NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Possible Russian trolls try to register for Texas Democratic conventionhttps://t.co/pqcXoIIhib pic.twitter.com/xrWFbs2DFe
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) March 15, 2018
Next Saturday, March 24, hundreds of Texas Democratic Party activists will gather at the Austin Hyatt Regency to nominate candidates for political office in Travis County, a kick-off event leading up to the 2018 midterm elections.
But some people who tried to register will not be attending, among them Candida McGruder. Gustavo Chubb. Geraldo Tinsley. Vincent Amundson. Roxie Male.
That’s because these five individuals and 43 others who signed up to attend don’t appear to be Travis County residents, or Texans, or even Americans. They might not even be real people. They may be pranksters — or they may be Russian trolls, and their appearance in Texas could represent the first public example of foreign probing of the 2018 elections.
Five senior intelligence officers, two current and three former, say the case of the Texas 48 looks like Russian meddling. And they tell NBC News that despite the clumsiness of the failed registrations, the Texas case fits a pattern of Russian behavior seen in its covert operations…
Despite the ham-handedness that announces an obvious Russian origin, said Kanuck, who served as the first national intelligence officer for cyber issues at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from 2011 to 2016, the methods and even the in-your-face nature of the trolling fit the pattern of “a Russian strategic campaign to delegitimize the democratic electoral process.”
“I would speculate that Russia is testing the waters for possible interventions or disruptions in the future,” Kanuck said…
And sure enough, in just the top dozen replies to the original tweet…
That settles it, we need voter ID laws in every state.
We can’t have foreign nationals influencing our elections.
— Jeffrey Richman ☃️ (@jcrichman) March 15, 2018
Require ID/SSN. This is getting ridiculous.
— Jay Reditwright (@reditwright) March 15, 2018
Doesn’t matter, for Repub purposes, whether those commentors are co-conspirators or just misled bystanders — if it helps them divert the conversation from “who benefits from the actions of these Russian trolls?” to “AIEEE brown people voter fraud!”, it’s all to their advantage.
SFAW
Where’s Alex Jones to scream “False flag by the Republicans!!!!!!”
I crack myself up sometimes.
p.a.
Sounds objectively pro-impeachment, n’est-ce pas?
Adam L Silverman
Infiltration at all levels.
Ruckus
Day by day I’m becoming more convinced that the entire republican party is just an extension of russia. What they want to do to this country sounds exactly like what current day russia is, a government like, by and for a modern day version of the mob.
Ken
Hmm. “Richman” and “Reditwright”. Perhaps this is two-dimensional chess:
1) Clumsily register with easily-detected fake names.
2) Use that to call for stronger laws.
(Of course it’s stupid, since the trolls got caught, meaning the existing process – you know, checking the name against the voter rolls, just like the election judges do – worked just fine at detecting the fraud.)
NotMax
Call to arm poll workers in 3#&8230; 2… 1….
NotMax
Code fix.
Call to arm poll workers in 3… 2… 1….
SFAW
@NotMax:
I liked the first version — more arglebargle
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: With poll axes!
http://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/texas-law-allows-open-carry-of-knives-swords
Corner Stone
I suggest we get someone to meet with Putin and tell him, quite sternly, to “knock it off”.
hellslittlestangel
Well, I’m impressed that Republicans didn’t say that the solution is to cut taxes.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Reason # 4289 why I have — frequently — suggested that all the RWNJs be relocated to
Nuevo AztlanTejasTexas, wall them all in, rename it Dumbfuckistan, and reclaim it when they’re done killing themselves.Naturally, current Texans of good will will not be required to stay. (Maybe set up Austin as a latter-day West Berlin? Dunno.)
hellslittlestangel
@Corner Stone: Sounds like a job for John McCain. He’d even tell him to “cut out the bullshit.”
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
I know just the guy, but he’s too busy furrowing his brow ever-so-deeply, and yukking it up with his pal Lindsey.
ETA: Note to self: learn to type faster.
hellslittlestangel
@Adam L Silverman:
It’s sure to scare tourists at first, but eventually you won’t hear from them about it. And you’ll have the Alamo all to yourselves, at last!
SFAW
@hellslittlestangel:
Yet.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et Al.)
I fucking hate these fucking fuckwad.
hellslittlestangel
@SFAW: It will come right after the Armed Poll Watchers Act.
