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BREAKING: Trump has worn out Ron Fournier’s trademark bothsiderism!

Meanwhile, the Democratic Shadow Cabinet is looking better & better…

The Oval Office occupation, not so much:

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  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    Wow.  When you’ve lost Ron Fournier…
    Stop being props.

    Just stop.

    I did not see that coming.

  5. 5.

    Jeffro

    The Mustache of Understanding has his fantasy picks in for Biden’s future cabinet in today’s NYT.

    Other than Elizabeth Warren as ‘secretary of oversight’ (yes really) it’s as bad as you would imagine. DeWine and Romney for OMB and Secretary of State. Numerous CEOs too. Ye gods, can’t we do better here, Gray Lady?

  6. 6.

    Jeffro

    @WaterGirl: Stopped clocks and all that.

    The damage to trumpov’s narcissistic ego in talking to an almost empty WH briefing room would be simply amazing.  So it’s worth it just for that.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    I am so cranky this morning. This goddamn news about Wisconsin.

    @rikyrah:

    They are monsters. Period. If people don’t punish the Rethuglicans in November, I don’t know what can be done to stop them.

  11. 11.

    debbie

    @WaterGirl:

    It’s the rollercoastering that’s getting to me. Last night I was despairing. Today I want to punch out the goddamn world.

  13. 13.

    SFAW

    @WaterGirl:

    I am quickly running through the alphabet, soon I will be out of letters.

    appalled
    baffled
    concerned
    despairing
    enraged

    Don’t those all begin with “F”?

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie: I knew the Republicans were evil, but the response to COVID-19 is beyond the pale.

    They truly don’t even draw the line at causing people to have to choose between democracy and possible death.

    I guess it doesn’t matter if I’m running out of letters, because I have no words.

  16. 16.

    SFAW

    @WaterGirl:

    They truly don’t even draw the line at causing people to have to choose between democracy and possible death.

    “We KNOW that all our voters are real Americans, but those Demon-rat voters need to prove it! If they’re not willing to die while trying to vote, how can they be called ‘real Americans’? “

  20. 20.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    Fournier has forgotten the real reason reporters are there.

    No one wants to miss it if the President keels over in mid-sentence.

  21. 21.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    My cocker’s back started acting up again yesterday morning, I gave her meds which helped and now she’s being a bad patient.  I’m trying to get her to rest and not strain her back so it will heal, but she’s doing stupid stuff like running up the stairs to get in the house and tonight she jumped up on the couch.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    I was pretty sure I was informed in 2016 that the Supreme Court wasn’t that important.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Put her in a crate.  If you don’t have a crate, order one so you will have one next time her back acts up.

    Decades ago, my cocker had to have emergency back surgery after waking up with her back legs paralyzed.

  25. 25.

    The Thin Black Duke

    No one wants to miss it if the President keels over in mid-sentence.

    I love it when you talk dirty to me.

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    In the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, a virus hits home: ‘Hunger is rampant’

    On the cracked country roads of Lexington, deep in the Mississippi delta, an empty yellow school bus drives slowly, making life-sustaining drop offs on the way.

    Here, in the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, the coronavirus has yet to ravage the jurisdiction with infection. There has been one recorded Covid-19 death in the county, Clinton Cobbins, Lexington’s first African American mayor. But even now the coronavirus still poses a serious threat to life. In Holmes county consolidated – the school district to which Lexington belongs – every single child qualifies for free school meals, a marker of pervasive poverty. For many, said superintendent Dr James L Henderson, breakfast and lunch at school are the only nutritious meals a student will eat in a day. For a few, they are the only meals.

    When the coronavirus pandemic led to statewide school closures, Henderson, who was born in the county, left for most of his adult life, but returned in 2018 to assume his position, was left with a significant dilemma: how to feed the 3,000 children under his authority. Many children in this rural district come from households too poor to afford a car. So the superintendent embarked on an improvised project, driving 6,000 meals a day out across the county in a small fleet of 70 school buses, dropping each packet off at a stop along the route.

