Iran rejects Trump’s ‘delusions’ on making Strait of Hormuz a US territory
Iran on Saturday rejected President Trump’s assertion that he could declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States,” saying the opening and closure of the key waterway will remain up to Iran’s control.
In a post on the social platform X, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the U.S. has no authority to claim the strait, which has become a major flashpoint in the nearly six-month conflict.
“The Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian,” he wrote in a post translated from Persian to English. “This strait will only be closed and opened under Iran’s command.”
He added that as long as the U.S. does “not accept the reality of defeat” and stop indulging in its “delusions,” Iran will continue to enforce its blockade of the crucial waterway carrying one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.
Trump floated the idea of taking control of the strait during a speech at a police academy in New York on Friday, despite the fact that it is currently under the shared jurisdiction of Iran and Oman.
“Pretty soon, I will be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” he said.
Trump, who has twice deployed a U.S. naval blockade of the strait during the course of the conflict, has repeatedly reiterated this claim.
“We have control over it. Nobody else. Only us. Our Navy is unbelievable, and things are going great for our country,” he told reporters Tuesday.
Several observers have pushed back on Trump’s claim to the strait. Former U.S. diplomat Richard Haass insisted that no country is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, while Fox News host Bret Baier said that traffic through the waterway has slowed down “to a trickle” despite Trump’s claim.
About 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas passed through the strait prior to the start of the war on Feb. 28, 2026.
Traffic has dropped sharply since Iran moved to close the waterway after the U.S. and Israel launched its first attacks, causing global energy prices to surge.
Only six vessels traveled through the strait last weekend, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler, a fraction of the roughly 130 to 140 ships that typically crossed each day before the war.
If SS plays and the results are average. The Browns will draft a guy.
SS would need to take the Browns to the playoffs and look good doing it for them not to draft a guy.
So, they draft a guy. What happens to SS?
The Browns will determine if he would be a guy to keep as a backup. Would they rather keep Gabriel?
Questions that will answer themselves over time.
When they draft a guy will he become the starter next year? To be determined. Maybe they get a veteran.
This year will play out and the results will determine the moves to make next year.
I agree and have been saying much the same. We will draft a new QB unless SS wows us. If we do draft a QB he will be the guy for the next 3 years. There might be a competition in name only because you don't draft a QB #1 and not play him soon in to his career unless he is sitting behind a Aaron Rogers, which we don't have.
So, who make the best back-up for the team? SS or DG? I go DG every day of the week. SS on the bench would cause distractions. SS has a cult following which would be unbearable. I'd trade him for a 2030 6th rounder if that was the best I could get.
At this point, I want to see DG just as bad as SS... I don't want to see DW.
Watson is not the future, that we know.
What we don't know is if there is someone on the team that can be the future.. DG, SS and TG are all possibilities. I would like to see TG play an entire half of at least one of these games.
Watson probably isn't the future, but things could change that. If he plays and has a great season I don't think we would simply let him walk without trying to sign him. The odds say that won't happen, but I wouldn't say he isn't the future as an absolute.
I have been using it more and more for work. What started this post was stuff I did for fun. There is coding that is used in my industry. I am familiar with it I have tried to do it. I understand it but never had the time to master it. With chatgpt and claude they write the code that I could not master and I use it to be more productive. It is a thing, use it to your advantage.
How about this scenario? Watson starts and plays "well" (don't ask me to define well right now, it's just a word I am using to make a point) The Brown have a slightly winning record half way through, then Watson gets hurts, his appendix burst, he catches diphtheria etc. and SS then starts. If he plays OK, but worse than Watson, do we know he isn't the answer? His supporters can't claim the talent around him isn't good enough or playcalling etc.
Will this confirm the need to draft someone else, or even a FA? Or do we need to have 25 games from SS before we look elsewhere?
House Republican says Congress ‘should do a little more’ for the rich
Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, up for re-election in November, says he believes more should be done to support America’s wealthiest citizens
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman has argued that Congress “should do a little more” to help wealthy Americans.
