The best line was in your fist link, via Jon Stewart:
Clearly David Brooks is a man of the people who knows Obama would never fit in at an Applebee’s salad bar, or the McDonald’s beer garden, or a Wal-Mart observatory.
It’s David Brooks o’clock somewhere.
Why would he post such an idiotic thing? I seriously don’t get how he didn’t know how stupid and ridiculous this post is.
:banging my head against a wall until I’m dead so I don’t have to deal with this kind of stupid fucking shit anymore:
Hey, at least he wasn’t sipping a latte like those ivory tower elites!
The rubes will only see, Biden/Obama inflation, $78 hamburger in their cult feeds. No explanation, no background, no questioning - just fear.
If I received a $78 bill for a hamburger I’d be afraid too. I’d be wondering if it was topped with gold or something.
The last time we flew, I got a check for our two breakfast sandwiches for $96. I initially thought we were given the wrong check, but my gf had placed the order for our drinks. Two black coffees and four bloody marys, doubles, with their good vodka.
Maybe he was just too drunk from the $50.00 worth of booze. I just think some of his followers might see a response from someone else that at least makes them go check a menu or something. FFS.
You’d hope that, wouldn’t you? I mean, with some of the culture wars stuff, you can understand why someone might be ignorant, like they’ve literally never met a transgender person, or something. But goddamn it, unless you’re literally a hermit, you have to have gone to a restaurant a few times, right?!!?! You have to know that booze adds up way faster than burgers, right? Right?!?!?!
Okay, maybe not Mormons, but everyone else, right?
Heck of a breakfast. That’ll perk you right up before putting you down hard
We like to start vacation running hard.
Yeah talk about your Breakfast Of Champions 
I’m not familiar with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), but it’s (one of it’s?) jobs is to catch people that have voted in more than one state.
Republicans, who are super duper against that kind of stuff want Wisconsin to leave ERIC. Their reasoning is that, according to them, ERIC has “placed more of a priority on registering voters as opposed to ensuring the accuracy of voter registration lists”.
We’ll leave that whole discussion alone since I don’t believe it’s the actual reason. You’d think a group meant to find people voting twice would be supported by the R’s, however, they’re trying to get rid of it and the Left is trying to keep it.
My prediction is that they’re trying to get rid of it, to make it easier for people to vote twice. As we’ve found in the past, the vast majority of people that cast multiple votes are republicans.
From their wiki:
Participating states are required to mail notifications to people identified as eligible to vote but not registered
At least every 60 days, each ERIC state submits their voter registration data and motor vehicle licensing data to ERIC. ERIC’s technical staff matches that data against data from all the other member states and Social Security death data. ERIC identifies voters who have moved, voters who have died, and voters with duplicate registrations within a state’s database
Follow-up research in some states concluded that 10% to 20% of those contacted had later registered to vote, a high response rate for direct mailings. That rate suggests 2.6 million to 5.2 million of the 26 million people notified became voters
So maybe it really is because they’re registering (or correcting registrations for) so many people.
Ron DeSantis wants Florida to leave ERIC too. I firmly believe it is to allow people to vote in two places. Especially Floridians who spend a large part of their year up north.
I lean a bit more towards “It informs people that they’re eligible to vote.”
Although I’m sure they have no problem with a few people double voting (as long as they’re the right people), the fact that ERIC has only identified “scores” of people doing it means it can’t really be a serious strategy for changing election outcomes.
But voter suppression can be, and has been, for decades.
Republicans are a minority of the population, and their numbers are shrinking. Any effort that increases registration generally will increase the number of registered Democrats and independents more than Republicans.
Republicans realized long ago that they can only win by suppressing the number of people who vote. They consistently oppose Get Out the Vote efforts everywhere.
ERIC requires member states to reach out to eligible non-registered citizens, which would tend to register more Democrats. This is why Republicans want to pull out of it.
Pretty standard for us. When my wife and I go out to eat (even just lunch), I always expect to drop $80 + tip. But then we live in a very expensive place.
The NICE thing is, when we go to an expensive place, like Key West, or Hawaii, there is no sticker shock.
Other reasons that they may oppose it is that if it does a better job of actually identifying who is or is not a duplicate then it will be harder to justify the purposefully inaccurate mass voter purges that they did in the past.