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Cake day: December 21st, 2022

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  • @WabePoliticsNewsBot How quickly they forget (or choose to promote their clan’s favorite conspiracy theory).

    We have electronic voting today BECAUSE of issues with hand marked ballots yesterday. There are NO cases shown - not even theorized - of compromised votes using the current system. 🙄

    Ballots are readable and verifiable - on paper - by the voter before casting. They can be easily audited by both machine and humans. There is very little room for ambiguity nor error (what? ink smearing?). 🤷‍♂️

    Oddly, when electronic voting was first proposed - and implemented - we IT professionals did warn about risks in such a system. But, in Georgia, at least, we landed on a system that avoided these issues. And yet … Trump’s cult can’t accept that. Or is it really that he can’t tolerate a system he can’t easily subvert? 🤔







  • @UrbanizeAtlNewsBot I do find the juxtaposition of food and retail and the trail a wonderful thing, though it is far enough away from me that I rarely visit. This is, actually, the sort of mating of trail and business I’d love to see more of.
    There is a trail in Dallas, the Katy trail, that isn’t particularly long, but one of the delightful aspects of it is that there is a restaurant that backs up to the trail (which is on an electrical track, instead of floodplain more common here). So they’re open to both the road out front and to the trail out back. Which means one can ride (or walk, as I was) the trail and so here for food or drink.
    I’m disappointed that the North Point businesses - none of them - have taken advantage of the Greenway passing so closely along the entire length of the retail stretch. It’s not as convenient as the Katy (or Halcyon) as there is a grade change from the businesses to the trail, but providing access trails and supporting biking/walking to/from the trail to the multiple malls would be beneficial (IMHO) as anyone who lives along the trail (and the Greenway is accessible to lots of residential) could simply ride (or, again, walk) to any of the businesses in these malls (and there’s no good reason any longer for the 6 lane hwy of the roadway, so sacrificing one for improving this access would be an option).









  • @Maeve I’m unsure what you’re looking for. As Ms Greene notes, MAGA (at least a notable subset) did buy into the policy plan of non-interference internationally as part of “America First”. Trump, himself, made much of this on the campaign trail. It was also part of his justification for backing away from NATO, for waffling over assistance to Ukraine, and for withdrawing aid from the world.
    Of course he’s also threatened annexation of Canada, Greenland, and Panama. And now he’s explicitly waged war on Venezuela and essentially toppled the government there. The most interventionist thing that he could do.
    So, Ms Greene is absolutely correct in her assessment. And she, unlike Trump, has been consistent in her policy position. So, kudos to her for asserting that. It is refreshing to see integrity and courage in one who was in Trump’s circle. After all, she didn’t “turn on Trump”; Trump betrayed her - and those that believed him likewise. Now it appears to have cost her. As it has so many who thought they could work in his petty world.
    So, I can applaud her courage in taking her stand and agree (at least partially) in her policy position, but I would not today support her for office (unless maybe if my only other choice was one of Trump’s remaining sycophants). 🤷‍♂️