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RNC Con Open Thread: What of the Lowliest Minions, in Charlotte?

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Ordinary mortals may not agree, but the Loyal 32% love their Dear Leader! And their fellow Death Cultists, too also!


(Write your own ‘tests came back negative’ joke)

… Keeping in place at least a piece of an in-person convention, in the original host city, has been a priority for the Republican National Committee, both symbolically and procedurally. The various R.N.C. committees must meet to complete the formal paperwork to nominate Mr. Trump by the coming deadlines. For example, Delaware, has a Tuesday deadline. And an in-person formal roll call on Monday, when 336 delegates representing 50 states, six territories and Washington, D.C., will formally renominate Mr. Trump from inside the convention center, was seen as a statement of where the party stands on lockdowns. The president and Vice President Mike Pence are expected to attend.

Even the scaled-back event has been tricky to pull off. The delegates participating were required to take at-home tests before arriving, and are being tested daily now that they are here (two people who planned to attend tested positive before traveling, and had to stay home). The R.N.C. has spent half a million dollars on tests and safety measures, according to officials, drafted a 42-page health plan, and still had to get an exemption from the state to host a large indoor gathering of out-of-towners. Convention participants on Saturday were all wearing privacy-hardened safety fobs, which are supposed to provide notifications if they come into close contact with someone infected with the coronavirus.

And they still have to abide by the rules of a city that is only in Phase 2 of reopening. Bars in Charlotte are still closed. Restaurants are allowed to open only at 50 percent capacity. Delegates are being told they can’t necessarily bring their spouses to planned dinners, and masks are required at all times, even outdoors.

But once they have entered the safe zone, delegates in town said they are here to experience a little slice of life as it used to be.

“I’ve been looking forward to this for months,” said Henry Barbour of Yazoo City, Miss., whose uncle is the former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. “I want to be part of this. For those of us who are really engaged, this is a reward.”…

The Republican National Committee doesn’t expect people to sit in their hotel rooms ordering room service once they are here and has tried to make the trip worth it for its members. It has rented out four venues for attendees to choose from for each night they are here: the Billy Graham Library; a tour of a local brewery; a night at Middle C Jazz, a live jazz venue; and an evening at TopGolf, which has a high-tech driving range…

They’ll have time to spare, because there won’t be any wasted on hammering out a platform:

Leaving more time to document the latest Emmanuel Goldstein…

And commit acts of self-pwnage.

And they love and admire Him for it!

Reader Interactions

154Comments

  1. 1.

    Marcopolo

    Good morning all.

    House Post Office oversight hearing starts in a couple minutes. Hope Katie Porter is given extra time.

    Going to find a livestream now.

  3. 3.

    Brendan in NC

    As a Charlottean, need to find out which brewery they’re touring; so I can go in with my mask on, and roast them.

  4. 4.

    TS (the original)

    The R.N.C. has spent half a million dollars on tests and safety measures, according to officials

    For a place where trump is not appearing? I have my doubts.

  5. 5.

    Frankensteinbeck

    The Republican Party is running on the screaming primal tantrum of whites and especially white men who are angry that they no longer have absolute power to decide what is and is not true, who suffers and who prospers, what is and is not acceptable, and most important what is ‘normal.’  They need no policies, only ‘fuck you’ to anyone who dares to tell them they are wrong about anything or cannot get their way.  If everyone else hates Trump, then nothing is more important than forcing Trump on us against our will.  ‘Against our will’ is the point and Trump is just the thing we don’t want.

  8. 8.

    laura

    Really, wasn’t it always destined to come down to this? Tom Cotton and serial killer Ted Cruz must be so jealous.

  9. 9.

    Ken

    @TS (the original): It says Trump and Pence will both be there Monday for the roll-call of states. So they may not bother testing after Monday.

    It would be absolutely on-point if someone turns up positive today and they have to cancel the roll call.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    “The current Administration has exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen against citizen.”

    Whatever you may think of the rest of the Republican platform, you can’t deny that this sentence describes the Trump administration with honesty and accuracy.

  11. 11.

    zhena gogolia

    They’ve spent “half a million” on tests and procedures. You’re kidding, right? That’s chicken feed.

  13. 13.

