I’ve never entirely understood how that’s supposed to work for a statewide or national office. People don’t seem to understand how flukey and difficult to reproduce Trump’s win in 2016 was. They’re like gamblers who had a big win and didn’t walk away with the winnings. They stayed, kept gambling, lost, gambled more, and now they’re in really deep and still can’t stop.
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I’m going quibble here DeSantis and Lindsey Graham were Naval Reservists. They spent their time in the Navy in JAG Corps.
Is anyone on here former Navy, and would JAG officers still go through basic training?
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- Campaign finance: “I think nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do, because I’m the biggest contributor.” ( 1999.)
- TV ratings: “I know more about people who get ratings than anyone.” ( October 2012.)
- ISIS: “I know more about ISIS than the generals do.” ( November 2015.)
- Social media: “I understand social media. I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results, right?” ( November 2015.)
- Courts: " I know more about courts than any human being on Earth." ( November 2015.)
- Lawsuits: “[W]ho knows more about lawsuits than I do? I’m the king.” ( January 2016.)
- Politicians : “I understand politicians better than anybody.”
- The visa system: “[N]obody knows the system better than me. I know the H1B. I know the H2B. … Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me.” ( March 2016.)
- Trade: “Nobody knows more about trade than me.” ( March 2016.)
- The U.S. government system : “[N]obody knows the system better than I do.” ( April 2016.)
- Renewable energy: “I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth.” (April 2016.)
- Taxes: “I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world.” ( May 2016.)
- Debt: “I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me.” ( June 2016.)
- Money: “I understand money better than anybody.” ( June 2016.)
- Infrastructure: “[L]ook, as a builder, nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump.” ( July 2016.)
- Sen. Cory Booker : “I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.” ( July 2016.)
- Borders: Trump said in 2016 that Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he was endorsing him for president because “you know more about this stuff than anybody.”
- Democrats: “I think I know more about the other side than almost anybody.” ( November 2016.)
- Construction: “[N]obody knows more about construction than I do.” ( May 2018.)
- The economy: “I think I know about it better than [the Federal Reserve].” ( October 2018.)
- Technology: “Technology — nobody knows more about technology than me.” ( December 2018.)
- Drones: “I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have.” ( January 2019.)
- Drone technology: “Having a drone fly overhead — and I think nobody knows much more about technology, this type of technology certainly, than I do.” (January 2019.)
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When I was a kid I was hit with shotgun pellets due to careless hunters firing at turtle doves a quarter mile from where I lived. Wasn’t hurt at all, but god damn people are that stupid.
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Yet he can’t tie his own shoes.
This will be my mental image of trump as it mixes his ego with his carnival barker, used car salesman act…
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I won’t argue about the cranks, but in my limited dealings with my school district’s board there aren’t cranks on it, And not that it doesn’t happen but I’ve never heard of a school board member going to conferences, and if they did I’m betting that their expenses would be covered.
It’s just that until DeSantis made pronouncement I never heard of such a thing.
Are your city council members paid?
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Have they tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
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Used to be a big problem in the City of St. Louis. Hell it was even an episode on CSI.
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I am just noting that not all of the country is in the nutso coocoo category.
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But that’s the federal stockpile. It’s not supposed to be the states’ stockpile that they then use.
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As a teen I was out in one of our farm fields when a hunter fired a .22 at a squirrel some distance away. I was hit in the shin of my right leg, Square on the bone. I still keep the bullet fragment in a small pill bottle. And I still carry the scar of the impact.
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“I tried that! Don’t you think I tried that!” -War Games
This was on last week. I stayed up way too late watching it.
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Shouldn’t the parents of the children needing the ventilators have final say as to whether the Feds loan them to Florida health facilities?
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It may get him the nomination for President if Trump doesn’t run in 2024. A candidate has to make it through the primary, and the MAGAts will still be around to drive that process.
If there aren’t enough voting “reforms” to put him over the top in the general election, then DeSantis can hope for a Dems-in-disarray election cycle. Biden will probably face reality and acknowledge that he’s too old to run for a second term. Harris would then be the presumed candidate, but there will be challengers in the primary. It could be a real circus on the Dem side in 2024.
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The court, which is comprised entirely of GOP justices, stated that the “principle dispute” that led to Abbott’s veto is between the Democratic and Republican lawmakers over the anti-voting bill.
Um, it actually referred to the “principal dispute.”
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The scuttlebutt is they’re leaning towards a McGovern/Eagleton ticket.
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
The anti-science GOP doesn’t understand and/or doesn’t believe basic Newtonian physics.
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In my mind it is a toss between
- cynically sadistic & opportunistic
- deeply maliciously mentally disturbed
I am reminded of a few stories from friends and acquaintances who truly saw some authentically bad stuff in Vietnam … some of those stories involved a few gut wrenching stories of classic freshly minted arrogant inexperienced officers seemingly intoxicated by a combination of their power and their excessive determination to hit some outlandish 8-run home run - no matter the risk / cost to those around them… and these arrogant green-horns & their hubris caused many many pointless casualties… all in the pursuit of their own notoriety and advancement.
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There’s this:
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