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It will due to BJ's guitar phobia.

@1289311511807004673 So to reiterate the previous post, there are three potential problems here: 1) Mail-in voters can't vote, particularly in Republican states. 2) Mail-in voters can vote but their ballots never get counted. 3) The ballots get counted but not soon enough for Trump to declare an election night victory. Only a handful of states, all safe Democrat except for Utah, are used to conducting elections with widespread mail-in voting.

He could still win legitimately and, more likely, the election could still feature mass voter supression, uncounted and slowly counted mail-in ballots in tipping point states. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives in Michigan, a key state, have in fact ruled that mail-in ballots may not be counted until after election day. The thinking is that Trump will have a large lead on election night from in-person votes, since Republicans have been bombarded for months by the idea that mail-in voting is fraud, that will slowly be chipped away by counting of mail-in ballots. Of course, if Trump leads at some point then his camp are likely to claim premature victory and it will get very messy if a good chunk of the country don't accept the results. Republicans slowing down the release of results is designed to deligitimise a potential Trump loss.

I'm liable to change my entry and fortunately this is out of too many tracks I love rather than just having a placeholder. But currently I'm on my first guitar-based entry since 2018 and unlike many others, it's not a recycle yay.

Yeah a lot of those seem like HGs who have already exhausted their potential to some extent (bloody ). I enjoyed them the first, second or even third time round but not particularly interested in seeing them again. So like Liam, I also appreciate the so-called left-field choices. I don't know how the OG All-Stars was, but gosh, with the narrative style of the last few years, in order to build characters they're gonna fill the first few weeks with so much tedious recapping of past seasons, aren't they?

This is all great! Is it unusual to have 'August' as your fav track though. The last Taylor Swift song I listened to was 'London Boy' so needless to say this is a massive improvement.

Ooh #5 is my best position since 2014 I think.

My entire top 6 + my own entry are in the top 15 rn so imma say the results are going brilliantly!

Ooh. I think I'm gonna come 13th or something.

SOMEBODY sent the most boring song on an otherwise incredible album a few months ago so I might just recycle an artist that I gave 0 points to when they were first sent oops

Okay listening at 3:30 and after 8 years I finally like her now.

I mean it probably actually is true because as long as Russia chooses not to be part of the EU despite it being on its doorstep, then the latter being strong does hinder Russia. But the EU hasn't been weakened from Brexit and besides, it's not up for Russia to decide another country's place in it.

Oh I think it's quite obvious that they see weakening the EU, and in particular isolating the UK, as beneficial.

Finally got round to listening to this and it's certainly less accessible than 2012-2017 but it's still excellent!

We wear our masks when moving around but can take them off when sat down (half of all indoor tables are condemned). But tbh you rarely eat inside in France in summer, and outside there's no compulsory mask wearing.

We know with absolute certainty that Britons will have lost their right to live and work on the continent and even going on holiday will be more expensive due to the loss of EHIC. We know with absolute certainty that trade between Britain, its neighbours and largest trading bloc in the world will be more difficult, which will have innumerable knock-on effects. This is all bad stuff. It is not speculation.

Sooner (Monday?) rather than later would be good for me!

I don't think Wales' size or population is really a problem, but much of the country is uniquely interlinked with England's economy: North East Wales has no cities of its own* and is closer to Chester, Liverpool and Manchester than it is to Cardiff. It doesn't mean that Wales can't be independent but it does mean that the performance of the country's economy will be forever dependent on England's economy. Of course, in an ideal world, an independent country would retain close economic links with its neighbours, but then again, in an ideal world, Brexit wouldn't have happened). Whereas Scotland is bigger, yes, but it's also geographically different, with both sides of the England-Scotland border being fairly rural, no real cross-border agglomerations to speak of and the economy centred on the Central Belt, which is quite separate to England. I'm pretty sure my view on this is coloured by my hatred for nearby Geneva, which is cut off from the rest of Switzerland and surrounded on 3 sides by French commuter towns and is rather dysfunctional despite centuries of cooperative diplomatic relations. Do better than France and Switzerland pls. *St Asaph is a meme city.

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Yeah to be fair that percentage will be outdated and it was always much lower on the street. But it's still compulsory in many indoor places and in the grand scheme of things, it's a pretty minimal measure to take that (hopefully) allows us to have a life fairly close to normal.

I'm actually quite pro-ending lockdown measures sooner in Britain and have been for a while, not least because I'll be there in 2.5 weeks and I don't wanna do a pointless quatorzaine on arrival but also: Are you guys okay.

Nor me. I'm also gonna be coming back to France after Christmas before 31st December because I won't have a carte de séjour by then and getting 'tourist' stamped in my passport by the French border from January 1st will be a death knell for my life here.

I got a fabulous country and its population is 250 times bigger than Liechtenstein, my last country, so I don't feel too guilty about getting an easier choice. Sent something SULTRY.

1. Séyetana 2. Skall 3. Cor Lupus 4. Jadakissnia 5. Danæviia 6. Bøtanikkä 7. Trifoski 8. Cadelicia 9. Flynnonda 10. 11. Vülkyria 12. 13. 14. Kluminican Republic 15. Jupiterdonia 16. 17. Mosquetania 18. 19. Yehesi 20. 21. 22. Altyr Muunilinst 23. Hushkanukia 24. République d'Áskorza 25. 26. Elëdan 27. 28. 29. Fljótavík 30. 31. Wholune 32. 33. 34. Terra Avium 35. 36. 37. Lotunia 38. 39. Rolloland 40. 41. 42. Persephonia 43. Why So Sirius 44. 45. 46. Niceland 47. 48. St. Burbia 49. 50. Aeroche

The Brexit deal negotiated by the Theresa May government, in particular the December 2017 backstop for Northern Ireland, was basically the same as the one we got two years later. Only in 2017 the Tories were still trying to court the DUP whereas two years later they were happy to throw them under the bus. The ERG, Boris Johnson and David Davis etc. threw their toys out the pram at the Theresa May-branded deal but welcomed it with open arms when the same deal came back in the form of a 'breakthrough' two years later. Because it was never about Brexit or Northern Ireland or protecting the union*, it was all about personal ambition and installing Johnson as Prime Minister. *I honestly believe that Theresa May, alongside figures like Ruth Davidson (remember her? x), is one of the last prominent few politicians that genuinely cares about preserving the union. But in the end, even she voted to put the UK's economic border in the Irish Sea.