Her family moved to the U.S. when she was two years old. The implication that she is a “foreign journalist” and therefore biased is complete gaslighting.

Oh, I’m not disagreeing at all, it was more of a PSA jumping off your comment. Good commenters who are stuck in the greys sometimes need a little help getting visibility.

Conversely, having spent a lot of time in the greys myself a couple of years ago and knowing how frustrating it can be, I try to ungrey every non-troll reply when in a position to do so, even if I don’t necessarily agree with their point.

I love that she’s aggressively challenging him on his bullshit. Chuck Todd could learn a thing or two from from her. We are going to need much more of this type of journalism in the next four years.

This is correct. Blanching involves stopping the cooking process by plunging in ice water. The par-fry method works fine for Russet potatoes, but I have found that if you want to use something like redskins or Yukon Golds, a three step process works best - par boil / par fry / deep fry. I’ve read that McDonald’s fries…

Also, we need the Electoral College to do their job and refuse to vote in accordance with how the states elections ended.

Well sure, but blaming third parties just because the margin falls within the vote totals received by third party candidates is a pretty facile argument. There are other factors that are much more significant. For example, Clinton badly underperformed among union support by 10 points vs. 2012:

Yep, and this one’s a Republican. If my only two choices were Trump or Kascich, I could live with Kacsich.

A case could be made for either, I suppose. I tend to prefer oligarchy, because it takes into account the political class, who are wealthy, but generally their wealth is derived from their power, not the other way around. Plus, of the economists I’ve read that have addressed this, two out of three use oligarchy (Simon…

Or the good old, “Pics or it didn’t happen.”

Yes, absolutely. This should really be a bigger story. So far Greenwald has been about the only one reporting on it. I really don’t understand why no other investigative journalist is looking into it, especially when Kobach is on the Trump team.

That somewhat depends on how low his approval rating goes, but otherwise I agree.

Right, I completely agree with that, recounting a machine count that has been tampered with is unlikely to change the results. But there is a process to initiate a recount. I don’t know that there is one to do an audit unless it’s initiated by the state.

Waukesha County was the site of a lot of suspected voting irregularities during the Walker recall election and his re-election, also, if I remember correctly. No surprise that they’re one of the counties that refused to do a hand-recount.

Yep. He might not be much better on Freedom of the Press, though. He tried to create a government-run news service in 2013 to limit press access.

Personally I’m glad someone initiated the recounts, hopefully this may shed some sunlight on the vulnerabilities of our voting systems. Plus Waukesha County is a snake-pit of Walker operatives, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if there was some vote-rigging there.

Also the 45% of people who stayed home, which many of those Stein voters would have likely added to had she not been on the ticket. Blaming third parties is an easy scapegoat.

I don’t really disagree at this point, although if our democratic institutions and system of checks and balances - which have already been severely weakened over the last 40 years - do not hold, we may look back and wish we had opted for the possible Constitutional crisis instead.

I don’t think it’s that far-fetched either. Some people say Pence would be worse. Pence is awful, but his views are mainstream Republican awful and he’s probably a bit more predictable. He is less likely to do some populist things that go against GOP orthodoxy.

I believe you’re correct. But I think the Colorado electors who want to challenge the state law as unconstitutional are separate from these seven? I’m not sure. Probably not a chance in hell.