Well… playing devil’s advocate here… I’d argue that DeSantis is markedly more qualified than Hegseth. DeSantis has at least performed the duties of an administrator and has an understanding of how to operate a bureaucracy.

How well he’s been able to do these things is completely up to debate. But when comparing the two to each other, DeSantis is the no brainer pick.

AND once Ronnie falls out of Donny’s good graces, he’ll be out of a job, and out of Tallahassee…

You never saw Mike Tyson at his height did you? I only saw a little, and I wanted to see if Iron Mike could stave off Father Time and capture a little bit of what used to be.

Ahhh… that’s what one of the announcers was saying, but it totally looked like a mouthpiece adjustment to me, more than a biting something.

Regardless, Iron Mike wasn’t himself.

Yeah, Paul was bouncing around like an idiot. Tyson didn’t have his legs and kept fucking around with his mouthpiece.

The whole fight looked like a kid who took a couple boxing lessons at the local fight gym challenged someone’s grandpa who used to fight.

These raises that make the news are the cost of living adjustments or the COLA. They happen annually at the beginning of the calendar year and are intended to adjust salaries for year over year inflation. It’s not related to any sort of performance or merit based pay increases.

Health insurance… mother fucking health insurance.

The FEHB is some of the best health insurance there is…. I know folks who are only still doing their fed job to continue access to the great insurance.

And you get to keep it for the rest of your life if you retire. I believe you pay the premium through your annuity.

Concur. My words were not flippantly chosen.

Carlin is the best that ever was, and possibly the best that ever will be.

The only reason Doug Jones was elected in the first place is because he was running against Roy Moore. Literally any other Republican candidate would have handily beaten Jones. Tubby just rode his name into congress.

I liked him better when he was just a coach.

Yeah… not all of his constituents…

So it’s shallow AND pedantic.

You strike me as someone very close to people who don’t share your same views on a lot of topics.

Here it is

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/opinion/trump-indictment-cost-danger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Awesome, thanks. I’ll read this. I’ve been under the impression to this point that Biden wanted to avoid the appearance of prosecuting Trump based upon political grounds, so he wanted to avoid it if possible. I based that on a NYT article I read a week or two ago and I’ll see if I can’t dig it up.

I’d love to see a source on this.

Well, regardless of that, it’s a process to remove someone from office and make them ineligible for office ever again…

He should have been convicted in his at least one of his impeachment trials… then we wouldn’t be in this mess…

Absolutely concur. I hate that they waited this long to bring charges. I really do think that Biden instructed Garland to avoid prosecution as long as possible to avoid the appearance of this being politically motivated.

The best scenario would have been for Congress to have convicted him during one of his impeachment trials. We wouldn’t be dealing with this bullshit at this point.

Before I write this, I want one thing to be clear. I find Trump to an absolutely repugnant person, and elevating him to the Presidency has debased the office. I found him unfit for office in 2016, and I don’t believe he should be eligible for 2024.

For better or worse, however, there are a couple of truths about this whole mess as it currently stands. A former President is being prosecuted by the Justice Department of a political rival’s administration. It’s the right thing to do, but it does create a certain precedent that could be disastrous for our democracy. I think Biden saw that, and I think that’s why the Justice Department has waited this long to do anything about it. If his polling numbers were garbage, and he was unlikely to get the Republican nomination, I doubt he’d be getting prosecuted to avoid the appearance of political persecution.

Luckily though, I don’t think Trump is popular enough among independent voters to win the office. Until more polling comes out to tell me otherwise, I don’t think he can beat Biden. He’ll take the Republican primaries in a landslide, but once he needs the independent vote, I doubt he’ll perform nearly as well.

It’ll be a real mess if he catches a conviction too. The man is a walking constitutional crisis.

The first step to understanding the material is exactly just remembering what the teacher told them.