    Joe Falco

    @laura: OH, I’m sure those two will get their chance to advance the Lost Cause of Trump-ism in 4 years if the election results break our way. With any luck, Republicans will host a committee amongst themselves like they did after the 2012 election, draw up a long-term plan to revive their reputation and quickly toss it in the trash before the ink has time to dry.

  14. 14.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Brendan in NC: I would not do that unless you have an N95 mask for actual protection. They sure as shit won’t be wearing masks properly to protect others.

  15. 15.

    TS (the original)

    @Ken:  I do have it turned on – haven’t seen them yet. I wonder how many republicans will miss the roll call thinking it will be on in the evening.

    Currently have the Romney cousin (who lost her name) ranting  …  Mute. She just announced a recess – awaiting “special guests” & the delegates are now wandering around, maskless (except for a couple of people) , shaking hands

    Edit: closer look – there are more masks than I thought.

  16. 16.

    Marcopolo

    Connolly should stop speechifying & ask questions!

    You want to make a speech, write it up & submit it to the record.  But for god’s sake use your time to ask fucking questions.

    What the hell is wrong with these folks.

    Edited: Yutsano is correct. I am being impatient.

  18. 18.

    Jinchi

    the Billy Graham Library; a tour of a local brewery; a night at Middle C Jazz, a live jazz venue; and an evening at TopGolf

    Imagine planning a vacation and having the travel agent try to sell you that package.

  19. 19.

    randy khan

    For what it’s worth, I think the previous “we just say what we said in 2016” version of the platform has been replaced by the “Trump is our all-knowing God” version of the platform (or non-platform).

    And if that’s correct, it means that for the first time since 1972, the platform will not include a demand to adopt a Constitutional amendment banning abortion.  That’s a real testament to how hollowed-out the party has become under Trump (although I doubt it will affect how any of the anti-choice fanatics will vote).

  21. 21.

    TS (the original)

    Looking at these delegates, without fail, Biden has the youth vote. I see few, if any, people under 50.

  22. 22.

    john b

    @Brendan in NC: I need to find out which brewery they’re going to so that I never patronize it again. I have a couple of hunches that I’ll keep to myself for now.

  24. 24.

    Ken

    @Jinchi: The Billy Graham library and the brewery reminds me of the old joke about the difference between Baptists and [insert denomination]: The Baptists don’t say “hi” to one another in the liquor store.

  27. 27.

    Richard Guhl

    IOW, the GOP has gone full on reactionary Bolshevik, a minority party dedicated to the overthrow of democracy. Democratic centralism decreed by the First Secretary.

  29. 29.

    Gin & Tonic

    German authorities say Alexei Navalny was poisoned. I know you’re all shocked, so I’ll give you some time to absorb the news.

  32. 32.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @blacque_jacques:

    Jailbait by Ted Nugent, followed by an invocation delivered by Roy Moore.

    Falwell is indisposed at the moment, huddled as he is with his divorce lawyers for misrepresenting  his hotwife’s activities as indiscretions while he was really reveling in his own cuckoldry.

  34. 34.

    japa21

    Watching the hearing. Do Republicans, either the MoCs or witnesses ever speak in a normal tone of voice?

  38. 38.

    Yutsano

    @japa21: Mark Walker is hamming up DeJoy’s tax breaks- oh no sorry his “charity giving”. Now he’s trying to blab about how DeJoy is the victim. Gag.

  42. 42.

    MattF

    @Gin & Tonic: I guess it’s worth noting that Putin & Co. want to be sure everyone knows. It would be crude and perhaps not believable to say it themselves, but an announcement by German officials suffices.

  43. 43.

    Brendan in NC

    @Chief Oshkosh: I’ve got some KN95 masks. I just wish that the Spaceballs mask I ordered was here. The one that says “I’m surrounded by a$$holes” on it

  50. 50.

    Jinchi

    @Bruce K: Am I a bad person for hoping that Donald Trump follows the trajectory of Denholm Reynholm all the way to the end?

    Well, his office is only about 10 feet off the ground, so technically you’re just rooting for injuries.

  52. 52.

    Aleta

    @Aleta:

    DeJoy (all-purpose answer):  I just got here 70 days ago so  those recent numbers aren’t my fault and I expect much better numbers soon

    Reality:  USPS management in DC (following orders)  are on the phone this morning yelling at individual plant managers and threatening their jobs if they don’t report better numbers.

