President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I see the emails all the time, if things are so dire - you'd expect the Dem candidates to be cranking up their campaigns early. But they aren't. Engagement is low. Nobody is knocking on doors, making phone calls etc. Out this way, we have three Dems making their first congressional runs, and only one seems to be campaigning hard.

Oh - they're funding MAGA candidates to help their "The Other Side is Worse" campaign....I'll send my political donations elsewhere. The party is devoid of ideas.

 

Mine go to a “promotions” folder. Unfortunately, the magic algorithm also sends my church newsletter there, so once a week I have to fish it out of the sewer. Even scrolling past the subject lines is depressing as hell. I keep expecting Sarah McLachlan to start playing through my speakers.

 

I said nothing about income taxes. I was referring to property taxes. Sorry for the confusion. Case of the Mondays.

I was on the board of a non-profit that runs an old cemetery. It entailed begging for donations and helping mow and weedeat. Relatives of people buried there would get pissed about the condition of the grounds, but they never wanted to write a check to prevent crabgrass from growing on their great-grandmother's gravesite. Or to hire an arborist to take down an 80-foot oak that was dropping limbs and breaking headstones.

 

I believe that 30%, plus another 15% who were one-issue anti-abortion voters, eked Trump into the White House in 2016 (this minority of voters was sprinkled across just the right mix of Electoral College states).

Now that the pro-lifers got the Taliban Supreme Court that they wanted, their motive to hold their nose and support Trump is gone. At least I hope so.

 

Don't know how universal this was/is, but there was a time (back before major credit cards became so ubiquitous) that small-town main streets were dotted with mom-and-pop finance stores. Most of these in my neck o' the woods were backed financially by one or more cemeteries, which had perpetual care money that needed investing.

 

As I said, I worded it poorly.

But no city or county government wants to be in the position of foreclosing on a cemetery over non-payment of taxes, which likely spurs them to give tax breaks to the owners.

 

Click reply and send on that church newsletter and that should do the trick.

 

I hope DeSantis is the choice, but it's the hateful left that divides the country when their preferred candidate loses.

 

How did the hateful left let it come to this?

 

Ignore the hit-and-run troll.