Posted on 02/08/2020 7:37:53 AM PST by Kaslin
Probably my favorite line in the movie Moneyball is uttered in the wonderful scene where Billy Bean (Brad Pitt) is trying to teach his protégé (Joshua Hill) how to cut a professional baseball player. Bean explains that delivering bad news works best if done with a detached, businesslike manner. He compares the unpleasant task to the job of a hired assassin by asking, "Would you rather get a bullet to the head, or five to the chest and bleed to death?"
Hill replies, "Are those my only two options?"
Therein lies the problem for Democrats come November. There are only two possible explanations for the debacle in Iowa, and neither of them is good. Either Democrats have corrupted the elections process so that Bernie Sanders cannot possibly win the nomination, no matter how well he does with their primary voters, or they are so incompetent that they can't even run a caucus in a state with a relatively small population.
The largest city in Iowa, Des Moines, is about the same size as Augusta (home of the Masters golf tournament), the second largest city in Georgia. The entire population of Iowa (3 million) is only a little more than half the size of metropolitan Atlanta (5 million). It seems almost inconceivable that a caucus in which the top four candidates received less than two thousand votes combined could get so screwed up that there are calls for the results to be scrapped and a second caucus held. Is the Iowa election process being run by the Three Stooges?
There is reason to believe that corruption is the better explanation. The results of the very last poll taken prior to the caucus by CNN and the Des Moines Register were never released to the public.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Both.
As Nagaina — the vicious female cobra in Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi — said to little bird: Indeed and truly, you've chosen a bad place to be lame in.
Not mutually-exclusive choices
They actually floated a trial balloon to blame Russian interference just yesterday...
Quite well written. Thanks for posting. I think AT is getting better.
It is both. They’re incompetent at their corruption.
The answer to the question is Both. The rats could not let Bernie win Iowa.
Those who are competent don't have to be corrupt.
Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
TOTAL incompetence:
everything about this whole caucus reporting app deal was F-ed from the beginning:
1. the app itself was obviously garbage to start with, having undergone no serious testing, including load testing, etc.
2. even worse, the deployment “plan” was a joke, leaving it up to 2,000 unqualified people to try to load and operate this app on a huge variety of PERSONAL devices at the very last minute and with zero training or practice ...
3. there was no actual functional backup plan ...
the whole thing, from top to bottom, and at ever level was completely flawed, and the result of complete ignorance, incompetence, and inattention, both from a technical level and an organization level ...
for this to have had ANY chance to work at all, the party would have had to provid ALL precincts WELL in advance with cheap smart phones that were pre-loaded and pre-tested with the reporting app, and required the users to ALL have practice sessions in reporting test data in advance of the caucuses ...
of course, most of that wasn’t actually possible anyway, because most caucus precincts are loosely run by inexperienced (usually first-time) volunteers who don’t read the rules and instruction sheets until AFTER they arrive, and many caucuses wouldn’t even have had those volunteers available until AFTER the caucus got going ...
In other words, the whole notion of using a smart phone app to report caucus results was doomed to failure no matter what, and the fact that it was allowed to precede at all (and without a viable backup plan) indicates that essentially no one at any level in the Iowa Dem organization had a clue about technology or its deployment ...
Their development team should “learn to code.”
Perhaps some re-trained coal miners could help them. I bet they’d do better.
In other words, the whole notion of using a smart phone app to report caucus results was doomed to failure no matter what, and the fact that it was allowed to precede at all (and without a viable backup plan) indicates that essentially no one at any level in the Iowa Dem organization had a clue about technology or its deployment ...
Yes, but look at the bright side: technology helps bad management scale up its efforts so they reach level of truly epic disasters, which can have entertainment value.
Don’t forget about comrade Sanders. In 2016 the Iowa app was provided by Microsoft ... for Republicans and Democrats both. Then Bernie Sanders people demanded Microsoft to be fired because they’re a “corporation” and therefore not trustworthy. Great success for them (not!).
....but without the stupid, the malicious could not succeed.
Shadow software. Clinton. Soros. Any questions?
Normally they run the corruption scams in urban centers where they control everything—and nobody asks difficult questions.
They were beta testing this out in the wilds of Whitopia Iowa.
Neither, it was all Trump and Russians. < /s>
Just contrast and compare this latest offering from the demonrat party with the overwhelming and overarching competence of President Donald J. Trump.
Now, fellow Americans, choose your life present and future.
There, see? That wasn’t such a chore, now was it?
Next, just for fun, imaginize a bit about what we can do with all that recovered swamp land once President Trump and his crew finish draining it and recovering all of the bodies buried there!
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