  53. 53.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Ken:

    This weekend, he blamed his depression on the fact that she fucked the pool boy and that the pool boy was extorting them. Interestingly absent from the announcement was Becki herself, as it was allegedly her scandal.

    I really think that she started an affair (repressed attractive evangelical woman who wanted to have the experience of being with a man who didn’t just grunt and roll over, maybe didn’t even want to end the marriage). The thing developed into a hotwife-cuckold bit once Jerry found out, and likely evolved on to swaps from there.

    Whatever floats your boat, sure, but when your entire fortune is based on propagating a system of moral scolding on both the social and governmental levels, it creates conundrums.

    At Free Republic, they’re blaming it on changes in female morality wrought by The Pill.

  56. 56.

    Leto

    Open thread? Finally got hit with my health insurance coverage bill. Basically Pennsylvania Air National Guard was paying the full amount since my accident, but now that I’m no longer employed with them (and making my co-payment) I/we don’t have insurance. Same with dental/vision. And they want their money back. We’re exploring either getting onto Avalune’s work insurance, or signing up with TRICARE. I’m going to restate the obvious but American health insurance just fucking sucks. Having it tied to employment, sucks.

  57. 57.

    chopper

    gop: dems can’t just run on ‘we’re not trump’.

    also gop: we’re going to run on ‘we’re with trump’.

  59. 59.

    Yutsano

    @Aleta: He just told a big whopper regarding the restrictions on overtime. He’s dissembling all over the place.

    EDIT: Gosar up now. Gag me.

  60. 60.

    Aleta

    It’s odd how,  about a month or so from now, the yearly process of part-time hiring for the holiday season will begin. But this can’t be done now for the election?

  64. 64.

    Geminid

    @randy khan: I hope the day comes when Right to Lifers understand that a lot of Republican politicians are just barking at the Right to Choose car, but don’t really want to catch it. But the politicians want the Right to Lifers they’re barking alongside to think that they do in fact want to catch the car, so the Republicans can recruit these people to the cause of economic oligarchy.

  71. 71.

    Yutsano

    @Jinchi: Cooper is going off topic but the empty trucks data was a big one.

    Oh that’s ugly. But there is something going on there.

    Who the hell is Stuby?

  73. 73.

    Yutsano

    “I’m not the CEO of the organisation.”

    No you’re the fucking Postmaster General. That means you’re fucking responsible for the God blessed Postal Service!

  75. 75.

    Aleta

    This hearing calls for questioning by lawyers and follow-up perjury charges.    And questions to him about interactions with Mnuchin.

  82. 82.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Geminid:

    I don’t think Republican politicians are pretending.  They consistently fight tooth and claw, with more deviousness and persistence than any other issue except voter suppression, to outlaw abortion.  Republican politics is hate and identity.  Republican voters elect assholes like themselves.  Republican elected officials are not a separate pool from their voters, and most of them share the same beliefs.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    @Yutsano:  You can brag about trucks going out on time, even if they are empty trucks.

    Because who is gonna think to ask “did you actually have mail in those trucks, you lying bastard?”

  85. 85.

    Ken

    @germy: So far the RNC roll call looks like it’s going to be a parade of 60-year-old white men, with maybe 10% of anything else.

    EDIT: Photographic evidence from Cheryl below.  grumble @#$% front-pagers grumble grumble special powers grumble grumble oppressing me grumble

  89. 89.

    Kay

    The USPS will deliver the ballots. They’re a tiny portion of the volume they deliver day in and day out and in terms of mail pieces they’re easy because they’re 1. identifiable as ballots on the outside of the envelope and 2. all going to the same place in any given area on the return trip.

    This is such a bad political issue for conservatives I feel like it’s almost a wash- they will lose as many actual votes as they’ll potentially gain from trying to depress our count.

    If I were trying it I wouldn’t focus on the ballots. Just tell people over and over that Trump is delaying their mail- it’s true. Donald Trump is the reason your mail is delayed. They already know the mail is delayed- tell them why. That takes care of the ballot problem and dings them on the delaying the mail charge, which is probably more relevant and important to more people than concerns about ballots are.

  93. 93.

    artem1s

    @Amir Khalid:

    “The current Administration has exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen against citizen.”

    It was taken verbatim from the 2016 platform.  It’s about what a dictator Obama is for giving people health care and vegetables.