    “We absolutely see this as a matter of life and death,” he said. “We have to do it on behalf of our children. It’s just that simple. Families are suffering here….If there is a silver lining to Covid-19, even in the poorest county in the poorest state, we genuinely care about each other. We are working to that end to make sure we’re providing for all children.”

    Doing the good work. Meanwhile,

    Holmes county, with a population of 18,000 people, has only two fresh grocery stores and both face allegations of price gouging during the pandemic. Zelpha Whatley, who hosts a weekly local call in radio show, said countless listeners, many of whom receive food stamps to purchase their basic groceries, had complained on her show about rising prices – in some instances tripling or quadrupling the price.

    “I couldn’t believe these two stores would take advantage of the situation,” she said. “So I went to one to check myself. When I saw the price of eggs had doubled, I walked out and said ‘I’m not paying’. My brain just melted because I was so upset.”

    ………………………..

    April Jackson, a 30-year-old mother of seven, has no car and said she had been unable to pick up meals for her children provided by the school. Volunteers from the Poor People’s Campaign, and Operation Good – a local collective of activists – have been organizing hot food drop offs at this low income apartment complex, for the past week.

    “It’s like a scavenger hunt,” Jackson said as residents queued for handouts. “People are going crazy and everyone is on the hunt for food.”

    She lost her part-time job this week at a school cafeteria and is now completely reliant on handouts and food stamps to feed her family. She received $278 in weekly food benefits before the crisis and had expected more after the state announced an increase in emergency benefits to families. She said she got just $6 more.

    “I just took it,” she said. “I bought a block of cheese. That was it.”

  27. 27.

    satby

    And since I mentioned rage, I’ve found the best way to channel it is to volunteer somehow. So besides texting WS voters today as per Adam’s post I’m also bringing about 20 lbs of 1/2 bars of soap to the homeless shelters today.

    Which still leaves me with about 100 lbs ?, but it will get sold eventually. And I hope the Dems surprise in Wisconsin.

  30. 30.

    trnc

    On Miller as IG:

    “He is a quality pick. You couldn’t do better. He combines loyalty to the administration with the independence you need in an IG,” said Ashdown, who served as staff director under Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, the current committee chairman.

    I was heartened to see commenters on the WP site explicitly call out that nonsense. Sad that the senate majority won’t do the same.

  31. 31.

    Jeffro

    Meanwhile, the Post just put up an article about how New Zealand is not just flattening the curve but squashing it. “A triumph of science and leadership“.

    So. Jealous.

  32. 32.

    NobodySpecial

    Fuck Ron Fournier, now and forever. If the universe were just, he’d be forever muted.

  33. 33.

    satby

    @Jeffro: huh, with that inexperienced young leader? Unpossible, I was told so right here on this blog.

    But I’m not too bitter. Not like we needed a wonk of any kind in charge during a pandemic.

  36. 36.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The US acting navy secretary has apologised for calling the ousted captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt “too naive or too stupid” to be in command, amid growing calls from Congress and former officers for him to resign.

    “Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid,” Thomas Modly wrote on Monday evening. “I think and always believed him to be the opposite.”

    “I apologize for any confusion this choice of words may have caused. I also want to apologize directly to Captain Crozier, his family, and the entire crew of the Theodore Roosevelt for any pain my remarks may have caused.”

    Hmmmm…. Just the other day he was saying,

    After the recording of his speech was published, Modly issued a statement saying he had not listened to the recording but that “the spoken words were from the heart”.

    “I stand by every word I said, even, regrettably any profanity that may have been used for emphasis,” he said.

    I give that FlipFlop a 6.4 at best.

  38. 38.

    TS (the original)

    @Jeffro:

    Always want the republicans. have they EVER suggested a GOP administration should include some democrats?

    Biden should select the most partisan cabinet available. Give  the trumpers and the never trumpers nothing.

  39. 39.

    bemused

    Republicans are vile monsters. They have no souls. In Wisconsin, they are showing us they don’t even care if their own voters get sick, die going out to vote. Insanely evil.