The six-term congressman, 71, a Donald Trump loyalist, spoke up for neglected U.S. elites Thursday during a panel discussion on the economy in Troy, Michigan, with that state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other officials.
As the conversation pivoted to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in July 2025, Grothman insisted the mammoth tax and sending initiative was intended to benefit “the average guy.”
“Don’t let anybody tell you that people running, uh, Congress right now are looking out for the rich,” he said.
“Actually, I think we should do a little more for them, but, you know, right now, uh, we are doing all we can to help the middle class, right?”
“If I was designing a tax cut for the rich, I wouldn’t talk about overtime,” he continued. “I wouldn’t talk about car loans, right? We are aimed at helping the average guy.”
The bill in question was strongly opposed by Democrats – who refused to vote through its cuts to assistance programs for low-income families, including Medicaid and free school meals – with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivering a near-nine-hour filibuster trying to prevent its passage.
It squeaked through anyway, passing the House 218-214 and the Senate 51-50 thanks to a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance, with not a single vote coming from the opposition and two Republican congressmen, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, refusing to back it.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten reported Saturday that Trump’s signature bill has since added $4 trillion to the national debt and ranked government spending as his fourth biggest area of declining support, saying his approval rating on that subject had dropped from 34 percent to just 12 percent.
“A 22 percent drop. Woof!” the commentator remarked, joking that the New York Yankees are more popular in Boston than Trump is trusted with the public purse.
Grothman is up for re-election in November’s midterms against Democratic challenger Brad Smith and is no stranger to controversial public statements.
During Joe Biden’s single term in May 2023, for instance, he complained on the House floor that the 46th president was not nominating enough straight “white guys” to be judges, saying only five of the 97 names he had put forward were caucasian males and that two of those were gay.
35 of the judges confirmed were white males.
When Biden was succeeded by Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, he suggested that opposition voters felt “they have to stick with her because of her ethnic background."
More recently, he has defended Trump’s now-scrapped “slush fund” to make payouts to alleged victims of “weaponization” by the Department of Justice and, speaking on Newsmax, delivered a Hall of Famer on Iran, declaring: “Sometimes they don’t act like they lost this war.”
And then those on the right seem shocked, outraged and confused why Democratic socialism is on the rise. As I've attempted to explain to them each action has an equal and opposite reaction. You think they would have known that by now.
No one has had their injuries disclosed yet. Monken isn’t talking until he has to. I’m not worried about Carson but I am worried about a couple of the others who limped out.
New aircraft carrier heads toward Middle East after reports of issues on long-deployed USS Lincoln
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East as reports have emerged of mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln.
The Lincoln has been supporting the U.S. war against Iran, and its deployment has included a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 260 days. Several Democratic lawmakers are pressing for accountability from the Pentagon over conditions aboard the carrier, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said were “completely misrepresented.”
Extended deployments of carriers during the Iran conflict have raised concerns about the impact on service members who are away from home for long periods as well as the increasing strain on the ship and its equipment. While renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran have calmed in recent weeks, the Navy has reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and the Trump administration has offered no clarity on how it intends to wind down the war.
Hegseth told reporters that the U.S. can maintain the blockade “indefinitely.”
A new aircraft carrier is heading west from the Asia-Pacific
The USS George Washington left port in Da Nang, Vietnam, last week, a Navy statement said. The carrier, along with a cruiser and a destroyer, have since been spotted crossing the Singapore Strait.
A Navy official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail sensitive ship details, confirmed that the Washington was in the Strait of Malacca, which links the Pacific and Indian oceans and puts the carrier on a course to head into the Indian Ocean. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the Washington would replace the Lincoln as one of the two aircraft carriers now stationed in the Middle East.
The move would leave the waters of the Pacific without a U.S. carrier presence for an unknown period of time. The Trump administration sees China, the dominant power in the region, as “a settled force” that only needs to be deterred from dominating the U.S. or its allies and not the top global adversary that it was under the Biden administration.
