"Every rule in the Navy handbook is the result of a dead sailor."
"Most FAA rules for airlines are from the results of crash investigations and dead passengers."

Yup. ALWAYS reactive, and NEVER pro-active.

Back when I was President of our AFTRA Local, we negotiated the local TV contracts. I got a call one day because the exec at the CBS affiliate tried to cancel a worker's vacation the night before he and his family were leaving town.

The exec's reasoning was he saw no rule in the rulebook forbidding such an action.

I'm sure everyone can guess what we had put in the contract THE NEXT time around.

"Always. At least your lifetime"

I've never seen more sand fall out of your ears, Eb. Never.

^They're

" Always. At least your lifetime"

Absolute bald-faced lie.

"The others are real things but not republican policy."

Their MAGA policy. A difference without a distinction, these days.

" I've paid close to $1,000 to my lawn sprinker guy this past year in cash in probably 4 or 5 different service calls. $150-$200 in cash each time. No invoice, no checks and no record of the service calls. and?"

Well ...
Since you gave him over $75 at a time, and didn't ask him to sign for it, it's not a deductible expense for you, even if you have a home office and see clients there regularly.

And, unless you filed a 1099 with the IRS, you're out of compliance. It also sounds like you purposely didn't file the 1099, so the penalties are much steeper.

Best of all, you are a knowing participant in an illegal chain.

And no record of service calls? Really? Does he come without prompting, or is there a text somewhere?

" Considering recruitment numbers were well below target during the Biden years"

According to history, that's what happens in good economies ...

Why does the natural order of economics surprise you?

^Rudy Giuliani

Auto-correct didn't recognize the name.

Yikes! How the mighty have fallen!

" As far as a disaster, the 2020 election ended up people busting into the Capitol building. That's not a disaster?"

It is, but it has nothing to do with the legal votes, and everything to do with Trump's lies.

Trump lost, he knew he lost, and he lied to his gullible supporters. That's why J6 happened.

Six years later, you don't have any proof at all for any doubt at that time. A lot of feelings, but no proof.

Sounds a bit like what Rudy Giuliano said to Arizona: "We have lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence".

Six years later ... Still no evidence.

" Of course there were cases of improper voting and instances of ineligible people who voted."

I mean, other than the garden-variety version, and you know it. Of course, there will be some mother-in-law or spouse who passed away. Of course, there will be someone who moved and forgot.

The fraud you were talking about is fraud at scale.

Again, look over the heritage database. One thing jumps out: states average about one conviction per year.

Doesn't sound like a huge problem at all. In fact, adding another barrier to voting would suppress more votes than all the convictions in your home state in the last three decades.

I wrote that last line without looking it up, I'm so sure. Then, I looked it up.

Here's the link to your home state in Virginia. They've had THREE CASES in the last 20 years.