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Indeed that is incorrect - I gave you several examples of Democratic leaders & a Presidential candidate that repeatedly claimed Russia & Trump colluded to throw the 2016 election. I gave you examples of the 2004 Bush/Gore contest where Democrats screamed election fraud in Ohio. Democrats were unable to stop the Presidential confirmation process - although they went to great lengths to do so.

And I give you the Republican Party and Elom Musk. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5941842-musk-america-pac-lawsuit/amp/

The Republicans need to make it harder for people to vote otherwise how will they win? Why do you think they oppose moving Voting day to a weekend or making it a holiday? They don’t want people to vote. Why do you think in cities in republican run states there are so few voting sites. So there can be multiple hours long lines only in the cities so less people will vote.

Your understanding is correct that this is a participant's summary to the FBI. I am not an attorney, but I do believe it is a Federal crime to pay someone to vote and/or pay someone to register to vote. It certainly is a crime to forge names, falsify SOME Federal documents, etc.. I have seen no Federal charges in the Michigan situation. And I am not claim such. The situation is developing. Everyone is entitled to due process.

Sure, but they're also more insulated from bad policy consequences than the broader cross-section.

My argument isnt about capitulation to Trump narrowly. Its more broad in that there will always be sore losers and discontented supporters and you dont change the rules because someone didn't like the outcome. You change the rules because they are wrong. And thats not the case here. If we changed FIFA rules after every country that lost complained about the rule book, the World Cup would be unplayable. If there is proven large scale fraud, by all means something needs to be fixed. But thats definitely not the case. Not a single proven case of large scale fraud has been held up anywhere. When it is, I fully support fixing it. But the current process works and making it harder for people to vote should not be the goal.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/inside-the-flock-dragnet-how-systemic-errors-led-to-police-ambushing-me-for-no-reason Story sort of represents the approach society has towards AI

I don’t really accept your argument on a couple of grounds. The rules are variable between states, and quite lax in general, that it makes it hard to detect fraud in the first place. Fraud does occur, probably not at a level which changes elections though, but the degree is unknown because of all the mail in voting, lack of ID etc. What we do know is that is a large amount of discontent with the process, and with a large population of illegal immigrants, and that more scrutiny is needed. One of your arguments against tightening rules around voting, rules which many other Western democracies already have, is that you shouldn’t ‘capitulate to (Trump’s) lies’. But that shows you are beholden to Trump and see this as a partisan issue which you must deny him a win on. From my point of view, there is no good reason not to improve voting if you really cared about democratic integrity.

The key point is that the current system works. Without any fraud. There has almost never been an issue before Trump and the only reason a portion of the population even considers fraud now is because the world's biggest liar keeps yelling it because he lost (and his cult members believe anything he says). Publicly changing something that works because someone who lost doesnt like the outcome is not a solution, its a capitulation to lies. After all these years there has not been a single proven case of meaningful fraud (again, except Trump asking for votes to be found). Not one. If there IS fraud, fix the system. But thats not the case here.

I’ve been reading these since long before you were born. So has Cubs. Widen your horizons read these: The Spectator The New Criterion City Journal National Review

100% disagree with this, after watching hockey for 40 years. Icing races aren't particularly exciting, and I have no desire to see someone suffer a season- or career-ending injury on a meaningful play, let alone a meaningless play (and 98% of the time it was meaningless). It's just really stupid to have arguably the most dangerous part of hockey be something that's relatively meaningless. No-touch icing has been a rule change without any downside, as far as I'm concerned.

Read the WSJ Cubs. The FT and The Economist are also very good.

CRFB: What Would a Fiscal Crisis Look Like? Econofact: Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis

I mean, it's also conceivable that the Europeans who fly around the world to watch a two-hour soccer game aren't actually representing a broad cross-section of European population. (But, I think it's mostly true that politicians are much more responsible for international conflict than the underlying populations. I think most people get along when you put them in a room together, and a large part of being a successful politician these days seems to be finding cracks and fomenting division.)

