I bet there are Conservative morons out there who say “See! Life is good for these people back home, they have cell service after all!”

Not necessarily for good reasons, though. Particularly over the last decade or so.

He doesn’t even have the “just woke up from a 40-year coma” vote sewn up, since there’s a Cuomo running…

The Republican is the Guardian Angels guy from the 80s, he’s probably not relevant outside of Staten Island, and a few old cat ladies.

The Republican in the race is the old Guardian Angels guy from the 70s and 80s. He’s a bit of a clown, has gotten caught in a bunch of lies, and said stupid and sexist shit on the radio. But he hates Donald Trump, and owns a bunch of cats. He seems like an elder statesman when compared against your average MAGAt.

But he doesn’t stand a chance, even with all these people running. Adams beat him last time 2-to-1, and nobody liked Adams in the last election, either.

Isnt Ken Paxton’s wife divorcing him, on “biblical grounds”, as she puts it? Maybe Abbott, Musk, and Paxton are a throuple…

I’m still not convinced that the Daily Beast didn’t get trolled, I havebt seen this anywhere else yet

For those of you who don’t know, Putin literally stole one of the Patriots’ owners SB rings.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-stole-a-super-bowl-ring-from-the-patriots-robert-kraft/

No, I disagree. I know 80 year olds who won the genetic lottery and are still sharp and can operate a car just fine. I know others who probably shouldn’t be on the highway anymore, but they have accepted that and only use their car to get around locally. They know their limits and work within them.

One older person I know is a perfectly safe driver, who used to be an expert navigator, but now once you get him off of his well-known routes he will spend forever looking for “that next turn” and end up driving off in a random direction. His family tries very hard to discourage him from driving alone now.

Yes, younger people mature at different rates, but the decline of older people is much more varied and there is a much larger range of age and abilities to consider. There is no practical way to differentiate solely based on age. Even in states where they periodically retest older drivers, all 3 of the cases I stated above would probably pass. (While a 4th older driver, who is perfectly fine driving by themselves but gets confused while being talked to while driving, would fail because they wouldn’t process the tester’s directions in real time).

It’s a convenient filter to weed out any lawyers in the department with ethics, and replace them with lawyers who will do what the Boss wants, no matter what. They even admit it:

“Any sanctimonious career bureaucrat expressing faux outrage over the President’s policies while sitting idly by during the rank weaponization by the previous administration has no grounds to stand on,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement.

Which is Trumpspeak for “We want anyone with an independant code of ethics gone”…

Well, yeah, he wants to award all the contracts to companies him and his cronies control…

He can do whatever the fuck he wants, as long as half of Congress permits him to do so by not impeaching him.

I’m not. The next phase of Trumpism won’t need votes from citizens, only from Congress…

He doesn’t care, if he stays in power past Jan 2029 he won’t need votes to do it…

Of course not. You only get the refund if you “behave”, and we’ve already established that this Administration thinks any foreigner who can’t afford 5 million dollars is a criminal…

The Gold Card is a residency permit, so unless rules change again Gold Card holders wouldn’t need visas so wouldn’t have to pay the new fee.

And I don’t think it’s that we want only rich tourists. It’s that we are treating all foreigners as criminals. If you think of it more like “every foreigner belongs in jail, but you can pay bail to get out” it makes more sense. You only get your “bail” refunded if you “behave”…

His early career arc is kind of bonkers. He was one of only a small handful of black law students at Yale, and graduated with honors. But he had trouble finding a job after graduation, because the racist mid-70’s law partners thought he only got his law degree because of affirmative action. He ended up blaming Yale for giving him a worthless degree, when he wouldn’t have gotten into Yale at all, no matter how talented he was, if it weren’t for affirmative action.

If he had blamed the systemic racism in the profession instead, we might have had a very different Clarence Thomas.

He did all that, we all found out about it, and we still re-elected him…

Not as a whole, but the margins were so thin in some states that Trump won that if Harris didn’t lose that small percentage of Black voters, she might have swung enough states to win the election.

What’s really heartbreaking is that when these veterans, who took bullets for us, get told by our country that they need to leave, they just say “Yup, I guess I gotta leave”, and don’t make a huge deal about it. Donald Trump whines, in an extremely public matter, whenever he doesn’t get his way, and these people just continue to do what their country asks them to, even when the country tells them to leave.

Life just isn’t fair.

… then later he will complain about all these things that he wil claim he didn’t see coming. Maybe we should call Elon’s new party the Not-See’s…