2024 Field

ESP47 said:
Any candidate you've heard of through the media is a candidate that is not for the people. They purposely present us with candidates that do not give a rats @$$ about the American people.

We all know this, yet we continue to vote them into office and allow them to take advantage of us.

Hoping we will one day learn from our mistakes before my time is up.
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Do you think that is true for the citizens of Florida over the last few years?
 
ESP47 said:
Any candidate you've heard of through the media is a candidate that is not for the people. They purposely present us with candidates that do not give a rats @$$ about the American people.

We all know this, yet we continue to vote them into office and allow them to take advantage of us.

Hoping we will one day learn from our mistakes before my time is up.
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The ones pushed by the party apparatus before the end result is inevitable is not a direction the people want to go in and all the polling trends are showing that.
 
sturg33 said:
Do you think that is true for the citizens of Florida over the last few years?
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Desantis has been a great governor but I think you need to understand that the upward trajectory of Florida has been in place for decades.
 
thethe said:
Desantis has been a great governor but I think you need to understand that the upward trajectory of Florida has been in place for decades.
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Maybe but then covid happened and then the woke commie bull**** got out of control and as far as I can tell he handled both better than anyone
 
sturg33 said:
Maybe but then covid happened and then the woke commie bull**** got out of control and as far as I can tell he handled both better than anyone
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There were a few good actors during that time but desantis was certainly one of them (eventually).

He also had some unique benefits geographically that helped the response success rate.
 
thethe said:
There were a few good actors during that time but desantis was certainly one of them (eventually).

He also had some unique benefits geographically that helped the response success rate.
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I figured it was being Montell Williams known side chick
 
The GOP continues to be in free fall.

Why would anyone donate money to them? It's all going into Trump's pocket.
 
He called infrastructure money “the worst of Washington DC” but like so many other republicans, are using it to boost their state/nat’l profile



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“Under Governor …DeSantis’ leadership,

Florida is expanding broadband internet…”



President Joe Biden on Monday announced how $42.5 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law he championed will be distributed to expand high-speed internet access across the country.

The funding will go to all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories, and is aimed at bolstering internet access particularly for the 7% of people who live in underserved areas, according to the White House, which said all residents and small business could be connected to "reliable, affordable high-speed internet by 2030."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bid...igh-speed-internet-pitches/story?id=100380154
 
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Tapate50 said:
I’ve never been so confident in my candidate preferences than when 57 tries to drag them
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https://reason.com/2023/07/03/do-d-c-and-rhode-island-really-need-200-million-for-broadband-access/

At this point, more than 90 percent of American households already have net connections with speeds at least four times faster than BEAD's definition of "high-speed internet." Yet the legislation that established BEAD requires each state, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, to receive a minimum of $100 million regardless of need or population.

As a result, states (especially small states) with more broadband access will tend to receive more funding per capita than states with millions of unserved residents.

For example, 99.8 percent of Rhode Island residents have broadband access, according to BroadbandNow, which got its results by combining data from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and private telecommunications companies. The state, which has a population of just over a million, still received more than $108 million in BEAD funds. That equates to over $49,000 per unserved Rhode Islander.

Similarly, the District of Columbia, with a population of under 700,000, has 99.5 percent broadband coverage yet received over $100 million. That's more than $30,000 per unserved D.C. resident.

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Not the kind of “win” I’d go around celebrating.
 
Yet DeSantis, Tuberville etal find room for praise ?

30M citizens brought technogicly into the 21st century is probably worthy " celebration"

Let it not be lost the targeted demographic appears to be rural (R)
 
acesfull86 said:
https://reason.com/2023/07/03/do-d-c-and-rhode-island-really-need-200-million-for-broadband-access/

At this point, more than 90 percent of American households already have net connections with speeds at least four times faster than BEAD's definition of "high-speed internet." Yet the legislation that established BEAD requires each state, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, to receive a minimum of $100 million regardless of need or population.

As a result, states (especially small states) with more broadband access will tend to receive more funding per capita than states with millions of unserved residents.

For example, 99.8 percent of Rhode Island residents have broadband access, according to BroadbandNow, which got its results by combining data from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and private telecommunications companies. The state, which has a population of just over a million, still received more than $108 million in BEAD funds. That equates to over $49,000 per unserved Rhode Islander.

Similarly, the District of Columbia, with a population of under 700,000, has 99.5 percent broadband coverage yet received over $100 million. That's more than $30,000 per unserved D.C. resident.

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Not the kind of “win” I’d go around celebrating.
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Is that surprising in a political system where tiny states like Delaware and Rhode Island have two senators. Seems inevitable to me that those states will be able to leverage their disproportionate representation to get a disproportionate share of the goodies.

Politics tends to me messy. Because of the narrow division of the senate Joe Manchin has effectively been the gatekeeper for the past few years. So if you want to do something to reduce carbon emissions you have to have a Joe Manchin workaround. It might not be transparent and elegant. It might have some pork for West Virginia. That's politics. Let me know when a better system is discovered.
 
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sturg33 said:
Do you think that is true for the citizens of Florida over the last few years?
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I like what he did with covid and some of the other things he's done but he's corporate backed like the rest of them. You'll get some good from him and you'll get a lot of bad. Lesser of the evils IMO but will still do things that make us scratch our heads if he's president. All of these people are corporate backed, which is why you've heard of them. If they're corporate backed, that means they're going to pander for votes and dangle the carrot while pushing policy that favors big business over the people the majority of the time.

He does get a lot of respect for pulling his head out of his rear early on and opening his state up when everyone else was closed. Took balls of steel to step out on his own like that and he turned out to be the only one that was right. He was so right in fact, that the Biden administration took away his covid treatments for "equity" because they claimed Florida was hogging all the treatments. The same treatment that doctors in other states weren't allowed to use because they all had to toe the "vaccine only" line. On that merit alone I would vote for him but it's still a lesser of the two evils type of vote.
 
ESP47 said:
I like what he did with covid and some of the other things he's done but he's corporate backed like the rest of them. You'll get some good from him and you'll get a lot of bad. Lesser of the evils IMO but will still do things that make us scratch our heads if he's president. All of these people are corporate backed, which is why you've heard of them. If they're corporate backed, that means they're going to pander for votes and dangle the carrot while pushing policy that favors big business over the people the majority of the time.

He does get a lot of respect for pulling his head out of his rear early on and opening his state up when everyone else was closed. Took balls of steel to step out on his own like that and he turned out to be the only one that was right. He was so right in fact, that the Biden administration took away his covid treatments for "equity" because they claimed Florida was hogging all the treatments. The same treatment that doctors in other states weren't allowed to use because they all had to toe the "vaccine only" line. On that merit alone I would vote for him but it's still a lesser of the two evils type of vote.
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This is why I have so much more hope in him than previous rising GOPers... in the face of a relentless psyop against Americans, he stood against it and took relentless criticism from the system while doing so.

That's not corporate bought, if you ask me
 
Personally I think it’s a shame that the loser traditional GOPers ruined Desantis career. They did this not because they thought desantis was the right choice or even had a chance (spoiler: They knew he had no chance), they did it because their existence depends on trump not serving as president for another four years and continuing to open the eyes of the people to how evil the traditional GOP was.
 
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