So, you've got nobody. It's ok. Be straight and to the point next time....

The real question is, who do you have that is better? It is NOT Joe Biden. That man has been nothing short of a disaster.

Kamala? Hahahahahaaahahghgahahahahahahaha!

Is there a different Democrat anywhere? Biden/Harris had their 4 years in the sun and they are well on their way to bankrupting the country.

Then you have Nikki Haley and she just seems like another conniving asshole to me. You could call her a liberal tomorrow and I'd believe you.

There's RFK Jr. I like some of the things he has to say and he probably wouldn't have the slow ramp up that candidates outside of politics have.

Gabbard? Smart but a bit too new.

Vivek? Also smart but brand spanking new.

I think this election is going to be less about Joe and Donald and a lot more about the farm team they develop in the next 4 years.

The good news for Republicans is that they're already on the ground doing it and Senile Joe is the face of the Democrat party.

And I am tired of the liberals that continue to defend "Roomba" Joe Biden as being competent. He's not and has not been for quite some time.

Seriously, AI cannot perform miracles you know....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago

During the 1920s Florida land boom, Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereals business and then the wealthiest woman in the United States,[10][11] paid for the house to be built with her husband Edward F. Hutton. She hired Marion Sims Wyeth to design it and Joseph Urban to create interior design and exterior decorations.[12][13] Post spent US$7 million (equivalent to $118 million in 2022), and it was finished in 1927.[14] At the time of building, it was the most expensive non-royal residence built in history.

Federal government and foundation

By the 1950s and 1960s, social tastes had changed, and many mansions constructed in the 1920s were demolished.[17] In 1969, Mar-a-Lago was designated a national historic site.[18] A contemporary report prepared by the Department of the Interior attributed its significance to providing "an excellent picture of winter resort life in Palm Beach prior to the Depression".[12]

Post, who died in 1973, willed the 17-acre (6.9 ha) estate to the United States government as a Winter White House for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries.[19] Richard Nixon preferred the Florida White House in Key Biscayne, however, and Jimmy Carter was not interested. The federal government soon realized the immense cost of maintenance and the difficulty of maintaining security for diplomats,[20] and returned it to the Post Foundation in 1981. It was then listed for sale for $20 million. Dina Merrill and Post's two other daughters did not maintain the property in the meantime, anticipating a sale,[21] but there was so little interest that its demolition to build smaller homes was approved.[22]

Mar-a-Lago was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980 for exemplifying "the baronial way of life of the wealthy who built mansions in Florida during the Florida land boom of the 1920s".[4][23][24]
Trump ownership
Entrance gate in 2014

Donald Trump learned about the estate after unsuccessfully trying to purchase and combine two apartments in Palm Beach for his family. He offered the Post family $15 million for it, but they rejected it. Trump purchased the land between Mar-a-Lago and the ocean from Jack C. Massey, the former owner of KFC, for $2 million,[25] stating he intended to build a home that would block Mar-a-Lago's beach view. The threat caused interest in the property to decline, and Trump ended up getting the property for $7 million in 1985.[26][21] Different sources have put the combined total cost of the purchase at around $10 million.[27][28][29] The minimum acceptable bid had been $20 million, and the interior furnishings were appraised at $8 million.[30]

After purchasing the estate, Trump did extensive renovations, adding a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) ballroom.[22] The club also has five clay tennis courts and a waterfront pool. His wife at the time, Ivana Trump, was put in charge of running the property.[31]

In the early 1990s, Trump faced financial difficulties. While negotiating with his bankers, he promised to divide Mar-a-Lago into smaller properties, alarming Palm Beach residents, so the city council rejected his plan to do so. Trump instead turned the estate into a private club in 1994,[32] fighting off what he considered to be excessive restrictions.[33][34]

The new club hosted concerts by Céline Dion and Billy Joel and had beauty pageant contestants as guests.[22][21][35] Mar-a-Lago has frequently hosted the International Red Cross Ball, an annual "white tie, tails, and tiara" event.[36] Founded by Post, it has a history of support of the mission of the American Red Cross.[37]