The Lincoln originally deployed Nov. 21 from San Diego, and it arrived in the Middle East in January, ahead of the launch of the Iran war on Feb. 28. The Navy conceded that the conflict created a “highly contested environment where traditional supply hubs in the Middle East were disrupted by combat actions.” That, in turn, led to shortages and loss of mail aboard the aircraft carrier, the Navy said in a statement.
“Leadership prioritized mission-critical supplies: first food, then hygiene items, then mail,” the statement said, before assuring that sailors aboard the ship now have access to clean water and “healthy meal options.” Democrats call for scrutiny, while the Pentagon defends conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
Democratic lawmakers are calling for investigations, more information and greater visibility into conditions aboard the ship, which was originally set to return home in May.
“The Lincoln’s prolonged deployment is especially significant because it is occurring in the context of continuing military operations against Iran and the possibility that substantial US naval forces will be required in the region for an extended period,” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wrote in a letter to Navy leadership asking for a response to several questions.
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, a Marine Corps veteran, said on social media that he is looking to take a bipartisan delegation on an official oversight visit to the ship and that the way sailors are being treated is “not just disgusting; it’s dangerous.”
Hegseth told reporters during a visit to Panama that he wants the Lincoln’s sailors home and crews rotated as quickly as possible but pushed back against reports of problems aboard.
“We make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with less port calls — it’s incredible.”
Navy leaders, including acting Secretary Hung Cao, last week held a tense town hall for families of troops aboard the USS Lincoln, at which the commanders of the Navy’s air and surface forces promised to do everything they could to relieve the aircraft carrier. MS NOW reported earlier on the meeting.
When reports of food shortages aboard the ship first surfaced in April, the Navy pushed back, calling those reports “false.”
Reports of mental health concerns and more aboard the ship
Reports have since emerged that sailors on the Lincoln are struggling with mental health concerns. The Navy said in its statement that it has “not observed an increase in suicidal ideations or attempts aboard the ship,” but officials declined to provide data, citing operational security and patient privacy concerns.
The Navy official said that a sailor aboard the Lincoln went overboard in early August but that the person was quickly recovered, treated by the ship’s medical department and transferred off ship for follow-on care. The official would not say if it was being considered a suicide attempt.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, pushed back on reports about poor conditions.
“The Sailors and Marines of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group remain resilient and resolved after more than 260 days at sea, 10,000 aircraft flights, and 1.5 million pounds of ordnance expended,” the command said on social media.
Other carriers also have had long runs that have raised concerns about morale. The USS Gerald R. Ford returned home in mid-May after an 11-month deployment, the longest since the Vietnam War, during which it supported the U.S. war with Iran and the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
During its deployment, the Ford experienced a fire in a laundry space that forced the carrier to turn around and return to the Mediterranean Sea for repairs and left hundreds of sailors without places to sleep.
Concerns about the demands of battle and the dangers of overextending ships and their crew predate the Iran war, with a number of mishaps on ships battling Houthi rebels in Yemen in 2024 and 2025, including the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman on a longer-than-expected deployment.
Kennedy Center votes to restore Trump’s name and close for 2 years, challenging a judge’s order
WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle over the Kennedy Center’s future escalated Thursday as President Donald Trump’s allies on the board took new steps to commemorate him with physical changes to the iconic performing arts institution that could defy a federal court order.
During an hourslong meeting that was conducted virtually, the board voted to add Trump’s name to the building’s facade so it would read “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.” The plaza in front of the building would be named after Trump and most of the space at the venue would be closed for two years to allow for substantial renovations.
The changes, described by Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who is an ex-officio board member, and her lawyers, amount to a dramatic test of U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper.
He ruled in May that letters affixed to the building that spelled out Trump’s name were added illegally and he ordered their removal, a decision that the Republican administration failed to persuade courts to overturn. At the same time, Cooper blocked a two-year closure that was set to take effect July 5, saying an earlier board vote authorizing the shuttering was “ill-informed and seemingly preordained.”
