the world from behind the scenes.

Special tip: watch Goma in the DRC. I know I have all of you distracted by the Middle East and Afghanistan right now, but Goma's where my evil masterplan's going to get really messy.

I imagine it will be a bit like post partum depression.

Doesn't the 2010 campaign begin on Thursday?

Doesn't the 2010 campaign begin on Thursday?

*beats with a stick* Destroy my good mood, why don't you.

I can't fucking wait.

Today alone I've seen a hundred thousand McCain popups on the web. I've had four Obama supporters--from four different organizations! FOUR!--knock on my door to remind me to vote. I've received calls on my cell phone from the parties of my previous county of residence reminding me to vote. I daren't turn on the TV or the radio, lest even that obliterate what is left of my mind that hasn't been taken over by this miserable campaign.

Fucking Ohio. I'm moving to Maine. No one will ever bother to campaign at me there.I released a pack of badgers into all the voting booths in my county for kicks. Apparnetly the mad Obama supporters simply killed them all.:eek: My poor poor badgers.:eek2: Well, if they want crazy I shall give them crazy.

*Presses button.*

*Runs into underground bunker palace, along with Viking Horde.*

Let us see what happens when the insansity on election day is so high that the insanity readings (designed not pick up LG though due to obvious reasons) go off the scale and result in the age of the Giant Killer Monkey.:p That is till I return and the Earth is nothing but trees, since the Giant Killer Monkeys will run out of things to eat within two weeks.

Doesn't the 2010 campaign begin on Thursday?
Wait, people vote in interim elections? When did this start happening?

I'll wake up the next morning and ask,"Is the insanity over?"

Then I'll go Christmas Shopping

Wait, people vote in interim elections? When did this start happening?

There's voting involved? I thought this was all an exercise in libelous Flash cartoons.

So, who do you think will be screaming loudest when it's all over? I think Missouri this time. *nod*

Well, if Obama wins (and it looks he will), I'll just stop paying most of federal taxes including Social Security. Not immediately, but as soon as he raises them. It's not as difficult as you think. I'll incorporate myself and change my status at work from employee to independent contractor (furthermore, I will not be the contractor - my corporation will). Since I work from home, I'll find ways to basically spend my corporate earnings on myself in a tax-deductible way (as business expenses). I guess all my vacations now will have to include participation (at least on paper) in some professional convention (so that they qualify as business trips). I'll also pay myself some salary small enough that personal exemptions and various deductions will make the taxable income $0 (I will still have to pay 15.3% SS+Medicare tax on the entire amount though). Other than that, I'll live off my cash reserves, tax-free bonds etc. Of course, this presents the challenge of minimizing corporate taxes, so I'll need to find ways of spending a significant portion of my earnings on something that 1) can qualify as legitimate business expense and 2) can later (when Obama's gone) be resold for at least two thirds of its original value (even a loss of one third of value is still better than paying taxes). If all else fails, Switzerland is one of my favorite vacation hangouts and I could worse than spend a coupla year there. Anyway, there's no way that that anti-American atheist totalitarian bastard is getting his hands on my money.

I'm gonna continue as normal.

Well, if Obama wins (and it looks he will), I'll just stop paying most of federal taxes including Social Security. Not immediately, but as soon as he raises them. It's not as difficult as you think. I'll incorporate myself and change my status at work from employee to independent contractor (furthermore, I will not be the contractor - my corporation will). Since I work from home, I'll find ways to basically spend my corporate earnings on myself in a tax-deductible way (as business expenses). I guess all my vacations now will have to include participation (at least on paper) in some professional convention (so that they qualify as business trips). I'll also pay myself some salary small enough that personal exemptions and various deductions will make the taxable income $0 (I will still have to pay 15.3% SS+Medicare tax on the entire amount though). Other than that, I'll live off my cash reserves, tax-free bonds etc. Of course, this presents the challenge of minimizing corporate taxes, so I'll need to find ways of spending a significant portion of my earnings on something that 1) can qualify as legitimate business expense and 2) can later (when Obama's gone) be resold for at least two thirds of its original value (even a loss of one third of value is still better than paying taxes). If all else fails, Switzerland is one of my favorite vacation hangouts and I could worse than spend a coupla year there. Anyway, there's no way that that anti-American atheist totalitarian bastard is getting his hands on my money.