According to financial disclosure forms filed by Trump, the Mar-a-Lago Club had $29.7 million in gross revenues in the period June 2015 through May 2016.[38] The club had revenues of $25.1 million for calendar year 2017, $22 million in 2018, and $21.4 million in 2019.[39][40]

In 2022, Forbes estimated the value of the estate at around $350 million.[27] Forbes said that 'Real estate experts outside of Palm Beach guessed that the place was worth more than $200 million. Brokers on the island thought it could be worth far more, with the most aggressive estimate coming in at $725 million. When Forbes last valued the property in March, we went with a conservative $350 million.' In a 2022 lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, it was alleged that Trump inflated the value of Mar-a-Lago to $739 million, when the property should actually be valued at $75 million.[41]

The Truck driver was drunk.

"I graduated in the top half of my class"
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/22/biden-academic-claims-inaccurate/932eaeed-9071-47a1-aeac-c94a51b668e1/[url]

Actually, his truthful statements involve a shorter list. I genuinely believe that his name is Joe Biden.

I look at that like I look at Biden's story of a drunken truck driver killing his first wife and daughter.

They died in the accident.
The truck hit them.
It was tragic.

also,

Biden's wife drove into the path of the truck
The driver hadn't been drinking (not drunk)
Joe Biden lied about this to score sympathy points with the electorate.

I didn't really follow this trial but I am stuck with some things that I see in this NYT article...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/nyregion/trump-trial-e-jean-carroll.html

During her opening statement, Ms. Habba said the defense would show that even friends of Ms. Carroll’s thought “her head was getting too big and that she was loving the adulation.”

During cross-examination, Ms. Habba asked Ms. Carroll about her income. Ms. Carroll said that in the 1990s, she was earning $400,000 a year writing for magazines. By 2018, she said, as falling ad revenue forced magazines to shrink their budgets, she was making only $60,000.

On Thursday, Ms. Carroll said that she is making $100,000 a year for an online column.

“So your reputation in many ways is better today, isn’t it?” Ms. Habba asked.

“My status was lowered,” Ms. Carroll said. “I’m partaking in this trial to bring my old reputation and status back.”

In other words, she was in it for the money. She as much as said so and Trump is an easy target.

Put the crack pipe down.....

You gotta stop watching Bill Nye....

Yeah, it's hard to keep the economy humming along when there's a pandemic. No one working, government handing out money like drunken sailors on shore leave.

The economy is mostly back but didn't Biden just cancel a few more billions of student debt?

A new total of $138 Billion of canceled debt.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/21/fact-sheet-president-biden-cancels-student-debt-for-more-than-150000-student-loan-borrowers-ahead-of-schedule/

unbelievable!

Well, I'm not sure that I would go for that. I've been reading that there have been millions of service aged men from the Middle East and China that have crossed....enough to make a formidable army. How many Arabs did it take to pull off 9/11.

I've been watching The Dynasty on Apple+. I don't recall him saying that but the truth is those Kelley years where they were in the SB 4 years in a row.....obviously that is hard to do. It's also hard to lose all 4. Seems like the fortunes should have smiled on them at least once.

This election cycle will be interesting. The cameras will be on Biden all the time. No more hiding in the basement for Joe.

Trump? He just needs someone to zap him when he starts running his mouth.

I like RFK jr. Gabbard was excellent a few years back and this Vivek guy was an interesting surprise. All three are well spoken and can clearly deliver a message and answer questions in a coherent manner.

If it was up to me I'd go with some new blood. We've had Trump and we've had Biden. I think Trump did a better job during his time as commander in chief than Biden thus far.

I think Jimmy Carter did a better job than Biden.

Carrol can't even provide the year that it happened. I didn't follow the news on this but assuming that is true it means that she didn't report it either....for 25-30 years. If she had there would be a date.

There's a difference.

Biden doesn't meet competency levels of a normal adult.

You're suggesting that Trump doesn't meet competency levels for POTUS.

If that were really the case then every Biden news clip would show Biden being able to walk normally and not imitate a Roomba and his speech would be clear instead of jumbled or disconnected.