K-12 is pretty middle of the road, their higher education usually ranks pretty high I assume because many people want to go away for university, and for a long time Florida was known to be a nice place with beaches, warm weather, and vacation spots.

So sites like this will still rank them high, but really I think it’s about cost and graduation percentages rather than quality. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/higher-education

I hadn’t seen him outside of like a photo after his “re-appearence” or whatever. My spouse showed me a video short of him yesterday with a journalist asking him what his thoughts are about the Republicans losing so many seats and how it will effect Trumps actions in the upcoming years. Mitch couldn’t nod, shake his head, or open his mouth. I don’t think he could even comprehend someone was asking him a question or where he was.

People are essentially pushing around a meat sack to subvert the Republic all the while abusing the hell out of this elderly person.

I would think his constituents would be demanding to know who is acting as their rep, because it isn’t Mitch, and they weren’t elected.

What are you thinking it will take votes wise to make for a government shutdown by December 11th?

Yeah I think impeachment gets dicey around what could qualify or not. Their actions don’t actually have to be criminal. What falls under harmful to the public trust becomes more of an opinion than a set rule. Like, does taking money for your campaigns from donors tied to supportimg our country starting wars across an ocean with people that in no way benefits the public? Someone could probably make that argument, that saying we should continue sending missiles to a country that has been continuously proven to use them to kill children/innocents/and needed infrastructure for humanity to survive… I would say is harmful to the public trust… But I’m sure others wouldn’t.

The comical thing is that 49 states have written laws pertaining to automatically doing a recount if the numbers are this close. Kind of like Florida did in 2000. Mississippi is that 1 of 50 states that does not have one.

So without proven fraud, I can’t see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them

Hopefully 100+ new people trying to join congress in 2028

Yeah if you look at 2000 in particular Bush “won” by .01%.

If you are familiar with that election that is when Al Gore won the popular vote in the U.S., a recall was called in Florida twice and conspiracies surround how Bush’s own brother was the Governir of Florida.

Basically first count said Bush won by 1784 votes ~.009%. That triggered and automatic recount by the machines. Which came back saying he actually only won by 327 votes, meaning the room for error was wider than the election. His brother helped stall a manual recount, they sent it to the Supreme Court and the U.S. supreme court decided it didn’t matter because hand counting them would take time and awarded all 25 elector votes to Bush, making him President of an election he had not one neither the population, nor possibly the electors… But we’ll never know.

Florida has gone to the right in the last 10 years but before that they always swung back and forth.

Like if you look at who Florida voted for, it was pretty much who won president except the Trump 2020 election.

Election Year Winning Candidate Party Margin of Victory

1960 John F. Kennedy D -0.2%

1964 Lyndon B. Johnson D +27.0%

1968 Richard Nixon R +5.0%

1972 Richard Nixon R +27.0%

1976 Jimmy Carter D +1.9%

1980 Ronald Reagan R +10.0%

1984 Ronald Reagan R +20.0%

1988 George H.W. Bush R +10.0%

1992 Bill Clinton D +2.0%

1996 Bill Clinton D +5.0%

2000 George W. Bush R +0.01%

2004 George W. Bush R +5.0%

2008 Barack Obama D +2.8%

2012 Barack Obama D +0.9%

2016 Donald Trump R +1.2%

2020 Donald Trump R +3.4%

2024 Donald Trump R +13.1%

They were saying Kansas’s was like 1930-1939 or some shit, yet they appear to have actually put one in according to the numbers out so far. Crazy to think 2 World Wars, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq (multiple times), (should mention all the South America shit but the list is getting to long) never considered a change but now something has sparked some kind of change for them

I’m over here wondering how Mississippi is so close

I think the real answer is that anyone who cares about the climate already isn’t voting for Republicans. That vote is already secured, so why waste resources saying something that may just piss people off by not calling for extreme enough changes or whatever else. 0% of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 give a fuck about the environment. Those are the people they are trying to convince to not vote for a Republican again, even if it’s just to get them to not vote because they sow doubt about how he’s starting wars/raising costs and whatever else they think Republicans would care about.

I thought it was comical that someone pointed out Alaska is a ranked choice state. So if you have a ballot that says

1. Charlie (R-Incumbent)
2. Charlie (I)
3. George (D)

If 10% don’t know what the R or the incumbent mean… Then they pick both Charlie’s and George last the incumbent isn’t hurt by it… Still is considered to be voted for before George

He openly had communications with dignataries and leaders of other countries about how the U.S. should be changed and tried to enact such while not having permission to do so. It’s hard to not find this illegally immigrated now American guilty of several crimes. If he was worth 32 million he’d be in prison and possibly sentenced to death for treason.

It’s stupid, but what would even be the chargeed with.

This is what I think happened last time: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/frank-artiles-ileana-garcia-florida-election-b1820020.html

No one can bring any criminal charges against Trump, these news stories are aimed at trying to remind people about the blatant corruption and terrible acts he has performed trying to get people to not vote in representatives who will further support him.

If y’all are going to do all that can we at least compost them after so something good can come out of it?

Here I wish they would sentence every member in Florida and U.S. congress to prison who read the report on Matt Gaetz traffickimg and raping a minor to prison for 20 years no parole. Every one of them is an accessory to raping a child at this point. If any of them voted to support the death penalty those ones should get it.

All of their families should be ashamed of their names for generations.

(Oh and for the record, it was read in U.S. congress, so all of them live in the district of the death penalty, they are the ones who didn’t vote it out… They should hope they had the chance to do so, or proposed to get rid of it)

No a pardon doesn’t have to do with guilt. Guilt is depicted by a judge/jury or by taking a plea deal. A pardon can occur before charges are even filed, and one cannot be declared guilty until a conviction is made… Which would never come to be.

So legally yes, that’s exactly how it works. If Trump pardons Kushner for using U.S. funds and negotiating on behalf of the U.S. like Kushners lawyer recognized he was the signatory on an account holding $770 million dollars but did not make any decisions without Trump approval.

No charges have yet been brought against him. If said pardon goes through it doesnt mean he actually did anything wrong… it means he won’t have to appear in a federal court and explain where/when he turned over access to those accounts when Trump left office(he likely never did)

But in the U.S. you are innocent until proven guilty, and in such a case… He wasn’t proven guilty.

Yeah I mean I believe that pardons shouldn’t really exist within the executive branch. If they are necessary I feel the process would be better if the executive branch had to send names and crimes you intend to congress with a period of say 60 days to review, a hearing date is set before congress and at the end of that 60 days the executive branch sends their members to present their “case” before congress of why they are special cases and the law shouldn’t just be updated for every individual who performs these acts, past/present/future. Then if 60% of congress votes for it it goes through, or if they vote for a 60 day extension to bring any new information brought during the executive branches testimony to their constituents to see if they need to change their stance.

So effectively that would make it so congress and the executive branch have to be in agreement to overall a finding by the judicial branch. It also should prompt a review of the laws that they had broken to make sure they are brought up to date to ensure future cases aren’t need to be heard.

I don’t agree with that necessarily when people cheer to lock someone up without a cause. Like if a president came forward and pardoned say all the people who have immigrated to this country for any previous issues while filing out immigration paperwork, such as typos name changes, and so on then it isn’t directly to cover for guilt, but rather to protect a group of people from harassment.

Edit then you can institute a review process and further assistance while submitting such paperwork in the future and it could mitigate witch hunts and mistreatment of people