Ruckus
@SFAW:
How are you going to pay for all this if you don’t cut taxes?
It’s Alice in Government Land.
frosty
@Adam L Silverman:
A more delicate phrase than your usual.
Or is there a real difference? Such as infiltration or filtration of stormwater treatment?
chris
@Adam L Silverman: Truly surprising that some student of the blade hasn’t run into a constitutional scholar with a Glock. Yet.
frosty
@Corner Stone: Perhaps Pence can visit and show them his Stern Face. It wouldn’t require him to talk, so win-win.
Corner Stone
@frosty: Maybe he could shake his head slowly side to side with a tight grimace/smile on his visage for impact.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: did y’all see that WaPo article about the guy who got sliced and diced by his girlfriend, because she thought he was cheating on her (when he wasn’t spending 12 hours a day playing video games)?
Sheesh. One more thing I have to warn my pre-teen about: “Be sure to check under the bed for a samurai sword”
frosty
@hellslittlestangel:
When we were at the Alamo 3 years ago, some asshole was walking around with an AR-15 (or clone) on a sling. None of the people in line were enthusiastic about it, to say the least. I wouldn’t live in Texas on a bet.
Old Dan and Little Anne
That’s not a knife. This is a knife.
Corner Stone
@chris: I have known more than a few people who went to prison for a long stretch for using a blade to “defend” themselves. Almost always, emphasis on “almost”, if they had used a gun they would have been no-billed or never even referred.
matt
Smells of a coordinated campaign.
frosty
@hellslittlestangel:
What’s the best sword for that? Claymore? Saber? Katana?
Adam L Silverman
@frosty: Some of the ladies were unhappy with the gendered connotations of penetration at all levels. So I’m trying to be more thoughtful.
Amir Khalid
@hellslittlestangel:
These people need to make up their minds. Are they cosplaying as the Punisher or Crocodile Dundee?
mai naem mobile
Jist saw on the teevee that Orange Lumpy Asshole is thinking about nominating Fucks and Friends’ Peter Hegseth to Sec. Of VA. Seriously ,what the fuckity fuck? The guy is a moron. M.O.R.O.N. What’s next? Mark Harmon as his Nat Sec Advisor? Patrick Dempsey as Surgeon General?
frosty
@Corner Stone: I’m not sure we want Pence to go to Defcon 2. Let’s stick with the steely eyed glare for the moment.
Adam L Silverman
@chris: Why not both?
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/4/4c/Warlord_Vol_1_26.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090112144843
Adam L Silverman
@Jeffro: I saw it. I’ve been saving it for a late night post.
debbie
Mr. Reditwright (ha ha, very droll) up top only has three followers. Another bot?
Davebo
The last time the U of Houston Coogs won a NCAA tournament game I was a day or two away for leaving for boot camp.
I watched them lose to Patrick Ewing and Georgetown at a USO facility on a layover on my way.
Finally!
debbie
@Jeffro:
Hell hath no fury…
chris
@Corner Stone:
How odd. So it’s better to shoot than cut? More “manly” or something maybe?
frosty
@Adam L Silverman: Yes, agreed. There were also many snarky replies at the phrase, even though it may be accurate and accepted within your milieu.
SFBayAreaGal
@Adam L Silverman: Wow, that’s an old title.
Steeplejack
@frosty:
I think he is responding (rightly) to concerns raised by Cheryl Rofer in a post several weeks ago about the (ridiculous) sexualization of foreign policy/defense rhetoric.
I applaud the change.
@Adam L Silverman:
“Some of the ladies were unhappy . . .”
Please don’t start digging yourself a hole.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Porque no los dos?
or, for you:
Warum denn die Beide nicht? [Bitte, verzeihe mir my shitty grammar.)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Pretty much, since (and hence) there is no National Knife Association.
chris
@Adam L Silverman: Haha, yes. I was expecting Deadpool.
gene108
My uncle (mom’s older brother) passed a way a week ago. He was in the hospital for a couple of weeks prior, but it was surprising he landed up in the hospital in the first place, so it came as a shock to all of us.
Anyway, I am staying with my mom this week. It has hit her pretty hard. They were close.
I put a load of laundry from the washer to my mom’s dryer and every few minutes the I hear the dryer tumble and then buzz. Like it wants me to get,out of bed at this hour and take the clothes out of it. But I don’t want to get out of bed.
