I bet if another storm heads toward Louisiana they’ll have a vote faster than you can say "Fucking Hypocrite!’

They are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know …

Is it possible to cover up “serious decline” with a serious dose of uppers? I’ve assumed he is on a steady diet of pills ever since he accused Biden of only being able to stay awake if they put him on meds.

Maybe this is how he is when his meds wear off.

It might end up being different this time around:

• much of the opposition to nuking the Filibuster was done by people with Respect For Senate Traditions, like Manchin, who are not running again.

• Democrats that remain remember the shit McConnell pulled when he was majority leader, and are not as likely to have this Respect for Senate Traditions when they know Republican leadership will not hesitate to shit on those traditions if it suits them.

• since Senate terms each cover 3 sessions of Congress, they are divided into three classes, where 33/34 Senators are in each class. Counting the independant seats, Democrats have 23 seats to defend in this Senate class. If they retain their majority this election, it will be easier to maintain over the next 6 years of their term as Republicans have more seats to defend than Democrats in the next 2 elections. They may be more willing to go full Nuclear if they don’t have to deal with the fallout for a few years.

The National Popular Vote movement is a shortcut around the need for a constitutional amendment. States that sign on to it change their EC allocation process so that their state’s votes go to the winner of the national vote – but it only kicks in when enough states sign on to constitute a majority of EC votes.

IIRC it has passed in enough states to be just over 200 EC votes, but getting the last 70 will be a tough process. Still, it is an easier lift than an amendment. And maybe if it ever passes and makes the EC irrelevant there might be more momentum around the amendment to get rid of it altogether.

What?

… Damn, you got me

I wouldn’t respond directly to the letter, either, but you bet I would march off to whoever administers elections where I am and make sure nobody un-registered me. I shouldn’t have to, but I would anyway.

I’m not a big fan of the idea of reparations. The generational harm seems too great to fix with money. Besides, once there are any payments at all, you will get losers who claim that racism is over, because we paid it off.

Republicans didn’t get to their positions of power by listening to experts…

So what? If we cared about what a majority of Americans thought, then Hillary would have won

He is making lots of passes at Laura Loomer

We shouldn’t be surprised at all that a man who is famous for not paying vendors is using software that doesn’t work as advertised. The vendor is probably slow-rolling support tickets in favor of clients that pay.

Also note the end of the article: it mentions many alternatives, and why the Trump team rejected each one because of ties to other Republicans that Trump hates.

Sigh. The man was elected President twice and people still feel compelled to tell him to watch his tone…

Except they were careful and never actually said “we will give you money to vote for Harris/against Trump”. Paying you to call him a human toilet isn’t against that law.

He did it when he won in 2016. When people pointed out that Hillary won the popular vote, he complained it was only because of the “illegals” voting.

I thought the main point of the tattletale laws was to avoid judicial review. An important part of that is to establish who has standing. If the law was enforced directly by the AG, then people could sue the office directly if they think the enforcement violated their rights. But since these laws are enforced by nosy neighbors, there is no one central body to sue to review it. They’ve essentially insulated these laws from ever having a judge rule they are invalid.

Trust me, we have tried. The problem is that while there was never a PayPal account verified to that email address, somehow a foreign number is attached to it. Every time we have tried to start an account with that email, the verification ping goes to that number, even though the email is unverified. We haven’t found a way to tell PayPal to disassociate that number, because we never had any account attached to it to begin with.

What is someone squatted on your email, starting an unverified account attached to your email address with their phone number, but the fuckers at PayPal won’t do a thing about it?

Not really, all it requires is someone to produce a signed message with one of Satoshi’s private keys, which can be easily verified with the public addresses on the blockchain. Whoever produced that message can be proven to possess that private key. Nothing short of that would be believable by the crypto nerds.

If we presume that Satoshi understood that Bitcoin may be valuable one day and kept the keys private, that would mean that the signer really is Satoshi, or one of his associates or heirs Satoshi trusted wih access. Even if that person wasn’t actually Satoshi, their word on who it is would be considered authoritative.

Unless it’s Craig. Fuck that guy. Nobody believes him.

What if I’m concerned that one of the candidates is a fraud?