“This latest development is a transparent effort to circumvent the Court’s ruling, and flies in the face of the statutes that Congress passed,” Beatty said in a statement. “I will continue to fight for this treasured national monument.”
A Kennedy Center representative did not respond to a request for comment.
Much of Thursday’s board meeting was expected to focus on the extent of closures required to allow for renovations that the Kennedy Center’s management says are needed to improve safety. In response to the judge’s criticism of the earlier vote, the institution’s leaders said they would provide the board with three options to consider.
They included a complete closure or a partial closure that would allow “some continued public access and limited programming in spaces unaffected” by the work. A third option would “consider a highly limited series of phased closures to address only the Center’s most serious infrastructure needs while scheduling and maintaining a full slate of programming.”
Ultimately, the board decided to close the building for two years while leaving the potential for some degree of programming to still happen in an outdoor space known as the Reach. The decision to move ahead with the two-year closure, in addition to the moves to memorialize Trump, could revive questions about whether the board seriously considered the full range of options, a point Democrats emphasized after the meeting.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who is also an ex officio board member, criticized a “sham meeting.”
“What happened today was nothing more than a rubber stamp on a decision the President made months ago that the Board already tried to effectuate without doing proper due diligence,” he said in a statement.
The Kennedy Center has become a metaphor for presidential power
During Trump’s second term, the Kennedy Center has become an unlikely — and highly visible — metaphor for presidential power. While he largely ignored the institution during his first term in Washington, Trump moved quickly to oust its leadership when he returned to office in January 2025 and replaced it with a board of trustees that named him chairman.
His name was quickly added to the building, before coming down in June in response to Cooper’s order. The area where it once stood is now covered by a massive tarp.
The Kennedy Center moves are part of Trump’s broader push to reshape the physical landscape of the nation’s capital in ways that have few modern parallels.
He demolished the East Wing of the White House and is building a controversial ballroom in its place, though an appeals court ruled last week that construction should stop because Congress didn’t approve the project. Trump has said he will take the case to the Supreme Court.
His remodel of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has also stumbled after algae returned and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro refuted his claims that a vandal was responsible for the damage.
Meanwhile, Trump is planning extensive renovations of a golf course in East Potomac Park, which could significantly reduce the public’s access to running and biking paths. He is also moving forward with a triumphal arch that will sit near Arlington National Cemetery.
Trump has derided the Kennedy Center as “rusted, rotted, and rat and bug infested” and threatened to hand the building over to Congress after Cooper rejected the closure and the addition of the president’s name to the building.
The institution’s leadership has argued that it’s in genuine need of repair and updating.
Matt Floca, the Kennedy Center’s executive director and chief operating officer, guided a group of journalists through the building in April, highlighting severe water damage that he said corroded steel in some places as thin as tissue paper. Some pieces of equipment, including several 800-ton chillers that help cool the building, are decades old and in need of replacement.
At the time, Floca said he considered doing the repairs individually but insisted it was his recommendation to Trump to close the building and move forward with the renovation all at once.
“When the president asked, ‘How do you make these projects the best? How do you make them really excellent and deliver them efficiently?’ My recommendation was you close the building and you do everything over a definite period of time, two years,” he said.
More recently, the legal battles became the subject of barbs and jokes as comedian Bill Maher accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in late June. At the start of the program, Pamella Roland DeVos, a Kennedy Center trustee appointed by Trump, described the institution as a “national cultural center open not just for some but for every American patron who wants to experience the greatest art and expression the world has to offer.”
“The responsibility that comes with it is one our board takes very seriously,” she said.
This petty little narcissist just can't stand that his name can not be included with Kennedy's and his little minions are trying everything they can to defy a court order saying it can't be.
To this very day trump still refuses to uncover the sign on the Kennedy Center after his name was ordered to be removed from it by court order on June 13th.
Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carrier and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers, according to a directive issued Thursday.
