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Mississippi, very easily.  I speak the language, it is so much easier to visit my family/friends back home and some places in the state (like the Gulf Coast areas and Oxford) actually kind of fascinate me.  I think Portugal is "cooler," but this is more of a practical decision.

It's not like I would ever accept an all-paid vacation to anywhere in MS over Portugal, though.

Right, because as we know, once humans reach a certain level of wealth they just stop wanting more.

You're right, that's why a millionaire is just as likely to commit an armed robbery as someone living in poverty.

What he's saying is their mental weakness is what leads to their physical outburts and aggression.

Yeah that's bigoted

As a native of Downstate Illinois, I must go with Steak 'n Shake.  While a less well-known association at the national level, it's our Culver's.

Key:

1-5 Point Trend: >30%
5-10 Point Trend: >40%
10-15 Point Trend: >50%
15-20 Point Trend: >60%
20-30 Point Trend: >70%
30-40 Point Trend: >80%
40-50 Point Trend: >90%
50+ Point Trend: >100%

Done at the Presidential level.

The real solution is to impose a maximum wage on lawyers. As a lawyer I would happily support a maximum wage. Most lawyers are sickenly money-crazed.

I think the opposite would be a more effective reform - make their base salary so absurdly high that there's basically no incentive for them to take on frivolous lawsuits.

What kind of threshold do you think would be suitable for this approach?

Probably $1,000,000? I dunno, I think you could probably have an economist actually crunch the numbers on it to find out what the optimal salary would be.

If a base salary of a lawyer is a million dollars, then they would be in the top 1% of households.

Yes, they would.

We should pay members of Congress $1M salaries for the same reason. Pay them enough that it becomes absolutely pointless to try and bribe them.

Right, because as we know, once humans reach a certain level of wealth they just stop wanting more.

The left is so incoherent.

You guys really think a member of Congress earning a million dollars a year would be just as easy to bribe as one earning a bit over 200k? As noted, individual levels of greed will obviously being affected by one's income regardless in certain circumstances. Or put another way, isn't it a lot easier to suborn a member of Congress earning a bit over 200k a year when over 90% of them have to maintain dual households for their job?

Good luck enforcing this LOL

The People's Republic of Florida really should leave the union, though. It's a communist state. How are we supposed to beat China if we have states striving to be more like them?

HP, If a person would abstain on a hypothetical race between a literal white supremacist pedophile and Bernie Sanders, then there's definitely something fundamentally wrong with them.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1641153584053010450

Wait I'm confused, do we need to ban trans people from the military because they're weak and frail, or because they're too aggressive? Conservatives want to have it both ways.

Trump is such an evil man.

What he's saying is their mental weakness is what leads to their physical outburts and aggression.

Are you saying that you, yourself, believe that "trans people" are "mentally weak" and cause them towards "physical outbursts and aggression"?

No, but I was just clarifying what Trump meant to Fergie. I think in this case it applies to the shooter but obviously not all trans people are like that and I know 99% of them are condemning this hate crime and do not support violence.

OK, but trump is not just saying that his statement applies to just "this case." He has made somewhat of a blanket statement about "all trans people in the military." And you seem to be defending his ignorant statement, and that is the impression we are getting.

Early vote analysis is quite frankly little more than astrology. There’s no real way to know whether the high turnout is going to be counteracted by high Election Day turnout or not.

Charles Franklin, the due behind the Marquette poll, is estimating 1.4 million votes which means we are still waiting on ~1.3 million more voters.