I find the whole thing perplexing. It is a war of the wills between me and the dryer. Do I stay in bed, listening to the dryer turn on and buzz or do I break down and take my clothes out?
Corner Stone
@chris: I’m not a defense attorney. But from what I have been told from many sources is that the pictures and results of death by knife create a foundationally visceral and emotional reaction that bullet holes just do not.
frosty
@Steeplejack:
Yeah, that was something of an eye opener, wasn’t it? Cosplay at all levels.
Jeffro
@Adam L Silverman: I think the lessons are twofold:
1) Never let your girlfriend leave scratches that your other girlfriend can see, wonder about, and decide that a samurai sword can resolve
2) Always feel around the edge of the bed for any samurai weapons that might be taped there.
I guess, also too and threefold
3) Think about doing something with your life other than playing video games for 12-13 hours a day. Karma is still karma…
Corner Stone
@gene108: I suspect you used the wrong setting.
frosty
@gene108: Is your dryer connected to the internet? Have the Russian bots hacked it and taken it over?
Note to self: turn dryer off before going to bed. Ours has the same annoying feature. Why can’t they just let my clothes sit there and wrinkle like in the Olden Days?
Corner Stone
@Jeffro: And as Eddie Murphy found out in Harlem Nights…always check under the pillow in her boudoir.
SFAW
@gene108:
Condolences to you and your mom, sounds like it would be a little traumatic for her.
[Dryer thing: put some clothes back in the washer (to hold them temporarily), see if the behavior of the dryer improves.]
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
Okay, for everybody who wants to throw around the currently trendy phrase, it’s “Por qué no los dos?”
Because porque means “because.” “Porque no los dos” = “Because not both.” Fail.
Adam L Silverman
chris
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh yeah? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuisWWHdc3Q
Yarrow
@gene108: Sorry for your loss. Get out of bed and turn off the damn dryer. It could keep doing that all night.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks, Schindler.
Steeplejack
@gene108:
Sorry to hear about your uncle. Can’t help you on the dryer. I’d turn it off and deal with it in the morning. Unless there’s something in there you need dry to start the day.
gene108
@Corner Stone:
Probably.
@frosty:
Not connected to the internet, thankfully. “Smart” appliances scare me because, I think one of two things will happen, either the Russians* will hack my fridge and wreak havoc on me or the appliances will gain consciousness and go all SkyNet on us.
* Despite my fantasies, all this shot connected to the internet helped enable a large scale DDOS attack on the east coast a couple of years back, because the security settings aren’t good and hackers can get your Internet of Things device to ping the fuck out of a DNS provider, if they feel like it.
Yarrow
@Adam L Silverman: Funny!
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
Thanks for the correction. The especially embarrassing part is that I used to speak Spanish reasonably well. Forty years ago, but still …
Damn.
danielx
@Adam L Silverman:
From available evidence, the only prohibited edge/point-wise things in my fair state are ballistic knives and throwing stars. There is no prohibition on carrying any sharp pointy thing, concealed or openly. I have not noticed anyone carrying swords, etc, outside Renaissance fairs and the like. I own a couple of swords, and it has never been a temptation to haul them around in public; enough people think I’m a nutbar for owning them. Note: not that I can’t think of a few people who deserve to lose their heads….
On the other hand, this isn’t Texas. I have no doubt that there will be people carrying anything you can think of because reasons.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
ETA: The load might be unbalanced.
Omnes Omnibus
Just leaving this here.
gene108
@Yarrow:
Just got my clothes out.
In this battle of man versus machine, the machine won ??
chris
@Corner Stone: That’s just weird. But it is Texas…
Yarrow
@gene108: It was the smart thing to do. Dryers are one of the most common causes of house fires. I never run my dryer unless I’m in the house and awake. Turn everything off before bed.
gene108
@SFAW:
The dryer has been properly scolded and will do better next time. No reason for it to be jealous of the washing machine getting all the clothes.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
Random question to someone knowledgeable:
Assuming the “Star wars” program had somehow been possible, what would have resulted?
