Texas governor limits election drop boxes to one per county in sprawling state

Interesting. I've never heard of this. I'll have to take the test sometime.

Is this a test used by HR to assess employees?

 

Federal courts won't do anything, but if you wait 50 years you have a 50/50 shot at them doing something - as long as the Democrats can vote and win elections.

 

This is gonna hurt Republicans more in my opinion since only the 65 and older crowd is allowed to mail in vote. I’m not sure why they are committing political suicide.

 

So you're saying the way to change this is through the ballot box - which has been forcibly removed by state police to prevent people from using it

 

yes but likely just as much once hired. in a hiring situation you might look to have a mix. it is also for sales from "know your audience perspective"
lots of common sense sure but knowing types and each the idea is how you frame that to the person. i talk to an "s" differently than an "i"

im not a psychologist and dont think its be all end all.. but I do find it useful to consider when dealing with others.

i dont know you past here but you strike me as one of the strongest cases of "s" i have ever seen. likely misreading it myself lol

 

From what I understand, people can still mail in their ballot, so it really shouldn’t make much difference. But, for Abbott to do this at this point in the election really makes him and the GOP look bad.

 

I am gonna take that test but Adam Ruins Everything ruined personality test for me.

The history of Myers- Briggs

When Katharine Briggs — a mother and homemaker — began what she called a "cosmic laboratory of baby training" in her Michigan living room in the early 1900s, she didn't know she was laying the groundwork for what would one day become a multi-million dollar industry. Briggs was just 14 years old when she went to college, and ended up graduating first in her class, explains author Merve Emre. She married the man who graduated just behind her at No. 2 — and while he became a scientist, she was expected to take care of the home.

"This incredibly educated woman — who was never expected to do anything but be a wife and a mother — she wanted to figure out how to take those roles and professionalize them," Emre says. "She wanted to figure out how she could do something in her home that would be as rigorous and as important as what everybody thought her husband was doing in his laboratory."

So Briggs began studying children and, along with her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, created what became known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The test is a series of questions designed to reveal a person's core personality type: Are you an extrovert or introvert? Sensing or intuitive? Thinking or feeling? Judging or perceiving? The intersection of these traits reveals one of 16 different "types" of personalities.


The test hasn't held up scientifically, but over the latter half of the 20th century the "people sorting" questionnaire was widely embraced by major companies, the U.S. government, and the culture at large. Emre traces the origins of the test in her new book The Personality Brokers.

 

yeah you are a "d/i" mix

 

Not sure about TX but nationwide, Biden is winning the senior group, maybe by double digit ! Dem haven’t won this group in 20-30 years.

But to your point, and maybe I’m reading too much into this - but this looks like a desperate move that could also backfire by firing up people to show up and vote.

We knew TX is more purple this year. The combination of trump, covid, and recent indication of major shift toward the Dem could be causing all kind of acceleration of that move to blue, and last ditch panic efforts to prevent a tidal blue wave.

 

If they’re the “silent majority”, why do they have to do stuff like this to try to win?

 

yeah I'm not sure about Texas specifically but nationwide the really old people favor Biden. Trump's support is largely in the 45-65 age range.

I'll be voting in person but rural Texas is still too vast. It won't be enough for a long time in my opinion. The only reason I think this election is even remotely within striking distance is because Trump is a class A piece of garbage.

 

Can't remember exactly but I think it was INTP at least I remember the ITP part.

 

yeah i believe more in my briggs and stratton than briggs meyers. fwiw I am enfp

if you are "I" in briggs then that means imo on disc you are mostly "d"
my internet assessment of you lol

 

Pretty sure they are also going to reduce the # of in-person voting locations in areas with "undesirable" voters.

 

I assume you have heard the advice 'to not bring a knife to a gunfight', but seems you are advising one should take a pillow instead?

 

Not sure a lot of elderly people like the way Trump, Paxton, and the rest basically did little to nothing to stop the spread. Them saying **** like Grandparents can die for their kids and only old people with heart problems and other stuff are dying, like it's no big deal for anyone else is pretty damn disgusting. Over 210,000 dead, and climbing! If I was 65 or older I would certainly not want Trump or any of his enablers getting my vote.

I think a lot of old people might actually be turned off by a nasty bully loud mouth narcissist who can't even look them in the eye and she'd a tear over the loss of their loved ones. I wonder if Trump is even capable of feeling remorse. Trump is not a respectable man, because he hasn't learned common decency and manners towards others. He's crash, nasty, and argumentative. When that doesn't work he just lies.

I would imagine there are a lot of older Americans who simply want to vote for Biden, because Trump had his chance and did nothing for them but make false promises, and destroy this country in so many horrible ways.

 

It is very likely to be futile, but you do it regardless of the outcome. It’s important to make a strong legal challenge to obvious voter suppression and blatant tampering with the votes of citizens, here and elsewhere where open attempts at voter suppression and election interference by the Republican Party is taking place right now.

If this can quickly move to the US Supreme Court, where Roberts has already shown himself to be indifferent to protecting the right to vote of our citizens during a pandemic, force him to be blatant with that indifference again. It will strengthen the case for changing the makeup of the Supreme Court to prevent a group of far right judges from running roughshod over established law, a group soon to be large enough that even if Roberts attempts to moderate rulings, he will likely be unable do so. Who knows? Perhaps before that happens, he will see the danger to the country and its institutions and surprise us. I’m not holding my breath.

If the majority of this country is under assault by both the perversion of our most sacred institutions and overturning the will of the majority of the people, remedies may have to be taken that meet the extremism of the minority head on. Dump the filibuster and seriously look at the enlargement of the Supreme Court. Clearly, it would require the presidency, the House and the Senate under the control of the Democratic Party. That is exactly what the minority party is attempting to prevent, and what may end up driving the majority party to take strong measures to protect our republic, our democratic institutions. We shall have to see what the election brings us.

The Republic is under direct assault by a rogue president, packed courts, and a minority party willing to go to any extreme to stay in power. At some point you have to say enough and meet the danger head on. I hope it is not necessary.

 

Last week Abbott wanted to open more poling locations and his party promptly filed a lawsuit again him so I guess this was his way to fall back in line.