    The WH/Dunning-Kruger Clubhouse is not only totally incompetent but massively corrupt. I imagine corruption is a by product of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

    Good news at our home. Our older dog suffering from the runs and vomiting is now healthy. The vet treated her with fluids under the skin, anti-nausea, anti-acid, antibiotic and sent her home with meds and prescription dog food. We thought the worst but brought her home and she’s back to normal.

  43. 43.

    OzarkHillbilly

    In New York City, the chair of the city council’s health committee warned the morgues were almost full.

    “Soon we’ll start ‘temporary interment’,” the councilman, Mark Levine, tweeted. “This likely will be done by using a NYC park for burials (yes you read that right). Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line. It will be done in a dignified, orderly – and temporary – manner. But it will be tough for NYers to take.”

    Am I the only one to think these burials should be permanent so that as people stroll thru the park they can commune with the dead and be reminded of the costs of electing a narcissistic sociopath to the White House?

  50. 50.

    Baud

    If there’s a silver lining to what the Republicans are doing in Wisconsin, it’s that we won’t have to wait several more weeks for Bernie’s next defeat.  At this point, that campaign is just a loose thread in the fabric of the party, but it would be nice to cut it off and be done with it.

  51. 51.

    JPL

    It’s long past time MSM admit that the president is bat shit insane and they will no longer be part of his daily charade on tv.    Nothing short of that will be okay, because this is not normal.

  54. 54.

    OzarkHillbilly

    US designates Russian white supremacists as foreign terrorist group

    The United States has branded a Russian far-right group as a foreign terrorist organization, the first time it has targeted white supremacists with tools regularly used against jihadist groups.

    The state department said on Monday that the Russian Imperial Movement runs two paramilitary training camps in St Petersburg and has pulled in neo-Nazis from across the world.

    “This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacist terrorists, illustrating how seriously this administration takes the threat,” said Nathan Sales, the state department counter-terrorism coordinator.

    Gee, I wonder when they will designate our own white supremacists to be terrorists? s//

  55. 55.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    I like it.  Exudes confidence in a Biden victory.

    You forgot the /s.

    Or have you forgotten that Bloody Bill Kristol had as much or more confidence in a Trump loss in 2016. [Yes, I realize Kristol has not been right about anything since he reached what passes for adulthood (I know, I know — feature, not bug, for the Party of Traitors). But do we really want to pin our hopes on Friedman being smarter (or at least better at predicting/judging) than Kristol?]

  63. 63.

    oldgold

    The SupremeCourt  is not just  substantively ruling in a manner favorable to the GOP. It is also using time in their favor.

    On matters important to the GOP the Supremes move at the speed of light. On matters  where the Democrats should score easy wins the cases move through the system at a snail’s pace.

  66. 66.

    kindness

    Republicans are litterally a death cult now.  They hope the fear of death keeps Democratic voters from showing up.

    I’m more concerned about how one has an in person election when you have no poll workers for the election.  It’s all part of the death cult’s plan.

  67. 67.

    Betty Cracker

    Friedman is in denial about the current state of the Republican Party. I guess it’s understandable given that he moves in more refined circles and is thus not surrounded by rank-and-file Republicans in their feral state like many of us are. But it’s still inexcusable since Friedman is paid handsomely to opine on politics. He should get out more!

  68. 68.

    germy

    Donald Trump can’t pronounce the word “anonymous,” did anybody think he learned to lovingly say “hydroxychloroquine” without standing to make some money off of it?— Derek Davison (@dwdavison) April 7, 2020

    Wow. NYT reports Trump himself has a financial stake in the French company that makes the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine.https://t.co/FM1t2WadgN— Ian Sams (@IanSams) April 7, 2020

  69. 69.

    SFAW

    @Betty Cracker:

    But it’s still inexcusable since Friedman is paid handsomely to opine on politics.

    The FTFTFNYT keeps him on as a way to make “readers” appreciate David Brooks even more?

  71. 71.

    SFAW

    @germy:

    Wow. NYT reports Trump himself has a financial stake in the French company that makes the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine

    The only surprising thing is that Pinche Sulzberger didn’t have that story killed before the FTFTFNYT published it.