The new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy’s most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain.
The memo directs the Pentagon and the Navy to present Trump with plans to remove the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, also known as EMALS, within two months. It also says the Ford-class carrier’s electromagnetic weapons elevators should be replaced.
The move comes after years of Trump railing against the new, magnetically powered catapult system that shoots fighter jets off the deck of the carriers. It also comes at a time when the U.S. military is trying to find funding from Congress for all its desired equipment and as the Navy is struggling to fill its ships with enough sailors.
Trump’s ire with the new technology goes back to at least 2017 in his first term, when he claimed the new system is “not good” and “doesn’t have the power” of the older, steam systems in an interview with Time magazine.
“You’re going to GD steam,” Trump said at the time. The topic has frequently come up since then at rallies and other events.
While Trump is looking to roll back the latest technology, the newest Chinese aircraft carriers employ electromagnetic catapults and France said it plans to use the system on its new carrier.
Trump’s memo directs the fourth Ford-class carrier, the USS Doris Miller, to be the first ship to include the new changes. That will leave the USS Gerald R. Ford, as well as the forthcoming USS John F. Kennedy and USS Enterprise, untouched.
However, redesigning an already finalized ship for such a major system change will not be an easy task.
General Atomics, the company that makes EMALS, told The Associated Press in an email that the decision not to proceed with the system on the USS Doris Miller “warrants careful reconsideration.”
Trump’s memo that mandates the removal of the system also noted that one of the issues facing shipbuilding is the Navy’s constant design changes, “which have resulted in cost growth, delays, and cancellations.”
General Atomics said the work on the Doris Miller’s catapults and arresting gear was already halfway complete and said “changing course now would introduce significant cost, schedule, and integration risks.”
The move comes as Congress will weigh the necessary budget and funding bills that the Trump administration has said they need to fund the Pentagon and the Iran war.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth estimated last month that the war’s cost grew to $37.5 billion as Republicans prepared a $95 billion package to fund the military, along with other White House priorities.
Hegseth said the supplemental war funding is an “urgent, necessary” injection of money, and with Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget a generational investment in the military.
The House narrowly adopted both but the Senate still must act when it returns in September.
Some of the key advantages to the electromagnetic system are its ability to launch aircraft at faster speeds while being easier to maintain, requiring fewer sailors to operate and using less space aboard the ship.
EMALS aboard the USS Ford cut the number of sailors need to operate the catapults from about a dozen to two.
Reverting to a system that requires more people to operate it comes as the Navy has struggled to translate its recruiting successes in the past year to actually filling jobs on warships. At the start of the year, the Navy had about 20,000 unfilled posts across the fleet.
In February, the Navy touted the system in a press release that said it allowed the USS Ford to launch and recover aircraft at a higher rate than its predecessor, the Nimitz-class ships.
The world as we have known it; is changed forever.
The impact will effect a single family planning a vacation. It will impact planning strategies, and decisions of the most complex organizations the world.
Major institutions like Charles Schwab, Vanguard, and Fidelity are fundamentally rewiring how portfolios are constructed, monitored, and adjusted. We are witnessing a massive shift toward what the industry calls "AI-augmented advice" and "continuous strategy optimization."
How AI is Taking Over Financial Strategy 1. From Periodic Reviews to Continuous Processing Historically, a financial advisor at a firm like Schwab would review a client’s 401(k) or IRA once or twice a year, or when a major life event happened. AI changes this from a static checkup to 24/7 hyper-personalized execution:
Real-Time Tax-Loss Harvesting: Algorithms continuously scan individual holdings to sell off declining assets at optimal seconds to offset capital gains tax liability automatically.
Macro-Scenario Simulation: When a central bank adjusts interest rates or a geopolitical shock occurs, investment management engines can run millions of stress tests across millions of client portfolios simultaneously. It allows wealth managers to adjust asset allocations dynamically rather than reactively.
Military decisions. Healthcare. Transportation. Energy. Education. Everything is changing as hours go by.
