I agree with this. Desantis might be worse policy-wise, but we can survive that.
Yup.
Yes!
Uh-huh.
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Points to all the efforts DeSantis has done to overturn any efforts to keep him in check, from refusing to sign any budget that didn’t meet his desires line by line, having legislation re-written for his whims including the laws about running for federal office while retaining power, firing elected government officials who disagree with him, and on and on and on.
Permit me to doubt any real possibility that he wouldn’t, especially if (R) holds both the House and Senate. He’d probably try for a better figleaf than Trump, granted, but he’d absolutely refuse to leave unless forced to.
Yeah, i have absolutely no faith that DeSantis would peacefully hand over the reins at the end of his term.
Riker with a beard is a no-brainer. Hell, it’s an actual trope for a show finding its groove and getting better!
I wouldn’t be reflexively against hiring someone vastly-overqualified for a job, but I’d want to confidentially ask why he or she was applying in the first place. Burnout in a previous job? A desire for a major career shift? A passionate yearning for 24/7 access to french fries? There’s gotta be some reason, and that could be a factor in my decision.
You only have two choices. One you have a lack of faith he wouldn’t do the unthinkable. The other you have absolute proof he would.
Regarding the options when I’ve locked myself out of my car, I can say I have 1) used a spare key hidden under the bumper (1970s), 2) called AAA (several times), and 3) called my wife to bring me a key.* These days, I don’t think my car will let me lock it if the key is inside. If I ever did, my phone app can unlock the doors.
*mine was in my carryon bag on a flight, they made me check it, it disappeared. I arrived at the airport with no key. We live 90 minutes from the airport.
I’m pretty sure there was at least once when I locked myself out of my car and walked to someone else with a key—which (unless I missed it) wasn’t one of the choices, so that was my “something else.”
All my instances of locking myself out of my car were when I was much younger. Then I wised up and started carrying a spare key in my wallet, which I don’t think I’ve ever actually needed to use.
I kept a spare key in my wallet back when car keys were flat and didn’t contain any electronics, and had to use it several times. But I haven’t locked myself out of my car ever since I got my first car with remote locks, because I always lock it with the remote rather than the button inside the car.
In my youth I always kept a spare key taped to the inside of a hubcap. Once I started driving Jeep Wrangler soft-tops I could just futz with the Velcro and get into my car.
ETA: actually, I never lock my Wranglers, since anyone wanting in could slice my top and be in.
I locked myself out of the house once, but at the time we had a spare in the main office of the manufactured home park where I live. That was before they changed ownership from my extended family to a national chain. Then they gave me back the key. My husband, who is very risk adverse, didn’t want me to keep a spare key somewhere on our property. This prompted me to insist we get electronic locks with a keypad, which we did. I still keep the key on me in case the locks fail but it significantly reduces the odds I get locked out in the middle of winter.
I picked DeSantis. Don’t know a thing about him (well, I do know that he’s a him), but I do know about Trump.
The one time I do remember locking my keys in the car (with the vehicle running, of course), I called the local police. They came almost immediately and spent about three minutes opening the door.
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I called my wife and asked her to come unlock it for me, but while I was waiting for her a cop drove by so I flagged him down. Took him about five minutes.
Once I locked myself outside of our house, but didn’t have long to wait before my wife showed up and let us both in.
I locked myself out of my Saturn at least once, and used the flat wallet-key the company provided to let myself back in.
My ditzy aunt once called the police, frantic on a hot summer day because she’d locked her baby inside the car. A cop showed up, looked over the car, walked around to the other side… and opened the unlocked door!
So glad to hear I’m not the only one who’s done this! I was on a smoke break & had gone out to the car to listen to music. The night was cold, so I’d turned it on for the heat, and… Luckily, my husband was home and we didn’t live far.
I once locked my finger in the car door. I was carrying a toddler in the other arm, so I had to get my five-year-old to fish the keys out of my purse and unlock it for me. Ouch.
About the GOP debate poll…
I became interested in Vivek Ramaswamy’s candidacy when I heard how his polling had been improving rapidly (not cuz I wanted to vote Republican, just out of curiosity).
Then I saw his interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and learned what a smug jackass he is.
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My husband’s mother once called us in distress because she believed she’d locked herself in the car.
They really ought to standardize how one gets the door open. I’ve occasionally flailed around a bit trying to figure it out.
– I picked Christie; but a couple of the others I don’t actually know enough about to have much of an opinon on. A ten-minute look at the debate lineup last night left me thinking Christie might be the best of a bad mess, though.
Supposedly my car won’t lock the doors if my car is turned off and my key is inside the car. I’ve never tested it though.