Adam L Silverman
@SFBayAreaGal: Nothing like the classics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iv53eiGnl8&list=PLDr_scSDlDpXSuCMkZJJoPnQi0jAPXuJJ&index=2
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: Apparently you can’t even please one person some of the time…
danielx
@chris:
From what I have heard (never done either, praise jeebus), it takes a different kind of head to use a blade instead of gun. Anyone who can stab or cut somebody can use a gun to shoot somebody, but the converse is not always true. Yeah, I know it’s a blanket statement, but it makes sense to me.
Adam L Silverman
@gene108: My sincerest condolences on your loss.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: How many other languages do you plan to be pedantic in?//
Asking for pretty much everyone.
ETA the sarc tags.
gene108
@SFAW:
It is hard. This is first of her siblings to pass away. She is getting better. One of my cousins created a What’sApp group for the family, so it helped all of us commiserate, even though we are are in different parts of the country and world.
Thank you for your condolences.
gene108
@Adam L Silverman:
Thank you.
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
As I said, I approved your change. But c’mon, man, “some of the ladies” is just tone-deaf.
danielx
@Jeffro:
If I recall correctly, there was an article a couple of years ago in the post about some deal where some Georgetown students were menaced by a one man home invasion by a lone gunman (nyuck nyuck). Another roommate who was a Georgetown grad student and (evidently) a martial arts student intervened by cutting off the invader’s hand with a katana. He ended up dying from shock and blood loss…
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Come on, that was funny.
Davebo
@Adam L Silverman: But will McMaster be expelled?
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman:Deleted as poorly aimed.
danielx
@Adam L Silverman:
How many do you want?
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: In how many other languages do you plan to be pedantic, please?
Adam L Silverman
@danielx: The ballistic knife, Spetzaz’s weapon of last resort!
http://weaponsman.com/?p=24823
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
Well, it’s fairly “pedantic” for someone to spice up their comments with quotes from a foreign language in the first place. If they are going to do that, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to ask them to get it right. If they can’t, maybe they need to stay out of the deep end.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
As the purveyor of the doubleplusungood Spanish grammar, I was actually not bothered by the correction.
I was bothered that I needed correction, however. (Or, “that my grammar needed to be corrected,” to be more precise.)
Adam L Silverman
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: The destruction of Alderan.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack:
JFC, will the two of you get a room, or take it outside, or something?
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: Given that the people complaining were women, it was a factually accurate statement.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Your pedantry is something, up with which I will not put.
Adam L Silverman
@danielx: We have a dojo at Georgetown.
Adam L Silverman
@Davebo: I have no idea.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: I went back and added the sarc tags just so you and everyone else were sure I was not being serious.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Okay then. I am off to bed.
Corner Stone
@SFAW: What’s your problem? This is a real life demonstration of the Unstoppable Pedant vs the Immovable Typo.
This.Is.Science!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
what about the feathers?
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Amazing how well (and good) Zombie Fernando Rey looks
Brooklyn Dodger
@Omnes Omnibus: Todas las lenguas, Katie.
piratedan
anyone taking bets that McMaster is replaced by Bolton all so he can help instigate a shooting war so they can try and “distract” everyone (i.e. The Media) from the Mueller Investigation and cajole the MSM to rally around the President because we’re now in a “shooting war” and can’t “afford” for the country to be divided?
Doug R
Where’s Heywood Jablomie?
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
Why, how NICE of you to assume (or so it seems) that I have only one! Others might disagree with your (apparent) estimate, however.
Corner Stone
@SFAW: I’m just a scientist, man. Studying my samples.
SFAW
@piratedan:
Whatever DID happen to that Harken Oil investigation by the SEC in mid-2001?
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@SFAW:
Omnes doesn’t have much of a sense of humor. Don’t sweat it.
@Adam L Silverman:
Ha ha. Would force fields projected into space break any treaties? I’m having trouble finding info on this (considering how impossible it is). ICBMs travel in a sub-orbital flight path. I wonder if satellites would be better than ground stations?
Doug R
@Adam L Silverman: Fixed it for ya
Jay
@Yarrow:
It’s the lint accumulation in the vent line, and the fact that almost everybody uses the expandable foil thingy, or the beer can guage aluminum ducting, even on gas dryers.
All dryers should be vented using 16 guage galvanised steel ventung, with a few turns as possible.
All dryer vents should be cleaned out annually to prevent build up.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Filed for future reference.
