cut the cards

Say a blackjack dealer asked Forte to cut the cards.

They say bar employees cut the cards, filled out the identifying information and bogus vaccination dates, then laminated the finished product.

They say bar employees cut the cards, filled out the identifying information and bogus vaccination dates, then laminated the finished product.

Or a shorthand version of one of the credos of journalism on election night that I always tried to have in mind, and that is, “you trust your mother, but you cut the cards,” which is a way of saying, “Yes, these figures seem to add up, but you know what? Maybe we take just another minute, another five minutes, another hour, another day to make sure we’re right.”

So you trust your mother, but you cut the cards.