Comments on: How the US National Press Is Hurting Democracy Right Now https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/02/05/how-the-us-national-press-is-hurting-democracy-right-now/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 02:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/02/05/how-the-us-national-press-is-hurting-democracy-right-now/#comment-845586 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 02:02:06 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32642#comment-845586 In reply to Tyvor Winn.

I see that the impeached fake president acquitted solely by spineless Senate Republicans after a fake trial (IPASBSSRAAFT) is now using the Iowa situation to belittle Democrats in general as inept. Why are two of the least representative states in the union so important in selecting the viable candidates for the presidency anyway?

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/02/05/how-the-us-national-press-is-hurting-democracy-right-now/#comment-845409 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 02:12:15 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32642#comment-845409 In reply to Tyvor Winn.

I don’t know who made the decision but it was made pretty much immediately: Nevada was going to use the app and, after this debacle, have said “Nope”. Somebody is capable of learning a lesson.

And, even better:

DNC chair Tom Perez said that the app would not be used again in any Democratic primaries or caucuses.

That quote is from this very good article about the problematic (probably too kind) app.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8ajj/an-off-the-shelf-skeleton-project-experts-analyze-the-app-that-broke-iowa

]]> By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/02/05/how-the-us-national-press-is-hurting-democracy-right-now/#comment-845381 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:38:41 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32642#comment-845381 “… this was just a series of moronic decisions from start to finish.”

Let’s us hope that the Democrats learn from the problem and do something useful about it, unlike the current Republicans, who just rally behind the head moron and excuse and even abet his moronic decisions.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/02/05/how-the-us-national-press-is-hurting-democracy-right-now/#comment-844840 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:39:14 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32642#comment-844840 What clown (putting it as nicely as possible) decided that using this new and untested bit of software (IowaReporterApp ) to have the district chairs report in would be a good idea. We’ve found out in the last couple days that
– it was built in only 2 months
– it was never scale tested
– it was not reviewed by any 3rd party group
– the people who were to use it were not given any training
– there was no thought at all given to the fact that using an app that required cell phone connections could be problematic in rural areas where connectivity was an issue

I know the company behind it has strong ties to some in the Democratic party but holy effing shit guys and gals, this was just a series of moronic decisions from start to finish.

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