16 pointsby Geonodea month ago4 comments
  • metadopea month ago
    This is just another cynical game of "pin the tale on the donkey". The current administration hopes, once again, to blindfold the American public, spin us around in circles, and get us to stick it to a leading opposition candidate.

    I'm not saying there's no fraud in Minnesota.

    I'm saying this tale is a developing political story in which all the forces of the party in power are aligning to attack the image of the man they have identified as a not-so-far-future threat.

    In this episode, there's no need to make a "perfect phone call" to a distant foreign leader to ask for a little favor.

    Deploy the influencer troops; get the once-legitimate agencies to blow some smoke under the color of authority. Invite the public to join in, incite outrage with a tale that swipes at the face of the whole state. Bang the same drum as always, outrage over peon cheaters, stoke fury at lower class fraud.

    But make sure to stick that pin in the governor.

    Make that ass bray, just in case we let the peons vote some day.

  • wosineda month ago
    Reads like a fair & unbiased article. kappa
  • Simulacraa month ago
    I gave up and watched the video. I don't know if there's fraud, but something seems fishy. If it's not fraud, it certainly has the smell, and at the very least the government should be interested in a transparent investigation to restore faith.
    • dc396a month ago
      Call me cynical, but I figure in our post-truth world, faith depends on the tribe you belong to, not "transparent investigation". To me, this is yet another episode of one side screaming "conspiracy" and the other side screaming "conspiracy to create a conspiracy" in order to drive clicks on both sides. The actual truth will likely never be publicly known or acknowledged.
      • slowmovintargeta month ago
        Or the more than 42K NGOs getting billions of dollars in Minnesota alone are not legitimate and this will just be the tip of the iceberg.

        Ilhan Omar has a $174K salary, and she went from nearly broke to having a net worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 million in the space of six years... and her only "work" is the Senate? This is an amazing rags-to-riches story! Journalists should be knocking down her door to discuss it. But it's "not news," right?

        There's a whole lot of something there.

        • dc396a month ago
          You miss my point. I have no idea whether or not something is there and can't be bothered to look into it as, to me, even if it's true, it's just a drop in a planetary ocean of incompetence, fraud, waste, and abuse.

          The reality is that the perception of "truth" (whether this is something or there isn't) is going to highly dependent on which tribe you're in. That is, if you're republican, the fraud will be obvious and if you're democrat, it's obvious that even if there is some fraud, it is blown out of proportion.

          As we have seen time and time again, whether there will be repercussions will be dependent in who is in power.

    • mmh0000a month ago
      A random, childless dude shows up at the daycare (likely on Christmas day, when the place would be empty), acting unhinged and demanding "where are the children," and acts offended when they won't let him in.

      That's a totally normal and predictable response on the daycare's part.

      EDIT - This whole saga is obvious rage-bait trolling.

      If this was actual journalism, the guy would have went during normal business hours, and brought a child with him, with a fake story like "I'm looking for a daycare for lil' Billy here, would you mind showing us around and telling us about the place?"