  96. 96.

    germy

    @Frankensteinbeck: 
    I watched the Democratic Convention.

    When they got to the roll call of the states, I thought “I don’t know if I want to sit through this.” But then I got caught up in it and watched the whole thing.

  100. 100.

    Kay

    I know Democrats love the election argument, democracy, all that, and that’s certainly high minded but mail delivery is a service and it is one people expect and rely upon.

    Tell them why the service sucks with the Trump people running it. Gary Peters, the senator from Michigan, has a lovely little chart that shows mail delivery slowing dramatically when the low quality Trump hire took over. Voting is a service too- it’s a state recording process. Conservatives run shitty, low quality voting services and they work as hard as they can to make voting horrible and inconvenient FOR VOTERS. What’s easiest for voters? Our approach to voting- not theirs.

    The expansions on voting aren’t popular because people are committed to democracy. They’re popular because they’re more convenient and voter-centered than voter suppression is. Voter suppression is for politicians. Voter access is for voters.

  102. 102.

    catclub

    @Frankensteinbeck: Terry Gross and fresh Air this morning are interviewing a biographer of Stephen Miller – who mainlined David Horowitz’s extreme ‘save the white men’ neo nazism into the GOP.

  104. 104.

    Gin & Tonic

    Reuters interviews Giancarlo Granda, the Fallwells’ pool boy, who says the “affair” was going on for 7 years. He’d bone the Mrs while Jerry watched.

  105. 105.

    PPCLI

    @Kay: Yes, yes, a million times yes.

    The message that Trump’s administration is incompetent and can’t even get people their medicines must be shouted from the rooftops.

  106. 106.

    Kay

    I mean, you could argue both, but DO argue both.

    Argue that black people waiting on lines for hours and hours in conservative states is lousy citizen service, in addition to being anti-democratic and racist :)

    We can be outraged that they’re denying the franchise, but let’s also be outraged that the people waiting to vote are paying these jerks to administer elections  and they’re not getting the job done. The job is to get people voted and get them on their way.

    Same with mail. The mail worked and then it didn’t work. They broke it. If they did that to delay ballots it’s egregious but fucking up the mail is bad all by itself.

  107. 107.

    PPCLI

    @Gin & Tonic: Ah. So that’s what Fallwell was trying to get out in front of.

    Presumably after the interview was in the can, Reuters called Falwell to see if he had any reaction or response.

  108. 108.

    Kay

    @PPCLI:

    Republicans in Ohio tried to get rid of early voting for partisan purposes but they found out quickly that they can’t get rid of it- not because people are so concerned about Democratic vote totals but because early vote is convenient and easy. It’s a better process. It’s centered on what voters need, not what politicians need. That’s why it’s expanded so rapidly even in the face of ferocious conservative opposition. People like it!

  109. 109.

    Ken

    @Gin & Tonic: Cuing the evangelical roll-out of Matthew 7:1-5 (“judge not lest ye be judged”) in five, four, three…

    Which of course gets the message completely backward, since Falwell was just fine at seeing the mote in other’s eyes, especially when it led to fining students for breaking the Liberty U. code of conduct.

    (Must… refrain… from… crude… sex joke… about the beam… in his eye….)

  111. 111.

    Gin & Tonic

    @PPCLI: Reading their story, yes. They reached out to Jerry for comment, and his lawyer said he categorically denies all of it, then when they knew it was going to print, he came out with his, what was it called, “modified limited hang-out”?

  112. 112.

    Another Scott

    @LuciaMia: I understand that back in Ye Olden Days in the early Before Times, it was common for surgeons to congratulate themselves on their successful surgery while saying “it’s a shame that the patient died.”

    I suspect there will be similar sentiments at the GOP “convention” this week…  :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  116. 116.

    Yutsano

    The hearing is back.

    Massie just babbled. Rouda I’ve never heard before but he brings up the letter sent to the 46 states.

    OOH ROUDA JUST BROUGHT UP THE PRE-FUND!!!

  118. 118.

    Gin & Tonic

    @zhena gogolia: This is pretty low on the kink scale, frankly. And lest there be misunderstanding, I hope that that threesome made them happy – consenting adults should do what makes them feel good and doesn’t harm others. But when you’re going to go on and on about moral rectitude, and run an institution that has a platform of prohibiting this sort of behavior, well too fucking bad, dude, your kink is fair game.

