50 BILLION!? Like with a “B”? The highest end 24 port switch and router is around $500 and $300 respectively. Let’s just round that up to $1000 each to make it wven more expensive. Plus $1000 to do the install work for those two devices (which would be highway robbery). Let’s say every single airport needs 100 each of these switch and router sets, which is also a ridiculous number. That is $200,000 per airport of were are overstocking and overpaying for routers and switches. For $1 Billion, then, you could fully supply and install 100 sets of brand new switches and routers to 5000 airports. There are only 3287 airports under the FAA’s National Plan flof Integrate Airport Systems. So let’s say the other 1713 airports worth is used in military airports, even though that is outside the FAA preview. So… where is the other $49 Billion going!?

That is such a ridiculously huge unrealistic number. There is no way that, if granted, this will just be used to line the pockets of some Billionaire donor(s) or friend of Duffy and/or Trump.

NOTE: My wife, who supplies technology needs to law firms for a living said that she might actually estimate the cost to upgrade routers and switches per airport at 500,000 each due to square footage. And maybe double that if they’re upgrading dedicated internet circuits too. So her absolutely highest dollar is $1 million per airport. That’s still only $3.3 billion. $46.7 billion still unaccounted for.

Oh it’s going to be a spectacle alright. 👀 🍿

“What really just hits me hard,” she said, continuing, “is when i’m in the grocery store, and I see his hot sauce, I want to buy it.”

Audible eye roll

Of course he’s totally devoted to him. He isn’t stupid. He knows full well that everyone knows he’s a nazi fuck and absolutely nobody but a vindictive idiot cunt like Trump would ever give him enough power to decide so much as a lunch menu. He also knows full well that this is it. He’s attached to a highly unpopular lame duck president who triggered the biggest political wave in 50 years against his party. Clock’s ticking before he loses every bit of power he’ll every have.

He’ll play the deluded sycophant on tv to appease his boss, but he’s not. He’s an opportunist that is taking advantage of a temporarily powerful egotistical man who is highly susceptible to flattery and personal loyalty to exercise every ounce of his fascist agenda he can.

Things are about to ramp up in the Trump White house. If this new congress does their jobs, they’re about to be very busy fighting back against Miller’s agenda items. If they don’t do their jobs, it’s about to get far far worse in the US before Trump’s time runs out.

So we’re full-on in the Kim Jung Un-style masturbatory lies without even resembling reality stage? Fun.

He learned his lesson though.

Golly sir, don’t get too upset. Your heart might explode! That would be t-t-t-TERRIBLE!!!

It’s the “Where is Thumpkin” song. It’s to the tune of Frère Jacques, and you go through each finger holding them up and calling out “Where is [finger name]? (x2) Here I am. (x2, revealing a finger each time) How are you today, sir? Very well, I thank you. Run away. (x2, hiding a finger each time)”. The finger names, in order, are Thumpkin, Pointer, Tall Man, Ring Man, and Pinky.

Do you not know what a “veto” is?

Not shocked

1. The dems that were intentionally trying to confused Republican voters were scummy.
2. The Republicans are half mad at the audacity (and because they think their electorate is stupid enough that it might work), and half mad that they didn’t think of it first.
3. There is no way in hell that anyone with any amount of sense will actually be confused by the ballot come election day. The incumbent is very clearly marked as such and they have had a long time to get the message out to look out for the similar names. It is no secret.
4. Trump can and will do anything at all to make sure that the will of the people is the last thing considered when it comes to elections. This is a somewhat easier fight due to the Dem’s deliberate intent, but this will not be the only point of suit you will see over the next few months before the new congress is sworn in.
5. Also, you simply cannot bar someone from running for having a similar name to another candidate or invalidate the election results only if you lose. That is asinine.

I just keep stamping it. I think I’ve punched a hole through.

Too much reading. Have your seen those menus?!

I did. It was a quick read. You said unlike janitors, twitch streamers are known for often being narcissists… But please tell me what other nugget of wisdom I missed.

So you are using “twitch streamer” as shorthand for “narcissist” then? So stack on a weird prejudice and stereotyping to your elitism. And everything else I said still stands. Even if we granted your prejudice, “since when did narcissism in politics ever effect anyone, right? Who gives a shit about narcissists?” … 🤨

Like I don’t have any particular interest, love or hate for Piker. I haven’t ever watched more than a few clips of him. But he does matter, both as a person and a political influencer. And your question is bullshit elitism. Saying “Why does anyone give a shit about [blank]?” and then filling that blank with any type of person you find frivolous, not for the content of their character or their opinions voiced, but for something like their chosen job or hobby, is fucking dumb. Particularly in relation to a politically active person in what is ostensibly a democracy. Everyone matters in a democracy. That is the actual point.

You may as well have said, “Why does anyone give a shit about a janitor?” Well if that janitor has a lot of political influence, good or bad, you should give a shit. What the fuck does it matter if he is a janitor, a twitch streamer, or any other role? If they are talking and people are listening and it is effecting people’s political insights and mindset and vote, it doesn’t matter what they do for work or how they got their audience. It matters that others are listening. And it also matters that he is the object of political ire from his ideological opponents. No matter how dumb any of it is, these things have real tangible effects on our world. You don’t have to pay him any mind or grant his opinions any credence or like him or hate him or feel anything at all about him to acknowledge that he objectively does matter to the political sphere.

A decade ago, people where dismissive of Trump because he was (and is) a fucking caricature of a wealthy womanizing narcissist with a big mouth. “Who gives a shit about some rich real-estate playboy?”, one might have asked. But his big mouth runs and millions of voters eat up every word. Do you think Trump’s bullshit matters now?

He’ll guarantee it, right?

Best case scenario, business school is a way to check a box for a degree that some company still requires if you aren’t related to an executive, and get the slightest bit of networking establishment. If you are lucky, you might learn how to properly do some bookkeeping if you want to start your own business. Beyond that, the shit is so trivial and obvious that every dime wasted on it should set you back from your business career for making such an unprofitable decision.

And dudes who barely passed, failed, or dropped out of business school despite how unrigorous it is still end up millionaires often enough because business doesn’t reward intelligence and hardwork, despite the bootstrap narratives all the wealthy “geniuses” play up. It rewards callousness, ambition, manipulation, and a ton of luck.

There would be, maybe, 4 business professors then.

Frankly, taking advice from Stupid is a step up from taking advice from Evil. Natalie Harp over Stephen Miller any day.