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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (8365)	1/28/2017 8:35:40 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356509

Can he do it? I have no idea. But it warrants an investigation. Before something warrants an investigation it needs to be important enough and plausible enough to justify the expenditure. Importance, alone, is insufficient. We couldn't justify an investigation of the notion that people eating too many almonds will cause the earth to tip off its axis. Yeah, axis tipping is critically important, but an almond trigger doesn't pass the laugh test on plausibility. You can tell it's not plausible because it doesn't even pass the laugh test on the lower standard of feasibility. I asked you how the notion of bus-load fraud passes the laugh test and you give me a video of some yahoo speculating about maybe someone might drive bus loads of people from place to place to vote at each one. I know that you don't find that a sufficient standard of proof but you seem to find it a sufficient standard of feasibility. Dust off your brain and think! You can't just walk a bunch of people into a polling place and expect them to be ushered to voting booths. They have to either be on the registration list for each polling place or they would have to adopt the identity of someone who is registered there. In my previous post I spoke to how unlikely and difficult that kind of voter fraud would be in onsies and twosies. Imagine trying it on a mass scale. You don't have to have expertise in voter fraud to see how risible the bus-load notion is. You've voted lots of times in your life. Picture yourself at your polling place. Picture a bus. While your brain is still dusted, you might take your shoes off, grab a beer, and ponder just what it is inside you that produces such fierce cognitive dissonance that you resist logic so obvious. If you can't find and overcome whatever it is, maybe you should short almonds. [And I should probably ponder just what it is inside me that makes me bother with this...]