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Do you agree these conditions would have to be met, or else there should not be a voter ID requirement at all?

I could be talked into it with the following conditions, at minimum: Voter ID is made available, proactively by the state and at taxpayers' expense, to every eligible voting citizen, bar none. Citizens eligible to vote should not have to bust their humps to try to obtain voter ID, and they should not be priced out of voting. Every voter should be required to have their ID and voting status confirmed at the voting booth, no exceptions. No getting a pass from the poll workers because they "know" you. They cannot have the personal discretion to approve or reject you on the spot. Your ID MUST be confirmed, no exceptions. If I show up, or you show up, or Donald Trump shows up, and the voter ID cannot be confirmed, then no vote. Period. No exceptions. And ID has to be confirmed somehow before vote-by-mail or online vote is allowed. Maybe there are more conditions I would need to see to be talked into it, but these are the first two I can think of off the top of my head. I'm not sure how these could be implemented, especially #2. Is voter ID a physical card? Can it be located on your phone like your medical card? Is there a counter-check on the poll worker's side to positively confirm, like a scanner gun tied to a state database? Can voters be processed as quickly as they are under no-voter-ID rules? How the heck can ID be confirmed for mail-in or online voting? I don't know, but just because I can't plan out and articulate exactly how these would work to a 100% complete degree to you right now in this post, does not mean they shouldn't be conditions in the first place. But my thing is, until these conditions can be locked down airtight, I don't think voter ID should be a requirement anywhere. Because the whole voter ID thing is far too easy to use as a tool to keep certain eligible voters the politicians in power don't like, or the poll workers don't like, from being able to cast a vote. Figure this out to my satisfaction, and you may have me on board with you.

The motivations of black voters is rich and complex, but one thing I’m pretty confident of is that they have no interest in voting just to blow up the system, as too many white voters would like. Black people know they need a strong government to protect them from the freewheeling, unchecked racial apartheid and vigilantism that characterized the first 350 years of white rule on this continent.

I think the closest I’ve come to ratifying polls posted here is when people would post a year or more out that Biden was up by some number of points on Trump, and I would reply with something like, “Quick! Call the election for today!”

I think there are people who have been in the red hat camp for eight years who’ve been rethinking their position, and something like this might help give them permission to peel off from MAGA. It won’t be any more than a marginal number of people, and it will make less of a difference in Oklahoma than in any other state, but it could help as another data point for such people in swing states who hear about this, and it could make a difference there. Not every 2x-Trump voter has the MAGA worm in their brain.

OK, forgive me, because since you responded directly to me, it initially looked as though you were aping me here. I’ve posted multiple times that I’m not paying to polling numbers, and in all my posts here, I don’t think I’ve shared a poll even once.

Is that supposed to be me talking?

It won’t move the needle in either direction one iota. The opinions are calcified. Also, the woman is, what, 40? People are going to look at this and say, “Trump groped a full-grown 40-year-old woman? And I’m supposed to be uniquely horrified by that?”

I don’t know about northern Illinois and Iowa, but definitely northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. I think it’s because the area was settled mainly by Scandinavians instead of Scots Irish.

Not on the roller coaster, so, not paying attention.

This is a good October surprise.

Head?

And the moral of the story is: voter ID works.

They consider it a decent risk to get involved because the promise is, if Trump actually wins, he will shower them with riches. Of course, the dirty little secret Trump doesn’t tell them is that it’s a golden shower.

Good thing players had opportunities outside the system to go develop themselves so they could save their one and only career chance.

“Tarik Skubal is going to play out the next two years and will then go to market. The Detroit Tigers will be free to bid on him at that time, same as everyone else.”

There’s nothing to showcase. Matt Manning is broken.

This seems like a reasonable option.

I don't know, maybe. Money talks, though ...

A lot of hay gets made about how this team is the second incarnation of the Get Along Gang, and personally, I love that that's the case. But I would bet if Torkelson were reduced to a platoon role, he'd launch a campaign of dropping turds into the clubhouse punch bowl on the regular.

As long as we were to get positive wins out of the guy, I wouldn't care what his role is.

Thank you for your service. I would bet people running for office are far more interested in the number of dollars being donated over the number of donors donating them.

Hey, man, it wasn't for lack of trying. Trump wanted to have his military shoot protesters in DC back in 2020. Esper was able to shut it down. Thank god we had some guardrails left at that point, but he wouldn't have any Espers in his administration this time around. Also, lol the idea "teh left" is the violent side. Unless by "instigate" you mean "teh left" instigates more protests. Because I don't know whether you've been keeping up with things, but the side I'm on is not the side with all the weapons.

Look again—the colors are based on number of donors, not money. ZIP code 48089 is a good example. Hover over that ZIP and you will see Biden/Harris beats Trump ondonors, 171 to 129; but Trump more than doubles them up on cash, $20,000 to $9,000. This is true of a lot of pale blue ZIPs on the map. At least my home ZIP of 48093 is true blue.