  119. 119.

    Kay

    @PPCLI:

    The drop boxes. Conservatives want you to drive all the way in to the main office of the county board of elections to drop your ballot. We, on the other hand, will get you a convenient, secure drop box closer to where you live because we know you’re busy and stressed and we’re here to serve you :)

    Painless voting. They insist on needless pain and inconvenience and they’re SO fucking incompetent you have to take an entire day off work just to vote. No one knows why, but we suspect it’s because they care more about their politicians than they do about voters.

  120. 120.

    Immanentize

    @Ken: I’m with Jeet Heer on this one — people shouldn’t be kink shaming Falwell, but should let loose on his hypocrisy.

    ETA The Chauncey Gardner defense — “I like to watch.”

  122. 122.

    J R in WV

    I have nothing against people having group entanglements of a physical sexual nature… when they are frankly open to people having group sex.

    But when people want to have group sex themselves, while offering to burn other people at the stake for having group sex, punishing large groups of people for doing what they themselves do behind closed doors, that’s very different. We have words for that kind of behavior, words like Hypocrite and Deceiver and Liar ~!!~

    Such a person, a lying hypocrite, should never have anything to do with educating people, setting up rules structures for people in school, none of that, they are so obviously unqualified for that task. Plus being a thief, stealing money from an educational institution~!~

  123. 123.

    Ken

    @Immanentize: That’s what I intended – pointing out the hypocrisy, I mean. Sorry if it didn’t come through.

    I wouldn’t kink-shame, their fantasy is common – ahem, I understand from reading scholarly studies. Why, I’m sure the porn industry will release at least three movies based on this within a month. Wonder who will play “Jerky Fail-Well”?

  125. 125.

    Yutsano

    @Immanentize: This doesn’t even sound like a traditional cuck situation. This just sounds like he liked the idea of the poolboy fucking his wife while he watched.

    LOL Hice was trying to get De Joy to say the postal service workers were biased against Republicans and DeJoy wouldn’t play along.

  128. 128.

    Kay

    Thrilled to see political media are covering every word of the Republican convention, in a wildly disparate fashion compared to their coverage of the Democratic convention.

    The real Americans are convening. Obviously.

  129. 129.

    Ken

    @Immanentize: at least DeJoy understands he needs a job after December 31

    I thought he has a job, running a company that transports mail for the postal service.

  131. 131.

    Kay

    @Immanentize:

    Has he explained yet why he’s supposedly a “logistics guy” yet he managed to fuck up a 200 year old delivery service? How incompetent do you have to be to destroy it in 3 months? All he had to do was stay out of the way and let them deliver the mail.

  135. 135.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    wasn’t there also a recent “Liberty U” grad that Jerry helped set up in business as a personal trainer?

    what is it with the fundies and their dynasties? Franklin Graham, JFJR? Is there a Pat Robertson Jr waiting for the old man to check out, probably a III? There could be a IV, maybe even a V the way they encourage them to marry and breed young. Pat could be like the Louis XIV of bible-bashing, supplement-selling grifters, outliving his heirs and leaving a five year old as CEO.

  136. 136.

    Immanentize

    @Kay: He had nothing to do with anything!  He isn’t in charge of every machine!  The plans were made before he came on board!  He is just CEO, NOT COO!

    Im sadly not exaggerating, he said each of those things.

    He is the Sgt Schultz of the post office.

  137. 137.

    Yutsano

    @Immanentize:  He can go back to running the company he still has an investment in. I still think his hiring is going to have legal consequences for the Postal Service board.

  138. 138.

    James E Powell

    Why aren’t there more demands that DeJoy resign? He’s a fraud, a liar, and a saboteur.

  139. 139.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Immanentize: just checked MSNBC, trump is speaking

    Chyron: Without evidence, trump claims he can only lose if election is ‘rigged’

  140. 140.

    Yutsano

    “You came as one of the most qualified candidates we other had.”

    Comer is about to make me puke.

    EDIT: Mfume looks like he’s getting up there. But now he’s laying into DeJoy especially with veterans.

  143. 143.

    Ken

    @Another Scott: Check out the longer list of defendants (or would it be respondents, IANAL) in that motion.

