@#5 ... A very interesting tale. ...

How so?

The search results I see seem to be clogged with money-grabbing sites.

@#23 ... some other frog-meme "coins" also went up for a ride ...

As I have noted previously, Bitcoin and other "coins" seem to be based upon nothing.

The tulip fad all over again?

Who knows. I certainly do not have a clue.

@#6 ... I generalized too quickly, a lot of local news catches information that the national services either omit, change or lie regarding. ...

Yeah, the apparent death of local news is not a good thing.

@#163 ... Of course I was speaking from their perspective why he would have easily got over the border no questions asked. ...

Why do you think he "got over the border?"

@#6 ... One of the reasons he's the only namesake of a Seawolf class submarine. ...

OK, you got me curious.

Found this ...

@#15 ... That ruling undid parts of a law that had been on the books for 10 years....

I do note your current trolling alias seems to ignore what Citizens United did enable.

... Don't be a drama queen. ...

Look in the mirror.

;)

@#20 ... It would be a real blow if Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney were in attendance. Trump would be the backbencher. ...

Well, yeah.

So the question seems to become, will Pres-elect trump succumb to his advisors, or will his ego prevail.

I've not a clue of that answer.

@#24 ... I really can't say but I choose to believe it was possible. ...

Anything is possible.

But likely?

Well, that is a different story.

The GOP exaggeration of Pres Biden's poor performance vs the same GOP ignorance of then candidate Trump's poor performance in debates is curious to me.

And how many times since that debate has Pres-elect Trump had, let's call it, a memory lapse?

Shall we start a thread to fact-check what Pres-elect Trump says?

@#3 ... "Y2K Emergency Response Task Force". ...

Ditto.

Yeah, there was an impending, and quite significant problem, but the technical folk seemed to have addressed the problem into, I'll say, almost a non-event?

Major kudos to those nerds who suffered so much from the jocks in high school.

Those jocks may have gone on to make money, but those nerds kept the world running through Y2K.

@#16 ... Because that is what his base wants to hear. Simple enough? ...

Oh, it is simple for me to understand.

But it is a lie that his base seems to have swallowed.

@#15 ... I'm a bit tired so unable to engage too much but I will throw out a few half baked ideas. ...

I thank you for hanging in there.

OK, let's discuss ...

You numbered your comments, so I will just show the number here, not the comment.

> 1

Some states already require that.

> 2

I do not disagree.

> 3

Absolutely.

And thank-you for that follow-up comment. Appreciated.

So Mr Musk seems to be paying Pres-elect Trump $2000 a night to stay at Mar-A-Lago, to do what?

Possibly influence future Federal Government decisions?

Looks like a good investment for Mr Musk to me. Less than a million dollars per year to gain, what?

... and I am not a financial advisor, I just offer my opinions.

@#20 ... The real mistake was Republican Leadership in Congress being too weak of mind and character to vote to Impeach the -------. ...

Yeah, there's that.

@#19 ... We all saw Biden's challenges throughout his term.

It worsened and came to a critical point during the debate. ...

... and how did Pres-elect Trump perform in the debate with VP Harris? Quite poorly, from what I saw.

... The mistake was waiting too long to find another candidate to defeat trump. ...

On that, I am of two opinions.

One agrees.

But then another side of me asks, could any DNC candidate defeat Pres-elect Trump?

More from the OpEd ...

... Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe that the Y2K bug might have been, but most, including The Register rolling over to "year Zero," were worth little more than a chuckle.

That said, the fact Y2K rose to little more than a footnote in the annals of the information age is largely due to the hard work and diligence of armies of IT professionals who spent years working out the best way to deploy a relatively simple fix to computers around the world.

If not for the herculean effort with which they greeted a potentially sisyphean task, we might have been way worse off. ...

@#2

That's one of my favorite TV series. Back when I was a teen, it encouraged me to plan for a desired outcome.

Yeah, in spite of the setting of that series.

@#15 ... Nobody wants that narcissistic freak at Carter's funeral. ...

If he presents himself in a respectful manner, and understands and shows that the funeral is about fmr Pres Carter, then I am OK with his attendance. Indeed, I would welcome his attendance.

Five occupants of the Oval Office showing their respects.

@#16 ... The problem BullBringer faces is ...

Nah.

imo, the problem that current alias faces seems to be that it likes responses to its comments.

a.k.a. a troll?

@#8 ... It's always humorous when national politicians take credit for crime trends. Whoever happens to be sitting in the Oval Office at any given time has almost zero impact on homicide rates. ...

I do not disagree.

So, why, then, did Pres-elect Trump seem to run on, among other things, being tough on crime?

@#11 ... We had four years of a rudderless executive. ...

Did we?

The Chips and Science Act.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The latter took significant negotiations between Pres Biden and Congress to pass.

And, also, the results of the latter will not become evident for years. Infrastructure project, while critically important, do not happen overnight. They take years.

So two or three years from now, when the results of Pres Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act become apparent, will then Pres Trump take credit for those results of the Act that Pres Biden fought to pass?

... and do I have to mention ... how many "Infrastructure Weeks" did Pres-elect Trump declare in his first term, with nothing, absolutely nothing, to show from that hype?

@#11 ... I enjoyed that one. It really is a joke to believe that gun control will ever make a significant difference in Homicide rates. As if those who perpetrate homicides have any regard for laws whatsoever. ...

In some respect, I do agree.

But then there is this ...

... Just make it illegal to actually kill someone with a gun. Oh wait ... ... ..it already is. ...

Yup.

Making it illegal to kill someone does not seem to work,, as you imply.

So, instead of pointing to what does not currently work to reduce gun deaths, maybe comment on what might work?

How can gun-violence be reduced?

@#8 ... Steve Bannon and Jim Jordan also got these medals. ...

Yeah, Pres-elect Trump seemed to give out Medals haphazardly during his first term.

I mean, the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep Nunes?

@#7 ... Once Citizens United was upheld by the Supreme Court, democracy died.

Took just over a decade for the oligarchs to finally win. ...

Kinda surprising that it took just over a decade for the oligarchs to enact that opportunity.

Or not?

@#20 ... Elmo is more of a Idioticus Maximus. ...

imo...

Mr Musk is a wild card in the upcoming Trump administration.

Will he move from the Mar-A-Lago cottage to one of the guest bedrooms of the White House?

Stated from a different angle, how then Pres Trump decides to accommodate Mr Musk in the admin will be telling.

Will Pres-elect Trump retain his apparent subservient approach to Mr Musk?

Time will tell.