I don't normally care for artists covering songs of other artists. Far are often they are too similar to the original and lack what I consider creativity. Not always but far too often. This is a band I really like that are not that popular but still has quite a following. This cover of Ozzy's songs "Changes" and is certainly not lacking in creativity. They have transformed the song into their own style and sound. 49 Wnchester I really like it.
So you want trump to declare a national security emergency so he can rig the election, That has never been rigged. Got it. Democracy be damned!
I think more and more shows rigged elections and elections have been rigged for many years, but that is another issue. As to this, I doubt it happens, but as a general statement I don't see how you could just rule it out, at least at this point.
I wouldn't worry about it.
So you are saying that the 2016 and 2924 presidential elections were rigged?
what dont you understand he is going to declare a national emergency and create his own outcome to the elections.
How would he do that, elections are impenetrable?
You keep repeating it, you have to have some kind of idea, hypothesis, conspiracy theory, fantasy... something you can share with us as to how he would rig the elections?
You will see when he does it. I dont have a team of lawyers to come up scenarios for your amusement. He does
I'm just considering which scenario would give SS the best chance to succeed. I think allowing watson to take the lumps as this O and OL come together instead of shell shocking Sanders right out of the gate may be the best case scenario for Sanders. And God knows I don't even want to see watson on the field, or sideline for that matter in a Browns uniform. But I had to put all of that aside to consider the options. And on a personal level I don't think SS will ever be a franchise QB under any circumstances.
You do realize in most cases on this board it hasn't been about voter ID at all. It's about IF you are going to require an ID to vote they should be free and transportation should be provided to acquire one when needed, right?
Nobody charges you for a background check to purchase a firearm. Constitutional rights should not have a price tag attached to them to exercise them.
This issue for the most part is actually to not make it harder for the impoverished and the poor living long distances from locations to get state ID's to have obstacles put in their way in order to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
The SAVE act isn't as simple as just "having a photo ID" either. It goes much further than that.
So you want trump to declare a national security emergency so he can rig the election, That has never been rigged. Got it. Democracy be damned!
I think more and more shows rigged elections and elections have been rigged for many years, but that is another issue. As to this, I doubt it happens, but as a general statement I don't see how you could just rule it out, at least at this point.
I wouldn't worry about it.
If there is ever a shred of legit evidence of a "rigged election" then I'd be far more willing to have a serious conversation about it.
Does that mean you think we should do nothing to further secure elections until there is evidence that one has been rigged?
Let me ask you three questions, though I'll admit, the third assumes I know the answer to the first two (for good reason). Do you lock your doors when you go to sleep at night? Have you ever been robbed?
If you've never had your house robbed, why bother locking the door??
I have no problem with requiring ID for elections. The merits of requiring official ID to vote would be a VERY short and uninteresting debate between you and I.
While improvements can always (and should) be made, we are NOT in the middle of a crisis/emergency. The latter is what we're discussing here. So my answers to your questions are what you would expect, but nobody is talking about me not locking my doors. What Trump and Republicans are saying is that I should be calling the police, filing an insurance claim, and installing an expensive security system to prevent something they say happened but hasn't.
While "declining to rule out" seems to be Trump's favorite method of bluster, he has been very consistent in his claims of widespread and even systemic election fraud. Personally, I doubt he would do anything as dramatic as declare an emergency in order to exert undue control over our election processes.
So, I guess: Proof of citizenship Photo identification Database verification tools Voter list maintenance
Is a bridge too far?
To me, that's just as simple as locking your door, not all the stuff you listed above.
To each his own, I guess.
BTW... recent insurance polls have confirm a 40 year trend... about 76% of America locks their doors at night. About 0.7% have ever been robbed. Why lock your doors if you've never been robbed?
To me, this is the very same conversation when people fight everything proposed to secure elections based on the fact one has never been rigged.
Why lock your door? To make sure you never are robbed. Why secure elections? To make sure they never are rigged.