You could hide your money in mason jars buried under your parents' mobile home. :D

Well, if Obama wins (and it looks he will), I'll just stop paying most of federal taxes including Social Security. Not immediately, but as soon as he raises them. It's not as difficult as you think. I'll incorporate myself and change my status at work from employee to independent contractor (furthermore, I will not be the contractor - my corporation will). Since I work from home, I'll find ways to basically spend my corporate earnings on myself in a tax-deductible way (as business expenses). I guess all my vacations now will have to include participation (at least on paper) in some professional convention (so that they qualify as business trips). I'll also pay myself some salary small enough that personal exemptions and various deductions will make the taxable income $0 (I will still have to pay 15.3% SS+Medicare tax on the entire amount though). Other than that, I'll live off my cash reserves, tax-free bonds etc. Of course, this presents the challenge of minimizing corporate taxes, so I'll need to find ways of spending a significant portion of my earnings on something that 1) can qualify as legitimate business expense and 2) can later (when Obama's gone) be resold for at least two thirds of its original value (even a loss of one third of value is still better than paying taxes). If all else fails, Switzerland is one of my favorite vacation hangouts and I could worse than spend a coupla year there. Anyway, there's no way that that anti-American atheist totalitarian bastard is getting his hands on my money.
Yes, folks:
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OK, my previous post was a little tongue in cheek (although I'm sure quite a few people will actually do something like that - e.g. John Edwards did precisely that when Clinton raised taxes in 1993). But seriously, folks, I am waiting for the election outcome before I make some benefit elections for next year. 1) We have a deferred compensation program at work, and theoretically I can stash up to 100% of my compensation there (SS/Medicare tax still applies though), and those investments then grow tax-free until I withdraw them. So I definitely can (and will!) manipulate my tax bracket. 2) I can cash-out some vacation time each year and I always do - always the maximum amount. But after my tax rate rises I'll just start taking more vacations instead. The last two years I was always working on New Year Eve (last time I actually worked till 3 a.m. and then resumed in the morning). If it suddenly pays several hundred dollars less, I just won't do it. It has nothing to do with my attitude toward Obama - just elementary economics. I respond to economic stimuli rationally - that's it. My response will certainly result in less taxable income, and as a result, the government may get LESS in taxes from me even at a higher tax rate.

So, election day is Tuesday. We'll have one last spasm of campaign madness in the next couple of days, the final vote, a paroxysm of analyses of trends (which will interrupt TV programming, thus creating angst among the comatose) and then we'll be back to what passes for normal.

When it's over, what will you do?

I'll sink back into intellectual lethargy, and return to watching Bones and NCIS. I might even read a book for pleasure.

I'll be going to school and such in the Navy.

So, who do you think will be screaming loudest when it's all over? I think Missouri this time. *nod*

*screams* :tongue:

Personally, I'll mostly run around feeling happy and patriotic and stuff, or I'll lock myself in my room, cry, and smash things while yelling, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" and shaking my fist dramatically. In short, pretty much what I do every major election.

I intend to drink in the tears of rage and sadness of the right wing for the next four years.


It will be magnificent.

I can't fucking wait.

Today alone I've seen a hundred thousand McCain popups on the web. I've had four Obama supporters--from four different organizations! FOUR!--knock on my door to remind me to vote. I've received calls on my cell phone from the parties of my previous county of residence reminding me to vote. I daren't turn on the TV or the radio, lest even that obliterate what is left of my mind that hasn't been taken over by this miserable campaign.

Fucking Ohio. I'm moving to Maine. No one will ever bother to campaign at me there.

Try Connecticut.

"When's the election again, hon?"

If possible I plan to have a drinking game with my friends, whereby we drink something blue for every state Obama wins and something red for every state McCain wins. In the event that any third party wins a state we'll down lots of vodka/rum/colourless liquor of your choice.

So after the election, I may be nursing a hangover.

