3 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Ok racist/sexist

9 minutes ago, MidMoFo said:

I wonder if a business person like say… Jeff Bezos anticipates increased revenue with things like high speed internet access to rural areas for streaming services and roads for items to be delivered upon… 

There would be a "ROI” if any leader had the cajonas to close some tax loopholes.

Do you have any idea how much it would cost per person to build high speed internet cables for rural America? This is a BIG country. Once you get out to rural areas you can have miles between each household. There's no economy of scale.

1 minute ago, VanHammersly said:

I actually did like the pick, but not for the future of the party, I just liked it as a nice contrast with Biden that targets a demo he needed to shore up in the woke crowd.  But yeah, she wouldn't stand a chance against Trump and thankfully, she won't get that chance because she'd never make it out of the primary.

I think Susan Rice would have done that and been less annoying. For some reason they were worried about the Bengazi thing. 

1 minute ago, TEW said:

Do you have any idea how much it would cost per person to build high speed internet cables for rural America? This is a BIG country. Once you get out to rural areas you can have miles between each household. There's no economy of scale.

Will see if Star Link can fill that void. 

2 minutes ago, Gannan said:

I think Susan Rice would have done that and been less annoying. For some reason they were worried about the Bengazi thing. 

there was the kamala/beau friendship as well. 

1 minute ago, mr_hunt said:

there was the kamala/beau friendship as well. 

Forgot about that. She just doesn't come off well when she speaks. She was annoying in those debates and has been more annoying as Veep. I'm not sure why but she kind of reminds me of the show...

21 minutes ago, TEW said:

Do you have any idea how much it would cost per person to build high speed internet cables for rural America? This is a BIG country. Once you get out to rural areas you can have miles between each household. There's no economy of scale.

Yes, I live out in the sticks. Fortunately I have a decent ISP available to me, but I don’t have to go very far to find people who don’t.

14 minutes ago, Gannan said:

I think Susan Rice would have done that and been less annoying. For some reason they were worried about the Bengazi thing. 

Fox News et al got millions in ad revenue and Republicans whipped up their base over years of Benghazi fishing expeditions.

Most STILL think Hillary engineered the whole thing just for kicks.

 

54 minutes ago, TEW said:

Do you have any idea how much it would cost per person to build high speed internet cables for rural America? This is a BIG country. Once you get out to rural areas you can have miles between each household. There's no economy of scale.

 

Sounds like it might create an awful lot of jobs (and corporate revenue)...

3 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

Sounds like it might create an awful lot of jobs (and corporate revenue)...

And debt with negative roi…

6 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

And debt with negative roi…

There are wireless options that transmit by digital radio signal and satellite for even less densely populated areas.

We don’t have to hang or bury cable everywhere.

1 hour ago, Gannan said:

Forgot about that. She just doesn't come off well when she speaks. She was annoying in those debates and has been more annoying as Veep. I'm not sure why but she kind of reminds me of the show...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, much like Lori Loughlin got way more attractive with age.

49 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

 

First of all, Rufo is a hack.

Second of all, Garland doesn't run the FBI.

Third, there are death threats being levied against school board members (AND THEIR FAMILIES) across the country, and your major concern is that law enforcement is being asked to assess and substantiate these threats in an attempt to identify if some whacko actually might follow through on a threat? Are you freaking serious? 

I know school boards are where whackadoo Trumplicans are looking to make the front line of their war against all things "not Trumpy enough," but law enforcement has every goddamn right to verify and substantiate threats made against citizens. 

Tell me - what precisely is wrong with this email? 

A "threat tag" is literally just a tag on an incident in a database. That's it. It's used to organize the data. Data that they then use to inform how they approach the issue. If there are no threats discovered, the tag won't be used. If there are, they can help to identify potential areas where credible threats are more common. 

This is literally Rufo's "smoking gun". 

That you fall for this ish is hilarious.

1 hour ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

Sounds like it might create an awful lot of jobs (and corporate revenue)...

Sure. That doesn’t mean there is an ROI.

While it's true that there isn't a ROI other than maybe some bridge won't collapse killing people. If such a thing were to happen, even though neglected infrastructure lies solely at the feet of the bungling states, the usual suspects would be in this forum crowing "How could president pop pop allow this to happen!!!!11!!!!!!1?!?!?!?"

34 minutes ago, TEW said:

Sure. That doesn’t mean there is an ROI.

Its the soviet union central planning system. Make stuff no one needs but hey jobs!!

21 minutes ago, Gannan said:

While it's true that there isn't a ROI other than maybe some bridge won't collapse killing people. If such a thing were to happen, even though neglected infrastructure lies solely at the feet of the bungling states, the usual suspects would be in this forum crowing "How could president pop pop allow this to happen!!!!11!!!!!!1?!?!?!?"

Welcome to leadership. The buck stops on your desk even if it didnt start there.

The transcontinental railroad, Hoover dam, and interstate highway system have "no ROI"?

I think a chunk of this money should go to fighting NIMBYism and other local impediments to meaningful infrastructure development. For sure it's harder to stretch the infrastructure dollar now than it was when you could run asphalt over the poors.

But declaring "no ROI" out of the gate is overstating.

Unless you mean "no political ROI", in which case I agree that the infrastructure deal isn't going to be on voters' minds Nov 2022.

1 hour ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

First of all, Rufo is a hack.

Second of all, Garland doesn't run the FBI.

 

First of all, Republican lawmakers are making the charge, not Rufo, and the whistleblower is actually named, not some bogus anonymous source.

Second of all, the FBI is part of the DOJ, which Garland runs, so yes he F’ing does.

 

 

 

US delivers 80 tons of ammunition to Ukraine; 4th such delivery since Biden directed additional security assistance in August

 

4 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

US delivers 80 tons of ammunition to Ukraine; 4th such delivery since Biden directed additional security assistance in August

 

Meh. Afghanistan was left with better