Litlebritdifrnt
All this talk about the dryer reminds me of the X Files episode that aired over here the other night. Mulder and Scully are terrorized by all of the computery type things in their homes because Mulder refused to tip the robot chef in an automated restaurant. It was a very funny look at how much that kind of stuff has taken over our lives.
Omnes Omnibus
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:You don’ t get the joke.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: I am a bad person. Or some thing.
Yarrow
@Jay: Yep. And not everyone does that. Since gene108 is at his mom’s house and it isn’t his dryer he may not know how often she cleans it. Better to be safe.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Omnes Omnibus:
I don’t know. You never seem to understand when I’m just lightheartedly messing with you.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
He’s young, can’t expect him to get the more subtle ones.
Or the not-so-subtle ones? Let’s find out:
“A preposition is a word you never end a sentence with.”
Omnes Omnibus
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: .Why should I?
SFAW
OK, so my reply to Omnes (around #114) is in moderation? Don’t notice any of the forbidden words, but maybe I’m having a senior moment.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Omnes Omnibus:
I guess unless I make it super obvious, it can be hard.
Honus
@Davebo: they beat UVA in OT 48-49.
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
Pro tip: If you make this comment—the “Hey, why did I get moderated?” one—a reply to the comment that did get moderated, once it shows up people will be able to navigate back to it from the link in this one. Almost guaranteed that the original comment will not be #114.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: I got tsk’ed at for saying San Jose was my favorite airport in and out of which to fly.
Honus
@Davebo: you’ll like this:
https://deadspin.com/for-kelvin-sampson-and-north-carolinas-native-americans-1823714256
Aleta
@gene108: If you have reason to suspect the Russians, don’t go down there.
(Doctored photos, doctored organ theft. No telling what.)
eta I was too late.
NotMax
re: above
Smart appliances still far from smart enough to learn to shut the hell up.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@gene108:
I’ve always feared that the internet of things could be used to kill people Final Destination-style. That and spy on people.
Repatriated
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
1. Increased likelihood of a Soviet first strike before the system was in place.
2. Increased Soviet reliance on submarine-launched missiles, likely with an emphasis on cruise missiles.
All that assumes the system was seen to be effective.
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
Good point. Hadn’t occurred to me. The 114-comment was more for Adam’s benefit, assuming he’s still here.
As far as the whether-people-can-navigate-easily-back-to-the-mod’ed-comment thing: doesn’t really matter to me. The comment has replies within it, linking to the pertinent comments from Omnes and Goku. It’s a standalone, so to speak.
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: I freed it.
But I’m racking out in a few minutes, so you all will be on your own.
Chris T.
¿por que no ambos?
NotMax
Watching the Valerian movie on Amazon Prime.
Visuals are luscious*. Otherwise, B movie. If only the lead actor didn’t look like he’s 14.
*Bonus points for the, um, adult club pole dancer scene.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Here ya go. The House That Spied On Me
Peale
@NotMax: one of the weirdest endings to a movie, though. At least for me. Watch out. You are about to be hit and hit hard with a moral.
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
It’s a convenience for readers who might want to go back and see what you wrote without having to scroll around trying to pinpoint how long ago the comment was posted. Could be anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, depending on front-pager attention.
NotMax
@Peale
Have some past familiarity with the long running comics series.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Much obliged. I gotta knock off soon, too, so I probably won’t get into any more trouble. Tonight, that is.
Yutsano
@SFAW: FYI: warum nicht Beide works just as well. Especially since it’s less formal.
Aber deine Grammatik ist nicht so scheißig.
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
And, interestingly enough, the comment-in-question has appeared (thanks to Adam) at #114. Be that as it may, although my commenting here undoubtedly has something to do with a need for attention at some level, I don’t have any illusions that my comments are so fucking important that people need to find them later, etc., etc.
That being said: not sure why you’ve suddenly developed this need to correct everything (so to speak) I’ve written on this thread. I don’t recall busting your stones at any time in the past — since I generally appreciate your comments — so I’m (tentatively) assuming you’re not trying to settle some old score. If I’m wrong about that, then feel free to continue “settling up.” But if this is just because of the “porque” vs “por que” thing — about which I said “Thanks for the correction” — and the ensuing other things I wrote which you didn’t like (or at least, felt the need to correct), then you might consider dialing it back a little.
lgerard
Gustavo Chubb is my new porn name
SFAW
@Yutsano:
Vielen dank for the correction.
