I mean, the private sector doesn’t prosecute… sooo…

Transcript from 5 years ago isn’t super relevant at this point.

But… Politics also doesn’t have a “last 30 days” rule like News and World, so I’ll allow it for now.

Might be interesting to compare with any speech he gives this year.

Sounds like the dinner was on Fyre…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival

Tattoos are proof of MS13 though…

Acronym? 🤔

I would add… Slowly I Turned…

https://youtu.be/MYP1OBZfFK0

Oh, I can help remotely… I just need you to open Windows App.

Which app?

Windows App.

I get that, I’m running Windows, but which app?

Windows App.

Look, are you being smart? I’m in Windows, say I click on the Start button, which app do I click on?

Windows App.

Allright you, let’s say the app is already running…

Sure.

And I press CTRL-ALT-DEL and open Task Manager.

OK.

WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE APP I WOULD SEE IN TASK MANAGER??!???

Windows App.

I’M ASKING YOU, ‘WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE APP’???!??!??

I’m telling you, ‘Windows App.’

Oh, you know they would not, nor the LA Times, or the New York Times.

If we had 100% vote by mail, we wouldn’t need a holiday. :)

Pretty much, look at a non-covid election and compare vote by mail states to the average American turnout.

I’m biased because I live in Oregon and we tie voter registration to DMV licenses AND do 100% vote by mail.

2016: 80.33% voter turnout.
2018: 67.8%
2020: 78.5%
2022: 66.9%
2024: 75%

In 2016 there were 2,553,808 registrants and 2,051,452 voters, compared with 2020 and 2,951,428 registrants and 2,317,965 voters.

In 2024, the difference was negligible, 75% returning ballots and 2,308,256 voters. Yeah, a slight drop, but then we had a bunch of people die from Covid too.

Sources:

https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/Voter_Turnout_History_General_Election.pdf

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/26/oregon-voter-turnout-dropped-75-percent-2024-election/

If you compare that to the national averages:

2016: 59.2%
2018: 49% (highest mid-term turnout since 1914)
2020: 65.3%
2022: 46% (highest since 1970)
2024: 63.5%

Sources:

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voter-turnout-2018-2022/

Hey, hey, hey, it’s not the BOOTS fault. :)

My wife said the same thing about the Bob Woodward books.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Woodward-Trilogy/Bob-Woodward/9781982198916

Do the reporting FIRST, THEN do the book tour!

Roll back to Watergate, it was a news story FIRST, then a book.

Or the excellent reporting by David Cay Johnston - report that shit first THEN write the book.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/291700/perfectly-legal-by-david-cay-johnston/9781591840695

“The “What Happened in 2024” report confirms that 30 million voters who showed up to the polls in 2020 failed to materialize in 2024. That is a big number, and it represents the largest number of drop-off voters dating back to 2012, when 27 million voters failed to return to the polls.”

It wasn’t a “drop off” and I was telling people why this was going to happen before the election.

The 2020 numbers were artificially inflated by vote by mail covid precautions.

Republican precincts saw the increased Democratic turnout and actively worked to make vote by mail harder which limited participation and when fewer people vote that only helps Republicans.

It was all so predictable and the fix is 100% vote by mail EVERYWHERE.