On the other hand, based on this part of the quote:
when the other half of the country is voting for freedom, let us control our own lives, stay out of our life.
It looks like Tuberville is one of the rare Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBTQ+ GOP politicians these days! /s
Alton Brown:
I was wondering how Mike Pence is going to come out of the Trump shambles. Heās not going to get elected anywhere after this - he probably wonāt find it easy to get a job - he bombed on local talk radio when he tried it.
And - he doesnāt even own a home. Unlike the Prez he doesnāt get an automatic pension. But he does have gov pensions based upon time in service.
From Forbes last year.
ā Mike Pence doesnāt have all that much to his name. He doesnāt appear to own a home, and he hasnāt saved much besides $65,000 in index funds, at most, and less than $15,000 in a bank account.
Luckily, Pence works for the government. That means taxpayers are on the hook to fund the 60-year-old vice presidentās retirement through his state and federal pensions. Those pensions, which will likely pay Pence at least $85,000 per yearā
You would think a guy whoās all bootstrappy and conservative would have saved enough money for retirement- but nope.
Heās on the dole. If mother divorces him and takes half his pensionā¦
iām a school teacher from texas and iāve manage to amass a home and considerably more in index funds and annuities than that. he really wasnāt interested in the art of grift.
Oh, AB, honey, bless your heartā¦
Or is just incompetent.
Still - illustrates the value of pensions - you donāt have to be able to save or know how to invest to have a secure retirement.
This gives me a sad.
Oh damnit, Alton. You have a real gift and your show has given me so much, not just culinarily but also in showing me that there is value in experimenting in daily life. Your Southern religiosity has always been alien to me but I always thought underneath it you were a decent human socialised in a society where what is off-putting to me is normal, even wholesome to you. Well, turns out bigotry has rubbed off on you. Or maybe it has always been there? The sad thing is, you are probably sitting and wondering right now what the big deal is.
Hereās another ācan you separate the art from the artistā dilemma for me. I havenāt seen the new run of Good Eats yet and was planning to do it at some point. Well, whatever I decide he wonāt get any money from me watching it.
Under Florida law the actions of the PAC are legal.
Ugh
#bringbackpensions
although my mother-in-law moved to the states from england in 1950, got u.s. citizenship in 1953 or 54, and lived here for the rest of her life with a few visits back, she got a british old-age pension when she turned 66. it wasnāt much, like 20 pounds a month which the bank exchanged into dollars . still it paid out for 23 years.
it was based on her earnings while she was in the army during wwii, she served as a cookās assistant during the london blitz and earned a promotion to lance corporal, which iām told was the equivalent of pfc. when she met my father-in-law it was 2 or 3 years after the war and he was the chief master sergeant overseeing a crew of air force mechanics. he and his crew pulled some 24 hour on/12 hour off shifts during the berlin airlift to keep the planes flying. iād have loved to meet him but he died 3 years prior to meeting mrs. navarro.
amusing side note, in conversation with m.i.l. she revealed to me something she had not told my wife, that when she met f.i.l she was on the rebound from a fling with a married man. when that slipped out mrs. navarro was like āyou were having a what with a who! a married man?ā she was pretty nonchalant about it and summed it up with something like āit was after the war, the country was broken and so were the people. people did and accepted a lot of things they wouldnāt have thought of before the war, just to take a little comfort. iām not proud of it but i wonāt apologize for it either.ā
Yeah. Iāve noticed that Turley has become thoroughly turdly.
Pence got his start in the Koch State Policy Network. Iām sure that they could find something for him to do. And thereās always the token board member gravy train.
Still-he was the Vice President. Next in line to be President - and even he couldnāt make the privatized retirement con work for him.
Yet we here expect people making minimum wage without even high school degrees to be able to save and be investment experts. Playing against program traders and hedge funds.
oh, you know . . . itās easy-peasy. just set aside 20% of your income into mutual funds each year and let the āmiracle of compound interestā do the rest. of course, if you can afford to put away a fifth of your income each year youāre already pretty relentlessly upper-middle class.
Itās really depressing how much of the structures that made the mid-century economic expansion possible, that pulled so many people without HS or college degrees, out of poverty into the middle class have started to be dismantled since the 70s. Now they are coming for the last vestiages of the great society, medicare/caid, as well as social security.
Pence got his start in the Koch State Policy Network. Iām sure that they could find something for him to do.
I think Chuck Tingle could find him a niche somewhere in the entertainment industry.
Oops, missed this above
At least the Senate is going to be in good hands, guys:
Some choice excerpts:
You know, our government wasnāt set up for one group to have all three of branches of government. It wasnāt set up that way, our three branches, the House, the Senate and executive.
Very concerning and, you know, as I tell people, my dad fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of Socialism. Today, you look at this election, we have half this country that made some kind of movement, now they might not believe in it 100 percent, but they made some kind of movement toward socialism.
I have voted Republican most of my life. I consider myself a conservative. I want to believe there are still āvery fineā people on both sides of the aisle butā¦if #GOP leaders donāt get their collective noses out of that manās ass, weāre gonna have words.
Well thatās not so badā¦
Either way, things only got worse a day later when Brown decided to follow things up with few Holocaust references: āSo, when they move us to the camps, do you think theyāll let us choose the state?ā he wrote Tuesday. āIām going to ask for Kansas because the sky is so gorgeous thereā¦ over the wheat.ā
āDo you think the camp uniforms will be striped, like the ones at Auschwitz, or will plaid be in vogue?ā he later added. When one person said his uniform would depend on how wealthy he is, Brown replied that he had āno gold fillings.ā (Nazis removed gold teeth and fillings from the Jews they murdered in concentration camps.)