Meine Grossmutter would be less-than-thrilled at my mangling.
SFAW
@lgerard:
I will NOT ask what your old name was.
Doug R
@NotMax:
I couldn’t believe Cara Delivigne wasn’t the worst thing in it after stinking up Suicide Squad. That honor was reserved for Dane De Haan.
That alt dimension bazaar was kind of cool, but there’s a decent hour and a half movie hiding in the 2 hours 17 minute run time.
Rihanna is a delight every minute she’s onscreen, though.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@NotMax:
Thanks. I’ll read that tommorow morning.
Good night :)
NotMax
@Doug R
Nice to see that Hawaiian shirts will never go out of style.
:)
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Adam L Silverman:
I am never, ever, ever going to Texas.
And I was born there.
(Also Florida, Oklahoma, Alafuckingbama, Colorado-except-Boulder, Eastern Washington … )
p.a.
Maybe Texas just wants to become a destination for the enormous Punic and Peloponnesian War reenactor market?
Aleta
Here’s a post from January on gendered language, militarized language, gender assumptions and foreign policy. Lots of thoughts and positive comments by men and women. Some gay and straight perspectives. But in fact, no complaining.
Aleta
-Politico
-Hawaii News Now
Matt McIrvin
@SFAW: Texas has a quite large population of people on Our Side. Wouldn’t it be easier to use Wyoming? Hardly anyone lives there, and those that do are nearly all RWNJs already.
Matt McIrvin
(…We could separate out the Western part, with the Wind River Reservation and Yellowstone.)
SFAW
@Matt McIrvin:
You make some good points. I guess I figured that it would be easier to (temporarily, until the dust clears) separate Texas from the United States — in other words, have it at the edge of civilization, rather than in the middle (so to speak) of the country. And I do realize that Texas demographics have been changing. And we’d be able to get rid of the Cheneys more easily, so there’s that.
Hmmm. Might need to revise my “plan.” Thanks!
ETA: Just saw your modification proposal. Makes sense.
d58826
It seems to me, with so much being done on line and the need to show id in so many places, we need a strong secure photo ID (probably based on SSN) that every one has, starting at birth. It should be secure and easy to obtain in the sense that the physical locations are easy to get to (i.e. photo id locations in malls rather than the much rarer DMV office). If that is the case then showing photo id to vote should not be a hassle because every one has the id.
That of course defeats the purpose of a photo id requirement since even the OTHER will have one.
Uncle Cosmo
@gene108: War Of The Whirl….pool.
Next load, find the little knob that turns on the buzzer notification, and turn it off. Man over MacHinery, ees so EZ!
Uncle Cosmo
@Adam L Silverman:
FTFY! :D
(Google up a vid of the complete version of Hardware Wars & view for comprehension…)
Uncle Cosmo
@d58826: Good idea so long as we make sure everyone gets ID painlessly. (Of course the fundanazis will scream about “the mark of the beast” or somesuch, but hey, in the great tradition of Lenny Bruce, unscrew’em.)
IIRC Dad applied for SSNs for me & Lil Bro practically the minute he was born – my first SS card (which may still be in <strike.some junk drawer my uncategorized archives) will itself be eligible for Medicare in the near future (& will probably need it to repair the creases & tears…).
Uncle Cosmo
And now I do not have permission to edit, i.e., fix, #153 supra. FYWP! (If some FPer would be so kind as to strike out “some junk drawer” & remove the extraneous crap…)
J R in WV
@frosty:
Good friend’s father was about to visit the Alamao. He was a colonel in the USAF, in full dress uniform. Outdoors, that requires (does NOT suggest, requires) him to wear a full dress cover (aka hat).
But then a “Texas Ranger” guarding the Alamo (from what we will leave to the imagination of the readers!) confronted him and demanded that Col. Friend remove his hat to honor those who died in the defense of the holy shrine Alamo. With evident willingness to attack/arrest serving Colonel in full dress uniform, and total unwillingness to hear that military regulations required the hat.
He left the Alamo, and Texas soon after. I hate Texas. I will never see my brother again, as he won’t be leaving Texas, and I won’t be going there. Yes, RWNJ, why do you ask?
WhyKnot241
Somehow we need to light a fire under “The Media” to light a fire under Trump by demanding, on a daily basis, to do something about the f*vking Russians!