My understanding is that it’s a witness interview from an investigation, not the investigation’s final conclusions. Authorities ultimately concluded there were fraudulent voter registration applications submitted by canvassers trying to get paid, but local election officials flagged the suspicious registrations and there wasn’t evidence that fraudulent ballots were cast or counted because of them. Reminds me of Charlie’s principle: Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.

Haha, this is exactly why those numbers happen. It’s just normal bureaucratic delay while families handle real life. The same bureaucratic delay that keeps tattered American and MIA flags aloft in front of my post office….for those of you anxiously waiting for follow up on this matter.

@whiskybravo You might enjoy this little read from the Michigan fraud. https://electionrecords.netlify.app/documents/michigan/fbimichigan-witness-interview-widespread-fake-registrations-release-marked.pdf This the summary of an FBI agent's interview with a female who worked for a voter canvassing organization. She worked for 30 days and was paid for each voter registration she turned in. She documents her meeting with another 100 canvassers. They were told to make up names, drivers license numbers, Social Security #'s, etc if they could not HONESTLY register someone to vote. They were told - "Don't worry about it - much of the information they made up - will be shredded". This organization was working state wide. This town, Muskegon, is a pretty small town, and there were 100 canvassers. They were told the "good ones" could be sent to other towns if they did a good job and continue making money. She, herself, estimated in addition to her legit sign ups, she submitted 100 fraudulent voter applications in 30 days. "Everyone was doing it" "We were told to do it". Multiple 100 canvassers in a town in Michigan by other municipalities - and you start to see the scope.

Kalshi is still 90% sports contracts. They can't do options on securities because they are registered with the CFTC (Like ICE and CME) and not the SEC (Like NYSE and CBOE). CFTC exchanges can do options on broad based indices, like SP500, but only SEC exchanges can do options on narrow indices (whatever that means) or individual stocks. So they are not a threat to CBOE unless they register with the SEC or buy an exchange.

Amen brother, respect!

Sold more MIAX. Bought on way down recently, and got decent profit. I just can't get high enough conviction. I see the bull case, but don't have high enough conviction - can see a view that the exchanges aren't strong enough to last long-term. Probably wrong, but there's other stuff I feel more comfortable in.

Yup. Why should it take a non-resident, non-interested, fair minded person like you (@Sweet) to recognize that we have a problem? People that don't want to acknowledge that federal elections should be done consistently, with proper identification EVERYWHERE only have one objective - to bash Trump (and to cheat). Even his supporters admit that he lies. He's a promoter. I take the bad with the good - that being many ideas that all of his predecessors combined were too blind even to try. There is one, singular metric that I use to measure Trump and his presidency: Have the issues I care about most improved since election day? On that score the answer is overwhelmingly yes.

Sold my DIA.MI (DiaSorin S.p.A.) position

I've met you - and I know how reasonable you are. That doesn't mean you should trust me. If I am wrong, I want to know it, even if I look like a chump. I figured you will not let anyone bullshit you. And I agree - Trump can be a huge bullshitter. And I totally agree about the Trump appointed judges and many other Trump "supporters" in his Executive Branch that took the easy (or flawed) way out. In 2020, leading up to the Presidential Election, I had an argument with a close friend who tried to convince me that the election COULD be stolen. I told him that there was NO WAY a Federal Election could ever be stolen.... and could only occur in Cook County or City of Chicago - There were far too many safeguards in Federal Elections for fraud to occur - and our Federal courts would never allow it. We are going to find out - and every American should be reassured one way or another.

I was trying to point out that there are buyers of memory that are not "hyperscalers"

I remember when my late grandfather was on his deathbed, surrounded by family, his final gasp of life was something like, "Oh my children, I love you so much, I am so proud of you...but I would be just a little more proud if you remembered to de-register me from the state voter registration database immediately upon my passing! MAGA baby, Woooo!!!" I like to think my grandpops would laugh at that!