  73. 73.

    germy

    What a coincidence!

    Another GOP Senator (David Perdue) made a large stock purchase the day Senators received a classified briefing about the virus.

    This was also shortly after Trump told the nation not to worry, the virus was "under control." https://t.co/bJAKucAFCK

    — Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) April 7, 2020

    (Invested in a company that produces protective medical equipment. Shrewd!)

  76. 76.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Time is blurring. I decided to make a record of the notices we’ve gotten from our building management.

    March 5. All guests must sign in and record where they’ve traveled.
    March 11. No visitors.
    March 15. Restaurants converted to carryout or delivery. No weekly housekeeping. Group activities discouraged.
    March 20. Residents’ temperature taken weekly. Workers’ when they enter building.
    March 30. Residents to remain in unit when in building, not in common areas. Mail will be subjected to ultraviolet light and delivered to unit. Anyone (re)entering building has temperature taken. Meal delivery only (no carryout). Gym closed.
    April 2. Staff wears masks. Homemade masks for sale at $10 each..
    No suspected or confirmed cases in building.

    So March 30 is the big one. It feels longer ago. The thing that hurt the most was the loss of housekeeping on March 15.

  78. 78.

    Jeffro

    @TS (the original): Biden should select the most partisan cabinet available. Give  the trumpers and the never trumpers nothing.

    Agreed.

    And while we’re at it, I think Biden and Senate Dems – assuming they win a majority – absolutely must expand the federal judiciary to whatever extent necessary to dilute the impact of all the unqualified GOP hacks that have been confirmed by the Turtle and his minions  AND add at last two judges to SCOTUS.

    So, Uncle Joe, if you’re keeping score, that’s:

    • Pandemic Accountability Commission
    • trumpov crime family grift investigations
    • expand federal judiciary and add at least two flaming liberals to SCOTUS
    • roll back all W- and trumpov-era tax breaks for the rich
    • go nuts on fighting climate change

    Gonna be a busy few years! ;)

  79. 79.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Because this is ‘Murka under the Trump regime….

    Your Treasury Department and the SBA ensure that bigger businesses gobble up all the PPP funding.

    Question: Are small business concerns (as defined in section 3 of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. 632) required to have 500 or fewer employees to be eligible borrowers in the PPP?
    Answer: No. Small business concerns can be eligible borrowers even if they have more than 500 employees, as long as they satisfy the existing statutory and regulatory definition of a “small business concern” under section 3 of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. 632. A business can qualify if it meets the SBA employee-based or revenue based size standard corresponding to its primary industry. Go to http://www.sba.gov/size for the industry size standards.

    Additionally, a business can qualify for the Paycheck Protection Program as a small business concern if it met both tests in SBA’s “alternative size standard” as of March 27, 2020: (1) maximum tangible net worth of the business is not more than $15 million; and (2) the average net income after Federal income taxes (excluding any carry-over losses) of the business for the two full fiscal years before the date of the application is not more than $5 million.

    A business that qualifies as a small business concern under section 3 of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. 632, may truthfully attest to its eligibility for PPP loans on the Borrower Application Form, unless otherwise ineligible.

    I despise this government. Right now, hedge funds and multiple affiliates are snatching up every dollar that isn’t nailed down while restauranteurs, bar owners, livery services, caterers. dry cleaners and small tradesmen are collapsing.

  81. 81.

    germy

    This is the biggest self own that I have ever seen in my life

    Hannity links to his own website which does nothing but clip @TheDailyShow video showing right-wingers downplaying coronavirus. Except Hannity claims the video is The Daily Show mocking him/others for warning about it pic.twitter.com/gF2mNLUZYG

    — Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) April 7, 2020

  83. 83.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    @JPL: My local NBS affiliate (Part of Hearst Brodcasting) has rare put something critical of Drumf on the air and always seemed to edit clips so he sounded normal, has finally stopped broadcasting his daily shit-show live in its entirety on their main channel, but they are still broadcasting it on their secondary channel where it just prempts old reruns on Me.tv. So I guess that’s progress??

