Governor

At the same time, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if China was able to navigate their way through this without getting bogged down. They have entirely different goals. They aren’t trying to reenact the Crusades like we were.

I’m not sure if it was covered in his links but China basically puts these countries into huge debt with these infrastructure projects. When Afghanistan can’t pay, I assume China will take their resources (mining) as payment. What happens then will be interesting to watch.

I would think that China is the main reason we’re leaving. They were coming in regardless and it isn’t smart to get into the middle of that. It should be us building that infrastructure, not China, but as you can see, we’re more interested in the rights of Afghan women in a Muslim country.

Lambda already entered the country through Miami. That’s why people called it the DeSantis variant.

I always knew that voters would choose the most boring candidate ever (Biden) after 4 years of idiocy and chaos (Trump), but it won’t be THAT boring where this would define a presidency.

Your take is correct. You have an increasingly rare skill where you can analyze an issue, remove the noise, and predict how it will play out over time in a country that chases a 24-hour news cycle which consists mostly of manufactured outrage and spin. What may seem really easy for you, is quite difficult for most. One poster even said that this event will define Biden’s presidency, as if we are still living in the 1970’s.

Is this how you treat other retired people? Are you telling your 70 year dad that he’s lazy and hasn’t contributed enough to society? Lol. Do you push little old ladies on the ground, kick them, and say “there’s still a few miles left on this labor unit”? Get movin Grandma! Hustle!

Imagine being Mike Pompeo, thinking that people would actually want you to run for president. These people are nuts. He’s been groomed his entire life for that job but it’s never going to happen. These people just don’t know when to quit.

But didn’t we just send soldiers back to get them? Someone wake me up if that mission fails.

I’m confused as to where you think he’s supposed to be. Is he supposed to be wearing his aviators flying a chopper rescuing people? What is this narrative you’re chasing? I haven’t watched any news so you will have to fill me in.

China isn’t stupid. They won’t get involved in the politics of these nations because they don’t care about civil rights or anything else really. They want to build infrastructure for these countries, mine their minerals, and set up routes to move their products through. They won’t fire a single bullet.

Remember the timeline. I’ll add the politics to it. Bush starts war in Afghanistan. Bush then gets bored with war in Afghanistan because there’s no clear enemy and no clear leader of the enemy. Bush then attacks Iraq. Obama runs on leaving Iraq. Obama then uses Afghanistan as the reason for leaving Iraq. Obama leaves Iraq. Trump runs on leaving Afghanistan. Trump doesn’t follow through and kicks the can down the road with one foot out the door to the next president. Biden mans up and leaves Afghanistan and takes the political hit. I don’t care what the fallout is. It had to happen and I congratulate Joe. Now, if we sent 100k troops back there to try to fix it and they’re still there 2 years from now, I’ll gladly join you in your witch-hunt, but that hasn’t happened yet.

Biden knows that 2 years from now no one is going to care about any of this. Sure, it was stupid plan by Trump, a poison pill, but it still had to be done, and the majority of voters support the decision. Independents are pretty happy right now. Trump set the timeline to when he’d already be gone. That’s a total wuss move. Biden stepped up and got it done anyway and knew it had to be done early in his term, or not at all, politically.

I won’t be here forever to entertain and hold all of your hands. I’ll be tending to my goats.

So he’s right on pace for when his mother passes and leaves whatever that amount is.

What am I taking from you? I don’t believe I need anything from you. I don’t have kids so I don’t need your socialist child tax credit that you recently started receiving. I’m not on welfare. I’ve paid into SS and Medicare. I don’t need any Pell grants. Can you think of anything else? I would just like to see our existing programs improved because I firmly believe that if my neighbor is doing well, I’m doing well. I’m always thinking of others, putting myself in others shoes.

His mother. His biggest problem will be the HC system when he gets old, but that’s a problem for all of us. It’s designed to extract every penny you have before you die. No one actually leaves anything to anyone. Do you know the other trick in NJ? If you have 3 acres you can call your house a farm and that cuts your taxes way down. We plan to do that at some point. I want to get some of those tiny goats and whatever else my gf wants. Most people here have alpacas running around their yard. I want some of those goats to have as pets. It’s pretty ridiculous but everyone else is doing it.

Property tax freeze.

https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/ptr/eligibility.shtml

I think Chef has spending problems. His family cell phone bill is probably $500/month. If a single person that has all their expenses paid can’t live in 35k, we obviously need to raise the minimum wage right?

I wasn’t sure about his SS. So, he’s definitely going to be screwed there at some point. He’s never worked. I’m sure he factored that in. He’s in the same situation I would be in if I take my gf’s family house. The property taxes are fixed because the family owned it for so long. it’s some “senior” law. Our house is just under 2 acres and that’s locked in around 7k. His house is only on 1 acre so it’s less.

I was wondering about his SS but wouldn’t he already be collecting that since he was 13 after his father died? His property tax is a fixed amount.

Well, he has a house that’s paid for and doesn’t squander money like most people do today. I honestly don’t know how much he has left. He doesn’t seem too concerned about it. It looks like he’s going to make it. If my NJ house was paid for, and my property taxes were “grandfathered” in at like 7k a year which I assume his are, I could easily live on 35k a year.

I’m not done with you DeSantis. Just taking a break. Why were some of you saying that NJ was worse than Florida? NJ has 26k deaths and Florida has over 40k. Over 1000 just this past week compared to almost none in NJ. Per capita is a useless metric at this stage of the game. Really, the only numbers we should be looking at now are cases and deaths over the last month, 3 months, and 6 months to gauge which states have a handle on it.

Maybe we can just add propellers to your bootstraps.