Well, if Obama wins (and it looks he will), I'll just stop paying most of federal taxes including Social Security. Not immediately, but as soon as he raises them. It's not as difficult as you think. I'll incorporate myself and change my status at work from employee to independent contractor (furthermore, I will not be the contractor - my corporation will). Since I work from home, I'll find ways to basically spend my corporate earnings on myself in a tax-deductible way (as business expenses). I guess all my vacations now will have to include participation (at least on paper) in some professional convention (so that they qualify as business trips). I'll also pay myself some salary small enough that personal exemptions and various deductions will make the taxable income $0 (I will still have to pay 15.3% SS+Medicare tax on the entire amount though). Other than that, I'll live off my cash reserves, tax-free bonds etc. Of course, this presents the challenge of minimizing corporate taxes, so I'll need to find ways of spending a significant portion of my earnings on something that 1) can qualify as legitimate business expense and 2) can later (when Obama's gone) be resold for at least two thirds of its original value (even a loss of one third of value is still better than paying taxes). If all else fails, Switzerland is one of my favorite vacation hangouts and I could worse than spend a coupla year there. Anyway, there's no way that that anti-American atheist totalitarian bastard is getting his hands on my money.
good luck with that.

I intend to drink in the tears of rage and sadness of the right wing for the next four years.


It will be magnificent.

oh you fixed it while i was posting...

i will only gloat for a few days (ill be in aruba, its hard to gloat on the beach) and then ill panic over whatever stupid shit bush will do between then and jan. 20th.

Try Connecticut.

"When's the election again, hon?"

I could return to my ancestral homeland of Greenwich! Pleasant little place, unfortunately the money of the sale of the old family land has been divied up since 2002, much as has the land.

Let me see, Tuesday. I have a story being reviewed in my creative writing class. Yea, I stlll have university classes to worry about. Then I need to really start focusing on my term papers. Ewww...

Followed by my commencement which is only six weeks away. Hall to the graduating class of 2008 of the winter term. :)

Then start looking for a job, if there can be any to be found. If not, I suppose I can take a seat and begin working on that novel I want to write or the short stories I need to revise. At anyrate, I am going to be busy with what the future brings.

I truely hope the election brings something better than the demented ravings of madmen (ie. Chimps R US and McSame and Insalin.)

I'll get back to modding instead of spending all my time following up links from the election thread and refreshing fivethirtyeight.com (C'mon! Why haven't you put up more analysis? Figures! I want percentages! Totals! More!).

So BEWARE!

Or I might just go do all the RL things I didn't do while following up links from the election thread, refreshing ... (etc).

In which case,

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80% of the Australian public want Obama to win. We might not be glued to the election news on November 4th because over here it's the Melbourne Cup that is ten times more important to Australians as the Kentucky Derby is to Americans. We even get a holiday for this horse race!

80% of the Australian public want Obama to win. We might not be glued to the election news on November 4th because over here it's the Melbourne Cup that is ten times more important to Australians as the Kentucky Derby is to Americans. We even get a holiday for this horse race!

Bah! In Melbourne you get a holiday...Adelaide is stingy. Although I think Obama will do quite well in the office, IF he gets in.

wow this post was meaningless

I'm preparing myself for a few years of shit going to hell in a handbasket, thanks to the last couple of years of said handbasket being woven. Very quickly the Democrats will be painted as responsible, blamed for it in the majority view, and lose to the Republicans in a couple more years.

Rinse, repeat, ad nauseating.

I'm also prepared for massive election fraud and bitter, bitter anger and division and scary shit.

I also doubt we'll exactly leave Afghanistan and the Middle East. If Obama wins my best bet is he can be diplomatic and help build up the US's reputation for a bit so that the next president can have something to tear down. I mean you gotta give those presidents something to do, can't just sit around all day.

It's almost over and not a moment to soon.

Having to hear it all over the news every day for the past two years has been annoying, I can;t wait to have the next two years wher I won't have to listen to it the only other elections for every other country will be at most for a week.

This thread ruined my whole day. :(

You could hide your money in mason jars buried under your parents' mobile home. :D

That tactic always works...comeon! We need more origionality :p

I intend to drink in the tears of rage and sadness of the right wing for the next four years.


It will be magnificent.

I wouldn't count the tears just yet, or your maginficent(maginficenses), at the rate that this is continuing, it could go either way, all that America knows is that it will be close.....

I'll go, "Oh, we lost to Obama? No surprise there."

Then I'll continue that great quest all teenage men undertake: gettin' the ladies.

at the rate that this is continuing, it could go either way, all that America knows is that it will be close.....

In what world?

at the rate that this is continuing, it could go either way, all that America knows is that it will be close.....

Or that Obama is 10% ahead in most polls.

In what world?

World 18 on NS2