  85. 85.

    Jeffro

    @OzarkHillbilly: The dead-tree edition of Sunday’s Washington Post had a pattern for how to sew your own homemade face mask in it.

    It was quite startling to see it, even now.

  86. 86.

    ThresherK

    I remember The Hunting of Bill Clinton. I remember Sam (We are measuring Clinton’s Presidency in Days, if Not Hours*) Donaldson.

    Who’s gonna be the first media figure to call on Trump to just fucking resign?

    No playing the game of “that’ll leave Pence as Prez, is that a political win for the opposition” shit. Just recognize a Chief Executive resigning is an incredible blow.

    (*approximate quote)

  90. 90.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @WaterGirl:

    They’re pretty good. It’s tricky for them, because they can’t really tell us to do anything. It’s not a prison. But they’re terrified of the virus getting in the building, which they should be.

  93. 93.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @WaterGirl: Yes. It’s one of those complexes that has independent living in villas or condos, and also memory care, assisted living, and skilled nursing for when you need it. I never want to have to sell a house and move again. And I don’t want my son to have to make choices and decisions for us during a crisis. We already chose.

  96. 96.

    Aleta

    Photos of ICU nurses in flimsy trash bags remind me that their working conditions and health have been a lower priority for management for years.

  97. 97.

    Just One More Canuck

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    The states where Trump has golf courses and hotels should expropriate them and convert them to cemeteries, mausoleums and hospitals

  98. 98.

    jonas

    @Baud:Building cred to kneecap a Biden presidency?

    This x1000. The post-Trump period will be viewed like the aftermath of 9/11 when the next president will “need to bring the country together” and a Democrat stocking his administration with, you know, Democrats will be decried as “divisive” by the usual suspects in the MSM. If Biden does tap a couple of prominent “Never Trumper” conservatives for some post or another, that’s fine, but having publically repudiated Trump and the Trumpist GOP must be a prerequisite. if you served in any public office between 2016 and 2020 and kept an R after your name, you are spineless scum and should expect to be banished to the goddamn wilderness for all eternity.

  101. 101.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    In the Daily Pundit Roundup, Kos has a number of articles about Trump having no plans for after the current crisis, neither for how to prepare for recurrences nor for how to generate economic recovery. I suspect the economy Trump bragged about was set up by Obama and Trump was coasting on it while claiming credit for it. He did what he could to dismantle it, of course, but he has no idea how to make it happen again.

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: My dad lived somewhere like that, except that everyone had their own apartment in the complex.  It was quite nice and was a very social place with lots of common rooms.

    If yours is like that, there must be a lot of empty common rooms at this point!

  105. 105.

    jonas

    @ThresherK: Who’s gonna be the first media figure to call on Trump to just fucking resign?

    Maybe someone I’m not recalling already has, but I’d be surprised if any remotely prominent host on a network other than MSNBC does. Trump tearing down the country and destroying everything in his wake has been the greatest media event of modern times. It’s the OJ Simpson Ford Bronco freeway chase times a million. Millions of people either clicking on links or tuning in to worship him or hate watch him give corporate network owners and producers tinglies in their shorts every single day. They’re not going to let their anchors call for cutting off that gravy train.

  107. 107.

    jonas

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:He did what he could to dismantle it, of course, but he has no idea how to make it happen again.

    Nor do any of his advisors. Who’s his top economic advisor? Larry Kudlow? *chortles

  109. 109.

    Barbara

    @MoCA Ace: I get the cynical response to Fournier, I even share it to some extent, but I believe that Fournier’s base these days is in Detroit, and like the reporters in New Orleans after Katrina, being clobbered over the head at the consequences of incompetence, at best, and likely malevolence might have finally overcome his usual determination to build a wall of defense for Trump.

  111. 111.

    MoCA Ace

    @danielx:  The average potted plant makes more sense than the president.

    The average potted plant’s half-bright brother, you know, the “special”one, makes more sense than the president.

  112. 112.

    mrmoshpotato

    BREAKING: Trump has worn out Ron Fournier’s trademark bothsiderism!

