i grew up with california kind of being the butt of all jokes... but here it is more of a democracy in the service of the people than the country to which it supposedly belongs.
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The butt of jokes state would be Florida if it's a dumb criminal joke, Tennessee if it's an incest joke, Ohio if it's a boring joke, Alabama if it's an uneducated joke, New Jersey if it's a funny accent joke, Texas if it's a relaxed gun laws joke, Wyoming if it's a middle-of-nowhere joke etc
Can go with Nebraska as middle-of-nowhere if you forget that Wyoming exists. There are enough other options for a corny joke.
Thank God for Mississippi actually has its own wiki page.
Thank God for Mississippi - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
I usually go with Montana or the Dakotas personally.
Service to the people as long as you aren't poor is the cali way. Anti homeless. Anti public transit. Slightly pro union ish. Won't take measures to actually make housing affordable.
It's not like the rest of the states don't pull this crap with homeless people, hell sometimes they bus them here. Secondly some of us like the homeless it keeps property prices down and scares the yuppies.
sometimes? i used to work in homelessness, we'd get at least one a month and i'm not in a more populated area.
ha yeah cuz the rest of the states exemplify those qualities
Illinois and Massachusetts are both much better at it, yes. Don't claim to be good at them just because other states are also bad at it, especially when they aren't even worse at it
Yanking someone’s security detail because they ran against you is petty. Yanking it with, what is it, five days notice, that’s just being a dick.
Not to mention it can set a wild precedent. When the "outcry" occurs when (*if based on the current spinelessness) it happens to the people who currently support it? Eat a festering pustule. Forget going high; punch them in the face. Metaphorically.
I'll disagree to agree more: yanking the security because someone ran against you with 5 days notice is being a petty dick.
Unlike the Secret Service, CHP only has law enforcement power in California. I guess technically CHP could have armed people out-of-state, but it'd be like any other armed civilian bodyguard then. So this is really only a comparable solution as long as Harris doesn't leave California.
Frankly, it does occur to me that this is probably a good idea in general. Like, states should not have to cover this, but Trump pulling protection is not a good precedent, and mitigating that might be a good idea. It looks like John Bolton lives in Maryland
Trump just had the FBI raid his house, so he was in the news
and it might be a good idea for Maryland to provide a state police protection detail. At least as things stand, the number of people getting Secret Service protection pulled is not too large, so it's probably realistically doable to handle it at a state level.
Ponch and Jon coming out of retirement....