Apparently the Michigan GOP intend to completely ignore the First Amendment. This looks like something that won’t hold up in coutt, but it will deter protest anyway since it can only be challenged after the fact:

I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Who knew the first casualty of the Trump administration would be satire? What’s the point when we’re all living in an Onion article.

Oh, good, we can have Celebrity Apprentice: Despots Edition with Putin, Dutarte, Assad, and Erdogan.

Well, she was only two years old when her family came to the U.S., but I’m sure she heard about the first-hand experiences of her parents and family.

Given that Gov. Snyder spent $3 million in taxpayer funds defending himself from Flint water crisis lawsuits, as a Michigan taxpayer I really don’t want to hear any whining from Republicans about how much it’s going to cost. A cost, by the way, which they have been grossly inflating, probably by including the costs of…

AFAIK, unless things have changed post-acquisition, you have to get followed by the main site or sub-blog. The regular writers have the ability to do this, but I don’t think there was ever a formal policy in place - in my experience they mostly seem to do it on a whim if you make enough decent comments that get pushed…

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.