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Eric Brown's avatar

If by "worked" you mean "ensured one-party domination", then yes, mail-in ballots "worked" in Washington. Whenever a Republican is ahead in early voting, you can be sure that Seattle will come up with enough "mail in ballots" to push the Democrat over the line.

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Douglas Levene's avatar

The GOP needs to stop whining about mai-in ballots and ballot harvesters and start using both to collect votes from GOP-disposed voters who can’t be bothered to go to the polls.

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Eric Brown's avatar

I suppose, but the problem really is that "mail-in" ballots are *much* harder to authenticate than ballots collected at a polling station.

As Jimmy Carter said in 2005, ‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”

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RICHARD LEEBOVE's avatar

Another great Kausfiles!

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Douglas Levene's avatar

If the investment is a valuable one, then eventually SBF’s creditors will be able to sell it and share the proceeds. That’s unlike the gifts SBF made to various politicians. They should return that money, pronto, preferably to the FTX bankruptcy court, to be shared by the creditors.

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tom brennan's avatar

I thought it was gonna be Ben Sasse. Not disappointed though. Best punchline would still be if Sasse Ben quit the Senate only to be forced out of his new gig for FTXing up. All Bens should give back the buX.

Musk is punishing anti-Musk tweets? Well yeah if you're his employee, maybe tread anonymously. And even there he only fires you, doesn't ban you. Frees you in other words. Have I missed Elon suppressing other Twitter speech? Examples please.

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Matthew Hart's avatar

I think most of what's happening with Elon will pass. The current shrill discourse is pushing him into a lot of the reactionary signals he's been sending over the last week or two.

After hearing the reference to the 'small apartment' insult so many times I finally read that hit piece and I can see he insulted your car simultaneously. Very rude. Also I see his main point was the last pull quote. Democrats thinking they can win just by litigating someone's supposed racism instead of arguing on policies and principles is one of the many problems they have now.

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Francis Allocca's avatar

It's time to open social media to allow everyone to insult / make uncomfortable everyone.. Tom Lehrer had it spot on when he sung " National Brotherhood Week' ...

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Lipo Davis's avatar

I love the way your write. It flows so easily with the way I think. Reading is effortless!

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Michael's avatar

Not fair, imo, to diss Semafor over one of their investors, who was legit at the time. It is not a political campaign that "returns" donations. At best, they can ensure that the money goes back to FTX creditors who are the new owners of FTX... If SBF made this investment personally, he still has the rights all shareholders have. And he can be sued separately by affected parties.

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Scott McConnell's avatar

three really good takes.

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Mickey Kaus's avatar

thank you

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