Bruce Ediger

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

Thank you!

That looks brilliant! Have you read it? Did Zip Jet #2 get published?

Apparently there have been a number of really low rent sequels. Warren Beatty does a short crappy Dick Tracy every few years to keep the movie rights. Beatty is said to be mad that he couldn't get a big budget sequel, so he keeps anyone else from it.

To be fair, Carter was a Democrat.

Why didn't anyone do this to Trump 2016-2020?

That view has been common among media types for decades. I used to do Friday Afternoon clubs with reporters for Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News (R.I.P.) in the early 90s. Several of them expressed that if both sides were sending in letters to the editor complaining, they were doing a good job.

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

YouTube video by Green Screens by CreatorSet Peter Thiel stuttering "Its umm its its umm" meme - Green Screen

Man has never willingly fired a pair of neurons in his life youtube.com/shorts/3y7Hw...

alan moore hated people like thiel misinterpreting his work so profoundly that he dropped out of public life to become a shaman and worship a snake deity

God knows, Davey

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

It’s the Portland way.

Nooo! Not Barron! He's so young! He's still a boy!

I guess we're supposed to hide special needs people away, like in the 1930s or 40s, so Bobby and Donny don't have to see them.

Wait, that means the NYT is bothsidesing this. Voting for Trump, a weirdo fascist, is The Same as voting for a liberal.

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

Honestly, that was my guess, except I have never been able to see Trump as charismatic, especially in the way that MAGA media portrays him. So I experienced a little cognitive dissonance

cowtools but it's the gnu gnu

gnu cowutils

It's a fair cop

Is Robin old enough to drive? For some reason, I have him at about 13 or 14, too young for a driver's license in most states.

I don't subscribe. I'll guess it has to do with the pleasure of voting for someone with principles, vs Trump winning partially because NYT in particular, and mass media in general, treated him very favorably because their Oligarch owners want Trump to rule us like a king.

What's my prize, Johnny?

Too bad nobody with a national news following has made this clear.

A haunted house but every room is just somebody googling something inefficiently and you’re not allowed to help

There's not much publicly available on this but what little there is says tabulator counts are faster and more accurate than hand counts

dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/ha...

votingrightslab.org/2024/02/27/b...

If you've got other references, I'd love to read them.

Colorado does risk limiting audits on all elections, I believe. The procedure used only gives you statistical confidence, but it's very good at detecting wrongly declared winners.

I confess I didn't look at OR and WA as closely.

now do jan 6th

There is no reason not to use tabulators, lots of reasons not to use voting machines.

People who peddle mistrust of tabulators think they are better than you, their preferences should decide and yours ignored. They are charlatans and bullies.

People like Mike Lindell are confusing tabulating with voting. Tina Peters, convicted Qanon election interferer, seems to have allowed someone to tamper with tabulator software, because Mesa County Colorado was able to do a complete hand recount. And got the same results.

You can look up "colorado risk limiting audits" to see how Colorado does things. Tabulators can be, and are above board, and verifiable. It's easy to duplicate and try out the audit method. I've done that: bruceediger.com/posts/risk-l...