OT Why Never Trumpers Should Bet on DeSantis Now

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  1. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Sure, there are. The problem is we need new blood. New ideas. When it's the same people for forty years, it's the same policies and ideas. There is no change and little progression. Times are changing. We need representatives that reflect that.

    There are people who have been in office since before I was born. People are staying in office for fifty years till they die in their eighties or nineties. It's like...retire and enjoy yourself a bit while you can. Let someone else come in.

    They have some pretty amazing retirement packages after leaving office. Lifetime pension and healthcare. Why don't they use them. I guess they are just addicted to the power. Not a good thing.
     
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  2. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Welcome to the Pelosi & McConnell show.
     
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  3. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Yeah, two examples of people who should have long since retired. The dude from Alaska was in office even longer or just as long and died in his eighties, still I'm office.
     
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    I also go back and forth. I mean, what if constituents really like their representative?
     
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  5. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Then said representative should be prepared to mentor a suitable replacement.
     
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  6. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    What we need is better voters.

    The ones we have now are fucking idiots.

    barfo
     
  7. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    What gave you that idea?
    I said I wanted to vote for whoever I wanted provided they were otherwise qualified.
     
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    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    Everyone, quick, go buy an AR!
     
  9. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Why can't someone who is under 35 be qualified
     
  10. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    You are pretty much guaranteed to be mature by then if you can be.

    It's interesting cause 35 was like 50 back then.
     
  11. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I don't know but my gut tells me that's a good qualifying factor. I know the brain and psyche aren't fully developed until someone is 25. Also, I suppose a person needs some mature experience to do a good job as President.
     
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    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    Just throwing this out there, but Al Capone was a fairly effective leader at 20 until he was arrested at 27...
     
  13. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Joe Biden just replaced an Al Capone type President and I don't want another.
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Just say Ron DeSantis....

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    DeSantis. The man who won't say Nazis are bad.
     
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    calvin natt Confeve

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    Hey I’m sure there were good people on both sides during the holocaust
     
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  17. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    He's gotta be a nazi then. He's just gotta.
     
  18. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    It's not hard to denounce something happening in the state you are the governor of.
     
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    calvin natt Confeve

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    If you can’t denounce a Nazi then yes I will consider you a Nazi. If you can’t denounce the KKK you might as well be KKK. And so on. If you don’t stand up to it, you are one of them. It’s simple really.
     
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    One wouldn't think so. ABM seems fine with him not denouncing Nazis. I'd be pretty pissed if a candidate I loved wouldn't denounce hate groups, but some have principles, others just want to take away some people's rights.
     
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