    People [of the State of New York] v. The Trump Organization, Inc., DJT Holdings LLC, DJT Holdings Managing Member LLC, Seven Springs, LLC, Eric Trump, Charles Martabano, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and Sheri Dillon

  144. 144.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Immanentize:

    Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom 6m
    I need to do some work here and have Trump on in the background. Short version: Three “sir” moments already; also, how China has been made to buy our soybeans and bend the knee. He’s doing his play-acting voices and I think he’s high.

    Fourth “sir” moment, this time from farmers calling to thank him.

  146. 146.

    Ken

    @Another Scott: I think this is from the same document:

    OAG is currently investigating whether the Trump Organization and Donald J. Trump (Mr. Trump) improperly inflated the value of Mr. Trump’s assets on annual financial statements in order to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits.

    It continues by saying the defendants have failed to respond to document requests, and asks the court to compel them.

  147. 147.

    Yutsano

    I have no idea which Republican is babbling but again DeJoy isn’t on the same page.

    Sarbanes time!

  148. 148.

    catclub

    @James E Powell: Why aren’t there more demands that DeJoy resign? He’s a fraud, a liar, and a saboteur.

     

    because these people know that Trump’s next pick will be worse.

     

    There were also no calls for trump to resign over impeachment.

    Clinton?  a ton.

  149. 149.

    Soprano2

    @Kay: The drop boxes. Conservatives want you to drive all the way in to the main office of the county board of elections to drop your ballot. We, on the other hand, will get you a convenient, secure drop box closer to where you live because we know you’re busy and stressed and we’re here to serve you :)

    Painless voting. They insist on needless pain and inconvenience and they’re SO fucking incompetent you have to take an entire day off work just to vote. No one knows why, but we suspect it’s because they care more about their politicians than they do about voters.

    Here’s what happened with drop boxes in Missouri – they’re all in storage because our stupid legislature actually wrote a law saying you can put absentee but not mail-in ballots in them!  They authorized no excuse mail-in ballots for everyone because of COVID (we’re still an absentee excuse-only state) but then said they’re different from absentee ballots. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/85-ballot-drop-boxes-in-missouri-are-in-storage-due-to-confusion-over-mail-in/article_6aad4622-89f7-577f-81cf-8d5ed91cd5e6.html

    “This is not about us trying to make it difficult for voters,” Browning said. “We’re trying to ensure that their votes count.”

    Browning said Ashcroft “was not involved” in negotiations over the legislation that ultimately passed.

    Oh, bullshit, this is exactly about making it difficult for voters (in the cities where the black and brown people live) to vote. I think they felt pressured to do this, so they decided to put a poison pill provision in it to allay fears of outstate Republicans that too many of the Democrats in the cities would be able to vote easily. They don’t want easy mail-in voting because it avoids all of their voter suppression efforts.

  150. 150.

    Kay

    @Soprano2:

    Oh, bullshit, this is exactly about making it difficult for voters (in the cities where the black and brown people live) to vote.

    That’s not always going to be so, though. If they locate drop boxes only at county bds of elections in urban areas in Ohio, they will be inconveniencing suburban voters. In my county they’re inconveniencing rural voters- the main bd of elections for me is right across the street from my office and I live in the city.
    This game they’re playing is really complex. It has to be a truly massive conspiracy with thousands of people working in tandem for it to definitely go in their favor. They’re horribly incompetent running the systems that exist. They’ll probably fail at inventing a new system to suppress.
    Our voters need to 1. check their registrations 2. vote 3. return the ballot using the most secure process available to them. If we do all that we’ll be fine.

  151. 151.

    Kay

    @Immanentize:

    I’m fine with either “corrupt and incompetent” or “corrupt and malicious” but it was one of those two because this issue didn’t arise in Congress. It arose because people weren’t getting their mail. It came UP to Congress from complaints.

    He has to explain why they aren’t getting their mail. They were, and then sometime in May or June they were not. We had live chicks delivered for decades and decades and decades and then we had dead chicks delivered. As a “logistics” person this is the whole deal. They have to be alive.

    He’s delivering mail, not trucks. If the truck leaves on time but it doesn’t have the mail on it, it’s not a success. Must be mail + truck :)

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    Yutsano

    @Kay: He keeps going back to he’s only been around for 70 days and he’s really only made one change (except now he’s saying changes) but he says he’s responsible in general but nothing specific! He’s terrible at this.

    Now some Republican is just ranting and hasn’t even asked a question yet.

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