That's the spin that was put on it immediately

Posted on: July 20, 2016 at 18:27:07 CT

by Uber and Lyft, and they floated it through conservative channels because Austin is a blue city. They knew they could exploit that perception, so the result is that people like you ate it up without thinking. Never mind that other cities like San Antonio and Houston - cities with much more red in them - have also tried to install fingerprint requirements.

But it's laughable to me that the simple act of asking someone driving for hire to be fingerprinted is a "big government shakedown." Sure seems to me like fingerprinting is a good way for Trump and company to help crack down on incidents like Nice, France, like they say they want to, no? Aren't conservatives supposed to be making things more secure for our citizens these days, not less?

That's the silly thing about partisan politics. You are just told by one side "ok this is the policy that's on our platform, so its your bible." But upon closer examination, that policy probably is gonna conflict in some ways with something else that is on their same platform. This is a classic example of that.

Edited by McMuffin at 18:31:10 on 07/20/16