    Someone email bluegal!  We need to know if Driftglass is ok!

  114. 114.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    My gut (soon no longer to be so ample) tells me that it is so broken that a realignment is inevitable, either by force or by voluntary change. Could be that we’re going to get away from this incomprehensible chase for growth (which lends itself to a ton of misrepresentation of value) as opposed to stable revenues (as are measured by consistent dividends).  At this point, also, my fears about the retirement fund consequences of rapid imposition of M4A and medical pricing controls are moot – with so much economic damage, it is now both feasible and beneficial to plow forward.

    Who could have known that the truly valuable economic players – the ones who’ve always received huge largesse in economic crises  -weren’t the hedge fund parasites, CEOs, commodity speculators, bankers or multibillionaires, but instead were your local restauranteurs, bar owners, bicycle shop proprietors, boutique retailers and small tradesmen?

  115. 115.

    bjacques

    If the likes of Fournier, Kristol, Boot, Rubin, Conway, etc. want to change sides, they have to bring a scalp—burn a source, like Christopher Hitchens did to one of the Clinton crowd.

     

    we will of course pension them off at an officer’s rank, according to what they bring over, but not entrust them with any secrets.

  119. 119.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Our shitty country, Collective Exhibit A:

    People of Color Express Rational Fear of Being Seen in Homemade Masks by Law Enforcement

    “I don’t feel safe wearing a handkerchief or something else that isn’t CLEARLY a protective mask covering my face to the store because I am a Black man living in this world,” tweeted Aaron Thomas, an educator in Columbus, Ohio. “I want to stay alive but I also want to stay alive.”

    ‘Murka.

  120. 120.

    WereBear

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: My own tendency to own a Circus of Cats will probably disqualify me from making such a choice, but I can certainly see the attraction.

    My own grandmother had to be shoved into signing up for such, but shortly after, every conversation began with, “Guess what? I didn’t do dishes yesterday, and I’m not doing any tomorrow!”

  122. 122.

    WereBear

    @jonas: if you served in any public office between 2016 and 2020 and kept an R after your name, you are spineless scum and should expect to be banished to the goddamn wilderness for all eternity.

     
    RAMEN. If I have to call every day I will let them know.

  124. 124.

    mrmoshpotato

    @satby: @debbie: 

    I’m late to the thread.  It can’t be only you two sitting six feet apart in a silence, boiling rage.

    Mind if I join the group?

  125. 125.

    WaterGirl

    @OzarkHillbilly: I think you transposed your numbers?  Perhaps you meant 4.6?

    Or perhaps a misplaced decimal point?  I’m thinking that apology was worth no more than a .46

    Fucking condescending, arrogant prig flies a million miles to lecture sailors trapped on a ship with a pandemic, tells them to buck up and risk their lives for the sociopathic commander in chief who can’t bear to be embarrassed, all while telling them how hard he has it because people are being mean to him.

  126. 126.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Gin & Tonic: How dare you?  They’re shaved steak.  I didn’t say good shaved steak, but shaved steak nonetheless.

    (And now I want some!) ?

  130. 130.

    J R in WV

     

    The current Acting Secretary of the Navy is a dolt, too stupid to manage a tire shop.

    Too stupid to manage anything with people involved, like a 3-chair barber shop…. would spread lice to avoid spending money on Barbasol to soak the combs in.

    Too evil to manage a military organization capable of destroying life on the only planet we’ve got.

    What a situation the Navy has backed themselves into !!! Destroying their fleet because they can’t bear to spend money on their people. Wanting someone to invent a Navy without sailors because they hate spending money on crew support, would rather spend that money on building themselves cushy retirements jobs on K street via throwing money away on rocket science leading to super-weapons that don’t work at all.

  133. 133.

    Bonnie

    The State of Washington (and I believe Oregon, too) has been conducting voting by mail for all voters since before the 2016 election.  I wish the media people who talk about if voting by mail is feasible would just look into Washington and Oregon’s systems to find out that there are answers to their questions.  I personally love our system and haven’t missed an election since voting by mail begin.

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